W3C

– DRAFT –
Voice Interaction Community Group

10 March 2021

Attendees

Present
debbie, jim
Regrets
Bev, Jon (partial)
Chair
Debbie
Scribe
ddahl

Meeting minutes

Jim's suggestions

Jim's comments: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-voiceinteraction/2021Mar/0002.html

jim: the document should discuss interfaces

debbie: there's another document called "interfaces", very rudimentary

jim: who is the audience?

debbie: one audience is developers for application developers
… also platform developers

jim: there should be a sentence describing audience

debbie: we should add that

jim: what is the problem?

debbie: I think it's interoperability

jim: I think that's the main purpose
… describe principles about how the partition was arrived at
… general software principles could be referenced
… there is a nice hierarchical partitioning

debbie: we were using a traditional partitioning for conversational systems

jim: this should be included in the document

debbie: agree

jim: 2.1 this is a specialized IPA

debbie: it was supposed to be general, maybe we should remove this because it's not consistent with the later walkthrough

jim: what is the difference between general and specialized IPA

debbie: the general IPA does general things, but it's a portal to more specialized IPA's

jim: the general IPA is something like current smart speakers
… our audience will be building specialized IPA's, not the general IPA's
… maybe the document should focus on specialized IPA's

debbie: I think we have to talk about both because they have to interoperate

jim: the target should be specialized IPA's

debbie: what's the role of standards with specialized IPA's

jim: they could share components like ASR or TTS
… maybe only the front end is generalized
… a generalized IPA can answer anything in the world
… it could be a portal to a specialized IPA

debbie: the generalized IPA knows about public information

jim: generalized IPA could be a portal to a specialized IPA
… much like a web browser
… a specialized IPA knows information about a particular business

debbie: more general, e.g. government, nonprofit, school
… we should not drop this because we need them to interoperate
… we should have more explanation about the difference
… between general and specialized IPA's

jim: this document provides information for specialized IPA's
… there will be few generalized IPA's

jim: begin architecture section with 3 high level boxes and then expand

debbie: I like the idea of making it more multimodal

jim: more IPA's will have screens
… move ASR and TTS out of dialog box into client box

+1

jim: what is a "session"?

debbie: we should define what we mean by "session"

jim: may extend over days, multiple users could come and go
… standards committees have ongoing sessions with multiple meetings

debbie: credentials

next time restart at "client activation strategy"

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