I do not understand how to use deepspeech on windows if it is possible at all

[JRMeyer]

>>> jfenigan
[May 18, 2019, 1:26am]

This might have been mentioned elsewhere, but I cannot seem to find an
answer and since I am new to this, I need to ask: How does one use
deepspeech on Windows? Assuming I do not want to use vitrtual machines
running Linux, is there any way I can use the python bindings? I read
somewhere that I need to comile it myself, but I would like to avoid
that. I also read something about nuget packages, which I have
downloaded, yet have no idea how to use. Is it possible to enter a
command line prompt like: deepspeech slash --model models slash slash output_graph.pbmm
slash --alphabet models slash slash alphabet.txt slash --lm models slash slash lm.binary slash --trie
models slash slash trie slash --audio speech.wav

All relevant material I have stumbled upon did not help me at all. Could
someone please clarify how one can get deepspeech to work on windows
without compiling and/or retraining? Thank you!

[This is an archived TTS discussion thread from discourse.mozilla.org/t/i-do-not-understand-how-to-use-deepspeech-on-windows-if-it-is-possible-at-all]

[JRMeyer]

>>> 20richardh
[May 18, 2019, 5:14am]

Hi,

Unfortunately, you can't use this in Windows. I have a Windows machine,
so I had to go with the virtual machine (or partitioning the Linux
system). It ultimately works out fine though. Although you can't use a
GPU on virtual machine -- for GPU you'd have to partition. I'm about two
weeks new to this as well, so I haven't used python bindings.

Either way, the people who mainly respond to these forums have told
people that Mozilla DeepSpeech only supports Mac and Linux systems, so
I'm guessing that Windows doesn't have much of a workaround...

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[JRMeyer]

>>> carlfm01
[May 18, 2019, 6:45am]



> How does one use deepspeech on Windows

Well there's a middle situation here, when 0.4.1 was released the
Windows compilation was late introduced, most of the work for the
bindings was after the release of 0.4.1, then changes to the model and
the bindings made the bindings incompatible with 0.4.1 model, notice
that the model for 0.5 is not released yet.By the date 0.4.1 version was
released I think the only client working for it was the .NET client.



> I also read something about nuget packages

Nuget package is pretended to be used as a dependency package for an
existing project, the most common way to use it is with Visual Studio
nuget explorer.



> but I would like to avoid that

You can use my very old builds for 0.4.1 model:
https://github.com/carlfm01/deepspeech-tempwinbuilds/releases/



> yet have no idea how to use. Is it possible to enter a command line
> prompt like

With the build I linked, yes you can run command line.

DeepSpeechConsole.exe --model output_graph.pbmm --alphabet alphabet.txt --lm lm.binary --trie trie --audio arctic_a0024.wav



> how one can get deepspeech to work on windows without compiling and/or
> retraining

For now I think is the only way.

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[JRMeyer]

>>> jfenigan
[May 18, 2019, 10:40am]

Thank you for this info! However, being a complete newbie, I do not know
how to use your repo. I downloaded libdeepspeech-avx-avx2.zip and
libdeepspeech-no-avx.zip and by unzipping the files, I got a
libdeepspeech.so file. I think I read somewhere that this file is just a
DLL, but I have no clue as to what to do with it. slash
It's the same file I got when I extracted a nuget package. I reckon that
the slash ' slash
DeepSpeechConsole.exe slash --model output_graph.pbmm slash --alphabet
alphabet.txt slash --lm lm.binary slash --trie trie slash --audio arctic_a0024.wav slash '
command needs to be executed from within a folder that contains those
files, right? I wish there ws a step-by-step guide because things that
others believe are self-explanatory are not really that obvious to me.

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[JRMeyer]

>>> carlfm01
[May 18, 2019, 11:17am]



> libdeepspeech.so

Yes, that's the native client (c++), you also need to download
DeepSpeech-Console.zip and move the .so file to the root of the .exe
side by side.

The console project can be found at the first release: slash

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[JRMeyer]

>>> carlfm01
[May 18, 2019, 11:20am]



> avx-avx2

avx and avx2 means that the code was compiled to use avx and avx2
instructions(will run faster)

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[JRMeyer]

>>> jfenigan
[May 18, 2019, 11:34am]

Well, I downloaded the DeepSpeech-Console.zip and placed the
libdeepspeech.so file in the root directory where the
DeepSpeechConsole.exe is. I ran the command 'DeepSpeechConsole.exe
slash --model output_graph.pbmm slash --alphabet alphabet.txt slash --lm lm.binary
slash --trie trie slash --audio arctic_a0024.wav' but I got the following: slash
Loading model... slash
Error loading lm. slash
Cannot find the alphabet file: alphabet.txt slash
Error loding the model.

What am I doing wrong?

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[JRMeyer]

>>> jfenigan
[May 18, 2019, 1:02pm]

Update: I managed to make it work by placing all files (including the
trained model) in the same folder. I just find inference to be slower
than it was when I tried it on a linux system. Now the question is how I
get it to work from inside python (if it is possible).

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[Swati640]

Hello, Can you please guide how di you train deep speech on windows. because, I get so many binding errors, for example the swigwrapper.i module not found. Can you please help

[reuben]

Training on Windows is not supported.

[Swati640]

Hi, thank you for the quick reply. I have tried installing various dependencies but it did not work. I am a newbie in speech, can you please tell, is it not possible through terminal like cygwin as well ?

[reuben]

It's not supported at all.

[Swati640]

Okay, Thank you for the help :)

[JRMeyer]

>>> lissyx
[May 18, 2019, 9:40pm]



> Now the question is how I get it to work from inside python (if it is
> possible).

pip install deepspeech==0.5.0a8

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[JRMeyer]

>>> jfenigan
[May 19, 2019, 1:28am]

Just to make sure we are on the same page, I have successfully installed
the 0.5 alpha version of python's deepspeech, but I have some old
binaries for the 0.4 version. Can I still use the 0.4 binaries
programmatically through python? Are there any tutorials?

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[JRMeyer]

>>> lissyx
[May 19, 2019, 8:42am]



> Can I still use the 0.4 binaries programmatically through python? Are
> there any tutorials?

No, we did the work for bindings post-0.4.1. There's no alternative.

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