Obtaining SPRAAK

License

In order to download, install and use SPRAAK you first need to obtain a valid license, which is free for most users.  For commercial usage there is a moderate fee.

Download

After obtaining a license, you will be given instructions on how to download the software.  Before starting the installation, make sure that you have all required software components in place on your system; all of these are open source and standard available on many systems are installable with a small effort.

Installation

SPRAAK uses 'scons' (a Python build-tool) the compile and install the software.

All user configurable settings (location of the different files, compiler options, ...) are grouped in the file 'config.py' in the root directory of the SPRAAK package. See the comments in config.py and the section Package structure for more info.

The default configuration of SPRAAK allows multiple versions (32 and 64 bits versions; different operating systems and/or processors; debug, release and profile versions; ...) to be installed and maintained in parallel on a single shared file system. Hence, the default directory structure differs somewhat from what is typical in packages meant for local installation only. See Package structure for more details.

A complete and detailed installation guide is provided here

Publications - Required Reference

When you present results obtained with the SPRAAK software in scientific journals, conferences or in any other form, you should include a citation to following article:

[SPRAAK2008] Kris Demuynck, Jan Roelens, Dirk Van Compernolle and Patrick Wambacq. SPRAAK: An Open Source SPeech Recognition and Automatic Annotation Kit. In Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, page 495-498, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.