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Instructions on Qualtrics access for Informatics students can be found at
https://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/qualtrics-survey-platform
Clicking the link in “You will need to create a Qualtrics account…” will take you to a page which provides the necessary instructions and code. You may need to be on the University network (a lab machine, or using the VPN) to access these pages.
The rules on this can vary with different publishers. For the Speech Synthesis report, all types of work should be cited in the same way and appear in the single list of references at the end of the report.
Some publishers require a distinction between peer-reviewed and non-reviewed work, with the latter only appearing as footnotes so that the list of references contains exclusively peer-reviewed work. However, given the importance of non-reviewed pre-prints (notably on arXiv) in our field, this distinction is rarely made by authors.
In general, it’s best to use a persistent remote session on Eddie, so you can simply reconnect to that if your connection drops. Your interactive session would still be running inside that.
From an Eddie login node, look for any running jobs using
qstatand kill them usingqdelhttps://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/spaces/ResearchServices/pages/294393280/Job+Submission
You’ll need to provide more detail than “having issues” – what error message are you getting?
As a general principle, you should collect as little information from your listeners as possible. Don’t ask for information “just in case”. For example, do not ask about gender unless you absolutely need to know this (to test a hypothesis).
You should include a brief statement at the start of your survey to inform listeners
- what they will be asked to do
- that they do not have to take part; they can choose not to proceed at any point
- who will have access to their responses (i.e., only you, the experimenter)
- how to contact you if they have a question or concern
Finally, since this is a taught course, so you don’t need to obtain formal ethics approval.
Miscellaneous points
Not necessarily made by 2+ people, but I will respond to some anyway
Trouble hearing Simon in class: please talk to me in the next class to help me understand whether this is me, or the room audio system.
No camera in classroom, so recordings are voice+screen only: unfortunately, this is a limitation of the room we are using, so I can’t fix this. Remember that recordings are intended for revision only and not a replacement for attending class (unless you are unwell).
Video speed buttons only offer 3 levels: already solved – see this forum topic
Button to jump to next video does not work (jumps to readings as well as videos): request noted
Labs should involve more coding: this course does not have a coding pre-requisite, to keep it accessible to a wide range of students. You can still improve your coding by reading the source code for the model we are using, if you wish, or by implementing a text-selection algorithm.
Assignment needs a 1-page version: I have added the option to “Click here to view as a single page”. Warning: the lab instructions may be updated and refined later, so you should use the latest website version and not make a copy.
Can you offer office hours or “remedial” sessions?
Yes, I can! I already provided 3 such sessions in Week 4, although relatively few students took advantage of these. I will offer more during the second half of the course.
In these sessions, you can ask about any and all course content, or indeed about background material from Speech Processing.
Undergraduate students are in a minority
Yes, that’s always true in this course. You mustn’t let this overwhelm or intimidate you because, in my long experience, undergraduate students usually do extremely well on this course.
Some comments implied that undergraduate students had to do more “catching up” for the course. I don’t think that’s necessarily true – Speech Processing provided the best possible preparation. You also have twice as much time available to spend on this course (it’s 20 credits for UG and only 10 credits for PG).
It is inevitable that most postgraduate students are taking closely-related courses in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. In class, I make connections to those subjects, to help those students. But this doesn’t imply that undergraduates need also learn that material.
Too much reading
Do please remember that only the essential readings are required to pass the course. Everything else is optional, and only needed if you are aiming for a higher mark.
For this year, I will take the following action:
- Limit the number of essential readings in the remaining modules
- Reduce the number of recommended readings, making them extra to clarify that you only need to read (some of) them if you are particularly interested in the topic. For example, Module 8 has only one essential reading and the rest are extra
Too much video content
Yes, I accept there are a lot of videos in the first half of the course. It is rather difficult to reduce the quantity since dropping entire videos doesn’t always make sense. For next year, I will think carefully about a better way to reduce the quantity whilst keeping the course coherent.
Please update me at the end of the course, given that there are not many more videos to watch.
For this year, I have taken the following action:
- Module 7 is non-examinable. If you need to skip some videos, skip these.
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Number of people mentioning each point is given in parentheses.
In-class interactivity (12)
speech.zone content, structure, etc (8)
Videos (8)
Division into classes and lab sessions (4)
The lab tutor (2)
Quizzes on speech.zone (2)
What is the output of
cdwith no arguments thenpwd?For some reason
~/Desktop/Eddieis expanding to/Users/Desktop/Eddiewhich will not exist. Your username is missing from the path.Try using
/Users/username/Desktop/Eddiewhereusernameis your username on your Mac.Alternatively,
cdwith no arguments, to go to your home directory, then use./Desktop/Eddie(I think you can ignore “This program is not meant to be called directly” – looks like an error message from an underlying library that you will only get when asking for the version.)
The names of the columns are shown in the first row of the output from
ps, butgrepis of course filtering them out. You need the value in thePID(process identity) column.Try this, to see just the first row:
ps -elf | head -1then this to find all your processes:
ps -elf | grep s1234567or, here’s a clever way to run both commands together
ps -elf | head -1 && ps -elf | grep s1234567 -
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