diff --git a/speech_recognition/__init__.py b/speech_recognition/__init__.py
index c8c7b1ab..53c891bf 100644
--- a/speech_recognition/__init__.py
+++ b/speech_recognition/__init__.py
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ def get_aiff_data(self, convert_rate=None, convert_width=None):
         sample_rate = self.sample_rate if convert_rate is None else convert_rate
         sample_width = self.sample_width if convert_width is None else convert_width
 
-        # the AIFF format is big-endian, so we need to covnert the little-endian raw data to big-endian
+        # the AIFF format is big-endian, so we need to convert the little-endian raw data to big-endian
         if hasattr(audioop, "byteswap"):  # ``audioop.byteswap`` was only added in Python 3.4
             raw_data = audioop.byteswap(raw_data, sample_width)
         else:  # manually reverse the bytes of each sample, which is slower but works well enough as a fallback