[hts-users:00133] Re: about training files

["Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)" <zen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

eem1lz wrote:

> If you donot mind, I want to ask another question. 
> The speech files I have got are provided by CMU. 
> These file are recorded as *.wav format. 
> If I want to use SPTK, these files need to be converted to *.raw format or other formats 
without header.
> I was doing the conversion one by one, 
> but I realized that it is foolish to do the conversion in that way if we need a large mount of files. 
> so is there any tool that can do it automatically for multi-files.

I always use sox to remove RIFF header like as follows:

for wav ./wav/*.wav
do
  raw=./raw/`basename $wav .wav`.raw
  sox -c 1 -s -w -t wav -r 16000 $wav -c 1 -s -w -t wav -r 16000 $raw
done

Please visit http://sox.sourceforge.net/ or type "sox -h" for details 
about sox.

Regards,

Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)

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  Byung-Ha CHUN (in Korean pronunciation)

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Graduate School of Engineering
  Nagoya Institute of Technology
  Japan

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