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that 's  that 's right , but you know , thi this brings me to the other f stage of this which I discussed with you earlier today ,
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which is  the second stage is  um , w what to do  in terms of the transcribers adjustment of these data. I discussed this with you too. Um , the tr so the idea initially was , we would get  uh , for the new meetings , so the e EDU meetings , that  Thilo ha has now presegmented all of them for us , on a channel by channel basis. And um , so , I 've assigned  I 've  I 've assigned them to our transcribers and um , so far I 've discussed it with one , with uh  And I had a  about an hour discussion with her about this yesterday , we went through  uh EDU - one , at some extent. And it occurred to me that  um  that  basically what we have in this kind of a format is  you could consider it as a staggered mixed file , we had some discussion over the weekend a about  at  at this other meeting that we were all a at  um ,  about whether the tran the IBM transcribers should hear a single channel audio , or a mixed channel audio. And um ,  in  in a way , by  by having this  this chunk and then the backchannel  after it , it 's like a stagal staggered mixed channel. And um ,  it occurred  to me in my discussion with her yesterday that um , um , the   the  the maximal gain , it 's  from the IBM  people , may be in long stretches of connected speech. So it 's basically a whole bunch of words  which they can really do , because of the continuity within that person 's turn. So , what I 'm thinking , and it may be that not all meetings will be good for this ,  but  but what I 'm thinking is that  in the EDU meetings , they tend to be  driven by a couple of dominant speakers. And , if the chunked files focused on the dominant speakers ,  then , when  when it got s patched together when it comes back from IBM , we can add the backchannels. It seems to me  that  um , you know , the backchannels per - se wouldn't be so hard , but then there 's this question of the time  @ @  uh , marking , and whether the beeps would be  uh y y y And I 'm not exactly sure how that  how that would work with the  with the backchannels. And , so um  And certainly things that are  intrusions of multiple words ,  taken out of context and displaced in time from where they occurred ,  that would be hard. So , m my  thought is  i I 'm having this transcriber go through  the EDU - one meeting , and indicate a start time  f for each dominant speaker , endpoi end time for each dominant speaker , and the idea that  these units would be generated for the dominant speakers ,  and maybe not for the other channels.