As a newbee to Kaldi, I am sometimes confused with the name convention of Kaldi. Below is a note of the common Kaldi abbrevations and corresponding full names / examples.
| abbr. | full | example |
|---|---|---|
| egs | examples | kaldi/egs/wsj |
| tri | triphone model | tri1, tri2, tri3 |
| feat | (acoustic) feature | feats.scp |
| cmvn | cepstral mean and variance normalization feature | cmvn.scp |
| spk | speaker | utt2spk |
| utt | utterance | utt2spk |
| mdl | model | final.mdl |
| sat | speaker adaptive training | train_sat.sh |
| lda | linear discriminant analysis | train_lda_mllt.sh |
| mllt | maximum likelihood linear transform | train_lda_mllt.sh |
| acwt | acoustic model weight | post_decode_acwt |
| lmwt | language model weight | lmwt |
| lexiconp | lexicon with probablity | lexiconp.txt |
| hires | high-resolution | mfcc_hires.conf |
| conf | configuration | mfcc.conf |
| HCLG | HMM, Context-dependency, Lexicon, and Grammar | HCLG.fst |
| bg | bigram | |
| pr | prune | |
| bd | big dictionary | |
| nosp | no silence probabilities and pronunciation probabilities | lang_tmp_nosp |
| tgpr | pruned tri-gram (language model) | lang_tmp_tgpr |
| sp | speed-perturbed | exp/ali_train_set_sp |
| lores | low-resolution | |