[Corpora-List] Where to download TIMIT database

[Steven Bird]

On 2/12/07, kalai selvan <sendtokalai at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I need to know the details about TIMIT database.
>   Where can i find it.
>   I also need to download the TIMIT database.
>   Please tell me the link to download the TIMIT database.
>   Thanks for any help.
>   Kalaiselvan
>   Anna university
> k
>
>


TIMIT is available from the LDC for $100
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC93S1

A 3% sample is distributed for free with NLTK [http://nltk.sourceforge.net/],
along with Python software for reading it:

http://nltk.sourceforge.net/lite/nltk_lite/corpora/timit.py

-Steven Bird