kaldi-lattice-search

Search stuff in Kaldi lattices (stuff = any language represented by a DFA)

Compile & install

You need to define the environment variable KALDI_ROOT to point to your Kaldi distribution.

export KALDI_ROOT=/path/to/your/kaldi/distribution
make depend
make

Once compiled, you can install the binary to PREFIX/bin (by default PREFIX=/usr/local):

make install

Lattices

Any Kaldi lattices are valid.

Queries

Formally, for each lattice and query, you are computing the probability that the query is contained somewhere in the lattice. Any DFA (Deterministic Finite Automaton) can be used as a query, but remember: THEY MUST BE DETERMINISTIC, otherwise you'll find strange results.

You have some examples to produce these kind of DFAs in the utils folder.

• utils/Create_String_Query_FST.sh: Given a table of query strings, for each query create a DFA that accepts any string containing the query.

• utils/Create_CTC_Query_FST.sh: Very similar to the previous tool, but uses the CTC representation of each query string.