Cannot execute binary file

[Ingerid D]

I am having trouble downsampling the recording files. My for loop seems to work, but the terminal complains that it cannot execute the binary file:

./scripts/downsample_wavfiles.sh: line 11: recordings/ArcticA/arctic_a0001.wav: cannot execute binary file

However, I do not wish to execute the recording files, I just want to alter them with the sox command. I haven’t found any useful solutions online either.

This is how my script looks:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash



RECDIR=recordings/ArcticA





for F in `${RECDIR}/*.wav`
do
#ch_wave -otype riff -F 16000 -o wav/${F} recordings/${F}
sox $F -b16 -r 16k wav/`basename $F.wav`
done

[Simon]

Whenever you see the error message “cannot execute binary file” referring to a file that should never be executed, you need to look for a place where that file is the first thing on a line in the shell script.

In your case, this is within the backticks on line 11. Backticks create a new shell and the contents are passed to this new shell to be executed. In your case, the contents will be a list of wav files.

You need either:

for F in `ls ${RECDIR}/*.wav`

or

for F in ${RECDIR}/*.wav

or the fancier

for F in `find ${RECDIR} -name "*.wav"`

[Lena S]

I’m having this issue with endpointing. I’m trying to do the modification of training on less data and I get another error when I run make_mfccs if I don’t do endpointing (as I have seen in a previous run through the commands).

I’ve run these commands:

for FILE in wav/*.wav; do sox $FILE ../silenceTrimmed/$FILE vad -t 6 -s 0.1 -p 0.1 reverse vad -t 4 -s 0.1 -p 0.3 reverse; done

for FILE in ‘ls wav/*.wav’; do sox $FILE ../silenceTrimmed/$FILE vad -t 6 -s 0.1 -p 0.1 reverse vad -t 4 -s 0.1 -p 0.3 reverse; done

and I get the following error:

/Volumes/Network/courses/ss/festival/festival_mac/multisyn_build/bin/sox: cannot execute binary file

[Simon]

The “festival_mac” in the PATH is the clue. It’s a curious bug. See this topic.

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