BUILDBASE(1SP)

NAME
buildbase - builds a data base for contextual searches based on a list of lola and waveform files

SYNOPSIS
buildbase {database} {list}

DESCRIPTION
buildbase builds an indexed database for contextual phoneme search based on a listing of corresponding lola and waveform files. database indicates the basename for the database to be built. If the database already exists the specified listing of lola files are added to the existing database of contextual phonemes. The following files will be created when the database is built

{basename.dbf}
    Contextual phoneme database

{basename.ndx}
    Context phoneme database index file

{basename.id}
    Corresponding listing of lola files and waveform files

list indicates the basename for the listing of lola files and waveform files to be used when adding to or building the database. For this purpose the following files needs to be created

{list.lola}
    A listing containing the lola files to use for the database build

{list.wav}
    A listing of files containing the corresponding listing of waveform files

EXAMPLES

Assume the following files have been created list.lola
/foo/lola/ENcall-3-story-bt.phn /foo/lola/ENcall-4-story-bt.phn list.wav
/foo/wav/ENcall-3-story-bt.adc /foo/wav/ENcall-4-story-bt.adc Issueing the following command would create a database, reading the information from the files specified in the script.lola and list.wav files respectively buildbase english script

SEE ALSO
find_phone (1SP), merge_base(1SP), buildlola (1SP), packbase (1SP)

BUGS

AUTHORS
Johan Schalkwyk
Center for Spoken Language Understanding
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology