Engines

Kaldi

Download your preferred Kaldi model at kaldi-active-grammar/releases and unpack it into a directory kaldi_model. The directory model_dir where Caster looks for the model is set in the Configuration (default is the current working directory).

Natlink (Dragon NaturallySpeaking)

• Download and install Natlink. Use Natlink-4.2 or newer.

• Verify (DPI / DNS) is not running.

• Open the start menu and search for Configure NatLink and click Configure NatLink via GUI.

  

• Register Natlink and Restart your computer.

  

• Relaunch Configure NatLink via GUI. Then disable Natlink. Done with Natlink setup.

  

Natlink Troubleshooting FAQ

• Visual C++ Runtime Error R6034 on Dragon launch. This is related to Natlink. You can safely ignore it.

  • A Fix: “Core directory of NatLink (…NatLinkMacroSystemcore) there is a directory msvcr100fix. Please consult the NatLink README.txt file.

    • See if copying the dll file (msvcr100.dll) to the Core directory (one step up) solves your problem.”

    • Note: Not recommended for Windows 10.

  • A dated discussion [VoiceCoder](https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/VoiceCoder/conversations/topics/7925) on the issue.

• When using start_configurenatlink.py gives ImportError: No module named six” or ImportError: No module named future”

  • To fix pip Install pip install six or pip install dragonfly2 in CMD

• Cannot load compatibility module support (GUID = {dd990001-bb89-1d2-b031-0060088dc929}))

  • [Detailed Instructions](https://qh.antenna.nl/unimacro/installation/problemswithinstallation.html) Typically fixed by installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package

  • May need to unRegister and then reRegister Natlink from the GUI

• Running “Configure NatLink via GUI” does not bring up the settings window- try running the program as an administrator:

  1. A Fix: Open an administrator command prompt by searching for “cmd” in start and right click run as administrator.

  2. Change directory to the folder where start_configurenatlink.py was installed. See command below:

  3. cd C:NatLinkNatLinkconfignatlinkvocolaunimacro.

  4. Run python start_configurenatlink.py.

See qh.antenna troubleshooting guide has further solutions for NatLink Issues.

SAPI5 (WSR - Windows Speech Recognition)

No extra actions are required to use WSR.