W3C

– DRAFT –
Voice Interaction

12 January 2022

Attendees

Present
bev, Debbie, dirk, Jim, jon
Regrets
-
Chair
Debbie
Scribe
ddahl

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?

Summary of action items

  1. dirk to fill in tables
  2. debbie to build EMMA examples
  3. jim to introduce Dirk to Marten
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 185 (Thu Dec 2 18:51:55 2021 UTC).