I guess OK on So just make sure that th your wireless mike is on if wearing Check wireless Check one And you should be able to see which one which one on by uh watching the little bars change So which is my bar Mah Number one Sibilance Sibilance So actually if you guys wanna go ahead and read digits now as long as signed the consent form alright Are we supposed to read digits at the same time No Oh OK No Each individually talking about doing all at the same time but I think cognitively that would be really difficult To try to read them while everyone Everyone else need extreme focus So when reading the digit strings the first Other thing way do is just say which transcript We on m We may wind up with ver We we may need versions of all this garbage For our stuff Yeah Um So the first Yeah thing wanna do is just say which transcript on So You can see the transcript two large number strings on the digits So you would just read that one And then you read each line with a small pause between the lines And the pause is just so the person transcribing it can tell where one line ends and the other begins And give read the digit strings first so can see how that goes Um Again not sure how much I should talk about stuff before here Mmm Well we have one more coming OK Well why don't I go ahead and read digit strings and then we can go on from there OK Well we can start doing it Thanks So uh just also a note on wearing the microphones All of you look like doing it reasonably correctly but you want it about two thumb widths away from your mouth and then at the corner And so that you minimize breath sounds so that when breathing you don't breathe into the mike Um Yeah good And uh So everyone needs to fill out only once the speaker form and the consent form And the short form I mean you should read the consent form but uh the thing to notice is that we will give you an opportunity to edit a all the transcripts So if you say things and you don't want them to be released to the general public which these will be available at some point to anyone who wants them uh be given an opportunity by email uh to bleep out any portions you don't like Um On the speaker form just fill out as much of the information as you can If not exactly sure about the region not exactly sure either So don't worry too much about it The just self rating Um And I think about it I mean should I Do you want me to talk at all about why doing this and what this project Um yeah No There was there was see Does Oh Nancy know that meeting in here She sent got an an email emai she yeah was got notified yeah Whether she knows is another question Um So are the people going to be identified by name Well what gonna anonymize it in the transcript Right Um but not in the audio OK So So then the terms of people worrying about uh excising things from the transcript unlikely Since it it does isn't attributed Oh I see but the a but the but if the I said Oh hi Jerry how are Yeah you not gonna go through and cancel out the Jerry Sure Um so we will go through and in the speaker ID tags be you know Right seven O eight Right Um but uh um it w uh I don't know a good way of doing it on OK the audio and still have people who are doing discourse research be able to use the data No I I wasn't complaining I just Yep wanted to understand Right OK Well we can make up aliases for each of us Yeah I mean whatever Right OK wanna do is fine but we find that We want the meeting to be as natural as possible OK So trying to do real meetings And Right don't wanna have to do aliases and we don't want people to be editing what they say Right So I think that better just as a pro to edit out every time you bash Microsoft You know Right Um OK So why don't you tell us briefly your OK give th your e normal schpiel Um So this is The project is called Meeting Recorder and there are lots of different aspects of the project Um So my particular interest is in the PDA of the future This is a of one Yes we do believe the PDA of the future will be made of wood Um The idea is that be able to put a PDA at the table at an impromptu meeting and record it and then be able to do querying and retrieval later on on the meeting So my particular interest is a portable device to do m uh information retrieval on meetings Other people are interested in other aspects of meetings Um So the first step on that in any of these is to collect some data And so what we wanted is a room instrumented with both the table top microphones and these are very high quality pressure zone mikes as well as the close talking mikes What the close talk ng talking mikes gives us is some ground truth gives us um high quality audio um especially for people who aren't interested in the acoustic parts of this corpus So for people who are more interested in language we didn't want to penalize them by having only the far field mikes available And then also um a very very hard task in terms of speech recognition Um And so uh on the far field mikes we can expect very low recognition results So we wanted the near field mikes to at least isolate the difference between the two So why recording in parallel with the close talking and the far field at the same time And then all these channels are recorded simultaneously and framed synchronously so that you can also do things like um on all the microphones and do research like that Our intention is to release this data to the public um probably through f through a body like the LDC And uh just make it as a generally available corpus Um other work going on in meeting recording So working with SRI with UW Um NIST has started an effort which will include video not including video obviously And uh and then also um a small amount of assistance from IBM Is also involved