NERV Toolkit ============ NOTE: This readme is in-progress. Installation ------------ First, make sure you have at least one implementation of BLAS and CUDA installed on your computer. - Checkout NERV: :: bash git clone https://speechlab.sjtu.edu.cn/gitlab/nerv-dev/nerv.git - Checkout submodules (luajit, luarocks, Penlight, etc.): :: cd nerv git submodule init && git submodule update - Build NERV: you can specify either ``mkl`` or ``atlas`` to ``BLAS_TYPE``. ``BLAS_BASE`` is the directory containing BLAS ``.so`` files. By default, ``atlas`` is used for ``BLAS_TYPE``, ``/usr/lib/`` is used for ``BLAS_BASE``, and ``/usr/local/cuda`` is used for ``CUDA_BASE``. :: # an example for compiling on SJTU Speechlab major cluster make BLAS_TYPE=mkl BLAS_BASE=/home/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/ CUDA_BASE=/usr/lib/cuda - To include some new features (e.g. ``atomicCAS`` in CUDA), add corresponding flags to ``NERV_FEAT`` (e.g. ``NERV_FEAT=-D__NERV_FUTURE_CUDA_7``) while making: :: make NERV_FEAT=-D__NERV_FUTURE_CUDA_7 BLAS_TYPE=mkl BLAS_BASE=/home/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/ CUDA_BASE=/usr/lib/cuda - For speech tasks, you need to install related lua rocks (Lua packages): :: # checkout speech repository to local directory nerv/speech (suppose you're # still at the root directory of NERV repo) git clone https://speechlab.sjtu.edu.cn/gitlab/nerv-dev/nerv-speech.git speech # build and install HTK I/O support, Kaldi I/O support, Kaldi decoding support, etc. make speech Example & Tutorial ------------------ For speech tasks, please refer to ``tutorial/`` in ``nerv-speech`` repository. Contribution ------------ The basic rule is simple: just fork the original repository, then create a pull request (merge request) to the administrator of the project. If you want to fix any bugs in existing code, don't hesitate to create a pull (merge) request to the repository with clear and detailed analysis of the problem. If you want to add additional task-specific functionalities (modules) for speech to NERV, please create a luarocks-compliant package and also a pull (merge) request to the ``nerv-speech`` repository instead of ``nerv``.