REPORT moore:rr06-03/IDIAP The Juicer LVCSR Decoder - User Manual for Juicer version 0.5.0 Moore, Darren EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2006/moore-idiap-com-06-03.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-Com-03-2006 2006 IDIAP Juicer is a decoder for HMM-based large vocabulary speech recognition that uses a weighted finite state transducer (WFST) representation of the search space. The package consists of a number of command line utilities: the Juicer decoder itself, along with a number of tools and scripts that are used to combine the various ASR knowledge sources (language model, pronunciation dictionary, acoustic models) into a single, optimised WFST that is input to the decoder.