tend typically So um m m m m Yeah As long as aware that doing that I don't You that can as And separate problem it out and s see similarly with Yeah subject matter That you know if training your language model on this meeting only and testing on this meeting only gonna do a lot better than if you start crossing them Somewhat Although interesting is that the majority of the words in the language model are the actually Yeah actually these Sure like function words and Yeah and s stuff like that And there a lot of speaker dependence there Even the transcribers will say they know who the speaker is after a while just from their Just from word backchannels and Right So y So I don't think talking the way you write in in other words Most certainly So just uh if gonna do that we should give some thought to how we wanna divide it up Yeah Yeah so you know maybe someone else would do a lot of the work where probably your advice Yeah would be helpful And similarly with digits We now have a lot of digits but most of them aren't transcribed So if we wanted to do a forced alignment on them we could start collecting ourselves up a fairly large digit corpus Yeah Well And so same issue You know We we want just that to for get sure Yeah someone interested in that to start looking at it So working on digits currently Uh Dave Gelbart OK maybe talk to him and see if interested Not right away Yeah certainly got prelims to and pass the prelims Um one thing uh uh just a e uh uh an announcement of sorts is that um Chuck is gonna be going to a meeting at NIST in uh about a month and a half I guess still working out the date cuz they want to gather together sort of one person from each site who is involved in the meeting stuff since going to be doing a bunch of meeting recordings there And so uh Is uh Are the CMU folks gonna be there Somebody you know like one person at the moment one person from each site So be somebody from the CMU and somebody from here and somebody from uh a a number of places Probably somebody from UW Um So Yeah possible open it up to more people But but I think you know the main thing is just to uh uh uh uh not a not a conference not Right workshop really just connecting with them So Um So then if they start a bunch of recordings then ultimately have training sets and test sets and and all that all that stuff and But But it would be interesting to hear what they intend to do about the speaker overlap for instance Right Yeah the plan if were we still going to be like a center for transcribing data What happens if th they don't deliver things until next year or something when we have I less resources or Well again the hope is that uh I mean looking I mean I have to ask these folks but Yep uh my impression is that the um IBM path is looking you know more It promising good Yeah And if the case and if it turns out that uh really a relatively small amount of time for our transcribers to process things before and after if they really have taken out enough of the of the uh uh work that that f feasible then maybe we can do it with a smaller staff next year I mean next next year uh in which referring to is uh next year we we don't have a whole lot of guaranteed funding for this this work Um other funding may come You know But but if we wanna just count on uh uh what we know about more modest than this year Uh still still be money but just more modest So um so I would see us as probably not doing more recordings at least for for for meetings or or digits or anything But uh if if we feel that we need to probably still doing some recordings for SmartKom or something Yeah Um but otherwise just you know stop that and just take whatever comes from the other places which uh I guess we have an u unknown rate If it if it starts being if generating this huge amount and we can't handle it then you know tell them But Uh although it would have been nice if that their stuff had come earlier it in some ways a good thing because been ironing out this path So Um Well I got a email from one of the UW guys They want to record the meetings at higher uh sampling rate than sixteen kilohertz Uh I didn't ask why But it seems to me that really doesn't matter If they have the disk space to do it it seems that that is not a big deal I was just wondering if anyone had an opinion about mismatched just if that rates sending it to us then we have to have the disk space to do it too Can't we downsample and uh would transcribe hope that basis Yeah Yep Are they doing some nice integer multiple or Excuse me Are they doing some nice integer multiple of th No of sixteen they doing No like or s No no it was Could like forty something Forty F So Yeah CD CD Yeah Oh Yeah point one Yeah S Yeah like that Oh so Well you know we record here at for at or something And and then then we we downsample downsample Yep But a nice multiple but of it but Yeah eight and sixteen are not Well you You can can it do easy I Yeah think Oh absolutely lossy do it Yeah c y You can do you can go from anything to anything else But but You get aliasing just Yeah little more complicated not probably the some processing on the downsampled I mean Just like transcribing it you mean Yeah So u u u Yeah I mean just slightly more complicated but but i you can you can go from any frequency to anyth any other frequency So Well the the only thought was if gonna do a combined corpus does it really matter if sampled at one rate and sampled at the other My feeling is no it doesn't Your audio u these days audio tools tend to take care of all of that But I just wanted to double check with other people before I told them yeah no problem Also seems like the corpus could all be standardized on s on this the uh what I was saying Why So Yeah why so they asking us I don't know Why are they asking us Because you know sort of doing the corpus so they want to be as similar as possible A and could so But interesting