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#      LIA_RAL PROJECT - 2004-2013
#      http://alize.univ-avignon.fr
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# V3.0 / February 18th 2013	  
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LIA_RAL is utilities for Automatic Speaker Recognition developed by the LIA. All of them are based on the ALIZE platform which is required to compile LIA_RAL.

LIA_RAL is an open project. Feel free to contact us to propose to work on it ! 

In order to use Support Vector Machine the libsvm library is included into this package. For more information on libsvm refered to: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/
In order to simplify programation the Eigen library is included into this package. For more information on Eigen refered to: http://http://eigen.tuxfamily.org

FAQ
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Q: What is needed to install LIA_RAL library
A: aclocal, autoconf, automake and libtool are requiered. Moreover this package needs also ALIZE library.

Q: How to generate the LIA_RAL library under Linux, MacOS and cygwin
A: 2 steps :
	- install ALIZE library
	- run aclocal, automake and autoconf
	- then run ./configure ; ATTENTION by default alize lib is search in ../ALIZE. You can specify the ABSOLUTE path if different by using the --with-alize=ABSOUTE_PATH option.
	- finally run make

Q: How to generate the LIA_RAL library under Windows with Visual C++
A: use the LIA_RAL.sln solution file. If your version of Visual Studio is newer than 2010 you just have to convert it using Visual studio tools.

Q: I have some problems to compile ALIZE
A: Please read this technote :
		http://alize.univ-avignon.fr/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

Q: How to generate documentation
A: In a shell, in the main folder of Alize, doxygen doxygen.cfg (need to have doxygen installed)

Q: How to compile with multiThread
A: Run ./configure with the option --enable-MT 

Q: How to link with Lapack
A: Install LapackE  then run ./configure with the option --enable-LAPACK
	For more information please refer to  http://alize.univ-avignon.fr/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page