Professor E: Alright .
Grad C: So are you Professor E: So .
Grad C: Are we going ?
Professor E: It is uh , must be February fifteenth .
Postdoc F: Yeah .
Grad C: Yu I think the date 's written in there , yep . And actually if everyone could cross out the R - nine next to " Session " , and write MR eleven .
Professor E: Yeah . Yeah . We didn't have a front - end meeting today .
Grad C: And let 's remember also to make sure that one 's {comment} gets marked as unread , unused .
Professor E: OK .
PhD A: MR eleven .
Grad C: MR eleven .
Postdoc F: That sounds like a spy code .
Professor E: Mmm . OK . So .
Grad C: There 's lots of clicking I 'm sure as I 'm trying to get this to work correctly .
Professor E: Agenda . Any agenda items today ?
Grad C: I wanna talk a little bit about getting how we 're gonna to get people to edit bleeps , parts of the meeting that they don't want to include . What I 've done so far , and I wanna get some opinions on , how to how to finish it up .
Professor E: OK .
Postdoc F: I wanna ask about um , some aud audio monitoring on some of the um well some of the equipment . In particular , the well uh , that 's just what I wanna ask .
Professor E: OK audio monitoring , Jane .
Postdoc F: Ba - based on some of the tran uh i In listening to some of these meetings that have already been recorded there are sometimes big spikes on particular things , and in pact in fact this one I 'm talking on is one of of the ones that showed up in one of the meetings ,
Grad C: Oh really .
Postdoc F: so I PhD B: " Spikes " , you mean like uh , instantaneous click type spikes , or ?
Postdoc F: Mm - hmm . Yeah .
PhD A: Spikes ?
Grad C: Clicks .
Postdoc F: Yeah .
Professor E: Hmm .
Postdoc F: Yeah .
PhD B: Huh .
Postdoc F: And I don't know what the e electronics is but .
Grad C: Yeah .
Postdoc F: Yeah .
Grad C: Well , I think it 's
PhD A: Touching .
Grad C: uh , it it could be a number of things .
PhD A: Yeah .
Grad C: It could be touching and fiddling , and the other thing is that it could the fact that it 's on a wired mike is suspicious . It might be a connector .
Postdoc F: Oh , OK . Well maybe Then we don't really have to talk about that as an PhD B: You could try an experiment and say " OK , I 'm about to test for spikes " ,
Postdoc F: I I take that off the agenda .
PhD B: and then wiggle the thing there , and then go and when they go to transcribe it , it could , ask them to come and get you .
Grad C: Yeah . Right .
PhD B: " Come get me when you transcribe this and see if there 's spikes . "
Postdoc F: Oh that Professor E: Um .
Postdoc F: Well , OK .
PhD B: No I 'm just Professor E: I mean , were this a professional audio recording , what we would do {comment} what you would do is in testing it is , you would actually do all this wiggling and make sure that that that things are not giving that kind of performance . And if they are , then they can't be used .
Grad C: Right .
Professor E: So . Um . Let 's see . I guess I would like to have a discussion about you know where we are on uh , recording , transcription you know , basically you know where we are on the corpus .
Postdoc F: Good .
Professor E: And then um , the other thing which I would like to talk about which is a real meta - quest , I think , deal is , uh , agendas . So maybe I 'll I 'll start with that actually . Uh , um . Andreas brought up the fact that he would kinda like to know , if possible , what we were gonna be talking about because he 's sort of peripherally involved to this point , and if there 's gonna be a topic about discussion about something that he uh strongly cares about then he would come and And I think part of part of his motivation with this is that he 's trying to help us out , in the because of uh the fact that the meetings are are tending to become reasonably large now on days when everybody shows up and so , he figures he could help that out by not showing Grad C: Mmm .
Professor E: and and I 'm sure help out his own time . by not showing up if it 's a meeting that he 's he 's So , uh in order I 'd I think that this is a wish on his part . Uh . It 's actually gonna be hard because it seems like a lot of times uh things come up that are unanticipated and and Grad C: Right .
Professor E: But um , we could try anyway , uh , do another try at coming up with the agenda uh , at some point before the meeting , uh , say the day before .
Grad C: Well maybe it would be a good idea for one of us to like on Wednesday , or Tuesday send out a reminder for people to send in agenda items .
PhD A: Yeah .
Professor E: OK . You you wanna volunteer to do that ?
Grad C: Sure .
Professor E: OK . Alright so we 'll send out agenda request .
Grad C: Let me
Professor E: Uh .
PhD B: That 'll be I think that 'll help Grad C: I 'll put that on my spare brain or it will not get done .
PhD B: That 'll help a lot , actually .
Professor E: Yeah , I have to tell you for the uh for the admin meeting that we have , Lila does that um every time before an admin meeting . And uh , she ends up getting the agenda requests uh , uh ten minutes before the meeting . But but {comment} But . Uh . {comment} But we can try . Maybe it 'll work .
PhD B: Mmm .
Grad C: Yeah . Maybe . Weirder things have happened .
Professor E: Yeah .
Postdoc F: I 'm wondering if he were to just , uh , specify particular topics , I mean . Maybe we 'd be able to meet that request of his a little more .
PhD B: I would I would also guess that as we get more into processing the data and things like that there 'll be more things of interest to him .
Grad C: Well then Professor E: Yeah . Actually it This this maybe brings up another topic which is um So we 're done with that topic . The other topic I was thinking of was the sta status on microphones and channels , and all that .
Grad C: Yeah , actually I I was going to say we need to talk about that too .
Professor E: Yeah . Why why don't we do that .
Grad C: OK . Um , the new microphones , the two new ones are in . Um . And they are being assembled as we speak , I hope . And I didn't bring my car today so I 'm gonna pick them up tomorrow . Um , and then the other question I was thinking about is well , a couple things . First of all , if the other headsets are a lot more comfortable , we should probably just go ahead and get them . So we 'll have to evaluate that when they come in ,
PhD A :
Grad C: and get people 's opinions on on what they think of them . Um , then the other question I had is maybe we should get another wireless . Another wireless setup . I mean it 's expensive , but it does seem to be better than the wired .
Professor E: So how many channels do you get to have in a wireless setup ?
Grad C: Um , well , I 'm pretty sure that you can daisy - chain them together so what we would do is replace the wired mikes with wireless . So we currently have one base station with six wireless mike , possibility of six wireless receivers , and apparently you can chain those together . And so we could replace our wired mikes with wireless if we bought another base station and more wireless mikes .
Professor E: So , um .
Grad C: And So , you know it 's still , it 's fifteen minus six .
Professor E: So let 's see we Grad C: Right ? So we could have up to nine .
Professor E: And right now we can have up to six .
Grad C: Right . And we have five , we 're getting one more .
Professor E: Yeah .
Grad C: And it 's um , about nine hundred dollars for the base station , and then eight hundred per channel .
Professor E: Oh . So yeah so the only Beyond the mike the cost of the mikes the only thing is the base station that 's nine hundred dollars .
Grad C: Right .
Professor E: Oh , we should do it .
Grad C: OK . OK , so I 'll look into how you daisy - chain them and and then just go ahead and order them .
Professor E: Yeah . Yeah .
PhD B: I don't quite understand how that how that works , . If So we 're not increasing the number of channels . OK .
Grad C: No , we 're just replacing the wired the two wired that are still working ,
PhD B: OK . I see .
Grad C: along with a couple of the wired that aren't working , one of the wired that 's not working , with a wireless .
Professor E: Yeah .
PhD B: Three wireds work ,
Professor E: Basically we found PhD B: right ?
Grad C: I I guess three wireds work , yeah .
PhD B: Yeah . Yeah .
Professor E: Yeah . But we 've had more problems with that .
Grad C: Yep .
Professor E: And that sort of bypasses the whole the whole Jimbox thing and all that .
Grad C: Right .
Professor E: And so um , we we seem to have uh , a reliable way of getting the data in , which is through the ra Sony radio mikes , as long as we 're conscious about the batteries .
Grad C: Right .
Professor E: That seems to be the key issue .
Grad C: Everyone 's battery OK ?
PhD B: I checked them this morning , they should be .
Grad C: OK .
Professor E: Yeah . Um , That 's the only thing with them . But the quality seems really good and Um I heard from UW that they 're they 're uh very close to getting their , uh setup purchased . They 're they 're they 're buying something that you can just sort of buy off the shelf .
Grad C: Well we should talk to them about it because I know that SRI is also in the process of looking at stuff , and so , you know , what we should try to keep everyone on the same page with that .
Professor E: Yeah .
PhD B: SRI , really ?
Grad C: Yeah .
PhD B: Oh .
Grad C: They got sa apparent Well , Maybe this needs to be bleeped out ? I have no clue .
Professor E: Uh , I don't know .
Grad C: I don't know how much of it 's public .
Professor E: Probably we shouldn't probably we shouldn't talk about funding stuff .
Grad C: Right .
Professor E: Yeah . But anyway there 's there 's there 's uh , uh other activities that are going on there and and uh and NIST and UW . So . Um . But but yeah I thin I think that at least the message we can tell other people is that our experience is is quite positive with the Sony ,
Grad C: Right .
Professor E: uh , radio - mikes . Now the one thing that you have said that actually concerns me a little is you 're talking about changing the headsets meaning changing the connector , which means some hand - soldering or something , right ?
Grad C: Uh , no , we 're having the them do it .
Professor E: No ?
Grad C: So it 's so hand - soldering it , but I 'm not doing it .
Professor E: Oh .
Grad C: So , they they charge
Professor E: OK . Nothing against you and your hand - soldering
Grad C: right .
Professor E: but Grad C: You 've never seen my hand - soldering . But uh , a as I said they 're coming in .
Professor E: Uh , OK , so that 's being done professionally and Grad C: I I mean Professor E: Yeah .
Grad C: Yeah . I mean .
Professor E: Yeah .
Grad C: As professionally as I guess you can get it done .
Professor E: Well , it could if they do a lot of it , it 's Grad C: I mean i it 's just their repair shop . Right ? Their maintenance people .
Professor E: Well , we 'll see what it it 's like .
Grad C: Yep .
Professor E: That tha that can be quite good . Th - this Yeah , OK . Good . Yeah . So let 's go with that .
Grad C: And , I mean we 'll see , tomorrow , you know , what it looks like .
Professor E: Uh , Yeah . So , um , uh , Dave isn't here but he was going to start working on some things with the digits . Uh , so he 'll be interested in what 's going on with that . I guess Was the decision last time was that the the uh transcribers were going to be doing stuff with the digits as well ? Has that started , or is that ?
Postdoc F: Mm - hmm . Yeah . Uh , it would be to use his interface and I was going to meet with him today about that .
Grad C: Right , so , the decision was that Jane did not want the transcribers to be doing any of the paperwork . So I did the all that last week . So all the all the forms are now on the computer . And uh , then I have a bunch of scripts that we 'll read those and let the uh transcribers use different tools . And I just want to talk to Jane about how we transition to using those .
Postdoc F: Mm - hmm . So he has a nice set up that they it w it will be efficient for them to do that .
Professor E: OK .
Grad C: I I don't think it 'll take too long .
Professor E: So anyway Grad C: So , you know , just uh , a matter of a few days I suspect .
Professor E: So anyway I think we we have at least one uh , user for the digits once they get done , which will be Dave .
Grad C: Right . I 've already done five or six sets .
Postdoc F: OK .
Grad C: So if he wanted to , you know , just have a few to start with , he could . You know , and I also have a bunch of scripts that will , like , generate P - files and run recognition on them also .
Professor E: Yeah , he might he might be asking Right . OK . Uh , is Dave I don't know if Dave is on the list , if he 's invited to these meetings , uh if he knows .
Postdoc F: I don't tend to get an invitation myself for them even .
PhD A: No , no .
Grad C: Uh , we don't have a active one but I 'll make sure he 's on the list .
Postdoc F: Yeah . Should we call him ? I mean is he d is he definitely not available today ?
Professor E: I don't know .
Postdoc F: Should I call his office and see ?
PhD A: He was in .
Grad C: I mean , he 's still taking classes , so uh , he may well have conflicts .
Professor E: Uh , well i it 's uh PhD A: Yeah .
Professor E: Yeah .
PhD A: Yeah , he was in s
Postdoc F: He wasn't there at cof
Professor E: Yeah , so this might be a conflict for him .
PhD A: Yeah .
Professor E: Yeah .
Postdoc F: OK .
Professor E: OK . Uh , so .
Grad C: Yeah didn't he say his signal - processing class was like Tuesdays and Thursdays ?
PhD A: I think he has a class . Yeah .
PhD B: Yeah . He might have .
Grad C: Oh well , whatever .
Grad D: You talking about David Gelbart ?
Professor E: Oh , OK .
PhD A: Yeah .
PhD B: Yeah .
Grad C: Yeah .
Professor E: Yeah .
Postdoc F: Yes .
Grad D: Yeah , I think he 's taking two twenty - five A which is now .
PhD B: Yeah .