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“Foundations of speech”, “Speech Synthesis” or “Automatic speech recognition” would all be relevant for this course.
If you’re not sure where to post, just guess! The main thing is to ask your question somewhere. We’ll move posts around to keep things organised.
The free license key is only for VMware Fusion Player, so the first thing to check is that you downloaded that, not the full version (which is not free). Check, and report back.
It’s possible to only use Notable – it just needs a decent internet connection.
To use the Jupyter Notebooks on your personal computer, simply follow the setup instructions: these will install all the necessary packages in a Python virtual environment.
Start up the Virtual Machine (VM), and inside that start a web browser (e.g. Chrome). Use that browser to follow the LinkedIn course, so that any files you download will be saved inside the VM.
Sounds like you are using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is not a full Linux implementation. It’s fine for some things, but not for doing the Speech Processing course.
You need to use a proper Linux machine, such as the Virtual Machine.
The error is telling you that VMWare is not being allowed to display on your screen.
1. Always the first thing to try: reboot after installing VMWare, then try the play button again (because it installs low-level extensions to MacOS that will only be activated when the computer boots)
2. If you have VirtualBox installed (from previous testing that we asked you to do), uninstall it, then reboot (and possibly even re-install VMWare + reboot again, just to be sure!)
3. VMWare should have prompted you to agree to a kernel extension when you installed it, but this dialogue box doesn’t always appear. So, go to System Preferences (on your Mac) – Security & Privacy – General and look for something to click to agree to VMWare. As well as the General tab, look in the Privacy tab and find all the places where you can tick VMWare (e.g., Full Disk Access)
That’s correct – we solved Max W’s problem by completing the setup on the personal computer.
This is a new feature of the latest version of MacOS (Catalina onwards) – Apple have changed the default shell. But this is not an error message – just information.
The (base) in your shell prompt suggests that you haven’t activated the Python virtual environment, so try:
(base) $ conda activate slp
and you should see your prompt change from (base) to (slp). Now try
(slp) $ jupyter notebook
OK, that set-up should be fine. The VM image has not changed. Just complete all the testing in Module 0 and make sure it all works, then you are good to go.
Those don’t look like important errors, so if you’ve completed all tasks then you’re done.
Which operating system and host software are you using? We did some testing with VirtualBox but are now recommending VMWare.
I don’t think there is an electronic version of this book. It’s good and cheap enough to be worth buying, otherwise the main library has multiple copies.
Festival provides functions to change a variety of weights, including those within the join cost, but not those within the target cost (which are defined in code). See this post.
festival_macindicates the problem – the cause of this mysterious random change to the PATH is currently unknown, but there are some workarounds here.We are doing what is called “flat start” training, which means going directly from “flat” models (i.e., with all the means set to 0 and the variances set to 1) directly to the Baum-Welch algorithm with data of complete utterances. This means we do not need to label the start and end of either words or phones (in contrast to the digit recogniser exercise, where we did hand-label the training data).
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This is the new version. Still under construction.