I thought I would start my blog anew by sharing my learning curve as I get up to speed on using Kaldi, a speech recognition toolkit. After several false starts, I decided to give Docker Desktop after finding the Docker images in the GitHub repo for Kaldi.

I first used Docker in a class this past summer at a course at Informatica Feminale at the University of Bremen. The instructor had a number of docker images with different technologies so we could try out the different options. Brilliant!

I have both a MacBook Pro and a Windows 10 desktop. The MacOS was remarkable easy to install, however I had to enable Hyper-V and virtualization in my BIOS. What a challenge! First, I confirmed that my Intel chip supported virtualization. [Press Ctrl + Alt + Del; Select Task Manager; Select Performance tab. The “Virtualization: option will list if enabled or not.] I already had Hyper-V enabled, but in case you don’t, you do this in the “Turn Windows features on or off” dialog.

Once I determined that although my chip supported virtualization, it wasn’t enabled, I booted in the BIOS and walked through every option looking for something that sounded like what I was hunting for. I looked, and looked, starting to panic that my motherboard didn’t support virtualization. After a reading support information on the MSI site, I resorted to a general search, and the Internet came through in a comment on a Spiceworks community post. alsymonds took the time to share that the feature was buried in the overclocking tab and his one and only contribution solved my problem. Voilà, Docker for Desktop was functioning!

I’ll cover my experience getting up to speed with Docker in a subsequent post.