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                  Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech
                          Recognition Engine

                                Julius

                                                (Rev 1.0   1998/02/20)
                                                (Rev 2.0   1999/02/20)
                                                (Rev 3.0   2000/02/14)
                                                (Rev 3.1   2000/05/11)
                                                (Rev 3.2   2001/06/18)
                                                (Rev 3.3   2002/09/12)
                                                (Rev 3.4   2003/10/01)
                                                (Rev 3.4.1 2004/02/25)
                                                (Rev 3.4.2 2004/04/30)

Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan
Copyright (c) 1991-2004 Kyoto University
Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Nara Institute of Science and Technology
All rights reserved

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Contents of Julius-3.4.2
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	00readme.txt		ReadMe (This file)
	whatsnew/		About recent changes
	LICENSE.txt		Term of use
	Release.txt		Release note / ChangeLog
	configure		configure script
	configure.in		
	Sample.jconf		Sample configuration file for Julius-3.4.2
	Sample-julian.jconf	Sample configuration file for Julian-3.4.2
	julius/			Julius/Julian 3.4.2 sources
	libsent/		Julius/Julian 3.4.2 library sources
	adinrec/		Record one sentence utterance to a file
	adintool/		Record/split/send/receive speech data
	gramtools/		Tools to build and test recognition grammar
	jcontrol/		A sample network client module 
	mkbingram/		Convert ascii N-gram to binary format
	mkbinhmm/		Convert ascii hmmdefs to binary format
	mkgshmm/		Model conversion for Gaussian Mixture Selection
	mkss/			Estimate noise spectrum from mic input
	support/		some files for compilation
	olddoc/			ChangeLogs before 3.2


From rev.3.4, a grammar-based recognizer called "Julian" is also
included.  the Julian can be compiled from Julius sources by
specifying configure option "--enable-julian".  The grammar format
Julian uses is original one based on BNF.  A grammar compiler that
converts the written BNF to finite state grammar, and several test
tools are included in this archive.


About Documents 
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The overall document that contains installation procedure, tutorial,
model formats and more, are available at:

    http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en/Julius-3.2-book-e.pdf

It is basically based on rev.3.2, but will be also helpful for recent
versions.

The defailed description of differences, new features and bug fixes 
for each version from 3.3p4 are fully available in HTML format
in "whatsnew/en/",

      WhatsNew_3.3p4.html	  About rev.3.3p4
      WhatsNew_3.4.html		  About rev.3.4
      WhatsNew_3.4.1html	  About rev.3.4.1
      WhatsNew_3.4.2.html	  About rev.3.4.2

Most up-to-date online manuals are provided under each directory
in text format "00readme.txt" and in MAN format "*.man".

For more information, see URL below:

    http://julius.sourceforge.jp/	(Japanese)
    http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en/	(English)

Since the developer's primary language is Japanese, some documents are
available only in Japanese.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.
