Kaldi Python IO

A python (3.6+) wrapper for Kaldi's data accessing.

Support Type

• Kaldi's binary archives (*.ark)
• Kaldi's scripts (alignments & features, *.scp)
• Kaldi nnet3 data examples in binary (*.egs)

Install

python setup.py install or pip install kaldi-python-io

Usage

• ArchiveReader && AlignArchiveReader

  # allow only sequential index
  ark_reader = ArchiveReader("copy-feats ark:foo.ark ark:- |")
  for key, _ in ark_reader:
      print(key)
  ali_reader = AlignArchiveReader("gunzip -c foo.ali.gz |")
  for key, _ in ark_reader:
      print(key)

• Nnet3EgsReader

  # allow only sequential index
  egs_reader = Nnet3EgsReader("foo.egs")
  for key, _ in egs_reader:
      print(key)

• ArchiveWriter

  with ArchiveWriter("foo.ark", "foo.scp") as writer:
      for i in range(10):
          mat = np.random.rand(100, 20)
          writer.write(f"mat-{i}", mat)

• ScriptReader && AlignScriptReader

  # allow sequential/random index
  scp_reader = ScriptReader("shuf foo.scp | head -n 2")
  for key, mat in scp_reader:
      print(f"{key}: {mat.shape}")
  ali_reader = AlignScriptReader("foo.ali.scp")
  for key, ali in ali_reader:
      print(f"{key}: {ali.shape}")