W3C

– DRAFT –
Voice Interaction Community Group

17 November 2021

Attendees

Present
debbie tobias bev, dirk
Regrets
Dirk
Chair
Debbie
Scribe
ddahl

Meeting minutes

<Bev> Hello

mycroft

debbie: could mycroft be used to demonstrate interoperability?

www.mycroft.ai

debbie: open source with open license

tobias: could we do a demo for our work?

debbie: spec progress
… in the W3C, we have Community Groups, don't have official specs, we're just developing ideas
… if specs become popular or if W3C start a Working Group, which does propose formal specs
… Web Speech API was a Community Group, published a few years ago

https://w3c.github.io/voiceinteraction/voice%20interaction%20drafts/paInterfaces/paInterfaces.htm

tobias: should make a plan for 2022 at one of our calls

<Bev> Dirk joined the meeting

tobias: could develop some ideas for what a working group might cover

tobias: develop work packages

<Bev> Discussed workshop at TPAC and in the works

<Bev> Discussed community group maturity and working groups

interfaces document

dirk describes IPA client

bev: on technical architecture, is this for edge computing

dirk: not familiar with edge architecture

bev: uses local resources, not in the cloud

debbie: I think this is supposed to be location-agnostic

dirk: IPA is probably on user's device and dialog is in the cloud

debbie: encourage sending questions to public list

tobias: would the next steps be to specify the interfaces between blocks

debbie: we should work on the main interfaces
… as a priority

tobias: could show how DIN spec goes between client and dialog

dirk: interface could be EMMA between client and dialog

tobias: DIN only differs in a couple of parameters from EMMA

debbie: may want to think about conveying binary data
… like audio

bev: how to detect different types of voice

debbie: EMMA can represent biometrics, but not too much actual work has been done

dirk: thinking of how the MMI Architecture applies
… could align terminology with MMI

tobias: could visualize how a voice command could work through the architecture

dirk: sequence diagrams

ACTION: tobias to create a diagram

Summary of action items

  1. tobias to create a diagram
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Maybe present: bev, debbie, tobias