The ATK Real-Time API for HTK

ATK is an API designed to facilitate building experimental applications for HTK. It consists of a C++ layer sitting on top of the standard HTK libraries. This allows novel recognisers built using customised versions of HTK to be compiled with ATK and then tested in working systems. Like HTK itself, it is portable across the main Unix platforms and Windows.

ATK features include:

• Multi-threaded to allow efficient and responsive real-time operation.
• Synchronised audio input/output with barge-in support.
• Support for finite-state grammars and trigram language models.
• Ability to return recognition results word-by-word as they are recognised to reduce latency
• N-best recognition output
• Support for HLDA
• Integrated Flite speech synthesis.
• Make files for single-build under Linux and Windows

Requirements: ATK supports both Linux and Windows in a single set of sources so like HTK itself, there are no platform specific distributions. Compilation under Linux requires that the ALSA audio development package be installed. Compilation under Windows using the supplied project files requires Visual Studio 2005 to be installed.

Further information can be found on the ATK home page The complete documentation is available as a pdf

Registered HTK users can download the current version (1.6) from here.