-**cuDNN >= 6.0** is required to utilize NVIDIA GPU platform in the installation of PaddlePaddle, and the **CUDA toolkit** with proper version suitable for cuDNN. The cuDNN library below 6.0 is found to yield a fatal error in batch normalization when handling utterances with long duration in inference.
Please replace `$PADDLE_INSTALL_DIR` with your own paddle installation directory.
### Setup for Demo
Please do the following extra installation before run `demo_client.py` to try the realtime ASR demo. However there is no need to install them for the computer running the demo's server-end (`demo_server.py`). For details of running the ASR demo, please refer to the [section](#playing-with-the-asr-demo).
For example, on MAC OS X:
```
brew install portaudio
pip install pyaudio
pip install pynput
```
## Usage
### Preparing Data
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On the client console, press and hold "white-space" key and start talking, then release the "white-space" key when you finish your speech. The decoding results (infered transcription) will be displayed.
If you would like to start server and client in two machines. Please use `--host_ip` and `--host_port` to indicate the actual IP address and port, for both `demo_server.py` and `demo_client.py`.
If you would like to start the server and the client in two machines. Please use `--host_ip` and `--host_port` to indicate the actual IP address and port, for both `demo_server.py` and `demo_client.py`.
Notice that `demo_client.py` should be started in your local computer with microphone hardware, while `demo_server.py` can be started in any remote server as well as the same local computer. IP address and port should be properly set for server-client communication.
For running `demo_client.py`, please first finish the [extra installation steps](#setup-for-demo).
