The goal of the naming conventions is to have consistent, short, and easy to use names for people, microphones, channels, etc. Each field is fixed length, so sorting and listing is easy. Finally, the convention is easily extended so that we or others can add data to the corpus.
An individual meeting (also called a session) is labeled with an alphanumeric tag. For example, "Bmr002". The tag consists of three fields. The first field must be alphabetic and all uppercase, and should be one letter. It represents the location of the recording. We reserve "B" for recordings at ICSI (Berkeley).
The second field must be alphabetic and all lowercase, and should have two letters. It represents the meeting type. The following tags are currently assigned:
Tag | Meeting Type |
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db | Database issues meeting |
ed | Even Deeper Understanding weekly meeting |
mr | Meeting Recorder weekly meeting |
ns | Network Services and Applications group meeting |
ro | Robustness weekly meeting |
sr | SRI collaboration meeting |
tr | Meeting Recorder transcriber's meeting |
uw | UW collaboration meeting |
The final field must be numeric, consisting of three digits (e.g. "004").
Speaker tags consist of "m", "f", "u", or "x", for male, female, unknown, and computer-generated respectively, followed by "e" for native English speaker or "n" for non-native English speaker, followed by three numbers. The numbers should be unique across all speakers (e.g. there is only one person with a speaker ID ending in 003). For example, "fn002" and "me005" are both legal speaker IDs.
We have developed an XML database (icsi1.spk in the doc directory) containing speaker information, education level, language, age, etc. For details on the information we collect, see the comments in icsi1.spk and the online speaker form: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/Speech/mr/speakerform.html.
A microphone ID represents the type of microphone. It is separate from the transmission ID, which represents the method by which the signal gets to the recording equipment. A microphone ID consists of a letter and a number. The microphone IDs used at ICSI are:
Tag | Description |
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s1 | Sony headset mic ECM-310BMP |
s2 | Sony handheld mic WRT-807A |
c1 | Crown headset mic CM 311 A/E |
l1 | Sony lapel (lavalier) ECM-77BMP |
p1 | Plantronics monaural headset mic (part number unknown) |
a1 | Andrea monaural headset mic NC-50 |
u1 | Unknown monaural headset mic |
u2 | Unknown earplug mic |
c2 | Crown PZM desktop microphone |
u3 | Unknown microphone in mockup PDA |
The transmission ID represents the method by which the microphone is connected to the recording equipment. It is a letter followed by a number. The transmission IDs used at ICSI are:
Tag | Description |
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j1 | Wired jack (via jimlet through jimbox) |
w1 | Wireless Sony transmitter/receivers (Sony MB-806A modular base, WRU-806A/64 UHF synthesized tuner modules, WRT-805A bodypack transmitter) |
w2 | Wireless Sony transmitter/receiver integrated into unit (e.g. Sony handset with integrated transmitter) |
u1 | Unknown wired type (e.g. PZMs) |
Questions or comments to: mrcontact@icsi.berkeley.edu