julius-generate-ngram command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

julius-generate-ngram: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: julius-generate-ngram: command not found

Solutions to julius-generate-ngram: command not found

How To Fix julius-generate-ngram: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu julius-generate-ngram is provided by julius package.

julius is:

Julius is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) engine.

It supports N-gram based dictation, DFA grammar based parsing, and one-pass isolated word recognition. Phone context dependencies are supported up to triphone. It can perform a multi-model decoding, a recognition using several LMs and AMs simultaneously with a single processor, and also supports “hot plugging” of arbitrary modules at run time.

This package contains the executable applications, a set of tools useful to build recognition grammar and some examples (like a script to use Julius to execute some predetermined commands).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install julius

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install julius.

sudo apt -y install julius

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install julius

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix julius-generate-ngram command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.