I am following the https://github.com/mravanelli/SincNet library . I have followed the documentation as suggested. but I got the RuntimeError I have changed the file access using sudo chmod +x /home/sathiyakugan/Downloads/TIMIT/data/lisa/data/timit/raw/TIMIT but it didn't solve the problem. This is the syntax that I executed python3 TIMIT_preparation.py /home/sathiyakugan/Downloads/TIMIT/data/lisa/data/timit/raw/TIMIT /home/sathiyakugan/Documents/FYP/out data_lists/TIMIT_all.scp and this is the error I received. File "TIMIT_preparation.py", line 56, in <module> [signal, fs] = sf.read(wav_file) File "/home/sathiyakugan/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 257, in read subtype, endian, format, closefd) as f: File "/home/sathiyakugan/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 627, in __init__ self._file = self._open(file, mode_int, closefd) File "/home/sathiyakugan/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 1182, in _open "Error opening {0!r}: ".format(self.name)) File "/home/sathiyakugan/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 1355, in _error_check raise RuntimeError(prefix + _ffi.string(err_str).decode('utf-8', 'replace')) RuntimeError: Error opening '/home/sathiyakugan/Downloads/TIMIT/data/lisa/data/timit/raw/TIMIT/train/dr1/fvmh0/si1466.wav': System error. Continue reading...