Sorry Mental mental Palm Pilot Right Hence no problem see So What supposed to be on channel five Her Nope Doesn't seem to be yeah Hello does your thing channel say one back Nnn Testing Alright five Sibilance Sibilance Three three I am three Eh See that matches the seat up there Yeah well I g guess coming up then or Cuz That starts counting from zero and these start counting from one Ergo the classic error But mine is correct Is No one Channel one Look at the Your back mike number oh oh what t Oh Ho So bested you again Nancy your p No but the correct The paper is correct Look at the paper I didn't det I was saying the microphone not the paper n always OK offset Yeah Yes bested me again how I think of our continuing interaction Damn Foiled again So is Keith showing up talking with George right now Uh is he gonna get What rip uh rip probably himself later from He he from that probably not is my guess Oh then just gonna be the five of us Well he Yeah he was very affirmative in his way of saying he will be here at four But you know that was before he knew about that George lecture probably Right This this is not not bad for the project if Keith is talking to George OK So my suggestion is we just Forge ahead Forge ahead yeah Cool Are you in charge Sure Um Well I sort of had informal talks with most of you So Eva just reported really happy about the being in the same order in the XML as Yeah in the um be Java The declaration format so you don't have to Uh yeah do too much in the style sheet Yeah so transversion The uh Java the embedded Bayes wants to take input uh uh a in in some Java notation and Eva is using the Xalan style sheet processor to convert the XML output by the Java Bayes for the into the uh input Mmm Actually maybe I could try like emailing the guy and see if he has any something already Sure Hmm be weird that he has both the Java Bayes and the embedded Bayes in Yeah But some sort of conversion program Yeah And put them into different formats Oh Yep he could do think that should too demand things from him He charges so much Right Yeah No I think a good idea that you may as well Yeah ask Sure 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 Um But skip that Uh good news from Johno The generation templates are done So the trees for the XML trees for the for the gene for the synthesizer are written So I just need to do the uh write a new set of tree combining rules But I think be pretty similar to the old ones So Just gonna be you know Oh You were gonna send me a note about hiring Yes I didn't finish the sentence but he understood it I know what talking about OK But Nancy doesn't Hiring somebody We w um The guy OK so No natural language generation produces not a just a surface string that is fed into a Yeah but a surface string with a syntax tree fed into a Now and this Better module has certain rules on how if you get the following syntactic structure how to map this Sure onto prosodic rules And Fey has foolheartedly agreed to rewrite uh the German concept uh rules I didn't know she spoke German No she doesn't Oh OK she speaks English Oh Rewrite the German ones into English Into English it And um therefore the uh if OK that we give her a couple of more hours per OK week got then do that What language is that written i Is that that Scheme thing Yeah showed me the scheme She knows how to program in Scheme I hope No I My guess is I I asked for a commented version of that file If we get that then doable even without getting into it even though the Scheme li uh stuff is really well documented in the Well Festival guess if not used to functional programming Scheme can be completely incomprehensible Cuz no Like Syntax unnamed functions and You know Anyway it sort this out Um But anyway send me the note and then check with uh Morgan on the money I I don't anticipate any problem but we have to ask Oh so this was You know on the generation thing um if sh y really going to do that then we should be able to get prosody as well So say nonsense with perfect intonation Are we gonna Can we change the voice of the of the thing because right now the voice sounds like a murderer Yep We ha we have to change the Wh voice Which one The the little Smarticus Smarticus sounds like a murderer Oh good to know I have your reservations But I will not give them to you unless you come into my lair It is Uh we have the choice between the uh usual Festival voices which I already told the SmartKom people we aren't gonna use because really bad Festival the name of some program the Oh oh Got it OK synthesizer But You um party voices Yeah I know That doesn't sound OGI exactly has either uh crafted a couple of diphone type voices that are really nice and going to use that We can still um d agree on a gender if we want So we still have male or female Well just pick whatever sounds best Hmm Whatever sounds best Uh Does OGI Unfortunately for probably male Orego voices Original bit German more Institute on So Or Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Graduate Institute Ah It turns out the links with these guys in the speech group Hmm Very Hmm long Hmm In fact this guy basically got a joint appointment Hynek Hermansky spends a fair amount of time here Anyway Leave it Won't be a problem OK And probably also absolutely uninteresting for all of you to um learn that as of twenty minutes ago David and I per accident uh managed to get the whole SmartKom system running on the uh ICSI Linux machines with the ICSI NT machines thereby increasing the number of running SmartKom systems in this house from one on my laptop to three Mmm How was good this by accident Yeah I know Tha the part I didn't understand Um I suggested to try something that was really kind of even though against better knowledge shouldn't have worked but it worked Hmm Intuition Maybe Yeah work maybe again maybe or for the AI Yeah i intuition thing OK And um never found out why It just like why why the generation ma the presentation manager is now working Hmm Which