Speech:Spring 2012 Michael Henenberg Log


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Week Ending February 13th, 2012

 * Task:


 * (Fri) Setup Skype meeting for Sunday night with Brandon and Johhny.
 * (Sat) Read Logs.
 * (Sun) Had meeting on Skype with Brandon and Johhny, installed secured vpn.
 * (Mon) Read Logs.
 * Results:

Tbd


 * Plan:


 * Skype meeting for Tuesday night after 6.


 * Concerns:


 * Unable to log in to server using password.

Week Ending February 20th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Tasks for this week
 * Dissucse proposal with group over Skype
 * Work on proposal section with Johhny and Brandon
 * Read logs to see progresion of project
 * Amended task
 * Revise logs format and content (February 16)


 * Results:

Tuesday(Night) semesters proposal for ideas how to structure our own proposal. We agreed to meet Thursday night to take what we had and work on the proposal.
 * Had a Skype meeting to discuse and layout our ideas for the database section. We looked at last

Thursday the groups overview and the data proposal. We also aranged to finish the rest of the proposal on Sunday over Skype.
 * We had a Skype meeting where we worked on the database section of the proprosal. We were able to complete

Sunday assigning specific roles but decided to wait untill later to assign them. I also read some of the posted logs to see what progress had been made.
 * We had a meeting over Skype to finalize our draft of the proposal and add any needed details. We also discussed

Monday was particularly interesting.
 * I read logs to see if there was any information that could help. The notes Johnathan posted on unix commands
 * Plan:


 * We plan to assign specific roles in class and work on learning pearl scripts.


 * Concerns:


 * No concerns at this time.

Week Ending February 27th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Work on proposal
 * Read Logs
 * Learn about speech


 * Results:

Tuesday Thursday We will try to get everything posted and cleaned up by Sunday night.
 * I had a Skype meeting with Brandon to plan what we're going to do for the proposal.
 * I had a Skype meeting with Brandon to set a schedule for what we're going to do for the proposal.

Sunday Monday
 * Finished proposal section and time line with Brandon over Skype.
 * I read logs to see where others were and concerns that I could possibly help with.
 * Plan:


 * Have Skype meeting Thursday night to consolidate ideas for proposal.
 * To have proposal section done by Friday night.


 * Concerns:

I have no concerns at this time.

Week Ending March 5th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Make new directory folders
 * Copy file to new location
 * Read logs


 * Results:

Thursday Saturday Sunday I contacted him on Skype and we had a meeting to touch base on where we were and what our plans are; we scheduled another Skype meeting for Monday night.
 * Skype meeting with rest of group to touch base and discusse any problems or ask for help.
 * Practiced with creating folders and copying files using command line on my computer.
 * I read some of the logs posted for this week and noticed Brandon had a Skype meeting with Johnny.

Monday
 * I had a Skype meeting with Brandon where we laid out out strategy for implementing this phase of our work.


 * Plan:


 * Have Skype meeting on Thursday to keep in touch with group
 * Have folders made and contents copied sucessfuly by Sunday night


 * Concerns:


 * No concerns at this time.

Week Ending March 12th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Work on SoX commands
 * Work on converting .sph files to .wave
 * Read logs
 * Document folder creation and ownership alteration


 * Results:

Tuesday Wednesday Sunday meeting for Tuesday/Wednesday to plan out next week.
 * Created new folders for files in the new location
 * Changed ownership and group ownership of the folders to be owned by root and cis790 respectivly
 * Had a Skype meeting with Brandon to go over our goals and tasks for this week
 * Had a Skype meeting with Brandon to discusse progress made since last meeting and read logs. We also aranged a Skype

Monday
 * I read the other class members logs to see where they were in the project.


 * Plan:


 * Have meeting on Wednesday with Brandon to determin weeks plan
 * Work on SoX to have something by weekend
 * Have Skype meeting on Saturday/Sunday to go over weeks results


 * Concerns:

Tbd

Week Ending March 19th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Document the folder creation and ownership changes
 * Work on file conversion
 * Continue Speech research
 * Skype meeting with group for progress updates


 * Results:

Thursday Friday Sunday Monday
 * Wrote out documentation for the folder creation and ownership changes, sent to Brandon for input.
 * Found interesting site while researching online. http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ I recommend it to everyone.
 * Had a Skype meeting with Brandon to touch base on the project and clean up the documentation.
 * Arranged for another meeting on Sunday/Monday.
 * Read the logs of the other members to see what progress had been made on the project.
 * Had Skype meeting with Brandon to disscues what needs to be done next in the project.


 * Plan:

Tbd


 * Concerns:


 * None at this time

Week Ending March 26th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Update wiki
 * Documentation of process on wiki
 * Finish file conversions
 * Move files to new location


 * Results:

Friday Saturday Sunday and help with any questions. Monday
 * Read status logs for the group
 * Worked on the file conversion
 * Prepared for file conversion on Sunday and Monday with Brandon
 * Had a Skype meeting with Brandon to touch base, cover what we're working on
 * Worked on cleaning transcripts
 * Had Skype meeting with Brandon to go over new details for work.
 * Continued cleaning transcripts.
 * Put information on to speech corpus notes page, mostly locations and descriptions.


 * Plan:


 * Skype meetings with Brandon to stay on track
 * Convert the files
 * Update the wiki


 * Concerns:


 * Parsing the transcripts is taking a long time and I'm concerned about cleaning them all by class.

Week Ending April 2nd, 2012

 * Task:


 * Add information to wiki page
 * Work on process for mini train


 * Results:

Tuesday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
 * Worked on code to count out the number of lines needed for the mini trains hour.
 * Continued working on script for line count.
 * Investigated the script for cleaning the transcripts.
 * Had Skype meeting with Brandon to updated each other and discuse our progress and questions.
 * Continued working on scripts
 * Continued working on fine tuning the scripts for my section.
 * Attempted more on time count
 * Had Skype meeting with Brandon to udate each other and helped him read over/understand some code lines.


 * Plan:


 * Work on scripts for the time count
 * Work on script for parsing the transcripts
 * place information on notes information
 * Have Skype meetings with Brandon to keep on track and updated


 * Concerns:


 * The script for the time counting is proving difficult to grasp

Week Ending April 9th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Have Skype meeting with Aaron and Bethany for how to run a train
 * Work on wiki page for data corpus


 * Results:

Friday just showed us how to do the decode. Saturday Sunday Monday
 * Had meeting on Skype for running train with group. There were probles at one part so Aaron
 * Read log to know what the others are doing.
 * Worked on the information on the data corpus wiki page.
 * Read logs to see what others were doing and had done.


 * Plan:


 * Have Skype meeting with group Friday evning
 * Work on wiki page on Sunday


 * Concerns:

Tbd

Week Ending April 16th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Work on group experiment
 * Rework directories section on wiki page
 * read logs


 * Results:

Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
 * Had Skype meeting with group to touch base and compare notes.
 * Worked on group experiment and first part of training.
 * Read logs to see progress/changes.
 * Worked on experiment using directions Chad emailed me from his work.
 * Made changes to making folders section of wiki page and included code examples.
 * Read logs to see progress/changes.


 * Plan:


 * Skype meeting on Friday with group
 * Work on experiment on Weekend
 * Work on wiki page on Saturday


 * Concerns:


 * Having some problems with the training experiment, will share with group next group meeting.

Week Ending April 23th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Read logs
 * Work on group experiment


 * Results:

Tuesday any of us had before and we understood what was happening better by working together and disscussing
 * Worked with group to work on running train on our machine traubadix. We were able to get farther along than

what we thought. Chad posted our findings to the group page.

Friday Sunday Monday
 * Read through some of the processes for the dictionary to try and understand the files called and their location.
 * Read logs and posts to see where everyone else is and what their doing.
 * Continued work on experiments, amend- included new steps from wiki page.


 * Plan:

Tbd


 * Concerns:

Tbd

Week Ending May 7th, 2012

 * Task:


 * Finish section on wiki report.
 * Review logs for work done.


 * Results:

Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
 * Reviewed logs in preparation for peer review.
 * Updated section in the report with introduction, directories, and links.
 * Continued preparation for peer evaluation.
 * Added more information to data prep section of the report and made some alterations to alter its transitions and structure.
 * Looked through the current report for spelling mistakes and corrected the few I found.
 * Continued preparation for the peer evaluation.
 * I ran the current report through Microsoft word. Using it I was able to make several edits to spelling, capitalization, pronunciation, tense, and word order.
 * Continued preparation for peer evaluation.


 * Plan:


 * Continually review logs of peers over the course of the week.
 * Finish the wiki section on the report assigned to me Sat and Sun.


 * Concerns:

Tbd