diff --git a/examples/timit/README.md b/examples/timit/s1/README.md
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diff --git a/examples/timit/conf/augmentation.json b/examples/timit/s1/conf/augmentation.json
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diff --git a/examples/timit/conf/dev_spk.list b/examples/timit/s1/conf/dev_spk.list
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diff --git a/examples/timit/conf/phones.60-48-39.map b/examples/timit/s1/conf/phones.60-48-39.map
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diff --git a/examples/timit/conf/test_spk.list b/examples/timit/s1/conf/test_spk.list
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diff --git a/examples/timit/conf/transformer.yaml b/examples/timit/s1/conf/transformer.yaml
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index 131173ce50e576889ba9c2fa5a5531b3df850b56..eb191d0b25f703c4e95aa79b750fcdaf8962be41 100644
--- a/examples/timit/conf/transformer.yaml
+++ b/examples/timit/s1/conf/transformer.yaml
@@ -76,11 +76,11 @@ training:
   global_grad_clip: 5.0
   optim: adam
   optim_conf:
-    lr: 0.004
+    lr: 0.002
     weight_decay: 1e-06
   scheduler: warmuplr     # pytorch v1.1.0+ required
   scheduler_conf:
-    warmup_steps: 25000
+    warmup_steps: 400
     lr_decay: 1.0
   log_interval: 100
   checkpoint:
diff --git a/examples/timit/local/align.sh b/examples/timit/s1/local/align.sh
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diff --git a/examples/timit/local/data.sh b/examples/timit/s1/local/data.sh
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diff --git a/examples/timit/local/export.sh b/examples/timit/s1/local/export.sh
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diff --git a/examples/timit/local/test.sh b/examples/timit/s1/local/test.sh
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diff --git a/examples/timit/local/timit_data_prep.sh b/examples/timit/s1/local/timit_data_prep.sh
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rename from examples/timit/local/timit_data_prep.sh
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index 22e6f343e7fe2f8278b85a37de69ef32616c64c8..4bea057d004af45e04b7e1e38ffbadb7ab764dc2 100644
--- a/examples/timit/local/timit_data_prep.sh
+++ b/examples/timit/s1/local/timit_data_prep.sh
@@ -15,8 +15,13 @@ local=`pwd`/local
 utils=`pwd`/utils
 conf=`pwd`/conf
 
-[ -f $conf/test_spk.list ] || error_exit "$PROG: Eval-set speaker list not found.";
-[ -f $conf/dev_spk.list ] || error_exit "$PROG: dev-set speaker list not found.";
+function error_exit () {
+  echo -e "$@" >&2; exit 1;
+}
+PROG=$(basename $0)
+
+[ -f $conf/test_spk.list ] || error_exit "$PROG line $LINENO: Eval-set speaker list not found.";
+[ -f $conf/dev_spk.list ] || error_exit "$PROG line $LINENO: dev-set speaker list not found.";
 
 # First check if the train & test directories exist (these can either be upper-
 # or lower-cased
diff --git a/examples/timit/local/timit_norm_trans.pl b/examples/timit/s1/local/timit_norm_trans.pl
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diff --git a/examples/timit/local/train.sh b/examples/timit/s1/local/train.sh
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diff --git a/examples/timit/path.sh b/examples/timit/s1/path.sh
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rename from examples/timit/path.sh
rename to examples/timit/s1/path.sh
index 9542727768e89e60122b53cb0eacf1b960f0d985..a632babe405806b5d04ed8859d0c65cfa397076c 100644
--- a/examples/timit/path.sh
+++ b/examples/timit/s1/path.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export MAIN_ROOT=${PWD}/../../
+export MAIN_ROOT=${PWD}/../../../
 export PATH=${MAIN_ROOT}:${MAIN_ROOT}/utils:${PATH}
 export LC_ALL=C
 
diff --git a/examples/timit/run.sh b/examples/timit/s1/run.sh
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rename to examples/timit/s1/run.sh
index d2b7f362d22afef4dfaaa35d4aa966000a1c9781..67ce78377a4752546cfff1704ad00b1ae9997a76 100755
--- a/examples/timit/run.sh
+++ b/examples/timit/s1/run.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ stage=0
 stop_stage=50
 conf_path=conf/transformer.yaml
 avg_num=10
-TIMIT_path=
+TIMIT_path= #path of TIMIT (Required, e.g. /export/corpora5/LDC/LDC93S1/timit/TIMIT)
 source ${MAIN_ROOT}/utils/parse_options.sh || exit 1;
 
 avg_ckpt=avg_${avg_num}