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From: ajr@eng.cam.ac.uk (Tony Robinson)
Subject: Re: .adc files
In-Reply-To: Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu's message of Sat, 22 Jan 1994 18:35:27 -0500
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In article <shEPUz600hsBJ8A1d3@cs.cmu.edu> Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu writes:
> 
> The timit files on the CD are NIST sphere .wav files. The header for
> those includes info on byte order.  Are you getting your TIMIT files
> somewhere else? Maybe the CD would be a better source.

The old prototype TIMIT CDROM had .adc files.  These had a 12 byte
header and were in VAX byte order.

The currently distributed TIMIT CDROM has more speakers, a different
partitioning of train and test speakers, and NIST SPHERE headers.

The latest NIST SPHERE software is available from jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov
in pub/sphere_2.0_Beta2.1.tar.Z.

Tony Robinson

