Meeting minutes
2022 plans
debbie: let's talk about interfaces document
debbie: just getting started
debbie: talked about priorities for communication
dirk: shows interfaces diagram
debbie: client input and client response
debbie: client input will mainly be speech + metadata
dirk: would EMMA be suitable?
… properties are in section 4.1
debbie: output will also be audio in general
dirk: could also be text
jim: do we need to list other kinds of multimodal data?
… it seems kind of vague
dirk: yes, didn't define this precisely
jim: more types of metadata?
debbie: let's not detail these at this point
jim: what do you mean by multimodal input?
dirk: pen, text,
jim: should add some examples of multimodal inputs
jim: are these categories or data items?
jim: could distinguish categories from data items
… metadata and multimodal are categories
dirk: add another column for category
<Bev> Hello
debbie: do we agree that these are the priorities
jim: yes
debbie: the client response is primarily audio
dirk: should we add a request id?
debbie: yes
jim: identifying major elements of client input and response
… the other communication paths are ASR input and semantic input
… these are the priorities
… will build tables for these
debbie: can build EMMA examples
jim: should we build EMMA examples or finish building tables
debbie: let's do both at the same time
ACTION: dirk to fill in tables
ACTION: debbie to build EMMA examples
debbie: we should publish an update then
architecture
debbie: should we update the architecture?
jim: we should do some publicity for architecture
jon: has reached out to people in the voice world, for example Project Voice in Chattanooga
debbie: could write about in standards
dirk: will check about Conversational Interaction
jim: is there a place in Europe?
ACTION: jim to introduce Dirk to Marten
jon: voice lunch is focused on conversational design
jon: there are places to go to push this work into the public eye
jim: what about a blog?
jon: we can publish on LinkedIn, but the problem is getting people to read it
… same thing about podcasts
debbie: should we plan to update the architecture?
dirk: probably not now
JSON semantic representation
debbie: is it still important to have a JSON version of EMMA?
dirk: it would be beneficial, because JSON is preferred
debbie: review JROSI
jim: should that be a different community group?
debbie: would there be some participation?
jim: organize a community group about semantics
debbie: people like to start something new
jim: what about in the W3C?
debbie: new W3C workshop
jim: presentation at W3C plenary?