tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125294933155144215.post6575351936966849131..comments2024-03-29T00:49:24.591+00:00Comments on Confessions of a 40k addict: Imperial Knight - in manufactorum pt 340kaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763647828123242837noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125294933155144215.post-89026255619817682272015-12-20T20:49:02.597+00:002015-12-20T20:49:02.597+00:00Hi Dave,
Thank you so much! That definitely helps...Hi Dave,<br /><br />Thank you so much! That definitely helps a lot! :)<br /><br />You probably have not experienced the dramatic speech recognition performance degradation caused by "out of domain" training data. Say, if we train a system with the speech data from BBC news, and try to recognize it with telephone interview recordings, or the other way, it will just work not-that-well. <br /><br />We had done this "Sheffield Wargame Corpus" recording to encourage the speech recognition for natural, daily and oral spontaneous speech, particularly when the speakers are moving. Actually among the different categories of speech, gaming is probably one the most difficult so far. I am sure it is also one of the commercial interests of many companies who want to join the revived fashion of AI (not only gaming companies I am sure). So we definitely want an "in domain" model to start with. (life is hard enough for a PhD student :P )<br /><br />The warhammer 40K is selected originally because people keep talking and moving during the game. What's more important, the game provides a perfect platform that people would forget the fact that they are listened by 96 microphones and watched by 4 cameras from every angle, and could keep talking from 9am to 9pm without feeling embarrassed or exhausted, which is an achievement itself in collecting natural speech data. :P<br /><br />Don't worry about the misspelling, speech recognition is built statistically but not grammar-ly. Occasional spelling errors will be filtered out during the process. :)<br /><br />As for the regional differences, yes of course that is an issue. But that is more of an issue in the way people speak compared to the way people blog. :P Blog data is perfect to us because it contains large quantity of word samples, is oral enough, while is not as fragile as forum discussion (which is also full of strange symbols). Due to the individual difference in "blogging style", honestly I am requesting several bloggers. Hopefully in the end I could get a statistically representative data collection. :)<br /><br />We are planning to release the blog data in the research if you are happy with that, and we will sure promote your blog website as well in the acknowledgement. :) I might contact you later with some official documents for ethical approval from you. It would be great if we could carry on our discussion in email (acp12yl@sheffield.ac.uk). I will keep you updated about how your blog helped to push machine learning technology. :)<br /><br />Thank you so much again! :)<br /><br />Merry Christmas<br />Yulan<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125294933155144215.post-32279269413540484272015-12-16T23:22:32.261+00:002015-12-16T23:22:32.261+00:00Hi Yulan, if you honestly think my blog can be of ...Hi Yulan, if you honestly think my blog can be of any use in your research then please feel free to use it, I never expected this blog would be of benefit to science, I was just hoping my body would be when it was left to it - so, early Christmas for me ;)<br /><br />Seriously, good luck with everything and I hope it helps, although I wonder if some of my vernacular [and my random mis-spelling] won't just confuse your speech recognition. I'm guessing the 40k angle is to help it search for particular consistent elements but does it take into account regional words and phrases, it sounds fascinating.40kaddicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763647828123242837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125294933155144215.post-57544830454447666302015-12-16T15:46:40.651+00:002015-12-16T15:46:40.651+00:00Hey,
This is Yulan and I recently started working...Hey,<br /><br />This is Yulan and I recently started working on Warhammer 40K! :)<br /><br />However I am not working on playing it but on building a speech recognition system to recognize the speech of players while playing the game. We recorded some such data in the past three years (see our paper in 2013 here: http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/Y.Liu/publications/pdf/Fox2013.pdf). <br /><br />We have never built such a system for 'Warhammer' speech recognition before. You know there are some speaking style and vocabulary issues there. I found your blog really brilliant. It would be great if you don't mind me using your blog articles (actually written words only) to train our system to learn what words will be used while playing warhammer. I can provide more detailed information. Here is my email address: acp12yl@sheffield.ac.uk <br /><br />Look forward to your reply, and enjoy the games! :)<br /><br />Best <br />YulanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125294933155144215.post-90730641297396677372015-12-16T14:09:16.642+00:002015-12-16T14:09:16.642+00:00The first step is to recognise the problem, on the...The first step is to recognise the problem, on the face of it it's a harmless addiction but when I looked it up apparently any addiction is not without some form of harm. It really depends on balance and support of those around you, if you've no balance then it's a bad thing and if folk aren't supportive or find the hobby intrusive then it'll no doubt create a wedge between you. <br /><br />For me moving into the shed has removed a lot of conflict, where I used to nip into the back room at any oportunity 'just to glue a model' or shadow wash something now it's usually fixed between 10pm and midnight. The structure has helped but it's not without other side effects - like last night I was literally buzzing with a sense of achievement having based the above knight. I can run it through my head repeatedly and get a little kick of 'achievement' which is both pleasurable and just a little worrying!<br /><br />Ultimately you could be on hard drugs, booze or hookers so playing with toy soldiers is a better past time for everyone ;)<br /><br />I only have the two Knights, I can envisage another Warden/Paladin at least because I want more House Raven to make sense of my fluff. Liam has five apparently, but I've yet to see any of them. I do love them as I like giant walkers from all my Adeptus Titanicus days. Your Warlords and Reavers are just too big and costly though so I'm happy with Knights. I'd love a Warhound, they were my favourite from Epic but Liam's scratchbuilt one is awesome so I would struggle to get past that being made from nothing to getting the actual model.40kaddicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763647828123242837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125294933155144215.post-52525710880545133002015-12-16T12:16:28.750+00:002015-12-16T12:16:28.750+00:00Recently and after your post the other day I have ...Recently and after your post the other day I have only just come to terms with how addicted to this hobby (and how it has escalated quickly over 2 years) to this hobby I have become.<br /><br />How many more knights of plastic crack shame do you have hidden away in that shed Dave?<br /><br />Are you knee deep in knights like some giant Imperator overlord?Rob-not-stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535589578326730130noreply@blogger.com