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Voice Interaction Community Group

28 May 2026

Attendees

Present
debbie, dirk, gerard
Regrets
-
Chair
debbie
Scribe
ddahl

Meeting minutes

gerard: Jean-Claude will not be able to be here. he has the proposal but has not responded

debbie: can we do anything before we hear from him?

gerard: we could improve the text and then put it in the right format

debbie: should we look at it now?

gerard: will share screen with the proposal

from the 14th of May

gerard: we should inform the participants in the workshop about this in case they want to participate

dirk: do we have a specific template for the papers?

gerard: we don't have a template for the papers, but we have a template for our proposal

debbie: jean-claude should have a template for the papers

gerard: will ask jean-claude about a paper template

debbie: we'll need the template for when we publish the call

dirk: Springer has an editorial manager where the submitters can upload their papers

debbie: we should have a way that people can look at the CfP

debbie: when we get the feedback, we can make sure the submission machinery is in place

debbie: what can we add to the Call for Papers?

dirk: can we put all the text in normal fonts?

debbie: should we try to sort the topics so they're more grouped?

debbie: should dirk and I take turns polishing the text?

dirk: would like to have a place where we can edit jointly?

dirk: can consolidate these documents and put it in Google Docs

debbie: will take a pass after that

dirk: will look to see if there is an editable version

gerard: will send the .odt version

debbie: we should tell jean-claude not to look at it yet, we're still working

debbie: should we have a goal of having a polished version by our next call?

link to springer guidelines https://link.springer.com/journal/12193/submission-guidelines?IFA

gerard: sent the first version

debbie: we could use some of the workshop website information

dirk: let's try to prepare something for the next time

Voice Interaction Community Group

dirk: complete 1.3 of architecture document
… doesn't make much sense to continue interfaces

debbie: how to close it off?

dirk: can revisit open issues and close as deprecated

debbie: we should add a "status of this document" that it's being closed off
… the same thing could be said for the JROSI, it's become obsolute because of LLM

dirk: comparing grounding work with Kristiina, we could work on those, knowledge graphs

dirk: there's a working group working on knowledge graphs, but they're more interested in structure
… we could invite kristiina once more

dirk: need to find a good time slot

dirk: do you have any other ideas?

debbie: is there an extension of the architecture that we could do?
… robots, multimodal, physical AI?

dirk: someone needs to start and check a bit on those

debbie: will take a look at that
… people are also working on small language models, not sure if there's scope for that work within our group

todos: dirk could be in charge of interfaces, debbie to be in charge of JROSI, dirk will set up call for papers document, then debbie will review that, dirk will look at github issues for architecture, dirk will talk to kristiina to see if she can join us to talk about grounding and knowledge graphs, debbie will look at physical AI and robots

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