1. Click "Choose Files" button and select your NIST files you would like converted.
2. Click on the “Convert to HCOM” button to start the conversion.
3. When the status change to “Done” click the “Download HCOM” button
To convert in the opposite direction, click here to convert from HCOM to NIST
NIST files are sound recordings stored in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Speech Header Resources Exchange Format (SPHERE), designed for speech recognition software like Hidden Markov Model Toolkit. NIST files consist of both metadata information as well as audio data in waveform format; VLC can playback these files while soX or FFmpeg may convert them to more common ...
HCOM is an obsolete mono sound format with Huffman compression used on Macintosh platforms, although no longer in widespread use and may soon become unsupported altogether. Uncompressed audio consists of real sound waves captured and converted directly into digital format without any additional processing, with no changes made after capture or conversion to provide maximum accuracy and quality, but they ...
Upload a NIST file, click "Convert", and use additional options to quickly modify its contents before downloading the final HCOM file after processing has completed.
Our NIST to HCOM converter works on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS and Android systems alike - our servers automatically process each file without requiring you to install plug-ins or applications!
We guarantee 100%% of the privacy and have no access to your files once uploaded/converted, making them inaccessible by anyone and completely protecting them.