August 15th ABAIR Meeting
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Highlights
- Andy and Ronan in Mayo for recordings.
- Thomas coming from Finland at beginning of September to work with us for 3 months.
- Amanda to send out a survey about Oireachtas attendance.
- Working on Transtool - 1600 prompts.
- Found more prompts from another story.
- Asked about plan for the Oireachtas, fibín and accomodation. Andy said no plans made yet. Will get the ball rolling.
- Setting up an experiment. Training model to predict next token. However, now want to train a model to take instructions.
- Need to select best LLM to generate lots of sentences from real data (Oireachtas).
- Experiment 1: Narrow down choice of models from 400 to 10.
- Experiment 2: Get these 10 to generate and get human feedback. Aela will help.
- Starting to write thesis, only 3 weeks left.
- In Mayo on Monday setting up for Rónan.
- Got quote for NAS. £3400. Delivery next week.
- Coordinating between van builders and dealers - making progress. Going to provide the van chassis before body builders are ready -this is good!
- Chassis to be delivered in 8-9 weeks.
- Body builders will start in new year, will take 8-10 weeks.
- Training Munster voices.
- Ailbhe mentioned in meeting on Tuesday that website not priority at the moment - no hard deadline for the Oireachtas.
- Back working on Fotheidil with Oscar for demonstration in September. Lot's of issues to fix on front and back end.
- Gathered 2 to 2.5 hours of recordings per day since Mon. Finishing Fri.
- 1250 prompst done, hoping to hit 1500 mark.
- Can go down again if can access a car.
- Met plenty of people who are interested in helping with recordings.
- Trying to train the children's voices using current data.
- Using uodated version of PIPER.
- Making progress.