B: Yep , I agree .
B: Mm - hmm .
D: and classifying all the frames inside those as whatever labels Jane gave
B: Coming off of the other E: Yeah .
B: Good .
B: So , it wouldn't be I wasn't planning to label the time marks .
E: I can give you my transcription file ,
B: I was thinking that that would come from the engineering side ,
D: I don't think you need to .
E: no ?
B: yeah .
D: Yeah . That should be linked to the words which are linked to time somehow ,
B: There you go .
D: right ?
A: Well we 're not any time soon going to get a forced alignment .
D: Not now .
A: So .
E: Yeah .
A: Um If it 's not hand - marked then we 're not going to get the times .
D: Well , it 's something that w
D: Well , we we wouldn't be able to do any work without a forced alignment anyway ,
E: Yes
D: so somehow if once he gets going we 're gonna hafta come up with one
D: and
C: Yes .
D: Yeah .
B: Good . Good .
A: I mean w I guess we could do a very bad one with Broadcast News .
D: So whatever you would label would be attached to the words , I think .
B: Great !
B: Good , good .
E: Yeah .
B: Mm - hmm .
C: Well again for the close mike stuff , we could come up take a s take the Switchboard system or something ,
A: That might be good enough .
A: Yeah .
C: and Um
A: It 'd be worth a try .
A: It would be interesting to see what we get .
C: Just , you know , low - pass filter the speech and D: Cuz there 's there 's a lot of work you can't do without that ,
D: I mean , how how would you C: Yeah .
D: You 'd have to go in and measure every start and stop point next to a word
D: is y if you 're interested in anything to do with words .
B: It would be very inefficient .
A: Yep .
E: Yeah .
D: So .
B: Mm - hmm .
D: Anyway So that 'd be great .
B: Good . OK .
E: Yeah .
C: There 's something we should talk about later
C: but maybe not just now .
C: But , uh , should talk about our options as far as the uh uh transcription
C: But . Well , w But we 'll do that later .
A: Yep , if IBM doesn't B: OK .
B: Good .
D: Do we hafta turn D: Are we supposed to keep recording here ?
B: Yeah . Let 's do that later .
B: Yeah .
A: Yeah Right .
C: We 'll talk about it later .
B: Yeah .
C: So uh Uh
C: " forms " .
C: You had something on forms .
A: Forms Next iteration of forms .
A: Oops .
B: Oh !
B: Oh good , OK .
C: Um .
C: Oh .
B: How So it 's two pages per person ?
A: Nope .
A: One 's a digit form ,
A: one 's a speaker form .
B: Oh !
A: So one is a one time only speaker form and the other is the digits .
B: Oh , I see .
E: Oh it 's the same .
E: Oh no no .
E: Is is new Is OK .
A: So don't fill these out .
B: Alright .
A: This is just the suggestion for uh what the new forms would look like .
A: So , they incorporate the changes that we talked about .
B: Date and time .
B: Uh why did you switch the order of the Date and Time fields ?
B: This is rather a low - level , but
A: On which one ?
B: On on the new one , Time comes first and then Date ,
B: but I thought A: Oh you mean on the digit form ?
B: This is this is rather a low level question , but but it used used to be Date came first .
A: Uh , because the user fills out the first three fields and I fill out the rest .
B: Oh I see .
A: So it was intentional .
B: Well , how would the How would the user know the time if they didn't know the date ?
A: It 's an interesting observation ,
A: but it was intentional .
A: Because the date is when you actually read the digits and the time and ,
A: excuse me ,
A: the time is when you actually read the digits , but I 'm filling out the date beforehand .
A: If you look at the form in front of you ? that you 're going to fill out when you read the digits ? you 'll see I 've already filled in the date but not the time .
B: Yeah .
B: I always assumed B: So the time is supposed to be pretty exact ,
B: because I 've just been taking beginning time time of the meeting .
D: Yeah , me too .
E: Yeah , I A: Yeah , I 've noticed that in the forms .
E: yeah .
A: The the reason I put the time in , is so that the person who 's extracting the digits , meaning me , will know where to look in the meeting , to try to find the digits .
E: Me too .
E: Oh !
B: Oh dear .
E: But I am put I am putting the beginning of the meeting .
B: We 've been we 've been messing up your forms .
A: I know .
D: So you should call it , like , " digits start time " . Or .
A: And I haven't said anything .
A: Yep .
E: in on there .
C: Why What what were you putting in ?
B: Oh , well , I was saying if we started the meeting at two thirty ,
E: Yeah .
B: I 'd put two thirty , and I guess d e everyone was putting two thirty ,
C: Oh .
E: Yeah .
B: and I didn't realize there was " uh oh I 'm about to read this and I should " A: No , it 's about fifty fifty .
A: Actually it 's about one third each .
A: About one third of them are blank ,
A: about one third of them are when the digits are read ,
A: and about one third of them are when the meeting starts .
E: Oh .
A: So .
B: This would be a radical suggestion but A: I could put instructions ?
B: Ei - either that or maybe you could maybe write down when people start reading digits on that particular session .
A: Nah .
E: Yeah .
A: But if I 'm not at the meeting , I can't do that .
B: I know , OK .
C: Yeah , he 's been setting stuff up and going away . So .
B: That 's a good point .
B: I see .
B: Good point good point .
C: For some reason he doesn't want to sit through every meeting that 's A: Yep , but that is the reason Name , Email and Time are where they are .
B: Oh , OK .
C: Yeah .
B: Alright .
B: I rest my A: And then the others are later on .
C: Uh - huh .
B: OK .
B: w
E: And the Seat is this number ?
A: Mm - hmm .
B: Seat and Session .
D: " For official use only "
D: That 's  Well , he 's very professional .
E: " use only "
B: Actually you could B: Well that does raise another question , which is why is the " Professional use only " line not higher ?
B: Why doesn't it come in at the point of Date and Seat ?
B: Oh . Because we 're filling in other things .
A: What ?
C: What ?
B: Well , because If y your your professional use ,
B: you 're gonna already have the date , and the s
A: What which form are you talking about ?
B: Well I 'm comparing the new one with the old one .
B: This is the digit form .
E: Oh .
A: Oh you 're talking about the digit form .
E: Yeah .
C: Digit . Digit form .
B: Oh ! I wasn't supposed to A: The digit form doesn't The digit E: Yeah .
B: Sorry . Sorry .
A: No , that 's alright .
A: The digit form doesn't have a " for official use only " line .
A: It just has a line , which is what you 're supposed to read .
B: That B: uh OK .
B: Sorry about that .
A: So on the digits form , everything above the line is a fill - in form
B: Yeah .
B: Yeah .
A: and everything below the line is digits that the user reads .
B: OK .
B: Alright s but I didn't mean to derail our discussion here ,
B: so you really wanted to start with this other form .
A: No , either way is fine
A: I just You just started talking about something , and I didn't know which form you were referring to .
B: Alright yeah , I was comparing B: so th this is So I was looking at the change first .
B: So it 's like we started with this and now we 've got a new version of it wi with reference to this .
B: So the digit form ,
B: we had one already .
B: Now the f the fields are slightly different .
C: So the main thing that the person fills out um is the name and email and time ?
E: Yeah .
A: Right .
E: Ah !
C: You do the rest ?
A: Yep .
A: Just as uh as I have for all the others .
C: Right .
B: What And there 's an addition of the native language , which is a bit redundant .
B: This one has Native Language and this one does too .
A: That 's because the one , the digit form that has native language is the old form
B: Oh ! Thank you . Thank you , thank you .
A: not the new form .
E: Yeah .
B: There we go .
B: Oh , yeah .
B: I 'll catch up here .
B: OK , I see .
C: " South Midland , North Midland "
B: That 's the old and that 's the new .
A: Yeah this was the problem with these categories ,
A: I I picked those categories from TIMIT .
A: I don't know what those are .
D: Actually , the only way I know is from working with the database and having to figure it out .
E: What A: With TIMIT ,
E: uh - huh .
A: yeah ?
C: So is South Midland like Kansas ?
E: What i
A: So , I was gonna ask
A: wh w I mean .
C: and North Midland like like uh Illinois , or ?
D: Well yeah .
E: Yeah .
D: Nor - um A: So so what accent are we speaking ?
A: Western ?
C: By definition ?
E: And for simple for for me ?
E: Is mean my native language Spanish Spanish ?
C: Well ,
D: Probably Western , yeah .
E: eh The original is the center of Spain and the beca