nbest-to-ctm.cc 5.26 KB
// latbin/nbest-to-ctm.cc

// Copyright 2012-2016  Johns Hopkins University (Author: Daniel Povey)

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#include "base/kaldi-common.h"
#include "util/common-utils.h"
#include "lat/lattice-functions.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  try {
    using namespace kaldi;
    typedef kaldi::int32 int32;

    const char *usage =
        "Takes as input lattices which must be linear (single path),\n"
        "and must be in CompactLattice form where the transition-ids on the arcs\n"
        "have been aligned with the word boundaries... typically the input will\n"
        "be a lattice that has been piped through lattice-1best and then\n"
        "lattice-align-words. On the other hand, whenever we directly pipe\n"
        "the output of lattice-align-words-lexicon into nbest-to-ctm,\n"
        "we need to put the command `lattice-1best ark:- ark:-` between them,\n"
        "because even for linear lattices, lattice-align-words-lexicon can\n"
        "in certain cases produce non-linear outputs (due to disambiguity\n"
        "in the lexicon). It outputs ctm format (with integers in place of words),\n"
        "assuming the frame length is 0.01 seconds by default (change this with the\n"
        "--frame-length option).  Note: the output is in the form\n"
        "<utterance-id> 1 <begin-time> <end-time> <word-id>\n"
        "and you can post-process this to account for segmentation issues and to \n"
        "convert ints to words; note, the times are relative to start of the utterance.\n"
        "\n"
        "Usage: nbest-to-ctm [options] <aligned-linear-lattice-rspecifier> <ctm-wxfilename>\n"
        "e.g.: lattice-1best --acoustic-weight=0.08333 ark:1.lats | \\\n"
        "      lattice-align-words data/lang/phones/word_boundary.int exp/dir/final.mdl ark:- ark:- | \\\n"
        "      nbest-to-ctm ark:- 1.ctm\n"
        "e.g.: lattice-align-words-lexicon data/lang/phones/align_lexicon.int exp/dir/final.mdl ark:1.lats ark:- | \\\n"
        "      lattice-1best ark:- ark:- | \\\n"
        "      nbest-to-ctm ark:- 1.ctm\n";

    ParseOptions po(usage);

    bool print_silence = false;
    BaseFloat frame_shift = 0.01;
    int32 precision = 2;
    po.Register("print-silence", &print_silence, "If true, print optional-silence "
                "(<eps>) arcs");
    po.Register("frame-shift", &frame_shift, "Time in seconds between frames.\n");
    po.Register("precision", &precision,
                "Number of decimal places for start duration times (note: we "
                "may use a higher value than this if it's obvious from "
                "--frame-shift that this value is too small");

    po.Read(argc, argv);

    if (po.NumArgs() != 2) {
      po.PrintUsage();
      exit(1);
    }

    std::string lats_rspecifier = po.GetArg(1),
        ctm_wxfilename = po.GetArg(2);

    if (frame_shift < 0.01 && precision <= 2)
      precision = 3;
    if (frame_shift < 0.001 && precision <= 3)
      precision = 4;


    SequentialCompactLatticeReader clat_reader(lats_rspecifier);

    int32 n_done = 0, n_err = 0;

    Output ko(ctm_wxfilename, false); // false == non-binary write mode.
    ko.Stream() << std::fixed;  // Set to "fixed" floating point model, where precision() specifies
    // the #digits after the decimal point.
    ko.Stream().precision(precision);

    for (; !clat_reader.Done(); clat_reader.Next()) {
      std::string key = clat_reader.Key();
      CompactLattice clat = clat_reader.Value();

      std::vector<int32> words, times, lengths;

      if (!CompactLatticeToWordAlignment(clat, &words, &times, &lengths)) {
        n_err++;
        KALDI_WARN << "Format conversion failed for key " << key;
      } else {
        KALDI_ASSERT(words.size() == times.size() &&
                     words.size() == lengths.size());
        for (size_t i = 0; i < words.size(); i++) {
          if (words[i] == 0 && !print_silence)  // Don't output anything for <eps> links, which
            continue; // correspond to silence....
          ko.Stream() << key << " 1 " << (frame_shift * times[i]) << ' '
                      << (frame_shift * lengths[i]) << ' ' << words[i] <<std::endl;
        }
        n_done++;
      }
    }
    ko.Close(); // Note: we don't normally call Close() on these things,
    // we just let them go out of scope and it happens automatically.
    // We do it this time in order to avoid wrongly printing out a success message
    // if the stream was going to fail to close

    KALDI_LOG << "Converted " << n_done << " linear lattices to ctm format; "
              << n_err  << " had errors.";
    return (n_done != 0 ? 0 : 1);
  } catch(const std::exception &e) {
    std::cerr << e.what();
    return -1;
  }
}