Error in FAVE-align

[Lanlan Li]

Hi everyone,

I am having trouble in alignment. After I run this command ''python FAAValign.py -vn -i inputBM.txt BM.wav'', it returns me with these errors:

Processing uf004 -- chunk 514:  HE S JUST LAUGHING

Sound chunk uf004fyni_uf004_chunk_514.wav successfully extracted.

  ERROR [+5013]  ReadString: String too long

 FATAL ERROR - Terminating program HVite

ERROR!  Alignment failed for chunk 514 (speaker uf004, text HE S JUST LAUGHING).

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "FAAValign.py", line 1561, in FAAValign

    align(os.path.join(tempdir, chunkname_sound), [text], os.path.join(tempdir, chunkname_textgrid), FADIR, SOXPATH, HTKTOOLSPATH)

  File "FAAValign.py", line 214, in align

    raise Exception, FA_error

Exception: Error in aligning file uf004fyni_uf004_chunk_514.wav:  list index out of range.

Continuing alignment...

Processing uf004 -- chunk 515:  YEAH

Sound chunk uf004fyni_uf004_chunk_515.wav successfully extracted.

  ERROR [+5013]  ReadString: String too long

 FATAL ERROR - Terminating program HVite

ERROR!  Alignment failed for chunk 515 (speaker uf004, text YEAH).

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "FAAValign.py", line 1561, in FAAValign

    align(os.path.join(tempdir, chunkname_sound), [text], os.path.join(tempdir, chunkname_textgrid), FADIR, SOXPATH, HTKTOOLSPATH)

  File "FAAValign.py", line 214, in align

    raise Exception, FA_error

Exception: Error in aligning file uf004fyni_uf004_chunk_515.wav:  list index out of range.

Continuing alignment...

This is confusing, since it went well with other previous files. Though I tried different audios and transcriptions, it is still not working. Also I have reinstalled everything, and updated OS, the same thing happens. 

Are there anything I could do to fix this?

Thanks a lot!

Lanlan

[Danielle Turton]

I'm also getting similar errors to this and on my system.  Similarly, FAVE was working fine, nothing's changed on my system (that I can think of) and now it's not working.

The failed attempts successfully spit out a useless TextGrid which crashes Praat when you try to open it.

I was wondering whether it's got anything to do with the .txt transcription file itself?  Because that's all that's changed between FAVE working successfully and failing - it's a new student transcriber whose files aren't working properly.  I have also updated ELAN, but am still exporting in UTF-8 encoding, so can't see how that would affect it.  All out of ideas though...

I've just tried it on a file which I'd successfully aligned a couple of months ago, and it failed on that. 

[Josef Fruehwald]

Could you try re-running the alignment with the -v flag and see what it says?

-Joe

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[Danielle Turton]

Aha, so is it something to do with the Mac Developer Tools?

Continuing alignment...

WARNING!  Alignment failed for some annotation units!

Alignment errors saved to file LL-Gleeson-2016.errorlog.

Successfully written TextGrid LL-Gleeson-2016.TextGrid to file.

Deleted temporary copy of the CMU dictionary.

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

Written log file LL-Gleeson-2016.FAAVlog.

[Lanlan Li]

I re-downloaded FAVE toolkits and re-ran them, and the problem didn't show up again. 

[Allison Shapp]

Hi, I just started getting this same error last night, after not changing anything (that I know of.)

Maybe you still check this and could tell me what you mean by "it had something to do with Mac Developer Tools?" Is there something I need to update?

I'll try just re-downloading FAVE-align like you mentioned, and hopefully it will work.

-Allison

[Allison Shapp]

UPDATE: In my case "ERROR [+5013]  ReadString: String too long" was occurring because of a problem with the format of the dictionary.  There were a few entries that had somehow gotten quotation marks " at the end of the line.  Once I fixed the formatting of the dictionary, the error went away.  I hope this might help anyone in the future that encounters the same problem. 

[Caitlin Halfacre]

Allison, can you tell me how to access the dictionary to re-format it? I'm running FAVE-align on my laptop and getting exactly the same error but I don't know which file in the folder is dictionary.

Thanks,

Caitlin

[George Bailey]

I can't remember if I've changed the file/folder structure since installing FAVE, but for me at least the dictionary is in FAVE-align/model and it should be called dict (it might not have a file extension, but you should be able to open it in a plain text editor)

-G