{
  "id": 599555,
  "title": "vocalized or silent",
  "url": "/competitions/brain-to-text-25/discussion/599555",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-08-17T10:00:33.679159600Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>Dear Nick,<br>\n\"Attempted vocalized\" and \"attempted silent\" sentences might appear differently in neural-data, phoneme duration was for example mentioned to be much shorter in the silent setting. Is the vocalized/silent flag available in the training data, and will it be available for the test-sets, or this info will not be shared with the algorithm?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "3270773",
      "postDate": "08/17/2025 10:00:33",
      "content": "<p>Dear Nick,<br>\n\"Attempted vocalized\" and \"attempted silent\" sentences might appear differently in neural-data, phoneme duration was for example mentioned to be much shorter in the silent setting. Is the vocalized/silent flag available in the training data, and will it be available for the test-sets, or this info will not be shared with the algorithm?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Dear Nick,\n\"Attempted vocalized\" and \"attempted silent\" sentences might appear differently in neural-data, phoneme duration was for example mentioned to be much shorter in the silent setting. Is the vocalized/silent flag available in the training data, and will it be available for the test-sets, or this info will not be shared with the algorithm?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3270880",
      "postDate": "08/17/2025 14:37:49",
      "content": "<p>Hi, as stated in the Data Overview:</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>To make the competition more challenging and better approximate real-world use, we do not provide labels as to the speaking strategy for each block.</p>\n</blockquote>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi, as stated in the Data Overview:\n>To make the competition more challenging and better approximate real-world use, we do not provide labels as to the speaking strategy for each block.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3270880,
      "author_name": "notnickc",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/17/2025 14:37:49",
      "content": "<p>Hi, as stated in the Data Overview:</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>To make the competition more challenging and better approximate real-world use, we do not provide labels as to the speaking strategy for each block.</p>\n</blockquote>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "3270773": "Dear Nick,\n\"Attempted vocalized\" and \"attempted silent\" sentences might appear differently in neural-data, phoneme duration was for example mentioned to be much shorter in the silent setting. Is the vocalized/silent flag available in the training data, and will it be available for the test-sets, or this info will not be shared with the algorithm?",
    "3270880": "Hi, as stated in the Data Overview:\n>To make the competition more challenging and better approximate real-world use, we do not provide labels as to the speaking strategy for each block."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}