Nist Sphere format files

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In order to read NIST sphere format files, I'm trying to install NIST SPHERE software downloaded from here, but I encountered some errors:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ibtissem/tools/nist/src/bin'
gcc  -I/home/ibtissem/tools/nist/include -L/home/ibtissem/tools/nist/lib -g -g -DNARCH_linux h_add.c  -lm -o h_add
h_add.c:31: error: undefined reference to 'sp_verbose'
h_add.c:31: error: undefined reference to 'sp_verbose'
h_add.c:28: error: undefined reference to 'hs_getopt'
h_add.c:42: error: undefined reference to 'sp_verbose'
h_add.c:42: error: undefined reference to 'sp_get_version'
h_add.c:44: error: undefined reference to 'hs_optind'
h_add.c:50: error: undefined reference to 'hs_optind'
h_add.c:53: error: undefined reference to 'hs_optind'
h_add.c:55: error: undefined reference to 'hs_optind'
h_add.c:71: error: undefined reference to 'sp_create_header'
h_add.c:93: error: undefined reference to 'sp_write_header'
h_add.c:103: error: undefined reference to 'sp_fpcopy'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [h_add] Error 1

Does someone have any idea about this error?

Which package exactly are you trying to compile? What are you steps. Which OS do you have. Remember, the more information you provide the faster you will get an answer. — Nikolay Shmyrev, May 12 '13 at 20:33
Thank you Nikolay for your reply. I downloaded **sphere_2.6a.tar.Z** from [here](http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/mig//tools/) on **ubuntu** But when I tried to install it with the command `sh src/scripts/install.sh` I had the errors listed above. — ibtissem, May 15 '13 at 09:22

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '14 at 06:23

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There is a new version of sphere here： http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/tools.cfm

The second tool in Corpus Building Tools. According to the readme file of the package, it has been tested on the following plantforms:

Mac OS X (10.6)
Linux (Ubuntu 11.04)
Cygwin (1.7 under Windows XP)

answered Jun 14 '14 at 06:23

Bill Xia

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another link found here ftp://jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/ but it's 2.6 version – user13107 Jul 31 '15 at 04:13
To anyone using this version, I had to change `$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJ) $(PROJECT_ROOT)/lib/lib$(COMBINEDLIB).a $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $@.c $(OBJ) $(LLIBS) -o $@` to `$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJ) $(PROJECT_ROOT)/lib/lib$(COMBINEDLIB).a $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $@.c $(OBJ) $(LLIBS) -o $@ -lm ` in `lib/makes/make_spg.txt` because I was getting errors similar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9145264/undefined-reference-to-log – user13107 Jul 31 '15 at 06:41

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 02 '16 at 21:27

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I'd recommend using Sound Exchange. It includes both a converter:

sox foo.sph foo.wav

As well as a simple player:

play foo.sph

It's also well-maintained and does all sorts of other useful things. You can easily download packages without compiling it.

answered Jun 02 '16 at 21:27

Luke Schlather

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Gives me the following error: `sph: unsupported coding alaw` – FifthCode Feb 24 '21 at 18:45
sox FAIL formats: can't open input file `/foo/bar.wav': WAVE: RIFF header not found – JRichardsz Feb 04 '23 at 13:18

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '13 at 09:28

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sphere_2.6a.tar.Z is very outdated package not supported in modern systems

To decode SPHERE files download sph2pipe instead:

ftp://ftp.ldc.upenn.edu/pub/ldc/misc_sw/sph2pipe_v2.5.tar.gz

ftp://ftp.ldc.upenn.edu/pub/ldc/misc_sw/sph2pipe_v2.5.README_1ST

answered May 15 '13 at 09:28

Nikolay Shmyrev

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Nist Sphere format files

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