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professor a: ! maybe it 's just , how many t u how many times you crash in a day . phd g: or maybe it 's once you ' ve done enough meetings it wo n't crash on you anymore . professor a: that 's that 's great . do we have an agenda ? liz and andreas ca n't sh ca n't , ca n't come . grad b: i have no idea but got it a fe...
topics discussed by the berkeley meeting recorder group included the status of the first test set of digits data , naming conventions for files , speaker identification tags , and encoding files with details about the recording. the group also discussed a proposal for a grant from the nsf's itr ( information technology...
###dialogue: professor a: ! maybe it 's just , how many t u how many times you crash in a day . phd g: or maybe it 's once you ' ve done enough meetings it wo n't crash on you anymore . professor a: that 's that 's great . do we have an agenda ? liz and andreas ca n't sh ca n't , ca n't come . grad b: i have no idea bu...
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professor a: we 're going ? ok . sh - close your door on the way out ? professor a: probably wanna get this other door , too . so . what are we talking about today ? professor a: the both the sri system and the oth and for one thing that shows the difference between having a lot of training data or not , professor a: ,...
the main purpose of the meeting of icsi's meeting recorder group at berkeley was to discuss the recent progress of it's members. this includes reports on the progress of the groups main digit recogniser project , with interest on voice-activity detectors and voiced/unvoiced detection , work on acoustic feature detectio...
###dialogue: professor a: we 're going ? ok . sh - close your door on the way out ? professor a: probably wanna get this other door , too . so . what are we talking about today ? professor a: the both the sri system and the oth and for one thing that shows the difference between having a lot of training data or not , p...
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grad a: ok , we 're on . so just make that th your wireless mike is on , if you 're wearing a wireless . grad a: and you should be able to see which one you 're on by , watching the little bars change . grad a: so , actually , if you guys wanna go ahead and read digits now , as long as you ' ve signed the consent form ...
the initial task of the edu group is to work on inferring intentions through context. in the navigational paradigm used for the task , these intentions are to "see" to "enter" or to "get to the closest point of" a building. there will be purpose-designed experiments carried out. however , the starting point is , throug...
###dialogue: grad a: ok , we 're on . so just make that th your wireless mike is on , if you 're wearing a wireless . grad a: and you should be able to see which one you 're on by , watching the little bars change . grad a: so , actually , if you guys wanna go ahead and read digits now , as long as you ' ve signed the ...
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phd b: i . do you have news from the conference talk ? , that was programmed for yesterday i . professor c: i know now i you 're talking about . no , nobody 's told me anything . professor c: no , that would have been a good thing to find out before this meeting , that 's . no , i have no idea . so , let 's assume for ...
the berkeley meeting recorder group discussed the progress of several of their members. the progress being made on the group's main project , a speech recogniser for the cellular industry was reported. the group also touched upon matters that had broader implications for the work , such as the work of other groups on t...
###dialogue: phd b: i . do you have news from the conference talk ? , that was programmed for yesterday i . professor c: i know now i you 're talking about . no , nobody 's told me anything . professor c: no , that would have been a good thing to find out before this meeting , that 's . no , i have no idea . so , let '...
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grad f: , i should n't say it 's a good mike . all i really know is that the signal level is ok . i if it 's a the quality . grad f: ugh ! so i did n't send out agenda items because until five minutes ago we only had one agenda item and now we have two . so . and , . professor b: ok . so , just to repeat the thing bef ...
although the meeting recorder group only list two agenda items , this meeting explores transcription , and in particular , consent forms in depth , and at times results in heated debate. with regard to obtaining consent , the group discuss the extent to which they need to attempt to contact people , which methods are m...
###dialogue: grad f: , i should n't say it 's a good mike . all i really know is that the signal level is ok . i if it 's a the quality . grad f: ugh ! so i did n't send out agenda items because until five minutes ago we only had one agenda item and now we have two . so . and , . professor b: ok . so , just to repeat t...
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phd e: so it 's , it 's spectral subtraction or wiener filtering , depending on if we put if we square the transfer function or not . phd e: and then with over - estimation of the noise , depending on the , the snr , with smoothing along time , smoothing along frequency . phd e: it 's very simple , smoothing things . a...
icsi's meeting recorder group have returned from a meeting with some important decisions to make. they have developed a piece of software which allows them to implement their two main approaches to dealing with noise. the base rate is currently set at the second best rate as of the last project evaluation , and it does...
###dialogue: phd e: so it 's , it 's spectral subtraction or wiener filtering , depending on if we put if we square the transfer function or not . phd e: and then with over - estimation of the noise , depending on the , the snr , with smoothing along time , smoothing along frequency . phd e: it 's very simple , smoothi...
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grad f: let 's see . so . what ? i ' m supposed to be on channel five ? her . nope . does n't seem to be , grad d: sibilance . three , three . i am three . see , that matches the seat up there . so . grad d: cuz it 's that starts counting from zero and these start counting from one . ergo , the classic off - by - one e...
minor technical issues,such as format conversions for xml and javabayes and the full translation of the smartkom generation module in english , are currently being resolved. the voice synthesiser will also be replaced by better technology. an important research issue to be investigated is how the concept of mental spac...
###dialogue: grad f: let 's see . so . what ? i ' m supposed to be on channel five ? her . nope . does n't seem to be , grad d: sibilance . three , three . i am three . see , that matches the seat up there . so . grad d: cuz it 's that starts counting from zero and these start counting from one . ergo , the classic off...
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professor d: , let 's get started . hopefully nancy will come , if not , she wo n't . grad b: , robert , do you have any way to turn off your screensaver on there so that it 's not going off every , it seems to have about at two minute grad c: and i told it to stay on forever and ever , but if it 's not plugged in it j...
the main focus of the meeting was firstly on the structure of the belief-net , its decision nodes and the parameters that influence them , and secondly , on the design of the data collection tasks. for the latter , there are already 30 subjects lined up and more are expected to be recruited off campus. it was agreed th...
###dialogue: professor d: , let 's get started . hopefully nancy will come , if not , she wo n't . grad b: , robert , do you have any way to turn off your screensaver on there so that it 's not going off every , it seems to have about at two minute grad c: and i told it to stay on forever and ever , but if it 's not pl...
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grad d: and we already got the crash out of the way . it did crash , so i feel much better , earlier . grad d: i did collect an agenda . so i ' m gon na go first . mwa - ha ! it should n't take too long . , so we 're out of digits . we ' ve gone once through the set . , so the only thing i have to do grad d: and pick o...
the berkeley meeting recorder group discussed digits data , recent asr results , the status of transcriptions , and disk space and storage format issues. approximately two hours of digits have been recorded , half of which have been extracted. researchers doing asr are looking into methods for generating a better chann...
###dialogue: grad d: and we already got the crash out of the way . it did crash , so i feel much better , earlier . grad d: i did collect an agenda . so i ' m gon na go first . mwa - ha ! it should n't take too long . , so we 're out of digits . we ' ve gone once through the set . , so the only thing i have to do grad ...
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professor d: ok . so , you can fill those out , after , actually , so so , i got , these results from , stephane . also , that , we might hear later today , about other results . s that , there were some other very good results that we 're gon na wanna compare to . but , r our results from other places , professor d: ,...
the berkley meeting recorder group discussed the most recent progress with their current project , a digit recognition system for use in cell phones. this included some discussion of results , comparing various other groups' systems , issues involving the set up , and plans for future work. results are required for an ...
###dialogue: professor d: ok . so , you can fill those out , after , actually , so so , i got , these results from , stephane . also , that , we might hear later today , about other results . s that , there were some other very good results that we 're gon na wanna compare to . but , r our results from other places , p...
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professor a: ok , so had some interesting mail from dan ellis . actually , he redirected it to everybody also so the pda mikes have a big bunch of energy at five hertz where this came up was that i was showing off these wave forms that we have on the web and had n't noticed this , but that the major , major component i...
the meeting recorder group at berkeley met to discuss recent progress. of greatest interest was the progress on improving the latency and performance of their recogniser. there was also concern over overlap of work with partners ogi , and a lack of a good example of room reverberation for demonstrations. everyone must ...
###dialogue: professor a: ok , so had some interesting mail from dan ellis . actually , he redirected it to everybody also so the pda mikes have a big bunch of energy at five hertz where this came up was that i was showing off these wave forms that we have on the web and had n't noticed this , but that the major , majo...
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professor b: , the , torrent chip . we were two we were , we went through it jim and i went through old emails at one point and for two years there was this thing saying , we 're two months away from being done . it was very believable schedules , too . , we went through and with the schedules and we phd a: so , should...
a typical progress report meeting for the icsi meeting recorder group at berkeley. each of the group reported their most recent progress , and any results they have achieved. this then prompted discussion about the reasons behind such findings , which were for the most part not as expected. topics the group touched upo...
###dialogue: professor b: , the , torrent chip . we were two we were , we went through it jim and i went through old emails at one point and for two years there was this thing saying , we 're two months away from being done . it was very believable schedules , too . , we went through and with the schedules and we phd a...
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professor b: ok , so i i whether ami 's coming or not but we oughta just get started . professor b: , so there you go . anyway , so my idea f for today and we can decide that is n't the right thing to do was to at spend at least part of the time trying to build the influence links , which sets of things are relevant to...
a detailed diagram of the belief-net had already been disseminated. its structure was discussed during the meeting. there are several endpoints ( user , ontology , discourse etc ) with separate eva ( enter/view/approach ) values. details of how different inputs feed into them were discussed at length. ideas mentioned i...
###dialogue: professor b: ok , so i i whether ami 's coming or not but we oughta just get started . professor b: , so there you go . anyway , so my idea f for today and we can decide that is n't the right thing to do was to at spend at least part of the time trying to build the influence links , which sets of things ar...
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grad e: no , she told me a long time ago . she told me she told me like two weeks ago . grad e: no . you should be at least be self - satisfied enough to laugh at your own jokes . professor f: once again , right , together . , so we have n't had a meeting for a while , and probably wo n't have one next week , a number ...
the first phase of the data collection has finished. there is a new wizard for phase two , during which subjects will be given more complex scenarios. also finished are the modifications on smartkom: the remaining glitches will take no more than a day to iron out. a big part of the meeting was covered by the presentati...
###dialogue: grad e: no , she told me a long time ago . she told me she told me like two weeks ago . grad e: no . you should be at least be self - satisfied enough to laugh at your own jokes . professor f: once again , right , together . , so we have n't had a meeting for a while , and probably wo n't have one next wee...
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grad c: , we had a long discussion about how much w how easy we want to make it for people to bleep things out . so morgan wants to make it hard . phd d: - . so if you , if you breathe under breathe and then you see af go off , then it 's p picking up your mouth noise . phd f: , if you listen to just the channels of pe...
two main options were discussed as to the organisation of the collected data. on the one hand , a bespoke xml structure that connects transcriptions and annotations ( down to the word-level ) to a common timeline. its advantages are that it is easier to read , parse , map onto the transcriber format and to expand with ...
###dialogue: grad c: , we had a long discussion about how much w how easy we want to make it for people to bleep things out . so morgan wants to make it hard . phd d: - . so if you , if you breathe under breathe and then you see af go off , then it 's p picking up your mouth noise . phd f: , if you listen to just the c...
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grad e: ok , so for for people wearing the wireless mikes , like this one , i find the easiest way to wear it is sorta this sorta like that . grad e: it 's actually a lot more comfortable then if you try to put it over your temples , grad e: and then also , for all of them , if your boom is adjustable , the boom should...
the berkeley meeting recorder group discussed recognition results generated for 20 minutes of close-talking microphone data. recognition performance was very good , indicating promising results for forced alignment procedures and the ability to analyze other important signal information , e.g . prosody and overlapping ...
###dialogue: grad e: ok , so for for people wearing the wireless mikes , like this one , i find the easiest way to wear it is sorta this sorta like that . grad e: it 's actually a lot more comfortable then if you try to put it over your temples , grad e: and then also , for all of them , if your boom is adjustable , th...
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phd g: ok . your channel number 's already on this blank sheet . so you just if you can phd g: but if you think it 's . it 's a default . but set it higher if you like . professor f: it 's not showing much . test , test , test , test . ok , that seems better ? ok , good . , that 's good . that 's ahh . mmm . so i had a...
the berkley meeting recorder project is well underway , and this meeting discusses the progress and ongoing issues. a pressing concern for the group is the darpa meeting in july , which is only a short time away , and for which they would like to have some progress. specifically , the group would like to have transcrip...
###dialogue: phd g: ok . your channel number 's already on this blank sheet . so you just if you can phd g: but if you think it 's . it 's a default . but set it higher if you like . professor f: it 's not showing much . test , test , test , test . ok , that seems better ? ok , good . , that 's good . that 's ahh . mmm...
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grad h: , so if so if anyone has n't signed the consent form , do so . professor d: just just to be consistent , from here on in at least , that we 'll do it at the end . professor d: and right ? that was that was the point . so , i had asked actually anybody who had any ideas for an agenda to send it to me and no one ...
the berkeley meeting recorder group focussed its discussion on overlapping speech segments. speaker fe008 presented raw counts and percentages for one transcribed meeting , revealing a large number of overlaps throughout the 40-plus-minute transcript. efforts by speakers fe008 and fe016 are in progress to categorize an...
###dialogue: grad h: , so if so if anyone has n't signed the consent form , do so . professor d: just just to be consistent , from here on in at least , that we 'll do it at the end . professor d: and right ? that was that was the point . so , i had asked actually anybody who had any ideas for an agenda to send it to m...
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grad g: so maybe what 's causing it to crash is i keep starting it and then stopping it to see if it 's working . and so starting it and then stopping it and starting it again causes it to crash . so , i wo n't do that anymore . postdoc b: and it looks like you ' ve found a way of mapping the location to the without ha...
topics discussed by the berkeley meeting recorder group included a potential collaboration with another icsi member regarding the analysis of inference structures , efforts by speaker mn005 to detect speaker overlap , the current status on recordings and transcriptions , and future efforts to collect meeting data. in a...
###dialogue: grad g: so maybe what 's causing it to crash is i keep starting it and then stopping it to see if it 's working . and so starting it and then stopping it and starting it again causes it to crash . so , i wo n't do that anymore . postdoc b: and it looks like you ' ve found a way of mapping the location to t...
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grad f: , so i wanted to discuss digits briefly , but that wo n't take too long . professor c: good . right . ok , agenda items , we have digits , what else we got ? postdoc b: , do we wanna say something about the , an update of the , transcript ? phd g: and i that includes some the filtering for the , the asi refs , ...
the berkeley meeting recorder group discussed the collection status for a set of connected digits recordings that are nearly complete and ready to be trained on a recognizer. anticipated results were discussed in reference to results obtained for other digits corpora , i.e . aurora and ti-digits. the group also conside...
###dialogue: grad f: , so i wanted to discuss digits briefly , but that wo n't take too long . professor c: good . right . ok , agenda items , we have digits , what else we got ? postdoc b: , do we wanna say something about the , an update of the , transcript ? phd g: and i that includes some the filtering for the , th...
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professor b: ok . ami , do yours then we 'll open it and it 'll be enough . grad a: mmm does n't , it should be the other way . , now it 's on . professor b: alright . anyway . so , before we get started with the , technical part , want to review what is happening with the our data collection . professor b: so , probab...
the data collection running in parallel with the project can start shortly with recruiting subjects. meanwhile , the german parser now works with english sentences. the parser's output modifies the xml used by the system to initiate actions and generate responses. the xml for map requests also comprise a route , route ...
###dialogue: professor b: ok . ami , do yours then we 'll open it and it 'll be enough . grad a: mmm does n't , it should be the other way . , now it 's on . professor b: alright . anyway . so , before we get started with the , technical part , want to review what is happening with the our data collection . professor b...
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professor b: so , we have n't sent around the agenda . so , i , any agenda items anybody has , wants to talk about , what 's going on ? phd a: , i had a just a quick question but i know there was discussion of it at a previous meeting that i missed , but just about the wish list item of getting good quality close - tal...
the berkeley meeting recorder group discussed recording equipment and setup issues , recent developments in the transcription effort , other potential types of tagging to be assigned to transcribers , and the post-processing of waveforms. the discussion was largely focused on efforts to facilitate transcriptions , incl...
###dialogue: professor b: so , we have n't sent around the agenda . so , i , any agenda items anybody has , wants to talk about , what 's going on ? phd a: , i had a just a quick question but i know there was discussion of it at a previous meeting that i missed , but just about the wish list item of getting good qualit...
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grad b: yes . whew ! i almost forgot about the meeting . i woke up twenty minutes ago , thinking , what did i forget ? grad d: ok . so the news for me is a , my forthcoming travel plans in two weeks from today ? more or less ? i 'll be off to sicily and germany for a couple , three days . grad d: ok , i ' m flying to s...
an idea for future work was suggested during the visit of the german project manager: the possibility to use the same system for language generation. having a system able to ask questions could contribute significantly to training the belief-net. setting up certain inputs in the bayes-net would imply certain intentions...
###dialogue: grad b: yes . whew ! i almost forgot about the meeting . i woke up twenty minutes ago , thinking , what did i forget ? grad d: ok . so the news for me is a , my forthcoming travel plans in two weeks from today ? more or less ? i 'll be off to sicily and germany for a couple , three days . grad d: ok , i ' ...
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grad g: no . , i do n't think they 're designed to be over your ears . phd b: , i know . it just it really hurts . it gives you a headache , like if you on your temple professor d: so are we recording now ? is this ! we 're we 're live . ok . so , what were we gon na talk about again ? so we said data collection , whic...
the discussion concerned mainly ideas about data collection and the nature and generation of queries on meetings. meeting notes taken by participants as standard minutes or summaries , or on devices like crosspads can provide useful information. there is also interest in the speech community for fusion of speech with v...
###dialogue: grad g: no . , i do n't think they 're designed to be over your ears . phd b: , i know . it just it really hurts . it gives you a headache , like if you on your temple professor d: so are we recording now ? is this ! we 're we 're live . ok . so , what were we gon na talk about again ? so we said data coll...
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professor f: so the what w we h have been doing i they would like us all to read these digits . but we do n't all read them but a couple people read them . grad b: ok and the way you do it is you just read the numbers not as each single , so just like i do it . professor f: ok . let 's be done with this . this is ami ,...
the berkeley even deeper understanding group discussed plans and concerns regarding the architecture of smartkom , its proposed modules , and the types of interactions expected to take place between modules. the meeting was largely focused on smartkom's decision making capacity and how to adapt this functionality to th...
###dialogue: professor f: so the what w we h have been doing i they would like us all to read these digits . but we do n't all read them but a couple people read them . grad b: ok and the way you do it is you just read the numbers not as each single , so just like i do it . professor f: ok . let 's be done with this . ...
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professor f: so you think we 're going now , yes ? ok , good . alright going again so we 're gon na go around as before , and do our digits . transcript one three one dash one three zero . three two three four seven six five three one six two four one six seven eight nine zero nine four zero three zero one five eight o...
the main topics discussed were arrangements and objectives of an upcoming field trip to visit research partners ogi; a number of members reported their progress to date; if there are any tasks that one member can help others with; an overall description of the cube project , a multi-lingual speech recognition system fo...
###dialogue: professor f: so you think we 're going now , yes ? ok , good . alright going again so we 're gon na go around as before , and do our digits . transcript one three one dash one three zero . three two three four seven six five three one six two four one six seven eight nine zero nine four zero three zero one...
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grad a: ok , we 're on . so , this is gon na be a pretty short meeting because i have four agenda items , three of them were requested by jane who is not gon na be at the meeting today . so . the first was transcription status . does anyone besides jane the transcription status is ? phd f: first of all with ibm i got a...
this is a relatively short meeting of the meeting recorder group , with only a few agenda items. transcription was discussed briefly because jane was not present , however this appears to be progressing well in parallel with ibm. web pages have been set up to show transcription status and to allow participants to appro...
###dialogue: grad a: ok , we 're on . so , this is gon na be a pretty short meeting because i have four agenda items , three of them were requested by jane who is not gon na be at the meeting today . so . the first was transcription status . does anyone besides jane the transcription status is ? phd f: first of all wit...
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grad g: hi . we ' ve met before , like , i remember talking to you about aspect like that at some point or other . grad c: so . for those who everyone knows me , this is great . , apart from that , the old gang , johno and bhaskara have been with us from day one grad c: and they 're engaged in various activities , some...
the data collection script has been slightly modified , so that it encourages more natural dialogue between the subjects and the "wizard". another trial run will take place , while a call to recruit subjects is being emailed to students. meanwhile , the translation of the tv and cinema information system to english is ...
###dialogue: grad g: hi . we ' ve met before , like , i remember talking to you about aspect like that at some point or other . grad c: so . for those who everyone knows me , this is great . , apart from that , the old gang , johno and bhaskara have been with us from day one grad c: and they 're engaged in various acti...
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grad a: ok , this is one channel . can you , say your name and talk into your mike one at a time ? undergrad d: david , can we borrow your labelling machine to improve the quality of the labelling a little bit here ? grad a: cuz we ' ve already have like , forms filled out with the numbers on them . so , let 's keep th...
the berkeley meeting recorder group discussed the aims , methods , timing , and outsourcing issues concerning transcription of the meeting recorder corpus. the transcriber software tool was introduced , along with a set of transcription conventions for coding different speech events. the prospect of sending the data to...
###dialogue: grad a: ok , this is one channel . can you , say your name and talk into your mike one at a time ? undergrad d: david , can we borrow your labelling machine to improve the quality of the labelling a little bit here ? grad a: cuz we ' ve already have like , forms filled out with the numbers on them . so , l...
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grad e: two items , which was , digits and possibly on , forced alignment , which jane said that liz and andreas had in information on , but they did n't , phd f: we should do that second , because liz might join us in time for that . professor b: ok , so there 's digits , alignments , and , i the other thing , which i...
the berkeley meeting recorder group discussed efforts to train and test the aurora group's htk-based recognition system on icsi's digits corpus. members also discussed efforts to produce forced alignments from a selection of meeting recorder data. performance in both tasks was adversely affected by the manner of record...
###dialogue: grad e: two items , which was , digits and possibly on , forced alignment , which jane said that liz and andreas had in information on , but they did n't , phd f: we should do that second , because liz might join us in time for that . professor b: ok , so there 's digits , alignments , and , i the other th...
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grad f: , maybe it 's the turning off and turning on of the mike , right ? professor b: , that 's the mike number there , mike number five , and channel four . professor b: yes , ok . so i also copied the results that we all got in the mail from ogi and we 'll go through them also . so where are we on our runs ? phd d:...
the meeting was dominated by a discussion of the first results coming in. there have been four types of test , in which the training data varies , and a variety of input features have been tried. the process and results were explained to the group , the implications of the results discussed , and plans for moving forwa...
###dialogue: grad f: , maybe it 's the turning off and turning on of the mike , right ? professor b: , that 's the mike number there , mike number five , and channel four . professor b: yes , ok . so i also copied the results that we all got in the mail from ogi and we 'll go through them also . so where are we on our ...
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professor c: we we abandoned the lapel because they were not too hot , not too cold , they were , far enough away that you got more background noise , and professor c: but they were n't so close that they got quite the , the really good no , th they did n't a minute . i ' m saying that wrong . they were not so far away...
the icsi meeting recorder group at berkley have a temporary new member on loan from research partner ogi. he began the meeting by reporting his recent activities , which included looking at the new baseline system. the other members of the group also reported their recent progress in areas such as spectral subtraction ...
###dialogue: professor c: we we abandoned the lapel because they were not too hot , not too cold , they were , far enough away that you got more background noise , and professor c: but they were n't so close that they got quite the , the really good no , th they did n't a minute . i ' m saying that wrong . they were no...
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grad a: do we have to read them that slowly ? ok . sounded like a robot . , this is t grad a: three three six zero . four two zero one seven . that 's what of when of beat poetry . grad a: and he talks like that . that 's why i thi that probably is why of it that way . grad a: mike meyers is the guy . it - it 's his cu...
a test run of the data collection design was very successful. the group decided to hire the "wizard" and continue with the refinement of the design and recruitment of subjects. on the other hand , there was a presentation of a new version of the belief-net for the vista/enter/tango mode task. it is not a working net ye...
###dialogue: grad a: do we have to read them that slowly ? ok . sounded like a robot . , this is t grad a: three three six zero . four two zero one seven . that 's what of when of beat poetry . grad a: and he talks like that . that 's why i thi that probably is why of it that way . grad a: mike meyers is the guy . it -...
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grad f: and , somewhere is my agenda . the most important thing is morgan wanted to talk about , the arpa demo . professor d: , so , here 's the thing . , why do n't we s again start off with , , i 'll get it . i 'll get the door . , we want to start off with the agenda . and then , given that , liz and andreas are gon...
this meeting mainly outlines the progress of the meeting recorder project. in particular , the group discuss their preparation of materials for the transcriptions of digits by ibm , and also the human transcribers who are working towards preparing the set of 20 for the darpa meeting. other discussion focuses on the re-...
###dialogue: grad f: and , somewhere is my agenda . the most important thing is morgan wanted to talk about , the arpa demo . professor d: , so , here 's the thing . , why do n't we s again start off with , , i 'll get it . i 'll get the door . , we want to start off with the agenda . and then , given that , liz and an...
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professor d: we 're on ? yes , . , we 're testing noise robustness but let 's not get silly . ok , so , you ' ve got some , xerox things to pass out ? phd a: , i ' m for the table , but as it grows in size , it . professor d: when you get older you have these different perspectives . , lowering the word hour rate is fi...
the main topic for discussion by the berkeley meeting recorder group was progress on the experiments run as part of the groups main project , a speech recogniser for the cellular industry. this included reporting the results , and making conclusions to shape future work. also discussed were the details of the continued...
###dialogue: professor d: we 're on ? yes , . , we 're testing noise robustness but let 's not get silly . ok , so , you ' ve got some , xerox things to pass out ? phd a: , i ' m for the table , but as it grows in size , it . professor d: when you get older you have these different perspectives . , lowering the word ho...
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professor b: somebody else should run this . i ' m sick of being the one to go through and say , " , what do you think about this ? " you wanna ? phd f: let 's see , maybe we should just get a list of items things that we should talk about . , i there 's the usual updates , everybody going around and saying , , what th...
the icsi meeting recorder group at berkeley met once more to discuss group members' progress. the majority of the group are working on tasks related to the aurora project , including on-line normalization and wiener filtering. other progress was also reported. a large part of the meeting was spent discussing calculatio...
###dialogue: professor b: somebody else should run this . i ' m sick of being the one to go through and say , " , what do you think about this ? " you wanna ? phd f: let 's see , maybe we should just get a list of items things that we should talk about . , i there 's the usual updates , everybody going around and sayin...
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professor b: it 's april fifth . actually , hynek should be getting back in town shortly if he is n't already . professor b: u u , i meant , this end of the world , is really what i meant , phd c: , i did some experim , just a few more experiments before i had to , go away for the w , that week . phd c: was it last wee...
the icsi meeting recorder group at berkeley met to discuss progress on their main project , aurora. they discussed a conference call with project partners , there have been some developments that should help speed up experiments , along with some progress made in the current area they are looking , voiced/unvoiced dete...
###dialogue: professor b: it 's april fifth . actually , hynek should be getting back in town shortly if he is n't already . professor b: u u , i meant , this end of the world , is really what i meant , phd c: , i did some experim , just a few more experiments before i had to , go away for the w , that week . phd c: wa...
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professor c: and hans - , hans - guenter will be here , by next tuesday or so . professor c: and , we 'll see . we might end up with some longer collaboration . so he 's gon na look in on everything we 're doing and give us his thoughts . and so it 'll be another good person looking at things . grad e: is that right ? ...
the icsi meeting recorder group of berkeley met for the first time in two weeks. group members reported their progress in the areas of spectral subtraction , wiener filtering and noise estimation. they also discusses topics relating to the rules and preferences of the project they are working on , including single vs m...
###dialogue: professor c: and hans - , hans - guenter will be here , by next tuesday or so . professor c: and , we 'll see . we might end up with some longer collaboration . so he 's gon na look in on everything we 're doing and give us his thoughts . and so it 'll be another good person looking at things . grad e: is ...
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grad b: , the remote will do it ok . cuz i ' m already up there ? grad b: so , let 's see . which one of these buttons will do this for me ? aha ! grad c: , " the search for the middle layer " . it 's talks about it just refers to the fact that one of main things we had to do was to decide what the intermediate nodes w...
the group discussed the first version of the bayes-net used to work out a user's intentions when asking for directions from a navigation device. three intentions were identified: vista ( to view ) , enter ( to visit ) and tango ( to approach ). the structure of the belief-net comprises , firstly , a feature layer , whi...
###dialogue: grad b: , the remote will do it ok . cuz i ' m already up there ? grad b: so , let 's see . which one of these buttons will do this for me ? aha ! grad c: , " the search for the middle layer " . it 's talks about it just refers to the fact that one of main things we had to do was to decide what the interme...
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grad a: not pre - doing everything . the lunch went a little later than i was expecting , chuck . postdoc f: , i ' m i sent a couple of items . they 're they 're practical . postdoc f: , maybe { nonvocalsound } raise the issue of microphone , procedures with reference to the cleanliness of the recordings . postdoc f: a...
the berkeley meeting recorder group talked about the ongoing transcription effort and issues related to the transcriber tool , which despite its limitations for capturing tight time markings for overlapping speech , will continue to remain in use. speaker mn014 explained his efforts to pre-segment the signal into speec...
###dialogue: grad a: not pre - doing everything . the lunch went a little later than i was expecting , chuck . postdoc f: , i ' m i sent a couple of items . they 're they 're practical . postdoc f: , maybe { nonvocalsound } raise the issue of microphone , procedures with reference to the cleanliness of the recordings ....
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professor c: there 's another i . it starts with a p . i forget the word for it , but it 's typically when you 're ab r starting around forty for most people , it starts to harden and then it 's just harder for the lens to shift things and th the symptom is typically that you have to hold further away to see it . profe...
the berkely meeting recorder group discussed efforts by speaker mn005 to measure energy levels in cases of speaker overlap in which the time window analyzed was 200 milliseconds or greater. preliminary results were presented showing that log domain analyses did not reveal a significant difference in mean energy levels ...
###dialogue: professor c: there 's another i . it starts with a p . i forget the word for it , but it 's typically when you 're ab r starting around forty for most people , it starts to harden and then it 's just harder for the lens to shift things and th the symptom is typically that you have to hold further away to s...
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grad b: so i this is more or less now just to get you up to date , johno . this is what , grad d: . i . there were , like , the , @ and all that . but . you said you were adding grad b: this is ha ! very . , so we thought that , we can write up , an element , and for each of the situation nodes that we observed in the ...
the focus of the meeting was on a presentation of the work done already on the building of the bayes-net. the input layer deriving information from things like the user and situation models , feeds into a set of decision nodes , such as the enter/view/approach ( eva ) endpoint. in any particular situation , most of the...
###dialogue: grad b: so i this is more or less now just to get you up to date , johno . this is what , grad d: . i . there were , like , the , @ and all that . but . you said you were adding grad b: this is ha ! very . , so we thought that , we can write up , an element , and for each of the situation nodes that we obs...
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professor b: whatever we say from now on , it can be held against us , right ? professor b: so i the problem is that i actually how th these held meetings are held , if they are very informal and just people are say what 's going on phd e: we just sorta go around and people say what 's going on , what 's the latest pro...
the meeting recorder group of icsi at berkeley met without their most senior member , but attending instead was a visitor from research partner ogi. he reported on a recent project meeting from his group's perspective. there was much politics involved , and disagreement between groups. he also brought the icsi members ...
###dialogue: professor b: whatever we say from now on , it can be held against us , right ? professor b: so i the problem is that i actually how th these held meetings are held , if they are very informal and just people are say what 's going on phd e: we just sorta go around and people say what 's going on , what 's t...
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grad e: it depends on if the temp files are there or not , that at least that 's my current working hypothesis , that what happens is it tries to clear the temp files and if they 're too big , it crashes . phd b: when the power went out the other day and i restarted it , it crashed the first time . grad e: it 's i they...
the berkeley meeting recorder group discussed the preparation of a data sample for ibm , the manual adjustment of time bins by transcribers , recognition results for a test set of digits data , and forced alignments. participants also talked about eurospeech 2001 submissions , and exchanged comments on the proceedings ...
###dialogue: grad e: it depends on if the temp files are there or not , that at least that 's my current working hypothesis , that what happens is it tries to clear the temp files and if they 're too big , it crashes . phd b: when the power went out the other day and i restarted it , it crashed the first time . grad e:...
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professor b: ok so today we 're looking at a number of things we 're trying and fortunately for listeners to this we lost some of it 's visual but got tables in front of us . what is what does combo mean ? phd c: so combo is a system where we have these features that go through a network and then this same string of fe...
the icsi meeting recorder group at berkeley are approaching an important milestone on their project. they discussed most recent results , finalized plans to continue and discussed the work required and timing needed for completion of this stage of the project. mn007 and fn002 need to find a way of combining result figu...
###dialogue: professor b: ok so today we 're looking at a number of things we 're trying and fortunately for listeners to this we lost some of it 's visual but got tables in front of us . what is what does combo mean ? phd c: so combo is a system where we have these features that go through a network and then this same...
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phd d: , i will try to explain the thing that i did this week during this week . that i work i begin to work with a new feature to detect voice - unvoice . phd d: what i trying two mlp to the with this new feature and the fifteen feature from the bus base system phd d: and i ' m trying two mlp , one that only have t th...
the icsi meeting recorder group met once more to discuss their recent progress in various projects , as well as discuss some of the issues that have arisen in the last week. there has been further work on voiced/unvoiced detection , along with spectral subtraction. the group discussed one members attendance at a confer...
###dialogue: phd d: , i will try to explain the thing that i did this week during this week . that i work i begin to work with a new feature to detect voice - unvoice . phd d: what i trying two mlp to the with this new feature and the fifteen feature from the bus base system phd d: and i ' m trying two mlp , one that o...
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professor a: so y you guys had a meeting with hynek which i unfortunately had to miss . and somebody professor a: so everybody knows what happened except me . ok . maybe somebody should tell me . phd c: alright . first we discussed about some of the points that i was addressing in the mail i sent last week . phd c: so ...
the berkeley meeting recorder group met to discuss their recent progress. this included a recap of a meeting with one of the members of their research partner ogi. there were progress reports from group members working on echo cancellation , acoustic feature detection , and htk optimization , along with discussion of m...
###dialogue: professor a: so y you guys had a meeting with hynek which i unfortunately had to miss . and somebody professor a: so everybody knows what happened except me . ok . maybe somebody should tell me . phd c: alright . first we discussed about some of the points that i was addressing in the mail i sent last week...
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professor e: i was saying hynek 'll be here next week , wednesday through friday , through saturday , and , i wo n't be here thursday and friday . but my suggestion is that , at least for this meeting , people should go ahead , cuz hynek will be here , and , we do n't have any czech accent yet , as far as i know , so t...
although the members of icsi's meeting recorder group at berkeley had little progress to report , there were still a number of issues relating to their work to discuss. these included making plans for upcoming experiments , clarifying definitions , and approaches which may or may not be against the rules of the aurora ...
###dialogue: professor e: i was saying hynek 'll be here next week , wednesday through friday , through saturday , and , i wo n't be here thursday and friday . but my suggestion is that , at least for this meeting , people should go ahead , cuz hynek will be here , and , we do n't have any czech accent yet , as far as ...
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professor c: alright . good . ok so , let 's get started . nancy said she 's coming and that means she will be . my suggestion is that robert and johno give us a report on last week 's adventures to start . so everybody knows there were these guys f from heidelber - , actually from dfki , part of the german smartkom pr...
the translation of smartkom to english is in its final stages. the synthesis module will be the last one to do , after the english syntax trees are completed. the system is still buggy and unstable , but it will soon be ready for a demonstration. this is the first of two working demos required for the project. further ...
###dialogue: professor c: alright . good . ok so , let 's get started . nancy said she 's coming and that means she will be . my suggestion is that robert and johno give us a report on last week 's adventures to start . so everybody knows there were these guys f from heidelber - , actually from dfki , part of the germa...
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grad b: so , i what it is . but all i know is that it seems like every time i am up here after a meeting , and i start it , it works fine . and if i ' m up here and i start it and we 're all sitting here waiting to have a meeting , it gives me that error message and i have not yet sat down with been able to get that er...
the berkeley meeting recorder group discussed research aims and corresponding concerns for future data collection. it was agreed that a substantial amount of meeting data is required from different domains , and comprising several speakers , to perform the types of discourse and acoustic analyses desired. ongoing effor...
###dialogue: grad b: so , i what it is . but all i know is that it seems like every time i am up here after a meeting , and i start it , it works fine . and if i ' m up here and i start it and we 're all sitting here waiting to have a meeting , it gives me that error message and i have not yet sat down with been able t...
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grad a: - . good . i know that he 's going to like , taiwan and other places to eat . so . grad a: so that 's why keith and i are going to be a little dazed for the first half m the meeting . grad d: , how di how d exactly did , that paper lead to anti - lock brakes ? grad c: , liz suggested we could start off by , doi...
the meeting was taken up by discussion about a thesis proposal and a talk about to take place at eml. the latter will present the work that is currently being done at icsi including examples of inference of user intentions and of the recordings of the on-going data collection. the talk will also outline the theoretical...
###dialogue: grad a: - . good . i know that he 's going to like , taiwan and other places to eat . so . grad a: so that 's why keith and i are going to be a little dazed for the first half m the meeting . grad d: , how di how d exactly did , that paper lead to anti - lock brakes ? grad c: , liz suggested we could start...
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professor b: test . let 's see . move it bit . test ? ok , i it 's alright . so , let 's see . , barry 's not here and dave 's not here . , say about just q just quickly to get through it , that dave and i submitted this asru . professor b: so . , it 's interesting . , we 're dealing with rever reverberation , and , wh...
icsi's meeting recorder group at berkeley meets to discuss , for the most part , progress on the aurora project. the main areas being worked on were the voice activity detector and the tandem data streams. the group discussed possible further investigations that arose from these areas , including better linking the two...
###dialogue: professor b: test . let 's see . move it bit . test ? ok , i it 's alright . so , let 's see . , barry 's not here and dave 's not here . , say about just q just quickly to get through it , that dave and i submitted this asru . professor b: so . , it 's interesting . , we 're dealing with rever reverberati...
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professor b: so ne next week we 'll have , both birger and , mike michael kleinschmidt and birger kollmeier will join us . professor b: , and you 're probably gon na go up in a couple three weeks or so ? when d when are you thinking of going up to , ogi ? professor b: ok . good . so at least we 'll have one meeting wit...
icsi's meeting recorder group met to discuss their progress in various aspects of the aurora project , but also to hear more about other developments relevant to the group. on the aurora project , there were reports on a project conference call , the status of the tandem neural networks , and progress with the mississi...
###dialogue: professor b: so ne next week we 'll have , both birger and , mike michael kleinschmidt and birger kollmeier will join us . professor b: , and you 're probably gon na go up in a couple three weeks or so ? when d when are you thinking of going up to , ogi ? professor b: ok . good . so at least we 'll have on...
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