The Big ASC Working Lunch Agenda 1. Status: Where are we? 2. Planning: New timeline 3. RAs: Recruitment and Training 4. Schedule for recording: cities, regional centres 5. Technical issues:  Black Box hardware  SSCP  Data management and storage: size/transfer  Audio/Video synchronisation 6. Recruitment and retention of speakers 7. Where are YOU at? Ethics, contribution, RA recruitment, recording room ?

The Big ASC – Status  Budget: almost all contributions are in  Ethics:  NEAF proposal completed and approved by UWS (lead site)  Other sites getting their clearances (needed for recording)  Equipment:  BB prototype  BBB  Hardware: finalised and ordered  Server ready:  Software: recruited Lei Jing as our programmer (6 mths) 1) Hardware management 2) Session management 3) User Interface  A second 6 months position to work on database and server

The Big ASC – Status  Public face:  Website up: austalk.edu.au  Corpus name: AusTalk  Logo  Inviting Australian celebrities to record My Country  (invitations sent out. probably January)  Media launch: end of January

The Big ASC: Funding ARC (LIEF) Original request:$1,296,525 Obtained: $650,000 (~50%) Contributions$435,000 Total Original request: $1,731,525 Obtained:$1,082,787 (~62.5%)

The Big ASC: Funding Each site receives:  1) 1 Black Box ($13.5K)  2) 2 days of training for RAs and IT support at UWS  3) Cash for data collection. For each participant recorded: 2 hrs of RA time per visit : $92, for 3 visits = $276* Participant payment = $25 per visit x 3 = $75 Participant Bonus for finishing all three sessions = $15 RA Bonus for collecting a complete set of data for each speaker = $25 Total = $391, rounded up to $400/speaker  4) Support for field trips to regional centres. 100 p/n x 7 nights x 6 weeks Per $50 p/d x 7 days x 6 weeks Travel according to location

The Big ASC : new timeline startend Equipment & Trainingstarted30/06/2011 SSCP--31/01/2011 BB--31/01/2011 RA TrainingMid-February PilotsMid-FebruaryEnd February Data Collection01/03/201115/06/2011 At main sites01/03/201101/05/2011 regions01/05/201115/06/2011 Data Storage06/01/201129/06/2011 Data Annotation24/02/

The Big ASC: Data Collection (AusTalk) STATEUNIVERSITYNUMBERSREGIONALNUMBERSOTHERNUMBERSTOTAL NSWUWS TOWNSVILLE48 MQ ARMIDALE48 UNSW48 EMOTION3684 USYD48 DISORDERED1664 QLDUQ120 VICMELB120GEELONG SAFLINDERS96ALICE/DARWIN48AUSAB48192 WAUWA96 TASUTAS48 ACTUC36BATHURST48 84 ANU48 TOTALS

AusTalk: Corpus Components  Isolated Words  Digits  Read Sentences  Interview  Story: reading/retelling  Map task  Yes/No  Emotions  Purpose for each component? (Journal article)

The Big ASC: Standard Protocol Session 1Session 2Session 3 TaskTimeTaskTimeTaskTime Calibration + YES/NO Words (HvDs/AusE/PolySyll) 10Words (HvDs/AusE/PolySyll) 10Words (HvDs/AusE/PolySyll) 10 Read Narrative5 Interview 15Map Task (First run)20 Re-told Narrative10Map Task (Second run) 20 Read Digits5 5 Read Sentences

Video data: compression?  Resolution: 640*480; 2 eyes: 2*640*480 = 614,400 pixels  Frame per second: 48  Pixel: 16bpp (16 bit-per-pixel, raw16)  For each second, for one stereo camera: 614,400*48*16 = 471,859,200 bits = MB  Each hour is about 200 GB  3 one-hour sessions per speaker:  200GB * 3 = 600 GB per speaker  1,000 speakers  600GB * 1000 = 600 TB for the corpus  need 300 2TB external hard disks