HTK Installation

The Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (HTK) is a portable toolkit for building and manipulating hidden Markov models. HTK is primarily used for speech recognition research.

Download Tool Kit

HTK’s licence requires you to register before you can download the toolkit.

Extract HTK-3.4.1.tar.gz

tar -xvzf HTK-3.4.1.tar.gz

Compile and Install

• For 32 bit System

$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/htk 
$ make all 
$ sudo make install

• For 64 bit System

#Install libc6-dev-i386 libx11-dev  
$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386 libx11-dev 
$ #go to 32 bit terminal
$ linux32 bash 
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/htk 
$ make all $ sudo mkdir /opt/htk 
$ sudo make Install

Remember to set path

$ echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/htk/' >> ~/.bashrc

Originally published at https://abilng.in/blog/HTK-Installation.html on 26 Mar 2014