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.
Yeah the only , um , disadvantage of that is , then it 's hard to use an automatic method to do that. The advantage is that it 's probably faster to do that than it is to use the automated method and correct it. So.
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We 'll just have to see.