input: Text: PhD F: And we're on. Professor D: OK. Might wanna <unk>vocalsound<unk> close the door so that <unk>disfmarker<unk> Uh, Stephane will <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD F: I 'll get it. Professor D: Yeah PhD F: Hey Dave? Could you go ahead and turn on, uh, Stephane's <unk>disfmarker<unk> Grad C: Mm - hmm. Professor D: So that's the virtual Stephane over there. PhD F: OK. Professor G: Do you use a PC for recording? Or <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD F: Uh, yeah, a Linux box. Yeah. It's got, uh, like sixteen channels going into it. Professor G: Uh - huh. Uh - huh. The quality is quite good? Or <unk>disfmarker<unk>? PhD F: Mm - hmm. Yeah, so far, it's been pretty good. Professor G: Mm - hmm. Professor D: Yeah. So, uh, yeah <unk>disfmarker<unk> the suggestion was to have these guys start to <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD F: OK. Why don't you go ahead, Dave? Grad C: OK. Um, so, yeah, the <unk>disfmarker<unk> this past week I've been main mainly occupied with, um, getting some results, u from the SRI system trained on this short Hub - five training set for the mean subtraction method. And, um, I ran some tests last night. But, um, c the results are suspicious. Um, it's, um, <unk>vocalsound<unk> cuz they're <unk>disfmarker<unk> the baseline results are worse than, um, Andreas <unk>disfmarker<unk> than results Andreas got previously.
  Question: What did the professor think about speech rate algorithms?
  Answer:
output: The professor thought it mattered how fast someone was speaking since the model was getting a spectrum over different kinds of speech sounds. He was skeptical that changing speech rate was the solution, though he thought it was worth looking into. His solution was collecting more samplings of different phones for when people speak slower.