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My focus and my aim was to capture the phase
我的研究重点以及目标在于
up to the two-word utterance
捕捉逐渐形成"双词"的过程
and that could happen anywhere
这一过程可能出现在
between second and third birthday.
两周岁到三周岁之间的任何时间
It turned out my son was an early talker
事实证明我儿子属于学说话很早的孩子
so by the time his second birthday arrived
所以到他两岁生日的时候
we had the main data set we wanted.
就已获取到了我们所需的主要数据
By the time recording was complete,
录制过程结束的时候
more than 240,000 hours of information
他们收集了超过二十四万小时的信息
and 16 million words had been collected.
以及一千六百万个单词
It's a lot of data but in its raw form it's useless
数据很多 可原始数据没什么用
and so the challenges this now sets up for us is
因此现阶段我们面临的挑战是
how do you start extracting the right kind of metadata,
如何着手提取出有用的元数据
transcripts of who said what,
谁说过哪些话的文字记录
annotations of where those people were,
那些人身处何方的注解
annotations of how they're moving
他们如何移动的注解
and the relationships that they were in as they were speaking.
还有讲话人处于怎样的关系之中
And these are the, the tools
这些都是我们正在制作的
that we are now building to analyse the raw data,
用来分析原始数据的工具
and from that, we're starting to see some, some
之后我们就可以开始观察
early insights into the patterns of language development.
语言发展的早期模式了

重点解释

It turned out my son was an early talker事实证明我儿子属于学说话很早的孩子

turn out结果是

The chief conductor turned out to be a young woman.

列车长原来是一位青年妇女。

I'm sure it will turn out a futile attempt.

我肯定这会是白费功夫。

相关短语turn out that 结果是...

Things may not necessarily turn out that way.

事情未必会如此。

It turned out that my surmise was correct.

结果表明我的推测没有错。

and so the challenges this now sets up for us is how do you start extracting the right kind of metadata,因此现阶段我们面临的挑战是如何着手提取出有用的元数据

set up建立；树立

It is now our aim to set up a factory.

我们现在的目的是创办一座工厂。

A committee was set up to look into the workers' grievances.

成立了一个委员会来调查工人的不满。