Installation error

[kthahirah]

Tried to install ctc-forced-aligner but kept receiving the same error that I have trouble resolving

Building wheels for collected packages: ctc-forced-aligner
  Building editable for ctc-forced-aligner (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building editable for ctc-forced-aligner (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [19 lines of output]
      No `packages` or `py_modules` configuration, performing automatic discovery.
      `flat-layout` detected -- analysing .
      discovered packages -- ['ctc_forced_aligner', 'ctc_forced_aligner.uroman']
      running editable_wheel
      creating C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner.egg-info
      writing C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner.egg-info\PKG-INFO
      writing dependency_links to C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
      writing entry points to C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner.egg-info\entry_points.txt
      writing requirements to C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner.egg-info\requires.txt
      writing top-level names to C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner.egg-info\top_level.txt
      writing manifest file 'C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
      reading manifest file 'C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
      writing manifest file 'C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
      creating 'C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner-0.3.0.dist-info'
      creating C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-eyvixa0p\.tmp-7hin7an8\ctc_forced_aligner-0.3.0.dist-info\WHEEL
      running build_py
      running build_ext
      building 'ctc_forced_aligner.ctc_forced_aligner' extension
      error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building editable for ctc-forced-aligner
Failed to build ctc-forced-aligner
ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (ctc-forced-aligner)

[MahmoudAshraf97]

Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

[kthahirah]

Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

I have already installed it and the error still persists. I also upgraded the pip install setuptools wheels build and nothing works

[kthahirah]

I managed to fix it with

pip install pycryptodome

but when I run I get this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\inven\Documents\generate-subtitle\ctc-forced-aligner\aligner.py", line 35, in <module>
    tokens_starred, text_starred = preprocess_text(
                                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        text,
        ^^^^^
        romanize=True,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        language=language,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "C:\Users\inven\Documents\generate-subtitle\ctc-forced-aligner\ctc_forced_aligner\text_utils.py", line 222, in preprocess_text
    tokens = get_uroman_tokens(norm_text, language)
  File "C:\Users\inven\Documents\generate-subtitle\ctc-forced-aligner\ctc_forced_aligner\text_utils.py", line 154, in get_uroman_tokens
    assert os.path.exists(os.path.join(UROMAN_PATH, "uroman.pl")), "uroman not found"
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: uroman not found

[MahmoudAshraf97]

That means your installation is missing the uroman module, if you are using git clone make sure to include submodules as well

[kthahirah]

thank you, but now I'm getting this error :/

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "C:\Users\inven\documents\generate-subtitle\env\Scripts\ctc-forced-aligner.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
             ~~~^^
  File "C:\Users\inven\Documents\generate-subtitle\env\Lib\site-packages\ctc_forced_aligner\align.py", line 148, in cli
    tokens_starred, text_starred = preprocess_text(
                                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        text, args.romanize, args.language, args.split_size, args.star_frequency
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "C:\Users\inven\Documents\generate-subtitle\env\Lib\site-packages\ctc_forced_aligner\text_utils.py", line 222, in preprocess_text
    tokens = get_uroman_tokens(norm_text, language)
  File "C:\Users\inven\Documents\generate-subtitle\env\Lib\site-packages\ctc_forced_aligner\text_utils.py", line 156, in get_uroman_tokens
    assert not subprocess.call(
               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        ["perl", "--version"], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ), (
    ^
  File "C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\subprocess.py", line 395, in call
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
         ~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1039, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        pass_fds, cwd, env,
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ...<5 lines>...
                        gid, gids, uid, umask,
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        start_new_session, process_group)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\inven\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1551, in _execute_child
    hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                             # no special security
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ...<4 lines>...
                             cwd,
                             ^^^^
                             startupinfo)
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

Sorry, I'm a bit of a noob. I really want this to work but it doesn't seem to want to work

[MahmoudAshraf97]

You must have a valid perl installation

[kthahirah]

Thank you, it's finally up and running! It works wonderfully. I'm just wondering whether it is possible to do more customization as I intend to use this for subtitle creation. Is it possible to align by sentence but also set a character limit as well as to set a maximum and minimum duration for each alignment?