Professor B: We 're supposed to get together and talk about , uh , where we are on things . Uh , there 's this meeting coming up , uh , and there 's also an annual report . Now , I never actually I I was asking about this . I don't really quite understand this . She was re she was referring to it as I think this actually didn't just come from her , but this is what , uh , DARPA had asked for . Um , she 's referring to it as the an annual report for the fiscal year . But of course the fiscal year starts in October , so I don't quite understand w w why we do an annual report that we 're writing in July .
PhD C: She 's either really late or really early .
Grad F: Huh . Or she 's getting a good early start .
Professor B: Uh , I think basically it it 's none of those . It 's that the meeting is in July so they so DARPA just said do an annual report . So . So . So anyway , I 'll be putting together stuff . I 'll do it , uh , you know , as much as I can without bothering people , just by looking at at papers and status reports . I mean , the status reports you do are very helpful .
PhD H: Hmm .
Professor B: Uh , so I can grab stuff there . And if , uh if I have some questions I 'll Grad F: When we remember to fill them out .
Professor B: Yeah . If people could do it as soon as as you can , if you haven't done one si recently . Uh . Uh , but , you know , I 'm I 'm sure before it 's all done , I 'll end up bugging people for for more clarification about stuff . Um . But , um , I don't know , I guess I guess I know pretty much what people have been doing . We have these meetings and and there 's the status reports . Uh . But , um . Um . Yeah . So that wasn't a long one . Just to tell you that . And if something hasn't , uh I 'll be talking to her late tomorrow afternoon , and if something hasn't been in a status report and you think it 's important thing to mention on this kind of thing , uh , uh , just pop me a one - liner and and and I 'll I 'll have it in front of me for the phone conversation .
PhD H: OK .
Professor B: Uh . I guess , uh , you you 're still pecking away at the demos and all that , probably .
Grad F: Yep . And Don is gonna be helping out with that .
Professor B: Oh , that 's right .
Grad F: So .
Professor B: OK .
Grad F: Did you wanna talk about that this afternoon ?
Grad D: Um .
Grad F: Not here , but later today ?
Grad D: We should probably talk off - line about when we 're gonna talk off - line .
Grad F: OK . OK .
Professor B: OK . Yeah , I might want to get updated about it in about a week cuz , um , I 'm actually gonna have a  a few days off the following week , a after the after the picnic . So .
Grad F: Oh , OK .
Professor B: That 's all I had .
Grad F: So we were gonna do sort of status of speech transcription automatic transcription , but we 're kind of running late . So .
PhD E: How long does it take you to save the data ?
Grad F: Fifteen minutes .
PhD E: Yeah .
Grad F: So . If you wanna do a quick
PhD E: Yeah .
Grad F: ten minute PhD E: Guess we should stop , like , twenty of at the latest .
Professor B: Uh PhD E: We we have another meeting coming in that they wanna record .
Professor B: And there 's the digits to do .
PhD E: So .
Professor B: So maybe may maybe maybe Grad F: Yeah . Well , we can skip the digits .
Professor B: We could . Fi - five minute report or something .
PhD E: It 's up to you . I don't Professor B: Yeah , yeah .
Grad F: Whatever you want .
Professor B: Well , I would love to hear about it ,
Grad F: What do you have to say ?
Professor B: especially since Grad F: I 'm interested , so Professor B: Yeah . Well , I 'm gonna be on the phone tomorrow , so this is just a good example of the sort of thing I 'd like to hear about .
PhD E: Wait . Why is everybody looking at me ?
PhD C: I don't know .
Grad F: Sorry .
Professor B: Cuz he looked at you
PhD H: What ?
Professor B: and says you 're sketching .
PhD E: Uh . I 'm not sure what you were referring to .
PhD H: I I I I 'm not actually , I 'm not sure what ? Are we supposed to have done something ?
Grad F: No . We were just talking before about alternating the subject of the meeting .
PhD H: Oh .
PhD E: Uh - huh .
Grad F: And this week we were gonna try to do t automatic transcription status .
PhD H: Alternating .
PhD E: I wasn't here last week . Sorry .
PhD H: Oh !
PhD E: Oh .
Grad F: But we sort of failed .
PhD H: We did that last week . Right ?
PhD E: Hhh .
Grad F: No .
Professor B: I thought we did .
Grad F: Did we ? OK .
PhD H: Yeah . We did .
Grad F: OK . So now now we have the schedule . So next week we 'll do automatic transcription status , plus anything that 's real timely .
PhD H: OK .
PhD E: Oh . OK .
Postdoc A: OK .
Professor B: OK . Whew !
PhD C: Good update .
Grad F: Whew !
Professor B: That was Grad F: Dodged that bullet .
Professor B: Yeah . Nicely done , Liz .
Postdoc A: A woman of few words .
Professor B: But but lots of prosody . OK . OK .
Grad F: Th
PhD H: Uh , I mean , we we really haven't done anything .
Grad F: Excuse me ?
PhD H: Sorry .
Postdoc A: Well , since last week .
PhD E: Yeah , we 're PhD H: I mean , the the next thing on our agenda is to go back and look at the , um  the automatic alignments because , uh , I got some I I I learned from Thilo what data we can use as a benchmark to see how well we 're doing on automatic alignments of the background speech or , of the foreground speech with background speech .
Grad F: Yeah .
PhD H: So .
PhD E: And then , uh , I guess , the new data that Don will start to process PhD H: But , we haven't actually PhD E: the , um when he can get these You know , before we were working with these segments that were all synchronous and that caused a lot of problems
PhD H: Mmm .
PhD E: because you have timed sp at on either side .
Grad F: Oh . Right , right . Mm - hmm .
PhD E: And so that 's sort of a stage - two of trying the same kinds of alignments with the tighter boundaries with them is really the next step .
Grad F: Right .
Postdoc A: I 'll be interested .
PhD E: We did get our , um I guess , good news . We got our abstract accepted for this conference , um workshop , ISCA workshop , in , um , uh , New Jersey . And we sent in a very poor abstract , but they very poor , very quick . Um , but we 're hoping to have a paper for that as well , which should be an interesting Grad F: When 's it due ?
PhD E: The t paper isn't due until August . The abstracts were already due . So it 's that kind of workshop .
Grad F: Mm - hmm .
PhD E: But , I mean , the good news is that that will have sort of the European experts in prosody sort of a different crowd , and I think we 're the only people working on prosody in meetings so far , so that should be interesting .
Postdoc A: What 's the name of the meeting ?
PhD E: Uh , it 's ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding , or something like that PhD H: It 's called Prosody to Grad F: Mm - hmm .
Postdoc A: Good .
PhD E: some generic Uh , so it 's focused on using prosody in automatic systems and there 's a um , a web page for it .
Professor B: Y you going to , uh , Eurospeech ? Yeah .
Grad F: I don't have a paper
PhD H: Yeah .
Grad F: but I 'd kinda like to go , if I could . Is that alright ?
Professor B: We 'll discuss it .
Grad F: OK . I guess that 's " no " .
Professor B: My my my car my car needs a good wash , by the way .
Grad F: OK . Well , that th Hey , if that 's what it takes , that 's fine with me .
Professor B: Um .
Grad F: I 'll pick up your dry - cleaning , too . Should we do digits ?
Professor B: Yeah .
Grad F: Uh .
PhD H: Can I go next ? Because I have to leave , actually .
Grad F: Yep . Go for it . Hmm ! Thanks . Thank you .
Professor B: So you get to be the one who has all the paper rustling . Right ?