But , um.
Yeah. It seems like you should try to make your baseline as good as possible. And if it turns out that  you can't improve on that , well , I mean , then , you know , nobody wins and you just use MFCC. Right ?
Yeah. I mean , it seems like , uh , it should include sort of the current state of the art  that you want  are trying to improve , and MFCC 's , you know , or PLP or something  it seems like  reasonable baseline for the features , and anybody doing this task ,  uh , is gonna have some sort of voice activity detection at some level , in some way. They might use the whole recognizer to do it  but  rather than  a separate thing , but   but they 'll have it on some level. So , um.
It seems like whatever they choose they shouldn't ,  you know , purposefully brain - damage a part of the system to  make a worse baseline , or