– DRAFT –
Voice Interaction

Spoken Presentation

https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/task-forces/spoken-presentation/#:~:text=The%20objective%20of%20the%20Spoken,and%20users'%20preferred%20assistive%20technologies.

debbie: can we do anything with the Spoken Presentation Task Force?

dirk: what about AI, won't that help?
… what about dynamic chat bot output?
… that would be more complementary to what we're doing

https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/task-forces/spoken-presentation/#:~:text=The%20objective%20of%20the%20Spoken,and%20users'%20preferred%20assistive%20technologies.

debbie: will convert spreadsheet to markdown so that everyone can edit

github issues

issue 70

dirk: agent group has done a nice comparison of protocols
… this would be good for the OVON group to see https://w3c-cg.github.io/ai-agent-protocol/
… they have overlap with the web agent group

debbie: we should read these and decide if there is useful information

https://w3c-cg.github.io/webagents/TaskForces/Interoperability/Reports/report-interoperability.html

debbie: these are not focused on conversational agents

workshop

kaz: what is the difference between our workshop and AI agent workshop
… we will be focusing on voice and multimodal
… we want to improve interoperability

<kaz> Thanks to the advancement of HTML5 and related Web technologies, Web applications with speech capability are getting more and more popular for ease of user interaction and richer user experience, such as Apple's SIRI, Google's Voice Assistant, and Amazon's Alexa.

even simpler applications with speech capability are getting more and more popular for ease of user interaction and richer user experience,

kaz: if we update the sentences in the background the proposal could be acceptable.
… will bring the proposal to the strategy team next Tuesday

<kaz> workshop repo

kaz: could dirk update the original github issue on the Smart Agents workshop?

debbie: did we talk about changing the name to Voice Agents?

kaz: or Smart Voice Agents

debbie: that would be fine with me

kaz: should be held before TPAC (November), so how about September?

kaz: twenty or thirty people would be fine

kaz: twenty speakers and some more audience

dirk: need approval from the strategy team, then we have to form program committee and get position papers

debbie: position statement could be very lightweight

kaz: should have participation from tech companies

debbie: what about governments?

kaz: they should be interested in accessibility

debbie: also smart cities
… also Web of Things

dirk: summarize the next action points

debbie: dirk needs to update the CFP
… kaz will bring it to the strategy team
… kaz can tell us outcome next week

dirk: do we have a link to the other workshop?

<kaz> w3c/strategy#507

dirk: this is mostly about collaboration among agents and not interaction