Minutes from RT Teleconference Dec. 11, 2008

• Workshop venue
• VK: FIT may be able to hold the meeting

• Fixed latency proposal: No new updates.  Formal proposal prepared after the new year.
  

• Evaluation Data: Preparing the Test Set
• Summary of promised data:
• AMIDA data:
• 1 focus group meeting
• 1 recording set of AMIDA meetings (4 meetings in total).  This  data will have the remote participant.
• NIST has ~15 hours of focus group meetings to select from
• Potential data
• USC data:  See the current RT email thread on this matter.  The data will contain head mics, centrally located table mics (16-channel mic array + 1 table mic.), 5 video cameras.
  
•  Discussion
• TH: Adam was checking on the availability of data from IDIAP.
  
• Action Item: JF will contact Adam and Herve
• Question for discussion: How to select the 3 hours of test data: What's more important central mics or speaker variability?
• JF: speaker variability is important
• TH: a variety of meeting rooms are also important
  

• Leveraging multimodal/mic array output
• NIST has a, ~11 minute micro corpus of overlapping, read speech.  Sites interested in getting the data should email Jon.

• NIST is starting to experiment with signal measurement methods