If you haven't already, download the latest development release: openbeat-dist-1.0-SNAPSHOT.zip (35 MB) since May 18, 2009.

The release is compiled with Java6 source and target, requiring you to have Java6 installed. The distribution contains executable runnables, one for Windows (a bat file) and one for Unix (a shell script) which prepare the classpath before launching the application.

Inside the distribution are scripts which prepare the Java classpath before launching the OpenBEAT application. Two folders follow, one called openbeat which contains all OpenBEAT packaged module and another called lib which contains all 3rd party library used by OpenBEAT or one of it's integrated modules. The size of the lib directory is considerable due to the nature of the dependencies (e.g. the speech synthesizer alone takes over 5MB).

Now extract the zip file to your preferred install location. Don't close the folder just yet, you need to move few files from the extracted folder into the BML Realizer folder, which is up next.

Note: BML Realizer needs to be download seperately.

Go to the BML Realizer website and download BMLR_1.01 and extract to your preferred install location.

Now copy the files from OpenBEAT's PandaBMLR folder into the PandaBMLR folder from BML Realizer.

By now, you should have installed both OpenBEAT and BML Realizer. The files you added to BML Realizer's folder contain an additional server and a which has been setup according to this guide's needs.