How to compile and install NIST Scoring Toolkit (SCTK) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2

The NIST Scoring Toolkit (SCTK) is a collection of software tools designed to score benchmark test evaluations of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Systems.

It is kind of a pain to use, but certainly beats writing your own.  Anyways, the first step is downloading the latest version of the software.   I had trouble finding an official “this is the latest version” website, but this one had old versions in addition to the “latest”, so I went with that.

http://www.openslr.org/4/

Download the latest version (at the time of this writing).

http://www.openslr.org/resources/4/sctk-2.4.10-20151007-1312Z.tar.bz2

Unzip everything.  I used archive manager and ended up with a folder called “sctk-2.4.10”.  Enter that folder, you should see “bin”, “doc”, and “src” folders once you are inside of it.  Open up a terminal inside the “sctk-2.4.10” folder.

[bull@localhost sctk-2.4.10]$ ls
bin CHANGELOG DISCLAIMER doc INSTALL makefile README src

run the commands like the INSTALL file says

[bull@localhost sctk-2.4.10]$

make config
make all
make check
make install
make doc

now navigate to the bin folder and run sclite

[bull@localhost sctk-2.4.10]$ cd bin
[bull@localhost bin]$ ./sclite

Tada!