PARAMETER FILE FORMATS

Parameter files are used for input and output to the ANNs.
The NICO toolkit supports the following parameter formats:

binary Binary file, 4-byte floats, no header

ascii Floats in ascii text format (read by c-function scanf)

htk Parameter files created by the HTK toolkit have this format. It can be read and in some cases written by the tools of this toolkit. Some of the information in the header may be lost in the process though.

codebook A compact codebook format. Non-standard. Some tools in the NICO toolkit generates files with this format. Useful for target files where typically only 0.0 and 1.0 are used, i.e., only one bit is needed to represent each float.

binary	Binary file, 4-byte floats, no header
ascii	Floats in ascii text format (read by c-function scanf)
htk	Parameter files created by the HTK toolkit have this format. It can be read and in some cases written by the tools of this toolkit. Some of the information in the header may be lost in the process though.
codebook	A compact codebook format. Non-standard. Some tools in the NICO toolkit generates files with this format. Useful for target files where typically only 0.0 and 1.0 are used, i.e., only one bit is needed to represent each float.