B: Sorry .
B: Mental mental Palm Pilot .
B: Right .
B: Hence no problem .
F: Let 's see .
F: So . What ?
F: I 'm supposed to be on channel five ?
F: Her . Nope .
F: Doesn't seem to be ,
F: yeah .
B: Hello I 'm channel one .
E: What does your thing say on the back ?
F: Nnn , five .
D: Testing .
F: Alright , I 'm five .
D: Sibilance .
D: Sibilance . <comment> Three , three .
D: I am three .
B: Eh .
D: See , that matches the seat up there .
F: Yeah , well , I g guess it 's coming up then , or D: So .
D: Cuz it 's That starts counting from zero
D: and these start counting from one .
D: Ergo , the classic off - by - one error .
B: But mine is correct .
D: Is it ?
E: No .
B: It 's one .
B: Channel one .
E: Look at the back .
D: Your mike number is what we 're t
B: Oh , oh , oh !
B: Oh .
D: Ho !
B: So D: I 've bested you again , Nancy .
B: But your p
B: No , but the paper 's correct .
D: The paper is correct .
B: Look at the paper .
D: I didn't det I was saying the microphone , not the paper .
C: Nnn ,
C: it 's n
B: Oh .
C: It 's always offset . Yeah .
B: OK .
B: Yes , you 've bested me again .
B: That 's how I think of our continuing interaction .
B: Damn !
B: Foiled again !
D: So is Keith showing up ?
D: He 's talking with George right now .
D: Uh , is he gonna get a rip uh rip himself away from from that ?
C: What B: He 'll probably come later .
C: He - he he 's
C: probably not , is my guess .
D: Oh , then it 's just gonna be the five of us ?
E: Well , he he was very affirmative in his way of saying he will be here at four .
C: Yeah .
E: But you know , that was before he knew about that George lecture probably .
C: Right .
C: This this is not It 's not bad for the project if Keith is talking to George .
C: OK . So my suggestion is we just
B: Forge ahead .
C: Forge ahead , yeah .
E: Cool .
B: Are you in charge ?
E: Sure .
E: Um .
E: Well , I sort of had informal talks with most of you .
E: So , Eva just reported she 's really happy about the CBT 's being in the same order in the XML
E: as in the um be Java declaration format
F: Yeah .
F: The e
E: so you don't have to do too much in the style sheet transversion .
F: Uh , yeah .
F: Yeah , so .
E: The uh , Java the embedded Bayes wants to take input uh , uh , a Bayes - net in in some Java notation
E: and Eva is using the Xalan style sheet processor to convert the XML that 's output by the Java Bayes for the into the , uh , E Bayes input .
D: Mmm .
F: Actually , maybe I could try , like , emailing the guy
F: and see if he has any something already .
C: Sure .
E: Hmm .
F: That 'd be weird , that he has both the Java Bayes and the embedded Bayes in F: Yeah .
D: But that 's some sort of conversion program ?
F: Yeah .
F: And put them into different formats .
F: Oh F: Yep , he could do that , too .
D: I think you should demand things from him .
C: He charges so much . Right .
D: Yeah .
C: No , I think it 's a good idea that you may as well ask . Sure .
F: Yeah .
E: And , um , well pretty mu pretty much on t on the top of my list , I would have asked Keith how the " where is X ? " hand parse is standing .
E: Um . But we 'll skip that .
E: Uh , there 's good news from Johno .
E: The generation templates are done .
D: So the trees for D: the XML trees for the for the gene for the synthesizer are written .
D: So I just need to do the , uh write a new set of tree combining rules .
D: But I think those 'll be pretty similar to the old ones .
D: So .
D: Just gonna be you know C: Oh !
C: You were gonna send me a note about hiring E: Yes .
C: I didn't finish the sentence
C: but he understood it .
D: I know what he 's talking about .
C: OK .
C: But Nancy doesn't .
B: Hiring somebody .
E: We w um D: The guy .
E: OK , so natural language generation produces not a just a surface string that is fed into a text - to - speech but , a surface string with a syntax tree that 's fed into a concept - to - speech .
C: No .
B: Yeah .
B: Mm - hmm .
E: Now and this concept - to - speech module has certain rules on how if you get the following syntactic structure , how to map this onto prosodic rules .