The Andrea mike Yeah Yeah apparently had some causing problems problems yeah Which one is the Andrea mike It was over here sometimes A wired The one yeah Yeah wired one Well uh if gonna go to all wireless Oh This mean one the meantime In the meantime right Ah because Yeah uh probably take a couple weeks to get it delivered from Sony anyway Yeah I haven't So In the meetings that I recorded s always been at most six people so never had to Oh really Yeah Recently I haven't had to used any of the wired ones guess cuz been out of town Probably over the Yeah summer be the same cuz it tends to be less fewer people Um File Uh done with microphone issues I think we close the door If you want Oh thinking I don't know about the acoustics all I was wondering about And this way we can get a in the Yeah uh Yeah right in gotta transcript obligatory Oh well No not quite a slam some knocks Get a special phone for that Uh guess right the phone Yeah phone You have a special phone No we could add one could add one yeah then we could Yeah the phone phone for for when the phone rings an idea Um Uh file reorganization This is something we were talking about before I left and saying we should probably wait until after back and now back so we should do that at some point So we should get ourselves a list of everything we wanna do to reorganize the file structure and Can anything else can I just mention something Sure Um uh I think the file regards reorganization Also um another issue there is disk space probably right Um so I know that the files that been cutting up for us f for the recognition experiments uh one way one really brain uh way of of of not causing any trouble but saving disk space is to uh use the s the Sphere the NIST uh program to to encode you know to compress them Shorten Is that Uh same as shorten yeah Yeah it s it happens so that the program that reads the waveforms does the unshortening transparently Well OK you mean built into the SRI because we have the same thing with shorten in the sound tools So Y uh I guess but it um So just a question of of what decompression is built into your tools Well Well like actually built into the Sphere library that NIST delivers Oh so really I didn't Right that And actually s the sound tools don't understand that At least the Feacalc doesn't least Feacalc doesn't So Well not a sound tool right But since since these files are made to be used with the SRI recognizer uh and the SRI uses the Sphere library which in turn does this transparently um uh that will be a quick and quick and easy way Yeah just uh get you know uh be able to use more The other thing I could do to relieve some of the pressure um is just move everything to my eighteen gig disk which is local But gonna be only temporary Well I mean I I mean don't should know that too probably but Yeah it but kind as temporary that solution also just run the To shorten everything well actually the th what you do is you run Oh now I have another use for the The way I recently used it and there might be better ways So the called Mmm And I think the type y you say um I think dash T and then there are different different encoding methods but if you wanna use the shorten one you say d minus T shorten and then the old uh wavefile and the new wavefile and then Oops And then I check you know if this works so you can use the the shell AND operator or something Then I just move the new wavefile to the you know to the old Right wavefile and then you have replaced the old one with one that behaves identically as long as your programs that use it know how to decode it on the fly And that OK that just saved my butt because I actually was running On a different experiment I had segmented I was processing the whole corpus which is two hundred eighty hours of speech and I was noticing as I was almost finishing the processing that I was running out of disk space And and so I uh had this flash of inspiration of just uh Shortening same everything the on same fly disk had the segmented waveforms on them so I while this other thing was still going on You had another I process run running was that running shortening this Wow wow And low and behold I gained three g three gig of space and Wow um you you know to one of the processes to make sure that No no shorten Actually it was fast enough This is very fast This this Wow runs quickly And That must have been suspenseful That was very suspenseful Watching the disk was meter most excitement I had all weekend Uh uh boy it uh came out just fine To So be You OK what would be a u I don't know if this would mess other things up but It seems like kind of a pain to have all these split up files around What would be easier would be like list pointers yep You know lists like original end wavefile start end Yep the way This Feacalc the the only calc reason does we it do this is because the the SRI doesn't have a way to to um go into a l a longer file with indices Um segment on the fly so I I suppose someone could try to put a hack like that into the It would be easy It wouldn't be hard at all Someone just needs to d sit down and do it who has some time So But also some I guess And that way we wouldn't have multiple versions floating around About the only difficulty with that is if compressed Then you really do have to decompress it first Right Because the pointers are Y you don't know how much comp It Exactly compress is Right there right is fixed there right amount right is there a NIST routine which can seek in a compressed file but with uncompressed indices I don't think so And yeah I mean no that mean it if you Th the the the If you can operate on the full If you don't have to segment it then there would be less of a reason to do the compression because you don't have that wasted Right that extra copy we So mean Yeah the original Switchboard files are not compressed right Right leave those as they are Well Right