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15:48:29 <ddahl> meeting: Voice Interaction Community Group
15:48:41 <ddahl> chair: Debbie
15:48:48 <ddahl> scribe: ddahl
15:49:04 <ddahl> regrets:Bev
15:49:27 <ddahl> regrets+ Jon (partial)
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15:52:06 <ddahl> agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-voiceinteraction/2021Mar/0001.html
16:15:19 <ddahl> topic: Jim's suggestions
16:15:29 <ddahl> present:jim, debbie
16:16:28 <ddahl> Jim's comments: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-voiceinteraction/2021Mar/0002.html
16:18:59 <ddahl> jim: the document should discuss interfaces
16:19:27 <ddahl> debbie: there's another document called "interfaces", very rudimentary
16:19:36 <ddahl> jim: who is the audience?
16:20:04 <ddahl> debbie: one audience is developers for application developers
16:20:14 <ddahl> ...also platform developers
16:20:27 <ddahl> jim: there should be a sentence describing audience
16:20:37 <ddahl> debbie: we should add that
16:21:15 <ddahl> jim: what is the problem?
16:21:23 <ddahl> debbie: I think it's interoperability
16:21:40 <ddahl> jim: I think that's the main purpose
16:22:12 <ddahl> ...describe principles about how the partition was arrived at
16:22:37 <ddahl> ...general software principles could be referenced
16:23:11 <ddahl> ...there is a nice hierarchical partitioning
16:24:15 <ddahl> debbie: we were using a  traditional partitioning for conversational systems
16:24:30 <ddahl> jim: this should be included in the document
16:24:34 <ddahl> debbie: agree
16:26:16 <ddahl> jim: 2.1 this is a specialized IPA
16:27:27 <ddahl> debbie: it was supposed to be general, maybe we should remove this because it's not consistent with the later walkthrough
16:27:44 <ddahl> jim: what is the difference between general and specialized IPA
16:28:25 <ddahl> debbie: the general IPA does general things, but it's a portal to more specialized IPA's
16:28:52 <ddahl> jim: the general IPA is something like current smart speakers
16:29:13 <ddahl> ...our audience will be building specialized IPA's, not the general IPA's
16:29:39 <ddahl> ...maybe the document should focus on specialized IPA's
16:30:00 <ddahl> debbie: I think we have to talk about both because they have to interoperate
16:30:34 <ddahl> jim: the target should be specialized IPA's
16:30:56 <ddahl> debbie: what's the role of standards with specialized IPA's
16:31:20 <ddahl> jim: they could share components like ASR or TTS
16:32:14 <ddahl> ...maybe only the front end is generalized
16:34:02 <ddahl> ...a generalized IPA can answer anything in the world
16:34:11 <ddahl> ...it could be a portal to a specialized IPA
16:35:29 <ddahl> debbie: the generalized IPA knows about public information
16:35:48 <ddahl> jim: generalized IPA could be a portal to a specialized IPA
16:36:02 <ddahl> ...much like a web browser
16:36:30 <ddahl> ...a specialized IPA knows information about a particular business
16:37:26 <ddahl> debbie: more general, e.g. government, nonprofit, school
16:38:18 <ddahl> ...we should not drop this because we need them to interoperate
16:38:46 <ddahl> ...we should have more explanation about the difference
16:40:09 <ddahl> ...between general and specialized IPA's
16:40:54 <ddahl> jim: this document provides information for specialized IPA's
16:41:15 <ddahl> ...there will be few generalized IPA's
16:44:07 <ddahl> jim: begin architecture section with 3 high level boxes and then expand
16:44:41 <ddahl> debbie: I like the idea of making it more multimodal
16:45:06 <ddahl> jim: more IPA's will have screens
16:46:04 <ddahl> ...move ASR and TTS out of dialog box into client box
16:46:33 <ddahl> +1
16:46:50 <ddahl> jim: what is a "session"?
16:47:15 <ddahl> debbie: we should define what we mean by "session"
16:47:31 <ddahl> jim: may extend over days, multiple users could come and go
16:48:14 <ddahl> ...standards committees have ongoing sessions with multiple meetings
16:48:45 <ddahl> debbie: credentials
16:49:32 <ddahl> next time restart at "client activation strategy"
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