A: And the transcribers here are still , uh are working , though .
B: Yeah . Yeah , they 're working away .
A: Th - they 're just doing their own thing , like , while they 're waiting .
B: They 're just doing B: Right , right .
A: OK .
B: So what we do is , uh , when I go to um , select meetings for IBM , I go into the um B: well , into the <nonvocalsound> the , uh , master sheet here with the statuses
E: Master .
A: Mm - hmm .
B: and I pick ones that Thilo has , um , pre - segmented ,
B: and I change the status to " Trans - IP IBM " ,
B: so that , you know , when Jane or whoever goes to select the next meeting they won't choose one of those .
B: And , um B: So I 'm not picking huge chunks , right now , of meetings for them ,
E: So E: We should at least ask , um , Brian if there are any particular requirements for putting things on tape .
A: Mm - hmm .
B: but E: Is there a particular type of tape that they want to use or anything else like that ?
B: Mm - hmm . That 's a good idea .
E: And , uh E: And then we should see how much of a pain it is for one of us .
E: I mean the o the other problem is you would wanna r do it on an unloaded machine .
E: Right ?
E: Because you wouldn't want it to start stuttering .
C: Yep .
C: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
C: Yeah .
B: Huh .
E: And that means That that 's more of a problem
C: And all E: because y then you have to be there .
C: Yeah .
C: And all of the P Cs are connected to the network , too , here .
A: What i
C: Or , uh ,
E: Right .
A: You 're just talking about playing it and recording it , like , real - time ?
C: bad .
E: Yep .
A: Oh .
B: So when that thing When it stutters like that , is it because there 's a delay getting the data off a disk ? Or is it because there 's a delay in the D to A ?
E: Mm - hmm .
E: It could be either .
E: I mean , there are lots of different places .
B: OK .
E: It can be delay on the disk ,
E: or it can be just load gets high on the machine .
B: Yeah .
E: Um , either IO load or processor load .
B: I see .
E: You know , it 's a problem with these multi - user systems is that lots of processes are running
E: and you don't t really have control .
B: Maybe we could do it from a w a PC or something .
E: Wha
C: Yeah .
C: But they are also on the networks ,
B: Yeah .
C: so .
D: If you used a line out , too , you have to worry about if you click around and you hit a beep or something . It 'll beep onto onto the tape too .
C: Maybe .
E: That 's true .
E: It 'll E: That 's right . So you really do wanna be using a machine that 's not A: And you have to record every channel separately .
E: No , because we 're doing the beep files .
C: The beep files .
B: Well , you know , I I think David might have a bunch of o old P Cs ,
A: Oh , OK .
B: cuz he 's replacing them with these new ones .
B: Maybe we could get one ,
B: and just dedicate it to doing this .
B: Not even hook it u
B: Well , I guess we need to hook it to the network
A: We B: so we can get the files to it ,
B: but
E: Yep .
B: Uh ,
E: Or you could just You could have it no active connection .
E: Just SCP them .
B: Yeah . Right .
B: And then just use that machine to hook up to the tape .
E: Actually , it wouldn't be bad to have that , plus put on that machine a CD burner .
C: Yep .
B: Yeah .
B: We don't need a powerful machine to do these things ,
B: right ?
E: No .
B: So , one of these old Pentiums that we have B: Hmm .
B: Should talk to him about that .
C: Or even a DVD burner .
E: A DVD burner , yeah .
E: I guess the real question is , where would we put it and who would do it ?
E: I guess whoever records the meeting .
E: I mean , it it 's not a big deal ,
E: but it 's yet another thing you have to do .
B: Yeah , yeah .
B: That 's why I wanted to avoid having to do that if we could ,
B: but B: It 's just another A: They couldn't use C Ds ?
E: No , because the transcription company does what they do .
B: They have a um a device that , you put the cassette in
B: and it has a foot pedal that lets you go back and forth and stuff like that .
A: Oh , I see .
A: I see .
B: So .
B: I guess they haven't got a p
E: Actually there are a few I saw a web - based one at one point .
C: Web - based ?
E: Where you could send them audio files over the web
E: and they send you back text files over the web .
B: Really !
E: I should look that up again .
B: Y can you send them huge audio files ?
E: Mmm . Mmm .
C: You can ,
C: but <comment> they never will be able to read them .
B: Yeah .
E: I assume that you can send them anything that they can access with HTTP .
B: Huh !
A: Well , they must be dealing with large amounts of data if they 're transcribing , anyway .
B: That 's interesting .
C: Yeah .
A: I mean People probably aren't sending them , you know an utterance or two .
B: Well , that 's true .
B: Are How big are these files that we send to Brian ?
C: Uh , pfff !
E: Half a gig .
B: Really ?
B: That big ?
E: Oh , no , wait .
B: I thought it was , like , a hundred megs .
E: They 're the beep files .
E: Yeah , it 's a p hundred meg .
E: They 're the beep files .
E: That 's right .
E: So they 're smaller .
B: Yeah .
B: Hmm .
B: That 's still pretty dang big .
E: Yes .
C: Send it via email .
B: Yeah .
E: And we are sending them the compressed ones ,
E: right ?
B: I don't know .
B: Wha - whatever you generate .
E: Yeah .
B: Yeah , the last ones you did were compressed .
E: Were " shortened " .
E: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
B: Wonder if the ones before that were shortened .
E: Yeah .
E: The beep files , actually the " shorten " doesn't save a whole lot .
E: Right ?
B: Cuz it 's all E: Because the whole point is that it 's extracting pie pars parts that are loud anyway .
C: It 's all speech .
C: Yeah . Yeah .
B: Mmm .
E: So .
B: Hmm !
E: I think it only saves , like , half .
C: Only .
E: OK . So I think we just gotta let things slide for now ,
E: and see see what 's gonna happen .
B: Yeah .
E: Nothing else really to do .
E: Um ,
E: We have new equipment that I 'm gonna try to set up tomorrow .
E: New wireless .
B: What will that do ?
E: And so , uh B: Is that going to ?
E: Give us a couple more wireless channels .
B: Oh , so we can get rid of the uh E: Yep .
B: Oh ! That 'll be nice .
E: Yep .
E: But it involves rewiring .
E: And so , if I could borrow someone tomorrow afternoon to help my brain .
B: I should be around .
E: You know , just have someone to bounce the instructions off of
E: and make sure I don't do anything too stupid .
C: Yeah , sure .
E: Did I have another topic on the on the list ?
B: Experiments ?
A: Isn't that next week ?
C: Experiments ?
E: That 's B: Yeah , I guess that 's probably next .
C: Yeah .
C: These are next week .
E: Wha - what did I have on the agenda I mailed out ?
B: Yeah .
A: I think it was A: Oh yeah , I don't know .
C: The demo ?
B: Something about A: The demo was one of them .
C: Demo and IBM , I think .
B: Demo .
E: Yeah , that 's it .
C: Yeah .
A: Yeah . I think that 's it .
C: Yeah .
E: That was it .
B: Yeah .
C: Short meeting ?
B: Yeah .
E: Short meeting ?
E: Does anyone have anything else ?
B: Oh , I made a B: Oh , but that 's not specific to Meeting Recorder .
B: I was gonna say I took some a suggestion of Adam 's ,
B: and I , um , created a m CGI script that lets you see the current status of the speech disks .
A: Mm - hmm .
B: So if you go to the speech local web page , and then there 's a disk status page .
B: You can click on that
B: and it 'll query Abbott ,
B: and give you a a list of all the disks that we have
B: and then , uh , what 's on each one ,
B: and then it shows how big the disk is
B: and what percent full it is .
A: Cool .
B: So .
B: And that 's , you know , each time you go there , it 's updated .
B: So .
A: So , the new disks are installed now ?
C: So what what A: Or ?
B: The new disks are installed .
B: If you need space just let me know .
B: I have to create the p appropriate sub - directory .
B: So we 're s kinda trying to keep even the scratch ones we 're keeping a little organized , where we put a y a U doctor speech data ,
A: Mm - hmm .
B: and then I 'll either create a sub - directory for , like if it 's Meeting Recorder project , or Hub - five or whatever .
B: So we c
B: I just have to create those sub - directories ,
A: OK .
E: Do we have new DD disks also ?
B: and
B: No .
E: Darn .
B: No .
B: Nnn .
E: So , it 's all just scratch .
B: It 's all scratch .
E: OK .
B: Yeah .
E: How are we doing on B: Uh , DE , which is where we 're putting all the meeting stuff E: No , DE is full .
E: We must be doing it on D F .
B: No , it 's D E .
C: D E , I think ,
B: D E 's not full .
C: yeah ?
C: D D is full .
B: DD 's full .
B: That was the first one .
B: Or , that was the last one that w filled up ,
B: and DE still had like ,
E: OK , I guess I 'm just one off .
B: last time I looked it was like seven gigs or something .
E: OK .
B: So .
B: And each meeting is roughly half a gig ,
E: Half .
B: and so .
E: So that means we 're p getting pretty close .
B: We 're getting close .
B: Yeah .
B: So .
E: Shoot !
A: Are we g just gonna keep recording ?
B: Yeah .
A: Like , at some point