Voice Interaction – 11 September 2024

Meeting minutes

<ddahl0> gerard: Horizon programs

<ddahl0> ...have to be part of a European group

<ddahl0> gerard: W3C is working on federated learning, important for secure data

<ddahl0> gerard: how to find hospitals interested in the project because they don't want to share any data

<ddahl0> debbie: we could start with simulated data

<ddahl0> debbie: users are intended to be medical people

<ddahl0> ....the data could be generic, not specific to a particular patient

<ddahl0> gerard: we would need partners

<ddahl0> ....there should be a demonstration that it works

<ddahl0> ...embedded data is used for training the model

<ddahl0> ...the data is shared among all the users

<ddahl0> ...the model can be wrong if not being trained properly

<ddahl0> ...homomorphic encryption is the way to go for shared data

<ddahl0> gerard: use case is medical doctor needs to have access to a model trained on data for all over the world.

<ddahl0> ....Parkinsons disease would be a good use case

<ddahl0> gerard: we can simulate the situation -- early detection, rehabilition, drugs, clinical trials

<ddahl0> ....just came back from Interspeech, there were many sessions on this, next year in Rotterdam

<ddahl0> ...we have a medical partner in Paris, maybe Germany

<ddahl0> debbie: primary care and expert physicans would be needed

<ddahl0> ....Parkinsons is very common

<ddahl0> gerard: artificial voice or prosthetics