| ## login to eddie, need to be in the university VPN. The password should be your ease password | |
| ssh your_uun@eddie.ecdf.ed.ac.uk | |
| ## Go to an interactive node with a GPU | |
| ## From the login node, it's good to run screen so that if you lose the connection you can rejoin | |
| screen | |
| ## To reattach your session if you get bumped of you'll need to get to the same login node that you started from | |
| ## to get to login1 you neeed to do: ssh login01-ext.ecdf.ed.ac.uk |
| ## Get an interactive session on eddie with GPU | |
| qlogin -l h_rt=48:00:00 -pe gpu 1 -l h_vmem=32G | |
| ## on eddie/interactive make sure you set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES | |
| source /exports/applications/support/set_cuda_visible_devices.sh | |
| echo $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES | |
| ## load anaconda | |
| module load anaconda | |
| conda create -n tts11 python=3.8 |
| ## This assumes you have a working C++ compiler, and standard install tools like make | |
| ## You may need to install Xcode command line tools for the Mac. | |
| ## See: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/install-xcode-command-line-tools/ | |
| ## These instructions should also work for linux, but all the compilation tools should already be installed. | |
| ## Change the following to your actual UUN rather than s1234567 | |
| YOUR_UUN=s1234567 | |
| ## make a working directory |
| ## install festival using the apt package manager: | |
| ## the sudo command will ask you to enter your computer password (assuming you have admin privileges) | |
| ## Don't try this on the university computers! | |
| sudo apt-get install festival | |
| ## you can try starting festival, it should load with a default voice kal_diphone | |
| # festival | |
| # festival> (SayText "Hello I'm Kal") |
You'll need to install https://brew.sh (a Mac software manager) if you haven't already. This will let you download various packages on from the terminal with ease!
You may first need to install Mac commandline tools. These usually come with the very large Xcode software development package. But you can just install the commandline tools: Open up the terminal app and enter the following command
Please note I've not been able to test this on a clean install since my linux computer is old and already has an HTK installed on it!
These instructions are for installing HTK on your own computer. It's fine just to use the remote desktop though! If you use the remote desktop you don't have to install anything.
I got HTK to work Ubuntu WSL 2 by installing a bunch of packages. To be honest, I'm not sure if I needed all of them, but I'll list them all here anyway.
First you need to make sure you are running WSL version 2. You can find out which version you are using by opening Powershell in Windows and typing
