voxsrc20_ask_13-Why convert AAC to WAV?

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Question

Why taking a long time to convert from aac to wav in voxceleb?

$ python ./dataprep.py --save_path home/data/voxceleb --convert
Converting files from AAC to WAV
100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 1128246/1128246 [16:33:17<00:00, 18.93it/s]

Answer

To get the uncompressed audio for training and test.

format	full name	feature	size	file extensions
AAC	Advanced Audio Coding	lossy audio compression	small	.m4a, .m4b, .m4r, .aac
WAV	WAVeform audio	uncompressed audio	large	.wav, .wave

File Format Information:
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) is a lossy audio compression format, based audio-encoding standard for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
The file extensions can be .m4a, .m4b, .m4r, .aac.

WAV (Waveform Audio) is a uncompressed audio file format, WAV files are large, widely supported under Windows platform,
a derivative of Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). The file extensions can be .wav, .wave.

Reference

[1] https://www.onlineconverter.com/aac-to-wav