[Olympus developers 436]: Re: Running RavenClaw as a stand-alone unit

[Matthew Marge]

If you built Olympus 2.5 correctly, the Olympus solution file will be
here: Olympus2.5\Build\cmake\Olympus.sln, which is a VS 2010 solution
file that shows the RavenClaw project in Visual Studio. CMake should
automatically generate this solution file.

Cheers,
Matt

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Aitzaz Ahmad <aitzaz.ahmad at kics.edu.pk> wrote:
> Hi,
>       I'm working at the Center for Language Engineering based in the
> University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. The research
> facility is owned by Dr. Sarmad Hussain (PhD in Speech Science from
> Northwestern University '92). We're working on a speech processing project
> at center these days (Mobile based Weather Spoken Dialogue System in Urdu)
> which led us to study and explore Olympus.
>
>      Since we're developing our own ASR(using Sphinx 3) and TTS(using
> Festival) for Urdu, an area of particular interest in Olympus is the
> RavenClaw Dialogue Manager. I've been playing with the available tutorials
> and have made a toy system in English as well. But now I've been asked to
> plug out the Dialogue Manager component/module and to run it as a
> stand-alone application (i.e. without the other modules including the
> process monitor).
>
>     What I want for now is to be able to run RavenClaw as a console based
> stand-alone application without a GalaxyInterface and a Galaxy Hub. I've
> read the document in the Documentation folder of Olympus as well to develop
> some basic understanding as to how the DM works. When I tried to open the
> RavenClaw Visual Studio project file from "2.5\Libraries\RavenClaw\Utils" I
> got the following prompt:-
>
> "The source control provider associated with this solution could not be
> found. The projects will be treated as not under source control.
>
> Do you want to permanently remove the source control bindings from the
> projects?"
>
>     I chose "No" as an option. When the visual studio opened the project and
> I tried to open the DebugUtils.h,cpp files, I got another prompt saying the
> visual studio cannot open these files. Whereas, opening the files
> independently works just fine.
>
>    I'd really appreciate your help and feedback or any guidance that you
> might give so that I can run the system as a standalone application.
>
> Regards,
> Aitzaz Ahmad
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