F: cuz digits are much easier .
B: Mmm .
F: Um .
E: Oh , that 's really interesting .
F: And just combining just doing multis
E: We 're starting off with digit stuff too for for for our different for for this , um , endpointing stuff .
B: Hmm .
F: Yeah ,
F: of course .
F: Yeah .
H: Uh - huh .
F: But , uh , just mixing the E: Yeah .
F: just doing multi - stream on the different mikes helped enormously .
F: And I was a little surprised .
D: Hmm , hmm .
B: Right .
F: Yeah , so you so you G: Why why is that ?
B: So you 're having F: Wh - why ?
G: Why ?
F: I have no idea .
F: Because they 're a little different .
B: Sorry .
B: When you say multi multi - stream , you mean
H: Hang on .
H: You mean , you ne
G: The microphones are different ?
H: You mean , uh , bu to combining the the posteriors on full band recognition like from from three different or four different mikes .
F: Mm - hmm .
F: Mm - hmm .
F: Right .
B: Right .
H: Cool .
B: Hmm .
G: Hmm .
F: And that actually helped .
B: That 's interesting .
F: That gave several percent improvement .
B: Right ,
B: yeah .
F: Absolute .
F: So that , uh ,
F: I think just just having stereo will help
F: cuz they 're a little different .
A: Yeah .
F: You get a little slightly different estimators
B: Hmm .
A: Yeah .
F: and , uh ,
F: uh , you combine them together , and you do a little better .
A: So basically if you plan on really training collecting a database uh for database for training , I mean , you are talking about , you know , twenty thousand or forty thousand sentences .
A: Things like that .
F: Right ,
F: so that the H: It 's something like tens of hours A: Mm - hmm .
H: tens of hours of data , I think .
F: M
A: Tens of hours .
H: Yeah .
B: Mm - hmm .
F: So our initial plan for ICSI was to do forty hours .
E: Yeah .
A: OK .
F: And then U W is talking about doing an additional sixty to a hundred hours if they have the money .
A: Uh - huh .
G: That F: If they can actually do it .
G: Yeah ,
H: Really ?
G: that 's pretty B: Mmm .
G: Mmm .
F: I mean , that 's what they had said before
G: That 's F: but I guess that was more ambitious .
E: We were thinking something like , you know , ten hours to begin with .
G: They were gonna G: There was a difference in the amount of money awarded from the beginning to e
B: Mmm .
E: It 's about F: Uh - huh .
A: Mm - hmm .
D: Well , the other thing too is , I mean , i if if you have the equipment then , i i it could be different .
G: Um .
A: But I mean , i i
F: Yeah ,
F: recording it 's easy .
D: Then the recording is easy
D: and maybe maybe they G: Yeah , recording is G: Right .
F: It 's transcription that 's a pain .
B: It 's transcription and processing , yeah .
A: So so E: Oh , the G: Right .
E: Right .
D: Yeah .
E: That 's actually , that 's the other thing .
E: We weren't A: Yeah .
B: Hmm ?
F: OK , but you have to put on a You have to put on a mike .
A: So so , clear
H: I think we 've run it H: well , uh .
F: Oh .
F: We 're out of mikes .
D: I 'd give you my mike .
H: Not quite
H: but G: You can have my mike .
H: Yeah , yeah .
H: It 's not we we it 's a B: It 's not a speaker phone is it ?
F: Don't don't switch mikes .
F: Don't switch mikes .
D: Oh , I 'm not allowed to .
F: That 's way too confusing .
H: We D: OK .
D: Alrighty .
H: we need to , uh .
A: So , I mean , clearly i if everybody 's collecting data to train on , m maybe we should do something E: Uh .
E: One thing I should point out , we were n we were not planning on tra doing transcription of the full thing right away ,
E: u cuz that 's not I mean , I was initially interested in just the speech that was directed at the computer .
A: Mm - hmm .
F: Mm - hmm .
G: Mm - hmm .
B: Mmm .
E: And so we were not planning on doing the transcribing the entire thing .
H: Right .
H: OK .
E: But I mean , that 's something to talk about .
F: But if you had the data and we had a a company .