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Automatic LInguistic Unit Count Estimator (ALICE)
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question: desirable time precision, given ALICE workings? #17

Closed alecristia closed 3 years ago

alecristia commented 3 years ago

From README:

Timestamps appended to the filenames are of form <onset_time_inms x 10> <offset_time_in_ms x 10>, as measured from the beginning of each audio file. For instance, _00062740_00096150.wav stands for an utterance in that started at 6.274 seconds and ended at 9.615 seconds.

So the examples have a millisecond accuracy, but are stored as tenths of milliseconds integers -- does this come from e.g. annotation in ELAN? Is it ideal to keep notations with tenths of ms precision, or can ms precision do?

orasanen commented 3 years ago

I think ms precision should be fine. I don't remember why we went for the current solution. Does it cause problems in some context?

alecristia commented 3 years ago

not to my knowledge! we are thinking standard notation & were aiming for millisecond precision (but not more). Thanks!