Why do we store test data differently?

[Yichao L]

Hi,

When we prepareing for the testing data, is there a performance reason that we want to seperete them instead of label them the same as the training data? Or is it just to comply with HTK’s api.

Thanks,

Yichao

[Simon]

The labels are for different things in training and testing.

For the training data, we need to know the start and end time of each training example because HRest requires this: it trains one model at a time.

For the test data, we simply need the correct label for each test .mfcc file, to use as a reference when computing the WER.

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