A: OK , this is one channel .
A: Can you uh , say your name and talk into your mike one at a time ?
C: This is Eric on channel three , I believe .
A: OK .
A: Uh , I don't think it 's on there , Jane .
D: Tasting one two three , tasting .
E: OK , this is Jane on channel five .
A: Uh , I still don't see you Jane .
E: Oh , darn , what am I doing wrong ?
D: Can you see me on channel four ?
D: Really ?
D: My lucky day .
E: Uh , screen no , A: Yeah , I s
E: it is ,
E: oh , maybe it just warmed up ?
A: No .
E: Oh , darn ,
E: can you can't see channel five yet ?
A: Uh , well , the mike isn't close enough to your mouth ,
E: Oh , this would be k
A: so .
E: OK ,
E: is that better ?
D: I like the high quality labelling .
A: S uh , try speaking loudly ,
A: so ,
E: Hello ,
E: hello .
D: David , can we borrow your labelling machine to improve the quality of the labelling a little bit here ?
A: OK ,
E: Alright .
A: good .
A: Thank you .
B: One t
D: How how many are there ,
D: one to five ?
B: One five ,
B: yeah .
D: Yeah , please .
E: Would you like to join the meeting ?
E: I bet A: Well , we don't wanna renumber them ,
A: cuz we 've already have like , forms filled out with the numbers on them .
A: So , let 's keep the same numbers on them .
B: Yeah , OK ,
B: that 's a good idea .
A: OK , Dan , are you on ?
B: I 'm on I 'm on two and I should be on .
A: Good .
B: Yeah .
D: Want to join the meeting , Dave ?
D: Do we do do we have a spare , uh A: And I 'm getting lots of responses on different ones ,
A: so I assume the various and assorted P Z Ms are on .
D: We ' r we 're D: we ' r This is this this is a meeting meeting .
E: This is abou we 're we 're mainly being taped but we 're gonna talk about , uh , transcription for the m future meeting meetings .
A: Stuff .
A: Yeah , this is not something you need to attend .
A: So .
E: Yeah .
E: e
E: OK .
C: You 're always having one of those days , Dave .
E: Y you 'd be welcome .
A: Besides , I don't want anyone who has a weird accent .
E: You 'd be welcome .
A: Right , Dan ?
D: So , I don't understand
D: if it 's neck mounted you don't get very good performance .
C: It 's not neck mounted .
C: It 's supposed to be h head mounted .
D: Yeah .
D: It it should be head mounted .
D: Right ?
C: Right .
A: Well , then put it on your head .
B: I don't know .
A: What are you doing ?
D: Cuz when you do this , you can D: Rouww - Rouww .
E: Why didn't I you were saying that
E: but I could hear you really well on the on the transcription on the , uh , tape .
B: I I don't know .
A: Well , I m I would prefer that people wore it on their head
C: i
A: but they were complaining about it .
D: Why ?
A: Because it 's not it doesn't go over the ears .
E: It 's badly designed .
A: It 's very badly designed so it 's B: It 's very badly designed ?
D: What do you mean it doesn't go over the ears ?
B: Why ?
B: It 's not s It 's not supposed to cover up your ears .
B: I mean , it 's only badly A: Yeah but , there 's nowhere to put the pad so it 's comfortable .
E: So that 's what you 're d He 's got it on his temples so it cuts off his circulation .
C: Yeah , that 's that 's what I have .
B: Oh , that 's strange .
A: And it feels so good that way .
C: It feels so good when I stop .
E: Try it .
D: Somebody wanna A: So I I again would like to do some digits .
D: Somebody wanna close the door ?
A: Um .
B: OK .
A: Sure .
E: We could do it with noise .
A: So let me C: You 're always doing digits .
A: Well , you know , I 'm just that sort of digit - y g sorta guy .
A: OK .
A: So this is Adam .
E: Uh , this is the same one I had before .
A: I doubt it .
B: It 's still the same words .
A: I think we 're session four by the way .
A: Or m it might be five .
D: Psss !
E: No
D: Oh , that 's good .
A: I didn't bring my previous thing .
B: We didn't E: Now , just to be sure , the numbers on the back , this is the channel ?
B: That 's the microphone number .
E: That 's the microphone number .
A: Yeah , d leave the channel blank .
E: Uh - oh .
E: OK , good .
D: But number has to be ?
E: Five D: So we have to look up the number .
A: Right .
D: OK , good .
E: Good .
E: OK .
E: Well , this is Jane , on mike number five .
E: Um .
E: I just start ?
E: Do I need to say anything more ?
A: Uh , transcript number .
B: Transcript number C: OK , this is Eric on microphone number three ,
D: This is Beck on mike four .
A: Thanks .
A: Should I turn off the VU meter Dan ?
A: Do you think that makes any difference ?
B: Oh , God .
B: No , let me do it .
A: Why ?
A: Are you gonna do something other than hit " quit " ?
B: No ,
B: but I 'm gonna look at the uh , logs as well .
A: Oh .
E: Uh , you said turn off the what ?
A: Should have done it before .
A: The VU meter which tells you what the levels on the various mikes are
A: and there was one hypothesis that perhaps that  the act of recording the VU meter was one of the things that contributed to the errors .
E: Oh .
E: Oh , I see .
D: Yeah , but Eric , uh , you didn't think that was a reasonable hypothesis , right ?
E: I See .
A: That was me ,
D: Oh , I 'm sorry y
A: I thought that was D: That was malarkey .
A: Well , the only reason that could be is if the driver has a bug .
A: Right ?
A: Because the machine just isn't very heavily loaded .
D: No chance of that .
A: No chance of that .
A: Just because it 's beta .
B: Yeah , there there there was there was a there was a bug .
A: Look OK ?
B: There was a glitch last time we ran .
D: Are - are yo are you recording where the table mikes are by the way ?
D: Do you know which channels B: No .
A: Yeah , we usually do that .
B: No , we don't .
A: Yeah .
D: Why not ?
B: But we we ought to st we ought to standardize .
B: I think , uh , I s I spoke to somebody , Morgan , <comment> about that .
D: Why don't you just do this ?
B: I think I think we should put mar Well , no , w we can do that .
A: I mean , that 's what we 've done before .
B: I know what they they 're they 're four , three , two , one .
B: In order now .
D: Four .
B: Three ,
D: Three .
B: two , and one .
B: But I think I think we should put them in standard positions .
B: I think we should make little marks on the table top .
E: Oh , OK .
A: Which means we need to move this thing , and sorta decide how we 're actually going to do things .
B: So that we can put them B: I guess that 's the point .
A: So .
B: It 'll be a lot easier if we have a if we have them permanently in place or something like that .
A: Right .
E: I do wish there were big booms coming down from the ceiling .
B: You do ?
E: Yeah .
C: Would it make you feel more important ?
E: Yeah , yeah , yeah .
A: Mmm .
C: I see .
E: You know .
D: Wait till the projector gets installed .
A: That 'll work .
E: Oh , that 'll be good .
A: That 'll work .
E: OK .
B: Oh , gosh .
D: Cuz it 's gonna hang down , make noise .
B: When 's it gonna be installed ?
E: OK .
D: Well , it depends on
B: I see .
D: Is this b is this being recorded ?
A: That 's right .
D: Uh , I think Lila actually is almost getting r pretty close to even getting ready to put out the purchase order .
B: OK .
B: Cool .
D: I handed it off to her about a month ago .
B: I see .
A: OK ,
A: so ,
A: topic of this meeting is I wanna talk a little bit about transcription .
A: Um , I 've looked a little bit into commercial transcription services
A: and Jane has been working on doing transcription .
A: Uh , and so we wan wanna decide what we 're gonna do with that
A: and then get an update on the electronics ,
A: and then , uh , maybe also talk a little bit about some infrastructure and tools , and so on .
A: Um , you know , eventually we 're probably gonna wanna distribute this thing
A: and we should decide how we 're gonna how we 're gonna handle some of these factors .
A: So .
B: Distribute what ?
A: Hmm ?
B: The data ?
A: Right .
A: Right .
A: I mean , so we 're we 're collecting a corpus
A: and I think it 's gonna be generally useful .
A: I mean , it seems like it 's not a corpus which is uh , has been done before .
B: Oh .
A: And so I think people will be interested in having having it ,
D: u Using , like , audio D V Ds or something like that ?
A: and so we will B: Yes .
A: Excuse me ?
D: Audio D V
A: Well , or something .
A: Yeah , audio D V
A: C Ds ,
D: Or t
A: you know .
D: Yeah .
D: tapes .
A: And and so how we do we distribute the transcripts ,
A: how do we distribute the audio files ,
A: how do we how do we just do all that infrastructure ?