Professor B: Yeah .
Grad A: So , I think this is gonna be a pretty short meeting because I have four agenda items , three of them were requested by Jane who is not gonna be at the meeting today .  So . The uh first was transcription status . Does anyone besides Jane know what the transcription status is ?
PhD F: Um , sort of , I do , peripherally .
PhD C: Is that English ?
PhD F: Um Well first of all with IBM I got a note from Brian yesterday saying that they finally made the tape for the thing that we sent them a week or week and a half ago
PhD D: That 's our system .
Grad A: Ugh !
PhD F: and that it 's gone out to the transcribers and hopefully next week we 'll have the transcription back from that .
Grad A: C can I have a pen ?
PhD F: Um Jane seems to be um moving right along on the transcriptions from the ICSI side . She 's assigned , I think probably five or six m more meetings .
PhD C: Yeah , I think we 're up to MR thirteen or something .
PhD D: Mmm .
PhD F: Yeah , so um , I guess she 's hired some new transcribers
PhD D: Speaking Grad E: Which meetings is she transcribing ?
PhD F: and Um well we 've we 've run out of E D Us because a certain number of them are um , sort of awaiting to go to IBM .
Grad E: OK .
PhD C: For IBM , yeah .
PhD D: Hmm .
Grad E: OK .
PhD F: and the rest are in process being transcribed uh here .
PhD D: So does she have transcribers right now who are basically sitting idle because there 's no data back from IBM
Grad E: So we 're doing some in parallel .
Grad A: Yep .
PhD F: No .
Grad A: No , no .
PhD F: Oh no no .
Grad A: We haven't done that process .
PhD D: no ?
PhD F: No . We 're not waiting on them .
Grad A: So . They ' r they 're doing the full transcription process .
PhD D: Oh . Oh , OK .
Grad E: So they 're just doing their own thing until PhD F: Yeah .
PhD D: Because I I need to ask Jane whether it 's it would be OK for her um , s some of her people to transcribe uh some of the initial data we got from the SmartKom data collection , which is these short like five or seven minute sessions .
PhD F: We 're doing it in parallel , yeah .
Grad E: OK .
PhD C: Yep .
PhD D: Um and we want it You know , we need The Again , we we have a similar uh logistic set - up where we are supposed to send the data to Munich
Grad A: Right .
PhD D: and get it transcribed and get it back . But to get going we would like some of the data transcribed right away so we can get started .
Grad A: Yep , sounds familiar .
PhD D: And so um I wanted to ask Jane if if uh , you know , maybe one of their transcribers could could do I mean since these are very short , that should really be uh ,
Professor B: Mm - hmm .
PhD D: um It 's PhD C: There 's only two channels . So it 's only Yeah .
PhD D: Yeah .
PhD C: As the synthesis doesn't have to be transcribed I think .
PhD D: It 's only two Right , s
PhD C: So .
PhD D: Yeah . So So it 's basically one channel to transcribe . And it 's One session is only uh like seven Professor B: So that should have ma many fewer And it 's also not uh a bunch of interruptions with people and all that ,
PhD D: Right . And some of it is read speech , so we could give them the the thing that they 're reading
Professor B: right ? So . Yeah .
PhD D: and they just may Grad A: Make sure it 's right .
PhD C: Yep .
PhD D: And so um , um , I guess since she 's I was gonna ask her but since she 's not around I maybe I 'll Professor B: Yeah , well it certainly seems PhD D: Uh if if that 's OK with you to to , you know , get that stuff uh to ask her for that , then I 'll do that .
Professor B: Yeah . Yeah , if we 're held up on this other stuff a little bit in order to encompass that , that 's OK because I I um , I mean I still have high hopes that the that the IBM pipeline 'll work out for us , so it 's PhD D: Yeah . OK , yeah .
Professor B: Yeah .
PhD D: Alrighty .
PhD F: Oh , yeah , and also related to the transcription stuff , so I 've been trying to keep a web page uh up to date f showing what the current status is of the trans of all the things we 've collected and what stage each meeting is in , in terms of whether it 's Grad A: Can you mail that out to the list ?
PhD F: Mm - hmm , yeah I will . I That 's the thing that I sent out just to foo people saying can you update these pages
Grad A: Oh , OK , OK .
PhD F: and so that 's where I 'm putting it but I 'll I 'll send it out to the list telling people to look at it .
Grad A: Yeah , I haven't done that . So . I have lots of stuff to add that 's just in my own directory .
PhD F: Yeah .
Grad A: I 'll try to get to that . OK . So Jane also wanted to talk about participant approval , but I don't really think there 's much to talk about . I 'm just gonna do it . And uh , if anyone objects too much then they can do it instead .
Professor B: You are going to Grad A: I 'm gonna send out to the participants , uh , with links to web pages which contain the transcripts and allow them to suggest edits . And then bleep them out .
Professor B: OK .
Grad A: For the ones that we have . Um PhD C: So but it 's just transcripts , not the not the audio ?
Grad A: Nope , they 'll have access to the audio also .
PhD C: OK , yeah , yep . Ah .
Grad A: I mean that 's my intention . Because the transcripts might not be right .
PhD C: Yeah .
PhD F: So Grad A: So you want people to be able to listen to them .
PhD C: Yeah .
PhD F: So , um the audio that they 're gonna have access to , will that be the uncompressed version ? Or will you have scripts that like uncompress the various pieces and Grad A: Oh , that 's a good point . That 's a good point . Yeah , it 's it 's probably going to have to be the uncompressed versions because , uh , uh , it takes too long to do random access decompression .
PhD F: Hmm . Yeah , I was just wondering because we 're uh running out of the un - backed - up disk space on
Grad A: Well , that was the other point .
PhD F: Oh , was that another one ?
Grad A: Yep , that 's another agenda item .
PhD F: OK . I 'll wait .
Grad A: So , uh But that is a good point so we 'll get to that , too . Um , DARPA demo status , not much to say . The back - end stuff is working out fine . It 's more or less ready to go . I 've added some stuff that uh indes indexes by the meeting type MR , EDU , et cetera and also by the user ID . So that the front - end can then do filtering based on that as well . Uh The back - end is uh , going more slowly as I s I think I said before just cuz I 'm not much of a Tcl - TK programmer . And uh Dave Gelbart says he 's a little too busy . So I think Don and I are gonna work on that and and you and I can just talk about it off - line more .