Code: Create Prototype HTK HMM
Posted on November 16, 2006 - Filed Under code, howto, htk, speech | 3 Comments
One of the things that can be annoying about using HTK is creating the prototype HMM files. I think the first thing any researcher probably does is write a quick little program to generate a prototype from a number of parameters. So here’s my version to save you — the person who found this page [...]
Read More..>>Now at davidbdean.com
Posted on October 17, 2006 - Filed Under admin, howto | Leave a Comment
Look up at the URL, you are now at www.davidbdean.com (unless you are reading this in syndication). If you go to any URL at cebidae.com you will be permanently redirected to the same location here. You can also get to here from www.dbdean.com too. Hopefully nothing will break. I’m hoping this will look a little [...]
Read More..>>How I read ebooks
Posted on August 19, 2006 - Filed Under books, ebooks, fiction, howto, sf | 9 Comments
Well, it appears the link from Boing Boing to my article about locating DRM-free ebooks may have brought a little bit more traffic here than normal (click on the thumbnail for a close-up). As a result there are a lot of good comments about other places to get your scifi than the 5 I mentioned. [...]
Read More..>>How to plot a 2D histogram using matlab
Posted on August 17, 2006 - Filed Under howto, matlab | 10 Comments
So, I wanted to plot a 2D histogram in matlab, but the pickings were slim. I really just wanted something that worked as much like hist as possible. So I wrote my own:
HIST2D calculates a 2-dimensional histogram
N = HIST2D(X,Y) bins the X and Y data into 10 equally spaced bins [...]
Read More..>>How to write a CRPIT paper in lyx
Posted on August 5, 2006 - Filed Under conference, howto, latex, lyx | 1 Comment
How to write a CRPIT (Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology) paper in lyx:
Make sure the harvard package is installed in Latex.
Copy the CRPITStyle.cls class file available here to your localtexmf/tex/latex, and make sure you refresh the Latex database
Copy CRPITStyle.layout into Lyx’s layout folder (C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources\layouts for me)
Open Lyx, Run Tools -> Reconfigure [...]
Viewing transcribed video with WaveSurfer
Posted on July 26, 2006 - Filed Under WaveSurfer, freedback, howto, research, speech, transcription, video | Leave a Comment
Did you know that you can use WaveSurfer to view transcribed (or to perform transcription on) videos as well as audio? I do now: just install the plugin available here.
Word of warning tho: It says
Web-based install: In WaveSurfer, select Plug-ins from the File menu. Under Plug-ins available for installation, select video and click install.
I don’t [...]
Read More..>>Making a Lyx layout file for IEEE’s spconf.sty
Posted on July 13, 2006 - Filed Under conference, howto, latex, lyx, research | 2 Comments
Here is a quick howto for writing a Lyx layout file for spconf.sty, a latex style file released by IEEE suitable for most signal processing conferences.
First Create a new layout file called spconf.layout in your Lyx layouts folder (in my case “C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources\layouts”) with the following contents:
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends [...]
Read More..>>Redirecting a blogspot blog to Wordpress
Posted on February 24, 2006 - Filed Under blogger, computer, howto, wordpress | 2 Comments
UPDATE: An alternative method that moves more of the smarts to wordpress is available here from Tom Sherman of underscorebleach.net.
In case you haven’t noticed this blog used to be at cebidae.blogspot.com, but I decided to move it to my own server so I had more control over what I could do, now, and in the [...]