The DARPA TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus
(TIMIT)
Training and Test Data
and
Speech Header Software
NIST Speech Disc CD1-1.1
October 1990
This CD-ROM contains the complete TIMIT acoustic-phonetic speech corpus.
TIMIT was designed to provide speech data for the acquisition of
acousticphonetic knowledge and for the development and evaluation of automatic
speech recognition systems. The disc was prepared at the National
Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) with sponsorship from the Defense
Advanced
Research Projects Agency - Information Science and Technology Office
(DARPA-ISTO).
CD-ROM Contents
--------------The following files and subdirectories are located in the top-level
directory
of this CD-ROM:
convert/ - directory containing ESPRIT SAM software for converting
TIMIT speech files into a SAM compatible format; This
software (version 1.2) has been slightly modified from
the
version distributed on the Resource Management CD-ROMs
(version 1.1) to work with TIMIT.
/readme.doc - this file
sphere/ - directory containing a new version (1.5) of the NIST
SPeech
HEader REsources (SPHERE) software; SPHERE is a set of
"C" library routines and programs for manipulating the
NIST
header structure prepended to the TIMIT waveform files.
timit/ - directory containing the TIMIT corpus as well as TIMITrelated documentation.
Each of these directories contains a "readme.doc" file which may be
consulted
for more detailed information.