#!/bin/bash # Directory where the converted .wav files will be stored. # The prompt mentioned storing them "directly under the upper test folder". # Assuming the script is run from /home/dem/projects/k2/isl_zipformer/asr_data/samromur_asr/ # and the 'upper test folder' is 'test/', this script will place files in 'test/wav_files/'. # If the script is run from /home/dem/projects/k2, it will be in isl_zipformer/asr_data/samromur_asr/test/wav_files # Let's assume the script is run from where the `test` directory is. the_set=train OUTPUT_DIR="${the_set}/wav_files" mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR" # Number of parallel jobs. `nproc` gets the number of CPU cores. # You can change this to a fixed number, e.g., PARALLEL_JOBS=4 PARALLEL_JOBS=8 echo "Converting files in parallel using up to $PARALLEL_JOBS jobs..." # Find all .flac files and pipe them to xargs for parallel processing. # The `-P` option for xargs sets the maximum number of parallel processes. # The `-I {}` option tells xargs to replace `{}` with the input line (the file path). find ${the_set}/train_part_01 -type f -name "*.flac" | xargs -P "$PARALLEL_JOBS" -I {} bash -c ' flac_file="{}" # Get the base filename without the .flac extension base_filename=$(basename "$flac_file" .flac) output_wav_file="'"$OUTPUT_DIR"'/${base_filename}.wav" # Run the ffmpeg conversion. # -y overwrites the output file if it exists. ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel quiet -i "$flac_file" -ac 1 -ar 16000 "$output_wav_file" ' echo "All conversions are complete. Check the '$OUTPUT_DIR' directory."