Barista is an open-source framework for concurrent speech processing developed and maintained by the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL) at USC.
- Linux
- Mac OS X
- g++ >= 4.7 [g++-4.8 recommended]
We need a recent C++ compiler since barista relies on C++11 features. When
C++11 support is activated, clang does not support linking with libstdc++. The
only option is to link with libc++ which moves the stuff under std::tr1
namespace to std namespace. Since Kaldi and OpenFst use some stuff from
std::tr1 namespace, they have to be linked with libstdc++. Hence, barista
can not link against Kaldi and OpenFst using clang with C++11 support. Support
for clang will be added if/when this issue is resolved.
Installing g++-4.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using apt-get:
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
apt-get update
apt-get install g++-4.8
Installing g++-4.8 on Mac OS X using Homebrew:
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew update
brew install gcc48
Barista depends on Kaldi (and its dependencies including portaudio), libcppa, GraphViz and Boost.
Before installing barista, make sure you have CMake, git, svn, aclocal, libtoolize (or glibtoolize), zlib, libatlas, Boost and GraphViz (>= 2.30) installed on your system. If you are missing any of these tools, you can use a package manager to install them.
Installing missing packages on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using apt-get:
apt-get install build-essential git subversion cmake automake libtool
apt-get install zlib1g-dev libatlas-dev libatlas-base-dev libboost-all-dev
# This PPA has a recent Graphviz package (>=2.30) for Ubuntu 12.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xba/graphviz
apt-get update
# If you have problems installing GraphViz with apt-get, see the note below
apt-get install graphviz graphviz-dev
Installing missing packages on Mac OS X using Homebrew:
brew install cmake automake libtool boost graphviz
We provide a rudimentary Makefile for installing Kaldi and libcppa under
barista/tools directory (recommended). If you already have a recent version
of Kaldi trunk installed at another location, you may skip installing Kaldi
and provide this location to barista configure script using --with-kaldi
option. Similarly, if you already have libcppa installed, you may provide the
installation path to barista configure script using --with-libcppa option.
cd barista
make -C tools -j 4 kaldi # 4 jobs will be run in parallel
make -C tools -j 4 libcppa
Note: If you cannot install GraphViz (>=2.30) with the system package manager
you can sue the Makefile in barista/tools directory. If you install GraphViz
under barista/tools, don't forget to add
--with-graphviz=barista/tools/graphviz when calling the configure script.
make -C tools -j 4 graphviz
If the following instructions fail for some reason, you might need to edit
barista/CMakeLists.txt to match your setup before building barista. You will
likely need to copy some flags from Kaldi makefiles. See
barista/CMakeLists.txt for details.
./configure --prefix=`pwd` --with-compiler=g++-4.8
make -j 4
make install
Above given configuration will build barista under barista/build-g++-4.8 and
install everything under barista root directory. If you omit the --prefix
option, barista will be installed under /usr/local/. If you want to build
with a Kaldi or libcppa installation that is not under barista/tools, you
can use --with-kaldi and --with-libcppa options to specify custom paths.
Similarly, if you have Boost or GraphViz installed at a non-standard location,
you can use --with-boost and --with-graphviz options to specify those. By
default configure will search standard system folders for Boost and Graphviz.
Finally, if you have ATLAS installed at a non-standard location, you can use --with-atlas option (Linux only). See ./configure --help for details.