TIMIT Dataset

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TIMIT dataset

What is TIMIT Dataset?

The TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus dataset is a standard dataset used for the evaluation of automatic speech recognition systems. It contains recordings of 630 speakers. Also, the recordings include eight dialects of American English. Each speaker in the dataset reads 10 phonetically-rich sentences. The TIMIT corpus includes time-aligned orthographic, phonetic, and word transcriptions. It also includes a 16-bit, 16kHz speech waveform file for each phrase said. The TIMIT corpus transcriptions have been hand-verified.

Download TIMIT Dataset in Python

Instead of downloading the TIMIT dataset in Python, you can effortlessly load it in Python via our Deep Lake open-source with just one line of code.

Load TIMIT Dataset Training Subset in Python

				
					import deeplake
ds = deeplake.load("hub://activeloop/timit-train")

Load TIMIT Dataset Testing Subset in Python

				
					import deeplake
ds = deeplake.load("deeplake://activeloop/mnist-test")

TIMIT Dataset Structure

TIMIT Data Fields

audios: tensor represent audio in wav format.
texts: tensor representing the text spoken in the audio.
dialects: tensor representing the dialect of the speaker.
is_sentences: tensor to identify if the audio is a sentence.
is_word_files: tensor to identify if the audio is a word.
is_phoenetics: tensor to identify if the audio is phonetic.
speaker_ids: tensor representing the speaker id.

TIMIT Data Splits

The TIMIT dataset training set is composed of 4620 audio files.
The TIMIT dataset test set is composed of 1690 audio files.

How to use TIMIT Dataset with PyTorch and TensorFlow in Python

Train a model on TIMIT dataset with PyTorch in Python

Let’s use Deep Lake built-in PyTorch one-line dataloader to connect the data to the compute:

				
					dataloader = ds.pytorch(num_workers=0, batch_size=4, shuffle=False)

Train a model on the TIMIT dataset with TensorFlow in Python

				
					dataloader = ds.tensorflow()

Additional Information about TIMIT Dataset

TIMIT Dataset Description

Homepage:https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93s1
Paper: Garofolo, John S., et al. TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus LDC93S1. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.

Timit Dataset Curators

John S. Garofolo, Lori F. Lamel, William M. Fisher, Jonathan G. Fiscus, David S. Pallett, Nancy L. Dahlgren, Victor Zue

TIMIT Dataset Licensing Information

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Timit Dataset Citation Information

				
					@inproceedings,
  title = {TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus},
  author = {John S. Garofolo, Lori F. Lamel, William M. Fisher, Jonathan G. Fiscus, David S. Pallett, Nancy L. Dahlgren, Victor Zue},
  booktitle = {Linguistic Data Consortium, },
  year = {1993} 
}

TIMIT Dataset FAQs

What is the TIMIT dataset for Python?

The TIMIT dataset is a speech dataset that is often used for the evaluation of automatic speech recognition systems. It was developed by Texas Instruments and MIT with DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) financial support. It is often used in the domain of speech recognition.

How to download the TIMIT dataset in Python?

You can load the TIMIT dataset fast with one line of code using the open-source package Activeloop Deep Lake in Python. See detailed instructions on how to load the TIMIT dataset training subset in Python.

How can I use the TIMIT dataset in PyTorch or TensorFlow?

You can stream the TIMIT dataset while training a model in PyTorch or TensorFlow with one line of code using the open-source package Activeloop Deep Lake in Python. See detailed instructions on how to train a model on the TIMIT dataset with PyTorch in Python or train a model on TIMIT with Tensorflow in Python.