How to compile SRILM on Ubuntu

EDIT: This is my original post, but the comments have newer and better instructions.

I always encounter problems when compiling SRILM on Ubuntu.  Assuming the basic SRILM dependencies are installed on your system (see the Prerequisites), this works for SRILM 1.5.11 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and 10.04 (Lucid):

1. Install tcsh if not already installed
2. Install all the TCL developer libraries: tcl8.4-dev, tcl-dev, tcl-lib, tclx8.4, tclx8.4-dev.  This step may not be necessary, let me know what works for you.
3. Uncomment the “SRILM =” line in the top level Makefile and replace the existing path with the absolute path of the SRILM top-level directory on your system (where the Makefile resides)
4. Start the tcsh shell
5. Type “make NO_TCL=X MACHINE_TYPE=i686-gcc4 World > & make.log.txt” to begin the build and capture stderr and stdout in a file
6. If you can run “./bin/i686-gcc4/ngram-count -help“, the build was probably a success

Please add simplifications to this recipe or extensions to other versions of Ubuntu in the comments.

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Speech Recognition with CMU Sphinx and SRILM language models

Speech recognition that does not take advantage of domain specific language models produces silly results.  The recognition menagerie below was generated with Sphinx 4.  I used the HUB4 acoustic model and an SRILM language model generated from the human annotator transcripts.

• No LM: thusly islam brown ivan and apelike of yellow
• LM: a seated small brown ottoman and teapot of yellow
• True: i see a small brown ottoman and a pot of yellow