[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The loss of the war could be attributed to the poor and confusing communications between commanders and soldiers, or to the treachery of their enemies. But the collapse of the Tower of Babel, which represented the spirit of the church, meant that they had been abandoned by God.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The incident had almost become their last straw in consideration of their already precarious situation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Although the church had blocked the scene immediately, the news still spread out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Residents in the Holy City started to flee Hermes, beginning from masons and tradesmen living in the outer part of the city, who did not put much faith in the church in the first place.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Then, like a contagious plague, terror slowly spread to the outer city and the inner city, except this time there was no divine cure for the disease.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tucker had once organized a reverent pray ceremony on the city wall with all the members of the judgment army and priests, hoping that the deities would once again divert their attention to this last human stronghold and protect living beings behind it from the evil power in hell. But the deities had not responded to their prayer.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tucker Thor remembered that Pope Mayne had once taught him that power was the only means to defy evil.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] However, he could not think of anything other than praying to God to reestablish the church's integrity. Your Eminence, here you are. A woman's voice came from behind.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The army responsible for pursuing fugitives has returned, but some of the units fled, right? Tucker turned around and said in a soft voice,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As he had expected, the reporter was Farina, one of the commanders that survived of the Judgment Army who took over his previous position.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The resemblance on Farina's face reminded Tucker another woman, Alicia, a warrior from the advance battalion who had sacrificed herself for the church.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As one of the few female Judgement Warriors, they both had a tough character.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alicia had fought to her death when over half of her comrades had been killed as demonic beasts had approached the wall of the cathedral.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Farina, on the other hand, assumed the critical role of the Commander of the Judgment Army when their very survival was threatened to keep the situation from getting out of hand. Farina stomped indignantly, Yes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Those new recruits who just joined recently cannot be of any use.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] More than 20 people went to catch fugitives, but only one or two returned.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I know they haven't received much training, but it's very unlikely that they would be killed by refugees.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They're all guarding the inner city gate of the Holy City, so they should be able to stop residents in the inner city from leaving.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tucker knew that these soldiers plus around 100 God's punishment warriors down the ruin of the church were the only forces left.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He concluded that human beings were doomed, for it was impossible for these 100 odd soldiers to stop demons. Tucker had learned this powerful enemy from Pope Maine.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What the Church had been striving to achieve was to help human beings survive the Battle of Doomsday and ensure the continuation of the human race.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That was the reason they developed powerful warriors like the God's Punishment Army. But that was not sufficient.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The church also had to unify the four kingdoms before the great battle and combine all human power in order to gain the eventual victory.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What was the point of keeping the hold of this plateau stronghold when there is no hope?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There was little he could do, but for those 500 odd people, they could be relieved of the burden of protecting the whole human race. Tucker finally broke the silence. Go to the east.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The kingdom of Everwinter or the kingdom of Wolfheart, whichever it is, picks somewhere close to the coast. We can build a new holy city there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He believed in that case. Even if demons invaded the four kingdoms, they could still, if lucky, flee by boat from the harbor to some distant islands and spend the rest of their life there before human beings were wiped out. Farina was stunned. Leave Hermes?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But your eminence, if we leave, who will defend against demonic beasts?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We can blame Grey Castle if demonic beasts invade the inner continent from the breach. Our current top priority is to reserve our strength.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We can always build a new cathedral, but we can't let our believers suffer.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When the four kingdoms are permeated with demonic beasts, people will naturally remember our power again.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Demonet beasts don't really matter, as they aren't our true enemies.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The greatest threat is from the depth of hell, but there's nothing you guys can do about it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What I can do at this last moment is to keep you as far away from the battlefield as possible.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You've done enough to protect human beings, Tucker said within himself. Farina's slender brows furrowed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Those pious believers who resolve to fall with the Holy City may not agree to abandon Hermes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tucker replied after a moment of silence, the holy city lies where you stay, child. Explain to them, and they'll understand.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is also the order of the acting pope, which is to preserve ourselves and the spirit of the church. Do you understand?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Let those fugitives leave as they please and spread the news of the fall of the holy city.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] By that time, the King of Greycastle will probably be anxious to take them in, thought Talker. I understand. Your eminence. No, your holiness. Farina bit her lip.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] At length, she curled up her hands into a fist, placed it over her chest and bowed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Just then, the somber sky was overspread by a haze of dusk.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tucker turned around and saw the orangey-red rays of the setting sun slowly streak through clouds and that the fresh white snow field was basking in slanting beams of sunshine. Does this mean the months of demons has ended? Farina's face lighted up. Yes, the snow will melt in no time. Go and tell the news.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] At that moment, the bell in the holy city tolled, announcing the arrival of evening.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The bell told nine times to tell believers that it was time to close their eyes and pray to God. Yet Tucker Thor did not pray because God was not listening to them anymore. He took off the crown on his head and placed it on the balcony.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Then he ascended the city wall and gazed at the last splendor of the setting sun.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He had one more thing to do to persuade people to completely abandon Hermes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But Tucker did not mind it because by doing so, he would be able to reunite with his old battle companions who had once fought with him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was not only a twilight for the church, but also for the whole human race. Tucker shut his eyes and stooped over.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Farina heard a gentle thud behind her as if something had slipped down the wall and into the valley.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When she turned around, however, there was nobody on the city wall. The end of the volume, The Bell of Twilight.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Chapter 826, Conference of Agriculture Mobilization Movement.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The months of demons this year lasted for nearly 5 months.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] By the time murky clouds that overhung the western region were dispersed by warm sunbeams, it was late spring. Roland faced a pressing issue. It was spring plowing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Although the war against the southernmost region during the months of demons, when the other powers were all sort of in a state of dormancy, had won him a lot of time to prelude the unification operation, it was also undeniable that he had consumed tons of food in winter.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Due to the lack of food input and the rapid increase in the population, the food in the granary in the border area was, for the first time, exhausted.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland was secretly happy that he had entrusted the seeds of golden ones developed by Leaf to Petrov and had ordered him to promote engineered food to the public right after the seizure of Longsong Stronghold. Otherwise, they would not have peacefully made their way through the months of demons this year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The concrete boats traveling between the border and the Long Song area was the lifeline of the First Army, for they transported pancakes made from coarse-grained wheat flour to soldiers fighting at the front.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As a result of the urgency of the matter, Roland convened a spring plowing conference right after the celebration of Victory Day.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] On that day, not only the Ministry of Agriculture, but the whole city hall, including secondary officials in the Longsong area, the district governor, Petrov, and the governor of Fallen Dragon Ridge, Spear, were all summoned to the Neverwinter Castle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It should be noted that Spear Passi was directly transferred by Maggie.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ghastly pale and frightened, she complained about her rough flight when she landed and bowed to Roland.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Calvin Cant, the Lord of the Northern Region, was absent, but he sent his daughter Edith and his second son Cole to attend the conference on behalf of him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland was not sure if it was an illusion, but he noticed, somehow, that the Pearl of the Northern Region had become more radiant since her return from the Great Snow Mountain.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Compared with her resplendency, Cole seemed increasingly frail and insignificant.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland also wondered whether his attire was a little too... androgynous?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anyhow, the attendees of the conference came from all parts of Greycastle, except the eastern region, whose lord had yet to pledge fealty to Rowland, and the central region, where Rowland had yet to establish a well-functioning city hall.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Without these two regions, the conference could be considered as the first national congress.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland surveyed the hall in satisfaction and then tapped the desk. Everybody instantly became silent. All the eyes rested upon the king.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You must be wondering why I wrote the word operation on the banner. Roland pointed to the red banner on the wall behind him. Because this is essentially a war.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It determines whether we can successfully implement our strategic plan this year and whether we're doing the right thing for people in Neverwinter.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I promised to refugees when I took them and that as long as they worked hard, they would never starve.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In the past three years, I fulfilled my promise.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My domain expanded from a small, underdeveloped border town to more than half of the territory of Grey Castle. I see no reason that we can't make it happen this year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Our kingdom would only be stable when our subjects aren't worried about food.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Therefore, I need every one of you to take spring plowing seriously.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] All of you have to reach your agricultural production target this year in accordance with the plowing regulations and guidelines drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland paused for a second and then continued, also, starting from this year, there will be an assessment specifically targeting the agricultural progress in your jurisdiction, which will include evaluations on how much virgin land you've cultivated, the number of farmers in your domain, as well as the agricultural production.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] These factors will be incorporated into the criteria for a competent governor.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Proceeding the confusion among all the attendees, Roland smiled faintly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's okay you don't know about these evaluation items, because Sirius, the Minister of Agriculture, will later spend one day explaining to you in detail.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In conclusion, if you fail to meet my criteria, it tells me that you aren't competent to rule the region and are no longer suitable for the governor position.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nobody uttered a word, but Roland could clearly sense the tension among them from their expressions. This was exactly the effect Roland wanted to achieve.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The abortion of the feudal system not only meant the cancellation of feudal rights, but also meant the abolishment of the hereditary system.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland allowed those officials to receive benefits from the government, but he would not tolerate any delays of his development plan. The agriculture assessment was simply a start.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland uncovered the curtain behind him, revealing the big red number underneath and said, I'll set an easy target for you for the first year in terms of other criteria.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But in terms of agricultural production, I want you to reach this number. Everyone gasped. Two million five hundred thousand kilograms? Roland was not surprised at their reaction.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The average production in this era was 500,000 kilograms for a mid-sized city and 750,000 for a big one like the old King's City.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The first time they had grown golden ones in border town, the food production was a little over 350,000 kilograms, which had been considered as an unprecedented big harvest at that time.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Of course, the actual food production was largely influenced by farmland areas and the number of farmers.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Unlike border town, which relied heavily on high return crops, big cities totally depended on the surrounding villages and small towns, as well as the work of thousands of farmers to obtain such a big quantity of food.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because of this, he decided to include farmland areas and the number of farmers in the evaluation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The fewer farmers were, the more workers would be in the factory. Roland signaled everybody to be quiet.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In fact, when you see the testing field for golden twos, you'll understand this target isn't that unrealistic.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] After numerous repeated tests by Leaf, golden twos can now yield food more than two times gold ones per unit.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The wheat straw in the field is overloaded by ears of wheat. Petrov exclaimed in surprise.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Your Majesty, is it true that golden twos can yield two times more?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Among all the officials outside Neverwinter, Petrov was the only one who was impressed by the amazing production rate of Golden Ones.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] During the war in the Months of Demons, the Longsong area had provided the first army with over half of the total supplies, thanks to the cultivation of golden ones that had generated a huge amount of excess.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In comparison, the normal wheat they had previously grown could not even suffice to feed people in one city. That's right, but golden twos aren't perfect either.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland looked at Leaf standing next to him and announced, Now I'll hand over to Miss Leaf from the Witch Union, who will talk about the features of Golden IIs in detail.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] After a slight nod, Leaf walked up to him with a bag of grown wheat in her hand and showed it to everybody.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] She said, golden twos are different from any wheat you've grown before. It can only be grown once.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, you have to come to Neverwinter annually to get new seats.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'd strengthen the root of the plant so that it can absorb nutrition from the soil deep down the earth.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's also the reason it requires a lot of fertilizer, otherwise we'll have to adapt the fallow system by marking out three farmlands and using them in a rotation. Also,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland stroked his chin in satisfaction while watching Leaf become more confident and comfortable to speak in public.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Golden twos could be viewed as a new type of wheat that produced its own jinkala.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Its roots could extend four to five meters underground and absorb nutrients more efficiently.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Apart from being unable to reproduce, it surpassed golden ones in every aspect.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This sole defect of golden twos was actually a merit for Neverwinter.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As the plant could not reproduce, the other cities would have to rely on the new king's city supply once they started to grow golden twos.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] At the same time, other low yield wheat would be obsolete and pushed out of the market.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In a sense, Golden Two's enabled Roland to create a food monopoly, and the government would definitely benefit a lot from the control of the food resources.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Roland believed no farmers would want to grow normal wheat again after they tried out golden twos.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The promotion of the newly developed seeds throughout the whole nation would largely alleviate the problem of food deficiency. With more food he could feed more people.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because now, he no longer contended himself with ruling just Greycastle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, if you don't mind me saying, I think what I'm doing is right. I mean, just listen to the classic Sam Cooke song. Cupid, draw back your bow, let your arrow go, straight to my lover's heart. That's a kill shot, pal.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I couldn't believe he was English, because his accent was so flawless in Get Out, and I was like, oh my god. And anytime I meet anyone who's English, I'm just immediately like, I love London, I miss it, do you live there? Yeah, I do.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's right. And I think for the last year, you've done many books with just- Since January.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's so, it's so hard to get all this information to you guys because it's just a lot.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So hard to even, like, know what to cover. I was just, I learned a lot being here this year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, really this is just a way for us to know what you guys got out of the course and what we need to do a better job on next time.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's- This is- This is just- You just gotta show up and say-


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So we have, the wheel will probably be a small project that you guys and all of our patrons will be involved in because it's going to require a little bit of a tricky trick to make it happen.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Are hex colors number, are hex color numbers related to pigment colors, pigment color numbers.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, these are all such interesting paintings, like, you could paint the same waterfall ten times to refine your skill, and I'd be imagining that by the time you did the same waterfall the tenth time, it would be a dramatically different waterfall.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I swear I know what I'm doing back here. I've been doing it


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We're gonna print a really nice paper and it'll be embossed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This, if you guys are international and you'd like to purchase, just email us and we'll help you out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's really all this is. This is a really nice, you know, this, you can download this, have one for free, but if you'd like to have a pin and have it signed by us, you can help support our studio by purchasing that and it helps us make these courses and we appreciate it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Of really cool pins that are coming our way.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is, we, we plan, we're hoping that this will stay up year round and you guys can, we can always order more pins. We'll do the certificate. It's a great way for you guys to help support our show and we just, we appreciate you doing this with us.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now is all of that splatter an effect of our website?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, let's see, lady, someone was asking,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's worth it if they can get out the day, Snake said, holding out a hundred dollar bill.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So uhm, uuuh.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Everyone in the courtroom stood up briefly, waited until the judge took his seat, then returned to his own.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The judge was an elderly, distinguished looking man with silvery white hair.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] His eyes were cold and bleak as he surveyed the room.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He asked the women a couple of questions, then fined them $200 a piece, or six months in jail. Teddy cursed quietly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] God damn man, them whores will be a whole week trying to make that money back. I ain't worried about them making it back, Teddy. What hurts is that it's part of our cop money. Snake's voice was low. I don't need us but three hundred to get over with. He continued, much dope as you and them bitches shot. We gonna have a hard time getting our bankrolls together again. Their lawyer joined them. You boys know where to go to pay the ladies fines, don't you? Snake pulled out his money.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So uhm, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, I don't usually do this, but for you guys, I'll take care of it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They followed slowly behind the lawyer as he hurried out of the courtroom, aware of the sneering looks cast after them as they passed. Both men walked a little faster to get away from the liars.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I feel like a goddamn fool giving that fat son of a bitch our money that way." Snake stated as they entered the hall. Well, he continued, assuming an attitude of indifference, you ain't gonna go through life playing on everybody. You get some, while others get you. It wasn't nothing but a bill, Teddy stated, trying to pretend it really was nothing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So uhm, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I hope you saved me a do, Snake, cuz I'm sure getting sick. What kind of bad news? Teddy asked sharply. Carrie won't be getting out today, she answered flatly. Seems as if her probation officer put a hold on her. Put a hold on her? Teddy screamed. What about my $200? He was so angry he began to shake. Well, honey.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Surely said softly, trying to pacify him, it wasn't our fault.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If you hadn't paid the fine, she would have had to serve six months first, then a probation officer would have put a hold on her before she got out, and brought her back to court for violating her paper.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Let's get the fuck outta here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's right.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] She said she'd call you, Teddy. As soon as she found out what they was going to do to her. So we might as well get home so you can catch your call.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They walked out of the court building, with Teddy following slowly behind them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was a clear day, but the wind was blowing off the river, causing everyone to shake from the chill. I sure am glad to get outside. Damn, I almost forgot how nice it was to be out, Shirley stated, pulling her coat up around her neck. Nice hail. I don't see a motherfucking thing nice about it, Teddy growled as he caught up with them. Snake grinned to himself and kept on walking. He was used to hearing his partner bitch about something or other.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't need no whore.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] After Snake paid the parking lot attendant they all piled in, huddled together for warmth. Shirley's teeth began to rattle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Damn, I don't know why I keep on using. I ain't got no blood left in my veins. It ain't no sense of nobody getting this cold just walking a few feet.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Man, cut that damn cold-ass heater off. I suppose you're getting sick too.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Snake parked and the three of them hurried towards the apartment, all driven by the same desire.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As soon as Teddy put his key in the lock and pushed open the door, Snake and Shirley rushed past him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Everybody made a beeline to where they had stashed their personal works.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You'll never get yourself together if you're dependent on shooting my stuff up. Maybe your man might feel like he don't need no stuff, but I shall need mine.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So uhm, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He pointed at the pile of heroin left on the album as he pushed his own chair into a cooker.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] How come when you split the dope up, Snake, you don't let me pick the pile I want? Teddy asked indignantly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Without seeming to hear Teddy's complaint, Snake continued to cook up his dope. Shirley quickly snorted a part of her dope. You are beyond a doubt the most crying little bastard I've ever seen, Teddy, she said between snorts. If you ain't bitching about one thing, it's something else. Her voice had become lower and she dragged her words out now. The heroine was quickly taking effect. Take care of your own business, bitch.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He would let the dropper fill up with blood, then run it back into his vein. That shit both y'all talking ain't about nothing. Give me some of that dope you got on that paper, Shirley, he asked. She bent down and snorted up the rest of the dope. I ain't got none left. Greedy ass bitch. That's all you is, Shirley, Teddy stated emphatically.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's all you and your girlfriend is, is two walking vipers, two dope fiend ass bitches, greedy bitches at that. Honey, you gonna let him talk to me like that? She asked Snake. Her head dropped down on her chest as she nodded. Before Snake could answer, someone knocked on the door. Make yourself needed, baby, Teddy said. Try answering the door.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Surely got up and walked toward the door moving with a swaying motion.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] She was tall, with graceful legs, long-limbed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The mini dress she wore revealed her large, well-formed thighs. She opened the door without bothering to look. Four men rushed through the door.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So uhm, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He stood up and shouted, What the fuck is going on here? He stared around the room the four men.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now, as he looked from one face to the other, he could feel his bowels about to move.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Just what the fuck do you think you're doing?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One of the gunmen, his pistol already half cocked, stepped forward and swung the gun against Snake's head. Immediately, a loud shot filled the room.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The gunman jumped back surprised, as Snake fell to the floor.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My god! You done killed him!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Disgrace doesn't matter. You see, I've been living on the hope that he really was dead. He couldn't prevent my being alone without money. Oh, come now. I've seen that look on so many faces. The one you gave me when I came in, it's been shrieking at me. She used to be somebody. She had a place along with other women. She was pretty.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I won't let people look at me like that ever again. I'll get back all of it. That's why I've got to find him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I will, uhm, copy paste. For those who are in the audience, please feel free to submit any questions for Monroe.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To the Google form here, uh, for those who are panelists, the 20 or so faculty and PhD students here, please feel free to just unmute and


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And ask the question directly. I will start with one that I've been wondering about. It seems like one real strength of sort of what I'll call the mechanical engineering approach here is that you have, uhm,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For models of how the world works, where I think, you know, a lot of, a lot of us in computer science, you just argue for sort of the,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The, I really like the idea of trying to blend the two. That seems like intuitively it's probably the right answer. I wonder, uhm, how we manage it when, you know,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When we're in a model driven world, like you talked about, you know, opening the door, we can model in a particular way. What do we do there when we see something we've never seen before? We have no closed form model for it. Like how, how would you think about trying to address these sort of


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, new experiences in, in this kind of a world.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And do you, as just a quick follow up on that, do you think that the approach here


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Is gonna be different in terms of dealing with unanticipated phenomena in the physical world versus unanticipated phenomena sort of human behavior world?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Stop dominating the floor if there are any panelists or anyone who wants to jump in with a question. I have more, more, more to ask, but I, I feel like this is not a two person conversation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One other question that came up, uhm, I will do my best to proxy it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Putting your work in conversation with some accessibility researchers, including one who we heard last week.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, my abilities may not match any, you know, the, this one, this person's or that person's or that person's. And I'm wondering again, sort of in, in the approach that you're envisioning, how do we do the kind of manual tuning that we need to


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, to understand this person's specific model or their own abilities, then map that onto the kinds of support that you, that you, that you're building.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I look forward to that future. I think we all do.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, let's thank our speaker one last time. Thank you, Monroe, for joining us.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The, we, we look forward to seeing you on campus when we are on campus. And in the meantime, I encourage everyone here if you're interested in, uh, if you're interested in this space to please reach out to Monroe.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, we are still distributed, but, but one big, one big group. So thanks again. And I will end the seminar here. Thank you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In general, the only available direct channel that we have are the people that represent North Korea here at the United Nations. In this case, the individuals are people that know the governor from before, they know me from before. So that's a direct channel. But, at the end of the day, they are not decision makers.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And if you want to get to a deal when you want to get to an understanding, eh, you have to be there in person. So the first priority is, okay, how do we get ourselves invited to North Korea to make sure that we can talk to the people who can make decisions about this?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We got the invitation, uhm, and when I went there, even on the plane, on the way,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I was told that, look, don't be disparaged. There's a saying in Korea that it takes a thousand hacks to bring down a tree.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And my response was I hope I don't need to come back again, you know, however more times in order to get it happen, but I get the message.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One thing I know for sure, I have not been a parent that lost a kid. And that's something that I was talking to Fred and Cindy Wombier throughout, is that those things take time.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It doesn't mean that you need to sit back and, and trust that the government is doing everything for it because the government has complex sets of interests, uhm, but it takes time. And on average in North Korea, it's between a year and a half and two years. And in all the scenarios that I've ever imagined working on this, and we worked on it for about 18 months, uhm,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I always imagined that it does get resolved and Otto does come home. And I had never imagined in all this time the scenario of what actually ended up happening.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Every now and then we talk a little bit and that was an important moment because I knew that they, uh, that that must have been emotional.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's hard for me to explain Donald Trump, President Trump's tactics in this. Uhm, I am supportive of engagement with North Korea, obviously. That's what we do.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Diplomacy, because uhm, it might work on a tactical level, but when it fails, we're on the brink of war.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A whole generation to be themselves and be bold.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That shows you the kind of service we're giving at the towers, that's all.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We don't know just how it got in the hall. We're investigating that. But we found it and saved it for you. It's the detective's operative's report. I glued it together myself. I see. You, uh, read it I presume? Just enough to glue it together. I see.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There are more captive tigers in the US than there are in the wild throughout the world.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We will end the private possession of these cats. This is my way of living and nobody's gonna tell me any otherwise.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Errol has an army of people working for free. She's a plain out hypocrite. She literally does everything that I do. So Joe says, will you go to Florida and what?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ha ha ha ha ha! Buenas noches!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] These are cornered beef.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You have to take a deep breath.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, most politicians have said to that, yes, we will protect you under any circumstances. Well, then they're never paying up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No. Oh, is it just staying? It's still the first page.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I can see your mouse, mouse is moving, but it's still the same page.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And Xiaoying knew that they will help us lead the discussion for this paper. And we can give the time to Xiaoying. And Xiaoying, you can start when you're ready.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Normally we use a data set, it's called a Cora, PubMed, and a SciSeer, the data set for testing the graph neural nets. And we also have some larger version of graph data sets for testing graph neural nets.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because I also write some paper on graph neural nets. If you see the paper, the reference 61 actually is the graph bird, it's my paper.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think it's a very good point. I mean, it's not very common to use chemistry data sets for graph neural net testing in experiments. I think they use a new data set to compare with their new model.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that's probably one of the reason why they propose centrality as one of the position embedding in the, in the message. So, and they cannot achieve better performance than the other message. Yeah, it's a group hunt.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Also to the question in the chat, I mean, so the performance difference, I mean, partial of the reason is because of the parameter number difference, right? And this question is very similar to the comparison between transform or VIT versus CNN.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For the CEM or GCM model, they still work on the aggregation part, right? So the CEM, they use the aggregation via the linear summation, I mean, versus the kernel with the template, I mean, of the images.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And for GCN, the other use application, I mean, of the, of the,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For transformers, they use self-attention. So I think self-attention contributes more to the performance than just the parameter numbers, right? They work in different ways. So the self-attention right now is very, is very useful. Normally used in almost every way.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So I think this is one of the reasons why it achieved better performance than the other methods. It's not just the scale, the size, or the model size of the parameter ratio.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, so probably that's it for the day, and if you have any questions for the project, for other, other parts, you can also attend the office hours, I mean, right after class. And also a reminder, it's time for you to start work on your project right now. And we'll now have about a few weeks left, I mean, before the end, before the deadline.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And you can also, I mean, have some time to polish the papers, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And for some of the project proposals, I see the proposals are very good. And you may consider to either, either, I mean, to consider to make this paper more formal and you can also consider to publish them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, so if you have any questions about the paper, about projects or some other questions, you want to attend our office hours right after class and we can have deeper discussions.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, these are the seeds from the mangroves and we picked them up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Look, turn out the light, please. Now look up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Such careings aren't quite necessary. After all, we've been friends for years, and I am the most broad-minded of men. I'm really very sorry, Stephen.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I only have two and I'm so afraid of losing them. You know how absent-minded I am.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hi, I'm Samantha Bee. Welcome to Full Frontal. After this weekend's terrorist attack in London, our president responded on Twitter. Unfortunately, this time he didn't fall asleep mid-co-fee-fee.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was a touching show of solidarity marred only by Her Majesty's refusal to belt out the lyrics like she's at a Mets game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hey, hey, hey, move on now. What do you think this is, yeah? Move on, move on. What do you think this, dancing on a dime here? Just whip that thing, boy. Play it till it sweats now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What matters most to Jay? Uh, his family. He is a big family man. What matters most to me? My family. My safety. Your safety.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Read by Juliet Stevenson.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We had been wandering indeed in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning, but since dinner, Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question. I was glad of it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mamar in the drawing-room. She lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her, for the time neither quarrelling nor crying, looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Saying she regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But that until she heard from Bessie and could discover by her own observation that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Be seated somewhere. And until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A small breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room. I slipped in there. It contained a bookcase. I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. I mounted into the window-seat. Gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged like a turk.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And having drawn the red marine curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting but not separating me from the drear November day. At intervals, while turning over the leaves in my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And yet there were certain introductory pages, that child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They were those which treat of the haunts of Seafoul, of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Where the northern ocean, in vast whirls, boils round the naked, melancholy isles of farthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge pours in among the stormy Hebrides.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitsbergen,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] With the vast sweep of the Arctic zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space, that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and can centre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Shadowy, like all the half notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray, to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone, its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it's newly risen crescent attesting the hour of eventide.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believe to be marine phantoms.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The fiend, pinning down the thief's pack behind him, I passed over quickly. It was an object of terror.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So was the black horned thing, seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows. Each picture told a story.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in a good humour. And when, having brought her ironing table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And while she got up, Mrs. Reed's lace frills and crimped her nightcap borders.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and older ballads, or, as at a later period, I discovered, from the pages of Pamela and Henry Earle of Morland.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I did a collab on Mario Kart Wii with TWD98, and apparently I didn't hit record on my software. I don't know where the footage is. I recorded my voice, but not the video. I don't know how I did it. Sometimes I do things that I just, I, I, I feel like I have to go look at myself in the mirror, and look at myself.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Today I'm canoeing. We're to the final three sports to go pro in on Wii Sports Resort. And then we've gone pro in all of them. Now I have suspicions that canoeing is gonna be another sport that I absolutely hate.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But, can we play versus instead of speed challenge? No, it is two to four players, so guess what?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Speed challenge is what we are going to play. I think I've called a few sports up to this point my least favorite sport on Wii Sports Resort.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Today might add another sport to that list. We're already at a level- When did we ever play canoeing? This one must not be that hard. I'm already 760.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I can't even remember ever canoeing, and I'm already skill level 760, this is probably going to be easy. Well, we can't be beef boss, so we're going to have to be either BNM or...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Lovely guest E, and we're gonna be lovely guest E. So maybe I won't hate myself. Maybe this will actually be a fun little, well maybe not fun, but maybe it will be tolerable, you know?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We're White Lightning, 100! That looks like a perfect score to me. Oh, Beatbox went 170 somehow.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We don't get much experience for that. The length of the course in each race changes depending on how well the competitors did in the previous race. Who's our comp? Who's our competitor? We're playing with ourself.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Or well, 145 yards. We look so weird sitting, sitting in the canoe with no arms. It's like we're a part of the canoe.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] 120, a 60. 60 seems to be as many skill points as we can get on easy difficulty. So let's go ahead and go to intermediate instead of beginner. See if we can really get that skill level up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, this one's narrow. This one gets really narrow, but...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Let's see how much those weeds hamper our skill level. Guest E is an emotionless individual. You get 80. So I'm gonna guess when you go


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To expert, you get a hundred. Is that pretty much it? As long as you complete it, you get a hundred skill points or you get...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] 80 skill points or you get 60 depending on what the difficulty is. The motion controls are not as good right now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We got to the same spot. Do we get 100 points? 100 skill points.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When we just spent two videos doing wakeboarding, where it's next to impossible,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To get skill points. I guess it's as long as you get to the end, right? I mean there's still a chance that we don't get to the end.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Cause like, look it, we're gonna cut this shit tight this time. I mean, there's only gonna be 40 seconds left.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But then we could always just go back to the easier ones for the last little bit. Jesus Christ! Keep going! Keep going! Keep going! They're just buoys, you can go through them! I don't know how much further we're getting than that. How did I get to 700?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, and of course, yes, you hit it. Even though I said no, don't hit it. You frickin' flop in that thing like you're a hot dog in a hallway.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Look at that, I think the duck, the duck means pace to beat it. To be honest with you. In time. And we're not keeping up with ducks.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's gonna be tight butt hole here, game. Oh no. Oh, I see what they did there with those, that's for sure. Well, doesn't matter. We still got there in time. But now we only have 10 seconds to spare.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] How does that make any flying fucking sense? That made no sense!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And we, we once again completed it within time.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I obviously know a way to go, but my kayak is still going the wrong way.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, let's see what happens. We actually did that slower. We had like 11 seconds left the first time. This time we had like 8.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What logic they're using right now to calculate how many experience points I'm getting is beyond me. I do not know.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, at this rate, why don't we just go to intermediate? Let's sacrifice- Well, we're not sacrificing anything, because we're not getting any fricking experience points on expert. Nooo.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, let's see if there's any shenanigans. I don't know how you're gonna get through that. I guess there's a little path there. Okay, yeaah. Now we get 80.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, we'll just stick with Intermediate then, cause Expert doesn't pay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, this thing floats around like it's the Titanic sometimes, I swear to God.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That was, that was close call. Why do I feel like intermediate is harder than expert?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's our margin for error, you know? You're taking our margin for error and making them your margin for being you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Turns into a, a, a, a stopping mechanism when she goes to the right. Or, you know, the left side trying to turn right.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We didn't even get to 200, even though we did 200 and 210 before that. Oh ho ho, great! Great, it's either you make it or you don't!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Whatever, we're not gonna make it to the end, but we went further than before. Yea, keep paddling. Maybe it will count after the frickin buzzer.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Intermediates turn to bullshit too. These sports, uh, power gliding, or power cruising, power cruising, canoeing,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Why, why, why make those the most difficult to go expert or pro-ing?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well we did it, we did it, we did it, right? Yeah, thank you. That was very close though.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I foresee this last little bit of experience we need here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now I'm starting to not trust myself on beginner anymore. Intermediate was really hard.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But theoretically, if we can get one more intermediate, we're right at a thousand, we're pro, it's no issue. If we can get one at intermediate. Okay, we're keeping up, kind of, with the docks. We really need this turn.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, no, no! That was one wrong paddle and it's gonna come back to bite us as we just went way off course because we, we paddled the wrong direction once.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uuuh, now there's stupid frickin' sharks, there's fish. We're not getting there. We're not getting there. We're gonna get close.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Lengths, because it just says test your limit. But now I'm nervous at what it will give me.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is beginner difficulty, there's like one patch of lily pads and we went through it. I'm too, I'm, I'm nervous to even finish, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] End one of those because I don't know what it's going to do to my skill level. Come on. Come on. Come on.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Yes, I did it. But that's probably only gonna be worth like five frickin' points.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Please tell me, surprise me, give me a hundred. Surprise me and give me a hundred. Surprise me and give me a hundred.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's no way it's broke. It is broke. This is broken. Absolutely broken. I'm Googling this. I am Googling this. This person's going all over like me. Like they're hitting all the buoys, everything. Like, doing no better than me.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I just beat 290 and got negative 3 experience. This person just beat 290 and got a 100. Why? Why? Why am I getting screwed? That makes no sense. How many seconds did she beat it left? Oh, I guess she beat it with fucking...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] 20 seconds left. I beat it with like 3.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But, but in what circumstance, in what circumstance do I deserve to lose experience points for setting a record? In what situation is that justified? The strategy seems to be just frickin' paddle like a maniac.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It doesn't ma- it does not work for me. Because my- my stupid frickin' thing is like trying to mix a pot of macaroni and cheese instead of frickin' paddle down the frickin' river.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then we get, uh, we get absorbed by, by that buoy. She was already done by now. The, the person I watched on YouTube that got 100 still.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But we're doing good. We're doing good. We're doing good. We're doing good. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. That's still 13 seconds left. That's still 13 seconds left. That's still 13 seconds left.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, you couldn't just give me a little bit more on that? You couldn't just give me a little more on that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's just a slight step up. It went 290, 295, 320. How the fuck am I gonna do that? I should probably go back to intermediate and see if I can get it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A little experience there, cause there's no way. Yeah, especially, especially when we start off the bat by fricking, turning left for no reason. I wanna say, this isn't my, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, can, uh, can we get some, it's still just under 10 seconds left.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Can we at least get like 25? Give me 25. Wait no that's not enough. We need like 40. Give me 40. Give me 40. Give me 40. Give me 40.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I still believe that the skill points are a little ridiculous on that one. But whatever. We're pro. I'm done.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ever since I started this little Godzilla video game review show, I've been getting one game request more than any other. The California Raisin's The Grape Escape on the Nintendo Entertainment. No, it's the Pipeworks trilogy of Godzilla fighting games from the 2000s!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Why even say that you don't already know? Of course these are awesome games, you think I'm here to debate that? They're objectively entertaining even if you're not a big Godzilla fan. I'm not exactly breaking new ground here making a video about the first game in the trilogy, Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I've got no hot takes, no new insight, absolutely nothing to add to the conversation. And yet...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee is the first in this trilogy of Godzilla fighting games developed by Pipeworks and published by Atari.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It debuted on GameCube in America in October 2002, and then an Xbox version dropped in April of 2003.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For this video, you're gonna be seeing gameplay from the Xbox version, which is regarded as the better version. It came later and has a huge list of additional features, such as new arenas and new multiplayer modes, and it has Mechagodzilla 3, who's absent from the North American GameCube release.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Not counting games connected to the TriStar movie, this was the first console Godzilla game released in America since... Super Godzilla ten years earlier?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, Battle Legends just barely made it out. The point is, this is the first big Godzilla game in a while. The fact that it was a 3D fighting game with 12 playable monsters was mind-blowing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And here's our introduction, an epic little video showing our lineup. Before you even hit start, you know this is gonna be different. This ain't Monster of Monsters! Super Godzilla left in the dust!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] An alien race known as the Vortac plan to take over the Earth and take control of its monsters on Monster Island. Looking at Godzilla's history, it feels like every race in the universe has the technology to control our monsters, except us humans.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The whole thing does evoke the B-movie aspects of the Showa era of Godzilla movies, but at the same time it's way sillier.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This game isn't taking itself too seriously, but it's also found itself in a new world of self-awareness and parody that felt new for a Godzilla video game. And I could see why they needed to go with this tone, because things the monsters can do in this game?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Are fucking absurd! At this point in time, I'd never seen Anguirus roll around like Sonic the Hedgehog. I'd never seen this!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think in hindsight we forget how new these interpretations were in 2002, but they were somewhat necessary. If the game stuck with more traditional monster physics, fights might feel, well, more like the fights in Godzilla on PS4. Slower, lumbering, movie accurate, but lacking the playful energy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So the Pipeworks games broke a lot of the rules that were established at this point. Things move fast, they lean into the absurdities, they laugh at the face of physics. Honestly, the closest Godzilla movie I can think of that matches this vibe is Final Wars, which came out afterwards in 2004.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] All of this is to say that when Destroy All Monsters Melee first dropped, it threw a lot of new ideas and interpretations at us.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yet it did so while remaining true to the spirit of Godzilla and these monsters. The graphics work, the monster models look great.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] These review videos aren't so fun when I'm not just roasting the game, huh?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anyway, let's just do a really quick overview of the game itself, just the surface level stuff. There are gameplay modes like Versus, where you can fight your friends, Adventure, which is the story mode, Survival, where your health bar barely replenishes between matches, Melee, where up to four players can fight each other, Team Battle, where those players can divide into teams, and Destruction mode, where you wreck as much as you can.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's also a gallery where you can check out the things you've unlocked in those other modes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When playing through the story mode, you start with four monsters. 1990's Godzilla, Megalon, Anguirus, and Gigan. The rest will have to be unlocked through various means. Or through a cheat code that unlocks them all. It's your world, boss.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And this adds Destoroyah, Godzilla 2000, King Ghidorah, Mecha King Ghidorah, Mecha Godzilla, another Mecha Godzilla, Orga, and Rodan. What a lineup!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Don't tell me the next game's lineup was better. We're in 2002-2003 right now. We're not up to the next game. It didn't come out yet. When this game dropped, Godzilla 2000 was only a few years old. It was crazy that you got to play as him, or Orga.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] At the same time, I remember being excited that Death Staroya was making his video game debut.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hidora and Mothra both appear but are unplayable, but it was exciting to see them!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There are many locations to host fights, Monster Island, London, LA, Osaka, San Francisco, Seattle, Tokyo, and the Xbox exclusive areas like the Vortac Homeworld.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And if you make it toward the end of the story mode, the Vortac aliens will teleport you to their mothership to face their ultimate weapon, Mechagodzilla.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Unless you're playing as Mechagodzilla, in which case you face Mechakingadora.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If you win this fight, you get sent back to Earth and the Vortac retreat with the ol' but we'll be back!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] On to the multiplayer modes. Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee was the first Godzilla video game to allow for up to four players at once. And whether you're playing one against one or four player melee, what elevates this game to the top of the pile is its multiplayer features. Again, on the Xbox version.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This game was born for Godzilla fan couch co-op, and it still scratches all those itches to this day.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Controls are pretty intuitive. This is an easy pick-up-and-play game, and it wouldn't take a noob long to get a handle of these controls. This makes the game so inviting to play with a friend. This is the game that built a community.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This Royal Monsters Melee is still a blast today. It's why the game has such a legacy, with attempts made to revive it. Everything you loved about it years ago is still there. It doesn't get old.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I didn't have a GameCube or an Xbox when this first came out, so my first time playing this game came way later. I had a PlayStation 2, so I had to wait for the next game in the trilogy, Godzilla Saved the Earth.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Both of which we've already covered on this show, and both very excellent Godzilla games.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tell me your memories of Destroy All Monsters Melee below, and like the video, subscribe to the channel, it does really help. Until next time.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, you're still sawing in her mouth. Look at it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One day I had a little health problem and I went to the British Museum library to read about it. I took the book off the library shelf and I began to read.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I came to a disease which was worse than the last one. I began to read about it, and as I expected, I had that disease too. Then I began to get really interested in myself. So I went back to the beginning of the book.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I started with the letter A, and I went from A to Z.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I found that there was only one disease which I did not have. This made me a little unhappy. Why didn't I have that disease too?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Side 2 Sitting on a low stool a few yards from her armchair, I examined her figure. I perused her features.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the liar.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What had just passed, what Mrs. Reed had said concerning me to Mr. Brocklehurst, the whole tenor of their conversation was recent, raw and stinging in my mind.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I had felt every word as acutely as I had heard it plainly, and a passion of resentment fermented now within me. Mrs. Reed looked up from her work. Her eyes settled on mine.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Her fingers at the same time suspended their nimble movements. Go out of the room. Return to the nursery. Was her mandate.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My look or something else must have struck her as offensive, for she spoke with extreme, though suppressed, irritation. I got up. I went to the door. I came back again.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I walked to the window across the room, then close up to her. Speak, I must.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What strength had I to dart retaliation at my antagonist?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed, and this book about the liar you may give to your girl Georgiana, for it is she who tells lies and not I.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Rather in the tone in which a person might address an opponent of adult age, than such as is ordinarily used to a child.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That eye of hers, that voice, stirred every antipathy I had.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Shaking from head to foot, thrilled with ungovernable excitement, I continued,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You think I have no feelings, that I can do without one bit of love or kindness, but I cannot live so, and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] People think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard-hearted. You are deceitful.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph I ever felt.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped for liberty. Not without cause was this sentiment. Mrs. Reed looked frightened.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Her work had slipped from her knee. She was lifting up her hands, rocking herself to and fro, and even twisting her face as if she would cry. Jane, you're under a mistake. What's the matter with you? Why do you tremble so violently? Would you like to drink some water? No, Mrs. Reed. Is there anything else you wish for, Jane? I assure you I desire to be your friend.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Not you. You told Mr. Brocklehurst I had a bad character, a deceitful disposition, and I'll let everybody at Lowood know what you are and what you have done.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Jane, you don't understand these things. Children must be corrected for their faults. Deceit is not my fault! I cried out in a savage, high voice. But you are passionate, Jane, that you must allow.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And now return to the nursery, there's a deer, and lie down a little. I am not your deer. I cannot lie down.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here. I will indeed send her to school soon," murmured Mrs. Reed, sotto voce, and gathering up her work, she abruptly quitted the apartment.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I was left there alone, winner of the field. It was the hardest battle I had fought, and the first victory I had gained.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I stood awhile on the rug, where Mr. Brocklehurst had stood, and I enjoyed my conqueror's solitude.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I didn't know how much until she said those things about you, said Meg. So I can stay and be happy, he said. Yes, John, she whispered and hit her face on John's chest.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Joe returned and found them like that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Meg jumped and turned round, but John Brooke laughed and kissed the shock Joe, saying, Sister Joe, wish us luck.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Joe ran upstairs to find her parents. Go down quickly, she said.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Mr. and Mrs. March left the room in a hurry, while Joe threw herself on the bed and told the awful news to Beth and Amy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But the little girls thought it was all most interesting and delightful.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Cause he's dating Gwen Stefani, some B-A-N-A-N-A-S, so.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, and stay there sir. Stay there. Okay. You don't know what it is. Now you can spin around.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was French, because I must have been on The Voice in Montreal, so la voie.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Bad play. Face. FACE!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay. Gee, were you hurt by someone?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The oath is to seek justice. For some people, justice has meant maximizing charges, years and convictions.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If they gonna ever find the truth that I didn't commit this crime.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My name is Gary Wolin, and I sell artist paper. We're in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles, just west of downtown. We bring in papers from all over the world. We're now 88 years old, so I'm here now 48 years. 48 years.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In the late 70s, early 80s, which today in today's economy would be probably about three, three to four million.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I can cut something that needs to be, uh, cut.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You may be familiar, it's, it's, it's traditional, recycled, grayish, brownish, thin cardboard. Put it in the machine.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You have to have your hands on both of these at the same time. So there's no way that you can chop your fingers off.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And we have a bit supply for the next few customers. Well, yes, it is, it has been extreme, extremely difficult. Uh, to the point of, uh, there are days go by that there can be absolutely no business at all.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I'm not making any money. I can't, I can't pay my bills.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, the thing that keeps me going more than anything is my love of paper.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Somebody who I quoted a job to two months ago all of a sudden surfaces and I make it through the month. It's like, uh, it's like a miracle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Thank you so much for the introduction and hi everyone. Great to be here. Thanks so much for having me. It's great to see a new group of people on a, on a meeting that's not the same group of people that I see every day or every week. So this is really exciting for me. Really enjoyed the conversations that I've had so far and the conversations I'll be able to have later as well. So let me go ahead and share my screen here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So the title of my talk today and the topic overall is going to be around accessible virtual reality for people with limited mobility. So I'm going to get into that. But first, I kind of wanted to be able to provide just a little bit more background about me, who I am.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Starting off with a little bit of my educational background, so before I was at the University of Washington, I received my bachelor's and master's in computer science from Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green is a small college town, and uhm,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then after that, I left and went to Washington, so I got my PhD in information science from the information school at the University of Washington in 2018.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then after leaving there, I joined first as a postdoc in the ability group at Microsoft research. And I'm now currently a senior researcher in a group since the last three or four months or so.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And this is just a quick overview of the other people on the Ability Team. Some of the people here is research, uhm, you're gonna hear mentioned as I talk about the different stuff that we've been working on. So there's Andy Bagel at Kutril, Sasha Univich, uh, Mary Ringo-Morius, uh, myself, and John Tong.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I want to start off by providing an overview of what my talk is going to entail today. So uhm, first, anytime I'd like to do any of these presentations, I always like to talk a little bit about accessible computing. I think accessibility is something that


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] People might have some idea around, but I don't think it's something that's as core to our HCI knowledge as it should be. And I know you've had Patrick and other people, Patrick Carrington and other people this, uhm,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then I'm going to lead that into kind of how does my thoughts about accessibility or accessible computing, how does that inform my research? So I'm going to talk a little bit about my overall research approach. And then from there, I'm going to talk about this notion of how do we move more towards accessible VR, primarily for people with limited mobility.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Midway through me working on this work, you know, we went through this, you know, shutdown with the COVID pandemic and everything. So a lot of the work that I would prefer to do of like in-person co-design type of things we're not able to do, you know, essentially over the past year or so.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, due to the, uh, stay at home orders and the social distancing restrictions and things like that, but I'm going to, my plan there is to give you an overview or at least a little bit of information about some of the interesting problems that we've identified in this space. And I would love to kind of just have a.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then I'm going to end kind of talking about some other opportunities that exist. So some things that are outside my media research area, but things that I think would be really great and fruitful areas of research that people could chat about. So that's the overview of the talk. And I'm not sure how Q&A things are going to go exactly, but I'm okay if


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If there is something that I say and you want to interrupt me and ask a question, that's usually okay with me. So just let me know. But if we want to wait to the end to do questions, that works as well. So uhm, so first, alright, I'm going to start off talking a little bit about accessible computing and kind of how I think about accessible computing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I kind of like to start off with this definition, which is to say that


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then the second part of that is, you know, well, how can we use computing to also make the world more accessible to people with disabilities? So you can really look at accessibility in these two different ways.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And there's been a lot of great work for a lot of years looking at, well, how can we think about accessible design and what does that mean to incorporate accessible design into the development of technology?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So one really popular method that people have employed to do that is to look at universal design. Uh, so I have a definition here from universal design, which says that


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's really the design of products and environments that can be used and experienced by people of all ages and abilities to the greatest extent possible without adaptation. And the thing to notice about universal design is that it really comes out of


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So really you could think of it as like, well, how can we make built environments more accessible in, you know, how we can have people be able to experience these things without requiring adaptation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, and then when it comes to the, you know, using universal design to create more accessible technologies, it just kind of gives you a lot of great stuff, right? So you can think of curb cuts is like a great example of universal design is probably the most canonical example that people use often. So you can make curb cuts, you can make it easier for people who use wheelchairs or other implements to be able to


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In the past life, you were at a really crowded restaurant and you wanted to watch something on TV, you would put the closed captionings on. So, so great stuff Universal Design gives us.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, but if we go back to this definition and we interrogate a little bit more, it asks this really interesting question. So I'm just going to read the definition again. So it says the design of products and environments that can be used and experienced by people of all ages and abilities to the greatest extent possible without adaptation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, so there's this really heavy emphasis that I put in a slide here on abilities, because it begs this question, like, well, what is ability in this case? How do we think about ability? How do we measure ability? What do we do with ability? Uhm, so,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One of the ways that's really useful and that's been influential to the way I think about accessibility research is to incorporate a design approach called ability-based design.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So ability-based design is a design approach that was formulated by Jake Robrock and colleagues. Jake was my advisor when I was at the University of Washington. And in ability-based design, what it does is that it gives, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So again, it's still this notion like, okay, well, what is ability? And an example that comes out of this is where you can really just think of ability as possession or the means or skills to do something.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It could be anything, whatever task or whatever type of, uhm, action you want to be able to perform. If you possess the means or skill to do something, you have the ability to do it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then our notion of disability has also changed a lot over the years, so this is a, this is kind of the working definition from the World Health Organization that they put out in 2001, which essentially shows that


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, disability is complex. It's actually not just something that's static and it's not something that's within a person. It's actually something that has to do with different type of contextual and environmental factors that actually impact what makes something accessible and what is disabling to somebody in any given scenario.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So this is important because we can look at ability-based design and it's asking us to ask these questions like, well, what context is someone using this device or this system? What, what is the environment like at this time when they're doing these things? And if we can understand something around these different variables, we can make our systems more accessible as a result.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What they're saying here is that everyone has abilities, some people more than others. And what's really important is that we need to design for people with abilities of all types. So that's kind of like this main takeaway is, you know, once again, foreground ability, make ability the thing that you're trying to design for.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So that's kind of my spiel on how I think about accessibility and accessibility research. And so now I kind of want to just talk about like my general research approach. Uhm, so typically what I do is I like to, uhm,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Computer technologies, but you know, whatever, anything that's been made by humans, anything that's been designed by humans, it's going to have these assumptions embedded in them that are going to dictate


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] How people are expected to use them or how people can use them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it's really important that when we think about technologies and when we're designing new technologies or trying to understand how to make past technologies more accessible is we really need to understand at the core of them, what are the ability assumptions? What are we, what are we anticipating people can do or what are we expecting people to be able to do?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For my dissertation work, I looked at the ability assumptions and kind of embedded inside the kind of what you think of as just like a touchscreen device.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So there are some things that we just kind of take for granted, right? The affordances of a touchscreen and how they, and what they allow us to do. So we assume that we can do things just like, you know, you can tap with a single finger. If you want to select a target, you can like both lift and land inside of it. You could perform both, you know, two handed, I mean,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, but what I found in my research is that people actually use all different types of ways to interact with the touch screen. So this is a research study that we did back in


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We essentially created this test bed and we just asked people that, hey, touch this crosshair that's placed on the screen, but touch it in whichever way is most comfortable and natural to you. Like, and this is all with people with limited mobility, primarily people with cerebral palsy. Uh, we did this study at a place in Seattle called Provel, which used to be United Cerebral Palsy Center.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And you can also see people do different types of like dragging their hands and different types of behaviors, right? So this is a person who's kind of using a screen for stability and is kind of dragging their hand towards their crosshair. It's kind of doing a little dwell and then kind of moving their hand back. Uhm, so essentially this


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We can train touchscreen systems to respond more accurately to people's innate touch behaviors.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So kind of my general research approach here, uhm, when I approach a new problem, is I really try to identify and question what these ability assumptions are. So whatever technology I'm working on, either if I'm developing a new technology or trying to retrofit a past technology, this is a really important question to look at, is what are the ability assumptions?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then I consider myself like an input and interaction person. I like, I get really excited about thinking about ways to create new input schemes and interaction methods to allow people to interact with computing devices in ways that maybe they weren't able to before. So based off this notion of understanding


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What these assumptions are and understanding what people could do, then I can take that knowledge and actually start to create interaction techniques that are actually more accessible to people. And then the last part is actually, you know, evaluating the things we build with target users, which is like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't, probably don't have to say it to this group, you know, very important, you know, if you actually want to.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Create technologies that work with people with cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy or Parkinson's. It's really important to actually then go out and not only do the co-design with them, but then actually do the evaluation so that you can actually get an accurate representation of how well your system works or your interaction techniques work in this case.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That was kind of like the background portion of the talk. So a little bit about how I think about accessibility, a little bit about my past research and.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So what I'm going to talk about now is some of the research that my group has been doing. So me primarily for some of these projects, but my group in general, what we've been doing around trying to make virtual reality more accessible.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, like I mentioned a couple of months ago, it's been really difficult to try to do this work the way we want to given the restrictions of COVID-19 and all of that entails.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I think when you work with people with disabilities, it's really important to do these co-design kind of activities and actually be able to observe people interact with devices, actually be able to be there and collect data in a much more rich,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So what I'm going to talk about now is some of the kind of initial stuff that we've been doing, kind of, you know, given all of the limitations that we have around COVID, but my real hope from this conversation is that


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Some of the problems that I might identify, you might be really interested in and it might make you actually think about virtual reality or more broadly how spatial computing and things like that might be inaccessible to people with disabilities. It might motivate you or, you know, encourage you all to think about, you know,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Doing some research in this space. So that's kind of the hope of I'm going to have them doing this part of the talk. So.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Just really brief kind of like background of virtual reality, so uhm,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] People, most people probably on this call are probably familiar with VR. You know, it's an immersive technology that allows people


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We'll probably won't be just a technology that's just used for gaming and entertainment. It's not too hard to believe that actually, you know, people for their jobs and their professions and educational scenarios are going to be using virtual reality for a lot of different


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, so this has been a explosion kind of like really like in the last...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, like HP also kind of have their own type of VR headsets that's run in a Windows Mixed Reality Platform.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So this is an interesting point to really get into this space because VR


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But it's really an opportunity to think about accessibility before.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This perhaps, uh, potential mass adoption occurs.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So yeaah, so like what I'll be talking about. So there's this notion like, you know, VR is really great for a lot of things, but VR, virtual reality really does has an accessibility problem. So this is a screen grab.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] of a little clip that I have from a Scientific American article in which it says, uh, virtual reality has been touted as an empathy machine that lets users see what it's like to have a disability, but people with disabilities often can't use it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So it's this notion here that uhm, virtual reality can have potential, for example, you know, for empathy training and things like that, but people with disabilities themselves don't.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Often can't have access to these systems, so.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, paper that I wrote along with, co-wrote along with a bunch of other people at Microsoft Research.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We wrote this paper at the Ismar conference in 2019 called accessible by design and opportunity for virtual reality. And what we tried to do is actually try to lay out the case for


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Where should our priorities be and how should we think about what we're doing in this space to make these things more accessible? Uh, so we identified kind of five key areas of focus. Content accessibility, interaction accessibility, device accessibility, inclusive representations and application diversity. So I'm going to touch on