F: Mm - hmm .
B: Mmm .
A: Yeah .
F: That 's right .
D: and D: and it 's hard to catch what it is
D: is , cuz it goes by really quickly
D: and you can't really tell
C: Uh - huh .
D: and F: Or they 're laughing when they 're talking
D: That too .
F: or they 're E: Mm - hmm .
B: Mm - hmm .
D: That too .
D: Yeah .
D: Or just D: I don't know .
D: And some people tend to get interrupted more ,
D: I know that 's not something that the person themselves can control
A: He - yeah .
D: but E: Hmm .
A: If when people talk over one another like constantly , <comment> like there 's this whole barrage of voices coming from everywhere ,
D: um D: Mm - hmm .
A: it 's like " Oh my God !
A: What 's going on right now ? "
D: Especially when they 're when you <comment> were using the l the mikes that weren't m headmounted mikes .
A: It 's kind of F: Oh .
F: Yeah .
D: And there was input from other people on the same channel as the person who was talking .
A: Yeah .
F: Yeah ,
D: And that was really hard to deal with .
F: we had lapels for d l brief
F: And then sometimes people would wear these around their necks ,
E: Hmm .
F: which would mean really basically u uh , a problem that you 're saying of getting input from others ,
B: Mm - hmm .
D: Oh , yeah .
E: Mmm .
C: Right .
F: and also , um , it varying when they change their hea w head position .
D: Mm - hmm .
D: Yeah .
F: Yeah ,
C: Right .
F: but C: A big im
C: I tha I think the transcriptions improved immensely ,
C: like exponentially ,
C: um , after it was able to sort of isolate a single person onto a single channel .
D: Yeah ,
F: Oh , excellent .
D: absolutely .
C: Um F: Oh , good to know .
D: Yeah .
C: Oh , there 's no question .
D: Yeah .
B: Oh , yeah .
C: Um F: S
F: so that was You 're talking about early on , the change fro into Channeltrans ?
C: Yeah .
D: Yeah .
E: You guys didn't have o one channel per person before ?
F: Mm - hmm .
C: No .
D: No , it was one like one ribbon for everybody
C: No .
A: Oh , wow .
B: Euh .
D: and you had to kind of D: you could switch signals ,
D: like you could listen to a different one ,
F: Mm - hmm .
D: but you couldn't really D: Well could you ?
D: Did we didn't do that very much .
A: You couldn't visually isolate it ?
E: What ?
D: You couldn't visually do it ,
D: no .
A: Huh .
B: Euh .
C: No .
D: And f
D: Yeah .
C: And you had to mark interruptions by a slash ,
F: Mm - hmm ,
F: that 's right .
C: right ?
D: And it was very hard to be precise about it ,
C: Um F: Overlaps .
D: and it was very hard to tell D: I had so much trouble at the very beginning trying to figure out who was who .
E: Mmm .
C: Yeah .
D: Cuz there 's m so many men and so few women .
B: Mmm .
D: The women were easy to f figure out who was who ,
D: and then the men all their voices sounded the same
D: except I think there was one British English speaker
D: and that was easy
D: but
E: Wow , that 's difficult .
D: Eh . <comment> Yeah .
C: You know what ?
C: There might be a gender thing there , though , too ,
B: Yeah .
C: cuz I think I think as women it might be easier to differentiate C: Well , there were fewer women , too ,
C: but I I wonder if a man transcribing all the guys would have had D: Yeah .
D: An easier time ?
C: Like if you <comment> had transcribed it you would have had an easier time differentiating them ?
E: Mm - hmm .
C: I don't know why that would be true ,
F: That 's interesting .
A: That 's possible .
C: but
D: That 's possible .
C: you wonder if there 'd be like a gender difference there ?
C: I don't know ,
C: I 'm thinking about it as like a psychologist I suppose .
D: I don't know .
F: It 's possible .
C: Anyway .
A: Well , it 's F: Hmm .
A: oh , yeah ,
A: yeah , that 's possible .
F: Hmm .
D: Yeah .
A: I was just gonna say something .
A: I was gonna say that ,
A: I mean , it 's easier for people to mimic like the timbre of somebody 's voice if it 's the same if , uh , that person 's voice is the same A: if that person is the same sex as you . So maybe , like , implicitly people pay attention more closely to uh , speakers of the same sex .
D: Mm - hmm .
C: Hmm .
A: I don't know .