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{ "meetingId": "IS1004c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay? Good afternoon. Hope you have good lunch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Afternoon. Yeah, we had falafel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Nice. And you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, yes, I had something similar but non-vegetarian.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So today is um our third meeting. It will be about the conceptual design uh. If I come back to uh the minutes of the last meetings um. We decided not to go for speech recognition technologies because of some reasons and we are not decided about u the use of L_C_D_ screen on on the remote control because of costs. So maybe we cou wi will be able to clarify this this question to today. Uh at the end of the meeting we should take decision on that point. So I hope uh that your respective pr presentations uh will help us. So each of you have some presentatio presentation to perform um who starts?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you are you saved your y your presentation somewhere?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you're four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which is trend watch. Okay. Mr Marketing Experts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Well I investigate the preference more d I investigate deeper the preference of the users. Uh so the the current investigation th uh th uh sorry the current the n current trends?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay. Okay. Well wha what I found um can you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next slide? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thank you. What I found in order of importance from less to more important is that people want an easy to use device. After they they want something new technologic technologically speaking, but the most what they what they find more more interesting, more or more important it's uh a fancy look and feel instead of uh instead of the current the current trend which was f the functional look and feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So now more more cool aspect, ma more a cooler aspect uh rather than a device with many functions and many buttons with instead of i instead of ha of a device which can do many things, a device which is pleasant to to watch, to see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh also Well in in Euro in in Paris and and Milan the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "in Paris and in Paris and Milan the the current trend of uh of clothes, furniture and all this all this fashion it's it's fruit and the the the theme is fruit and vegetables.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also in the in the U_S_A_ the the current the mor the most popular feeling it's it's a spongy. Spongy means eponge?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe we should we should think in in this direction, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What what do you mean by fruit and vegetables and spongy?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What you mean clothe", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Spongy means it it's like sp", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fruit vegetables is the the new have you seen the last exposition of clothes in Milan?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I missed that one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I didn't miss an.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't miss and I saw that the fruit, there are many fr pictures of fruits and vegetables in the clothes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, they're okay so they're not like dressed as a carrot they just have like pictures of fruit on, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no, not not yet, not yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're not gonna have a remote control in the shape of of a banana,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So te textu textures, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Vegetable textures and all this kind.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Drawings of bananas.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But what's your suggestion how we can have some shape like that on the remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well so this is in the next slide certainly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh no no, it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So which fruit are you thinking of?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I ha I haven't thought of any particular fruit, but the general aspect of the of the remote control may may could remind some kind of vegetable, some kind of instead of vegetable, some natur mm uh natural object or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But yeah it it depends on the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe you maybe you can display a banana on the L_C_D_..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, so you want the remote control to be the shape of a fruit,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or you want just some kind of like fruit logo on the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Means buttons are in the shape of fruits,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe the shape the shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "buttons are in the frape shape of fruits or something, apple, banana, something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, not n not not too much focus, not too much focu not n not too s not too similar to a fruit because next year the ten the trend the trend will be different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Apple for channel one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we shouldn't be at re really attached to to the trend", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So something that looks half like a fruit and half like an elephant..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but For instance, yeah. African or as an elephant?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That we can discuss afterwards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But okay,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not, I'm not really sure if uh that would really appeal to everyone though, maybe just to fashion gurus, like maybe just like a little bit n a little fruit picture somewhere in the corner, but I don't know about uh I dunno how ergonomic a, an orange is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well ma maybe we we should further specify what target are we focusing. I think in my opinion we should focus on on young people because they are more open to new devi new devices", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To fruit?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and also yeah according to the marketing report ninety p ninety five percent of young people was was was able to to buy a a n a cooler remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But is it uh is fruit cool?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is fruit cool?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Uh Is the new trend of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I guess, you know, Apple has the iPod so, imagi.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just'cause they have an apple on their on their product, doesn't mean fruit is cool..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I think we we should think about a a shape with it a device with a shape of some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but it has to be easy to uh to use though and to hold you know, you don't wanna pear or a watermelon..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Don don't you think we can find uh the shape of a fruit which is handy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, probably the only thing is a banana that I can think of,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a cucumber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe too long.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or m", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe. Too green.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, but I mean you also have to you have to also have, fit r all the buttons and you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A banana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's, it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The thing is you have t normally with um with buttons, they have to be at some point attached to a circuit board so if you're gonna have things like on a cylindrical kind of device it may be difficult to kind of to build.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't th it will be rolling a lot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but I li I like your idea that we shouldn't have a lot of buttons b buttons so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah and you you you will not have pla enough a lot of place to put a L_C_D_ on a banana also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh do you want a an L_C_D_ with twenty five Euros?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you're the Marketing Expert you should tell us if it is too much or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, this is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think Well, according to the to the report people are more interested in in a fa fancy look and feel and in a technological inno in innovation,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so, I will give more importance to the look and feel than rather than the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So So you you you suggest to go f", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "new inputs and also it's I'm not convinced about this L_C_D_ because you need uh internet connection, you need more things, it's not just buying a new control re remote, you need buying control remote, buying uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. S so you're simply", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "more things. It's not so simple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you're simply looking s to a remote control that looks like a banana with few buttons with only a few buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For instance, yeah. Yeah for for for given an an example yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay good. So maybe you can go ahead?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah no, it's what I already said.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Thanks. Um. Okay, I'll give the floor. So you are User Interface guy. So you're three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's this one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay. So. S next uh slide. Okay. So I received an email um around lunchtime letting me know that the brilliant minds at our technology division had developed an integrated programmable sample sensor sample speaker unit, um which is a way for you to have a conversation with your coffee machine and or remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's just a speaker right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's no, what it is, it's it's very.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not a microphone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It has a has a microphone, has a speaker, it's got a little chip and it allows you t", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Actually I'm not reading microphone there, so that's why you can all have conversation, it just to speak to you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, it's a sample sensor sample speaker. Sample sensor sample speaker. It means that it can recognize, it can do like a match on a on a certain phrase that you speak and then can play back a phrase in response to that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh there's no kind of um understanding of the phrase. So, I mean, you know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess you could build that in, you could you could link the the recognition of a certain phrase to some function on on the remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But basically the thing is, we have this technology available", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In-house.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in-house. So, um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but the thing is obviously there's still gonna be a cost if you decided to integrate that because you still have to pay for the c production of the components,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so um it it but it basically means we c we can kind of consider this from uh you know uh a theoretical or usability kind of viewpoint without worrying too much about you know how to develop it because we have this already done.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whilst you know, some people might get annoyed if we uh if we just dump it,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I there's something that I unclear really understanding. Is this a technology that recognize keywords speech keywords?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it it's no, well, it's it'll recognize uh I guess keywords, but you know keywords in a certain order like a phrase. You train it for a certain uh, for a certain phrase, you say the the example they said that they have uh up and running with their prototype is um well they've actually integrated into the into the the coffee machine that uh that we're producing is, you can say good morning to the coffee machine and it can recognize that phrase and it'll playback good morning, how would you like your coffee?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's just to, it's just to playback something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So actually that was a bad example,'cause it doesn't actually ask how do you want your coffee because it can't really understand the response, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. So this is not s really to do to to do control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only, like, only in the sense that it it can recognize a set a set target kind of word an", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is just more like a poi pois yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's designed it's designed as a fun kind of thing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I guess you could use it as uh as a way to implement uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it it's c uh it it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but you can u", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it is a uh uh easy uh a fancy thing that you you can bring to we can bring to the remote control that will not have any uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Completely pointless yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah comp completely pointless for the inter for from the interaction point of v point of view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, unless you know, you like having conversation with your remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but the can we use it for saying okay, channel fifty, channel twenty?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah, that's the thing, if you can but you have to pro though I think it's a fairly simple design so you would have to record into the device every possible combination, you have to s tr train it to l to learn channel fifteen, that whole thing, not just the word channel and the word fifteen, it doesn't have that kind of logic in it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. So this is so this is this is much more than tak taking this technology, bringing it to the remote control and using it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be some development work.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is out of discussion. So if if if it is something that you can we can bring easily and to put it into the banana remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M Mando.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Banana-mando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No this is mm banana-bando, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Banana-man.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Banana-mando yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh then it could be cool yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, let's go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I uh I I I don't think it's worth it though, I think it doesn't really add much to the functional design and it's it's it's not mature enough to use as a speech recognition engine, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. So if we can just move on to the next slide, I've just done a quick mock-up of uh uh some of the features of our potential funky-looking uh remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It doesn't look like a banana at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you see, I was I was unaware at this point of th of the fruit focus,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um, so at the moment it's more of a box focus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you you can fit i you're saying now you can fit it to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Looks like a tr look likes a a tro a tropical fruit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, this is actu this could be a genetically engineered fruit that's designed to be you know square so that it packs tighter in the boxes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um, I've just indicated here, we could have actually two scroll wheels,'cause I think the scroll wheel is a fairly um key part of, you know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Stable thing, that's right. To have,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think everyone has has agreed that it's that it could be quite a useful um thing, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I think it's important, you know, to have two scroll wheels because, you know, you want one for for the channel, but you also want one for for the volume,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it's it's the volume i it's, you know it's very handy for it to have uh instant kind of uh feedback uh and response, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um, I've also included this turbo button because I think, you know, every design should have a turbo button, and well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's a turbo button?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so this is you know, a unique problem with with televisions is that if you have this scro this scroll wheel for the television, the uh the tuner on the T_V_ is not gonna be able to to switch between stations as fast as you can scroll, so you know, the th the person might want to have a uh Might want to be able to scroll past television stations without seeing what's on them, in which case it just waits until you stop scrolling and then, you know, displays that station. Or they might want to scroll and and have a quick glimpse of it, even if it lags behind what they're doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It con it controls the speed?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so with this turbo button you can, say, skip over t channels if uh, you know, if I'm if I'm going if I'm scrolling past them and you know, it's um, you could have a little red light that comes up when they press it so they feel you know it's really going fast or whatever.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah, that's um, those are the two important uh features I think we need on the remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I mean we can discuss about what other kind of buttons we need, um. You know, i it could be, you know, if we if we wanna have like a very cheap kind of device, I mean, we could either consider that maybe we want to sell this as a very, if it's gonna be a banana, you know that's a pretty gimmicky kind of thing that doesn't have that much functionality, it's just you know a couple of scroll wheels and a button cause it's hard to get so many buttons on a banana", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it's still very it may even be for most for some people more functional than their current remote, but if they have these scroll wheels, so, um you know, what other buttons do we want?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean we could have well, I guess you need an on and off switch,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Switch on. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but you could you could o you could turn it turn it on by taking the top off the banana maybe, you know, it's kind of like a spy kind of flick thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So sounds crazy. I like crazy ideas.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's why you're a marketing guru..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So i it looks like we're going completely to forget about the L_C_D_ thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's the thing, as have we decided that we can only spend, uh, twenty five Euro?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well not spend, but you know, charge twenty five Euro.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think we could use somehow the s coffee machine dialogue interface or so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No we can we can't use that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You we can? We can't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can't use that to to comman co communicate,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Communicate.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's just a thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we can say channel twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's one way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you have to have a template for every channel, for a hundred channels, you have to be able to to recognize.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not a lot one hundred templates,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Well, I f I think it's probably more than, than our can handle because it's designed for a coffee machine, you know, to say hello in the morning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, it's designed for a cof okay. Is it design for a coffee machine?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's its current application, I would presume that it's kind of, they wouldn't design it to handle a hundred things th so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah. Maybe you could ask your the you could ask the engineering department if we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. A good good good thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You want to g to move to your slides?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're finished?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I just I just made the point, I don't I don't know if that speech recognition is, you know, even if we can do it, I think it's not really appropriate for uh television environment.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um I did have one thing from a previous meeting, you were talking about um being able to find the remote control", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I was talking about extendin being able to extend the remote control by having you know, a base station that can control other things as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It might be useful to have some kind of base station, even if it's just you press on a button on it and uh and the remote control starts beeping, you know, this is a way of finding the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y in that case maybe the maybe the speech recognition the speech thing could be useful just to say I'm here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh it's probably a bit of overkill if you could just have a a beeping.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's a speech synthesis kind of thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's speech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "something has been uh stored and it's just uh spoken out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's speech synthesis and s it's speech kind of, not really speech recognition, but kind of pattern matching, yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, let's move on. So you're two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is going to be about the component design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So first thing is we need power source for the remote control. So I was of the idea that we can have two kind of power supplies, one is the usual batteries which are there, they could be chargeable batteries if there's a basis station kind of thing and on top of that we can have solar cells, when the lighting conditions are good they can be used so it'll be pretty uh innovative kind. Then uh we need plastic with some elasticity so that if your if the remote control falls it's not broken directly into pieces, there should be some flexibility in t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess that fits in with the spongy kind of design philosophy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there should we should think of something like that and then it should be double curve. The s science for the ease of handling and there are some other issues why we need double curve. Then controls for the traditionals u traditional users we can have the push buttons so that they don't feel that it's an alien thing for them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, just one second, when you say double curve, what do you actually mean? You reckon you could like draw us a thing on the, on the whiteboard'cause I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Double curve is, you have curves on both the sides if I'm right. So it's symmetrical kind of thing, whatever it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but like, kind of convex or concave?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, it could be curve, so it could be convex, conve concave, depending on what what we want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there are flats, there are single curve and there are double curves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "These are the three things, and there are different materials, with plastic you can have double curve but with uh certain other materials we cannot have double curve. So there there was uh there were many other materials like wood, titanium and all those things, but plastic is I think is the most appropriate one,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it'll bring the cost down", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although, you know, wood could be uh quite a stylish uh option,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and anyway it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if you take like, nice quality kind of wood that's got a nice grain and you kind of put some, some varnish on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm but i but there is no elasticity which could be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wooden cases.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it depends, I mean, you have the outs the wood itself is not gonna break so you don't have to worry too much about the case being broken,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but the components inside.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's the inside. Yeah but inside you know you could have you can still have some kind of cushioning that's not visible to the to the user.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very too expensive to do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I mean you could also, you can have just a very thin veneer of wood as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it's more easier to do a banana in plastic than uh in wood.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true, but are we set on the banana idea?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it look like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it looks like you are all targeting that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was thinking that the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the shape of a banana is not it's not really handy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I don't know the name o o in English uh This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it an e apple which has.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's not a fruit it's a vegetable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like a pumpkin or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Pumpkin.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Green.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Green.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Green.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um um um, yes I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What does it taste like?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you put in the salad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pep pepperoni.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is it what's it in French?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Poivron.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oui c'est ca", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, so capsicum or pepper. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh pepper.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pepper.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um they do d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's al it also suits with the double curve for easy of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know, it seems a little bit kind of bulky to me, like", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I mean in a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not re it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like with a banana you can have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you you think it's really fancy and fun? You think that young people that are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sure it's fun..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. More than a banana?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But banana is not so handy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Banana is more handier as compared to this I think, and to capsicum.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that's handier.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But like a banana you can you can be holding like this and have the scroll wheel kind of on top", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and just roll it back and forth like that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's kind it's kind of it's more uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but with uh I don't know how you would hold a capsicum and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's really ergonomic, it's fit in the hand and you've a lot of surface to to put the controls.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah you're right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So time is running, let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so push buttons for the traditional users so that they don't feel they are alienated, just and a scroll button with push technology for channel selection, volume control and teletext browsing. These are the three scroll buttons which are already available with us in the company and we we can go ahead with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can go to the next slide. Then uh there are different kind of chips, one one is the basic chip and the regular chip and one an adva advanced chip. So we can have regular chip for control. Pricing is a factor for us, that's why we'll go for the regular chip. And uh regular chip supports speaker support, so this functionality could be used for tracing the mobile phone which has been misplaced.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is that, when you say speaker support, you mean it just has some output pinned which which which kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It could be a beep kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but the speaker is actually attached to the to the chip in some way, or is just the the signal?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, yes, that's right, it's it's onto the chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "most most probably, not not hundred per cent sure about that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So are there any issues where we place this this chip to make sure you can actually hear the the speaker from the outside of the banana?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That will be the volume control I think which which a user shou it it should be already pre-defined. It should be whatever will be the case, the chip is always going to be sitting inside.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, but the speaker, if the speaker is actually on the chip, then if it's too far away from the the casing, or if the casing is too thick, then you may not hear the the speaker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Uh, so we can have it at one of the boundaries so that things are slightly better.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "As or as hearing is concerned, we can have some gap at some place,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's something we have to keep in mind with the actual physical design is to keep the the speaker close enough to the outside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that That's right. Okay. Yeah. So these these were the component selection and these things. We can go to the next slide. And uh these were the findings which I I saw with the web web, that user wants to have control more than one device wants to control more than one device from the same remote control, so our T_V_ remote can have little extra things to support additional devices like V_C_R_ D_V_D_ players which are usually attached with the T_V_, because users are like this and they don't want to have one remote control for everything, so with this additional little, we might be having slightly better market for us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although, if It depends, if we like, if we are concentrating on like a fruit design, then maybe maybe we wanna sell a collection of fruit, you know, like a different fruit for each device.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Of fruits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cause that, you know, that sometimes people like to collect um you know things that of a similar type.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S objects.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remotes objects, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Crazy objects.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that would be funny at the beginning but after one month you will be tired of be surrounded of fruits.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you're the one who wanted to do fruit in the first place.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No but I think just one fruit to control everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like a power fruit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A power fr a power M a Mando, a Supermando fruit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh as well as I could see on the web the scroll button is becoming really uh hot thing s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we should have it on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually I I didn't understand very well this trace speaker lost control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you're having a basis station. Okay. Your usually your remote sits on that. So you and it's that's why it can have chargeable batteries. Now let's say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you you have to buy two things, the banana and the basis station.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bu it's it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Basis station is with the thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You s you you thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's like a telephone handset is there and the basis station for the telephone hand set is there. So now what user gets additionally he doesn't have to buy batteries, they're rechargeable batteries, so over the period of cor time he'll recover the cost. So you're having the basis station and there is a button, if you press that button wherever the remote it'll start beeping so you know where the remote is. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that's a pretty handy feature.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's kind of people would find that worth it even if it wasn't uh a recharging station, even if they didn't have to buy extra batteries, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but I'm a bit worried about the budget..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh this is basis station is nothing more, just it's a wire which is coming from the main cable and uh you're having one socket on which the thing sits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although you do need to include R_F_ kind of circuitry in the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. But all these things are usually in-house so we don't have much problems.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So component cost is going to be the least. Anyway, we are not using really advanced technology, L_C_D_ has already been ruled out, A_S_R_ has been ruled out. So it's the basic thing but very trendy and very user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm just wondering actually,'cause, you know, I this whole fruit thing with the banana, it's um it seemed like it first seems a bit kind of uh niche, like only a few people would really want a banana,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but what if it was kind of uh a stylised banana? You know, rather than having it kind of you know yellow and really looking exactly like a banana, you could make it kind of silver. And um, you know to give you kind of the idea of a banana but without it looking you know completely kitsch. For better want of a better word", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You think that yellow it's kitsch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you know, I don I don't know how many peop", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you make something that looks like a banana it should have the colour of a banana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A yeah, otherwise it'll be mis means you don't get b any feeling then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well they.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O otherwise.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe li like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's neither a banana nor a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like this colour this colour Maybe, you know, maybe like still in the shape of a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Roughly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly. Um, but you know, just maybe maybe not exactly the same texture as a banana and just kind of, you know because the thing is it's gonna be a little bit difficult to make um to give like the texture of a banana anyway and to k to have the exact shape. I think if you're gonna not be able to do it properly you may as well do it in a stylised way that just looks a bit more kind of, you know, twenty first century rather than sixties or seventies.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh going to the last slide.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh uh yeah. Before before st before ending the meeting I'd like to to draw some sketch about the pro future prot prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well no, not not you, you can finish your slides before.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, so. Anyway, users'll be so the findings is users'll be very interested in our locator device to find their misplaced remotes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that was very I thought it's a very good suggestion by everybody.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so mm so well done for the presentations. So we need to take some de decisions about um about what we're going to do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I I propose that you go to the whiteboard", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we're going to report all the ideas we had we had during this these presentations just to draw some sketch about what will be the prod final product", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh where Superman go banana and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh extra func functionalities such as wheels, um the speaker unit um well not in order not to lost the um the device,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do I don't remember you call it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. The basis station. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basis station, yeah. Uh so um so we're going for a stylish banana shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, I guess you wanna hold like the way the end of the banana you wanna kind of hold as ma you maybe wanna kinda hold like a gun rather than'cause you don't want it to point kind of towards the floor.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you know, so if you have like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about what about this shape? More or less.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's less space on this to put with the buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I if it i if it has really the model shape of a bana you could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but how many buttons do we need?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the the starting is good but it could it should have more the shape of a banana if you want to point really a at the thing. If you don't want to to to do that movement which is which is difficult if you don't have to do it in fact, it's better. So ti time is running,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh what about a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have to we have to we have to to move forward. So let's skip to uh this uh this this this idea. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have a a basis um, how do you call it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The base station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A base station.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We'll have a base station extra uh on the side.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, so I guess we need, you know, something that can fit a banana shaped object.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, we have a R_F_ for um for beeping for beeping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right, yeah, we need that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We need b R_F_ to beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we that means we need a button on th on the on the basis.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Basis station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basis station, thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so we need uh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you go quickly please?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we are going to add uh also um you as you suggested the whee some wheels to control the volumes and channels and your tur turbo turbo uh button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, which I think it's it's probably best actually on the on the underneath of the the device,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Turbo button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, on the th yeah, maybe here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the and the wheel a a at the level of the thumb for instance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, so you have the thumb kind of here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and you have two wheels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So yeah, you need one one here and one on on the other side, so you got volume an and channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay right. Good. So no L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, uh No L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay great. Um. Very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh we need a we need a power um on off switch as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for the remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, just the switch,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remotes don't have power on off switch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no f not for the T_V_ for the T_V_. Uh so you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. S no, that'll be controlled by the those buttons'll be there already, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What a", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Means on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On the side.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because remote is going to have both the interfaces, scroll as well as buttons. They are not going to cost you much, everything is in-house and now you don't want the traditional users to be apprehensive of this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I dunno if the traditional user is gonna buy a a banana remote in the first place, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. That's that's another issue which I didn't think of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y I mean you need to kind of keep it um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you know our targets are very high, means fifty million Euros is the profit which we want make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, how many of these did we wanna sell? I can't remember,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twenty five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twelve point five is the profit on one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but how many units did we need to to sell?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh forty th four. Point point four million?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four millions?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four point four million.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Point four million.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's a lot of fruit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In the market.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. Well. No. Time is running, we have to close the meeting in a few minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, okay, the next step, you can come back to your seat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next step is to go for to f is to go to uh to building a prototype, based on this, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So next meeting you guys have to prepare the followi things. You have to uh work on the look and feel uh design and you have to work on the user interface, in fact you two you have to work together to model the first uh f first prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh Marketing Expert uh have to go to product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I wo what about adding the this word spotting, keyword spotting recognition saying volume up volume down?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's too difficult.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too difficult but people like innovation and that's really uh innovative and I don't know if it would cost a lot, just a few five words.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not a possi it will not be possible to implement it for the next prototype, so t it's in the next prototype so let's skip it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the future prototypes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe, for the n if if if it it works well, we'll go for uh an orange one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That can be the t That can be like the turbo banana plus plus commando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, honour the fruit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus plus, okay. Maybe objective banana?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks very much. We'll see n next meeting. Bye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So meeting's over?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. We have to go design the prototype.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The problem is after all this meeting there is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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Almost.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We already made it into one.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's the best thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, tell me about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's well, it's spectral subtraction or Wiener filtering, um, depending on if we put if we square the transfer function or not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then with over - estimation of the noise, depending on the, uh the SNR, with smoothing along time, um, smoothing along frequency.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's very simple, smoothing things.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um, the best result is when we apply this procedure on FFT bins, uh, with a Wiener filter.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And there is no noise addition after after that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's good because it's difficult when we have to add noise to to to find the right level.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Are you looking at one in in particular of these two?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the sh it's the sheet that gives fifty - f three point sixty - six.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, the second sheet is abo uh, about the same. It's the same, um, idea but it's working on mel bands, and it's a spectral subtraction instead of Wiener filter, and there is also a noise addition after, uh, cleaning up the mel bins. Mmm. Well, the results are similar.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, it's it's actually, uh, very similar.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, if you look at databases, uh, the, uh, one that has the smallest smaller overall number is actually better on the Finnish and Spanish, uh, but it is, uh, worse on the, uh, Aurora.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's worse on.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean on the, uh, TI - TI - digits,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "on the multi - condition in TI - digits. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, uh. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, it probably doesn't matter that much either way. But, um, when you say u uh, unified do you mean, uh, it's one piece of software now, or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So now we are, yeah, setting up the software.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, it should be ready, uh, very soon. Um, and we", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what's what's happened? I think I've missed something.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. So a week ago maybe you weren't around when when when Hynek and Guenther and I?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hynek was here.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So Yeah, let's summarize. Um And then if I summarize somebody can tell me if I'm wrong, which will also be possibly helpful. What did I just press here? I hope this is still working.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "p - p - p", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We, uh we looked at, uh anyway we after coming back from QualComm we had, you know, very strong feedback and, uh, I think it was Hynek and Guenter's and my opinion also that, um, you know, we sort of spread out to look at a number of different ways of doing noise suppression. But given the limited time, uh, it was sort of time to choose one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, and so, uh, th the vector Taylor series hadn't really worked out that much. Uh, the subspace stuff, uh, had not been worked with so much. Um, so it sort of came down to spectral subtraction versus Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, we had a long discussion about how they were the same and how they were d uh, completely different.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, I mean, fundamentally they're the same sort of thing but the math is a little different so that there's a a there's an exponent difference in the index you know, what's the ideal filtering, and depending on how you construct the problem.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, I guess it's sort you know, after after that meeting it sort of made more sense to me because um, if you're dealing with power spectra then how are you gonna choose your error? And typically you'll do choose something like a variance. And so that means it'll be something like the square of the power spectra. Whereas when you're when you're doing the the, uh, um, looking at it the other way, you're gonna be dealing with signals", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and you're gonna end up looking at power uh, noise power that you're trying to reduce. And so, eh so there should be a difference of you know, conceptually of of, uh, a factor of two in the exponent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But there're so many different little factors that you adjust in terms of of, uh, uh, over - subtraction and and and and and so forth, um, that arguably, you're c and and and the choice of do you do you operate on the mel bands or do you operate on the FFT beforehand. There're so many other choices to make that are are almost well, if not independent, certainly in addition to the choice of whether you, uh, do spectral subtraction or Wiener filtering, that, um, @ @ again we sort of felt the gang should just sort of figure out which it is they wanna do and then let's pick it, go forward with it. So that's that was that was last week. And and, uh, we said, uh, take a week, go arm wrestle, you know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "figure it out. I mean, and th the joke there was that each of them had specialized in one of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and so they so instead they went to Yosemite and bonded, and and they came out with a single single piece of software. So it's another another victory for international collaboration. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So so you guys have combined or you're going to be combining the software?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, the piece of software has, like, plenty of options,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh boy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like you can parse command - line arguments. So depending on that, it it becomes either spectral subtraction or Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, ye", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "They're close enough.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, that's fine, but the thing is the important thing is that there is a piece of software that you that we all will be using now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's just one piece of software.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I need to allow it to do everything and even more more than this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, if we want to, like, optimize different parameters of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Parameters. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can do it later. But, still so, there will be a piece of software with, uh, will give this system, the fifty - three point sixty - six, by default and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "How how is how good is that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I I don't have a sense of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's just one percent off of the best proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Best system.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's between i we are second actually if we take this system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Compared to the last evaluation numbers? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, uh w which we sort of were before", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but we were considerably far behind. And the thing is, this doesn't have neural net in yet for instance. You know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it so, um, it's it it's not using our full bal bag of tricks, if you will.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, and it it is, uh, very close in performance to the best thing that was there before. Uh, but, you know, looking at it another way, maybe more importantly, uh, we didn't have any explicit noise, uh, handling stationary dealing with e e we didn't explicitly have anything to deal with stationary noise.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And now we do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So will the neural net operate on the output from either the Wiener filtering or the spectral subtraction? Or will it operate on the original?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, so so so argu arguably, I mean, what we should do I mean, I gather you have it sounds like you have a few more days of of nailing things down with the software and so on. But and then but, um, arguably what we should do is, even though the software can do many things, we should for now pick a set of things, th these things I would guess, and not change that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then focus on everything that's left. And I think, you know, that our goal should be by next week, when Hynek comes back, uh, to uh, really just to have a firm path, uh, for the you know, for the time he's gone, of of, uh, what things will be attacked. But I would I would I would thought think that what we would wanna do is not futz with this stuff for a while because what'll happen is we'll change many other things in the system,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and then we'll probably wanna come back to this and possibly make some other choices. But, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But just conceptually, where does the neural net go? Do do you wanna h run it on the output of the spectrally subtracted?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, depending on its size Well, one question is, is it on the, um, server side or is it on the terminal side? Uh, if it's on the server side, it you probably don't have to worry too much about size.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that's kind of an argument for that. We do still, however, have to consider its latency. So the issue is is, um, for instance, could we have a neural net that only looked at the past?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, what we've done in uh in the past is to use the neural net, uh, to transform, um, all of the features that we use. So this is done early on. This is essentially, um, um I guess it's it's more or less like a spee a speech enhancement technique here.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? where we're just kind of creating new if not new speech at least new new FFT's that that have you know, which could be turned into speech uh, that that have some of the noise removed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, after that we still do a mess of other things to to produce a bunch of features.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then those features are not now currently transformed by the neural net. And then the the way that we had it in our proposal - two before, we had the neural net transformed features and we had the untransformed features, which I guess you you actually did linearly transform with the KLT,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but but but uh, to orthogonalize them but but they were not, uh, processed through a neural net. And Stephane's idea with that, as I recall, was that you'd have one part of the feature vector that was very discriminant and another part that wasn't,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, which would smooth things a bit for those occasions when, uh, the testing set was quite different than what you'd trained your discriminant features for. So, um, all of that is is, uh still seems like a good idea. The thing is now we know some other constraints. We can't have unlimited amounts of latency. Uh, y you know, that's still being debated by the by people in Europe but, uh, no matter how they end up there, it's not going to be unlimited amounts,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so we have to be a little conscious of that. Um. So there's the neural net issue. There's the VAD issue. And, uh, there's the second stream thing. And I think those that we last time we agreed that those are the three things that have to get, uh, focused on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What was the issue with the VAD?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, better ones are good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so the w the default, uh, boundaries that they provide are they're OK, but they're not all that great?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I guess they still allow two hundred milliseconds on either side or some? Is that what the deal is?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, so th um, they keep two hundred milliseconds at the beginning and end of speech. And they keep all the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Outside the beginnings and end.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And all the speech pauses, which is Sometimes on the SpeechDat - Car you have pauses that are more than one or two seconds.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "More than one second for sure. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. And, yeah, it seems to us that this way of just dropping the beginning and end is not We cou we can do better, I think,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because, um, with this way of dropping the frames they improve over the baseline by fourteen percent and Sunil already showed that with our current VAD we can improve by more than twenty percent.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "On top of the VAD that they provide?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Just using either their VAD or our current VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Our way.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, our current VAD is is more than twenty percent, while their is fourteen.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Theirs is fourteen? I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So. Yeah. And another thing that we did also is that we have all this training data for let's say, for SpeechDat - Car. We have channel zero which is clean, channel one which is far - field microphone. And if we just take only the, um, VAD probabilities computed on the clean signal and apply them on the far - field, uh, test utterances, then results are much better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In some cases it divides the error rate by two.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it means that there are stim still.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How how much latency does the, uh does our VAD add?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "If if we can have a good VAD, well, it would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is it significant,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, right now it's, um, a neural net with nine frames.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's forty milliseconds plus, um, the rank ordering, which, uh, should be", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Like another ten frames.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "ten Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Rank. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, right now it's one hundred and forty milliseconds.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "With the rank ordering? I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The the the smoothing the m the the filtering of the probabilities.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The The, um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "on the R.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not a median filtering. It's just We don't take the median value. We take something Um, so we have eleven, um, frames.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, this is for the VAD.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And for the VAD, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and we take th the third.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Dar", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. So Yeah, I was just noticing on this that it makes reference to delay.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what's the? If you ignore Um, the VAD is sort of in in parallel, isn't i isn't it, with with the? I mean, it isn't additive with the the, uh, LDA and the Wiener filtering, and so forth.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The LDA?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so what happened right now, we removed the delay of the LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we I mean, if so if we if so which is like if we reduce the delay of VA So, the f the final delay's now ba is f determined by the delay of the VAD, because the LDA doesn't have any delay. So if we re if we reduce the delay of the VAD, I mean, it's like effectively reducing the delay.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "How how much, uh, delay was there on the LDA?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the LDA and the VAD both had a hundred millisecond delay. So and they were in parallel, so which means you pick either one of them.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the the biggest, whatever.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, right now the LDA delays are more.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And there didn't seem to be any, uh, penalty for that? There didn't seem to be any penalty for making it causal?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Pardon? Oh, no. It actually made it, like, point one percent better or something, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Well, may as well, then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or something like that", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And he says Wiener filter is is forty milliseconds delay.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So is it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's the one which Stephane was discussing, like.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The smoothing?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The you smooth it and then delay the decision by So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. OK. So that's that's really not not bad. So we may in fact we'll see what they decide. We may in fact have, um, the the, uh, latency time available for to have a neural net. I mean, sounds like we probably will. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That'd be good. Cuz I cuz it certainly always helped us before. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What amount of latency are you thinking about when you say that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, they're you know, they're disputing it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, they're saying, uh one group is saying a hundred and thirty milliseconds and another group is saying two hundred and fifty milliseconds. Two hundred and fifty is what it was before actually. So,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, some people are lobbying lobbying to make it shorter.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. And, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Were you thinking of the two - fifty or the one - thirty when you said we should have enough for the neural net?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, it just it when we find that out it might change exactly how we do it, is all.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, how much effort do we put into making it causal? I mean, I think the neural net will probably do better if it looks at a little bit of the future.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, um, it will probably work to some extent to look only at the past. And we ha you know, limited machine and human time, and effort. And, you know, how how much time should we put into into that? So it'd be helpful if we find out from the the standards folks whether, you know, they're gonna restrict that or not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. But I think, you know, at this point our major concern is making the performance better and and, um, if, uh, something has to take a little longer in latency in order to do it that's you know, a secondary issue.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But if we get told otherwise then, you know, we may have to c clamp down a bit more.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, the one one one difference is that was there is like we tried computing the delta and then doing the frame - dropping.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The earlier system was do the frame - dropping and then compute the delta on the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So this.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Which could be a kind of a funny delta. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. So that's fixed in this. Yeah, we talked about that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we have no delta. And then.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So the frame - dropping is the last thing that we do. So, yeah, what we do is we compute the silence probability, convert it to that binary flag,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then in the end you c up upsample it to match the final features number of.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Did that help then?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It seems to be helping on the well - matched condition. So that's why this improvement I got from the last result. So. And it actually r reduced a little bit on the high mismatch, so in the final weightage it's b b better because the well - matched is still weighted more than.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, @ @ I mean, you were doing a lot of changes. Did you happen to notice how much, uh, the change was due to just this frame - dropping problem? What about this?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, y you had something on it. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Just the frame - dropping problem. Yeah. But it's it's difficult. Sometime we we change two two things together and But it's around maybe it's less than one percent.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. But like we're saying, if there's four or five things like that then pretty sho soon you're talking real improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And it Yeah. And then we have to be careful with that also with the neural net", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because in the proposal the neural net was also, uh, working on after frame - dropping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, that's a real good point.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. Well, we'll have to be to do the same kind of correction.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It might be hard if it's at the server side. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Well, we can do the frame - dropping on the server side or we can just be careful at the terminal side to send a couple of more frames before and after, and So. I think it's OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You have, um So when you Uh, maybe I don't quite understand how this works, but, um, couldn't you just send all of the frames, but mark the ones that are supposed to be dropped? Cuz you have a bunch more bandwidth. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, you could. Yeah. I mean, it it always seemed to us that it would be kind of nice to in addition to, uh, reducing insertions, actually use up less bandwidth.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But nobody seems to have cared about that in this evaluation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And that way the net could use.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If the net's on the server side then it could use all of the frames.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes, it could be. It's, like, you mean you just transferred everything and then finally drop the frames after the neural net.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? Yeah. That's that's one thing which.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But you could even mark them, before they get to the server.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right now we are Uh, ri Right now what wha what we did is, like, we just mark we just have this additional bit which goes around the features, saying it's currently a it's a speech or a nonspeech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So there is no frame - dropping till the final features, like, including the deltas are computed.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And after the deltas are computed, you just pick up the ones that are marked silence and then drop them.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I see. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it would be more or less the same thing with the neural net, I guess, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. Yeah, that's what that's what that's what, uh, this is doing right now.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. OK. So, uh, what's, uh? That's that's a good set of work that that, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Just one more thing. Like, should we do something f more for the noise estimation, because we still?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was wondering about that. That was I I had written that down there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, we, uh actually I did the first experiment. This is with just fifteen frames. Um. We take the first fifteen frame of each utterance to it,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and average their power spectra. Um. I tried just plugging the, um, uh, Guenter noise estimation on this system, and it uh, it got worse. Um, but of course I didn't play with it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But Mm - hmm. Uh, I didn't do much more for noise estimation. I just tried this,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah. Well, it's not surprising it'd be worse the first time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "it does seem like, you know, i i i i some compromise between always depending on the first fifteen frames and a a always depending on a a pause is is is a good idea. Uh, maybe you have to weight the estimate from the first - teen fifteen frames more heavily than than was done in your first attempt. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. No, I mean Um, do you have any way of assessing how well or how poorly the noise estimation is currently doing?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. No, we don't.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We don't have nothing that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is there was there any experiment with? Well, I I did The only experiment where I tried was I used the channel zero VAD for the noise estimation and frame - dropping. So I don't have a I don't have a split, like which one helped more.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. It it was the best result I could get.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, that's the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So that's something you could do with, um, this final system. Right? Just do this everything that is in this final system except, uh, use the channel zero.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. For the noise estimation.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can try something.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then see how much better it gets.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "If it's, you know, essentially not better, then it's probably not worth", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "any more.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But the Guenter's argument is slightly different. It's, like, ev even even if I use a channel zero VAD, I'm just averaging the the s power spectrum. But the Guenter's argument is, like, if it is a non - stationary segment, then he doesn't update the noise spectrum. So he's, like he tries to capture only the stationary part in it. So the averaging is, like, different from updating the noise spectrum only during stationary segments. So, th the Guenter was arguing that, I mean, even if you have a very good VAD, averaging it, like, over the whole thing is not a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because you're averaging the stationary and the non - stationary, and finally you end up getting something which is not really the s because, you anyway, you can't remove the stationary part fr I mean, non - stationary part from the signal.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Not using these methods anyway. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So Yeah. So you just update only doing or update only the stationary components. Yeah. So, that's so that's still a slight difference from what Guenter is trying.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. And and also there's just the fact that, um, eh, uh, although we're trying to do very well on this evaluation, um, we actually would like to have something that worked well in general. And, um, relying on having fifteen frames at the front or something is is pretty.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, you might, you might not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, um. Um, it'd certainly be more robust to different kinds of input if you had at least some updates. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, um. Well, I don't know. What what do you, uh what do you guys see as as being what you would be doing in the next week, given wha what's happened?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cure the VAD?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What was that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, should we keep the same? I think we might try to keep the same idea of having a neural network, but training it on more data and adding better features, I think, but because the current network is just PLP features. Well, it's trained on noisy PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just the cepstra. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "PLP features computed on noisy speech. But there is no nothing particularly robust in these features.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I I uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "There's no RASTA, no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, uh, I I don't remember what you said the answer to my, uh, question earlier. Will you will you train the net on after you've done the spectral subtraction or the Wiener filtering?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is a different net.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So we have a VAD which is like neur that's a neural net.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, you're talking about the VAD net. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that that VAD was trained on the noisy features.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, right now we have, like, uh we have the cleaned - up features, so we can have a better VAD by training the net on the cleaned - up speech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I see. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we need a VAD for uh noise estimation also. So it's, like, where do we want to put the VAD? Uh, it's like.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Can you use the same net to do both, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "For.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Can you use the same net that you that I was talking about to do the VAD?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, it actually comes at v at the very end.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the net the final net I mean, which is the feature net so that actually comes after a chain of, like, LDA plus everything. So it's, like, it takes a long time to get a decision out of it. And and you can actually do it for final frame - dropping, but not for the VA - f noise estimation.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You see, the idea is that the, um, initial decision to that that you're in silence or speech happens pretty quickly.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Cuz that's used by some of these other?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that Yeah. And that's sort of fed forward, and and you say \" well, flush everything, it's not speech anymore \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I thought that was only used for doing frame - dropping later on.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, it is used, uh Yeah, it's only used f Well, it's used for frame - dropping. Um, it's used for end of utterance", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because, you know, there's if you have more than five hundred milliseconds of of of nonspeech then you figure it's end of utterance or something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And it seems important for, like, the on - line normalization. Um. We don't want to update the mean and variance during silen long silence portions. Um. So it it has to be done before", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "this mean and variance normalization. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. So probably the VAD and and maybe testing out the noise estimation a little bit. I mean, keeping the same method but but, uh, seeing if you cou but, um noise estimation could be improved. Those are sort of related issues.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It probably makes sense to move from there. And then, uh, later on in the month I think we wanna start including the neural net at the end. Um. OK. Anything else?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The Half Dome was great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good. Yeah. You didn't didn't fall. That's good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Our e our effort would have been devastated if you guys had run into problems.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, Hynek is coming back next week, you said?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the plan.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I guess the week after he'll be, uh, going back to Europe, and so we wanna.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is he in Europe right now or is he up at?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, no. He's he's he's dropped into the US. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So. Uh. So, uh. Uh, the idea was that, uh, we'd we'd sort out where we were going next with this with this work before he, uh, left on this next trip. Good. Uh, Barry, you just got through your quals, so I don't know if you have much to say. But, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. No, just, uh, looking into some some of the things that, um, uh, John Ohala and Hynek, um, gave as feedback, um, as as a starting point for the project. Um. In in my proposal, I I was thinking about starting from a set of, uh, phonological features, or a subset of them. Um, but that might not be necessarily a good idea according to, um, John.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He said, uh, um, these these phonological features are are sort of figments of imagination also.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. S", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "In conversational speech in particular. I think you can you can put them in pretty reliably in synthetic speech.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But we don't have too much trouble recognizing synthetic speech since we create it in the first place. So, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. So, um, a better way would be something more more data - driven,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "just looking at the data and seeing what's similar and what's not similar.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, I'm I'm, um, taking a look at some of, um, Sangita's work on on TRAPS. She did something where, um w where the TRAPS learn She clustered the the temporal patterns of, um, certain certain phonemes in in m averaged over many, many contexts. And, uh, some things tended to cluster.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? You know, like stop stop consonants clustered really well.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, silence was by its own self.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, um, v vocalic was clustered.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, um, so, those are interesting things to.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So you're now you're sort of looking to try to gather a set of these types of features?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just to see where where I could start off from,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, you know? A a a set of small features and continue to iterate and find, uh, a better set.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Well, short meeting. That's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. So next week hopefully we'll can get Hynek here to to join us and, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Should we do digits?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Digits, digits. OK, now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Go ahead, Morgan. You can start.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Alright. Let me get my glasses on so I can see them. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. And we're off.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm", "speakerName": "Professor B" } ] }

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Um Um we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E excuse me I forgot my", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "copy..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He's gonna get his pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um Will you guys first with your prototype um before we get to the good news?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's good news?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have budget problems.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Cutbacks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm afraid you're all sacked. Oops.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't even have this on..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, have you got a presentation to make?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, not mine yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's just your your show.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um maybe we should bring so that the camera can see. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We made three for you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three? Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um one's based on the banana, one's based on the tomato", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tomato? What tomato?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the other one is st", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't recall a tomato..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look. Oh yeah, well yeah, we had v some red left over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah I see, okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. Okay, so this is the um non to non uh no buttons one, or as mm few buttons as possible,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mainly speak recognition. The yellow there is the um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Logo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the slogan, yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, brilliant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that we need to incorporate, it's very simple. If you do need buttons, you can flip it over, and there's some there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um but mainly it's speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so the buttons would be like, you know individual users, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and yeah they might project things onto the screen which you can do on there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm I'm not sure about that. Um and this one is the one w more like the one w that we looked at earlier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you guys can have a look at that if you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's groovy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh can I have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I like the feel of it, I like the feel of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. Um that one is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh sorry s.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no, it's delicate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "At Oh dear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's already got its stand that one. That's it stand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It does also lie flat, but that's the that yellow stand there represents the the charging stand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, brilliant mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the black on the back is the slogan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, nice and obvious there,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, we did think of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if it's standing up, I guess, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if it's standing up it's it's on there, but also we're gonna have the company name on the front, which is the little black kind of line in the middle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay, brilliant. Like that from its centre.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um and that's the um transmit the L_E_D_ thing. These are the s two scroll ones which we thought could be channel up and down and volume up and down. We n were weren't sure about putting them there, because um i it's it kind of could get bashed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where you're, yeah, uh were you're holding it kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, if you hold it, you can you all can hold it, is it does actually feel quite ergonomic,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if you've got small hands.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, obviously I don't think that's real sized.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It would have to be a bit bigger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, scale model, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um that's a speaker at the top, so you can speak into it like a little walkie-talkie as well for speak recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um then the buttons. Yeah kind of self-explanatory, just buttons whenever you need them. Tried to keep it simple. Oh that's the charging base prongs at the bottom.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We used those. And um then the big red button in the middle is the on and off one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not in the traditional place,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um it's quite an obvious place.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's out of the way as well, I suppose, so. Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there we go and and um we have the banana-based one too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This one is uh, I suppose for the younger audiences.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A a more friendly type of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so so Barney the banana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, right. It's to uh induce more television watching I suppose or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah excellent, just what we need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Say it for the camera.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lo Sort of Loch Ness banana..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool yeah. Well, nice to have uh options at least.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So are there any um improvements or issues or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It won't stand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh there are issues, oh there are issues.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just let it lie down, it wont stand..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um main problem that we have unfortunately being finance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, let's just enter in the um evaluation criteria.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um unfortunately the unit we are currently going to produce minus the extra scroll buttons, uh it's gonna cost us fourteen point six Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's on the uh on the left?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "rea Sorry, I've accidentally highlighted somehow Um. There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh god, why is it doing that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There we go. So basically, um in order to save our two Euros um I was thinking that we could have essentially the same shape, but just have it flattened.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More like a traditional remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean it's already got a kind of cool shape, so but it wouldn't have to be curved sort of in and out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And by doing so Oh no, hold on. Doesn't save us quite as much. I don't know what's going on with this again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W why is the uh double curved two of them?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, good point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And double curve on both sides?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Curve. Yeah, this is double-curve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's sort of curve in and out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is double-curve. It This one is single curve.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause this is single curve, this is curved on both sides. So double-curve.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I think it means double curved as in um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like an S_ shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like uh a single curve on that bottom half, and the double curved would be if it was that similar curve upward.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I might be wrong though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like this, one curve on this side, one curve on that side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't think that counts as a curve, I think that's just a shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A curvature is like the this case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause that's the uh the biggest expense there, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "got two of them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and why why I've got it two, I don't know, I can't seem to select any more however.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Well we can work around that um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cut things out. But you think it should be one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's meant to be one, yeah, I don't know why I put two in there,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but um Hold on till I find it, I think this shift button might be stuck again. No maybe the shift button's stuck in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um okay, so that would take away three, which would give us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh that's fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we're.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eleven uh eleven Euros sixty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool. Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we could even add something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We cou Oh not quite, have the scroll-wheel, unfortunately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should fire the accountants.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fire the accountants..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah, we could add things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe if you click back in that bottom right cell, where you're starting from, and then use the arrow keys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does that work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, that just extends it as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh you can do one thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You just select one box outsi yeah, this box. Then move it with the help of this Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It One of the buttons is sticking, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just uh just uh Okay, just a minute. Okay. No input, like this. Shift. No it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it's'cause the uh the shift button's stuck, or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not working.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it the other shift button maybe?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should we ask Meli", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should we ask our technical expert Melissa?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that's fine. Um we've worked out what it would be anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you try both shift buttons? It could be the other side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cancel. Piss off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's too bad.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh well, never mind. Um. Right, so that's finances and I dunno what we what could we reckon we could add? Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well maybe we could add something, but maybe if.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I suppose that's our that's that's our design that we've got. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you th We're trying to save money, so. Yeah, if we're happy with the design there's no point in spending money, if we don't have to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if there is anything you think we've missed out there, then, you know, feel free to add it. Maybe I mean obviously it would be bigger so there might be more space for the the slogan on the front,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it's not in an ideal place right now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that's that's uh Okay, so project evaluation. We have under twelve Euros fifty. Project process, how do we think that went? Are we happy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think we have a a winning product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Evaluation. Oh we've been writing this up for m months.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it went quite smoothly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh room for creativity, were we happy with that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W I think we were very creative.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I mea I think it means sort of individually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, no, maybe?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Groovy. So uh we're just gonna. Uh yeah, okay. Teamwork? Leadership, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great leadership..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent leadership..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. You're all get you're all getting a raise. Uh teamwork. I thought went well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, everyone got enough input, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh and well means, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The technical stuff was brilliant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's buy more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh Right. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These pens are are neat though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what, new ideas found, means, to be honest.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, these are new ideas, like glow-in-the-dark or something like that. We discussed all the new ideas, but of course we couldn't reach any proper goals, we couldn't use these, but we h we are using these scroll buttons like this. These are new ideas we And new shapes, everything", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". At le.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Groovy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So just general thumbs up for all of us then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That kind of unfortunately is too quick.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. I suppose yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so let's talk about our bonuses and the raises we're getting for this, right..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's it, um I think another couple of days holiday pay might be well in order for all of you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh Let's see if I can get this bloody thing to work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh maybe we should start cleaning up the clay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whoops..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does it go back in, does it? Reusable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something we should get.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what this is but it's really really annoying.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Uh Brian, have you have you finished?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh mine needs also this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I have, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At last mine is also the presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Huh? Oh right, okay, you've got more, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, you got a presentation,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh ok", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It didn't bother to tell me that on this", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "thing. Is it? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh is the project evaluated, that is mine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Doesn't tell me. Oh you're doing that..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We evaluated ourselves, we thought we were great..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, love to eat that now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anybody.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kind of a green banana now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Clay covered banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's this as well, sorry, we forgot to mention it'll be made out of kind of a rubbery latex, new material that we've got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O okay, hold on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "blue.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I wonder w which cell do I want..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's fun to touch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I didn't realise you had that bit..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh could you pass the tomato please.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry. Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So now is the final evaluation, final evaluation of the uh uh of our product. How we are going to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "means uh at what standard what standard whether it meets our standards or not. How mu What rating we will give to these products. So of course this is will be a team work, w we together have to decide wha what rating we will give to this product and everything. So what methodology I will tell you on what basis we are going to discuss all this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We will give the rating to this product based on the user requirements, whether it meets the user requirements or not, this product. Then trends, whether it is as fashion trends or not? Means because we have already stated that people do prefer fashionable things nowadays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is also an important factor for our evaluation also. Then marketing strategy of the company. As we have already discussed that our company is quite in the market, not only in terms of providing quality products, not only in pro providing latest technologies, but also in terms of providing environmental s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry. Sorry,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "carry on..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So but also in terms of providing environmental safe products, uh yeah like uh keeping uh keeping in mind all the safety issues. So Now comes the criteria rating with seven point scale. I'm having this scale this scale,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we have to do it on a board.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the user requirem I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The board working again, is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have the uh the marker for the board?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are the three crite criterias for our evaluation of our product. First of all uh comes user requirement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we will see whether this product meets all user requirements or not. I I will first I would like to have your views, what do you think whether it meets all user requirements or not?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think Yeah, it did.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It had all the basic buttons that they needed as well as the uh new technology that people said they wanted.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When the user requirement is essentially just to operate the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does it work?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what do you think you will personally give.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of course we haven't actually got a working model yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say seven.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seven. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seven is good, yeah, isn't it? I can't True or false? No sorry tr one is true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh one is means highest ranking, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I think highest ranking is seven, or one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it's it's like true is one end, and false is the oth", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's false.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, right right. So it's one for from your point of view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And what do you say our Industrial Expert?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. It's hard to know. I I give it a two..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh d you can you can tell on on the like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think she has given her views on the basis of design, because she was our i Interface Expert.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you can give your views based on technology, whether the technology meets the requirements of the customers or not?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I think i it might even exceed it um. But I guess there is a kind of a shortage of buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I'm gonna give it a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And what about uh you, Brian?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, I'll go for a one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You will go for one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Basic requirements but of the pro of the project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh for me personally it is everything fine, it may be having good design, it may be uh meeting all the requirements of the customers like technology-wise, price-wise, but there is one thing which limits the customers, like we are having only two, three designs, like we are having one banana design and the other one is orange,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, lower end. And the third one is what you ge uh that is not a f fruit look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if a person doesn't like banana, or orange, you are limiting him.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Come on that was the tha.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, don't buy our product, because we are l we like this only.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we are showing our preference for particular fruits,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Being fruitist..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two or three kinds rather, and Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that no is that not trends?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh no, uh personally as a Marketing Expert I don't believe that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because whatever companies they launch their products in the shape of fruits, they give a range of products, a range of shapes, like if we see, look at the smallest thing, toffee chocolates, they give a variety of different things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some children like to buy banana shape, some apple shape, some even pineapple shape, some orange shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can what shape a person will like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So in this case giving only one or two choices we are lim limiting our customers. And by limiting them, we are limiting our sales, limiting our profit also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. But in electronics, I think, it's not q always quite so um you don't always have so many choices as with chocolates.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think, you know, if you're going to buy a T_V_ maybe a company'll have That you're going to choose from, a company'll have two or three choices, but they're different designs. We were coming up with one product.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh maybe. Okay but I will I will personally won't give it beyond three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I mean uh obviously your opinion,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm just trying to Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He's a tough cookie.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, on an average we can think three, four sevenths, maybe. Three or four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, no sorry,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it should be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six. Five or six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What are we doing?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What are we doing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, we are doing a very wrong thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Adding them up?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're gonna average them?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, we are taking everything,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So seven fourths.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that's I have taken it very wrongly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "About one point f one point eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "three four four two six seven seven sev Yeah one pe exactly. So we can say one or two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because it is one point eight uh two, so we will do two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah round it up to two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So trends.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So where were the trends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you explain what you want us to write there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How it how conforms to the current trends?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, again the the fashion trends, this also like whether it it will be fashionable to have these products in the uh as a fruit shape or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well um going on uh the specifications that we had, that fruit and vegetables are quite popular, and that people like something that is good to look at and not many buttons, I would give it um, well, because it's hard to make a fruit good to look at, that that looks cool, you know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I would actually give it a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tha three or four, I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three. Go for three. That's fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. As far as the uh technology it its' got the latest trends in speech technology, but it's missing the screen, as we said, um but it does have the push-buttons, or the scroll-buttons, um but it doesn't have that fancy solar power or the the vibrating energy mechanism. So I give it a a four. I'd give it a kinda middle of the road for", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I am sort of pret uh Just the fruit does me in, I mean uh it might", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it might be trendy to some, but I'm just not swallowing the fruit, so um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh also uh I would have liked to have seen the L_C_D_ screen in it. Um so yeah I'd say about four as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh personally I wi uh I think that in terms of trends, these products are quite good, like, these products are in fruit shape, because that wha people now our fashion trend shows that people like everything all f everything that is being advertised, like clothes, shoes, and everything is being advertised in the form of fruits and vegetables, or getting them or showing some association with them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So and in this way our product is good. And the second thing, now people don't want any complicated or bulky products and ours is quite simple and quite handy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that is also ef that also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Our product meets the f the fashion uh trends of the market. And yes. It is cus spongy also. So they can play with it, it's quite good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So then I think, maybe I can give it two. So four five ten thirteen thirteen. So we can Is it fine? So what about company strategy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it was yellow..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the company strategy, okay. Um there was lot of discussing, that was good. Um I feel I got my say. Um so I'd give the company strategy a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's the the remote control conforms to the the company strategy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that the question?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so one or two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One. Okay, just leave it, it's fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll go with two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what about you, Brian?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, a three. Pretty much kept to the company strategy, so I would go for a a one, as we not only kept it, but we were limited by.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and me also, like, this product me uh me uh me uh this meets all company strategy like our product should be as per customers' requirement, as per latest technology, and it should be environmental safe. So since our product meets all these requirements, so I would also prefer to give it rank one. So four six six", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So one and a half.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we can say two or one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A two..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So th seven seven. Uh overall we are getting two something, but we can round it as two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think overall uh evaluation of our product is quite good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool, groovy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can launch it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool. Brilliant..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Woo-hoo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In which case we are done.'Cause we've evaluated and we are within budget..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Champagne lunch anyone?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Great..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education16", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay, good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members whether there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay. Thank you. Item 2 this morning is our evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Education for our inquiry into the status of the Welsh baccalaureate qualification. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams AM, Cabinet Secretary for Education; Kevin Palmer, who is deputy director, pedagogy, leadership and professional learning; and Andrew Clark, deputy director, further education and apprenticeships division. So, thank you all for attending, and we're looking forward to hearing what you've got to say. If you're happy, Cabinet Secretary, we'll go straight to questions.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And the first questions are from Julie Morgan.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Chair, and bore da. I was going to ask some general questions about the value of the baccalaureate. Could you give us your views on how the Welsh bac is valued by learners and teachers?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Bore da, Julie, and thank you very much for your question. Firstly, I'd like to begin by saying that I as the Cabinet Secretary value the qualification very much indeed. I believe that it helps ensure that we are able to give our young people in Wales a broad and balanced curriculum, recognising the need to develop knowledge and skills in core subjects but recognising also that the purpose of education is to help prepare our children for further study and the world of work, and I believe that the skills challenge element of the baccalaureate does just that. I meet with young people and teachers all the time who tell me about the positive experiences they have had studying for the Welsh bac, and much of that was evidenced in Qualifications Wales's review into the Welsh baccalaureate. They did focus group work with a representative sample, and many of the learners expressed the fact that they have enjoyed studying for the qualification and have gained a great deal from it. I meet regularly with individuals who have been able to use their bac to successfully gain a place at university, so I believe there's a huge value for Welsh young people being able to study this particular qualification alongside the more traditional qualifications that perhaps we're all used to. I think the challenge is that, given that many people are very familiar with what a GCSE is and, as parents, we will know what that is and many of us will have done—some of us are so old we'll have done O-levels. We know what those traditional qualifications look like, and therefore a new qualification—there's always a job of work to do to communicate that, if people aren't used to it, but I value it hugely. I think that, whilst there is always room for improvement—and, of course, you'll be aware of the review that Qualifications Wales undertook and that has suggested ways in which we can further improve and refine the qualification, but I think it is a valuable piece of work for Welsh young people to undertake.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "It's great that you've been around listening to learners and what they have said about it. Have you had any negative feedback?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, occasionally, of course, we do have concerns raised with us, and those concerns are similar to the ones that have been raised in the Qualifications Wales review. So, for instance, we sometimes have concerns about how some students balance the Welsh bac with other qualifications they may be taking. Some teachers feed back around the workload issues associated with the Welsh baccalaureate. For some students, there may be concerns about the nature of the Welsh bac and whether that can impact negatively on their well-being. And, obviously, that's why Qualifications Wales have undertaken this piece of work so that we can refine, if necessary, that qualification and how we continue to look at how we ensure my belief that taking the Welsh bac should be the norm for students but also recognising that, in some cases, there needs to be flexibility to ensure that the well-being of the student is not compromised.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And so would you say that it's valued by learners more or less at key stage 4 or post 16?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think that, as I said, the vast majority of students I meet report very positively about the opportunities that are afforded for studying at that level. Occasionally, we hear from students who I believe think that in studying the subject they may be compromising their chances because they want to do additional A-levels, and I'm sure we'll come on to, later on, whether universities, and whether the Russell Group universities in particular, value the qualification. But I feel that there are particular strengths. And I think what's really important, and, in talking to universities, since the qualification became graded, rather than just a pass/fail qualification—I think that added rigour since 2015 has been particularly important in ensuring that there's real value in students undertaking that work.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And what about the effect that the leadership in the school has on the way that the bac is received? Have you—?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "As always, Julie, leadership is crucial, and students' experiences can be very coloured by the attitude towards the teacher delivering that particular course. And, therefore, we need to continue, alongside the WJEC and Qualifications Wales, to ensure that the Welsh bac is communicated to children in a positive way, the benefits are explained to children and their parents, and, also, we need to ensure that those who are tasked with teaching Welsh bac in their schools or colleges feel confident in their ability to do so and to ensure that students have a really positive experience of that qualification, because if you're being taught by someone who is telling you, 'Oh, I don't know why we're having to do this', then, obviously that's going to colour how you feel about it. And, if I'm honest, I recently attended a youth forum, where young people from the county were discussing all sorts of issues—everything from the environment to their experience in school—and I was struck by the group of year 12 and year 13 students. I specifically asked them about the bac—I always take the opportunity to ask them about their experience of the baccalaureate. One school, the group of students said,'It's fantastic. We really enjoy it. It's really valuable. I'm learning a lot.' Students from a school seven miles away—just seven miles away—said,'Oh, I don't know why we're having to do this.' And I suspect that that has got more to do with how that is being delivered in their institutions than it has about the quality of the qualification. So, we need to keep ensuring that those who are tasked with this see it as important, communicate that to students, and have the confidence and the ability to deliver a really positive experience.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think our experiences in the committee are very similar. Within the same room, actually, we've had two completely different sets of views. So, what do you intend to do to try to ensure that there's consistent support and enthusiasm for the bac from the leaders?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, first of all, we have the design group of Qualifications Wales looking to address some of the issues that arose out of the report around ensuring that, especially from a teacher workload perspective, it's not too onerous in terms of assessment. So, there's that to do to make sure that we're not asking children to duplicate and do things over and over and over again, which, of course, for any of us, would be wearing and we would question to the value of. So, there's the design group looking at the qualification itself. We are ensuring, as part of our professional learning for teachers that—. There are existing opportunities via the regional consortia for support for teaching of the qualification. The WJEC has resources and support available, but we will look, as we roll out our national approach to professional learning, at that the professional learning needs of those already in the system are addressed. Of course, our accreditation for our new initial teacher education is predominantly addressed at being able to deliver the new curriculum, but, if you think about the elements of'Successful Futures' and the skills and the knowledge and the pedagogy associated with that, it's very much in line with the Welsh baccalaureate challenge certificate. So, actually, there are opportunities via initial teacher education as well, and we continue to need to look to work with our partners to be able to reinforce why this is a worthwhile qualification. And I have to say I think the best people to do that—. It's not me. I'd like to see past students of the Welsh baccalaureate being able to talk about their own experiences and why it's made a difference to them. I come across individuals for whom their place at university has been secured by that Welsh baccalaureate, and, all of a sudden, if that's what's got you your place, it becomes a lot more valuable than perhaps it was six months before. We need to make sure that students are aware, and teachers and school leaders are aware, of the importance that this qualification has.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Suzy, did you have a supplementary?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I've got one on IT, but I'll leave that one. I just want to go back to Julie's question about whether there was a different perspective or a different sense of value for students who are post 16 and those who are pre 16. When one of the college leaders here was asked whether he had people coming to him in his FE college who've been through the pre-16 bac and had heard evidence or had stories of, basically, those children cobbling together their bac in the last four weeks of term before they got there, he said that yes, that is his experience. Does that worry you at all, because, of course, the whole purpose of bac is to teach skills over a period of time, and its purpose cannot be fulfilled by getting it all done in the last term of—which year am I in?—year 11, in order to satisfy the curriculum?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Obviously, that's not the experience that we would want young people to have, and, as someone who has had a daughter just finish year 11, that's certainly not the experience that my daughter had in her particular school, and I have another daughter who has just gone into year 10, where the Welsh bac has started in year 10 and it is a a two-year course in which elements are undertaken. Obviously, we will need to address, as part of the design group and the work that Qualifications Wales is doing, how that is playing out in individual schools. But that would not be a positive experience; we want this to be taken in exactly the same way as we would expect a GCSE to be taught over a period of two years. But, Andrew, I don't know if there's anything you'd like to add from the college perspective.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think it is variable. I think that it will depend on the feeder schools to the colleges and it'll depend upon the delivery models that are in existence in those schools. It's been around as a qualification now for about a decade, I think. There have been differences in the way that the subject has been—sorry, not the subject, the qualification has been delivered. And I think it'll be helped by a recent review by Qualifications Wales, because they're doing a survey at the moment as to different delivery models in different locations, and that, perhaps, will inform more even practice as we move forwards.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Yes, and Estyn and consortia are looking at it as well. I don't want to cut across questions, so, thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, but it's a known issue, if you like, that various people are attempting to address and bring a more uniform mode of delivery across the nation.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We've got some more detailed questions now on understanding, from Siân Gwenllian.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just to drill down rather deeper into the issue of the variability in the way in which the Welsh bac is provided, could you explain why you think that this inconsistency is happening, and then what the impact of the inconsistency and variability is on the value that learners attach to the bac and their understanding of it?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think the variability can be perhaps explained by the fact that it's a new type of qualification, the fact that different schools have adopted it at different rates—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Ten years?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, over that time, there were some early adopters who have done it in a certain way, there are some people who've come later to it, who may be doing it in a different way. And, as I said, it's quite a different departure from traditional O-levels, from GCSE-type subjects, where there is a programme of work and a syllabus. So, it is a different nature of qualification, and, therefore, as Andrew has just alluded to, schools have approached it in a different way. We are alert to that and Qualifications Wales, crucially, is alert to that, and we are looking to ensure greater consistency in how it is delivered in individual schools. We're also aware, in the school setting, in pre 16, there are some concerns about the onerousness of the workload associated with the evaluation of the students' work. Now, clearly, there is a difference between onerous and rigorous. We wrote the qualification to be a rigorous qualification for the students, but we don't want it to be jeopardised by the evaluation of it being too onerous. So, there's that balance to be struck. Again, that's one of the issues that the design group and Qualifications Wales are looking at. That process is a really important process, so there is the design group, but working alongside the design group, who they are testing the messages and testing their thoughts with, is a stakeholder group, and there is also a practitioners group. So, that work by the design group is being tested with those people who have an interest: business, for instance, the world of work—is this qualification really giving students the skills that are valued by potential employers?—but it's also testing its thinking with the practitioners, those people who will be charged with the delivery of the qualification, and I think that's really important to be able to get an understanding of the challenges of making sure there's a consistency, and what are the barriers to that, and what steps need to be taken to ensure a greater level of consistency in delivery.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Is there a correlation between consistency in general? Because we know that there's polarisation in the secondary school sector between the good schools and the not-so-good schools. And is there a correlation between—if the schools are good according to Estyn, or excellent, are they also good, excellent at delivering the bac? Is it a fundamental inconsistency across the sector that's causing this inconsistency?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I don't know. I don't have that data to hand, but, of course, from next year, the bac will be a dedicated performance measure for schools. So, actually, we will be looking specifically at completion of the bac as part of the wider set of school performance measures. So perhaps we will be in a better position once that's formally established to be able to track progress.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Because some of the evidence we've heard is that if the leadership is good around the bac in the school, well, everything else follows from that. So, it makes sense to me that it could be.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely. As I said, I don't have the figures to hand, but, as I said, from next year, the bac actually becomes a formal part of the performance measures for schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Fine. I'll turn, therefore, to the understanding of employers of the Welsh bac and the skills challenge certificate. From the evidence that we've had, it appears that there is a problem in this area, that is, employers generally don't value the qualification. Is that your experience, and how can we improve that? How can we elicit more engagement from employers of all sizes with the value of the baccalaureate?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, the first thing to say is my understanding of the development of the bac is that employers' voices were reflected and they were part of the process that drew up the qualification in the first place. You'll be aware of the review by Qualifications Wales that found that many employers say that the skills that are developed through the baccalaureate are exactly the kinds of skills that they want young people to be acquiring whilst at school, that put them in a good place for looking for employment later. I would agree with you, Siân, and not just in terms of the bac, there are lots of reasons why we need greater working between education and employers. I sit down with employer organisations to try and explore better ways in which we can work together—everything from ensuring that children have work experience opportunities through to, for instance, what more some of our companies could do to take up governors' roles, for instance, in our local schools, so that employer voice and that business voice are heard at a school management level. I think these things are really important. It's something that's sometimes difficult. There are some excellent examples of really good practice where local employers work really closely with schools. I think of Sony in Bridgend doing a really, really, really good job working with their local schools. In other areas, where you haven't got such a big employer, it can be difficult, can't it, for a small business that is trying to do their small business to think about,'Oh my goodness, I've got to do something to help improve the education system as well.' So, I'm always looking at new ways in which we can get that working together. As I said, the Qualifications Wales design group has a stakeholder group that is helping them with their review into the qualification at the moment, but there are really good examples where employers and other organisations are working together. We also need to continue, I think, to communicate more clearly with employers the nature of the qualification. Again, because it's relatively new, and the brands of the GCSE and A-level are so strong, people know what they are, unless you've either done the Welsh bac yourself or you have a son or a daughter, or a grandson or granddaughter who has gone through the process, you're probably going to be less familiar, and we need to continue to work together with the WJEC and Qualifications Wales as a Government to better communicate the value of the qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, you agree that there is a specific piece of work that needs to be done around employers and that the Government should be leading that.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and we are working closely with, as I said, Qualifications Wales to develop a joint communication plan, and we continue, as I said, as part of Qualifications Wales's review into the nature of the qualification—employers' voices are being heard as part of that particular piece of work. But more generally, yes, I think there's more that we can do to better engage employers with the education system in lots and lots of different ways.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Not just on the Welsh bac.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Just before we move off this section, the variability that the committee has seen has been quite pronounced, really. We've been to a school where they've got a passionate and dedicated Welsh bac school leader, but then we've spoken to other schools where it's tagged on to a variety of teachers' roles, and that clearly has an impact on the way it's being taught. You said in your answer to Siân that you're trying to ensure more consistency in the delivery of it, and you referred to the performance measures; are the performance measures the main vehicle by which you're going to ensure consistency, or are you planning to issue any more guidance to schools on how it should be delivered on the ground?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We will need to reflect the work that Qualifications Wales is undertaking. Professional learning, I think, has a role to play as well as performance measures. So it's not just one thing that we can do that will change this, it is a number of things—everything from the communications plan to making sure that teachers who find themselves responsible for delivering this feel confident and have had the professional learning opportunities to give them the skills so that they do a great job in delivering a positive experience to students. The performance measures, of course, as we know—sometimes in schools, it is those that make schools focus on something. So there's a wide variety of ways in which I think we can look to ensure more consistency. But, in the end, I think it is professional learning and teacher training, ITE, that will make the biggest difference.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And just on understanding, one of the things the young people in Crickhowell told us was that they thought the name should be changed. They felt that it wasn't reflective of exactly what the qualification is and that maybe having something that was clearer would be better. Is that something you've considered?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, first of all, I need to declare an interest, because that's the school my daughter goes to, and I don't know if she was the one—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "She wasn't. Angharad wasn't there.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "She wasn't the one who said that. Certainly, I'd have to reflect. My gut instinct tells me that one of the issues that we have is developing an understanding of the brand and what that qualification is, and if we move away from'Welsh bac' and suddenly start to call it something else, I think that could be even harder and set us back from where we are. So, that's not to dismiss it, and I would want to reflect on those views, but I think if one of the issues that we've got is developing a better understanding of the qualification; if we were to suddenly change the name of it, that might have the unintended consequence of making that job even harder. But, obviously, if the committee was to make a recommendation, we would—I'm happy to reflect on that evidence, but, as I said, my gut instinct would tell me that there could be an unintended consequence of moving away from that brand.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. The next questions are from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. You touched on this once or twice in answers to questions about how rigorous the qualification is. We've had mixed evidence, I would suggest, from groups of stakeholders. We've heard people say that the Welsh bac has no rigour, that pupils are spoon-fed. We've heard that the Welsh bac is passively marked, the grades are inflated, that there's little rigour in the sampling and moderation, there's a confusion about how the SCC is graded, and I know that's something you talked about, actually, that introducing the grading system is improving the rigour. I suppose my question to you is: if the Welsh bac is being seen in this way by stakeholders, how are going to address that? To what extent is that a real problem?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think making it a graded qualification has been really important, and I make no apologies for this qualification being rigorous—no apologies for that at all. That's how it should be, and that's how you create value, by ensuring that a qualification is rigorous. What's really important is that it's not just me saying that it's rigorous; there is an independent process that benchmarks qualifications. The fact is that at advanced level—because I don't know if you're making these observations about the pre-16 Welsh bac, or whether we're talking about the advanced level qualification—that is the equivalent of an A-level. It's been benchmarked against A-levels. It has a UCAS tariff associated with it. It is used by universities as a means of qualification that gains entrance into a university in just the same way as an A-level is. So, therefore, I don't have any concerns about the rigour of the qualification. In terms of spoon-feeding, one of the reasons why universities like the qualification is that it's very difficult, for instance, in the individual project work to be spoon-fed. It is very demanding of individual students, and it's very difficult in a way. That's one of the reasons why it's valuable, isn't it, because it teaches a different set of skills? Because if you're doing a traditional, say, history A-level or a science A-level, there's a very strict syllabus and a course, there's a textbook and people are taught to that particular syllabus; with the Welsh bac, it is individual students that have to think, for instance, of their own individual project. You can't get those off a shelf, and you can't necessarily just find that information easily. There's real skill involved in being able to do that well and get graded well for that. So, I do not have concerns about the rigour. I do have concerns about some of the feedback by Qualifications Wales about the onerousness of the evaluation and what that means for teacher workload, which is one of the things that Qualifications Wales is looking at. But in terms of rigour and people being spoon-fed, then I don't share those concerns.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, because those were concerns, in the main, that were articulated by people delivering the Welsh bac—by teachers. So, I suppose the question then comes back to some of the other points that were being raised about the consistency, because that may well be from those teachers in schools where they're not taking the bac as seriously as some others are.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "And, of course, there would be—. There is a professional responsibility for those teachers delivering that qualification to ensure that the ethos of that qualification and the skills—. It would potentially be a disservice to students if that qualification was being delivered in that way.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And I think what I was trying to do was to highlight the different opinions, because we also heard from teachers who were saying that those involved with teaching and studying understood absolutely its rigour, so it was the mixed message, I guess, I was just trying to test out with you. Similarly, on the skills challenge certificate, again we've heard from various stakeholders about whether, in fact, this is considered to be an equivalent qualification. We've heard people say that it is different—it's not the same as an A-level—so, therefore you can't absolutely hold it up and say it's the same as an A-level. It requires different skills, and so on and so forth. So, just your thoughts and views on that, really, as an equivalent qualification.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "It's not a question of if this is an equivalent qualification; this is an equivalent qualification. There is a rigorous process that is undertaken to evaluate these qualifications independent of the Government, and it's not a question. Is it a different model and a different way of studying? Yes, of course it is, and that's why we do it. That's why I want children and young people to do both sets of qualifications, because it does engage and expand the acquisition of knowledge and skills. So, yes, it's different. Is it equivalent? Yes, it is, and that's why, since the graded qualification came in, it is regarded by independent bodies as an equivalent to an A-level, and it has a tariff for UCAS in the same way as A-levels would have tariffs. You only have to speak to the institutes of higher education who use this qualification as a way of setting grades—you know, offers—for students that they see that in the same way as well.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Suzy's got a supplementary before we go on to talk in detail about universities.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Is that okay? Because I just want to go back to this element of spoon-feeding at post 16, where you said it's actually very difficult for that to occur, because, obviously, we're talking about the personal project, and so forth. We heard evidence in one of the schools sessions we did that baccalaureate students were being offered a very short and narrow list of subjects on which they could do their personal project, which actually limited the scope of what they were able to do. And we've also heard separately—it may have been with the colleges, I can't quite remember now—that some students were being told,'On your personal project, just put in what you did for your GCSE-level baccalaureate, and add a few paragraphs.' I'm wondering how easy it is to disguise spoon-feeding at post 16 when we've got two instances there that, to me, suggest it's more about the convenience of the teachers, who perhaps may not be very enthusiastic about the bac, rather than making sure those children get the best out of the qualification.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. And that would be really disappointing. And, again, if I can use my own personal family experience, my daughter has tried that on with her Welsh bac teacher. She's in a different school from where she did her earlier bac, and she said,'Oh, well, I'll just rehash my \"Votes at 16\" that I did last year', and the Welsh bac teacher has said,'Under no circumstances are you to do that—no, that's not allowed.' This is about using your individual project, linked to something that maybe you hope to study at university, to get the value out of this qualification, and for you to be able to use this in your personal statement, and potentially in an interview. So, again, I guess what this does is show that there's a variation, but certainly, where it is being delivered well, then that practice would not be encouraged, because it would be seen to be—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "It's gaming.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "—denuding the students of the very valuable experience the qualification has to offer.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Cheers.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We've got some questions now on how universities view it. Hefin David.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We've had an online survey response, which was quite a stark comment, not from the vice-chancellor's office, but from a member of staff within Cardiff University. And it said:'The Welsh Bacc is not a fair substitute for a full A-level, and should not be regarded as such. I consider it to be a disadvantage for Welsh students, compared with their English counterparts.' Can you reflect on that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't agree.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Do you think that that's a view that's held within universities, and are you concerned about that? Because it is a view that's obviously held within Cardiff University.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No; I would say that that is a view held by an individual in Cardiff University—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Who has influence over students.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, that is a view held by an individual in Cardiff University. And, actually, Cardiff University—indeed, all Welsh universities—accept the Welsh baccalaureate as an A-level equivalent. I think it is really important to reflect on the wide range of opportunities at higher education that the Welsh bac affords individuals. That means that it is deemed as an equivalent to A-level for the vast majority of universities, to get in to some of the most competitive courses, such as dentistry, medicine, veterinary science. So, those courses where we know there's a high demand and high competition for places, there are institutions that are using that, including Cardiff to get into their medical degree.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Nick Brazil, the deputy principal of Gower College, said about 50 per cent of the Russell Group don't value the Welsh bac.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know where he's getting that from. I have made it a personal commitment to establish this with universities. I have visited both Cambridge and Oxford. I spoke again to Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, Southampton, St Andrews, only last week, who were exhibiting at the Seren conference. I specifically took the opportunity to meet with those universities and to talk to them about how they feel about the Welsh bac. They have a high regard for the Welsh baccalaureate in a variety of ways. First of all, for many of those universities, for many of their courses, they use the Welsh bac as an equivalent to an A-level. If they don't, there are some courses, for instance, where they will lower their offer to gain a place at that university if the Welsh bac is passed at a certain level. So, for instance, rather than maybe offering a Welsh student A, A, B, they would offer a Welsh student A, B, B, plus a Welsh bac, thus giving students two opportunities to gain a place at that university, either with or without their Welsh bac qualification. Even for those universities that don't use the Welsh baccalaureate as a formal part of their offer—and this is the conversation I had again last week with Oxford and Cambridge—they value it as part of a student's personal statement; they value it as part of the interview process in which a student may or may not then be offered a place at that university; and they also recognise that the skills learnt by students whilst undertaking the Welsh baccalaureate are exactly the skills that those students need to make a successful transition from A-level work to university-type work, which, if you can imagine, is very much based on individual research and being able to guide your own learning. So, I just don't recognise that in some way Welsh students are being disadvantaged. The message I get consistently from universities is that there are significant advantages to Welsh learners taking this qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. You can not recognise it, but that is contrary to the evidence that we've received. I'm not saying that the evidence is conclusive, but it actually demonstrates inconsistency. So, would you go so far as to accept instead then that there is an inconsistency in the way that universities use the Welsh bac as a tool for application?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "You would know better than anybody, Hefin, that universities are autonomous institutions and they set their own methods of entry into those institutions. What I'm telling you is that the evidence that I have received from universities is that, whilst there is a variety of approaches to how they regard the qualification in terms of offers, consistently, absolutely across the board, all universities tell me that the Welsh baccalaureate is a valuable qualification and does not disadvantage Welsh students.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "If the committee were to produce a report based on the evidence we've received, that would be contrary to what you've just said. So, I think we'd end up in a debate in which we are setting out different points of view. So, would you therefore commit to exploring that perspective?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Hefin, I would argue that I have indeed explored that perspective because I have taken the trouble to find out first-hand—not via my officials, but first-hand—from those institutions, their views. So, this is not something that is hearsay; I have undertaken to ascertain the views of those universities. We have written to all vice-chancellors—last year—with regard to the Welsh baccalaureate qualification. Qualifications Wales has an individual whose specific job it is to ensure that universities across the United Kingdom understand the value of Welsh qualifications. That will become increasingly important as we see a divergence between English and Welsh qualifications. But I have to say that the evidence that I have from universities is that the Welsh baccalaureate, whilst it may be used in different ways in terms of an offer, the consistency from all universities is that it is a valuable qualification. If you've heard differently from admissions tutors and from the universities officially, rather than from somebody who has e-mailed in, then I would be pleased to look at that evidence, because it would be in stark contrast to what I am being told by universities.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Hefin is not referring to an e-mail—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "No, I've said that.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "—we did do a survey and we've also taken oral evidence.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and it's representing the evidence that we received.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "And I'm presenting you with the evidence that I've received.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But it will be presented to you as a submission from this committee, no doubt. Let's look at some admissions offers instead then. You do concede that there is inconsistency with how admissions offers are made with regard to the skills challenge certificate. How would you suggest that that is addressed?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Hefin, each individual institution and university the length and breadth of the UK have different ways in which they make offers to individuals. What is absolutely clear to me, and if the concern is around the type of institution—. So, for instance, it is accepted as a third-grade offer in Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, the London School of Economics—some of the highest performing universities and Russell Group universities. It is accepted as a fourth qualification or amends the offer in places like Bath University, and it is accepted in tariff-point offers in places like Hull and the University of the West of England. So there is a variety of ways in which universities use the qualification, and that is their prerogative—that's their prerogative as institutions. They will have different ways in which they recruit and how they offer places, just like different universities will have different views on unconditional offers. You know, there's a difference in universities there, isn't there? Some universities don't have unconditional offers at all; other universities—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, what you're saying is that the problem isn't connected to the Welsh bac, it's connected with just the way that universities make offers, and the Welsh bac has got nothing to do with it.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I’m saying there is a variety. Just like any other qualification, there is a variety in how universities use qualifications for offers. What I’m saying to you is that, in the conversations that I have had with Russell Group universities, what they say is that there is certainly no detriment to any Welsh student undertaking this qualification. They value the qualification. They think it is useful. It develops a set of skills that help students to make that transition into higher education. And therefore, I think it is a myth—I would go as far as to say that it’s a myth—that Welsh students are disadvantaged in any way by taking this qualification. Sorry, Andrew.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Could I just add to that response? There are, obviously, differences in the way that universities treat the skills challenge certificate and the Welsh baccalaureate, which is the prime focus of this. The attitude of the universities has changed significantly since that was a graded qualification.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Yes, that has made a difference.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And even those who do not make it part of their offer consider it exceedingly valuable in the way that young people are prepared to go to university and, therefore, as part of their personal statement, as part of their interview, the activity that the young person has taken by means of the skills challenge certificate is definitely recognised, even by those who don’t actually make it part of their offer. So, we’re still on a journey—that graded qualification has only been taught for a couple of years, but the journey is taking us to the right place, towards the right destination.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Okay. So, it isn’t just about variable admissions practices across universities; it is to deal with the skills challenge certificate as well, which needed changing in order to improve that.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "But that was changed in September 2015. When it was a'yes'/'no' qualification, I think they held it in less regard than they do now that it is a graded qualification.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "And that’s the conversation we had with some of our Russell Group universities.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And that was an important shift three years ago.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Okay. So, last question, then: are you absolutely confident that any concerns we are offering are nothing really to worry about?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "We will need to continue to communicate to all audiences the importance of this and the value of this qualification. But I am confident that the university sector, in its wide variety of forms, regards the Welsh baccalaureate qualification as a valuable endeavour for Welsh students to undertake, and they certainly don’t regard it as a detriment to students.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Siân wants to come in on this, and then I've got a question from Suzy on Seren.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just that the committee, of course, has been trying to gain evidence on this sector from the universities themselves, but Universities Wales, which represents the interests of universities in Wales, has rejected the committee's invitation to submit any oral or written evidence. So, can you see the dilemma we're in? We are hearing a few things coming from some universities, we hear what you're saying, but we can't get to the root of the matter because the universities themselves aren't willing to come to speak to us. Are you also disappointed that they have rejected our invitation to come and speak to us?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Where's the enthusiasm, Chair? Where's the enthusiasm?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "And perhaps that's a sign that they don't want to be drawn into this argument between the Government and us as a committee.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, it’s a matter for individual universities to decide whether they want to participate in the work of this committee. I would urge them to do so. All Welsh universities regard the Welsh baccalaureate as an equivalent to A-level, and all universities use it as part of their offer—Welsh universities.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, but you see what our dilemma is, though, because if we can’t actually ask them directly, it's a bit difficult for us to actually probe this and to help move things on? Anyway, I'll leave it at that. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's a matter for them, and maybe the Chair would like to take that up with Universities Wales.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "We have had quite an extensive dialogue with them about it. Suzy on Seren.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "So, just briefly, you’ve said several times that having a Welsh bac qualification is an advantage and certainly no detriment, and that it’s valued by universities. But advantage isn't the same as equivalence, and we have had evidence from—I think it was Cardiff University, again, where they had students with two A-levels and a bac who were actually performing as weaker students. So, even though on the face of it you've got three A-levels, those particular students aren't matching up to the expectations of a student with three A-levels. I do want to challenge what you said about the students who are involved in the Seren network about the baccalaureate being accepted for things like veterinary medicine and medicine itself. We've had evidence from FE colleges, which are now significant players in producing our Seren-style students, if you like, that they are exempting their students from doing the bac because it's a distraction, effectively. What's your comment on that? Because if this is a question of communication, which I suspect you're about to tell me, one of the axioms of good communication is you can have the best marketing in the world, but if the product you're selling isn't highly valued then you're actually just doubling the problem. So, can you explain to me why FE is exempting their highest flyers from doing the bac?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think sometimes colleges make the decision that four or five A-levels is of an advantage, and therefore, if you're asking students to carry that workload, which is a considerable workload, that's the preferred route for more able and talented students. Again, what is quite clear in all the conversations that I have had with Russell Group universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, is that this is a myth. What universities tell me they want is not necessarily students with four or five A-levels; they want students with three really exceptional grades at A-level and a Welsh baccalaureate. I think that's really, really an important message to get across—that it is not necessary to do four or five A-levels if you aspire to go to these Russell Group universities, or if you decide you want to apply to Oxford and Cambridge. As I said, in the conversations that we have had—and there is actually some research, and I will let the committee have links to the research. There is some research to suggest that those students who have been involved in project-based work—and, of course, that's not just the Welsh baccalaureate, that would be the EPQ, which is a qualification that is rapidly gaining traction in England. That is an extended project—research based—qualification, very similar to the individual project element of the Welsh baccalaureate. The EPQ in England is seen as a qualification taken by more able and talented students, and what we see in some of the research that is coming forward is that those students who have engaged in that type of work, project-based work, individual-led, research-based work—those skills are the skills that are really attuned to the nature of university-type work. Therefore, that is valued by universities and there is some indication to say that there is a correlation between the students who have undertaken that work and their potential success at undergraduate level. They also tell me that there is a link between, for instance, being able then to use those skills to gain work experience, placements and internships in the private sector and in the world of work, because, as I said, those types of skills are really, really valuable and therefore that's why they value the qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Can I just add—? It's great that they're telling you, why aren't they telling FE?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, I think it's really important that FE colleges understand that there is a myth around the fact that these universities are looking for four or five A-levels, and if that's the reason why then colleges are not allowing students or dissuading students from taking the Welsh bac, I think we need to reflect on what's important to those universities—which is the right A-levels. I think it's really, really important that students are given the best advice about the A-levels they need to take, facilitating subjects to get into a university, and the value of the skills and knowledge they will acquire through the Welsh bac as an assistance to them going forward.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Actually, it's your set of questions next on universal adoption.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'll try and keep this on the shorter side, if that's okay, everybody. You say in your evidence that you expect universal adoption, basically, by 2020, I think it is, or it might be 2019. What do you think universal adoption actually means? What does it look like? Does it mean 100 per cent adoption?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "What is means is that I expect all institutions to be in a position to deliver the Welsh baccalaureate. I believe it should be an entitlement to all Welsh students to be able to study this qualification, and I believe we should work to the situation where it becomes the norm to take the Welsh baccalaureate. I also recognise that in some individual cases, there may be very good reasons why perhaps this is not aligned to the well-being of that particular student. But when I talk about universal adoption, I expect all our institutions to be in a position to deliver the qualification, and I believe it should be an entitlement for Welsh students to be able to undertake this qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But not an obligation—that's the bit I'm trying to get at.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think it should become the norm, and if there are exceptions to that, and there could well be for very legitimate reasons, I think that that flexibility should be allowed. But I think, for those students who are not doing that Welsh baccalaureate, there should be evidence as to why that decision has been taken.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, so there's a presumption. I think the performance measures, probably, are likely to sharpen the minds of some school leaders, so I won't pursue that. But can you tell me what lesson you may have learnt from the universal obligation for students to study Welsh language in schools when those schools weren't particularly ready to offer a quality course?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "As we've rehearsed earlier, it is important that all of our schools and colleges are in a position to deliver this qualification well and deliver a really positive experience to learners. That's why there is existing support available, and via our new professional learning programmes there will be more support available for teachers to ensure that they have the skills and the confidence to deliver the qualification in a high-quality manner.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, that's going to take some time. Would you consider pausing the presumption of universal roll-out until you're absolutely sure that all institutions are able to offer the bac to the quality that you would like to see it delivered?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Not at this stage. I have no intention of pausing. We have evidence that schools are already delivering the qualification really well—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But you know that we've had evidence, and you must have as well, that not all schools are doing it.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "What we do know is that some schools struggle to deliver existing qualifications. I don't know why we would turn round and say that this qualification needs to be stopped when we wouldn't stop other qualifications, and we'd say,'Well, there we are, we haven't got a 100 per cent guarantee that every single school is delivering this particular qualification especially well, therefore we're going to denude the opportunity of students to study that particular subject.' What we're saying is,'There is a responsibility on us, on individual schools and on our regional consortia to endure that there is professional learning in place so that all schools are in a position to deliver the qualification well.'", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Isn't it irresponsible to ask students to be obliged to take a qualification that's badly delivered?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "What is irresponsible is not to invest in professional learning to ensure that all schools are in a position to deliver it well.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, I agree with you on that, actually, which is why I was a bit confused when you had some in-year additional money in this year's budget that was being given out to consortia rather than to schools to improve the ability of their teachers to deliver the Welsh baccalaureate in certain schools. Can you tell me whether the money—I think it was about £5 million that was going to the consortia in-year—will you will offer them suggestions that that is used for improving baccalaureate teaching?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The money that is available is going via consortia to schools. Individual schools are best placed to understand the professional learning needs of their staff. And if that school understands that they have particular professional learning needs for the Welsh baccalaureate, then I would expect the money to be spent on that. Where a school is doing the Welsh baccalaureate particularly well, then the school might identify other areas where they look to seek improvement. Therefore, it is for the individual school to assess the professional learning needs of their staff. We can't second-guess that, and therefore it has to be right that school leaders are able to plan the professional learning of their staff accordingly.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I completely accept that and, as I say, it's not for all schools, but bearing in mind we're facing evidence of polarisation of delivery, I'm just wondering whether there wasn't a letter suggesting that they may want to focus on this in the schools that aren't delivering this well at the moment.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, again, that's a conversation to be had between challenge advisors in our regional consortia who are aware of the strengths and weaknesses in individual schools, in conjunction with the leadership of those schools, to discuss how that professional learning money is best spent. There isn't a school that is fantastic at everything, nor is there a school that is not good at anything, if you know what I mean. There are strengths and weaknesses in all schools. It is for the regional consortia, via challenge advisers, and the headteacher, to have that conversation about what the professional learning needs are for that particular school, to ensure that all their teachers, across the length and breadth of the curriculum, are in a position to deliver good-quality lessons. But we can't second-guess that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Can I just make a further comment? I'll be this afternoon meeting with the regional consortia, Estyn, the universities, and the rest of what we call'the middle tier' to discuss with them the configuration of a national curriculum for professional learning, premised on the priorities that are emerging from our current work with pioneer schools. And the shifts in pedagogy that you all know is found behind some of these issues, with the delivery of the Welsh bac, those shifts in pedagogy are right at the core of the national approach to professional learning—so, things like project-based learning, the kinds of things you talked about today, moving away from a spoon-feeding model, not just for the Welsh bac but actually right across the curriculum. The new curriculum requires us to move in these new directions. So, it's absolutely true to say that each individual school is different, each individual practitioner is different, but we must give the regions and the HEIs, as it were, a menu of things, and guidance around where there are clearly weaknesses in schools. Those weaknesses need to be addressed.", "speakerName": "Kevin Palmer" }, { "text": "I accept that we're going forward towards Donaldson, and I'm sure that you will be getting questions on that at some time in the future. I'm more concerned about this bac that's been around for 10 years, and there's still, as far as we can tell from the evidence that we've had, poor delivery in some schools, where there's the prospect of obligation on the horizon. That was the thing that was worrying me. Anyway, thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think the issue of the difference between entitlement and obligation is a very important one and is a concern to students. You were saying it's an entitlement, not an obligation, but we have had very clear evidence from colleges that some of them are making young people do it, and schools are making young people do it. So, what do you say to those schools that are insisting on their pupils doing the Welsh bac at post 16?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "As I said, I hope that it becomes the norm that at post-16 level students take the Welsh baccalaureate, because I think it is of huge value. There may be circumstances that mean that the well-being of that student could be compromised by making them do this qualification. There could be a whole host of reasons why it is not suitable for a child to take this qualification, and therefore there has to be some flexibility in the system, and we have to trust in the professional leadership of our colleges and our headteachers to make that decision in the round, with the pupil and their parents, about what's in the best interests of those pupils. But I do think a situation where, perhaps, an entire cohort of students are suddenly deemed it's unsuitable for, I find that very hard to believe, but there could well be circumstances, for a whole host of reasons, where that particular qualification—. And we would not want to jeopardise the well-being of a student by forcing them to do a qualification that wasn't in their best interests, and we need to have the flexibility in the system to allow school leaders to make that decision, but they should also then be accountable for that decision.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But do you recognise there's maybe a case for strengthening guidance, then, on this? Because, we've had teachers tell us that they have insisted on pupils doing this, and then the parents have rung Welsh Government, and they felt undermined, then. So, do you think there's a case for strengthening the guidance or clarifying what the position is to schools and colleges?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Very happy to do that. As I said, from time to time, parents do indeed contact Welsh Government, and in that contact there is a whole variety of reasons why that parent feels the Welsh baccalaureate is not in the best interests of those children. Sometimes, that can go from the extreme of, 'I want my child to do five A-levels and I think that's in their best interest to get into Oxford and Cambridge'—I would argue that that is a myth, around the need to do that many A-levels—through to,'Actually, my child has a range of learning needs, and actually this qualification isn't suited to them. Making them go out and do voluntary work in an organisation with people that don't understand their needs and they are unfamiliar with could jeopardise my child's ability and my child's well-being.' So, there's a whole range of reasons why sometimes people have concerns about the Welsh baccalaureate. Some of those are very legitimate concerns. Sometimes, they're based on information that, perhaps, isn't correct, or the myths around,'I need to do five A-levels if I want to go to Cambridge'. Schools, then, have some flexibility. I'm aware of a case last year where a parent felt very concerned that the students were also having to study for entrance exams into Cambridge. A conversation was had with the school. They were able to allow the student extra time to study for that qualification and pick up their Welsh bac work later on in the academic year. So, they were able to be flexible in the delivery of that qualification. I'm very pleased to say that we've had correspondence from said parent to say that his son went on to do exceptionally well in his A-levels and his Welsh baccalaureate and gained his place at Cambridge University, and that's about having the flexibility, even at a school level, to be able to respond to the needs of individual students.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Just one final question from me on this, then. As you know, mental health and the emotional health of our children and young people is a very core issue for this committee, and Estyn have said that studying the skills challenge certificate alongside three or four A-levels is a significant factor in causing stress for some young people. How do you respond to that?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, I would be the first to acknowledge that studying A-levels can be a very stressful time. That's because students, rightly, regard those qualifications as high stakes and as having a profound effect on the opportunities for the rest of their lives. So, the mere fact of studying A-levels can be a really stressful time for students because they understand how important they are, and students want to do well and they want to be able to move on to the next stage, either of work or of university. We also know—and Estyn reflects this—that students are also often trying to combine that with part-time jobs. These students are of an age when they want to be out and about and earning some of their own money and being a bit more independent. So, that adds added pressure to them. So, undoubtedly, this is a stressful time in young people's lives and we need to ensure that there is support in school to support young people through this time to make sure that students are making the right choices in terms of their A-levels and the qualifications that they're doing so they're not having to do more because they're under the impression that, by doing more, that's going to make them more likely to succeed. What we know, actually, is it's about the quality of what you do rather than the entirety of what you do that's important to universities, and we need to make sure that students are getting really good information, advice and guidance and support at what is a challenging time in their lives, because, of course, it comes on top of working really hard for your GCSEs and then you have, the following year, AS-level examinations and A-level examinations after that. So, these are stressful times in children's lives and they realise the importance of these as high-stakes qualifications.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The next questions are from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "This is about the wider impact of studying the Welsh bac on other curriculum subjects and education provision, and we've had representations in that it is causing some concerns. So, do you have any concerns about the effect that the Welsh bac may be having on wider education provisions, such as the narrowing of the curriculum at key stage 4?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "No. Obviously, schools are responsible for planning their local curriculum offer, and that needs to meet the needs of their learners, and it also needs to meet the needs of the Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009. So, there should be a wide variety of choices available. I believe that the skills challenge certificate actually does ensure that there is a broad curriculum and that children are exposed to different learning opportunities. And so, rather than narrowing it, I believe the Welsh bac helps us to make sure that there is an expansive curriculum, and that lots of different issues are explored in the skills challenge certificate that ensure not just academic skills are developed, but, actually, knowledge and skills of a wider range of subjects about you and your place in the world is available via this qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks. And then, to what extent do you think that the Welsh bac should be give priority over other curriculum subjects?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, I don't think it's—. It shouldn't be at the expense of other subjects. It should be part of that wide range of opportunities that are afforded to students, and I don't think it's more important or less important than other aspects of what we already ask schools to deliver.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "What about where we've taken representations that there's a lack of capacity in terms of all the extra pressures of studying the Welsh bac along with other qualifications? I went to a school in Bangor, and, again, as has been said here, it's very polarised, the evidence that we're taking—either some have found it very easy or some, including teachers, have found it extremely difficult to fit everything in, and they do believe that there is a lack of capacity there.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "And the onerous nature and the consequences of workload for teachers is acknowledged by the Qualifications Wales work and review into the qualification, and that is one of the things that we're looking to address so that the assessment arrangements and workload implications for teachers are not too onerous. And, if there is any element of duplication—students being asked to do things over and over—then that needs to be addressed as well, and that's why there is this review by the design group.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks. And then, how do you respond to concerns that learners are avoiding studying the Welsh bac— where they can, that is—by attending institutions in England or institutions that do not offer Welsh-medium provision?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's interesting, isn't it, about where children choose to study and whether they are motivated by the avoidance of the Welsh bac? People make decisions about where to study for a whole host of reasons, and it's difficult sometimes to quantify what those are. So, for instance, we often hear this along the border that, because—. The geography is not easy, but it can be relatively easy to go across into the English system and therefore you don't have to do this. Now, the reasons for that could be very variable. It could be about the nature of the offer. We know that, in some of our rural schools, the secondary sixth forms aren't able to offer a wide variety of A-levels, and perhaps, by going to a different institution, a larger institution across the way, then you can get that combination of the A-levels you want to do, which simply isn't possible if you do it in your home school. Or, we do have some consortia arrangements where A-levels are delivered across a wide variety of schools, which require students to travel. Some students don't want to do that; they don't want to do their A-levels in three different schools, but they'd rather go to an institution where they can do it all under one roof. And that means, sometimes, moving across the border or, in the area I live, children making the decision to go to Merthyr college, because its a lovely, beautiful new building, the facilities are absolutely fantastic and a wide variety of A-levels is available under one roof. We looked at, in particular, also, the perception of quality. So, if we take the example of King Henry VIII School in Abergavenny, a school where, in the past, there have been, I think, within the community, some concerns about the quality of that school—whether it's regarded as a good school. And, from that particular location, you can quite easily get to Hereford college—a college that has a fantastic offer, does very, very well and has a beautiful building. What we do, if we look at the tracking of the students who have been retained in King Henry VIII, as that school has been on its improvement journey and has done better and better and better, the number of students that they are retaining into their sixth form has grown. So, the perception is,'This is a good school, I'm going to get a good-quality experience here', and more and more students are choosing to stay in that school than perhaps make the decision to travel somewhere else. We also have to recognise that, for some students, staying in the sixth form isn't what they want to do; they want a different experience, they want to go to an FE college. They want a different experience. So, we have to take into consideration that students could be motivated by a wide variety of subjects, and there's no hard-and-fast evidence that it is avoidance of the bac that is the sole driver for some of these choices.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Siân, on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The evidence that we've had from one of the teaching unions—robust and clear evidence—is that this is happening, that is, that young people are leaving Wales to go over the border to schools in England in order to avoid the Welsh bac. That's exactly what was said to us. But you don't accept that evidence.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I'm not saying that I don't accept it. I'm saying that I think there are a wide variety of reasons why students make decisions about where to study. I'm not aware of any comprehensive piece of work that has looked at those motivations, and I think there could be a whole host of reasons why children are deciding to move across the border. Perhaps the Welsh bac is an easy one to place that hook on, and that's easier to acknowledge, isn't it, than saying that perhaps students are making that choice for other reasons.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The next questions, then, are on teacher learning from Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Actually, I've asked the question that I wanted to ask.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay, you don't want to—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "By all means you ask the others I had.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. You have referred to training already. The committee's got two concerns, really. One is about preparedness in ITE to teach the Welsh bac, so I don't know if you want to expand on how teachers are being skilled up at that level to deliver the Welsh bac effectively.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "In the accreditation process, which has not been without its pain, and some significant decisions made in that regard, the criteria for the ITE programmes note that, and I'm going to quote it:'Teachers should be able to help children and young people to make links across their learning, bringing together different aspects to examine, for example, important topics such as citizenship, enterprise, financial capability and sustainability.' So, the prime driver for our ITE reforms, obviously, is the preparedness for'Successful Futures', but in preparing our teachers to be in a position to successfully deliver that, those are also the pedagogical principles and that shift in pedagogy that we see aligned to the Welsh baccalaureate. So, it is actually a part of the accreditation process that the curriculum that the new ITE providers will have to deliver—ensuring that teachers have those skills and have that confidence to be able to deliver their teaching in a way that, as I said, ensures that we successfully deliver on Donaldson, but also on the same pedagogical principles that are needed for the successful delivery of the Welsh bac.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "In the pre-Donaldson period, then, bearing in mind what you've just said, do you expect to see a surge in improvement on how the baccalaureate is taken up by those schools that are currently less keen on it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I hope that we will see increased numbers of students taking the qualification and an increase in the quality of that experience for young people. As we discussed earlier, we're not just waiting for the new graduates to come out of our ITE providers. There's a whole cohort of the workforce already out there. They should be given an equal opportunity to ensure that they have the skills to deliver on our curriculum reforms and our reform qualifications, and every time the previous Government has brought in a reformed qualification there have been specific resources made available to ensure that teachers are in a position to do that. So, when we changed to maths numeracy, a new qualification that was to be examined, there was specific resource made available for the professional learning for teachers to make sure that they were in a position to do that, and that's exactly the same as the offer that we have available for teachers who are delivering the Welsh bac.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. And you've already said about continuing professional development, that this is going to be a core part of the CPD. Is there anything that you want to add on that? Is it going to be fully integrated into the professional learning offer?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. There is already—I don't want to make the impression that there's not already support available out there. There is already support out there via regional consortia for professional learning with regard to the Welsh baccalaureate. There is existing support available from the WJEC with regard to Welsh baccalaureate, and it will continue, as we drive forward our national approach to professional learning. And, increasingly, there are interesting ways in which we're supporting students, so I don't know if Members are aware of the new MOOC. The University of Bath, one of the Russell Group universities, delivered a MOOC for the extended project qualification in England.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "What's a MOOC? [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "So, it is an online—a massive open online course. So, it's a course that is delivered free of charge, and it's delivered by information technology. So, the University of Bath have done this MOOC to support students with the EPQ. They have just launched, in conjunction with Aberystwyth University, a bilingual MOOC for the individual project for Welsh bac. It's our understanding it is the first ever Welsh-medium MOOC, we think; we're not aware of any others. And this resource is there for students to give them advice on how they do choose the thesis for their individual project: how do you go about, then, undertaking good independent research; how do you reference properly, to ensure that you do that correctly? And we've seen over 1,000 students already sign up for the MOOC. So, increasingly, there are lots and lots of new resources out there for both teachers and students to make the most of. And the fact that Bath and Aberystwyth have worked together on this, I believe, shows their commitment and a demonstration of their support for this qualification, otherwise why would the University of Bath bother, if they weren't interested in it?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Just one final question from me. I've written to you about a young constituent who moved institutions and resat the Welsh bac, but wasn't able, because of the WJEC policy, to obtain a higher grade in it, because they've got a policy that the grade is capped when you resit it. Given what the committee's been told about the variability in the way this is taught in institutions in Wales, do you think it's fair that young people shouldn't be able to go and resit it somewhere else and get a better grade?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, given that Welsh Ministers are independent of the qualification system, I would want to be careful about what I said, because it is for the WJEC and Qualifications Wales to regulate this. But, clearly, we would want to reflect on making sure that students have an opportunity, and a fair opportunity. Andrew, I don't know if you've got any observations that you'd like to make.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, not really. I think it's an individual case, this one—", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "But it could apply to lots of young people, couldn't it? I mean, that's the point here. I know it's a constituent's case and I don't normally raise those in the Chair, but I think, given what we've learned about variability, it is a valid issue for young people in Wales, really.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, whether it's particularly related to the Welsh baccalaureate, though, I'm not so certain. And I think that would be a better question to ask the WJEC, perhaps, and Qualifications Wales, because it's a deliberate act that that activity is at arm's length from Welsh Ministers.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Okay. Any other questions from Members? No. Okay, well, can I thank the Cabinet Secretary and her officials for attending? We've had a very useful discussion this morning, which will inform our report on this. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy, but thank you again for your attendance.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Llywydd to the First Minister on the role of the Assembly in the process of legislating for Brexit. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and the Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning with additional information following the meeting on 8 November. Are Members happy to note those?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Can I just make a comment on the first of those letters, the one from the Llywydd? I recommend to Assembly Members that they read that again if they can, because, actually, it's an important issue that is easily lost in the other things that we talk about with Brexit, and that is the role of this Assembly in scrutinising secondary legislation falling out of Brexit.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Can I ask a question? Was that a reflection of all the Chairs?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes. It came to the panel of Chairs—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "And it was obviously unanimous—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "—and we agreed that we wanted that letter sent.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Item 4 is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Okay.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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address the concerns raised about the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification include:\n\n* A design group of Qualifications Wales is looking at ways to address issues arising from the qualification, especially from a teacher workload perspective, to ensure assessment of students' work is not too onerous.\n* As part of the professional learning for teachers, the existing opportunities via the regional consortia for support in teaching of the qualification will be reviewed and, as the national approach to professional learning is rolled out, the professional learning needs of those already in the system will be addressed.\n* Initial teacher education accreditation will be predominantly focused on delivering the new curriculum, which is very much in line with the Welsh Baccalaureate challenge certificate.\n* Qualifications Wales is undertaking a review into the nature of the qualification, with stakeholder and practitioner groups helping them with their review and testing their thoughts.\n* There will be a joint communication plan developed by Qualifications Wales and the Government to better communicate the value of the qualification.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 6, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 22, "endIndex": 24 }, { "startIndex": 30, "endIndex": 32 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides these actions, what other efforts are being made to address concerns about the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification?", "response": "* The Government and Qualifications Wales continue to work together to address concerns about the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification.\n* Professional learning opportunities are being provided to teachers to give them the skills and confidence to deliver the qualification in a high-quality manner.\n* Schools are responsible for planning their local curriculum offer, which needs to meet the needs of their learners and the Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009, ensuring a wide variety of choices.\n* As part of the accreditation process for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programs, the curriculum that the new ITE providers will have to deliver includes ensuring that teachers have the skills and confidence to deliver teaching in a way that successfully delivers on Donaldson, as well as the same pedagogical principles that are needed for the successful delivery of the Welsh Bac.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 30, "endIndex": 36 }, { "startIndex": 106, "endIndex": 127 }, { "startIndex": 137, "endIndex": 142 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Can you identify any concerns or issues raised during the meeting that were not fully addressed or resolved?", "response": "* One concern raised during the meeting was that, while the Welsh Baccalaureate is valued by learners and teachers, there is a 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qualification.\n\n* They brought forth evidence from groups of stakeholders indicating that the qualification lacks rigor, has no value, and is perceived as a disadvantage for Welsh students compared to their English counterparts.\n* They also presented evidence suggesting that there is inconsistency in the way universities use the qualification, particularly with regard to skills challenge certificate.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 10 }, { "startIndex": 40, "endIndex": 56 }, { "startIndex": 63, "endIndex": 91 }, { "startIndex": 95, "endIndex": 106 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Was there a consensus among the attendees that the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification should be made compulsory for all students in Wales?", "response": "There was no consensus among the attendees that the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification should be made compulsory for 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there was a case for strengthening guidance or clarifying the position to schools and colleges on this matter.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 50, "endIndex": 50 }, { "startIndex": 118, "endIndex": 119 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "How did the meeting conclude, and were there any final decisions or agreements reached among the attendees regarding the future of the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification?", "response": "The meeting concluded with the Cabinet Secretary, Kirsty Williams, thanking the attendees for their contributions. There were no final decisions or agreements reached regarding the future of the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification, as the intention of the meeting was to discuss concerns and explore ways to address them, rather than make definitive decisions. However, there was agreement among the attendees that the qualification is valuable and should be supported, while also acknowledging the need to address concerns about consistency in delivery and workload.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 6 }, { "startIndex": 22, "endIndex": 24 }, { "startIndex": 43, "endIndex": 47 }, { "startIndex": 59, "endIndex": 67 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you provide a concise overview of the key discussions and outcomes of the meeting regarding the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification?", "response": "* The meeting focused on discussing the current status of the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification, addressing concerns about it, and reviewing its implementation across schools and colleges in Wales.\n* The Cabinet Secretary for Education emphasized the value of the qualification but acknowledged concerns regarding workload, impact on well-being, and variability in delivery.\n* The design group of Qualifications Wales is addressing issues to ensure assessment is not overly burdensome, professional learning opportunities are available for teachers, and communication efforts are made to enhance understanding of the qualification.\n* Stakeholders and practitioner groups are assisting in a review to address concerns, and a joint communication plan will be developed to better communicate its value.\n* While the qualification is valued, there were concerns about consistency in delivery and workload, and there was no consensus on making it compulsory for all students.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 15, "endIndex": 38 }, { "startIndex": 43, "endIndex": 50 }, { "startIndex": 63, "endIndex": 69 }, { "startIndex": 102, "endIndex": 120 }, { "startIndex": 122, "endIndex": 133 }, { "startIndex": 142, "endIndex": 153 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

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You or me?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y you read that stuff, since you wrote it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, since our materials aren't exactly what we were going for, I'm just gonna translate what this all means for you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll be the Vanna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The base is gonna be gunmetal gray, which is what we had decided, and it's gonna be plastic. Um then there's the latex cover, which is what you see as red. Um because it can be replaceable, we just kinda went with the colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and then the buttons are actually kind of poking through rather than on top. Um and the buttons will be a l much lighter blue, almost see-through.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just sort of a very pale blue and a light-up yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The whole thing lights up if you press any button, rather than it just that one button will light up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then at the bottom we have our logo. Um bright yellow sort of design with the R_R_ which will actually look like our logo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then on the side you have the buttons. They're one button, but they kind of push up and down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think they're scrolling.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. They're just buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, yeah. And then yeah, the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On off switch will be here and as you've noticed on our prototype um they've ended up with a curvature kind of, by concave sort of thing, except for, you know, can't see underneath.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I'm hoping that when we get to production we can actually make them like that, because they're very nice to stock you know, stick your finger in. Um the two squared buttons are are two probably least used, menu, mute,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thumb-shaped.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then these are the numbers, so our channel and our volume will be on either side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then the last thing is just that it'll be black labelling on top, just which we didn't do..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And did you determine um the curvature of the bottom part of it for the hand, is it gonna be a single or a double?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say a single.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single. Single sounds good,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause it's not big enough to really constitute a double.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's only actually the size of my hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. Great. I think you did an awesome job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's a beautiful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is beautiful, and it's everything that we discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Good job, you guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoohoo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh thank you..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Those are really good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what's next in our agenda? Um we're gonna discuss the evaluation criteria, and that's with Courtney.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, it's a PowerPoint presentation. I don't really know exactly what we should uh talk about. It's under evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Um so these are the criteria we're gonna ask, is it easy to use, is it fashionable uh yeah, I guess we should write these down so we can reference them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Feel good meaning what?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like does it feel good, like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Physically,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, physically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sqi.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's just for current trend.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't really count, you guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was a little difficult to incorporate the cover with the cherry fruit on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's so we do have removable covers, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well then that's covered.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so we n k everybody have that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll wait.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, she's got it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's good. Yeah. Okay so, we're using the criteria uh for a seven point scale, and so we need to discuss how we feel. It falls within this range, so for easy to use, do we feel it's very easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we going to indi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True or false, easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I say we individually rate what do you say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just orally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Why not? We have okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um easy to use. I vote six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh wait, that's false.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say two as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two. That's what I say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh hello, we're great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, fashionable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At the moment, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. I mean like no, I think it's very fashionable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Me too, very chic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thi I would give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One, I give it a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll give it a two, because at the moment it's not looking that way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, and ma it's a prototype,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's that's just like that's a clay, it's a prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm I don't think it's that fashionable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd give it like three or four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, now I'm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, the average is about a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then I'm not fashionable, so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two or three. Two point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "don't use my opinion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Neither are all o all the customers we have, either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "does it feel good?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Imagine, since we obviously don't have that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does it feel good?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I feel like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the shape of it actually does uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's i it is very ergonomically designed. It's gonna be curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's gonna be thicker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Depth.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it feels good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think so too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give it a one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, average is two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it technologically innovative? Oh sorry I'm taking over your job here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no, it's fine,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Go right ahead..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're I mean you're Project Manager.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I mean and it does it have voice I mean the phrase recognition on it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Right? We were able to do it with that kind of chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could do it with the chip, yes. It wasn't we have no reflection of it on the prototype,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And there's no way you can represent it on here. Y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but that's because it's only two dimensions, really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That was'kay. And we discussed that being included.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then yes, then I would well it isn't what else would it need for it to be technologically innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we don' have the you know, we can't say channel, and it changes the channel, channel eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it doesn't cover anything other then T_V_,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I'd probably give it a three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even though it is for just a T_V_ remote it's uh very advanced. But it is just a T_V_ remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd go for a three or four on that one, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I go four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay, let's go for a three point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three and an half.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, and the last criteria is it is it um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Squishy and fruity.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well yeah, so I'd give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we've covered that with the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just trendy, basically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "trendy. Sure. Capable. Very capable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's capable of being squishy and fruity.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, it's very capable of being squishy and fruity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's very important.'Kay, there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, next.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um our re model slightly resembling a giant delicious cookie appears to be a winner,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh hopefully we'll sell millions. Good job, team..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How did you get that in there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The slightly resembling a giant delicious cookie.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It it does..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, let's go back to this No, that's it. Hmm. Oops. Okay, so now uh we're moving on to finance, okay. I'm gonna show you an Excel spreadsheet and we're going to fill it in together based on what components we're including in our remote and see if it's under twelve fifty Euro. If so, we can proceed, if not, we need to go back to the drawing board a little bit.'Kay? So let me bring that up. Here we go. Alright. Um it's not hand dynamo, it's powered by battery, so we give it a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Number of components you plan to use. Do I just put quantity being one battery, or Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if it's a do you wanna go for this is where we need to make a final call on if it's a lithium or do we wanna go triple A_s,'cause triple A_s we're gonna have t do more than one battery. Oh, let's just go for a lithium. What do you say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, let's let's do a lithium.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think uh I think the people who purchase this are gonna be technologically", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're gon that's gon Nologically advanced,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, down to the electronics um section. We're gonna need this kind, correct, if we do the voice sensor,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so one of those. It is a single-curved, so one of those.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. What's that? Yeah, that's correct.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, down here, case material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And special colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And special colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Down here, interface type. We're gonna have the integrated scroll scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, we don't have the scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Isn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh those are just regular buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's the push-button too, right there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but i so i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Integrated scroll-wheel or push-button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're really having just push-button interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we can just go um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But will we w actually we'll need two, won't we? One for the top and then one for the s one e for each side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it that just covers the type of button we're having. Because we're not doing a scroll on the side, it's still push-button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh like the twenty nine means like you have both scrolls and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Push-button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right I think she's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we just have push", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we don't have any scrolls.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think what Courtney's talking about is do we need to put two here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like because there's like one interface right here and then because it's not gonna be on the same plane when you press the button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's gonna have to be additional signals on the sides.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is that gonna be an extra one on each side?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, they might put us well, let's just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two interfaces, is that what w should we s say?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two or would it be three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's call it th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or three, because of one on each side and one on top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, fine. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it's fine'cause it comes out the same as twenty nine. Well less than twenty nine even.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "button supplements the buttons are no uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They're a special colour. Um they're uh they're a special form,'cause they're indented.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are they? Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And, they're a special material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Well, we're under cost then. Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're over?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, we're under.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Grand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're under.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve point five is our limit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We've got eleven point two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can go to production.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can go to I dunno what I just did. Okay. Now we're gonna talk about the project process um and whether or not we're satisfied with the whole process and the result. Um did we have a lot of room for creativity? Did we have a lot of room for individual leadership, um teamwork, and the means, meaning the technology that we used to produce our little guy there, and if we found any new ideas. Now, question is, how do we do this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we just discuss it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Discuss, sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Previous.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Who want who would like to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We think we got stifled for cri creativity by the company itself, in restricting us only to using a T_V_ remote, initially.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We didn't have a whiteboard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And no internet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, yeah, that's a good point.'Cause I'd forgotten that that wasn't our decision, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And how did you feel about the whole the whole process though?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, overall I mean I thought we did a good job like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We got to choose basically we had control over minus it being just merely a T_V_ remote we got to choose what we wanted to do with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, and we got say over what how technologically advanced it should be and also how fashionable, which I kind of like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we're a fashion forward technology company.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we yep. You know it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um what about um the teamwork aspect? How did you guys enjoy making the model, the prototype?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we did well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think ya' did. Did you work well together in there, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, no, there was there was scratching and fighting, but no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Minus that one fight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Gouges.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my God,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we've all been a pretty congenial team here, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We hadn't had any ma fallings out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean minus you guys being wha what is it, the survey, annoying or what is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Irritating.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Irritating..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Irritating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Irritating, yeah. Wow that's a it's definitely a strong one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The means, the whiteboard didn't work..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And no internet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have to knock that one down a couple notches.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A and our friend here really feels strongly about the internet..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and no internet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Misses. I do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's so much available.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the digital the digital pens", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like it's information", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, digital pens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really appreciated those, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "were they were pretty cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They were fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah they were fun, even though I'm not really sure what I could do with them, but they are awesome..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The use of the laptops for receiving everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, laptops are extremely handy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was wireless too, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wireless. And that we have a shared network where we can put all of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And these things whoa.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And let's not forget the sexy dual microphones everyone gets to wear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And Big Brother.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Big brother.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, have we found any new ideas through this process?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um we are really gonna sell this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ta-da.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For something that looks cool and also has what I want it to b do technologically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's your right brain taking over, w wanting the artistic, the fashionable, the hip, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we all just went out and bought useful things, I don't think I mean that's not what technology.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's why I don't like uh Macs or Apples, just'cause I look at it, and I know it's probably a very good computer, but I look at it, and I'm taken back to elementary school,'cause they look the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They look like they did when I was in elementary school,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that's so old-fashioned to me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause they're pretty and just like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The Toronto district school would only use his Macs with their kids.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly, so I associate them with like really low-tech, really cheap, bad.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just the Mac font bothers me even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I do like iPods, go figure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, no, iPods They want all those words for presentation, even the plugs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, i iPods are now quite trendy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they come in different colours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Colours. Exactly. I mean how many people went out and bough a Nokia phone, back when we were like in high school, just so they could get the changeable face plates.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, everybody.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyway, so that is definitely at work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mine is amber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't have a phone'til university.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the my but my one issue is just like the whole it's for T_V_ only.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was like who's gonna buy a remote just for the T_V_ unless they've lost theirs.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look at it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fashionable chic people will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're kidding.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is a piece of work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow. Marketing Director says yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, marketing has to actually create the desire for it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fashionable people will buy it. Oh, I will create desire..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's okay. We can create a commercial where they think that all their needs will be met. This will help them find the one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ri They'll be sexy with it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could have like an Adam and Eve type commercial, and that's the fig-leaf.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. That'll sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so the serpent says, use our remote..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go, marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let you loose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we're gonna wrap this up now. Um the costs are within the budget, we evaluated the project,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and now we're gonna complete the final questionnaire and meeting summary, and then we're going to have a big giant party, apparently, according to this, so. Alright, thank you team,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoohoo. 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And uh our idea is to uh to make the new remote control device uh more user friendly than the previous one, and to to be trendier, to be with it, and therefore to uh to get a bigger market share and bigger audience.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um method of doing this is uh split up as you can see into uh the functional design, the conceptional design, and the detailed design. So um in each of these uh phases we'll uh basically be handing over to yourselves, the designers of this uh this device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh having uh meetings so that we can uh during the course of the day um come up with a better better inst implement than we had before. And therefore um have a successful uh conclusion to the day. Um and you'll be doing uh various designs uh throughout the day to meet this end.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we've got tool training. Try out whiteboard. Uh. So we will um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right so everyone's to uh supposedly uh draw their favourite animal over on the white board over there. I guess this is uh make sure the whiteboard works. So uh I don't know who wishes to go first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you wish to go f Have a first bash at uh whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't mind..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah uh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good job I got pockets today.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But now you you uh you'll move out from the microphone and the camera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your microphone's just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I take it that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we supposed to do this right now, do you think, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would I would guess so. Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You've lost uh your microphone there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Technical problems.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Right here we go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean you designers are meant to come up with these sort of things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I think that I would have to say that my favourite animal is the cat. Little smiley cat there. Um and this would be because they're very independent, uh they're very intelligent, compared to dogs maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and they can be very very affectionate. Some people don't think so but I know very affectionate cats. Um. Um and they can look after themselves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Next..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah. I'll I'll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall I rub that out, actually?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't see as there's any need to. There's plenty of space.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean whatever..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can have have a whole menagerie..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall I see if I can get across without just tangling everything. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We've had more time to prepare over this side,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we've all stuck our bits and pieces in our pockets..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't think of that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The three pens are underneath.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "pens are over here. I'll try the red pen. Okay. Um. I'm gonna go for the bear which I'm be able to draw very well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You get marks for artistic impression..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I'll have a bash at it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ooh ooh I lost it there. I think I've just knocked the microphone. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you're just doing the face..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll g then we'll go for a a s small small bear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and I like my animal that looks nothing like a bear because um I dunno maybe because there's so many cartoon characters made up after the bear like the jungle book characters and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Hello. Um I'm gonna go for the dog, and I'm gonna draw one badly as well. Uh. looks like it's going to be a dachshund or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's quite good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. There's my dog. Um I like dogs because they're very loyal. And they're always happy, so whenever whenever you're feeling sort of a bit a bit down or tired, they're always coming up and they're always um quite excited. So um you can always have a lot of fun with a dog. And they're also good for exercise as well. You can sorta get out and they they sorta never get tired. And and when they're tired they're quite cute as well, so..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, that's why I like dogs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, um. Well I've not actually had too many pets uh over my uh time'cause to be honest with you uh I'm not too keen on them anyway. Not to worry. So what my daughters have got at the moment is they've got uh a few fish and so hopefully um won't prove too difficult to draw. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As you can see that my artist artistic work is useless as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyway um. And uh one of the best uh things about fish is that they don't really take uh too much looking after because uh with most of the animals if you're going away on holiday or whatever, you've gotta spend money or get a friend or whatever to look after them for you. Whereas if you got fish, you just gotta put the food in a a a dripper feed which feeds them over the uh couple of weeks that you're away and uh change the water every couple of months, and buy in a few plants, so. Other than the fact that they keep dying,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh fish are uh are not are are are reasonable pets in that uh they're low maintenance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Okay, uh if we're still all with us. Right okay, so. Work has been done on uh this uh project where by um twenty five Euros is uh the uh expected uh selling price. That information has come from our marketing manager here..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're looking to sell internationally, not just in Europe. We're looking at um having our production costs limited to uh twelve and an half Euro per unit. And therefore making a profit margin of uh well not actually a profit margin it's uh because obviously you're gonna have overheads and various other costs to uh take uh from uh from that to give you your profit margin per unit. And so depending what the uh the overhead uh costs are will determine uh how many units we're uh looking to sell or projecting to sell at this point in time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um Experience with remote control, first ideas. New remote. So I guess we're looking at um having a discussion at this point in time to help uh you um folks design our our new model as it were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh any any thoughts?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I with some remote controls the buttons were a little small so they're quite hard to press so maybe we make something with uh easy to press buttons. As that is the main function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so so basically we're looking for some um we're looking for a device that is um robust and and therefore uh won't get damaged too easily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we're looking for a device that is uh What was the other things you said there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um sort of easy to use so the buttons are accessible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Easy to use. Use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is easy to use and see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can I just check? Is this just a television remote? Because a lot of um systems are kind of T_V_ video combined now, or T_V_ D_V_D_ combined.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And one of the most annoying things is having like five remotes in the house. So if you've got a combined system, it could be a combined remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or is it just a television that we're supposed to be doing?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I w um basically I'll get back to you on that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it seems to me sensible,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause as you rightly said, there's nothing more annoying than having three or four devices littered about the uh about the room.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So a device for for all remotes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry, you go. You go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've Okay. Yeah. Um one of the things um we found from the market research is that people often get confused by the number of buttons on them as well.'Cause there's quite often lots and lots. And um sometimes uh they sort of remote controls defeat their own purpose because you're sat in the chair and the remote is somewhere else in the room. So whereas in the past you'd have to get up to change the channel, now you have to get up to sort of pick up the remote. So so I don't we need to sort of maybe think about how um we could maybe uh develop a remote control which moves around the room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Comes to your whistle..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's maybe something for the future when you can talk to your television, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But is it in a sense it's r um mutually exclusive. You can't have both the th the one device and then have few buttons on it to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause you want you want simplicity as well, you want any idiot to be able to use it. Whilst at the same time you want, as you rightly said, one remote for all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so these are probably mutually exclusive options", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm you could argue that experience of using devices and similar devices as people get more and more used to using remotes, therefore they're more with handling them,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "therefore you can make them more complicated as time goes on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we could um have better instructions with the remote. Or are we just doing the design of the remote control itself, or sort of the instructions that would come with it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Better instructions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean we've done some research um about sort of you know what the cutting edge sort of hand held devices are, and a lot of them sort of use you know they're like they're like mini laptops.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's possible that we could devise a system where where you're you're basically sort of holding a a miniature computer which is controlling all your your sort of your television, your stereo, and where you know if you buy a new thing then it sort of you can link it to that as well, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um well we've got five minutes before the end of the meeting. So uh we have to uh start winding up. Um is there Next meeting in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um Right, so we've got I_D_ the Come on, where's my.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you just click return it should be okay. It'll get rid of the message.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or not..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you hit just hit return and it should get rid of the message.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh you've got..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I was looking for. Right. So we've got function Oh what happened to the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that might be back to the start. Um if you grab the kind of uh slide to the left and pull it down?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "slide four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Sorry about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we've got um the working design for I_D_. For U_I_D_ the technical functions design. Marketing, the user requirement specification. Specific instructions will be sent to you by your person by your personal coach. So. Are we all clear what objectives we're looking to meet in the next thirty minutes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I guess I'll try and write up some minutes of uh this meeting to uh to give it to you for the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not exactly clear on what we're designing the rem remote for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this a mun multi-functional one or do we decide that ourselves as we go away and work on it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you just said at the start it was a television remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Television remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so maybe we should just stick to that unless we get told otherwise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true,'cause during during the course of our day we might make decisions based on information or meetings that would change where we're going.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But at this point in time I think you're right that uh shall we make it just a T_V_. Okay? So we will depart.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We will stay here and uh and break off. And I'll do minutes and and we'll see you in half and hour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, that's great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay cheers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Right s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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It's just one question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we have a problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you look closely, you can see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It wants.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I already took the liberty to make some suggestions... At the moment we have fifteen buttons, one L_C_D_ screen, one advanced chip-on-print. We use a uh sensor, that's for the speech. Uh we use kinetic energy. And we wanted uh the buttons in a special colour. Okay. What's the first thing we should drop? The special colour of the buttons?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's that's for the trendy uh feel and look. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but everything is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should we switch to a hand dynamo?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that's the still the same idea as the kinetic energy because you have to use it and do things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, b but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but young people like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Batteries?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So just do normal battery.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the battery option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just a normal battery then, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has to be twelve and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or not?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh my goodness.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're going to redesign something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we're at twenty five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um Do we keep the shape doubly curved or g do we go for single curved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I guess i we'll have to go for single curve then. I mean we have to drop on everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we can keep it single curved with uh top view still curved, but from the side it's it's flat,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the screen screen is just Well you just have to hold it like this then. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How about Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh another option I saw was to drop the buttons one through nine, so you can't directly access a channel, but instead use only the up and down arrows. That would skip nine buttons and four and a half Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I was thinking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A a", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's do it then. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh then we have left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't have any basic options any more.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. We do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh'cause then they don't have to n They don't need special colour as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They don't need special colours. Fine. That's more like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You were saying something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was exactly my point. Like let's drop all the buttons, and just make one", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean we're gonna use the L_C_D_ screen anyway. So we'll just have to use it for everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then you can make an overview of channels in the screen, and select a channel, click.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, some more menu options. Yeah. Okay so maybe we can drop few more buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um Now let's look.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we c could We only need the the the the the menu arrow arrow button uh thing. Everything you can do with with the menu. So With the display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we need one integrated button for everything then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The joystick.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Kind of. I was Because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, scroll-wheel, push-button uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you if you go to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Integrated scroll-wheel push-button, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you go to our uh view, like you if you are in the sound system there, uh and you wanna adjust the treble for instance,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "this is just uh an example,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y y you wanna see a bar on which you can adjust it from zero to ten for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you want a sound preview of how it's gonna sound,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right? So you wanna click on it, activate it, whe and when you move it, hear the difference of the treble coming out or going into the sound.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you'll you'll need a a kind of a joystick uh button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah or or the integrated scroll-wheel push-button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's kind of on your mouse and then you can click it, adjust it, click again and then you're out of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you still But you then still need to have Well you can use the scroll-wheel as well for um maybe for the channels. But you still um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's r Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You still have to have some some button in the menu to go back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you do one inte You can do one integrated scroll-wheel push-button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then just drop all the other buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well not all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But but th the cost of one integrated button is far more than a few extra push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not s not sound I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's uh One integrated button is five times the cost of a normal button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to to make it s uh more uh It has to be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could also drop j three more of these, without losing much functionality. You just drop the Okay and the Back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Wh wh what what what is the what is the uh sample sensor sample speaker?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's for the speech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could drop the speech recognition..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S s Drop speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's possible..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We we d", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's it's expensive, but uh we never considered the possibilities of uh speech recognition.'Cause it can take the function of a lot of uh uh buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's not very easy to use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it can be disturbed by by noise and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but lets just say that the speech recognition works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "stuff like that. Let let let me see what's more what's more popular. I guess the the screen was more popular than um than the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have to look on that. Let me see. Uh well no I was wrong.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There are more people who like speech recognition than an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay. Because if you d lose the L_C_D_ screen, we need a lot of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if it But it it it's a it's a both a hypers", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We lose our whole concept.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so No we just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We need a lot of extra buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We keep the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we Yeah we keep the screen. I mean it's it's about the same. Eight one to ninety one percent, uh sixty six to seventy six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We uh we we haven't really integrated this the speech into the system,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we drop the speech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we can might as well s drop that..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And drop it yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's drop the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. S Fo Four less Euros. So we still have three and a half Euro to lose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We need to lose some buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But y y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah if you lose the the Back, the Okay button Uh v let's say we only have the four arrows, and the Menu button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then and then use um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh and the power button we have also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the Okay. And the menu button does also does the okay function then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then when you in the menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's one Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S so so you activate the menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we do uh two integrated scroll-wheel push-buttons, we can drop all the the push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah? And.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With with one uh integrated button we can uh do the whole menu thing. With the other, we can do the the channel, the volume, et cetera.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would save zero point two Euros compared to No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's three Euros. No? Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. To This together is more expensive than Oof, it's almost the same as t keeping this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's it's n Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we can drop these two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For example if you have f f four buttons, channel up and down, uh volume left right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I've I think we have to keep that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the power button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then and the power button. So that's five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the basic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's basic. That that's what you need anyway. And then for the menu, um you can have a button that activates menu. Or d or do we just integrate an an an scroll-wheel with a push-button. And then if the moment you use the scroll-wheel, the the the menu gets activated, and then you can scroll, choose an option, click on it, it goes into an feature. Click on it again, selects features, scroll, adjust it. Click again, it's okay. Then you only need one button to move back. Or or under each option, you set a you set an a screen thing what says back, and you select that one, click again, and you go one step back. And in that menu, scroll, click, one step back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that then you need five buttons, and one integrated scroll-wheel push-button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay th that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we can't drop three buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which That's even.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I see that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's one Euro more expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's not a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's not an option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because which buttons do we have now? Those five which I mentioned, and then menu, and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Menu, power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. F of the four things?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four arrows?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, th power.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Power. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you if you go to eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which more?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know how to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. So four arrows?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh power I believe?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Power. Th Yeah that's five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh We have a Back and a Okay button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay that's seven,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the Menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and one to activate the menu, yeah. So okay that's eight. Well we can't reduce that. We we keep the display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and even if we drop three buttons from here, we still have to make some adjustments around here. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, well okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we need the chip for the for the L_C_ display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's make the Let's make the case plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well we need the advanced.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then I rather make it wood.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of r", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because then also it's good in the market with the forty five plus uh people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but but that's not our market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No that maybe not. But maybe it's better than plastic anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah no, hard plastic..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Plastic with a with a special colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A woo wood uh wood uh wood colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, plastic with special colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No but I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's an option..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we have to use the special colour anyway. You forgot that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we do one one s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So let's go for the plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Plastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And since it's not kinetic, it doesn't have to flip around that much?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh that's easy because plastic is free..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We still have problem of two Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Uh if we dropped uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No the buttons, those are really needed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah th th it's it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we can't drop them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "An advanced chip-on-print..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You still need that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we really need that advanced chip for an L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You uh uh Yeah. So the other option would be to go for the the sample speaker, and Which can use a regular chip, wh which is six Euros in total.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. I rather keep I rather keep the display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I keep the re Yeah. Yeah. Because we already designed for it. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the only option is an hand dynamo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and something else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh no tha Oh that's one Euro, right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh can't we f uh fit all the buttons in an intreg integrated scroll push-button?'Cause that will save us one and a half Euro already. And then if w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then integrated s Yeah but that would make it not so easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No y you would rec", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it's not that important, easy to use, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th then we have to scroll through a lot of menus to be able to get where you want, huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then you still need two additional buttons I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah d at l Yeah. At least one for power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can use those Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah and power. That's three buttons and this would cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah it's just as expensive as what we have now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the integrated uh button? How many func functions can it uh have?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Three. Up, down, Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah endlessly. I mean it can be a power button as soon as it powered on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can go into you in you main menu,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You you press it for like three seconds.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can choose uh flip channel, uh you can choose sound options, any options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then then then you should do everything in the menu. On the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. It would save enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should.'Cause we don't have money and w we want the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can choose this, drop these, then we have a half Euro left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we can maybe still use power button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we'd Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess we have to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It s it saves us four Euros and it costs us two and a half. So let's see, we we drop the price by one and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You see?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll we'll be on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we still have thirteen left.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh still Yeah? Oh then I miscalculated. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirteen. So still half..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shit. Drop the special colour..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There goes the special co.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well That would make it less appealing. So that's no option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. What else? Uncurved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no, it has to be um curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We sure about the advanced chip we need for the display?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it says right here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They made it very easy for us..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well yeah. yeah. We made it hard for ourselves with the display, but it's a cool feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, I don't think I can s uh persuade the management to say, this is better for the market so you sell more than.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Wh what we could do is um drop the the special colour, and uh do the special colour for the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Buttons. That's Oh yeah since we only have one button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but I mean what is meant by special colour?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just m I don't I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just something else than than black or white I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah it's I think it's grey, regular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Grey and rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we definitely want the thing to be a special colour though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of plastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Damn.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I rather have an hand dynamo than than drop the colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can still play with it then I guess. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a hand dynamo costs a lot of energy to keep the screen working. So I guess that isn't an option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, you only have to power it up when you wanna use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The But if you have to power the for ten minutes, then the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No I don't think the current status of uh chips are pretty uh energy conserving, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's let's go for the hand dynamo then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah hand dynamo? Do you want an extra button?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or or do we Or do we do uncurved and flat? Instead of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no it has to be curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it has to be curved and has to have that colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just put a special special colour of the buttons, or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's the most import", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep? Instead of an additional power button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah or spe special form?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. S what what is special f Oh yeah, special form.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe that's nicer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's for scroll.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Without.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't have any buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We only have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's it's for the integrated button, I think also. Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "d Uh make it a special colour then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah ma make it a special colour then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but it's just a scroll-wheel which you can push down. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Make it a special colour and then it look fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Woah we're within budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a miracle..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's let's save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh ma make it two special colours, but we only have one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's do it like this, I mean, because it does not lose our identity of the product as we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay. Um, well.'Kay, this was old.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we come back to the drawing board then, huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah all your designs are uh pretty much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah back to work. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did I save it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's silly'cause we we should have had this meeting before we start drawing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but that but that's the fun part of it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I wanted to go, but I wasn't allowed. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah? okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I just forgot to save this. Just a minute..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah what's the next uh phase?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, this the last phase of course, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the agenda. By your humble P_M_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh f Frustrated. Alright..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we first should have had a uh prototype presentation. But well as you saw that hadn't made no sense, because we had to drop it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Drop everything. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Drop, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We went straight into finance?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it was more important, so I just", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "pushed up the agenda.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, evaluation criteria. You have t produced something about that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that that's Yeah. I uh I sure did. And it combines with product evaluation. Uh so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh you put it in the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We all have to keep in mind what has changed now. So what we have left on the Because evaluation is based on the initial uh user requirements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's make it big. Um Well we evaluate uh the design with a seven point scale, as following. Well the remote controls according criteria blah blah blah. True or false, and then on a scale of seven points, a scale, as we all know it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Well the criteria are based on the user requirements, uh the trends from the marketing research, and the marketing strategy of the company itself. Um well they are in a Word document, which I will open now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alt up", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know it's open yet. No. And we all have to uh agree on a certain level. What's this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Freaky..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. I don't know. Um Well the first point is the remote control matches the operating behaviour of the young user. So that means the operating behaviour was using quite a lot of functions. How do you think about that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it does. Because the operating behaviour of the young user was also defined in colour and shape and the use of L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, of course we dropped a little bit of those uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the us u It it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's it's mainly con mainly concentrating on a lot of functions, in this question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So do you think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we have extended menus, on the on the L_C_D_ screen. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. You can you can ma", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can make a lot of extended menus. That's true. I mean the the possibilities are almost unlimited, to to build in menus in the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So on a scale from one to seven, what do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two or three. Two or three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh? Two or three? Something like that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we have to choose one. So uh what do you say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh y we should fill this in now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I agree on two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I uh I say two, personally. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah in the new design I s would say it's three. But now, in original design I say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well we have to evaluate I guess what we have now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay then I say three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? You say three,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you you said al also three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three? Okay well I say still two, but it has to be three then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey, you're marketing, eh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I know. So it's made bold. But it's nah, it's not very clear on the sc", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. M maybe underline.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or give it a colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe other colour, yeah. That's better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah. Alright. Oh, it doesn't have to be bold anymore.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah very true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah true one..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um well the remote control has Wha.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He types everything..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Definitely one. It has to be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The remote control has irrelevant or less used functions. For example audio settings and screen settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It hides uh basic functions..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everything. You don't use anything else..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, yeah. So it it's a very true point. I mean it hides all those function.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're not gonna find them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, I mean uh they're hidden in the screen. If you don't want to use them, you don't s you s just scroll over them. And you place them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F I don't know where. So that's very true, I guess, for our case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the next Not so much so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh the second point. It shows the relevant and most used functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Power button. Do we ha still have a power button?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh check with the Excel sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah the button's integrated, huh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we are.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah it's uh it's integrated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah we dropped it. You j you just push it in for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's in Oh yeah it was integrateds. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah integrate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah just just push it in for th for three seconds or something, and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E exactly just like a m mobile.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just go scrolling and it will activate..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um it shows the relevant and most used functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah uh on the other uh on one side I would say yes, and the other side I would say no. So it's I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It shows the most used functions and they are relevant, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can you uh change channels directly with with just one button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, you have to scroll through the menu, before", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the scroll butt Yeah and then say channel. And then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's it's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh we should b build it so that if you don't kind of push into the menu or something, if When it's on, yeah, it's turned on,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You say you double click on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It automatically has the the programme and the volume function,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but as soon as you click it you go into the menu or some Of you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or you double click it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But but how do you change from volume to channel?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No because it has four arrows, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, not anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because he's now have a scroll-wheel that you can push in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like on the the mouse.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I was thinking still about our uh integrated joystick.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No we have n we have no buttons left. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the joystick was not an option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that is a bummer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so you hav.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you you have to double-click, I mean, for, I mean, uh volume,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To get into menu. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and three double click for the menu, or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or hold it ten seconds..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll make it a Morse code.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But but ease of use was not very important, may I remind you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no. Uh it should be trendy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but that that's not a question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the remote control shows the relevant and most used functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think it's pretty much in the middle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have to search for them in in the in the s in the screen, in the menu. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, im in the menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe it's more like a f a five. Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I would go for five or six, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Five or six?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five. Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five? Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's not diss our remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's the weirdest remote control I've ever seen. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Just one button..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's different..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright. Uh the the remote control makes use of technolog technological innovation like L_C_D_ screen and speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But Uh yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah but we dropped the speech recognition. But it has at least one innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's still Yeah, I say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We still have the fruit and vegetable print.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I say two then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's the next..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but that that's not that's not this question. Uh thi uh that's the other question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fr Oh I mean the Oh never mind. I'm a bit lost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think a two. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think L_C_D_'s more useful than speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What? Oh not the bold one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's way more practical, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Okay, it has a fancy look and feel by using fruit and vegetable prints, primary colours and sponge-like material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should have been two questions. I realise now, because sponge-like material is dropped.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the look and feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You still have rubber d Or no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we still uh we still have the primary colours. But only on the on the outside, not on the button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No you got a plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The button has also colour. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The one button we have..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. The one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah still we we dropped also on the the double uh curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you could check with the Excel sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You only have one Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we have single curve now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and no and no material", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". So maybe in the middle or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean it's", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah or three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "worth the Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually we d we didn't do so well on this one. Because it's basically an old one, uh with little curve on the side, and in a different colour. Still, it's still hard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean the sponge-like and the three D_ shape, that would give it something young and fresh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "New. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then we would have to drop the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh red. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You like both..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I like bold.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the remote control displays the corporate logo..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just couldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You just have to draw it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, just one minute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's the white part uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it be because uh we couldn't hardly draw on the b s on the lower half of the screen, we could not make it big enough to actually draw in the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have a we have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I mean I wanted to put digits on the buttons as well. But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But there's uh enough space for the corporate logo. I mean, if there's only one thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hell yeah. If we have only one button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I will say that is very true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And even the shape we have now uh simulates kind of an R_ and the reversed R_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "doesn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The remote control is easy to use. Well I would say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Skill, uh I would say six, or something. I don't think it's easy to use, or not so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The only e the only thing easy about it is that you don't have to move your fingers.'Cause it has only one button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that you only have to control one button..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It it it has a nice screen. But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It gives visual feedback. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I I would say a five or a six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think a five. Five..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you say? Easy to use? Five or a six?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's really not easy to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No not anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause you're putting everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So a six, more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh I would go for the six too. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Most votes count. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um well, another question,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that looks uh great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh the remote control is durable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know if that's the correct word.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Nah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely in casing,'cause we have a hard plastic", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh In use, both battery as casing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah because the the batteries, those thingies last forever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? True, true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the the casing, hard plastic also lasts forever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the casing is plastic,?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you don't drop it too much, it's uh should last pretty long.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I would go for one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? But uh I think rubber compared is better. So I think a two is more appropriate", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "than.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Logo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay I will go go for two. Uh the last one? The remote control's a good example for company's motto, we put the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. No m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No we put the electronics into the fashion..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would g", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh turn around. Yeah. But um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would go for four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we kind of tried to but we kind of failed with the budget that we have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not Yeah, true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So a four. It's it g it g goes, it's not the best we could do, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it all has to do with the budget, because it's it's not the bad idea we had, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, four is okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if I understood it right, we have to count these numbers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh. And Yeah? What?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh Alright. Word document, the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we have to count them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Count them. Add them? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah just add them and then uh divide them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could somebody start calculator?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah we can do the math. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I all made it po I I all made it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I all made it possible uh for a positive questions, so we can count it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean if you have reversed question, you have to reverse the scale,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. You have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. So four and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Did you make this questionnaire or what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thanks..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nice work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three plus?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wouldn't be able to do it that fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "O one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Plus five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus five?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh Easy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Question number four, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Wait a second. Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's gone wrong.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How hard is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. It's your turn.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pretty difficult.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah just use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Start over?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's if you press twice on the plus button, then you get s s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh there tho uh there's no n There's no num pads.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can Oh yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. That's why it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a it's a bit uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just type in the digits. They're all one digit numbers right? And then you can count them together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think you can just count them by a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just count it to Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um let's move over.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Three, four, nine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three, plus one, four. Nine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. Are you here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eleven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eleven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eleven,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifteen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fifteen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "fifteen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sixteen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sixteen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sixteen, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seventeen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seventeen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No sixteen. Uh sixteen plus six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twenty two..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How hard is this?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twenty two. Twenty two, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twenty four. Twenty six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Never mind. Twenty four. Twenty eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tw", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty Twenty eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was the last one. That was that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh my.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Twenty eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So divided by nine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twen Uh okay. By nine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's uh three uh Or le less than a three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the lower the The lower the score the better, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Twenty eight", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Divided by nine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "di divided by nine", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So thr t two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "makes three point one one one one one one one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're better than average.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I Are you sure we this number actually tells us somethings?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think so because some questions are related to positive issues and some to negative.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Some questions are Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if you give a true to a positive, it actually means that the low the lower the better. But if you give true to a negative question.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but there are no negative questions I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good example. Durable use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Durable, that's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Easy to use. This is good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Easy to use..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fancy look and feel, that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Technology innovation was good, because of a marketing uh requirement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also good. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Re relevant most used function.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess you did do it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And hides these functions. That was also a good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then matches the opera of the user was also a good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it were all positive questions, by uh by purpose. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, so the It tells us something, yes. Becau But the picture would be a lot different if we didn't have to drop those uh those things, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Things, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because now it's just an average It's remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Nah it it's it's better than average, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay because of the L_C_D_ screen. But uh it looks and stuff, it still uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So th", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's still yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Has some shortcomings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not, it's not really eye-catching, except for the colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The colour and the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so Um this we had, this we had. We have to do a product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh prototype presentation we dropped. So Uh the finance we looked. We have redesigned. Uh not on that, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we we have to maybe if we have to redesign it on this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can just make one big L_C_D_ screen..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay it's your turn now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Shall we try?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With some casing around it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Black. Okay uh we're still gonna go for the fancy colours?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But are we gonna stick with the green or are we gonna do blue?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we we can just uh use this one. And then uh over-paint it with uh uh the green uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the button has a special colour, the frame has a special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "he only needs one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One scroll button and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's plastic. And single curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or we have to delete this one or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh and you might want to add a uh infrared LED.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh oh no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Otherwise it uh doesn't function uh so well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we have to do other things?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I have to um um make an uh report of every decision we made so far.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or just redesign? Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I try to get chip just before uh I uh receive the Excel sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you made a start, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm I'm somewhere, but maybe you can help me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should give it some time?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, but how do we make the the scroll uh button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was here. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Have to take this away also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh that's the infrared uh thing..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The the target group has a weak spot for fruit and vegetables, like primary colours, spongy shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um pen yeah? Format. Current colour red.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The playfulness, we decided to use kinetic energy as a power sour", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh Yeah we did our special colour for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Line widths, now that's a ten.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's conceptual, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's enough to get started with, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, uh it's just a scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's gonna be one str scroll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, is it's horizontal or vertical?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How many pages?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I just took one for every step and then a conclusion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Y you have you have done the first two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Horizontal's easier too,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause you can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, and and the look and feel is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it more natural than this?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think I have to make a p an issue called finance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So let's say Whoops.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Basically..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It doesn't look like uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The items we had to drop..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it it's it's not Yeah. It's not very fashionable anymore. But uh it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's really ugly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where did we start with price?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe m make it bigger? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty six and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or not? Or twenty six? Something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That looks little bit more uh Maybe that's a s a special colour for it. So we can make it uh special?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do you mean? Like a other colour than this one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or or speckles in it? I dunno. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Speckles?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah can we do it uh uh can we do a print?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "..$ I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".... I don't think so, if you see the options. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we have to choose, yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay special colour. We do have special colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah red is already a special colour, I think. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Does it mean uh that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not very special, but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall we just give it some dots to make it look pretty?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just uh put the purple uh purple on it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Purdy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Some some big dots.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Purple?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's trendy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no my remote has acne.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".... We have the original balance sheet, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Woah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. That's why we have that button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's so cute.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Oh what?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Woah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just cut. Control Z_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How the We did we do that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh it's it's just one computer? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just dual screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. But can we delete it, just with delete? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can try.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That doesn't respond also to the undo. It looks like it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Crashed. Oh, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where do you want some more dots?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, over here..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can't even draw anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Y y you you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What's this?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Even children can draw..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you push the button or something. Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you just push pen and then keep on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Oh that's the select button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, it's not the prettiest, I know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it looks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not so random huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lot of options.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's okay. Specially the the R_..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the R_ and another R_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's called the Real Remote, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe it c it can say that. The Real Remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah just on the the m um the L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Welcome..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is your Real Remote..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can make a l a logo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like uh put it like the shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D designed by.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it's not too uh That's not their logo, is it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Do they have a lo Oh, the here. This i this is the logo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two R_s and a one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. You can just reuse that, because the name is the same. Initials.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can copy and paste the picture if you want.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How Shall we do the logo in black or not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. What is that? Look more Looks more like a campfire.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are you dissing my drawing? This one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks like a ribbon..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So who wants to draw? This is actually quite fun. Do we need to do anything?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are we uh ready? Uh Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I hear you people are typing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Type in your report.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't see any new messages. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Luckily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm? Luckily, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this uh the last assignment? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Final.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's almost four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What time do we have to deliver the report? Four o'clock or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "At four, yeah,?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or before that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And copy this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just compare uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just a minute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is really bizarre.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It looks like there's a It looks like a butterfly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um bug. Bug.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's somewhere I d It isn't inside.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's in inside the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and don't know how it's or eject it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's on the on the beamer I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "From up there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but it i It's not a bu a beamer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B It's a normal T_V_ screen, kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it's somewhere in here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey, you've got it uh read only. So you have to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Save copy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Strange. This something what's projection from behind, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah there is some kind of projection I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it it's a beamer, but then with a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With a with a mirror, huh? Or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "within a mirror, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it looks like a big screen, but in fact it isn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So are we gonna change anything to this?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean is it gonna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's it's single single curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's now single curved. So It's flat. Oh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is gonna be flat. Yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Th this is flat. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. It doesn't matter. It's it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's it's better to have in the front, this kind of shape, because it looks nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean you see more of this than of that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, more like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And this is also gonna be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not very uh ideal..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But sometimes then uh all of a sudden it does work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. What's this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the detector uh for the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't see a detector over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's I think you only need two points. Or not. No, you sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought it was a kind of thing to put it on, and then draw right lines or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe that's why it's it's not working, because it's more.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Slanted yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or just messed it up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it it matters for the aim of this thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it wasn't good..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You've to make it s uh ninety degrees.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it it has to touch the corners, I guess. But th this one wasn't good, because if I was drawing here, I drew a line and then it came over here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um now you probably have to recalibrate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, five minutes to the end of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh we're always long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the recalibration is done using this icon here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, can we t can we get to that @ i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh it's not working anymore..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well I just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, it's it's okay. It's working again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, it's it's working, it's working.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's better than before.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're improving uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's improved uh pretty much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's only a bit like to that side, but that is that one by the way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah but it's better, it's better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause this one makes the angle either like this. So i if I change this, it will go there, if I change that, will go there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. No. It's better than it was I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I will take this away'cause it looks messy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Silly. Yeah. Works pretty well. Five minutes before the meeting's over.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then I have to uh uh write this,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have to present.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I don't know if you have to present, because I didn't receive any information about that so far.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we will.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we get a a final mail.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it after the after after these five minutes, you have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I have still ten minutes to finish the report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's this anyway?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So cake..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. After after that five minutes, you have ten minutes to finish it, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks like candle wax.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. And we uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you can uh just uh relax and uh have cup of coffee or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Chill..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh no, they don't have beer here so you can't celebrate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can just if you ma finish my presentation please. Uh over there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The presentation is still open. So if you finish that then you'll see uh Yeah next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Next slide.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, we have to do the project uh evaluation. Just uh do that quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do you do it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well basically what that says, we discuss it and um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So how were did the project process uh go? Did you, were you all pleased with the process as it was? Or are there uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh th uh do you mean the the interaction between us? Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah the interaction and the steps we followed, and and so forth.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well at first I was really stressed. Because it went a bit fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then as I knew the tempo that I had to be on, the second time I think I did a bit better.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the third time yeah, I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we move more to to working together as team,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because at first you you make your individual contribution, and then come here, and you have no idea what the others have to make.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then finally you have some idea, okay this is gonna w this is what we gonna make together and okay I will arrange this and you will arrange that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you have a k a kind of idea what you can expect on the next half hour when you have to work on your own. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The process, I mean, the interaction between us became better and better I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Especially after the first meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, especially if f f if you see uh you se you saw the largest difference from the first to the second meeting I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay and was that due to my leadership?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you did become more assertive the the second time round, so that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You were more in charge kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um was there uh enough room for creativity?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but only the the financial parts uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Li Limiteded afterwards,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but If if you don't take that into account, there's plenty of room for creativ creativity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also not only the drawing and the the making of the thing itself, but also in explaining it to the other people, by means of uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We were pretty democratic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the board and uh PowerPoint and Word and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and the uh about the board digital pen? Uh was that helpful or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm uh I think in in essence", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the digital pen is better than the SMARTboard. Because it it it just works better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it works..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean uh uh I've made yeah, uh I've made several notes just to test it, and and just put the pen in into it, and then it came onto my screen and it looked perfectly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it it's better a better device than uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "than the screen. But the screen is useful, in essence, but it doesn't work that well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's uh it's The the pen is more intuitive,'cause we're all used to writing with pen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Use the pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh as I said, uh I uh have no idea how PowerPoint works, so will take me half a day to be able to make a normal PowerPoint presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But once I get to know the program probably, I mean, it looks better, you know. Or uh something like that. You can give it a kind of a home style, like we have i the the logo and everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Blink. Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Warning. Finish meeting now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Finish meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, are are there any new ideas about this? All I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't really receive, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's use especially useful, I guess, to to evaluate designs and graph graphical stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh uh w uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S sorry uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the screen and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the PowerPoint is is too limited. You can't uh draw easy in in PowerPoint. It has to be uh yeah. The drawing board has to be integrated into PowerPoint, so that you can just easily.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the the the problem with PowerPoint for me is that you have to i put in the pre-made chunks c as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, you can draw something on the sketch-board and then take it there, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. But it it's useful to to show something to to an a small audience, and then to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah just for text, for text it's uh it's okay. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. These these kind of screens this size are useful to discuss things. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Check your email.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh we should uh enter our questionnaire..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You also..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah. Woah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes boss.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, s see you in a second huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the management..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well see you soon.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hope so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we have to pull it this way, huh? Wait.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2008b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good to see you all again. Let's see if that comes up. This is our functional design meeting. Um. Just a sec while my PowerPoint comes up. Et voila. Okay. Mm um we put the fashion in electronics. Let's start. Okay, our agenda today um just check the time, it's twelve thirteen. Um. I'm gonna do an opening, talk about um did you all get the minutes? I e-mailed them to you. I'm also putting'em them in the shared folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um then I we'll talk about our general objectives", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and have your three presentations. Um I'll talk about the new project requirements I've just received, and then we have to make a decision on our remote control functions. Finally we'll just close. We're starting this meeting at approximately twelve thirteen and we have forty minutes. So First of all the functional design objectives. Uh we need to keep in mind the user requirement specification, what needs and desires are to be fulfilled, the functions design, what effects the apparatus should have, and the working design, how the apparatus actually works to fulfil its function. Okay, three presentations, um you can go in any order you choose um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm shall we go in the order that you just did it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure, please do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno. How do I hook my screen up?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think, you might have to disconnect Rose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there's a wee a wee plug just just that one there", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where does it go? Mm-hmm. Hmm, I'm not supposed to move this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah that's it, yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then you have to press function F_ eight", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Function, F_ eight, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it is on your laptop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The blue one, F_N_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where's function? No signal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it plugged in all the way and you screwed it in and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, wait,'s screw in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think you just have to push it in really hard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Push the screw.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, got it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm alright", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's taking it a little bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've never attached to anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, neither have I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, so,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if you guys are able to get access to um the report that was online or if I'm the only one who is. But, I don't even know how to play this. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Press the little presentation. It's the um it looks like a Y_ kind of over there above Draw. There, that one, there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. So we're just gonna talk a little bit about the functional requirements that people specified when they were asked. Um I guess Real Reaction did some market research. They had a hundred subjects and their usability lab and they watched them watch T_V_ and recorded the frequency that they used particular buttons and the relevance that those buttons had. What they found was they analysed people's desires and needs. Focusing on their desires, um people specifically said that they thought remotes were ugly, seventy five per cent of the a hundred subjects noted that and that they more importantly though, eighty per cent said that they would be willing to pay more for a fancier looking remote. I don't know anything beyond what fancy means,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but that's particularly of use to us, I think. Um also they did some questions on voice recognition and found that the desire for voice recognition was inversely related to age, so younger people were more inclined to want something with voice recognition, whereas the older people in the like sixty and above segment or so did not really think that they would pay more money for voice recognitions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um people also had certain frustrations, that I think that we could try to take into consideration with our design. That being people k um frustrated with losing their remotes. I think, over fifty percent of the people mentioned that that was their biggest frustration. People are also frustrated with the difficulty it is to learn how to use a remote and I think that ties back to what you were saying before", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just that there's too many buttons, it just needs to be easy to use. It also mentioned something called R_S_I_ and I was hoping someone might be able to inform me as to what R_S_I_ is,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What? Ah. There we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow. People do not like that. So I guess sort of the carpal tunnel type thing, people do not like that, um the repetitive use, I guess, caused a strain. Um looking at the needs people specified, the problem right now is that people's remotes are not matching their operating behaviour. People are only using ten per cent of the buttons that they have offered to them on their remote. And what people do most often is changing the channel and changing the volume. People also zap like to change the channel, about um sixty five per cent during an hour of use. So we really just need to focus in on those volumes and channel changers rather than things like the audio settings, the screen settings and the channel settings, because they're used much more infrequently and probably just complicate what's going on. So I think that some things that we might wanna think about, the idea of an L_C_D_ screen was brought up although they didn't have any details on what people's preferences on that were, so I dunno know if that's coming to me later, or something like that. But something for us to consider also just the phenomenon that less is more when it comes to the buttons on the remote or what we wanna make easiest to use, make sure that, you know, something like an audio setting isn't given as much importance and visibility on the remote as something like channel changing that's used a lot more often. And basically in order for us to win over to the consumer we just need to focus on what it looks like, that it has a fancy appeal and that it's not ugly and that it feels like the way they're gonna use it, so it doesn't give them any hand injuries or things like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. That was that was great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um's move on to the next presentation um on effects. Was that you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, have I unscrewed it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Push. User interface, right. Interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cheers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And I think that's in the shared, if I did it right, if anyone wants to look at it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here we go. Right so I'm gonna talk about the technical technical functions design of the remote control um. We need to start by considering what a remote control actually is. It's a device that allows us to produce certain effects on our television, so i it's basically a communication device. We we tell the remote control what we want to do, it sends a message to the television saying change the channel, change the volume, uh yeah, adjust these settings, adjust the brightness. Um how do we actually go about designing a new television remote control? First thing to do is to come up with the design specifications. We need to know what our final product is gonna be like, so we need a a clear idea of exactly what this product does, uh how it works, and what the end-user is gonna want from this product. Um. Oh, a way I'd suggest that we could go about this is by designing uh several different prototypes of user interfaces for this product, um and then uh trying to get some feedback uh about", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "h how well these particular prototypes work, uh sorta find out what people think of'em. Um using a remote control is is quite a subjective experience. Um,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and different different people sort of prefer different things. Um we should remember that remote controls are a a fairly standard piece of equipment. When a users using a remote control, he or she expects the buttons to be in certain places. So in some sense we're gonna we're gonna have to aim for a device which is fairly conventional in design uh so that we're not completely shocking people. But I think within that there is also room for us to introduce novel ideas uh and to make something that's that's perhaps a little bit different, something that stands out. Um also in in designing the user interface we need to consider practicalities. Uh the first of these is is technological ye uh what can we do with the current state of technology as it is. The second is is economic, uh we need to find a balance between features and price. So as you mentioned things like voice recognition would would add to the price uh but it would also im improve the design of the product.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I had a look on the on the web uh to see if I could find a few examples of existing television remote controls. In analysing these we can consider what what things what's good about them, uh what things do they get right, what's bad about them, what's wrong with'em, um how we can improve on the designs that that that I found and what can we do to make our product stand out from from the large majority of remote controls. Here's two examples uh probably at the extreme ends of the spectrum.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um on the left here we've got uh an engineering-based design for a remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's one that's got lots of buttons, it's it's fully featured, everything you might possibly want to do is there, you know, it's got forward, backwards, up, down, channel numbers, volume, uh freeze frame. Yeah, it's it's fully featured and it might take a while to get to learn to use it, but once you've learned it you can you can do whatever you want with your T_V_. The one on the right is a lot more basic. It's just got the essential functions of the T_V_ changing the channel, play, stop, volume. It would be a lot quicker to learn to use it, but again th it's it's swings and roundabouts. There are disadvantages, you can't use it say to to freeze the television picture. Uh there's a lot of features that are missing from that remote control. So we've got to to find our find a way of striking a balance between the two. Um as I said before, remote controls are subjective, different people want want different things. Um personally wa what I want from a remote control is a device that's simple, it it's easy to use, uh it's got big buttons for doing the things I do most often, changing the volume, changing the channel. It it does everything that I need it to uh, as I said before, I'm quite lazy, I don't wanna walk across the room just to adjust my television. I also want something that that looks cool, um and that that feels good, that's ergonomically designed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Thank you very much. That was very useful. It's funny to see the drastic difference between those two remotes. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And neither of them were very pretty, you know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that could be our selling point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A fashion fashion remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think there's there's certainly a market for technology that looks cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I think that's that's why companies like Apple've've've made a lot of progress.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, I really can't see what I'm doing, so does anyone have a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You there it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah-ha, look at that, showing up already.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lovely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So wait, did it let you go on the Internet or was that just what it let you see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh that was just on the d on the company web site, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.'Cause I was like googling", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then I'm like wait it won't let me google..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright um No, how do I play again?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um the it's right above Draw. There are three thingy if it's way at the bottom. Under three icons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's the one that looks like a desk. Yeah, that one. There are Y_s.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So this is our working design presentation. Um I had a bit of some issues with this, because I wasn't able to find everything I needed, but I guess that's we're still in early stages. Um so, yeah, this is this. Though th the thing about working design is the what we're trying to do as a working design is figure out how the aparata apparatus can fulfil its function. Um one of the examples that kept coming up for me is that a coffee grinder. It works because it converts electrical energy to grinding the beans and then you put the bean through a filter and that filters out, and then you get coffee at the end that's nice and hot because of the combination of electrical energy and then the other things that are brought in to make it work. Don't know if I'm explaining that very well, but how do I get to the next s ah. So h the method as um working designers figure out what you need to make it fulfil this practical function, what what needs to be done and how do we convert all the elements to make that done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So wha the easiest thing to do is to break down all the points at which you need something to happen. So you make a schematic of the way that the the energy is converted tsh towards this practical function. And then I think the easiest thing to do is gonna be work on each task separately. So um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You just press.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, just click. That'll be fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the findings that I got uh very just very briefly is that you have a choice of the way that the information is projected to the receiver and in my opinion infra-red is the best way to do that'cause you don't need a sight line. So that's one thing we're gonna work on. Um the user interface is critical here, because a lot of the things that happen in a remote control happen through the chip that controls that converts the electrical energy into data, which then goes through the infra-red, so the the chip that uh I think Ian is designing, is gonna be crucial. And really it all comes down to the to the user, because they're the one that's controlling most of the working design. So the components that we find here are the energy source, you know the battery or whatever that's gonna m make it work, then the chip, which converts the data, the user that's controlling the chip, and the infra-red bulb that's gonna let us move the data to the receiver. So you have four main components and they are designed sort of like this. You have your energy source right there which then um brings uh energy or information to the chip, which is also controlled by the users. You have energy going to the user who's controlling the chip ooh's not what I wanted to do uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yeah use that thing you can go back, previous.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Previous. Sorry about that, guys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pardon.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no, no, no, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, let's just get back to my schematic here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ye Double click on it. With the right with the left hand one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W yeah, yeah. I think it's frozen. Here. Don't show me that tip again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we are. Sorry about this, guys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm kind of pathetic with things like this. Um alright. So you have your energy source, your user interface who's controlling the chip, the chip also uses the energy, and the chip through the use of the user interface is gonna control the switch which will work your infra-red bulb, which will then bring the data to the receiver. So hopefully that makes sense for everyone in my kind of garbled way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is the the parts of the working design that need to be figured out. And personal preferences, besides the fact that I can't spell, we need a long-lasting energy source, people don't wanna be changing it a lot. We need a chip that works well with the user interface, that isn't too complicated. We need a straightforward interface, like Ian was saying, simple, not overwhelming it with information and we need a reliable and clear infra-red signal, so that you're not waving your remote around", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and having to get frustrated and go do it by hands. So that's pretty much it for the working design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent. So, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rose, do you think you can give me a hand with this?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. Ah I can never tell which way to turn these things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lefty loosey, righty tighty, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's up?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Lefty loosey, righty tighty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lefty loosey. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Never heard that before,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll think of that every time now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's gonna stick in your head.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good one it'll stick with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Um I have nothing on my screen. Just a sec. Here we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Ooh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah, it's fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no signal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, requirements. We have a couple new requirements that I was just e-mailed right before the meeting and that we have to keep in in um in mind as we're creating this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We didn't bring it up yet, or at all in the meetings so far, but we're not gonna work with teletext because um well it that's been taken over by the internet, so we're not gonna worry about um we're not gonna worry about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's teletext?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, it's a British thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't have it in the States?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no. W d could would you care to explain it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, I didn't realise. Um yeah, it's like a I suppose it's kind of similar to a very very basic web browser. Um you have like you have uh numbers on your remote control, uh y and you type in the page number you want,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so like you type a hundred on your remote control and this this kind of index appears on the television screen with just some some text and some very blocky looking graphics on it. And you just type numbers to go to different pages and it gives you information, mostly rather boring stuff like what's on T_V_ next and share prices and that kind of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S Lottery numbers and sport scores.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, news headlines.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if you ever see the T_V_ saying like go to page one sixty on Ceefax now, that's what they're talking about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's earl it's pretty old technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like nineteen eighties.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That explains a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have no idea why we don't have it, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Interesting. Okay um, well, we're not gonna the management has decided we're not gonna work with that. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um and we're also gonna w like your question earlier um whether this is going to be t for television, video, or etcetera. Just for television. That's what we're focused on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um otherwise becomes to complex, we wanna get this out um very quickly. We only have a a short amount of time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and finally there's more marketing, I think, um, our corporate image has to be recognisable. So while we're gonna make it look pretty we need to use our colour and our slogan i in the new design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what's our corporate image like? It's It's kind of yellow colour with uh we put fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks like, yeah, kind of a yellow and black and we have that the emphasis on the R_s in um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's like double R_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's, yeah, we put the um fashion in electronics. So we gotta keep that in that in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so we want something that looks good", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and is yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, or ha maybe some buttons could be yellow. Like, we can we can play around with it a little bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. Okay, we need to talk about our functions and our target group. We need to decide who our target group is. You um in your analysis of different market um of the marketing, you identified that different groups wanted different things", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or had certain preferences, for example that um that older people didn't really care for um voice recognition, but younger people did.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and so who are we aiming this at?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if we're gonna say that function um fashion we put the fashion in in electronics then you automatically, I think, a sort of younger group that that's who's gonna be attracted to this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I do think, who's gonna have the money to buy that also, that one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. It's gonna be twenty five Euro remember, so um it has to be avai marketable to um whomever it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it is it something that's gonna be sold separately from the television or is it something that comes w with a television?'Cause that would affect the way that we market it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well at least right now what we're doing is um deciding on just the remote itself, so it will probably be sold separately, twenty five Euro by itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The only break-down that I was given in terms of age was the voice activation and basically there's a big jump, after thirty five people don't really care if it has voice, so it's like basically fifteen to thirty five that think that that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno I'm gonna be given any other numbers broken down in terms of age later, but if that's sort of the only quality that we have that is divided into age then we would wanna stick between the fifteen and thirty five range.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's probably uh a population w quite a little bit of disposable income for use on technology anyway, so that might be a fairly good target group for us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now, those are that's all specific for speech recognition. Are we gonna use that as one of our functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I would say no, because it's gonna add too much to the price. Especially if we are marketing it as a separate product, people are gonna be paying", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh, well, uh we've got a price limit of was it twelve twelve and a half Euros for to produce it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To produce it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To produce it, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I wonder if we can get voice recognition into that twelve and a half Euros without having to make too many other compromises.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what else are we gonna put, I mean not that I'm really gung-ho about it, I don't know what else you can put in a remote to make it technologically advanced though. So like other than just making it look good, how is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean it can look really great and still have the same up-n-down buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and why's anyone gonna buy a new remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well but why are we why are we aiming for a technological advancement? Everything we're talking about is ease of use and simple and that doesn't necessarily mean more technology,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a good thing to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in fact it could use it could mean, not. If they might be overwhelmed with with remotes that have too many buttons and too much technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If someone's looking to buy a new remote, don't they want like an upgrade? I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Upgrade? Well, we can look for we can look at upgrade or we can look at um user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, simplification.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simplification,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They could have a crap remote", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that came with their T_V_ that's just impossible to use, or maybe it broke, or maybe they're just missing it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, mm. And we also need to talk about if we're only gonna have the very simple ones or also have the other ones just separate somehow or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you like I mean this may be too complicated, but, I wish I had something to explain it, like if it was just a simple, either this way or this way, that had like the main buttons and then you could like pull something out, kind of and like you got the rest the buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but the rest of them like went in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you know what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kind of pull out of the side.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There are remote controls like that, yeah. Like some T_V_s they have a sort of uh a sliding screen on the remote control of it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that hides all the complicated buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if you wanna do something complicated like programme your television or re-tune it, then you you open up this little hatch or or slide the screen down", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and there's all the all the special buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause then's like people who don't wanna ever look at them, never even have to see them", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and if you like get the instruction manual that comes with it and you just don't even read it then you'll never even know that those things can pull out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you're a happy person and everyone else doesn't have to have like two remotes, one that has the easy ones and one that has", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "more complicated ones,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but's all still in one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we have to be careful that that that doesn't impede um the chip transmitting information, but um that's gonna be mostly technological thing. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um, so what are we emphasising? I what in this project?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Si simplicity and fashion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Simplicity and fashion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think simplicity, fashion.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, those are very good goals, I think, um that we have to keep in mind in with everything we do. Simplicity and fashion and, yeah, or usability speci however you wanna say that, which includes um an emphasis on making the infra-red very functional, so that you don't have to travel around a lot.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What can you do to like make the infra-red more functional, like why would it not be? I'm just wondering.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's a lot to do with battery, but that's just my.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The battery and that I think that the chip takes the data and presents it well, without sort of scattering.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So's just the quality of the chip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The quality uh quality of all the components really, I mean, we can't really do anything shoddy work,'cause it's", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "gonna be visible down the line.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So our target group, we're saying, fifteen to thirty five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I dunno how useful that number is if we're not doing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S voice recognition, which I kind of I kind of feel like voice recognition is not necessary in a remote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like it might be necessary for a T_V_ but not for the remote c, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty high-tech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seems a little bit Mm-hmm. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it might be too expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if the whole idea is you're using a remote then why would you have voice,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like you know what I mean and then it's like you wouldn't need a remote you'd just talk to your T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's for, like, the ultimately lazy people,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "who can't even be bothered to pick up the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe I mean if I get m more numbers, I'll e-mail you before the next meeting in terms of ages. But this doesn't divide up anything and there was only a hundred subjects also,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which isn't, I mean, really isn't that representative, especially if it's a hundred subjects that th they then can subdivide into age groups that means there's very few in each age group, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I th I think regardless we're we're aiming for the under sixty five or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Under sixty five, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's a good start. Um. I'd say we're uh can we narrow it down to maybe um teenagers and families?'Cause that would go up to like fifty?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or like single professionals or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, single.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twenty to like fifty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's hard to narrow it down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's really hard to figure out right now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think the product appeals across a quite a broad range of ages.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, we we said simplicity is is one of the features, so it's going to appeal to people, maybe people who have problems with technology, you know, people who get scared by having lots of buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that might be older people,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but then we've also got fashion, which is something that definitely appeals to younger people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well maybe we don't have to defi define the target group by the demographic of age,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe we can define it by like the demographic of like h t how much money they have to spend or something like that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah aim for a an income group.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like, well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "obviously it has to be someone who owns a television,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and like how recently have they bought their television like that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe it's more useful to d d to define objectives like fashion and simplicity than to find specific target group as far as age is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, t probably.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because, yeah, things so different will appeal to different people, but Okay. Um oh, there're a couple functions do we want something so that do we want some kind of thing to find it if it's lost? Like a button on a T_V_ you can press", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it'll ring or something, I don't know like or beep?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "H I mean, like I said before, fifty per cent of of the fru f like frustration someone can have that was the biggest one and half the people said that happened and we all mentioned it before we knew about it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if we're talking about making something easy that sort of goes along with it so it wouldn't be like a random thing to sort of add in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It would be relevant to like the overall goal I think,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that'll probably be good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we have to we have about four minutes left to define our functions. So let's do that quickly. Um so we want something to keep it from getting lost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we want um we want large buttons for the essential things. Large, accessible buttons for the essentials.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We want a possibility to um to get um a possibility to get the extra functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which are kind of hidden away in some way or well not hidden but they're uh they're not as prominent as the main features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, hidden way. And we also want it to be fashionable, which I'm not sure if that's a function so much as a um yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on your coffee table, it's not like an eye sore, that kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, do it. Any other essential functions that we need? Battery? Do we need a long-life battery?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Battery battery use. Yeah, but I think that goes in with simplicity and ease of use really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we might as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you never have to change the battery.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We should maybe investigate whether it needs a battery at all. I suspect the remote control does need a battery,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would imagine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I dunno if you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just'cause it is an electronic device, the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It I think it does. I don't I don't think of a way you can operate a chip and convert that much data without without one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, without the energy, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you could maybe have it in a little charging station like a mobile phone, or like a little cradle for your iPod.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's possible. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could we could maybe do that instead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Charging.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you don't ha you got like a rechargeable battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno, that might contribute to less people losing it too if it it stays in one place.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have to think about um space in living-rooms, too, like'cause they're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, would you put it on top of the T_V_? I don't know, just think okay, that's that's a good idea, we'll keep it. Think it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's just off the top of my head.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And maybe fun. Okay. Um'kay we're gonna conclude now, has everyone said their functions and'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um after the meeting we're gonna each complete a sks um a questionnaire and a summaries summary. I don't know what summarisation. Um and then we'll have our lunch break. After that we have thirty minutes of individual work. Um I'll make sure to put up um the minutes and the project documentation and including these PowerPoint slides. If everyone could do that as well, that'd be great. Um you each have individual actions, I_ um I_D_ Industrial Design you've your components concept, User Interface, the user interface concept, market trend wa watching.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And as as per last time you'll get specific incrat instructions from your personal coach e-mailed to you. And hopefully, I hope, next time you'll be able to access more of the web site that they they seem to tell you that you could. It's kinda frustrating,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, who knows.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but um Be sure to note any frustrations or any um issues that come up in your um in your um summary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great seeing y'all..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did you um were you able to like put yours in the group folder?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, I just did that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hopefully it is there for people.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Looks like there are um looks like there's a second one kind of of mine that's that I didn't do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's from like an earlier project, I think so um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where is that? Yours is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Under the shared folder, I don't know it might not even be under yours as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technical. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Projects.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in there we have technical functions presentation, working design presentation and the functional requirements. At least that's what I have in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I only have three, I just have like our three. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what I have as well, R Rose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. You don't have mine?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but that's'cause I think yours is in the e-mail separate, like it's not on the server.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if I open it and then save it, probably will be there. Oh wait, never mind you can't save it to the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well I'll figure that out in the meantime.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "TS3007a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Morning.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh before I start with the with the meeting I have a few things to tell you about the the setting we're in, uh because we're uh being watched by uh Big Brother. So um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "By Big Brother?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This uh These are cameras, so are these. This thing uh that looks like a pie,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are actually all microphones.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you must be careful with uh with uh all this. And uh as I can see you uh you have placed your laptops uh exactly on the place where it must be. And that has to do with the camera settings, so we don't have our uh laptops in front of the cameras.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of our faces.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And Indeed. So they can see our faces.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Welcome at the kick-off meeting. My name is uh Danny Wolfs. Uh this is the agenda for today. Uh first a little opening. Uh I will introduce myself, uh and uh I think it's very uh good to introduce uh yourself. Uh then uh a little bit of acquaintance, acquaintance to uh to to ourselves. So uh we get to know each other. Uh that will be done uh with a tool training from the he these two uh smart boards. Then the project plan. What we're going to do, and how we're going to do it. Uh and discussion about that and a little closing at the end. Okay uh, my name is uh Danny Wolfs. I'm the Project Manager. What's your name?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm Juergen Toffs. I'm the User Interface Designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "User interface, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hi, my name's uh. I'm the Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm uh Tim. Um my function is the Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. First a little about the project aim. Uh the the the aim is to make a new remote control. Uh maybe you have read uh read the website. It's a very uh, yeah, very uh ambitious uh company. They uh they wanna do something else. I w Uh there must be a new remote control. Uh first of all uh it must be original, uh and trendy. That's two things really uh close to each other. But at the same time uh user-friendly. And they have uh Yeah, that's uh very important uh for them. Uh there are three stages. There is a functional design. So uh what are we going uh to uh to do? What are we going to uh uh make f uh kind of functions in the remote? And why are we going to do it? Then the conceptual design. How are going to do it? And that's uh really global. Uh because at the detailed design, how, part two, uh we go uh to dig in uh really about how the the te the technical of If it's uh it's possible technical-wise.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh each stage is uh uh is broken up in two uh two stages, individual work and a meeting. So it's uh it's very straightforward. Okay, the tool training. We have two smart boards. This one is for the presentations, the PowerPoint presentations or the Word presentation of whatever you uh you had. Uh and this is uh only for uh drawing. So uh we uh must let it uh stand on this uh this programme. This is called a smart board", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speaks for itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "thing uh Yeah, it speaks for itself. Um and as you uh may have heard, the documents in the shared folder uh can be uh showed on this screen. Not in y the the My Documents. So if you wanna show something, put it in the shared folder. Uh This uh is very straightforward, with the save, the print, the undo, the blank, the select, the pen. Well, I don't uh gonna explain it all,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think you know uh how it works. Um we must not forget uh everything we draw on here, uh all must be saved. We we may not delete anything. So uh if you have uh drawn something, save it. Never delete it. That's a very important uh thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh little uh little kinda exercise to uh know each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At uh the white board on the left. Every uh every one of us uh must draw our favourite animal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh tell uh tell us why we uh had uh chosen that animal. Uh important is that we use different colours, and uh different pen widths. Widths. Widths.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have a question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um this exercise, um did the company board tell you to do it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or uh did you just make it up yourself?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no. It's uh it's uh I I I must do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's part of the introduction,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.'Cause we uh really don't know each other,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh it's kinda new. So getting used to each other, we can uh have a little fun then, before we uh dig in really to the hard stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That kind of thing. Would you start with drawing your uh favourite animal?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. I don't know really how it works. But maybe you can show us first?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, okay. Yeah, okay. Drawing goes with uh this thing. Do not touch your hand on uh this little uh thingy here. That's uh important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So hold it uh like this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You g you get electrocuted or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, kinda..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, um You must p p uh push a little uh Good. Because And uh wait uh wait a few seconds. It's not uh fully real-time, so uh watch it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ach..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Well I'm gonna paint in the red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooph.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the background colour..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, undo. Um The pen? No. One minute please..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the one. Well, five. Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My favourite animal huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's like Pictionary?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can guess what it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the one who says it first gets a raise.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "May uh paint uh next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a pork?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it's not an orc..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You don't see it uh at the ears?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah, I have it at home..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have an orc at home?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very artistic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's a cat..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's it called?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Simba.'Cause uh we have a cat at home", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and he's called Simba.'Cause he looks like the uh the the lion from The Lion King.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Miniature size?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we uh found it kinda cool to uh name it after a lion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He's happy with us, so uh he's smiling.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow. He does have body uh Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, only the face. Because we have we have twen twenty five minutes. So we uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. We have to speed up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remember you use uh different colours, and different pen widths.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, who wants to go next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So choose a colour, choose a pen width and draw a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You don't have to change the colour and the pen width during uh the drawing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have to save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Save it, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've done it. New?'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have to draw uh push hard on the pen or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm uh Not really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kind of firm touch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay. Open. Which one is it? Smart board?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And now? Okay. Okay, thanks.'Kay, I've speed up.'Kay, that's fine. Line width.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "By the way, why was your cat uh red?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because uh my cat is red uh at home.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I have red hair, so uh must be red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a very bloody cat.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a frog..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's a turtle..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh it's an apple..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not an apple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Must be a dog..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A dog?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Colour. Something like this. Smaller.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, it is a turtle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It is a turtle. Why a turtle? Why? Tim?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um'Cause I liked Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You watched it a lot?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You watched it a lot?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh inside its shell. You'll be uh finished sooner.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a scared turtle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. It's coming up. Mm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, Tim. Thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like this. Okay, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very artistic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Jurgen, you want to go next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay. Wha Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Here you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How did it work?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Format? And then you have the the current colour,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Performance?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can change. So no red or green.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And a pen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh line uh width. I had five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tim had Uh Tim, what kinda line width did you have?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the big lines were like nine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. It's a dog.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, very good. I just uh thought I'd pick the easiest one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Why a dog? You have a dog at home?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we had a dog, a few years ago.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Had a dog?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, it's p", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and it, yeah, when it died we didn't get a new one or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's pretty good uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have an artistic uh inner middle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An artist.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh a Graphical User Designer, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think you uh picked the wrong uh function. Wrong job.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Can work together. Ah colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think you can see it's real uh really a easy programme to use. Not difficult at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's enough,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "thanks..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Janus? The last one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I wonder.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. After a cat, a turtle and a dog.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think he's gonna draw an elephant..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I figure I should do something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I'm gonna do something much more difficult.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-oh. Oh, he is the artistic design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm gonna design a remote uh remote control animal..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remote control animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well with the interface, it might be easier to ha to draw here and display there uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That that might be easier. But at the other hand, uh a pen like that is easy to hold in your hand, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's easier to draw.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Better to draw with a with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. With a pen than with a mouse mouse.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Than on the, with.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I m I mean like uh like on here, drawing drawing uh. And then displaying on screen, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mouth. Oh, okay. Yeah. W with this paper it's too mu too expensive..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But what is he uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Too expensive, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it a rabbit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you have a rabbit at home?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a rabbit with uh broken legs?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A green rabbit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it a white rabbit f It's the white rabbit from The Matrix.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, then yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There, the g white green rabbit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He's a little bit stoned there..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I figured this is a pretty b good impression of a rabbit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It will do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh uh Uh well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Finishing touch and then we're going further.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Project Manager? Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where does the pen go? Just uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Have you been uh counting the time?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, a little..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Let's go on then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, I think the dog is the the most uh artistic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I figured the rabbit was actually the most uh impressive..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't choose for youself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's selfish. Okay, now we're gonna dig into the to the serious stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's pretty abstract.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the selling price for the remote will be uh twenty five Euro, and the production cost uh may not be more than uh twenty and a half Euro. So uh from my point of view, I don't think it's uh gonna be very uh very high tech, high definition, uh ultra modern uh kinda remote, for twelve uh fift uh twelve and a half Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the profit we must make with uh the new remote is uh fifty million Euro. So that's a lot. We have to sell uh a lot of uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, how much is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like how much?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hundred million uh remotes or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I think uh w when the selling price is twenty five, uh uh you got two million, two million remotes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty million. Two million, oh yeah, two million. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But our marketing range is uh, market range is international. So we have uh virtually the whole world we can sell uh we can sell our r remotes to. At least that uh countries which have uh a television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um So now it's time uh for us to uh going uh to discuss a little uh things. You can think about uh experience with a remote control uh yourself, at home. What you think might be uh a useful uh new feature. What uh what can distinguish our new trendy remote control from all the others. Um so uh let's uh let's uh discuss a little. I'm gonna join you at the table. Well what what's the most uh important thing at a remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well I think the most important thing of a remote control is that you can switch channels. And my opinion is you should keep it as basic as possible. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So not a not a remote control who uh uh which can uh can be used for television and a D_V_D_ and radio and Or just only.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so. Uh but I have some points. Can I show them on the on the big screen? Maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you have them on uh I can uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I can find Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh, in case you want it This is a dead kind of fly. Between the the the, yeah, the the uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Screen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, be The screens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it possible to open pen drawings in this uh on this screen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no. Only All the drawings go there, at the left uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh but um which The ones we made on the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, that pen drawings. Uh no, I think uh when it is uh in Word and you have saved it in the Shared Documents folder, you can show it there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, only in Word,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I have some uh points from marketing point of view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um just the standard thing li things like uh intuitive, uh small, fairly cheap. Uh it's pretty cheap, twenty five Euros. Uh brand independent. Um I think, it doesn't have to matter uh which brand your T_V_ or other thing is. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll wrap it up quickly. Um I personally think it has to be multi-purpose.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh most of the remote c uh remote controls are uh just for one purpose.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh by making it multi-purpose, it uh has a new feature, adds a new feature to the market, and distinguish from uh from current products.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um maybe some other technology than infrared. Uh I rather find it very annoying um, like when someone is standing in front of the T_V_ then you can't switch it. Um think about um sending it over radio waves or bluetooth.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That might be a little bit uh expensive. Um And something like an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For what purpose?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um uh like I said here um Maybe it's easy. It's nice as an added feature feature, that um, when you're on a certain channel, you can see on the L_C_D_ screen uh what programmes are coming up or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So it be uh a multi-purpose uh very technically uh high uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "From my point of view, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "remote? Yeah, it must be really uh innovative, technical-wise?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it has to be uh Yeah, our company is very uh good in making new innovative uh things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So yeah, I I agree with you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So i i i i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we must focus on things who are really uh really add something to uh to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To the current market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look, you got some cheap uh remote controls there. They just uh Yeah, you got a dozen of'em.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But when you enter a new market with a remote control and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh wanna gain market share", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you have to do something special, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But we have to keep an eye that it's Uh at the beginning of such a project, it's it's it's very uh cool to talk about, well, this would be cool, that would be cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but we must not uh lose uh sight of the the user uh uh friendly uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the price..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's But but this is just from marketing uh aspect.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know anything about user interface or design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's because we have him..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and him..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And him..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, uh next meeting will start in thirty minutes. So uh you uh will have uh individual actions where I presume uh will be some feedback, uh via the m the mail. Um the the the Industrial uh Designer has to uh look at the working design. Uh the User Interface Designer has to look at the technical functions. So that's the thing we uh discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um one thing uh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we must first agree on uh what we're going to m going to make. Do we Are we going to use um it it for multiple systems? Or uh We should have some agreement on that before we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um wha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm uh I I don't think we have to be, we have to agree on that. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I figure we could get back to it on the next meeting actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think th that's a pha Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a phase further.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ju just uh make some mock-ups, some some general ideas.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and then we can plan Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can plan further, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But maybe, because uh you are working on the user requirements, you are working on the technical functions, we uh must uh have a little or kinda uh uh uh How do you call it? Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Consensus on the, what we're gonna do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh a little plan on on what we're going to do. So you don't uh uh come up with the user requirements who don't fit the the the the technical functions at all. Some basic things we co we want to going to do. Uh I think that's well uh Yeah. Will come in handy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. You decide..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're the Project Manager.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W He says.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if the technical functions have to be designed, I I've gotta know for what kind of machines they will be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or do we use it a text screen? Or uh will it be with uh with bluetooth or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, th that's that's really a step further. But if you say uh is it uh uh one way or multi-purpose, that's a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh tha that's a same step further.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then looking at individual components,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that's actually a f step further.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like we all have a list of uh things that has to b that have to be in it, or how it has to be like. And then in the next meeting we decide", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can take it from there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "w what it's gonna be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I agree uh, we can take it from there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A And then you s then you can delete uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or edit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the o the obsolete uh details.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "each individually i individually uh must think on what's uh at uh his point of view is the most important. And uh then we're going to fit uh all the pieces together the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I must finish off now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's over. You uh will receive specific specific instructions uh by your personal coach. And I see you in uh thirty minutes. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, cheers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be careful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Damn.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Success?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. Come up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education15", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received apologies for absence from Michelle Brown and Jack Sargeant; there are no substitutions. Can I ask if Members have any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay. We'll move on, then, to item 2, which is our scrutiny of the'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' draft strategy, and I'm very pleased to welcome Dr Frank Atherton, the Chief Medical Officer for Wales, and Nathan Cook, who is the head of the healthy and active branch at Welsh Government. Thank you, both, for attending this morning. We're very much looking forward to hearing what you've got to say. If you're happy, we'll go straight into questions. If I can just start by asking about the fact that'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' is an all-age strategy, really, and how confident you are that it will deliver for children and young people.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, we're very confident. I mean, it has to, quite clearly. We do need to think about the present generation, the problems faced by the current generation. We have high prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults—we know that, and we can't walk away from that because that's translating into demand on health services. But we have to take a focus, a future generation's focus, almost, on the next generation. I don't write off the current generation, we can't afford to do that, but we do need to think about what can we do that would be different for the next generation so that they don't get into the sorts of problems that we're currently seeing with overweight and obesity. We know that the consequences of that for our young people are going to be enormous if we don't do something and something quite soon. We know that overweight children go on to become overweight adults, unfortunately, and that brings all the consequences of multiple disease issues—diabetes is often cited—cancer risk et cetera. So, we have to focus on children, and, in fact, during the consultation, we've been very clear that we need to engage with children and young people as well. Perhaps we'll get into that at some point, Chair, but, yes, I can give you that assurance.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. What my follow-up question, really, is: can you just tell us what kind of engagement you've had with children and young people to inform the draft strategy?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, Nathan may be able to influence some of the detail, but in broad terms, we have discussed with young people in a number of fora. In fact, I was delighted that we had a young person, Evie Morgan, a schoolgirl from mid Wales, who came to the joint launch on the consultation. She met the Minister there and gave a very good personal account of her views on obesity and overweight. We've been visiting a number of schools during the consultation process. I'm visiting a school, either this week or next week, at Treorchy, to talk with teachers and young people there. Obviously, we're hopeful that schools and young people will contribute to the consultation as well. So, we've had quite good input, I would say, from children and young people. There is always more we can do we and we want to hear those voices.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "I was going to say, we've also had a session with youth ambassadors as well, and what we've actually produced for the consultation is not just the children and young people's version, but also a toolkit in terms of getting schools really engaged and involved in terms of the work that we want them to do to feed into this as well. So, we've already had some really good responses from a lot of youth group and schools already.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "And you've got a structured programme, have you, to roll that out? Okay. Thank you. We've got some questions now on leadership, and the first questions are from Siân Gwenllian.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Good morning. I'll be speaking in Welsh. The Minister for health said yesterday, in answering a question from me on the Chamber floor, that you gave him advice not to have a target in terms of reducing obesity among children. Could you confirm that that's what your advice was and tell us why you don't think that a target is needed?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "My advice was not that we don't need a target—we may well need a target, and that's one of the issues we need to consult on—but that the target that had been adopted in England and in Scotland to halve the prevalence of obesity in children was more aspirational than deliverable, and that if we are to choose a target in Wales, then we need to balance deliverability with challenge. We need a challenging environment. So, there is something about performance management, because I would be looking to not just the health system but the health and care system and to public services boards to think about how they're delivering on this, and I think we can use targets to that. But they are one tool in the box that I would think we could use, and part of the consultation is to ask that question—'If we are to go down a route in Wales of choosing a target, what might that look like?'", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay. So, to be clear, you're not ruling out that maybe we would need a target.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "It's certainly something that we could consider in terms of the final strategy.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "And is that your opinion too?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, that is contrary to what I was told yesterday on the floor of the Chamber by the Minister, but there we go. I'm glad to hear that you're not ruling out having a target, because without a target, without something to aim for, how do we know that we're getting there?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think your point about evaluation is really important. Whatever we produce at the end of this process—and we're looking to produce a final strategy towards the autumn—we do need to have a strong evaluation. So, some metrics in there, it would seem, would be appropriate, but what those are, what the nature of those are, do we frame them as targets or ambitions—that's the point we need to consult on.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay. And the other point, of course, is the investment. If the Government is going to be successful in terms of the aim of reducing childhood obesity, then it needs to fund and support the actions. Have you made an assessment of the level of investment needed to implement this plan?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Resourcing will be important. We currently do make investments in a number of areas that relate to child health generally, and, of course, obesity and overweight in particular. So, the question of resourcing is important. Now, we can't quantify an absolute amount of resource that will be needed to deliver until we know exactly what's going to come out of the consultation and what actions we might want to deliver to a greater degree in Wales. A figure of £8 million to £10 million a year has been banded around as a broad kind of area of what we might need to invest, but that would need to be drawn from existing programmes. We need to look at existing programmes, how effective they are. Can we make them more effective? Can we get better value from them? And there may well be a case for new investment, and that's a question, of course, that would need to be discussed with Ministers when we're producing the final strategy.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "But I think a key consideration as well is we already know there is investment across health boards in some kind of obesity-related services. So, I think what we really need to think about across Wales is how we can drive greater scale, how we can look at current programmes in terms of making sure that they're better evaluated, and how we can make sure that we're also drawing up on the existing resources and capacity out there as well.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "And does the level of investment depend on what the target is—what the goal is?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I don't think you can necessarily just link the two. The issue of resourcing is one that's there irrespective of whether we choose to put a target in place.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "But how would we know that it's being used effectively if there isn't something to aim for?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Which brings you back to the question about evaluation. We need proper evaluation of the various programmes that we have.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Yes, but without a target, how can you properly evaluate? If you don't know what you're trying to do, how can you properly evaluate? Anyway, you're open to suggestions about having a target, which is great. Would you agree that Government could use the revenue that's being produced through the levy on soft drinks towards some of these efforts to—?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, of course, there are some consequentials that are coming to the Welsh Government as part of the levy on sugary soft drinks. That funding, of course, is less than we had anticipated, and that reflects, actually, a success story because industry is reformulating, and so the amount of sugar in soft drinks is already starting to decrease, which is a good thing. But to your question: should we use the funding? Well, of course we should use funding. I'm not personally in favour of hypothecation, I think I'm more interested in the totality of resource that goes into public health programmes than into marginal resource. There are, of course, a number of initiatives that we currently fund through the general revenue. And when I think about obesity, I don't just think about the relatively small marginal amounts of money that come in through whatever source, but I think about the totality of the £7 billion we spend in health and social care and how we can divert and channel some of that towards broad prevention initiatives in general, and towards tackling being overweight and obesity in particular.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "You're saying that it's less than expected. Could you give us any kind of figure?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, could you repeat the question?", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "You say that there is less money that's come in through these consequentials from the levy, can you mention some sort of figure?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "The figure that I have in mind is about £56 million that's coming in in terms of revenue over a two-year period. But I'd have to confirm that with the committee. What the anticipated—. When the sugar levy was first brought in, there was some modelling at UK level about what level of revenue that would bring, but it was based on the amount of sugar that was currently then in drinks and the fact that the sugar has reduced in drinks, I mean, the total amount available to the UK is less and hence our consequentials are less. Nathan may have some precise figures.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Yes, I was going to say, there was a mid-year report done where the levy has raised £150 million to date since coming into force in April, and the original forecast was £520 million a year. So, I think that shows the amount of work that's been done by industry around reformulation.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "And the consequentials of that? That is the consequential—£150 million.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "On a UK level.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "Yes, so what's the Welsh consequential?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Fifty-six.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Fifty-six? Gosh, that sounds a lot. Anyway, it's a good sum of money and you're talking about investing £8 million to £10 million. So, obviously, you know, we can be more ambitious because there is money in that pot if that money was ring-fenced for this particular scheme.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, the resource is going to be a real issue that we need to address, and I think as Nathan has said, there is funding of various initiatives currently in the system, and we need to look at that and make that as effective as possible. Will there be a need for some additional resource? There may well be, and that's a question that we'll have to look at in terms of the strategy when we develop it and have a discussion with Ministers about the level of resourcing.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Can I just ask on that before Siân moves on? What assessment have you made of how that money is being spent in other UK nations? Because my understanding is that the money is being used in other UK nations to directly impact on obesity. Have you given any consideration to—? As I understand it, that money now is being dispersed around a plethora of programmes, including the transformation programme, and what I found very odd, really, was vaccination, which is surely the core business of the NHS. Have you got any view on that?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'm not sure I understand your point, Chair, in terms of the link between the consequentials from—. Are you talking about the consequentials from the sugar levy or are you talking about—?", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Yes, because in other nations, it is being used to directly impact on initiatives to tackle obesity, whereas, we've kind of put it here in Wales into the general pot and it's being used to fund a plethora of different things.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, that cuts to what I was talking about. My preference—it's a personal view—is that hypothecation doesn't really help us too much. I mean, what we need to look at is whether the programmes, the sorts of programmes that are being funded in England, or indeed in Scotland, are working effectively, and if they are, are they being delivered here in Wales? We have looked very carefully at the plans that England and Scotland have for tackling obesity and overweight, and we've made a comparison with what we're doing in Wales, and our ambition in Wales is to go further than those nations, in many ways. But I come back to the point that just linking the hypothecation of a relatively small amount of resource is likely to be less impactful than asking a question of public services boards and of the health system, indeed, about how much money, overall, are we putting into prevention.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "No, I recognise that, and I think we're talking about additional resource. Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I was just wondering whether you thought that there was a useful psychological link on the part of the public between saying,'Here's a sugar levy', and'It's going to be used to help children and adults stay healthier.' Going into a pot, it actually makes it quite difficult to explain the purpose of the tax in the first place. So, I take your overall point, but in terms of the people who we're trying to help in all this, actually creating a direct link might be quite helpful.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "You may be right. I'm not a behavioural psychologist. We'd have to ask—", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Neither am I. I'm a person who eats a lot of sugar. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Your point's taken.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thanks. Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The last question from me, about partnership working. You're putting an emphasis on the whole-system approach in implementing the plan, how are you going to create a system that co-ordinates action and drives change across relevant partners, avoiding a situation where it's everyone's role, but nobody's responsibility? How are you going to avoid that?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "It's a very important question, and one of the four strands in the consultation is exactly related to that, around leadership and drive nationally. I'm not interested in producing a strategy that sits on a shelf. If you look around the world, there are plenty of obesity strategies. You may notice, by the way, that we've chosen not to talk about an obesity strategy but a healthy weight strategy, because I think having a positive construct is really quite important to us here in Wales. But leadership will be really important, and we will need some sort of structure to lead this, to provide oversight. I'm not a great believer in creating new structures, so we do need something that will give that drive, but the leadership comes from the top down. We need political commitment to this, and that's why I welcome the input from this committee. So, that needs to be assured. And then we need to make sure that the public sector generally is engaged in this, but it goes way beyond the public sector, of course, because we have to work with industry, and we have to work with communities, and we have to work with the public on this. So we need to think about our governance system for this and how we drive it forward. Interestingly, we had quite a large discussion two days ago between health and social care, but also involving the third sector and some members of the public, around how can we drive prevention more generally. It wasn't specifically on obesity, but of course obesity came up because it's such a pressing issue. This question of governance was discussed quite extensively, and we do have governance systems, of course, in Wales. We have public services boards, we have regional partnership boards, and how we can get those aligned behind this common agenda is really important. But I'd like to see—and I know I'm a public health professional, so I know that only maybe 10 per cent, 15 per cent, possibly 20 per cent of what makes and keeps us healthy as individuals and as communities can be driven through the health system; but I would like the system to step up and take these kinds of issues more seriously as well. So I'd be looking for local leadership through directors of public health and indeed through chief executives to work with their public services boards on this. So, we'll need some sort of national oversight, absolutely, but we need local ownership and local leadership, too.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Thank you. We've got some questions now from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Delivery of the plan will be led by a national implementation board that will be accountable to Ministers. Which Minister do you believe it should be accountable to, or, given the complexity of obesity, should the board be directly accountable to the First Minister?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Ultimately, the First Minister will be responsible for this and will want to have a strong oversight of this. It is often framed as a health issue, and the Minister, Vaughan Gething, has a strong personal commitment to this, I know. We've talked extensively with him and with sports and recreation colleagues about that, so there's a link there. It does cut across all portfolios, and so this is an issue that I have discussed with Cabinet, and that collective ownership is really important, and will be, because it can't just sit in one domain. I think what you do need to have is you do need to have a lead organisation or a lead ministry, and I would see health as—I work within health, so I'm perhaps biased, but I would see health as leading this, but it needs broad ownership across Government.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "I know my colleague Siân Gwenllian mentioned earlier targets and things, but I know in Wales we're not too good at collecting data. What data is currently available on childhood obesity and what metrics will be used to measure progress against the plan's objectives?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, of course, our main data source is the child measurement programme, which collects information on children entering school aged four or five. That's our main source of information. If we look at that data, it shows us—. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with the statistics, but it'll be just under a third of children at that age who are overweight or obese—", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Could I just ask—sorry to interrupt—how up to date is that?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The last survey was just last year.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "The data was published last week.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "Yes, the lastest data was out last week.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "It is pretty up to date.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "So, it's pretty up to date, and what it shows—. It's not getting radically worse—there's always statistical variation in these things—but it's not getting any better. And, for the first time last year, we did look at the question not just of children who were overweight or obese, but we actually singled out the proportion who are obese, severely obese. So we have a figure for that for the first time, which is about 12 per cent, which is quite shocking, in a way.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "It is shocking.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "So, that's our main source of information. Does that answer your question?", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Yes, but how will any gaps in your data be addressed?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, one of the questions that are often asked is: could we measure more on a longitudinal basis? By that I mean in England, for example, children are measured at school entry and then again at year 11—at age 11 or 12., that kind of age group. And so you do have a longitudinal view over time of what's happening to children. I think that would be helpful to us in Wales, and it's one of the questions in the consultation about whether we should expand that. Obviously, that would have significant resource implications, not just for the funding, but also for schools and for the system to deliver it. But it's something that maybe would help us in terms of better understanding and better evaluation—the point that was made earlier.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "And the other data we do have is the millennium cohort study, which has been released, for 14 and 15-year-olds. That's going to be—. We're starting to think about how we can utilise some of that data, looking at that longitudinal picture around children as well, which will be really helpful.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "Thank you. You've answered my next question. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Can I just ask about the child measurement programme? The strategy commits to looking at whether we can have a second measurement taking place in Wales. Can you just tell us a bit more about your thinking on that and when you would see a second measurement taking place and how you would use that data?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I touched on that just now, but personally I do think it would be helpful to have more information. It's always the case, There's always a trade-off between the cost of getting that information and the value of the information. So, the question of how it would be used would be really important. There is still a lot that we don't know. We know an awful lot about obesity and being overweight and the causes of it, but we don't really have a very clear understanding, in Wales at least, of the point at which children start to become overweight. Although we know that overweight children tend to go on to become overweight adults, we don't know what proportion of them between school entry and later teenage years—what those changes are. So, it would help us to have some better understanding, which would help to direct some of our initiatives. I'd be generally supportive of the principle. We'll wait and see what comes out in the consultation, and it's something that we need to give thought to,  but we do have to trade off the additionality of what the information would give us with the cost of doing that, of course.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. We've got some questions now on healthy environments from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. In the draft plan, some of the measures in there suggest legislating for restricting price promotions and banning energy drinks, and that sort of thing. Do you think that, if we go down that road, there's going to be time within this Assembly to introduce such legislation? And, if not, what do you think might be the timescale for such legislation?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "It may well be that there are things in Wales that we might wish to legislate on, and you've mentioned two of them, and they're good examples. We would, obviously, need to undertake quite detailed consultation on those and, in a way, we need to mirror what's happening in England and in Scotland to some degree around the consultations they're having on energy drinks. We also need to influence the issues that are not devolved to us and we seek to do that. As to your question of legislative time, I'm not really in a position to answer that. What I could say is that legislation may well be one of the outcomes of the consultation. There may well be things that we wish to choose to legislate on. The timing of that will have to be subject to other pressures, and I come back to the point that legislation, of course, is one of the tools that we've got—we need to deploy them all.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Sure, I understand that, that you could do other things. I know—. We've heard from the Government, on other calls for legislation, that the programme's very tight, certainly for this term, so I was just wondering whether we might get that in, but okay. If I turn now to the planning system—and this might not be something that you have great deal of knowledge of; I'd just welcome your view on this, because, when we discussed with stakeholders, we talked about whether the planning system, for instance, could be used to, as an example, restrict hot food takeaways around schools and so on. Would that be a measure that you would support, something like that?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think it's definitely something we want to look at and, of course, that question is asked in the consultation, so we would like to know people's views on that. It's an interesting one. I think there is a question—a really important question—about how we can use the planning system more effectively. I've discussed with Nathan on a number of occasions, with planning colleagues in Welsh Government and in local authorities, about the art of the possible, let's say. There may be things that we could think about and we want to get those ideas through the consultation. The specific question around takeaways, particularly takeaways near schools, is often asked. I was very interested to see, up in the north-east, some time ago, that one of the local authorities up there did put a moratorium on the opening of new fast-food venues near to schools, or indeed in areas where levels of obesity and overweight were particularly high. I understand London is now—some London boroughs are now—experimenting with that as well. So, that gave me comfort, because maybe there are powers within local authorities that can be used more effectively. I think my view at the moment is that the jury's kind of out on whether those are effective and how effective they're going to be. But the fact that we have some initiatives around the UK does give us an opportunity to study that and to learn from experience perhaps and then, if it is shown to be beneficial, to think about that here in Wales, yes.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Sure, because it will only be one of a suite of measures anyway. Of itself, it wouldn't address the problem, but, added to other initiatives, I guess it would. Can I just ask you briefly, then, about community sport infrastructure and, in particular, of new schools? So, Welsh Government, as you know, has ploughed a huge amount of money into the twenty-first century schools programme. What we heard when we spoke to stakeholders recently, particularly headteachers, was that, in some of the new schools that have been built, we haven't had changing rooms and toilet facilities, for instance, built into the new buildings. So, if we're going to try and utilise these buildings for general community activity to get kids and the wider public, actually, more active, do you think that's something that we ought to be building in? Again, not your particular direct area of responsibility, but something that you might have an input into, is that, when we're developing schools, we should be making sure that they have those kinds of facilities so that they become accessible to the wider public. Is that something that you would be prepared to make a recommendation around?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's certainly a fascinating area and one that I think has a lot of potential. It goes—. You're right to raise it in the context of schools, and I can understand why this committee would, but I think it goes beyond that, actually, into all developments in the public sector and how they're developed and whether we're building health into our environment, which perhaps is your starting point. One of the things that I was really pleased to see in terms of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 that was passed a couple of years ago was the use of health impact assessment as a tool, and we're still working on how that will inform policy and how that will be applied in issues such as policy decisions through Government, but also in more downstream issues about how we create the public infrastructure that the public can and should be using. And so I would like to see the use of health impact assessments to a much greater degree to inform those kinds of decisions. If you apply that kind of lens and you take the point, which is inherent in your question, I think, that schools are not just for kids, they're for communities, then you would—it would lead you to a conclusion that you would perhaps design and build them in a different way. So, on a personal basis, I would certainly support your view that we should be looking to use the sports environment in schools in the same way as we use leisure centres. There are all kinds of barriers in there, and I understand all of that, and it's not really my field, exactly as you say, but, as a matter of principle, I think it's a good one to pursue.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. And widening it out to other public services buildings as well.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Indeed.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We're going to move on now to talk about how we create healthy settings. I've got some questions from Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. Yes, perhaps if we could just stay in this area of education just for a moment, I think we all agree that healthy habits acquired early on probably tend to last quite well, so I wonder if you can tell us a little bit about the healthy and sustainable preschool scheme and whether you think some timescales should be made public about what you expect the achievements from that scheme to be. But, in particular, I was struck with what you said about local leadership, and I just want you to bear that in mind in answering the next question, which is about the foundation phase. You're probably aware that this committee has heard from various school leaders that they're struggling in some cases to meet the ratio of staffing for the foundation phase, which potentially compromises the purpose of it in terms of physical activity. I'm just wondering how the strategy development board is considering that at the moment. Is it something that's come on the radar for the board? Is it something you're thinking about? And, if so, who do you think should be responsible for pinning that down a little bit? Because this is education, not health, and—.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, look, I've got to confess to you, I'm not an educationist, and so the question on staffing numbers in schools is not one that I have been asked to give a deal of consideration to, and it hasn't really been discussed, I don't believe, in the context of development of the strategy. If there is a specific point around that that the committee would like to make in terms of a response into the consultation, which I presume you'll be making, then we'd be happy to consider that. As to healthy preschools, I don't know, Nathan may have some view on that. I've not been closely involved with the work. We have standards and we perhaps need to think about how we tighten those standards and how we—enforce isn't the right word, but how we implement and make sure that those standards are properly implemented, because you're absolutely right to say that habits are developed early in life. That's in the preschool; it's also in the home of course, and then later in the school. So, we do need to look at all of those as settings and are there more things we can do within those settings to drive healthier behaviours—that's exactly why we need the consultation.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "But I would say, through that scheme as well, we've really got a really good bank of preschools that are actually doing some really great work in this area as well. So, I think the more we can understand the successes that some of those environments are having—you know, how we can roll those out and work across other settings to create that wider impact as well is going to be really important.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. What I'm thinking about is expectations at that level will be expectations at a slightly older level, which will be contained within the foundation phase. And while you're quite right—obviously, parents have a role in this, or families—there will be, particularly with the introduction of the new curriculum, certain expectations on schools to provide not just healthy environments but to actively work towards well-being and healthy weight in children and things. And that's why I asked you about local leadership, because, if it fails for reasons that have nothing to do with the plan at foundation phase, it's going to fail further up the school years as well. I think it might be something that the board might want to consider here, because at some point there'll be an accountability question and we will want to know how'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' fits in with the new plans for the new curriculum, and whether it's merely persuasive and influential or whether it has the weight to place some obligations on school leaders about what they do in their schools. So, this connection, I think, is quite an important one, and, if the strategy development board could consider that, I think it would be very helpful, because this doesn't exist in a vacuum.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, I'd certainly be delighted to take that back and we can look at it in terms of how we move from the consultation into the final strategy. It's certainly a point we can try and look at.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Because we will want to know who to ask:'you're the accountable person—why has something worked, or not worked?' We will need to know that at some point.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Just building on Nathan's point, some of the schools—I know it's schools rather than the preschools, and I take your point, but some of the schools we've been working with have absolutely brilliant models of good practice and good local leadership. I remember the Minister actually at the launch, and one of the schools was represented there, and they presented—the school came and some of the children came and presented—to the whole audience about the activities that they were undertaking in their school around physical activity and on healthy eating, and it was such a model of good behaviour the question was,'Well, why not everywhere?', so that probably speaks to your question.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay, well, thank you for that commitment anyway.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "And have you had any discussions, then, with education officials around things like teacher training and CPD, because you'll be aware the Health and Social Care Committee has made a number of recommendations in this area? It's crucial that we skill up the staff to develop these things in an appropriate way, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, we certainly discuss with education colleagues in Welsh Government. There's more we need to do in terms of that, because you're absolutely right: there's something about building the whole of the workforce—education is really important, but elsewhere as well; it's about how do we really make every contact count, you know, that construct. So, everybody who's working in the health and social care system should have a role in this; everybody who works in education, whether it's the old—. Do we still have dinner ladies? Or teachers, you know, they have a role to play in supporting children to be as healthy as they possibly can. And, actually, I see them, Chair, as a really essential part of the public health workforce.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Suzy, are you going to do your curriculum one?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, I've bound it in together, but that final point you make about teachers being part of the answer to this, they're already under a range of pressures: is it fair to make them accountable for whether this works or not? Or should that local leadership lie somewhere else? I don't expect you to pin down a person today.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I wouldn't like to blame a teacher or performance manage them on the proportion of their children in their class who are overweight. That would clearly be nonsense, wouldn't it? But they are part of the solution, and so the accountability lies further up the chain, doesn't it? The question I think we would have, and public services boards might well ask, and the local education authorities may well ask, is: how effective is any particular school at driving forwards these healthy behaviours?", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. I'll leave some questions for Hefin.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Is that all right, Chair?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "You've got the floor, Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. You make a commitment to embedding physical activity at an early stage in primary school education. What would that look like?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Just in terms of the physical activity, I have to say it's a really important dimension and we need to move further on. We know not enough of our children are physically active and they're not meeting the various guidelines, so it's really important. It doesn't actually have as much of an impact on weight as the dietary issue. I'd just say that. It's really important for all sorts of reasons. It does have an impact on healthy weight, but it has a huge impact in terms of socialisation, in terms of mental health issues, et cetera, you know. So—I'm sorry, I've lost track of your question.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "I'd just say that one thing we have got in train is, obviously, Sport Wales, Public Health Wales and Natural Resources Wales—we have them working together as a collaborative at the moment to look at how their joint delivery on physical activity can be taken forward more efficiently. So, one of the things they are looking at is obviously the schools programmes they do through eco-schools, the Welsh network of healthy schools and the sports programme to really think about that physical activity and how we can have better join up in terms of the programmes that we're already delivering as well.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "With that in mind, I'm going to confess to you, chief medical officer, I did anything in school I could to avoid physical education lessons. I hated it. I didn't feel engaged with it. Yet, two weeks ago, I played for the Assembly rugby team—I wanted to get that in. The school sports survey, that would suggest that we're still not hitting those targets with children. How can we get children more engaged with physical education in ways that—? I felt completely alienated in school.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, you're right, and many people go through that same journey and come to physical activity later in life, and that's great if they do that. The sad reality is that many people don't, and we also know that there are issues around the dropping off, particularly for girls, of physical activity towards the teenage years. So, there are specific moments that we need to understand. We do have a lot of information about these kinds of things. Public Health Wales is very good at collating the information. We do need to turn that into programmes. I mean, at the heart of it, it's about making sports and physical activity enjoyable and attractive to people. Sometimes that's easier, I sense, for boys than for girls, but we need to tailor things to different audiences.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Yes, that's the trick, isn't it? It's about finding out what children enjoy doing. That could be quite a wide and varied range of things. Is that the key?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "It's not all about organised team sports.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes. As Dawn said, it's not just about organised team sports. There are some very individual activities you could do.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely, yes. And that's where I think—. I'm delighted that Sport Wales has moved beyond. It's not just about elite sports; it's about getting everybody engaged and active in sports, and that partnership with Public Health Wales that Nathan talked about is really important, because we need a population approach to driving physical activity.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "So, do you think, with that in mind, we need statutory guidance for schools on physical education?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Again, I'd look to the consultation as to whether there was an appetite for any kind of guidance. It may well be that that is something that could be considered.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay. And finally, with regard to free school meals to all pupils in primary and secondary schools, do you think that extending that to all pupils would be beneficial in providing a more varied diet for pupils?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't have a personal view on that. I think it's the quality of the food that kids are getting, whether that comes from home or through school, and whether it's free or whether it's paid for. I think it's the quality of the food that we need to focus on. The question of children being hungry at school is a really important one and needs to be addressed at a national level. I think that's a—", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "So, you think that's more about the provision of food for those who might not have access to it than providing a varied diet.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think it's important that children have access to food, absolutely, if that's your question, but we also need to look at the quality of the food and what's in that food offer.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "But you don't necessarily think universal provision would—.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't have a clear view on that. I know there's a larger debate about that.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I've got some supplementaries from Janet and then Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I've been around some amazing schools in my own constituency, where they've got proper canteen facilities for pupils and really, really good produce in the meals. However, there's probably only a third having school meals; the rest are packed lunches. And, to be honest, I've been very surprised and shocked at what I've seen of the quality of the food in the packed lunches. Nobody can really police, and I wouldn't want to see parents being policed over what goes in a packed lunch, so if there is data out there to suggest that there's a larger percentage of parents providing packed lunched that are really not good at all, then there is some merit to be said for what Hefin is—. Me, personally, I'd love to see the introduction of universal school meals. I think it's been a very retrograde step, going backwards. Would you be willing to carry out any research?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "So, I mean, your point about food that's brought in in the packed lunches is a really important one, and I've talked to some headteachers as well about this. We could go down a route of guidance and prohibition, but that gets you into the role of nanny in chief and I don't really see that as my role or Government's role, and I don't think it's effective either. Do you remember—? You must have seen on tv—I think it was in Scotland; I don't know if it's happened in Wales—parents pushing the fish and chip packets through the school railings. We don't need to get into that. What I have seen, though, is some really good innovative practice in schools where, for example, they reward children for bringing the healthy options. Schools can give guidance to parents about what would be a healthy lunch and what sort of things might be expected to be seen in the lunch box. And you can reward children, and children do respond to rewards. So, I've seen some of those approaches that have transformed, actually, the offer of what comes in school boxes. But I think just banning chocolate bars and crisps in the packed lunch is unlikely to be successful.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "We can't do that. So, my point to the question was: isn't there some merit, perhaps, about all children being equal and eating similar good-quality food in schools?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes. That gets you back to the question about universal school meals.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Perhaps some of that £56 million sugar tax, even. Who knows?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Mine is just a short question. The draft plan commits, doesn't it, to updating the healthy eating in schools regulations—the 2013 regulations? I appreciate this is a consultation, but what is it that needs changing in those regulations at the moment, just to give us a bit of steer?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "It's mainly on sugar content, so, obviously, they don't adhere to current Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition guidelines around sugar levels. So, what we'd want to consider is, you know, what we need to be careful of is unintended consequences of changing that, as well, if you see a shift to more kids bringing in school packed lunches as well. So, I think we want to consider the best way of doing that and consider through the consultation how we can go about it.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "All right. So, it's very pertinent to Janet's question, in that way. Okay, so it's mainly about sugar, but it could be about other things as well. Okay. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. The next questions are from Janet anyway; firstly, on the clinical obesity pathway.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' plan commits to a review of the clinical obesity pathway. What are the time frames for this review, and what do you think are the basic essentials of a clinical obesity pathway for children and young people?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We do have a pathway for managing overweight, and that's been in place since about 2010, I believe, and we do need to bring that up to date in terms of current knowledge and experiences. We've challenged Public Health Wales; we've asked Public Health Wales to undertake a review of that pathway, and they are going through that process now. I'm not sure of exactly the time frame that we have given them for that.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "We were asking them to review the pathway before we launch the final strategy in October because, obviously, what we want is for that to inform what that final strategy looks like. So, we'll be looking probably early autumn for them to report back on that.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "The second point of your question about what are the essential elements, I mean, they are already there; we need to tweak them and we need to make sure that they're properly delivered. But it's a tiered approach, so, having access to information through schools and through communities and into families is part of the first step of that. And then, if children are overweight, it's a question about how they're identified. There are questions about the ability of the public to recognise large children, so there may be an issue there. But when children are running into issues around weight, what kind of interventions can be put in, either through primary care or through communities through health visitors, et cetera? And then of course we do have—and we've started to shine a light on this, haven't we—the very overweight children. I don't think we have enough in the way of targeted support to be able to support those. There are programmes available, but they're perhaps not universally provided. So, I think there's something about looking at our whole pathway, mapping out what the current evidence now shows us is needed, and then thinking about what is our provision in Wales and what do we need to do to bring that up to the level of the places that are the best.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Thank you. The draft plan recognises the importance of the first 1,000 days, but it doesn't appear to include any new proposals to help parents to enable lifestyle changes. It lists existing initiatives, such as the Healthy Child Wales programme and breastfeeding action plan. Are you satisfied that the draft plan does enough to address the influence that family and parents have on children's healthy weight behaviours, particularly in the first 1,000 days?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, the first 1,000 days are really critically in shaping lives, as I'm sure you'd agree. We are absolutely open to any other suggestions that the public or this committee have as to what more we can and should do. There are a number of things, the sorts of programmes you've mentioned, that I think could be more effective. We're currently looking at breastfeeding because it starts before birth, actually. We know that children who are breastfed are less likely to suffer from obesity in childhood and, indeed, to go on to be obese adults. So, we do need to go further on that. We do have some programmes—Healthy Working Wales, et cetera—that need to be improved. If there are other interventions in other areas that we need to take, then we'd be delighted to hear what they are, but those are the ones that have jumped out so far.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Can I just say—? One of the proposals we're looking for is, obviously, we know that during pregnancy it's a really critical time when we can actually look to work with mothers. We know from looking at some of the behaviour change that it's actually a really critical point when new mothers really start thinking about their lives, wanting the best for their child and their families. So, what we are thinking about is how we could develop some kind of approaches to that going forward. But we know our Healthy Start scheme is also a good lever for us, just in terms of how we can look to improve that kind of dietary offer at the earliest stage as well.", "speakerName": "Nathan Cook" }, { "text": "Thank you. Finally, we know that for some families day-to-day challenges can make it difficult for them to make healthy choices, particularly for those on lower incomes and/or maybe using food banks. Could the Welsh Government take bolder action to better support low-income families to eat healthily?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, you've touched on a really important point about inequalities because overweight and obesity is not evenly distributed across our population. It absolutely is more prevalent in more socioeconomically deprived communities, and that's something that should really concern us all. So, it gets you to questions of availability of fresh food and produce; it gets you to questions of formulation of products and whether value brands are less healthy than more premium brands. So, it cuts across all of those issues that we talked about in terms of settings and in terms of environment earlier. There is something about the affordability of good-quality healthy food that we need to think about. We do need to think in broad terms—broader terms than just obesity, but we do need to think in broad terms—about how we create a society where families have the wherewithal to lead healthy lives, and that gets you to really important questions about the minimum wage and income poverty. There's no doubt in my mind—I'm a public health professional—and there's no doubt in my mind that economic success and health success go hand in hand. So, you speak to a very deep question there. In terms of what we can do through this particular consultation, there are some things in there about providing better access, but without tackling some of those deeper determinants of health, their impact will necessarily be limited.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Just finally from me, then, you referred earlier to the importance of making every contact count, but some stakeholders have told the committee that they struggle to do that because of difficulties in availability of people to refer to. Is that a situation that you recognise and what, really, can we do to improve that situation?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, it depends what you mean as to where to refer to. So, the health system obviously needs to respond to this issue. What we're seeing across the NHS is a gradual transformation in primary care so that primary care is no longer about going to see your GP, it's about going to see a practice where you have a range of health professionals. Would I like to see more dietetic support, for example, in that setting? Absolutely I would. I think we need to think in terms of that pathway that we were talking about earlier, about access to that kind of advice and support, which can head off people getting into problems and kids getting into problems with weight issues. So, that question of redesign of the pathway really speaks to, I think, your point about,'Well, where do people go when they have problems with their weight?' That's true for adults and it's true for children as well.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Are there any other questions from Members? No. Okay. Well, can I thank you both very much for your attendance? It's been a really productive session. We appreciate your time. You will be sent a transcript to check for accuracy in due course, but thank you again.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We'll do that. Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the committee, because getting some input into the consultation from children's perspectives, this would be one of the routes we would absolutely welcome. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Dr Frank Atherton" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you very much. Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee on CAMHS tier 4 provision. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services also on CAMHS in-patient provision. Paper to note 3 is a letter from the Children Commissioner for Wales on tier 4 CAMHS provision. Paper to note 4 is a letter from Qualifications Wales to the Minister for Education on qualifications for the new curriculum. Paper to note 5 is a letter from me to the Minister for Education on the development of the new curriculum. Paper to note 6 is a letter from me to the Minister for Education seeking clarification on the draft additional learning needs code. Paper to note 7 is a letter from me to the Minister for Education seeking clarification on the response to our Brexit report. Paper to note 8 is a letter from the Equality and Human Rights Commission on a cumulative impact assessment briefing for committee, which has been offered. Paper to note 9 is a letter from the Chair of the Petitions Committee on a national taskforce for children’s mental health. Paper to note 10 is a letter to the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from the children’s commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on the implications of Brexit for children. There are a few that I'd like to return to in private, but are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Okay. Item 4, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. There's somebody up there.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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You have received the same email, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's for your guys to how to design it all the aspects so you need that information.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so each of us has a role to do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think assign your uh roles.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In each.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For each for each one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We already have our role.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For each person, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, we can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there are so we have three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there are three kinds of designs, that's all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "f yeah. 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Appendix.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See there's a role for everybody.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even for the marketing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "first. us user define.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But look at your role, your marketing role.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's a trend watching.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's your role.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I think we can have a little discussion about what has to be done", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and what are your ideas about the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About the design or Maybe we'll discuss this later, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, w we want to have a new re remote control for for T_V_ distribution I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to plan how how it would be developed and uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "how we can make it work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean working remotes we already have. This will be something different from the other remotes remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What we we have to keep in mind the these characteristics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And of course it should not be very costly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I think that Norman and I would think about um the technical points and um we should discuss it in the next meeting, or", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Need to collect information..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About the about what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. I I'm part of design, perhaps. Uh, what is most important in a in a remote control? What is the most important function aspect? Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You mean the external or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you have to make it work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah of g of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the that's the big thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be easy to work with.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can think about an interface with uh well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh. We maybe you can have a speech uh recognition interface. You just tell the television I want which channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You won't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or or you can say for example, um I want uh to list all the programme tonight. Y you know, instead of uh remote control it's doing the some searching for you, so you don't have to look for the channel you want. Just say maybe I just want to press I wanna have a button for all the movies tonight. Or a button for all the magazines, all the information documentary tonight. And then you list a few, and I will choose from the list. So instead of pressing the channel number, I am choosing the programmes directly. Yeah, that's one way of uh making it useful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think if we include a lot of technology on the remote control it will be very costly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, because no,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not very a lot. Th this information exists. For example you can get um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like s uh you you you say we can use speech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can use uh well for example anything. The the idea of using speech to reduce the button, but uh and it's more natural. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think if you want t to choose uh from a list of programme or or something like that you you may have to to use uh w uh I dunno", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm a okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean the main uh function of remote control is to have something in the hand", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In the hand.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we should be very careful about the size of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If we are going to add a speech interface, I'm not sure with trendy slim size of the remote control it would be able to put a speech recog", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes, possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if you want to put a speech recognition system f interface for that I think the T_V_ itself could have it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I could talk to the T_V_ television itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Except if if you are far from the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I need not have an.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean we have some or something, different technology but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. But th the main idea I wanted to s I wanted to say is that um there should be a function, instead of choosing the ch T_V_ channel, there's a option you can choose, either T_V_ channels or or pr or the or the contain or the contents of the programme.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the content.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah it's it's a good idea it's a good idea", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's more powerful. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I I think that technically it would be um a little bit uh uh more tricky to to achieve this than just to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. No, because you see now all the T_V_ programmes are available on the webs. They they are they are they are available in X_M_L_ format or whatever the format. We don't care. We just say that this are some content. We just want to retrieve the content and then classi sort them by the types of programmes. Some of the websites they already provide this service,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we can just use the service available. Download it uh to the to this remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then there's there are only six buttons for six categories, or sev seven. The most there are only seven buttons. So I just choose the category one and you reuse the same button, for example to to choose among the the sorted list the programme you want, so you don't have to choose among hundred channels, if you have hundred channels, you just have six buttons, seven buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we should also optimise the the number of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I I I think that j just by using navigation buttons and the user interface on the screen we are able to uh navigate uh through the Well channel programme or contents or in an easy way, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ah, yes. So. Yeah. Yeah, so you don't have to display here, just display on the T_V_ screen, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah in the dis display on the T_V_ screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good idea. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and just uh with the with your remote control would just navigate through the f", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I think that will be revol revolutionary.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because all the T_V_ uh the the remote control have all numbers, lots of buttons and then you dunno what to choose in the end. Yeah. Alright..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So I think for for the technical points we have to to to check how to gather the data from programme or contents and all this stuff", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have five minutes to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah w w we have sometimes to use the white-board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah you can y you can you can use it if you so, can we", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And another interesting idea for this would be to have an light adaptation system depending upon the picture of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, I mean, if you're watching a movie and suddenly there is a dark uh some dark scene, the lights adapt themself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The lighting in the room changes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we are designing just remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, we have a option in the remote control. If we want to have that option, you press that button in the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, do you want to have a conceptual remote control there, or you just want to put the function in?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. If if you you you can if you want you can use th the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Please, Norman, draw uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Go on, draw something. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm afraid you forgot to put your lapel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The lapel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or before the before the the design that says.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where where is it? Here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Norman.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just plug it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Be before before writing you can uh sit and that says what we what we said", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then after that you can you can use the. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, alright. So so the most functional des mm the most important function is to ch choo buttons to choose the content. Right? We agree on that, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, uh first one is to uh buttons i or it could be anything with buttons. Uh to choose uh content s or channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have both. The user can choose w which one they want, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, by content or by channel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "By content or by channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Choose by contents or by channels. And then what did we say just now? Other than this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh we we have to find a way how to gather information about the contents.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so technically how the problems that how to do it is to how to get the content.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Challenge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think i it's not very difficult to to browse by channel but it's a little bit tricky to browse by contents so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Content. Okay, so these we have to work it out. So this one of the problem. And uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that's the the things to do", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The main thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh to uh reflect about it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Alright. Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh discuss it in the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are we'll discuss it we will get some information in the next meeting, so for now we get uh the funct this is the functional designer? That's the first aspect. Right. We will get information and then we'll come back in..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you everybody..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll come.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we'll meet in maybe five minutes? 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{ "meetingId": "education7", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received no apologies for absence this morning. Can I ask if there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay. Thank you. Item 3 this morning then is a scrutiny session on early childhood education and care, and I'm very pleased to welcome Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Jo-anne Daniels, director of communities and tackling poverty at Welsh Government; and Nicola Edwards, deputy director of the childcare, play and early years division in Welsh Government. Thank you all for your attendance. We’re very much looking forward to the session. If you're happy, we'll go straight into questions, and the first ones are from Hefin David.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Good morning, Deputy Minister. What are your primary objectives? Is it supporting the development of children or getting parents into work?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think you'll be aware from the range of programmes that we've got that we do feel it’s important to support both children and parents. There's obviously lots of evidence to show how important the early years are for children, how important they are for their development, and so, that is one of our primary objectives. But we also know how important it is for parents to have stable jobs, reasonably paid, so that can also help with the development of the children. So, we really see it that our plans are for both parents and children, and we believe that a high-quality, early-childhood education and care system can provide that. And, of course, in terms of when we talk about jobs as well, I think it’s really important to remember that the childcare system is a big employer as well and a very important employer. So that, actually, itself provides jobs.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, the evidence we've seen suggests that, historically, Governments in the UK and devolved have focused on primarily getting parents into work. So, are you suggesting then that your focus is to change that and move towards early child development?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, what I'm saying is that we want to give parents the opportunity to work. We don't want childcare to be a barrier to parents working because we think that working is one the best routes out of poverty, but we do also want to make sure that children have the greatest experience that they can have in the early years. So, we see it as one.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And that's quite a policy challenge to deliver both at the same time.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "The situation as it is is complex, and I think it needs simplifying. It is a challenge, but it’s probably one of the most important challenges we've got in Government, because what we offer to families with young children is one of the most important things we do.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And in your evidence to the committee, you said that the Welsh Government’s approach'will build on a wide variety of programmes that are continually developing in order to support parents, families and children during the early years.' And you've just said you want to simplify that. How do you simplify that, particularly with regard to the provision of funding and the way these things connect from the birth of a child into school? How will simplification look, and what will happen?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, we're not at the stage of being able to say what it will look like at the moment, but we're looking at ways of simplifying, because I think it’s absolutely right, it is a very complex system, because it’s grown up from all different routes. But we are having lots of pilot projects that are looking at ways of simplifying the system. We have got pathway projects in, I think it’s eight local authorities, who are looking at ways of joining up the whole system. So, we are looking at that, and I absolutely except that it is very complex and we want to find ways of making it simpler and easier to understand. So, we are working with local authorities and health boards to see how we can actually work together and simplify things.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And it's good to hear that that's your objective. Can I just come back to the first thing you said:'We can't say yet what we're going to do'?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, when will we have a policy plan and something that we can interrogate in more detail?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think we are near getting to an announcement where we will be able to say what direction we're going in, and because we have had—. Some of this work has been going on for a year or so, and we're getting the results of those pathfinder projects coming in. So, when we do have all those results, we will be able to say the direction that we want to go in, and I hope we'll be able to do that very soon.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Before Christmas?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I hope so.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And finally from me—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I'm sorry I can't say too much about that because we haven't actually—. We need to—.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, it does sound like something is imminent.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And that's as far as you're willing to go. And if that's as far as you're willing to go, then I'll stop asking.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I've got a supplementary from Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that's fine.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I just want to understand a little about the pilot, the pathfinders in eight local authority areas. Is the focus there on the child or is it on parents returning to work?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "The focus is on an early years system, but we've worked both locally and nationally. So, it's looking at both. I mean, actually, I think, perhaps, Nicola, would you like to or one of you like to describe one of the programmes?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And can you just explain the vision? Is it a child-centred early years provision that we're thinking of in these pathfinder—?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "So, in'Prosperity for All', we set out that early years was one of the key priority areas, and within that we said that we wanted to create a more joined-up and more responsive system. So, when we talk about a system, we're talking about the services that are provided by health boards, so health visiting, midwifery, speech and language support, other kinds of therapeutic services, as well as all the important services that local authorities are providing, such as support for parenting, advice and guidance, employment support and childcare, obviously. And we've got eight pathfinders. I'll try and remember each of them. So, Flintshire, Newport, Blaenau Gwent, Neath Port Talbot, Swansea, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire—and then I've missed one, I think, because I've only got to seven—who have been working with us to look at how all of those services are currently delivered in their local area and whether and how they can reorganise those services to improve accessibility, to improve take-up, but essentially to improve the efficacy of those programmes in terms of supporting children, but often, obviously, in supporting children you have to support parents too and support the home.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "So, would you say it's a child-centred approach?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely, because it's about making sure that we deliver the best start in life for children in Wales, but obviously parents are a critical element of that, so can't be excluded.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "And how long have they been going for?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "So, those eight pathfinders started their work in—I think it was—February this year. And they're still in the very early stages in terms of actually unpicking and mapping the current provision of services across their areas and then moving on to the stage where they'll develop proposals for how they might change the delivery of early years.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Julie.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just to say also, the one in Flintshire is also testing the impact of consistent funding rates for education and childcare. So, that's been going longer than the others. So, that's another important area because there's an evaluation of that project under way at the moment.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Sorry, but Caerphilly was the one that I forgot to mention.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Oh dear. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "That's absolutely unforgivable. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Hefin. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Very significant.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "In your report, the'Alignment of the Childcare Offer for Wales to the Foundation Phase', one of the recommendations was that'The Welsh Government, local authority education and childcare policy and delivery teams could merge'. So, looking behind the scenes, those disparate parts of policy, delivering the foundation phase and childcare offer should merge. Is that the case? Has that been put under way and should we be looking at this structure in more depth?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, probably not at the structure at this time because the report that you're referring to was looking at the first year of the delivery of the childcare offer and it did make a number of points, which we have taken on board. For example, we issued guidance last year regarding the delivery of the foundation phase, which supports widening the number of non-maintained settings that are able to deliver early education and we're also supporting co-location and partnership working between education and childcare providers through our capital investment programme. I think it's about £81 million that we put into the capital investment where we are developing childcare facilities co-located with the education facilities, because that was one of the things that came out from this report you're referring to. And, I mean, obviously, early years is one of the key priorities within'Prosperity for All' and, obviously, education sits within one portfolio with the Minister for Education, and childcare is with me. But we're doing what we can to work together to try to bring those together, and that was one of the proposals in that report. But it's still very early to think about, at this stage, a structural change.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And I remember when you were on the committee here with me, sitting next to me, we had those discussions about co-location. I know the problem with not having co-location is that you could end up seeing a child travelling between three or more locations during the course of a day. Are you suggesting now that the actions you're taking will resolve that issue universally, or will it lead to a piecemeal resolution? And, if so, to what extent, what percentage of children will see that resolved as an issue?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Certainly, the co-location is not going to solve it universally because although we've been able to develop a lot of new facilities, or build on old facilities, there will be a lot of areas that we won't have covered. So, I can't say that there's going to be a situation where everything is going to be co-located because I don't think that would be feasible, and,for some of the providers, they wouldn't be in a position to move to a school. But ideally it's a good situation, but, certainly, I think the discussions that there were on the committee, it's not ideal to take children for long distances between different providers, let alone the effect it has on the climate change issue. It's whether it's good for children as well. So, I can't say that they will ever be co-located, but as I said in response to your earlier question, we are encouraging the development of the foundation phase in non-maintained settings, which, obviously, is quite significant.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. I've got some questions now from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. What is the Welsh Government doing to address the big differences in the amount of early childhood education and care provision available in different parts of Wales?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Right. Well, thank you very much for that question. I mean, obviously, it would be good to see a greater degree of consistency, but I think it's important to acknowledge that there are reasons for that variation. Now, early education, of course, is the responsibility of the Minister for Education, and we are aware that different local authorities have adopted different patterns of providing early education. For example, local authorities are funded to provide 10 hours minimum of the foundation phase for three and four-year-olds across Wales, but there's quite a variance in how much is actually provided, with some local authorities providing a lot more historically. So, it does mean that there is a different pattern across Wales, according to what local authorities do. But what I could say is, of course, the quality is very good, as the Estyn reports have shown; that the quality provided, the delivery of the foundation phase, is very good. But it does vary in terms of what is offered throughout Wales, and that is the decision of the local authorities, and it is a historical thing. I refer to this pilot in Flint, which is trying to test paying the same rate for foundation phase and childcare. We're going to have an independent evaluation on that soon, in November this year, so that will help us. Obviously, I think local authorities' role in all this is absolutely crucial because they are the local, nearest people to decide how things develop in their own areas. And then, of course, we've got Flying Start, which is geographically targeted, which uses the data from income benefit to decide which are the areas where that is being delivered. And that is delivered where the highest proportion of children aged nought to three are living in income-dependent households. So, again, that determines the pattern throughout Wales. With Flying Start being geographically targeted, with the education being determined by the local authorities about how much there is, we know that there is a variance throughout Wales. We'd like to see facilities developed in each local authority throughout Wales that would answer the needs of the families and the children in those areas.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Before you move on, Janet, Siân's got a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just in terms of the foundation phase, there have been cuts, of course, in expenditure in that phase. How concerned are you about that and the impact that that will have on the way in which the foundation phase is taught in our schools? The foundation phase is now part of the education improvement grant, which has seen a reduction of 10 per cent, and it has to compete against other expenditure streams within that greater pot of funding. So, are you concerned that money is being lost and that that will have an impact on standards in the foundation phase?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I haven't seen any evidence. Obviously, I must reiterate the foundation phase does come under the Minister for Education, but I haven't seen any evidence of any standards being lowered, and the reports from Estyn are very good. In fact, I think the foundation phase is one of our great joys, that we absolutely celebrate it, and so I'd be very concerned if I thought there was any drop in standards in the foundation phase, and I certainly haven't had any evidence of that. I would want to guard against that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Exactly, but if there are fewer teaching assistants in the system because of the cuts, it's going to impact on standards, at the end of the day.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think we have to be very careful to see that lower standards are not implemented, because it was groundbreaking when we brought it in, and it has proved to be a great success, so we want to make sure that's guarded.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Going back to my original question about the big differences in amounts of early childhood education and care provision in different parts of Wales, the Welsh and UK Governments have followed a demand-driven approach to the childcare market, with subsidies mainly given to working parents. Is that a mistake? Should it be more universally available?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, some of our provision is universally available in certain areas. For example, the Flying Start provision is universally available in geographically defined areas, and I think that's very important, because that does mean that there isn't stigma, and so,in those areas, everybody can take advantage of it, and yet it is reaching those who are most in need because it's reaching those areas. So, I think that there is a purpose behind that. In terms of when you say demand led, could you elaborate on that?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I know that—we've just had a useful briefing from David Dallimore, and, basically, there is this theory that there are too many resources—the demand-driven approach is based more on certain factors: geographic spread in terms of it being more universal, and whether that's the right way. How do children then mix with peers from different backgrounds, in their own peer or age group?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "It is demand—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "[Inaudible.]—because the offer is targeted at working parents—", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "—obviously, then the amount of availability is based on how many parents apply for it and take it up. Is that the context of demand led in that—", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "It is universally available to all parents who meet the eligibility criteria of working, and I think what you're saying is that it should be available to everybody.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I think the point that Janet's making is that some areas have traditionally got more childcare anyway because they have traditionally had more demand in those areas, so there's not a level playing field to start from. Is that correct?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I think that, historically, that is definitely true, and when you look at the take-up of the childcare offer, it's certainly taken up in some areas with a very high take-up rate. I think Ynys Môn was nearly 90 per cent or something—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "They need more money, because they haven't got enough funding.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "So does everywhere.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "No, to meet the demand.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "In other areas, it's much, much lower—in some of the cities, I know. So, there is a big range in take-up—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, do you intend to bring something forward to address that?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We are planning to extend it. We're looking at the possibility of extending it to parents who are in education and training. So, we are widening the offer, yes. Obviously, we have to wait for the evaluation of that. It would be great to be able to offer it to absolutely everybody, but obviously we have got the finance to look at in terms of how we do that. But we are certainly planning to expand it.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "We've got questions on the offer in a little while. Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Does the Welsh Government intend to develop an integrated approach, then, against all settings? If so, given the current inconsistencies, how can quality be assured?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We are developing a more integrated approach towards the early years. As I've said, we're trying to have the foundation phase operating in more non-maintained settings, and we're already developing that. But Estyn and CIW will continue to inspect and regulate the early years sector to ensure standards, and, since January 2019, CIW and Estyn have moved to joint inspections for the non-maintained settings that are offering the foundation phase. So, that is a very positive move, I think, and is absolutely making sure that standards are maintained, because if we are having the foundation phase in non-maintained settings, that is a challenge where we want to be sure that the standards and the philosophy of the foundation phase are maintained. So, we have got the system of inspection to ensure that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And finally from me, what specific steps have been put in place to take forward the commitments from the Welsh Government's 2017 childcare/play early years workforce plan to build a better understanding of the workforce's Welsh language skills to enable support for the sector to be targeted and to identify where capacity needs to be built for the future to meet the needs of the early years sector in a bilingual Wales?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We think this is very important, and we're pleased that 29 per cent of children taking up the childcare offer are in Welsh or bilingual settings, so we think that's very good. We have established a specific programme to develop Welsh language skills in the childcare and play workforce with the National Centre for Learning Welsh, to develop workplace Welsh language skills across the sector. So, we're actually working with that, and I think you've done something with those recently, haven't you? I don't know if you want to—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, we have a stakeholder group where we've brought together a variety of people with an interest in the early years, childcare and play sectors, and we had a presentation just last month from the national language centre about the education programmes that they're rolling out, and how this is all coming together, which is quite interesting. We've been working quite carefully to make sure that the variety of work-based learning programmes that we provide and offer are also available in Welsh and bilingually. Recruitment and retention within the childcare and play sector is quite challenging in any  case. Recruiting and retaining staff with really good Welsh language skills adds an extra dimension to it, and that it's a point that Mudiad Meithrin makes to us quite regularly, that they do struggle to find staff with the right skills. So, upskilling the existing workforce is a key part of it, but also doing more to attract people in with Welsh language skills in the first place in terms of the training courses that we're taking forward, and thinking about that in the context of the targets within Cymraeg 2050 and the aim to get to one million Welsh speakers. So, as the Deputy Minister said, we've got quite a number of children accessing the offer in Welsh-medium or bilingual settings at the moment. We're going to be doing some baselining work against that in terms of local authorities' Welsh in education strategic plans and education places, and what we can then do to increase the number of childcare places in parallel with that so that you can make sure that you start that pathway through learning Welsh, interacting with education and childcare through Welsh at a much earlier stage.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Suzy, you've got a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just on this early point, anybody who's been through the Welsh education system, which is 20 years now, will have some Welsh language skills, obviously to differing degrees. For the entrants that are coming into childcare training now, there are going to be very few of them, realistically, with no Welsh at all, so what's actually being incorporated into the early years care training to make sure, at that stage, that the Welsh language skills are being developed, as opposed to an add-on later on?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "You're quite right. Most people coming through the education system will have some awareness of Welsh although I think it's probably important to remember we do also employ people from outside of wales.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Yes, but the majority, being realistic.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "But they don't necessarily have Welsh that is appropriate. They've got Welsh that they've developed in school. It's not necessarily appropriate for then teaching that language to children, who may be coming from families who don't use Welsh at home. So, that might be the first interaction that child has with the language. So, there's a lot of that in terms of child development and how you develop children bilingually, particularly if they're coming from English-medium homes, and reinforcing the language in language choices. There will also be some people who are, perhaps—we see this quite a lot in the office—quite confident in terms of speaking Welsh but less so in terms of some of the paperwork, the reporting, the writing and the interacting with parents more officially, which we need to think about as well. But it is mainly about getting people to a point where they can transmit that language onwards in a confident and meaningful way.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Okay. And it's ingrained in the early years training.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Okay. That's fine. Thank you for that. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Just before we move on, you said that 29 per cent of the take-up of the childcare offer is either through Welsh or is bilingual. Have you got any figures about how many children are accessing it in Welsh only?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We will have. It becomes—. With the way we do it, it's because of the way that the setting defines their language category, and that's how we collect it. We do go down to individual child level, although it's anonymised, data collection on a termly basis. So I'll have a look and see if we can send you through the last term.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Maybe if the committee could have a note, that would be really useful.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that's fine.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "We've got some questions now on childcare from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Deputy Minister, the evaluation of the childcare offer, when it was published last year, said that there was very little evidence currently available to determine what its impact was. You're going to be producing a second evaluation in November this year; do you expect to see some indications now of the impact?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, the evaluation of the first year of the childcare offer was very limited, because the childcare offer wasn't available throughout the whole of Wales. And it was a very early implementation phase. So, obviously it takes time to grow. And the evaluation for year 2, I think, will also show a limited impact for the same reasons. The offer became available across the whole of Wales only last April. So we've only got since last April that it's actually been fully available. And the parental survey was released to parents in June 2019, therefore any impact on parents in the authorities coming on board in the second year will also be negligible. So, it's from the next one, however, we hope that we will get more information.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So you think, by the time we get to November 2020, you might have a better picture.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "The evaluation will be more meaningful, we think, then, yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I take that point. What the first year's evaluation did show, however, was that 94 per cent of respondents said that they were already using formal childcare before the offer came into place. A couple of things, really: are you surprised at that, and is that likely to inform the way that you develop the offer in the future?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "No, I'm not surprised at all. When it started off, it was only available in seven local authorities. In terms of how the families found out that it was available, they found it out through the childcare providers, where they already had their children there. So it was absolutely what we would have expected, and that will continue. But, of course, we were not able to fully advertise the childcare offer until it was available in all the local authorities, which was last April. So we are planning, this autumn, quite a big push now to try to make it available to everybody—so everybody knows about it. So, no, this is the pattern we would have expected, and I think anybody who's involved in starting up something in childcare will know you have to wait a number of years before you actually see it being fully taken up.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I guess the question that it raises in my mind is: does this mean that, actually, it hasn't been an incentive to get somebody back into work, because they were already in work and already had childcare provision? What you've done is you've directed money to people who were already spending that money anyway. So it hasn't been a move towards getting people into work because they couldn't afford childcare.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well I think that that is something that we are moving towards, because the take-up of the offer is actually increasing each month, which is why I call it a great success. At the end of July, we hit almost 16,000 children accessing the offer, which obviously means that there are 16,000 families benefiting from this, and the feedback that we have had from parents is that they have been able to—. They've got more money available, which is obvious, which is great, because obviously more money is available to plunge into the economy and carry out that sort of thing, and we've got examples of parents who've been supported into work through programmes like Parents, Childcare and Employment to begin with, and then have gone on to access the offer. So, that's again a progression. So, I think we are seeing signs that people are moving on, have got more ability to be flexible in the work that they're doing, but I hope that when we look at it again, we will be able to see people actually moving into work because of having the access to childcare.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Before—", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Are you going to move on? Siân's got a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just a question on funding for the childcare offer. If you foresee that there's going to be more people going to be taking up that offer through the fact that you're marketing it more, what if the same situation arises that has happened on Anglesey? The take-up has been very good there, but the money that the Welsh Government has been allocating to Anglesey doesn't match that. What if it happens in every local authority right across Wales? Are you confident there's going to be plenty of money available to respond to that demand?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Based on the current levels of take-up and looking at the rates of increase each month, we expect to spend in the region of £50 million to £55 million in this financial year. Our published plans already include the provision of £40 million, and we're absolutely committed to making available the total funding that is needed to deliver on the offer. It is fantastic to see the offer being so well received on Ynys Môn, recognising, as Janet said earlier, it is demand led. We are managing it within the normal budgetary process. Local authorities will get the full funding that is needed. It's this year now that the big increase has happened; the previous two years—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, local authorities won't have to find the extra money out of their own pots.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "No, absolutely not. This is funded by the Welsh Government.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes. You can assure them.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. You've already alluded to this in answer to Janet earlier on, about extending the childcare offer to those in training and education. You also talk about'on the cusp' of returning to work. So, I'm not quite sure what'on the cusp' of returning to work is, but from the committee's point of view, we're very pleased that you've reached that conclusion, because it was one of the recommendations that we had following the scrutiny of the Bill. So, can you say a little more about that, bearing in mind that I'm also conscious that you've told Hefin you're going to be making an announcement shortly? So you may not be able to say too much. But a little bit more about the inclusion of parents in training and education, what'on the cusp of returning to work' is—what that means from your perspective—and how you've arrived at that decision now, six months into the programme. What is it that's made you move towards that conclusion?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, obviously, the children and young persons committee made a very good case for education and training, in particular; I think that was one of the things that was at the top of the list. What we've committed to do is to review the programme, particularly looking at how we could bring in education and training, and that review will report early next year. So, early next year, we will have a view on how we could go forward. But the other thing that's also happened is that, obviously, with the new First Minister, that was one of his manifesto commitments—that he would bring education and training in. So, we're obviously following the—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Because that was one of the key drivers for that as well.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, so that is another of the key drivers, as you said—the committee and what the First Minister said. There are a wealth of programmes supporting parents into education, training or work, and many of those do provide support with childcare costs. But we have, by rolling out this programme, the childcare programme, highlighted some gaps where people have felt that they, particularly people who are in full-time education—and I can think of a number of people who are actually doing PhD studies—who are—the letters may have come in from some of your constituents—not able to access the offer as things stand. So, we are looking at people who are in full-time education and training. We're using the definition by the Office for National Statistics, aren't we, in terms of education and training. And on'on the cusp of work', maybe that will have to be something we have to look at differently—those people who are actually maybe undertaking very short training programmes, preparation for work, maybe actually having interviews, where they need help with childcare, that they're sort of almost there. So, they may have to be dealt with in a different way, but I think we do want to look at those. This is expanding the offer; it's not making it universal, but it's moving on.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, what are the—? Overall, then, what are the factors that you're having to take into account? Is it going to be what is needed in order to encourage people back into work? Is it going to be cost? Is it going to be a combination of all of those things? What are going to be the key factors that you're going to be looking at?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, the position now is that anybody who fulfills the criteria in terms of the number of hours they work, we would look at that in terms of education and training, and then, this expression'on the cusp of work' we may have to look at differently, because they may not fulfil those numbers in terms of number of hours training. So, we'll get a criteria, and then they will have access to the childcare offer. But I just have to emphasise that there are ways of getting help with childcare already, and we wanted to make sure we don't duplicate. That's why this field is so complex, shall we say, because there's so many different ways that you can actually get help, and we want to be sure that we don't duplicate—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Sorry, Julie. So, all of this is going to be incorporated in this announcement that you're going to be making shortly—", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "No, this review will report early next year.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. My final question—", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Before you move on, sorry, I've got a couple of supplementaries. I've got Suzy, then Siân. Sorry, Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just on the cost element, because if you do roll out this programme, obviously, on the back of evidence through a review, it is going to cost extra money. Early years is one of the eight priority areas for Government. There are fairly generous Barnett consequentials coming from the comprehensive spending review and announcements on schools from the UK Government, and while I accept that you've only got annual commitments there, they're still substantial. How much money have you managed to secure for early years from the most recent announcement, and when have you planned to actually use that, maybe for some of this work?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Have you got some information on that?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "The budget process is ongoing internally, so I think'secured' is probably a slightly premature phrase.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Am I allowed to ask instead how much you've asked for, then? All I'm after is some reassurance that you will be getting some of this money, and as it is one of the eight priorities, certainly we would expect to see you getting a substantial amount of money for early years.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "As one of the Government's priorities, we would expect to get any money that came as a result of any Barnett consequentials.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And it will be in the draft budget that we know for sure if it is successful.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "It's all in the process—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And the committee will want to look very carefully at that, obviously.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It's in the process at the moment.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "There we are. Just giving you a good warning.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "How much would it cost to move to a child-centred approach, which means that every child would be able to access the childcare offer, rather than doing it from parents?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "We are looking at that. We're having a longer-term review, in terms of what it would mean if every child had access to the childcare offer. We don't have those figures yet. We've got the one review looking at bringing in education and training. That should report early next year, and then we've got another longer-term review, looking at what a universal offer would mean.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Do we know how many children we're talking about?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, there are approximately, at any given time, around 73,000 three and four-year-olds in Wales. There's some slight rounding in the numbers there, but approximately 73,000 at any given time. Based on the current eligibility criteria for the offer, it's about 34,000 children, we believe, are eligible. This does, of course, vary, depending on a whole range of different factors, and we certainly know from what we're seeing from the offer that, even where people are entitled to something, they don't necessarily take it up. And even if they do take it up, they don't necessarily take up their full entitlement, which is also something that we'd have to think about in terms of any modelling on costings.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "So, half the children are in non-working families.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "It's because of the requirement that, in a two-parent household, both parents must be in work.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Yes. Two parent. Okay.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "One of the points that the committee made very strongly in our report on the Bill was that we wanted to see a much more child-centred focus, and one of the issues that came out in scrutiny was whether, actually, three and four-year-olds were the right age to be actually targeting if we're looking at things like child development. Have you given any consideration to the actual age group that's covered when we know that, for many children, it's the first 1,000 days that makes that fundamental difference?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We are aware that there is a case that says that two years old is a very important time. We are looking at that as part of the overall longer review, yes. We are aware of the information and what you're saying about the younger the better.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, my final question, Chair, thank you, is about the parent, childcare and employment programme, which is jointly funded by the European social fund and Welsh Government. It has been quite successful, in terms of its numbers anyway, in getting economically inactive parents into work. What are the plans for this programme, if and when we leave the EU and we lose the ESF funding for that?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, the programme has recently been extended, with delivery continuing until June 2022, with additional ESF funding of £5.6 million. That's recently happened, and obviously this programme provides intensive employment to parents who are not in education, employment or training or economically inactive and where the childcare is the main barrier, and it has been a very, very successful programme. So, the UK has guaranteed funding for all EU projects approved by December 2020, and this includes the PaCE programme. I think there was also another—. I only heard it verbally. I heard some other guarantees on the radio recently from the UK Treasury about guaranteeing some of these funds. I don't know whether anybody else heard that. But the Welsh Government can only draw on the UK Government guarantee for claims that aren't paid by the European Commission, and so the current arrangements are staying in place.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Until when, sorry?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, June 2022.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. Yes. So, that's when all the current commitments expire, basically. Yes. So, we don't know—. To do that it would have to be part of Government planning in terms of—", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, we don't know what's happening with that—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "—what would happen beyond that.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "—funding, but there have been some promises from the UK Government recently, but nothing definite.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we're not holding our breath.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Siân's got some specific questions now around the Childcare Funding (Wales) Act 2019.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "As we know, of course, the work with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has ended, and I know you weren't the Minister who initiated this process, but what exactly has gone wrong? What are these issues that have come to light that have made you suspend that? It's very frustrating for us, as a committee, who scrutinised that extensively and raised a lot of concerns about that. And a lot of time has been spent talking about this funding Bill, and money—£1 million, I understand—has been wasted, if you like, unnecessarily. So, what exactly has gone wrong? Why aren't you discussing these things with HMRC?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, thank you for that explanation.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I've got more to say as well.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, but for your transparency around your particular view that it needs to be more flexible and expanded upon and, therefore, going down the HMRC route was—", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "It would have restricted us a lot.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes. We knew that from the beginning. I mean, that's, you know—. So, it was a principle decision rather than any sort of technical matters to do with the Welsh language standards. That's been cited as one kind of—. But I'm really understanding more now that, really, what it's about is that you want to have a more flexible, and expand on the offer and that this would curtail—going through HMRC would put limits on that.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "That is one of the reasons, but there were issues about the Welsh language, which we can go into in detail, if you'd like. There were some issues about that. They would be able to process things bilingually, and I think that was probably told to the committee when we looked at the HMRC. But, in terms of the Welsh language standards that the Minister has to use, there would be some difficulties in them doing it.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "But would you say that your main change came about because you wanted to be more flexible rather than any difficulties—", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "One of the major reasons, I think—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Good.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "But there are—. As I say, there are other reasons. Those technical reasons probably do end up being quite important—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "But the committee was told by the previous Minister that HMRC wouldn't have any problem at all with delivering according to the Welsh language standards.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Do you want to add something to this?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, in terms of some of the technical issues we had, if you want to start with the bilingual provision and the Welsh language standards, HMRC do provide a bilingual service at the moment for their customers in line with their Welsh language scheme, and I think we can all appreciate that schemes are quite different from the requirements of the standards. And there were some issues when we got into the detail of the standards that the Welsh Ministers are required to deliver to that caused some concerns in terms of how HMRC were going to do it, particularly in terms of the multiple IT systems that go into building up the childcare services. So, for example, there are a number of what are called'special characters' in the Welsh alphabet, such as the to bach, for example. The HMRC IT system has some issues with that.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Yes, well, with due respect, the to bach has always been there—", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Oh, yes, I completely agree. Unfortunately, however—", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "—and HMRC would have been able to tell you, really early on, you would have thought, that it was—. I don't really want to go into it, because I think we've got to the crux of why HMRC was dropped. I think it's been dropped because Julie feels that the offer needs to be more flexible, and I can understand why you would say that.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "If we bring in training and education, for example, we wouldn't be able to do that via the HMRC, it would have to be done by the local authorities. Foster parents have to be done via the local authorities. Any people of immigration status of no resource from public funds, that would have to be done via the local authorities. And with the local authorities also wanting to do it—. I mean, there are other things with using HMRC—if any changes were made with the English offer, for example, because this would be delivered via HMRC with the English offer, that would cause difficulties for the Welsh offer. So, we wanted something more flexible. I don't know if there's anything more you want to add on that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "The only thing I'd add is that—and, again, I think the Minister has referred to this—the costs that HMRC presented us with at the end of the discovery phase were significantly higher than the costs that had initially been outlined and that we outlined to the committee in the regulatory impact assessment. So, our conclusion is that we can deliver a cheaper system and a system that has the flexibility that the Deputy Minister has referred to by working with local authorities rather than HMRC. So, there is an important issue around value for money as well and making sure that the investment that we're making into developing the national system is one that—that, in a sense, that investment stays in Wales. So, obviously, the money that we're paying over to HMRC to run the system would be supporting HMRC and their employees wherever they may be based, many of them not based in Wales; investment in local authorities to administer the system means that we're retaining more of that investment here.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Well, I congratulate you on persuading local government and WLGA to change their minds, because they actually told this committee that they favoured the HMRC option—and this is only going back a few months—because it will remove—and this is quoting them—'it will remove the administrative burden of receiving applications and checking eligibility from local authorities'— blah, blah, blah, blah. So, they've obviously changed their minds as well, which is, you know—. I congratulate you on that, but it does present us as a committee with a little bit of a problem, really, because, if we're told one thing a few months ago and then we're told something completely different today, you know, evidence—we have to go on evidence that we've heard, and the evidence has changed now.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think, during the period since it was discussed on the committee, the work with the HMRC has helped highlight to us where we needed to go. So, I think we did learn a lot and it certainly has helped show to us where we think is the best place to go. I would like to pay tribute to the local authorities, because they've been great partners in this and they're very positive about moving forward keeping the work. And there's also a feeling that, because they are so much closer to the local public than HMRC is, they're able to build up links with families and help with some of these difficult issues. Because I'm sure many of you may have had individual cases—I certainly have—where there's been quite a lot of complexity about helping people fill in the forms and look at their eligibility. So, I say well done to the local authorities. And thanks to the HMRC, because we've had nothing but a very positive relationship with them.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Suzy, you've got a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Ms Daniels, you referred to value for money. How much is it actually going to cost to change this system from being a temporary arrangement with local authorities to a permanent one? And how much more is it going to cost for the more flexible system that you have in mind? They're not going to do this for nothing. How much extra are you giving them, and will they use it for this? How are you ensuring it's used for this?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, at the moment, local—. So, two things. Just to start by saying the eligibility checking process is not undertaken by all 22 local authorities.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "No, no, I realise that. Yes, I got all that.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, part of the reason for using 10 is to try to ensure that we build economies of scale and that we have a more efficient operation. Those authorities that undertake that function are given a specific grant in order to do that. That grant is ring-fenced to that purpose.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Could you give us an idea of the price tag?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "At the moment, it's about £2.5 million.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Okay, just as a round figure—that's fine.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Just for the administration. They get separate funding for the childcare, obviously.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So that, as I said, is a ring-fenced sum that they use to administer the offer. We are now starting the detailed work to define the new system requirements so that we will have a single application process across Wales, moving forward. As part of that work, we'll need to consider the detailed costings, but our initial estimate suggests that it would be less than the cost proposed by HMRC.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Okay, when those costings are worked up, perhaps we could have a note comparing the two figures.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we would be very happy to share more detail on that.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "If it became a universal offer, would those costs reduce? Would there be so much bureaucracy involved in checking eligibility and stuff if every child was open to the offer?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "So, clearly, if every child is eligible, then a large part of the process falls away in terms of the need to verify income and so on. That doesn't mean that there's no administration. For example, with the foundation phase, which is universally available, there is an application process and there is an administrative function that sits alongside that. At this point in time, I couldn't give you any indication of—", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "But it would be substantially less, wouldn't it, because they wouldn't have to do all these eligibility checks and all those things?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "They wouldn't have to do the eligibility checks, but they would still have to make payments to the childcare providers and make sure they were paying for the right number of hours in respect of each child. So, parents would still need to tell them where their child was going, and there would still need to be some work alongside that.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Okay. Siân, do you want to ask about the Welsh language?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think we've—. I'm happy with that.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Really—?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I don't think that that was the real reason why the change happened.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "One of the reasons.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Nevertheless, the committee was given very concrete assurances that the Welsh language side of this was going to be covered off. Have you got anything that you want to add on that? Obviously, for us as a committee, we believe what we're told when we are given assurances. So, that's quite concerning for us, really, that that suddenly then became an issue, when both HMRC and the Minister at the time told us that this wasn't going to be a problem.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "So, I think it's the point that I was talking about earlier. There's a difference between a bilingual service in the context of what HMRC understood that to be, in the context of their scheme, and the very detail of the standards when they got into their IT systems.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Shouldn't that have been something that was worked out at the beginning?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Possibly, but they did need to do quite detailed work, not just into their own IT systems, but the feed-in systems from the Home Office, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Post Office as well, to understand the full complexity of how the standards would comply across all of that. They do provide a bilingual service. It was just some of the specific details of the requirements placed on the Welsh Ministers, because it is the Welsh Ministers' standards that they would need to deliver against that they were struggling with.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, but those standards were there right from the very beginning.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think that the committee would feel that that should have been bottomed out at the beginning, really.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Nothing has changed in terms of the standards.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Okay, just before we move on to Flying Start, can I just ask: the Minister mentioned a longer term review of the childcare offer. Are you able to give us any indication of when that will report, please?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Would we have any idea?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "We haven't set out a definitive timescale on that as of yet because we've been focusing very much on getting the review in terms of training, education and on the cusp of returning to work up and running. But sometime next year.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Okay. So, it will report sometime next year.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Nicola Edwards" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We'll move on now to Flying Start and questions from Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Can I just begin by asking you how you respond to the assertion that children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds do better in a mixed socioeconomic environment than in a targeted environment?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think that's what Flying Start does, isn't it? Yes, I would have thought that was likely.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, the reason I'm asking you that, of course, is because this committee has suggested, perhaps, changes to the outreach system to target more disadvantaged children, and not necessarily capture people who happen to be in a geographic area.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, you're saying that you feel that a universal offer in certain areas is not advantageous to—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, I'm asking you, really. If it's the case that we're only going after disadvantaged children, which would take very precise targeting—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I'm not only going after disadvantaged children. I feel that we should be offering something for all children, and our considerations are for all children. The reason we've targeted Flying Start is because it would be great if we had enough money to have Flying Start throughout the whole of Wales, but we just don't have that sort of money. Because I think Flying Start has proved to be a great—very successful.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I'm going to ask you a few more questions on that. Because just in response to this committee's 2018 report, you did say that:'defined geographical targeting of Flying Start support will be considered as part of the Welsh Government’s work on the Early Years system.' That suggests you still have geographic targeting in mind. So, if you're looking at a very mixed source of economic experience for children, what are the geographic boundaries you're considering?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "At the moment, Flying Start can go beyond the geographical boundaries, with the extension—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "With limits, yes.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think they can use 10 per cent of their income to go beyond the geographical boundaries, and many of them have done that. But, obviously, there are four elements to Flying Start, and only those geographical areas have got the four elements, but there could be the opportunity of extending some of that beyond the Flying Start geographical areas. We're looking at this.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I accept what you say about the current system—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I believe it's much more—. I believe very strongly in having a universal system, where everybody is able to access it.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I appreciate that as well. But, obviously, there are huge cost implications for that—unless you're giving us some insight into what you're going to say next week, I don't know. But actually, defining anything geographically, which now seems to be fairly arbitrary, because it's not targeted purely at disadvantaged children—on what basis are we choosing the geographic areas we are choosing at the moment?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, they're chosen then because of the benefit take-up in those particular areas. So, it's reaching some of the poorest children, but not all of the poorest children, but it's reaching the poorest children in a way that is not stigmatising, and where the services are open to everybody, and I think that's very important.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, having established that, we have fairly recent research here that a third of children living in poverty in Wales are already falling behind at the age of five—that suggests that two thirds of them aren't, but it's still a very worrying statistic. Not all children live in Flying Start areas; how are you going to reach that third who, even at such an early age, are already falling behind? How many of them are in Flying Start areas?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think the actual number of children in poverty, the most disadvantaged that we reach through the Flying Start areas—I think it's about 46 per cent. Is that—? Do you know the actual percentage?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "It's about a quarter of total children are in there, but—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, just to give you a few of the numbers, there are just over 36,000 children benefiting from Flying Start services. That equates to about 23 per cent of children, overall, in Wales. And because of the nature of the benefit take-up data, and because we don't assess eligibility within a Flying Start area, we can't be absolutely certain how many children within a Flying Start area are actually in poverty. So, it's an estimate, and it's a range, and the range is that around 45 per cent of children in Flying Start areas would be in poverty.FootnoteLink", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Well, that's interesting. I would have expected it to be much higher than that, particularly if the geographic areas had been targeted on benefit claims, effectively. Are you disappointed that the proportion is—basically, 55 per cent of those children aren't living in poverty. That's what you're saying, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, I'd offer two observations. One: the nature of poverty in Wales is actually, generally, more dispersed than perhaps sometimes is appreciated. Yes, we have very concentrated areas of—", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Well, actually, we do appreciate it, which is why we're asking this question. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. So that's one issue to think about. Sorry, I've lost my train of thought now, in terms of the second—oh, sorry: whether you're in or out of poverty is, in one sense, very black/white. But in reality of course—in terms of the income definition, it's very black/white. But, of course, there will be a large number of people who are just above, but also families who move in and out, so it's quite a transient population in some senses, in terms of people having incomes that aren't stable, people having jobs that go with that that aren't stable. So, at any one point in time, you're only sort of capturing a snapshot of what's happening. In reality, it's a bit more complex than that.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "I accept that. I mentioned a third of children living in poverty had fallen behind at five; by the age of 14, half that number is still falling behind, so something has happened between that third and that half to improve the life chances of those individual children or young people. Is that attributable to Flying Start? Can you say that candidly? Or is it a happy coincidence, where there could be some causation, but we can’t prove it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We certainly think that Flying Start is making a positive impact, both on the point at which children go to school, and then subsequently. And I think as the committee knows, we’ve been working with the SAIL—secure anonymised information linkage—and the databank there to look at how we can do longitudinal studies to track children’s progress, to look at the extent to which outcomes are effected by Flying Start interventions.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "We probably don't have time for this level of detail today, but half of those children are still behind at the age of 14. So, I'd be curious to know if there's any immediate plans to help them catch up or make sure that their successors don't fall into the same position, the same trap. Have you got anything high level that you can mention at this stage?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Just in terms of what we’re thinking of doing with Flying Start—. The key thing about Flying Start is the collaborative way that it works with the health visitors and all the speech and language therapists and childcare, and we’re looking at ways of trying to get some of those elements to reach a wider group. And as I said, we talked about earlier the eight earlier years transformation pathfinders that we talked about in the local authorities—we talked about that earlier—so, that’s where we’re going to look at Flying Start and how we can try to make it more accessible to more children. So, we do want to extend the benefits of Flying Start. We do want to make it available to more children, and that’s what we’re looking at. And we’re looking at that in those eight pathfinder areas. And you'll have to wait to see what we come up with—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "No, no—we'll ask you more about that in due course. Actually, that job would be an awful lot easier if you knew how many children within Flying Start areas were taking up all four elements. Why don't you know that? Why is that data not collected?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Do we know why?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, the approach that we’ve taken to evaluation in Flying Start—. The committee will have seen the various evaluation reports that have been published, and I know that you’re familiar with the work that, as I say, we’ve been doing with SAIL. We’re currently focusing on individual data collection, and through that we want to be able to report on levels of engagement, but also outcomes for children. We’ve been piloting that new approach in six local authorities. We hope to be able to extend that, and we hope to be able to provide more evidence about the interventions and the impact that they then achieve.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "Okay. All right. Because, to be honest, I would want to know if a child’s chances have improved primarily because they’re getting good-quality childcare or primarily because their parents are taking up parenting courses. There’s got to be some indication somewhere in here about which of these four elements is making the greatest difference.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I would just caution in terms of expectations. It will always be quite difficult to definitively provide answers to that, because many parents will be taking these things up in combination. So, disentangling which has had the effect is, obviously, quite tricky—in particular, all parents will be getting the enhanced health visiting. Not every parent will take up parenting support, not every child will need speech and language help, so—", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "And that's why we need to know who is.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Disentangling what's helped and what hasn't I think will always be quite a difficult thing to do.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "But it would also be helpful to know which combinations work best as well. Just on the final point from me—yes, 88 per cent of Flying Start's childcare offers were taken up, but we've had some local authorities where the take-up has dropped dramatically. I think Denbighshire was down a fair bit, wasn't it, and Ceredigion, I think, had had a poor take-up. Have you got any indication why? I'm thinking of Denbighshire particularly, where there is a tradition—taking up third-party childcare is cultural there, whereas in Ceredigion, for example, there are far fewer places available in the first place and less of a tradition of children taking up childcare. But what's happened in Denbighshire?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think there are a number of different reasons why parents do decide not to use a facility, and, obviously, that always exists, but each local authority has a Flying Start account manager in place to support them in the delivery of the programme and the account management activities, and there are formal account meetings that look at this sort of thing once a year—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, what have they told you?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "—and these meetings will take place in November 2019. That's when the specific delivery issues will be discussed in depth, so that's when we'll find out what has happened and why there may have been a drop.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Can I just ask about the timing of that? Because if you already know that there's a 6 per cent drop, why will it take the best part of a year to—well, November's only next month, to be fair, now, but why will it take that length of time to establish why there's a drop? You'd have thought if you'd seen a trend like that—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Obviously, they meet at certain times and they will assess what's happened. That seems quite normal to me.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, but we'll get a note on that, is it? It's just that they knew this six months ago.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "In November, we'll have more information about this, so we can let you have information about that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "That would be really helpful, just for—. I'm sure constituents in Denbighshire will want to know about that. And then finally from me, Chair, if I may, Flying Start beneficiaries—it's got a specific explanation of what a Flying Start beneficiary is, but I think, particularly in view of the evidence we've heard on this committee about parental support in connection with the removal of the defence of reasonable chastisement, for example, this committee is very concerned about what's out there in terms of parental support. Eighteen per cent of Flying Start beneficiaries have parents attending the informal parenting courses; that's 18 per cent, that's not very high. Any idea about what you might be able to do to encourage take-up or is that very locally decided?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "If I can add to that, obviously, somebody only has to attend one course—we've got no way of knowing whether parents are completing the whole of a course, really.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Obviously, the offer is there for parents to take up the parenting courses, and there are four elements to Flying Start, and maybe some of the parents don't feel that they want to or need to. I don't think we've got any more evidence on that for take-up—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, the reach of this is going to be important, because we need the reassurance on the back of the legislation that is going through at the moment.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely, yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Parenting courses are, of course, one aspect of parenting support, but not the only one, and they'll be appropriate for a lot of parents, but for some not. What all parents do get at an enhanced level in Flying Start is the support of the health visitor, so the health visitor is, in effect, providing a significant amount of support for parenting. Now, that can be practical things like weaning or potty training et cetera, but, actually, it's also about managing a child's behaviour, managing how a parent develops that bonding and that attachment with their child. So, the role of the health visitor in supporting a parent to be a parent is absolutely critical, and every parent in Flying Start areas will be getting that enhanced level of support. Of course, it's not just in Flying Start areas now, because with the Healthy Child Wales programme, the universal programme of health visiting visits, we have a much more consistent and standardised set of visits and engagements with parents that cover a lot of these areas. In addition, I'd also add that when parents use the childcare in Flying Start, or childcare generally outside of Flying Start areas, there is often a lot of working between the childcare setting and the parent over parenting—again, managing a child's behaviour, managing any issues that the childcare worker thinks are emerging in terms of whether it's eating or, again, toileting. So, parenting courses are important, but it's really essential that we see those in the broader context of the different ways in which lots of professionals interact with parents, providing them with advice, guidance and support, and actually what works for parents in terms of how they take on board some of that advice and that help. Sometimes a formal course is quite off-putting for parents, but the sort of quiet word, the top tips, the advice that a friendly professional gives can be very, very impactful.", "speakerName": "Jo-Anne Daniels" }, { "text": "That's a really helpful answer. It does raise, unfortunately, another question about whether a health visitor in those circumstances might find themselves in a difficult position if they're dealing with a parent who has smacked a child, but we'll leave that for Stage 3.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We'll be dealing with that, I'm sure.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "But thank you; that was a helpful answer. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Are there any other questions from Members? No. Okay. Well, can I thank the Minister and the officials for attending this morning? As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting, but thank you again for your attendance. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Item 4 is papers to note. There's just one today: the letter from the WLGA regarding the Childcare Funding (Wales) Act 2019 in response to our letter asking about the change in approach. Item 5 then. Can I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting? Are Members content? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "TS3007b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I see my bunny is still standing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No one drawing it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's too beautiful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I figured uh that much..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Too wicked.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A minute please, my uh laptop is uh oh, there it is, thank you. So welcome back. At the functional design meeting um the plan is uh that uh each one of you, so not me but only you uh will uh present uh the the things you worked on uh the last uh half hour. I will uh take minutes and will put uh the minutes that I have uh at the end of the session in the shared folder. Also the minutes of the previous session are also in the shared folder now, so you can read that uh now or afterwards. Um uh I had an email from the from the management board", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh, I don't know if you a al also uh received it, but there were four points uh which uh I think are very important. First one is uh they think that uh teletext teletext becomes outdated uh and internet will be the the main uh focus. Uh second one is also important uh, because it's one of the discussion points of the previous session. Uh the remote control shou should onl only be used for the television, so it uh not gonna it's not gonna be a multi-purpose remote control, so uh that's one thing to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh second, and I think that's important for the Marketing uh Expert, uh the current uh customers uh are in the age group group of uh forty years and older, but with this uh new remote uh they uh will uh would like to reach uh a group uh younger than uh forty. Uh and uh I think to keep in mind, but not really uh for now is that they uh want the the the slogan and the and the logo uh to uh to be recognised more in the remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, we have uh forty minutes, so I think uh not more than ten minutes uh uh per presentation uh each, and please uh use uh all the the the facilities so that you have either SMARTboards, the the Word files, what you uh whatever you want. So uh Tim, can you start? Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.'Kay, welcome. I have some uh new findings on uh Marketing Expert level,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which I will show you. The method I used was um giving orders to our usability lab uh to do a questionnaire. Um one hundred respondents were involved and my marketing uh department generated a report with a lot of results. Um, these were a couple of findings, first page of three. Um, we have three audiences of two audiences, I'm sorry. Uh the first one, this scale, from sixteen to forty five age. Uh the second one is from sixty four uh forty six to sixty five. Um, as you can see here, the market share for the first audience is about sixty percent um sixty five. Uh second audience audience is uh thirty five percent. Mm and some interests from the from the age groups, uh it seems like the young users of remote controls really like the fancy uh new technology stuff, like uh an L_C_D_ screen on the remote control, um speech recognition. I don't think that's uh really appropriate. Um, and when you see uh the audience, the age is going up uh Yeah, they don't really want it anymore, at least the new technologies. Second findings out of the questionnaire um are the opinion the opinions uh of the audience about current remote controls. First point is, seventy five percent of the users find the most repo remote controls very ugly, uh and eighty percent of the users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy. So that's maybe something for the User Interface uh Designer. Okay, third findings. According to the frequency of use versus importance investigation, um following buttons are most important. Um, I will tell something about the way this uh this test was, yeah, done. Um, persons were asked uh what the buttons were uh they use most, how much an hour,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh in the second table the importance of those buttons. Um, when you multiply them, you get the these three points. Switching channels, um yeah, that's pretty uh pretty normal, that's what you do with a remote control. Um the second, teletext, uh and the third, uh volume controls. Um, I think it's good uh that we know what the user want wants, uh at least the these three points have to be uh very clear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's strange that the the manage board the management board said that the teletext will be uh outdated by the internet. So that that's strange.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay, but uh at the moment uh teletext is Yeah, th the best thing you can get uh on T_V_, like getting information.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh, when you ask people, what do they use, they use teletext and not the internet on a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's ridiculous..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a ne i it It's a new technology,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's not incorporated right now. Okay, my personal preferences. Um, I think we should aim at the uh audience from sixteen to forty five. Mm, first of all um it's the biggest share, the biggest audience, sixty five percent. Uh second, I think you will get the most revenue from i from it. Um, yeah, people from sixteen to forty five watch a lot of T_V_, more than uh people who are el uh elder. Um second point, we have to impro improve the most used functions, as I said here, switching channels, teletext and volume controls. Third point um that came out of the uh of the questionnaire, uh people used to uh get lost off the remote controller, so maybe it's an idea for us uh to design ex kind of placeholder uh on side of the, yeah, of the T_V_", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a cool idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "where you can put the the remote control in. Um, that's about it, I think. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When you mentioned uh improving functions, what uh what do you mean by that what what are you think about?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh not not the r not the functions,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, the funtionability.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but uh it came out that a lot of buttons weren't even used uh on a remote control. So you can have a remote control full of buttons, a hundreds hundreds of buttons, but if you don't use them, yeah it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah okay, so focusing more on the used buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, they have to be on it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "j just to t to get it done if necessary,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um the most used buttons uh have to be bigger or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could you use perhaps uh one button for multiple functions, like example pressing it in longer makes it switch to an different function for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just for the minor functions perhaps.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, ma perhaps, just just an idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just to get less buttons on the remote control, to make it easier and quicker to learn.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?'Kay, that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you, Tim. Janus, can you uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah yeah, I'll go, sure. Right uh, I'll be uh explaining a bit about uh working design about uh the project. Well uh what I did was I dissected uh uh current remote controls and um I viewed how how they w looked, how they worked, uh what kind of components are involved, and how they are connected together. And uh after that I put up a scheme about how uh these things are organised and I'll show it to you in in a in a few seconds. And I'll explain a bit about uh how it works and how we could uh build one and why I think several possibilities uh that we discussed in the earlier meeting falls off. Um right. Uh well what I did was uh I I checked uh remote controls and the uh remote controls of today are all infrared, not like all probably know. And the thing about that is um the remote controls uh have to act as a T_V_ or uh a stereo or something, and those uh have a transmitter that's also focused on infrared, so if we want to uh build uh mm a remote control uh with Bluetooth for instance then uh the T_V_ should have Bluetooth too in order to communicate, so that would mean extra cost for the user and thus uh that's that wouldn't mean a a cheap uh remote control for us. So that's probably why most controls are still infrared. Furthermore they all have uh a a very simple structure, so that would probably uh mean lower costs and uh i that could mean for us a good thing uh'cause uh well we we should be able to build a relatively cheap uh a cheap uh remote. Well uh as I mentioned ready, we have some Bluetooth Well it may be possible, but uh I figured it wouldn't be possible in within our budget, but that's not for me to decide, but that's maybe something for marketing to look into. F because uh well my personal opinion is uh is not to do uh Bluetooth or or radio waves, although.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you think about uh incorporating Bluetooth or a radio uh receiver uh in the place-holder next to the T_V_, connected to the T_V_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually I have t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's in the wrong product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I actually I figured that would be that would be rather nice, but then you'd still have the uh the infrared function. So in in theory you'd actually just move the problem,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh what I did uh think about was when you mentioned about the uh the cup-holder, is why not uh introduce a speech function like where is the remote. If somebody says, where is the remote, then it goes uh beep uh beep beep beep or something,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno, maybe uh maybe something to look into, I dunno uh what the cost that something like that would be. But it may be uh may be something to explore. Uh I'll I'll just explain a bit of the components. Uh first you have the energy source. The energy source would be a battery, simple uh battery uh that you can find anywhere. I figured that would be best,'cause when the battery uh stops functioning uh we could just uh use you could just go out and buy a new one. So we didn't and we don't have to do all uh to be too complicated about that. Uh the energy source is connected to the infrared button, but uh the infrared button uh works only via the chip and the subcomponent to uh the switch there is a switch uh between these. When the switch is pressed in a w on this this case it switches a button, when a button is prush pushed in, uh a electric current goes through here, and in uh immediately, a l a bulb lights up uh displaying to the user that something has happened. That's uh that's so the h user won't be um thinking, well uh did the button be pressed, w what happened uh. Or I press button but nothing's happening on the T_V_, so is is something wrong or something. So that's just to uh to to explain the of to to uh make it clearer to the user. Uh w well the signal goes via chip that's translated into uh electric sig uh electronic signals and then it's processed and then it's sent to the infrared bulb where it will be uh uh received on the receiving end. And those uh interpreted by the device, well in this case the television. Uh well my personal preferences here, well we have to keep it simple. Not too many uh gadgets and functions, just like you said uh well the most users n uh you have a lot of buttons and you u u use you don't use them, so why why should we invent uh w spend more time on those. Uh I I think we should stick by with infrared transmitting and uh no receiving. So uh no input from the television. So I think we shouldn't be uh spending time on um teletext and st things like that, because when you uh want teletext on uh infrared you'd have to build in a receiver too, and so in order to receive the signals from uh what's on T_V_ and such. So I figure that would be uh spending too much money and time and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, maybe another problem uh, I think current T_V_s can even send infrared.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but what should we uh s I I I f I agree with you, but should we spend money or and time on building a receiver into the uh remote control?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause that would be I mean extra components, extra designs, um larger g uh remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "These all uh all stuff that we have to take in account.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I my personal opinion is no no no receiver at all. Um, well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we should uh look into the design and the functionability. Like I said, uh use one button for instance for m multiple functions, or well uh just hide the few buttons o of switching it open or something, the usual uh stuff. And uh don't overbuild, we shouldn't make a big uh remote control for simple functions, but we we should stick to the basics. So that was my uh my personal opinion. And that was my uh my presentation uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you Janus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can go ahead.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The last presentation. You have plenty of time,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Last presentation. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tim and uh Janus don't uh talk to ten minutes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so uh take your time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you take your time too long I will uh eventually uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "warn you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I'm going to give a presentation abut some of the technical functions of these design and uh usability functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um what's my opinion about what's most important to combine the design, technical possibilities and the user friendliness in one, so if you um going to design a remote that looks good, that shouldn't weigh over the uh if it's possible to make, of course, but also the user friendliness, so tha that's that's some of the main points. And another one is um the use um of many functions will will make it more difficult, so use as as little functions as possible or at least don't display them all at once on the same remote. If you have fifty functions you don't want fifty buttons uh t uh to be shown at the same time,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause when you visit an internet uh site you don't want fifty links uh to see, but maybe use a hierarch hierarchy uh structure..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh well one of the ideas was maybe uh use touch screen, but s I don't know in how far that is possible,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "since we are sticking to uh um infrared and and the remote cannot receive anything, but uh we might uh consider that. Um well, of course I I hope this is all clear to you. If you you can use remote like this with all the functions, many functions, but Well, your thumb is a little bigger than th it than this. You have to be very careful what you push,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um if you're looking for teletext you'll be uh searching for half an hour from uh um yeah well, where is it? Where the hell he here I guess and, yeah, when you have to uh use something else. So just keep it simple, make clear buttons, easy to use. For example if you want to use a play and back and stop, that's very important. Um well this was because of our last discussion, if multiple machines are used, create easy switch between the machines, but um it's no longer uh applying. Well yeah, I prefer to use it only for T_V_ and um n uh not to give too many options and and if possible, uh the buttons should give a dr direct action, not first select.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh you you just said um uh you wanted to to combine more functions in one, so uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you you want to keep it simple,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so that's where the difficulties lie.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I think that if you want to do that, then you can't escape the the fact that there will be buttons uh which give s uh more options than one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, this so that's the thing you have to weigh against each other.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we want to use a few options and might not be so or original, or uh multi-purpose as we thought,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or do we want to use um many buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um weighing those factors.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm it's maybe an option uh if you use an L_C_D_ or a touch screen um, that in the middle are the the main keys, like displayed on the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The doesn't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Yeah, this? No? Yeah. Something like that. Okay, just uh in the middle the general functions, like play, uh channel switching,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then uh at the top or at the bottom, some menus like uh settings or that you can drop down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but when all the questions I had Do we want to use uh a menu display on the T_V_? Or um does have to f everything uh be in remotes?'Cause if you use a memory display on the T_V_, you can simply push uh a more menu and then select the options you want to have and press okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh so that's my recommendation, if you use many options in one buttle button, um display the menu on the T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and don't um use combination of t of two buttons at the same time or pressing buttons three times for five seconds,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is too complicated for most users.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so too, but and that's partly because um uh a lot of T_V_s have different menus, and when you have a particular menu uh at your device, uh it could be that don't correspond to the menu what's actually on T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that will be a problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you d you have to keep in mind that uh several T_V_s uh don't even have a menu structure, or they have a very simple menu structure, so you have to keep in mind that not all uh d not our remote won't be able to work on all televisions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that would be uh a considerable problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if we have to stick with current technologies and uh um well yeah, the restrictions of what's uh is on the market today, um you should keep it s at this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Use big clear buttons. Not too many. So maybe we'll loose a few option uh options, but I think i this is more important. Um especially the important buttons, um if you want to switch channel, change your volume, uh use teletext, it uh it has to work at once and more advanced options may be put it s somewhere away on the remote, behind uh a little uh little thing or a touch screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not embed Yeah, but then with something like a touch screen could could make more menu up pop up or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And yeah, if you want to uh uh s put on stand-by or change the channel, that should always be possible to do. Not first change menu options or switch something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, well yeah, as you already told, give some feedback. If the user is pushing a button he should know if the television or n at least remote is reacting and not just that the batteries may be low.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um, well, my conclusion is uh is uh less is more, keep it simple. So uh maybe we should just ease down on the functionality to uh to keep it accessible on t because you all know, if there are a lot of function on the the television, some you you'll never know uh and never use, and therefore it's uh important", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if you want to change the volume or channel that is always accessible and easy and other functions um that are not so important um well you we should consider just not using them or at least putting them somewhere on the remote where they're not in the way for the for the most important functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, I think the idea uh about uh touch screen um is very good. Um, because recently uh I saw news item on T_V_ um about uh new telephones uh for elder people. Um, they have like a touch screen with uh really big pictures on it like uh uh call uh hang-up, um and that's a big ad advantage I think, because one the one hand uh you make the remote control compatible for elder users just by uh scaling up the pictures or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh very visual intended. What was I to say more?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe that's an option. Um keep the primary buttons visible. Uh make a remote that fits easily in the hands", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and for some design issues uh well, put a logo on it and maybe use it uh in some aesthetic uh aesthetic form.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh th the important buttons m make them always accessible and pushable and clear", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and maybe use a touch screen, or if that's uh will become too difficult just uh like televi some o older telephones use a l uh maybe it's possible to to flip them open and uh just expand the number of options that are normally visible. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, but but if you pick the the idea, the left idea", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then what's gonna be displayed on the touch screen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The extra functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The extra functions, you uh you just see a menu from system functions or teletext functions, and you just choose one,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but l like menu functions or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then all all the options will become available", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you just c s yeah t scroll through them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wouldn't it be better to make just one big touch screen, uh one one small uh touch screen uh applet", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh I'll just make um uh let's say fifteen buttons on it, and uh we have three of those, uh actually just uh menus with sub-menus, with or sub-items, sub-functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then I'd like to make a proposal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you make one big touch screen,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "use the same concept as here, keep the buttons always available", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and use the lower part of the touch screen for the rest.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like like the iPod idea that that we just saw.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You just have a f a few selected buttons and uh a few menus, and with this idea you could actually make uh several you can also improve uh later on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh uh I think that will be great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you think it's will be better to have a t kinda total touch screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wou I would actually go for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Jirun?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I agree, but I think it's very important that they always um make the same buttons accessible, so use just for special options a part of the touch screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so um an elder designer picks up th the of", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "an elder parents or grandparent picks up the remote from the little child and who's all in the systems functions, you'll have to have the possibility to turn off the T_V_ or to switch the channel without um well using all the menu structures to get back to the primary functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I had another uh idea about maybe parental control. Um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like building in uh some kind of PIN code uh which allows uh parents to switch to all channels, uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but children uh if children don't don't know the PIN code, they can't switch to uh violent uh channels or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah wh Is that possible to use or no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is possible, that well that actually depends on the television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Th there's just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, yeah well,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think I figure that would be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "does it have to depend on the television?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ju just a simple log-in, something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y you s you see the fi uh thing is when you buy a remote, you you set the uh channels, the the channels are different on each te television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they aren't set in a preset order,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh if you uh lock on a remote, uh let's say channel fifteen, well channel fifteen on this television is different than channel fifteen on the other television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that would be uh that would be actually the main concern.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I think that he means that um maybe by some option uh make sure that um remote control and the T_V_ match, and then after that you can um use some s insert some passwords as being apparent that the children cannot use this uh change the settings of the T_V_, like colour and then volume", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that kind of stuff, but maybe um if you log in first as a parent um, you address the the channels", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and like uh oh, that's channel fifteen, that's uh vi violent channel,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh m my ki my kids uh I don't want my kids to watch that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you set the priority to only parents,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well b but make it a separate option in the menu,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would b", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "for example. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that it's it's dif dis displayed from uh displayed here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, but but yeah, that's just", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh parents uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's an a an added feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. But let's not uh go too wide about the those things, that's that why we're here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, th th those things are nice..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's a nice idea, but I think that's we wel later in the stage. I've one little question about um a total touch screen or uh um a p", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Partial.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, a partial, uh because I think uh elderly people may be uh not used to uh a touch screen, so they want the the the normal functions like teletext, volume changing, um uh to be uh, yeah, kinda traditionals", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh and uh the the the the other functions, the more difficult functions uh to be uh maybe on the touch screen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but to keep this as uh normal as possible, to keep it accessible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but if you display it on L_C_D_ screen with r r really big numbers", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can de display it on the on the old style.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's just as e just as easy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. I I do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can display actual buttons on the touch screens.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's true, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I do agree,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because well, it's just not the same when you touch a touch screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or when you touch a button, but well we have to look at what's our target uh audience.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W we are aiming for younger people", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they they chose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, age b below forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that's probably uh a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And th those young people, yeah. Y you saw it in my marketing report, they like the new fancy stuff,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. They like the fancy stuff, yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so A touch screen, like Microsoft al already developed something like that for uh uh multi-media applications.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I th I think we can do that too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm Yeah. Okay, as you can see uh the minutes from the second meeting, this one, are uh are done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Done..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I've uh added the this uh four things from the management board just to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um each time I uh I had a sort of uh summary on what you told and uh what you personal think. Uh so that can be uh can be read out. Uh a f a few things I uh I noticed uh were um Moment. Ooh. Uh th the the main points in uh this uh uh in this uh meeting is I think uh how uh it's going to look uh with uh we must keep it simple, but have the opportunity to uh have more options and have them uh hidden or something, so they don't uh you don't have a big uh thing full of uh buttons or uh um and uh the point that uh you uh wanna use one uh controller uh for uh uh hypothetically each television, so you must uh the the the the functions, know, like the menus or the the parental control must be all uh by the done by the remote control and not by the television. I think that's the point what uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, some of them. The menus uh are not identical for all th for all T_V_s, so you have to display it on one uh T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you can use um when you uh how do you call it, s um synchronized, the um remote and the T_V_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's not possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then there's always, there are always uh possibilities to change the colour and the brightness and the volume", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and um well maybe we can look out if there's options that the remote um in its memory can see what kinda T_V_ it is, from ah, it's a Philips, this and this and that, and then give the options that are capable the capable from the t", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you have uh uh an.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Add th that that's an opportunity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, but you have an international market range, so you have I think a big range of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there are universal d um um remotes", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they all have a functionality for all the T_V_s, uh so this wouldn't be a extra feature to incorporate the men menus of these.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's not too complex to do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well they uh they all have to be programmed to fit your T_V_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that that is bit of a tricky job.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I actually use one of those when They are they are kinda kinda troublesome, but but the thing is whe when you uh start uh building something like this you have to build a receiver into the uh t into the remotes, because uh in order for the remote to process something from the T_V_, like uh to synchronise and you have to send and receive,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh um mo", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that's well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, you can just say uh the c", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "He he he he me he means just just one other thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just build it in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, with the current remote controls, the universal ones, um you have to press yeah, you have to press a code for T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In codes, y you you get a b a book with codes. You look up, I have a Philips H_ fifty five", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it says press code four five five", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay, yeah, sure, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you press code four five five on the uh in the remote", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it displays all your uh menu options.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah yeah, sure, that would be possible, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now we uh just connect uh the T_V_ type uh to a set of options, in just just in the memory,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Memory in the in the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Profiles.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that if you yeah, like profile, so that if you uh touch in like uh one four one zero kind of T_V_ uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the memory uh pops up the options.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that would be possible. Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I th don't think that's uh that takes a lot of storage space or some just varia variables.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, that wouldn't be uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, a few variables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if you look at the um manuals from universal uh remotes, there are maybe um three four hundreds T_V_s at maximum. If you have all of them, all the old and new T_V_s summed up,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh I think uh it is possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah it is. It is definitely po", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, on the other hand on the other hand, uh if you have a remote and buy a new T_V_ that isn't incorporated in the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have five minutes to go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well then you have to buy a new one, it's very good for marketing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "New remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe, or an update, software update.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A firmware upgrade or something,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Firmware update, you say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, firmware upgrade.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but from where? Ah. Maybe w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's maybe the cup holder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No m may no,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe we can incorporate some kind of uh U_S_B_ or a firewire connection, so that you can uh connect it to the P_C_ and download the newest firmware from uh from the internet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, not everybody has uh has uh a P_C_ at home. Well the most most people have,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, at.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but not not everybody", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh you can go back to the shop", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh they.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like a s kind of service centre.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, ser o", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe something like service cen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and they can download it for you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or you could well you could s actually look at the place-holder you talked about earlier,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you could probably uh make a connection to uh an telephone line or a internet connection.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well already digital information is sent t to the the standards, T_V_ uh connections,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you can see what's uh programme is on on the new uh channels, so maybe j they we can send that information along with standard T_V_ uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well then then it's be uh back to the building a receiving uh well uh if it's actually worth it to build it in,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Receiving. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we could actually look at into it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I dunno, it it would be uh bringing more costs uh with with it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Difficult. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think it's uh most cheap or cheapest to just do the updates uh at the service centre or at the shop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, uh s I think some I think it's good idea, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be probably best, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like when you when you buy a T_V_ you just ask well I'll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's it's not a lot of work, just one uh docking station where you put it in,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "press start, bling bling, updated.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be best, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You don't buy a T_V_ every week, new teev so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, let's uh save this in the meanwhile uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no. Exactly, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um m for which one are we going? My mistake.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's vote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That one or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, my vote goes out to the right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Your vote and your.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My vote too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And your vote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, I was uh doubting about which one to take, but uh you've convinced me that uh if you di display buttons about the same as they would look on a normal um remote all elderly people will know what to do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also like a clapping uh li like device that uh pops open.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Opens up is too difficult", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Flips open.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh too difficult, um maybe uh it's easier to break it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Break it, I don't get.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, th th th that i uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's very sensitive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh so Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like my telephone, it's uh it's sensitive too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay well uh it's almost at the end. So we have now a lunch break, finally,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Uh after the lunch break uh it's back to uh individual work, once again uh thirty minutes. Uh I will put my minutes uh I have updated them so uh s they're updated in the shared folder too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes, the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How minutes?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Failure. Uh uh the specifi uh specific instructions for the next uh meeting you will all will receive uh at the uh the the email. I don't think I can uh say much about it, so uh uh wait for your email and uh hopefully you get it done uh in the in the thirty minutes, and I w will see you after the lunch break and the thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One question,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh how late do we have to get back be back here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well uh thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A quarter to one maybe?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes lunch break?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes lunch break, yeah. Oh. Forty five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought forty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh then would it be uh one o'clock.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or we we ask our personal coach. Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you. Thank you, uh that was a very uh good session I think,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we uh we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, is it possible to store this on the share documents or what.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, me too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh ye well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Save as.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, because uh all uh things are uh stored in smart board dot uh X_D_K_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, v", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that's in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but you can open a from your pr from your laptop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, save it as an image on the res", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe. Save as.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Export. Maybe not export function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Export.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I can I can uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Export H_T_M_L_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, and use an image if possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh, image?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "J_ PEG.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "G_ yeah, J_ PEG.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "J_ PEG. Yeah, it's better", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Paper size A_ four. Uh screen size. In this directory.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, it's not connected to the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You all uh have the the questionnaire again about uh the after work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to our P_C_s.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Yeah, it is connected.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's connected?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Deskt Huh. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To room. I'll just uh saved in my documents.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah in my own uh in my own messenger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Project documents, yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It gives the na Oh. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, nice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The questionnaire, fill in uh we fill out d after lunch or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well, it's it's simply filling oh no, it's uh it's also filling out no, I'd do it after lunch I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aye, cheers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm hungry, so do it after lunch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're welcome.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can leave the P_C_ on I think, yeah and return to the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I bring it to my uh personal room.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, bring to I gotta bring it home.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To my exave executive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My executive uh big room with the with the panting..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A big office.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aye. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So well uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "welcome everyone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um as you may have noticed I uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "created separate folders because it was uh tending to get a little busy in our uh shared project documents uh folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know if everybody uh put their own uh documents in the right folder, which is for now the detailed design meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's new one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We didn't make any uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, we should save that one..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then I'll move this one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't we just do that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, save in the folder. Save as project.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh no, this is just one big document, so you can leave that wherever it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we have a evaluation left here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Agenda.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well not main documents this time. Oh uh yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have it open myself I guess. Um well the detailed design meeting Huh? We're finally getting somewhere hopefully.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um what are we going to do? I've opened it already. Um I'm still going to take some minutes, and if I'm right, you two are going to give a prototype presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Aren't you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, you are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh m did you do something with evaluation criteria?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good. And we have a correct agenda. And uh then we have to look at something which is less nice, the finance uh aspect, whether we can afford what we have designed,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and if we can we can uh commence the final part which is the production or project evaluation, how did we work together and what are the results, and how happy are we with those. Okay, well finance uh will be later. Now I'd like to give the word to you two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Get up stand up. just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we made a prototype.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We first start with the overall uh This is about the total remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "View.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We made it green.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just example colour,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so uh there's one of the colours we would like to uh see in our prototype.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a fresh colour. And uh the screen light blue. Oh uh this the scroll button and the microphone on the on the sides here under. And the R_ and R_ logo, it just says R_ and R_ now, but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Any questions so far?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Big microphone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just uh just an idea about how to m th that could also be possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay. That's the place where it's going to be, not the size..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well, it's an idea in a so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh y you perhaps you should make it a bit big, so people know it's there and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do not forget it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To function it it doesn't really have to be sm uh big of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The microphone could be just a minor uh hole uh on the left uh button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm, th yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Small.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we also made some uh ideas about how uh the options menu would work. Uh using the scroll button on sides uh y uh I uh um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You push the scroll button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, you push the scroll button", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's claps out if there's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and a drop down menu or a pull out menu comes out and uh you get uh you get the options uh becoming available. For example uh T_V_ settings, uh remote settings, et cetera.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Remote settings, et cetera. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh you can scroll down too with the scroll uh button, uh as you can see oh, it's here, just push it in, uh the menu comes out like this and uh i it all becomes visible. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And you could also touch it so that it comes out,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's c", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and and use the the the scroll thing as a with your fingers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um it's also uh nice to see that um we made a small uh menu, uh the options menu uh becoming available when pressing the uh scroll uh button, and the opportunity to use the teletext, whi which is used uh which should still be used and we think that it's uh very handy to put it uh not uh under the options menu, but in uh Yes. In an apart uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So a separate button for for text,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In a separate button, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps we should use the teletext sign in p yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A sign, yeah, just like Okay, indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Forgot..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can uh modify that later. Okay. Would you like to make any comments about next uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh well, this is the total interface uh that f of the L_C_D_ screen. Uh the numbers, which is pretty straight forward. We put ano an an extra button in. We can erase it, but It's the button where you can switch channels. just when you are one and you go to two, you can or if you go to five, you can go back to one with that button. Yeah, that one, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Previous page, yeah, indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It has a name. And uh uh we put that in,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my God.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought it would be handy there. Uh this the one number or two numbers button. Below that, the page and the sound. And uh in the middle the the mute. Uh battery indicator..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's quite large.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's a bit big.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And this is the uh the on off uh knop, the stand by uh knop. Or at least it should look like it. And the options uh of teletext.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. You can see very clearly now that the uh teletext and options menu isn't uh taking uh much uh uh it's taking much part of the screen, so it's very uh when you uh when you use it, doesn't uh become irritating to see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause if you put it on the top you always get see the the options menu.'Cause people regularly uh read from left top to right down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well this about it, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you. Looks good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will put it back on the on the nice green.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I just missed when I was typing The R_R_ stands for?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the logo of the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Logo, okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's th th right now it's only R_ R_, but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Full screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would have recognised it if it were the right colours of course..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, the evaluation criteria,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh full screen, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evaluation.'Kay, my task was this time to put up a questionnaire by which we can evaluate the design of the remote control by the questions we requirements from the of the users. My name, my job, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My name, my job..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The methods. Questionnaire with seven point scale from one to seven, from true to false,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like question, is remote big enough, we can say it's true or it's false by steps. One means absolutely not true, seven means true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The three important things of refa are uh from th of this year is are,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you used the PowerPoint.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is the remote control fancy enough,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it in innovative enough, and is it easy enough to use. And then evaluation itself. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bling.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "First question. Is the design fancy enough?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Project Manager, what do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's looks fancy, especially with the green colour. And the the curves which we decided,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But does it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Only what happened to the single curve we spoke about last meeting?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It uh oh it's in the background. Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now uh the single curved idea was uh Yeah, okay, you ge um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y you should make uh a sideways uh view.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. The sideways view, uh that that that ma", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It will be, I guess. Oh, we can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ho not that pen. Not that pen..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "g I would smart board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it might work one time, huh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Suppose so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh can I draw here or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah. Oh my God,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, you can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it would be uh something like this from the side, but with a bit of uh curve here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the single curve indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So if you v flip it like this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here's yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's not very i it's also uh very handy if you make a side curve way to make the the remote control very thin at the bottom uh at a bottom at a bottom. Uh make it uh rather thick on the top, because uh on the top it has uh the screen, which takes uh in some uh space, and the batteries can be located over there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you just make the back of this part a bit bigger,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that it lays a bit o", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Isn't going to be a little bit heavy at the top?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a bit of problem maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With two batteries, the whole print plate and t and top, and if you're holding it quite a lot I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think yeah, the battery should be in here, because it's just nothing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so if you could.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, indeed. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, but we have to rate uh these things now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause otherwise I think i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have to rate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it fancy enough? True is one, false is seven. So fancy enough means, does it comes to the younger people and the elder people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it does.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I if you don't make it green, then the elder people won't won't like it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's pretty fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think Yeah, I have to agree, all the colour colours don don doesn't matter that m that much now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you get th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's only design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it does.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think uh especially because of the microphone and the L_C_D_ screen also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know whether older people will use it, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very new thing. Well Fancy the old people will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would make it a two or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true, it's a one. Very fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh? Alright, it's a one. Oh it's a one..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's a two. Little bit strange we have to judge that ourselves, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I n used I wouldn I should use that one, but it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's a one uh Maybe uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, no it's two? True is a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very true, is it very true or isn't that true?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I'd say two on a scale.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well they think it's very true, but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's very true, because we designed it to be very fancy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's very fancy, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We should perhaps.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Have you ever seen a remote control like this?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, okay well, that's true..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so so it's fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's fancy enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, one two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That doesn't matter that much, so make it a one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Let's give it a two. Is it innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it is,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it has an L_C_D_ screen, a mi microphone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "m", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh uh the scroll is rubber,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's from rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have for the search function.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so s Eno enough to I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The scroller a bit I think it's it's a one yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a one I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True. Also huh uh-huh the buttons, are they easy to find? That was a big requirement of the old people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, because they're right on your screen. So you can use the b the the arrows. They're right on your screen,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I don't know where you'd search.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the ones.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are all the buttons easy to find? Not only this buttons, all the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, I think they are. The options are it uh little bit harder,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but if you touch the options then it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Take a harder look, yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think th it's", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's easier than the regular uh remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "easy t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and you use these buttons the most,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think this is easy now. I think th I think the options buttons are not the the easiest way to to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "huh? So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No they're not, but they're they're they are easy to find.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to handle. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, they are a lot easier to find than uh th than on the regular remote controls", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would rate it a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where you have to uh find out what which sign or icon means on uh every button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, that's true, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you have t you have to use the the the manual to understand most.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that's that's vantage of L_C_D_ screen, you can have text.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So which number are we going to fill in?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's uh it's a two, at least.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A two, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you can make it a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two, three and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not perfect, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's a three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A three?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we have two, two, three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And why is that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I personally think, because I d I don't think i maybe it's easy to use, it has to be easy to find right away. I I think if you have the button at the right, I don't think you can find the option button that easy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you don't have t have to use the button on the right. You can touch it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can touch it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You you can touch options.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It said bo both the options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, but you have y then you have here s written option on here, the teletext button,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, then okay, good. Then I think also two, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can touch options", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A two, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it's comes out.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because we have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A two, a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The uh the um Below.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's the box below it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the next question the next question.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh my God.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise we have two results in one question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's different.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, next question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's easy to use, as well for younger as elderl elderly people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For young people I think it's easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Young means sixteen to forty years.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And elderly from forty eight to their death.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's the most useful uh remote control ever to be manufactured..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the entire mankind.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, you're very enthusiastic about your own design,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also if you're sixty years old.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but because it has the regular uh controls, li uh as you can see in the screen now, and uh you don't have all the other options uh always uh on your screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's t I think it's really easy to use. You want these options to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As well for the for the older people?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, as well as your if you're fif sixty years old, you're holding one of those things in your hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh Yeah, but they they don't want the uh extra options, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, but we're going to th make this f for a all kind of people,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And would it be easy for them to use the speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it it it has to be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but so they could Uh I think it is. If they read a manual.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because that might.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you read the manual,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, alright..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Perhaps that is one of the most uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "always.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M maybe that's the most user friendly and easy to use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because it it's not it's not it's it's not uh difficult.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh because a lot of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You say you say uh record to to the to the speech recognition,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel one, channel four, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you say the question and the answer. And that's everything it does, the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well maybe that would make it even more easy to use for them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think it would make it uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it does.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because all the people who can't uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would make it two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Also two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh a two. Sure, two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not a seven for this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would also say three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we have three three two two", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. You?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what are we going to do?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well Two and a half..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, a three, I see. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three? No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Give me more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Another question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remotes overwhelmed with buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that that's that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um I mean,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's definitely one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tha that's a one, I think, that's definitely a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's definitely our uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh nee, oh seven is it? It is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the remote score.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A false, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I think you should make it one scale with with one being good and seven being bad,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think isn't, this has to be something like isn't overwhelmed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because otherwise we can't uh calculate anything from the results,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not overwhelmed. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, a one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because we designed for that, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remote control has uh colours that different that meet different target groups.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause we make them in different colours,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that they uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is optional.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I though w we had about single colours,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you can also make uh a wood colour, not just one single colour but a wood-like thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That it that it looks like wood, like something, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "can't you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also with rubber?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whether it looks like wood, it isn't w it isn't wood", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It it feels like rubber,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can make a print on rubber,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "can't you? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's a one then,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well but then when you scratch it it does come off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "huh?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is it is harder to", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you have many questions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, okay well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh we have time..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Geez.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we have We also We have to get to the money..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're getting paid. We're getting paid..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The material used is spongy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that that's uh that's a one, that's m rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What spongy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, it's very spongy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I th think it's not the most spongy thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but not it's not very spongy, because it's hard rubber. I think it's a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a three,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because you want to make it uh rather flexible but not too flexible,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hard but Yeah. You can break it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because it has a L_C_D_ screen..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hard to lose,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Remote control is hard to lose.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah it sh and it's easy to find.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y yeah, you could you could call it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y you can't you can't lose it if you're sixty years old. If first time see the thing you didn didn't adjust uh set the microphone, and then you lose it, then you have lost it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, y you can lose it, but it isn't hard to lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It isn't hard, no. I think I think this is a two, personally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two. That it's hard to lose?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it is there's the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Isn't hard to lose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so isn't hard to lose you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's a six, you think?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Isn't hard to lose, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Isn't hard to lose.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's a two. Yeah, you can lose it, so I don't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You can't lose it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can make it a three I It does have an a built in function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or if you're you're sixty years old, your demands.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a har A hard to lose is good. So it should this question should be hard to lose. It's difficult to lose it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nee. Hard to lose. Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, this this is hard to lose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is hard to lose. Yeah, so then this is it is almost true,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think yeah, I think also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And most all because of the option to Whoa.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's okay. That happens above also. But maybe when you scroll away and back it will be normal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but Yep. Oh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it isn't,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh well,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it doesn't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "put the cor cursor on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Remember.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay okay okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Click.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Remote control mainly be sold to younger people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it will,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? True? Very true?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I a", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I don't think very true because the colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "a two..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have the colours. Um we have the buttons is aren't that that much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Materials, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nah, the material isn't that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's much more younger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh okay. So ma uh make it make it a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I don I think I think it's a three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think it's it's uh a lower number, so better because w we designed it for young people especially,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "didn't we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's a two", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think because.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Questions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A two? I think it's two. I think it's two too, two too too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two. Uh-huh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two two two. Let's make everything a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In the features?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dissatisfy younger people. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Younger people. It has.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well perhaps not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What did.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because younger peoples are cr critical and they wanted a lot of features on this thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well that it doesn't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, n not exactly but uh uh if it had some games on it or something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah bu but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it's for a remote control I think it i it would satisfy those needs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think they like the speech. You could call to your uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the speech possibility,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, and the screen,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the colours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "L_C_D_ screen and scroll.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Scroll options, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think they'll be quite met with their expectations.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those are more fancy functions, not not really many features or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, that that that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It has relatively few features,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "those are features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's three features, basically,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the L_C_D_ touch screen is feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The microphone is a feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "aren't the features the microphone's feature and that you can change the channel's feature, and that you can change the volume is feature,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that you can change the options of the remote, uh uh something like that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ours had other features with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. I think yeah, and then you have the audio settings, channel setting, video settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The easy volume up button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Those are features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Remote younger people usually use the remote control to put on the volume. Turn uh turn up the volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Enough features?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I've chos I shou I think it's it's it's a one. Personally, yeah. I think once you've'cause you have the channel features b uh you have the uh screen features, audio features, the you have all buttons on it which you'd like, microphone extra, L_C_D_ screen extra, scroll thing extra.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, you think one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "what do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think two or three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You. three, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say three, so two it is then", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah uh a two a two. Just another two..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Make it make it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One two three..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or make it uh a fucking two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We like two..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can see the remote control is R_ and R_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's R_ and R_ in front.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Has.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh it's not the colour, so maybe you should make two, but it has R_ and R_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh yeah, do did have nah y you have the black one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we'll probably make also a yellow one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but not R_ and R_ yellow I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe maybe two. Well m th but the logo is on on the front,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, true, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so a two, yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One d on i it's the colours and the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "X_ marks spot..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the menu is avail that is available is easy to use..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it is, but I don't know what you think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's easier to use than a regular remote control, because when you push on the options menu, you get the the the various options uh entirely explained. Entirely explained.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, tha that's so true. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Instead of uh just finding out what an icon means on a button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you can navigate easier, because wi with the you have to push the the the arrows and with a normal T_V_ uh remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can navigate. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that wou that would be quite hard to learn to use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're not satisfied, okay. Let's start over again then..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I'm not not convinc..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's make a different remote. Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's go th for inhalation of air]", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it would be a t yeah, two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A two?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now lower..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, well that's that's pretty good,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We only have twos..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, I think so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh just twos. One three and a few ones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So okay, we have one three, a one, that that have to got up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two threes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two two two two two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We m mostly have twos, so it's pretty good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So two, yeah. The average is a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The average..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That is quite good", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in my opinion. That.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can be happy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Save..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is it? It's like a bug or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a fly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A fly, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A f butterfly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was your evaluation uh show,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay, so we don't have to calculate anything because of um these results.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's two. The average is two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's good. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um let's see oh, it isn't asked to save but it did already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I uh uh I uh saved it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And this Everything okay. Well, the next part uh might be a little bit difficult to do in a group, but I am willing to try it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because we are going to look at the finance and I have a nice Excel sheet to do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Redesign. No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um I'm not sure if I put it in the project folder..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "look on that. Um and we're going to calculate the production costs, and if they are uh under or at twelve Euro fifty,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we're good, and if they're not we're going to uh re-design,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we have to do that uh very very quick I think,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're going to erase features or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes. Um I don't know if I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you have the cost", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "put the Excel sheet in the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or uh Let's hope.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "n not in the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "f fifty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "folder. I think it's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're going to be here at eight o'clock..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's still in my own documents folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're goin still going to be here at eight o'clock..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh shit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I doubt it. Perhaps we've got features that don't exist in the Excel sheet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah mm yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The microphone..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it was in my uh my information, so uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It i It wasn't too much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe you're going scrap scrap it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As well as the L_C_D_ screen. Whoa..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well this is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if it doesn't work.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um maybe I could ask one of you to uh fill it in, so that I can also uh take minutes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I want to fill it in, but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh maybe the other can uh use that thing to count uh numerous functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No prob. Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you should uh direct.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Count it? Li like write it be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we have to count some things and we have to think about some things. But you have to fill in this column, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Count it. You got Excel to count..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The number of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, uh count uh number of functions, because for every button you have to pay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and there are different screen shots, so or different different screens,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I dra", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, okay, cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh Danny, Danny, I'll do that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh? Yeah? Oh, yea yeah, you design it. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because I draw the uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got a battery, one or t two batteries, or not? nee one battery, with two small batteries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's it's more about the energy source, huh? Do you use a hand dynamo, a battery, kinetic or solar cells?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I would do a battery we do. Right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Solar cell. No", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll wait.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A battery. One battery,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, no solar cell, no no no no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it took a battery?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No hand dynamo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Electronics, simple chip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "advanced chip, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, we have sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But b al but we also have sample speaker, do", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so this one and this one. Uh we ha we have um single.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, we already on nine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what? Are we? Oh yay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have double curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The single.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Single nee single curved. Double curved was uh uh see uh ju three dimensional.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it isn't three dimensional,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh the the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it isn't curved in a l", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not going to work uh people. We have rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This one is curved like this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll just fill it in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right. It's curved like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um rubber indeed?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "single curved is like this. Uh that's the only curve you made,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, bu what.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "not th uh curved like that. That's uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, but we have curves like it and it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirteen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There are two curves, right? Oh, okay I understand, I understand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With a scroll wheel,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right? Is he integrated?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, eh? I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Push button. No, we don't have push button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we gotta integrate scroll wheel and push button, because when you push it and you w it won't just pu uh makes possible to s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, right, we want it to it's not it's not no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not going to work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fifteen, oh, too bad. Oh but with special colour we have. A special form, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But now button supplements. We don't got the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, we don't have any buttons, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eighteen and a half,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we need to uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "damn.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Damn.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have to lower it with six points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, uh we have fifteen and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve and half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh, right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could lose the curve.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would lose the curve.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could lose the scroll wheel. You could make it just a regular scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you can't push it, so you have to tap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you can't push it you have to tap the the options window uh button here and then uh scroll down with the d with uh with uh the button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that will be our best bet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So normal scroll wheel?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Normal scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I think we should lose the curve.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should scrap the sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's four pri it four units.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but if you would i it is a new feature, it it's something special.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we don't exactly need the single We don't need a curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But w d wha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, the curve doesn't really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'S possible to lose curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Curved then it will be square.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, then it will won't uh stand up from the table. Then it would just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Was that does that mean to it, single curve?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's meant with scr uh with s curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The curve is uh in a dimension.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you make it a flat one, s n it's no curve, you got no curves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So We would lose this one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but tha that that only is one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we could s yeah, a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sixteen point three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, okay, indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we still.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we also have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it possible to make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could could we do it on a regular chip on print or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, otherwise we don't have an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No? Ma y you just can't do that, or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And what did you change? You changed the uh scroll wheel", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We changed th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the single curved to uncurved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Single curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, but it's just one", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Flat. Yeah, so that does doesn't doesn't that mu I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "point, so maybe you should should uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Scrap sample speaker?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you should you should drop the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The sample speaker is two d wait, f s four points.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That that's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's t", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, four points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then you can keep the curve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it is uh it it is a new feature,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or can't you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it is something special.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh becau uh when you lose the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but what what else what else uh do you want to scrap?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F You have to we have to scrap four points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's difficult..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or make it on a hand dynamo, but I don't think that will work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ma make it with wood instead of rubber?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, that's no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Make it w uh when you made it uh uh uh a remote control of wood?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could make it titanium instead of rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't make a remote control of Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it it i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it also uh it also takes one point less.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh a wooden remote control only helps for uh old people we discussed,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh can I ask something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is special colour?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that the wood uh wood uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this, we have to have that one too?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It isn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's only a half. But I think the only option is to drop the uh sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To knock the sample speaker, yeah. And sample sensor.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Th then we still have too much", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if we use the uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But m yeah, course,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "three. Point three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we scrap that one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What we'll have..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's make it thirteen or fourteen..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "See, a po", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Point twelve.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "three. We need point three..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a scroll wheel..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh it's a colour. Don't make it wood.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a wood.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Make it uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can make it brown, dark brown, not wood.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's it's special colour, is it a all kind of colours?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, special colours, fruity colours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's also green or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no that that's just normal colour fruit colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's a special colour than just rubber colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Normal colours, yellow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have to add something to the rubber to make it green.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't say here's green rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They don't sell green rubber plants..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then I d I don't think we can ever make to a twelve and half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can, you should you have to lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then we have to scrap L_C_D_ display, we have to scrap uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it is the scroll wheel, I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "s advanced chip. No then we have to scrap everything we got because how many colours we gonna make?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we lose the scroll wheel and make it totally uh depending uh dependent on uh the touch screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five? Then we have two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A push,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "touch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then it's possible to make. And then you can and then you can add to the colours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then we can make add two colours on it. Yeah, two colours it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Special c", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Switch colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, if you lose uh if you lose the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was such a great idea..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You lose this one, you got eleven point five", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They can add two colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you make i and then you can make uh the spec single curve, for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the colours. Um how ma uh the colours like l she told, is that all the colours we add or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How d uh uh how many colours?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you mean?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Special colours, all the colours you want, because you want to make p", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we we we are we have yellow, red, uh black, titanium.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh when you use more than one colour, it's a special colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think when you use the colour that's not originally the rubber then you use special colour,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I suppose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause you have to add it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the rubbers alls original black.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you always lose the special colour. You co you could make it always black, like normal remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah b Yeah, but we're gonna make it yellow uh red, and then you add you have two special colours on top of the one we have now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nee we we also want to make ano another colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right, yeah. Yeah, we should u", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but m", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. We have to make this like four or five or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what it means.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because we have more colours than only black.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but isn't it per remote that you pay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I then I think I p I don I don't think they me mean they're special.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Half?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, yeah. Is it per remote?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you pay half per remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's right,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So each remote with a special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you one colour per remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, indeed, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So then it is one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't need four of those uh four of those special colours in one in one remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay okay, true. True, true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I hope..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have two points spare.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the battery,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nee one point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have um advanced chip on print.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One. So it would be curved, single curve.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well you can at least make it curved again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So y you just can't make a nice remote..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, single curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because that was very important,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too bad for the speaker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh? So it's curved, it's still that so we we dropped the speech recognition together with the speaker.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we change that tha that that's a one if not,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We dropped the scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or not? Could you copy it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the rest is the same,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And make it uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh? Am I right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y yea the scroll wheel is dropped.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The entire uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps you can then copy page or so. Ooh. No. Oh you you made the entire could you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Undo, undo..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Undo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "not Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So,'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would you?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty minutes?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "By the Perhaps you can save this one, and then copy or something. Add it copy page. Select all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, but you c yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, something went wrong.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but this this new remote we can afford..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't work. Let's forget.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It should've work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so you had this list at start?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm? No, I hadn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. When did you receive this list?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just received it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They don't work so hard at the finance department..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "ignore that. Well, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah okay. I suppose this is a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Too bad.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we lose the scroll wheel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. The microphone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the microphone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A and we changed something, I guess, or not? We Oh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve Euro fifty. Um and did you try to make a new design, or what were you trying to do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I tried to copy that one, but it didn't work.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It didn't work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we could fix it like tha that it's like this..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Strange.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You could select it all, but then you can't erase..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Strange.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, you can arrange.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can only re erase?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Erase.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "When you saw th li uh Earlier when we selected it, w I couldn't erase anything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm, can't you then just say copy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bling.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "New page. Paste. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Select none..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just tap somewhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just up somewhere b uh besides it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just tap somewhere.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and now you can erase.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think I can, but uh we can try.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, we already try.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it should be possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no, ha-ha.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you can draw over it with white uh pen..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we tried it earlier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's very much work.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sorry..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well but that's also useful for the evaluation, because I think uh we have a prototype now", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evaluation drops.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which we can afford and uh we only need to draw a little bit to get a good uh design. Doodle. And I think we should then move on to the production evaluation because of the time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And erase the mic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, goodbye mic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "All I need is no mic..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's see, we can save this now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, I already erased half of the line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bon chance.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And move back to here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Too bad, oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like this?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Still looks nice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then all green. Okay, well thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, that's erase.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks like a iPod.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hey, but you can erase that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "add.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a bit weird.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, now I'm line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S Difference between lines and text and the pen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. All I need is mic..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you can't erase this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm, strange.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's weird..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just leave it at this and quickly save.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Station page.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then we are going to the project or product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh, looks fucking boring now..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We just did our project evaluation. Um well, I think I can sit for that since it's almost my final slide. Um what did you think about uh the process? How satisfied are we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Deadlines were sometimes very short.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bu but stressful. You think, no, my presentation isn't ready.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And stressful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we it should be b it would be better if we worked a little bit together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now we worked through each other,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you could ask things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you had information I didn't have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "something he said.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, and you had information I also had,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so some some things I had in my presentation, they already told,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And for me it sometimes was a surprise who was going to present what, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah, that I don't think that is the best way to work at for such project.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you would say uh communicate during our individual uh work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, no, or maybe session of five minutes together or something, and then work separate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but but why not work here together, for example?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you could.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Why should we be separated from each other in those difference uh different rooms?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well, probably to simulate the whole working uh process,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so too. Yeah, but then you can work together too", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "huh, th you can't have a meeting uh for several weeks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "when.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah m yeah, like she told. Then you can work together too by mail or by, I dunno, chat, something,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A chat would also be uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh, oh right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but now we're completely separated from each other. I don't think that was the best way, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the technology was uh fantastic..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the technology's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I don't really like the board, it doesn't really work great. Sometimes I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Work now?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, but I don I do I think becau that's because.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps it is e", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It does work, but sometimes it doesn't erase or it doesn't uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, perhaps it is easier to get one of those uh dig digital pens or so and to uh and lay it next to that keyboard over there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you can draw uh see it over th on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like the f like a plotters or something,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Yep yep yep yep yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you don't think the SMARTboard is is really useful", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's useful, but not m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it is useful,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is useful, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it doesn't really work all the time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th the pen doesn't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because when you put this pen on the screen uh uh for exam and line is d being drawn at at two or three centimetres uh below.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The line is a bit off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's maybe a bit unnatural also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can point to where you want the line to be. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The project uh because of the deadlines you didn't had the time to uh have, you didn't have time to uh to make a very uh qualitati qualitative uh presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you used uh this uh the different PowerPoint presentations uh in which you put your uh material in the Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That wasn't me. Uh so um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wasn't me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the means, we discussed the smart board, and what about uh this digital pen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I I used it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I didn't use it at all..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it it was you can use it, it's quite handy I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I didn't I uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I use it as a a normal pen and and and only you use it to uh get it on the computer,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I used it to y to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it did work pretty well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I used it too, but oh well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think why you would want to use it actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I didn't use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it it does work..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because it shou", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To make some designs,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is it is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it is very easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, it is easy for to design something and then load it in your computer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then you can show it to everybody.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But to write it th yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It doesn't really write normally.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's b bi little bit too big to write.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's too big, it's too fat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fat document, those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, um and what about the teamwork?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it was great,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Team work was okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well I think so too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only thing that we worked through, past each other.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but that was it was our assignment,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With some things that was only problem,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it was because we didn't uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but furthermore better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and maybe I should walk out of the room when you discuss uh this point, the leadership..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I thought it was good, but uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, no prob. Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not too much, not too too too too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And creativity? Well, when we look at this I'd say we have been creative,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "huh? But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, or the room for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There was room for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it was the idea to be creative, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You got some standard ideas in your head and this what came out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you get get stuff from the from the computer,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The information uh was sometimes uh a little bit too late", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Little bit uh lo yeah. Too late.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it it it took a lot of time before you got your ema", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You just sit there for ten minutes. Yeah,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "where is that email?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I played I think seven times Solitaire something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You did? Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I didn't have time for that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "did you? Is it on there? Is it on there?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't find the didn't look but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "At some times I Sometimes I received like like five emails at at one moment,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Was searching and searching.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't look,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it is there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I I never got that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I always.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got like one email after ten minutes or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I even got spam. Or something like that..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what we said..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So does this I think lik oh and information was a bit low I think, sometimes,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it not a lot uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "in in in in the beginning I didn't understand what what to do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, the first one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, w I didn't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I didn't know uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, like I with with the remote and I never new we have t we had to uh yeah made a made a rec a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Make a r", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "nee.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I didn't know what to do for the first ten minutes before we got here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so I went, right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. No stepping on the table and then looking at the internet page.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I was working and working and work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just looking at the screen and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but after all we can say uh we are satisfied, but it it could've been uh better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When we get uh when we have we would have gotten uh more information.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, an", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Faster.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "more information about the costs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that will be handy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "First of all I didn't think uh that we were able to make an L_C_D_ screen uh first point,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh it was possible uh uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it only costs four units. Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yea uh so tha actually you could make an L_C_D_ screen but no mic, or it could make mic but no L_C_D_ screen, when you look at that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was a bit mean to put it in the end.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh what were the other points to to improve this whole process?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Think that's about it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nothing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we got it already.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Heavier um less heavy laptops.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, they're pretty heavy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Faster laptop.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. They were they were just fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's not really uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And furthermore the the the network was okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Everything you loaded was also", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, everything worked.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "av available there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so more time uh w might have improved the the quality of work,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is what you say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, but that It's now half past four half past three, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's just the the off hours between that you will work alone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then it pops up pop up screen came. Five minutes in the meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so more time during the individual work phases. Um okay well uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just got my warning for the last five minutes, so I'll move on to I guess my last slide,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You did? Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes, which is the closing. Well uh, we managed, but we did it very quickly. I don't know if that's the best way to when it isn't is it when it is too expensive to quickly re-arrange it and say, okay, this is it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we had to do it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh, because we have to have a design, and that is within the budget. And we evaluated. Maybe we should re-evaluate uh the product, but we did that before, and we also evaluated the project. And I think uh everybody's uh very happy. At least I am, with the results,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so uh celebration, well, for the three of you,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because uh I have to write the final report now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Champagne. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh well, thank you very much for your co-operation,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I had a very nice day so far..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No prob.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we get another email?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bling. You're fired.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think we have to fill in a questionnaire again,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I have t", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we also have to go to our own rooms again, but um well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We do?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I at least. But maybe you can try uh to make a screen shot of this, so I can try to include it in the final report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh th that that one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You cannot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can save it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "wants to, but at least this one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's it isn't a picture or, well, is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know, we should remove this,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You s uh file save as the J_ PEG J_ PEG.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it won't h Okay. And uh please put it in the project folder then, huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can you find it as a J_ PEG?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "isn't possible. But you can make a screen shot, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well I uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I hereby officially close the meeting and uh I hope to see you uh soon..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In about five minutes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh oh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "export.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we'll be a bit a bit longer,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but okay. Well, happy celebration, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Images.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whoo-hoo. Let's let's have party..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Celebra.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How big do you want the images?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or shouldn't I?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's have some fun..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How big? Uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "not too big..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whatever you think is good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six hundred. No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that uh is one thousand twenty four..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think eight hundred six hundred is better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If it browse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nah, name..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Desktop.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it isn't on the desktop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do not know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can only save it in my documents.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh my God.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, alright. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ten.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can we stay here?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ten.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why can't we stay here?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Celebration time, come on..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Peace out nigger. Entree", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "TS3003c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Uh good afternoon. This is our third meeting already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good afternoon.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I hope you enjoyed your lunch. I did anyway. Um let's see. Presentation three. Okay this is um the second phase uh we're going to discuss today. It's the conceptual design meeting. And a few points of interest in this meeting um are the conceptual specification of components. Uh conceptual specification of design. And also trend-watching. Um these are hopefully the points you addressed in uh your pre uh presentations you're going to show me in a few minutes. Um but first I'll show you the agenda. Uh first the opening. Then we have three presentations. Uh after that we have to come to a decision on remote control concepts. How we're going to make it. And then we're closing. We have about forty minutes. Uh so I suggest let's get started. Uh did someone encounter any problems during the preparation? No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everything fine?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's nice. Then a little uh thing about the last meeting. Uh these are the points um we agreed on. The requirements and the target market. Uh requirements are uh teletext, docking station, audio signal, small screen, with some extras that uh button information. And we are going to use default materials. Um does somebody have any comments on these requirements? Maybe? No? These are just the the things we thought of, so maybe if you figured something else or thought of something else, just let me know. And maybe we can uh work it out. And we're going to target uh sixty to to eighty year old customers. So now everybody knows what we're do we're doing, um I suggest let's get started with the presentations. So shall we keep the same uh line-up as uh last time?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll start off then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good luck..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Doh.'Kay I'm uh gonna inform you about the trend-watching I've done over the past few days. Um we've done some market research. We distributed some more enquetes, questionnaires. And um besides that um I deployed some trend-watchers to Milan and Paris to well get all of the newest trends. And I've consulted some additional trend-watch trend-watchers, after the original trend-watchers return, about what the the best design would be. Um okay these are some overall findings. Um most important thing is the fancy design. Um the research indicated that that was by far the most important factor. Um innovativeness was about half as important as the fancy design. By innovativeness this means um functions which are not featured in other remote controls. Um about half of, half as important as the innovativeness was the was easy to use. Um for our um group, we're focusing on the people of sixty to eighty y years old, this is um, these factors are slightly more equal.'Kay these are some more group specific findings. Uh the older people prefer dark colours. Uh they like recognisable shapes, and familiar material. And our surveys have indicated that especially wood is pretty much the material for older people. Um this is, this image will give you a little bit of an impression about um the look-and-feel that um the remote should have. Um this leads us to some personal preferences. Uh the remote control and the docking station should uh blend in in the in the room. Um so this would mean no uh eye-catching designs. Just keep it simple and Well the docking station and small screen would be our main points of interest, because this would be the These would uh be the innovativeness in the remote control. So this would be very important that we at least include these features. Um well the trend-watchers I consulted advised that it b should be, the remote control and the docking station should be telephone-shaped. So you could imagine that uh the remote control will be standing up straight in the docking station. This is not really This is pretty much a new shape to uh older people. So they would prefer uh a design where the remote control just lies flat in the docking station. So it would be kinda more telephone-shaped. Um besides that we would advise um to bring two editions, one with a wood-like colour and maybe feel, and one with a grey-black colour. The wood-like for the more uh exclusive people. People with more money. Uh the grey-black colour for well people with less means. That would be all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Any questions about the the trends?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Any questions?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mayb", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Okay, we go on to the next one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um'kay um yeah. uh some uh research uh a about um designing of an interface. Um the uh last meeting uh we had a about um uh using a f few buttons. So uh um uh that's w what I what I want to uh uh to do in uh our design. So um finding an attractive uh way to control uh the remote control. Um the uh I found some uh something about uh speech uh recognition. So maybe uh we can uh use uh that. Um Uh and uh using a little uh display. So um findings. Um yeah just um we have just to focus on the primary um functions. So uh only uh buttons uh for uh sound, um for uh on-off, um uh shifting u up uh sa uh ca channel or uh down shifting down. Um uh let's see. Um yeah and Uh we uh need some uh new a attractive functions uh uh which attract uh uh people for using it. So uh it's uh like a speak uh speech uh recognition and um a special button for selecting uh subtitles. Just uh what we uh mentioned uh last uh meeting. Um and yeah overall um user-friendly. So uh using uh large large buttons. Um It's uh possible to uh uh to make um quite cheap uh system for uh speech uh recognition. Um you can think about um uh when you lost your um remote control, you can uh call it and um it gives an um sig signal. So uh uh yeah. And and uh for uh shifting up a sen uh c ch channel or uh for um uh putting out uh sound or something, you can uh just give a sign uh say um sound off or A and uh yeah. Television uh put the sound off uh put the sound off uh. Um Let's see. Uh yeah. I was thinking about the special uh button for uh subtitles, um just one button to keep it uh simple. Uh one push on the button uh you get uh uh small uh subtitles. Um double push push um, if double click, um so uh you get uh big uh subtitles, for uh people uh um uh which c f uh who can't uh read small uh subtitles. So uh Um Yeah and w we have to keep uh in general buttons uh so um we've got um the buttons we have to use. The on-off, sound on-off, sound higher or lower, um the numbers, uh zero to uh uh nine. Um the general buttons m more general b one button for shifting up and shifting down uh channel. Um also we want to uh use a little d display uh for um for displaying the uh the functions of the buttons. And um we can uh build in a function f which uh shows the channel or some uh which the t television is on. So um made a little uh picture of uh it. Um See. Um yeah. Just um we can put uh the on-off button uh over in this uh corner, um almost uh e all uh remote controls uh are using a on-off button on that place. Um so uh people uh will uh recognise uh um the button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um D display uh of it, it's uh just a small display. Uh um you can put it uh on top. Um it's uh most uh uh place where people uh, most of looks at. So uh um and a special uh button for shifting up uh and uh shifting down uh channel, um it's uh on place where um the thumb of of the So you you can uh easily uh shift up or shift down. Um it's uh quite uh handy place. So um and uh all the f functions for subtitle uh one button, uh for sound uh Uh and uh for our design, um uh we have to discuss about it uh I think uh so uh the form of it so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. About the components design. Um for the energy source we can use a basic battery or, a as an optional thing, a kinetic energy, like in a watch, which you just shake and it produces energy. But if we choose for that option, the docking station would c become obsolete. So I don't think it's really an option. Uh for the casing, uh the uh manufacturing department can deliver uh a flat casing, single or double curved casing. It's really up the the design that we're gonna use. It's uh doesn't uh imply any technical restrictions. Uh as a case supplement, we could um, I thought of that l later, uh a rubber uh belt, like a anti-slip. Uh for the b buttons, we can use plastic or rubber. And the chip-set, um it says simple here, but it should be advanced, because we're using an L_C_D_ uh screen. And as uh the trend-watcher presentation showed, um people like wood, but it raises the price and it doesn't really fit the image, unless we would start two product lines. Form should follow function overall. Um well the kinetic energy source is rather fancy. But depends on what we want. I think we should disc discuss that. Um for the case, uh the supplement and the buttons, it really depends on the designer. And the chip-set uh really should be advanced because otherwise uh it would really be a simple uh remote control. And that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. So that brings us to the discussion about our concepts. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. So these are the points we have to discuss. Um first I think we can talk about the energy source, since that's um has a pretty big influence on production price, uh and image.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so uh f I think first of all we have to see uh it is possible to introduce kinetic energy in our budget, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes w there there are four options. We could use the basic normal battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh a hand dynamo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I don't think that's really an option.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't wanna swing before you can watch television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh solar cells. But not every room is very light", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's not a very good option.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or the kinetic energy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And how exactly does the kinetic energy work?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well y you basically shake your remote, and then it powers up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You just You use it and it works.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well personally I don't think that older people like to shake their remote control before they use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And besides that you mentioned it would make the docking station obsolete.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I think our docking station could be one of the marketing issues with which we can um get great popularity for our product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um wel", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what's the function? Yeah f for loading up uh the batteries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you could load up the batteries,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "B b", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you could um insert the find the lost remote control function in there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay but uh it won't use uh much e energy uh I I believe. Uh it's uh just a small display so I believe uh it will run on one battery for um six months or f or or more. So I believe one battery uh is just enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well I think uh elderly people just like to have everything in place.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I don't think they they like uh remotes just laying everywhere in their rooms.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe a docking station will help them give the remote a place.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also what you said. Um you can introduce voice recognition by uh finding back your remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I think it's um more efficient and cheaper to put it in the docking station.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have a but button on your docking station which you can push, and then it starts beeping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then we can we can still use the voice recognition, but maybe then for only the the channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's safe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm wondering um what will the voice recognition mean for the production price?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm I don't have any information on pricing. So I'll have to ask the manufacturing department.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause in our earlier um market research, if you'd allow me to go to the flat board, SMARTboard.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so it was open here. Um we also um asked if w they would, if people would pay more for speech recognition in a remote control. Well you can see here, our target group would not do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if that would increase the price for which we're selling our remote control", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would greatly advise not to do it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that would be better to uh insert in our other product, that is meant for the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "younger people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that would also go for the L_C_D_ screen then I guess. It's a bit higher percentage, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um well this is Yeah but this is here the question was, would you prefer it. So that doesn't really mean they wouldn't pay extra for it. And on top of that the L_C_D_ screen would um help in making the remote control easier to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I think a voice recognition function would not make the remote control much easier to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Easier to use? No, I think that's a good point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh is uh our uh research um about um bi large uh L_C_D_ sh uh display, or uh just a small one uh we want to uh use?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um well this was for like an L_C_D_ screen like you would have on a on the the most advanced mobile phones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So pretty large.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I personally think the L_C_D_ screen we wanna use, with the extra information, I think nobody has anything against it. Because it's just uh some extra information,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's easy to ignore as well. So if you don't wanna use it you just don't use it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um yeah I think the um Maybe we have to uh discard the voice recognition. Because it will increase cost uh signifi uh significantly. And I don't think the I don't think it will be a lot easier to use, as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that brings us back to the energy. If we don't have the voice recognition, it will it won't use a lot of energy to use. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So in that case we could use kinetic uh energy, but I think just a simple battery which you can reload on a docking station is just as good. And much cheaper as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's the best choice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay let me just choose for the battery. That brings us to the chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there isn't any choice there because we're using the the the the display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the advanced.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's gotta be advanced.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", advanced chip. And then we get to the point of the case. Um which brings us a little bit back to marketing as well. Uh if we wanna choose for wood or the black and grey. Or both? Um as we saw there is not Yeah wood is a lot more expensive to produce.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but I think it will attract elderly people who wanna have something exclusive, which they can show off to their grandkids.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Look I've got a new remote control, and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well And I think most important factor there is the wooden colour. So it wouldn't actually have to be wood,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if it's just", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "wood-coloured.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But with colour was a lot more expensive? Or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll have to uh research.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so because Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a lot more difficult to to handle and to to get in the right shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Uh is it possible uh to make um changeable uh case. So um uh you'cause uh Yeah with uh mobile phones uh uh so uh like the Nokia mobile phones, uh when you can change the case of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Change the cases. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe it's possible uh possibility. So um um you have just to make one um standard um remote control, and um yeah you can sell uh few uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can sell the cases.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that's a very good option. Because um then you can advertise as well with the Give your grandfather a new case for his remote control, or whatever..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because that's a it's something extra, it's something other remotes don't have,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which we can get a great advantage point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that is true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and then you can make them with colour. Black and grey, other colours as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. We would have to look carefully into the design though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Costs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause we would have to make one w uh control which would fit in with a wooden cover and a plastic cover. The more original one, or the more standard one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that would.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you suggest we should design two different telephones on which you can apply, yeah remote controls, on which you can apply different case covers, for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I wouldn't design a telephone", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well no I think w we should just, we should then just design one um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "one remote, but it would have to be fancy with either the wood cover or the plastic one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So everybody's okay with the changing covers? I think that's a good uh good option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Changing case covers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I heard our Industrial Designer talk about uh flat, single and double curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could you explain that a little more?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well the the general like most older remotes are flat, just straight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh our d manufacturing department can also deliver single curved or double curved ca curved cases.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And what would single curved and double curved mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um it would just only affect the form, for as far as I know. So it's j really just up to the design department what we're gonna use. It doesn't really matter for the price or the functionality.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So we can pretty much just do whatever we want.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pick one you like, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. That's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but the form has to be um It has to It's has to be possible to stand up? Or just only to lie down?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No just to lie down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the the cover of the the docking station is also", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll go for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on top of the television then? Or not?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well or besides it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you can just yeah then click it in. That's okay. Um so the interface. What type of interface do we want to use? Um maybe you can make a little drawing of it on the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on the the board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Does somebody have ideas for a form or", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we can just use the regular form of it, but it's um not quite uh fancy. So um Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um you uh said you wanted to put the um changing channels button on the right side,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so you could, so your thumb would be easily.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh I think that was a very good point'cause I pointed out earlier that a lot of remotes cause R_S_I_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that would be great for that. Um I thought maybe we could just make one of those buttons on both the left and the right side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For uh Uh for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For left-handed users also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah we Is it possible to um program it s so uh you got on the left side uh or on the right side uh buttons for for shifting u up and shifting up? And on the uh other uh uh o other side uh buttons for uh shifting, uh for for the sound? Or Or isn't it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the volume. Um well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that could Yeah we could do that but I'm not sure if that would be very good for the easy, ease of use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Usabili Yeah ease of use will be a lot more difficult,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if we would make um a changing channels and changing volume button on both sides, that would certainly yield great options for the design of the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause it could be made all symmetrical and stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you have extra buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So people can get confused.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Especially if they have the same writings on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See um yeah. Or we have to make a left uh For lefties", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can't we make uh Can't we make a remote which you can flip over and use on the same", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "functions as the normal one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You mean um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then you have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah if.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's see if I ca A blank one. And then you get Here's a little L_C_D_ screen. Uh now I have to think. It's a plus and a min. No it's not very handy I think. Because the plus and the min will be opposite", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and all kinds of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that's not gonna work. I guess. Maybe we should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But is it a problem that left-handed persons use a different hand? I think the functions are that basic that nobody should have any problems with uh choosing a channel", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That is true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's just uh u using uh your thumb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we could just uh leave it a normal shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh but maybe we have to make it a l a bit more fancy. In one or ano another way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should start by by choosing a case. Because that's the basis you're building on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I could draw them out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's look at the flat case. Oh. It's from the side so it's rather normal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the single curved so I'm not really sure what they're gonna look like, but I think it's something like this. So this type should be better for you or better Should prevent repetitive strain injury a bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Easier?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the double curved s looks something like this I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So th those are the three options we have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suggest um the single curved, because maybe the curve is pretty good to put the the screen in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so that elderly people can uh use the remote control and at the same time look easily at the screen, because it's a bit, it has a bit of a angle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um Do you say this um S uh Uh you got like uh sort of a I believe There?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um you want to put a display over here? Or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um Yeah. Uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But now it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we can make it um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you have it upside down or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you have it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "this that's top? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh this top. This down. Um maybe it's possible to uh make this side like um Let's see. Um Colour uh okay. Uh to make this side um like mm the right colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um bit like so uh um in the form of your hand. So um Uh it's an.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so the remote control have to um lay in your hand. So uh it's possib um yeah for s so and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So get your mouse. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And to put uh the the buttons for um changing uh the channel uh over here uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a good one. But I think it's better to put the screen uh on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh rem", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So just flip it a hundred and eighty degrees around then you get here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but this place um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you can have this one, you turn it like this. And then flip it upside down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's Yeah I dunno um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because uh maybe your hand is in the way, if you have the display here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's more logical to have it on top as well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because, like on your mobile phone, it's always above.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh maybe you should just s start on a blank page.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then we get Here's That's the curve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here the display, and then buttons. Yeah and then we can have a little bit off here and here maybe. Just that's for left hand and right hand users.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then h the rest of the buttons over here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But um the on-off button, um still on the top uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah still here", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "jus", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'd prefer the corners to be round.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Should be more bit more friendly,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think that would be better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Friendly on the eye.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Supplements. That's okay. Where's my mouse? Then We've got a general idea of the concepts and the materials we're going to use. So now for the next meeting uh we'll have to look at the look-and-feel design. It's important that the corporate design image uh is going to be in the remote. So check out the corporate website maybe. The user interface design, it's the same story. And product evaluation. So the Industrial Designer and User Interface Designer are going to work together on this one. But you're going to get your instructions I think sended by the coach. So just um I will put these um minutes on the in the folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then we're going to uh try to finish our project, and uh make a good design for all the grandfathers and grandmothers, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which are Uh let's see. I'm not sure if you're going to start right away to work together or I think you're going to fill in the questionnaires first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then you'll get a message.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's uh basically it. Maybe this one? Then we can save this one in the folders group. Uh yes, it's here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "SMARTboard, there it it. So if you wanna have a look at it, it's over there in the projects folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then I guess we'll start in thirty minutes again. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1007c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "So we come to the third meetings. I have good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so in the last meeting we have discussed the functional design and now we will talk about the conceptual design. So we will talk about some specific details.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so I think I will do my presentation on the components concept so can you please uh open uh I'm participant two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Components design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so uh the first thing uh I have done is to to made a review together with the uh manufactural uh department and have which components was uh available to build a remote control. So for energy sources we have we have to choose between the solar energy, hand dynamo and uh kinetic um well uh kinetic uh technique to to store the energy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We also um we also can put a regular battery in the in the remote control. Now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh this is what we have decided in the last meeting. But if we use battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah b uh f well uh I meant uh by by battery I meant uh I will not have a uh a wire between the remote control and the energy source but uh I didn't fou we didn't decide yet which kind of battery we will put inside the the remote. So uh it's a point to discuss. Then uh the case material we have uh uh also several choices, like wood, rubber, titanium or latex. But uh well it's not a a re uh well a real issue for the from the technical uh point of view. Concerning the interface uh we can we can put mm just simple buttons or scrolls or buttons uh much more complicated, but it also requires that the chip to process the button is more complicated so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh this is the last point, the choice of chips. So what I have f found is that I think basic battery or kinetic uh energy uh collection is the is the better way to provide energy because I think solar energy wi won't work in a cluttered uh uh environment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um so I think we can start with these two main things. For the case uh well uh I think that uh titanium is um is a good choice because it's trendy and it's uh it's uh well it's modern and uh user are are are mm will be uh very happy to have a a a nice remote. For the interface uh I think that we can ach achieve uh all the desired functionalities by s just uh using uh rubber buttons, simple buttons and th thus this allow to use a regular chip that are uh well cheaper..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And s so uh we can move to the next slide.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What is this single curved what does it mean?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh uh i i it's uh it's the the shape of the um of the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's it's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You you will have the well um the the curve will fit into your hand when you grab the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yo l yeah. When you hold on it, it is comfortable to hold.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's more confog f comfortable that if these uh it's completely flat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah. And the battery, is it kind of a rechargeable or it doesn't matter?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah the um that's the point. The kinetic one is uh y you can recharge uh by the um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That that's what it means by kinetic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and by well by just by moving the ar uh your arm the mm well the remote will uh accumulate energy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I d I don't know it's if it is feasible because I don't know if yet if if the user will move enough to provide the remote um all the necessary energy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We we might check with our R_ and D_ department to see if they have this product ready for market..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And yeah and so can you go to the next slide please. So and uh that's uh that summarize well what I have said.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm. Wha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh you're right we can uh see in our uh R_ and D_ uh if the kinetic metal is sufficient to provide enough energy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah the department. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh So I um keep in touch with the R_ and D_ department.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I take care, it's all right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the titanium case is the normal case that I'll show you some pictures that I have and you tell me whether they are titanium case or not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "All right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause I am not very sure, plastic, titanium or whatever. There's another point I want to make, is that the uh well you've seen them I le na my presentation that um I point out some why buttons are not the mm not the only ways you can use Yeah. Yeah, maybe n", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We will, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the user interface is uh i it uses the aspect uh of a computer system, a programme which can be seen or heard or otherwise perceived by the human user", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the commands and mechanism the user uses to control its operation and input data. So you s this gives you the ways to input data and we have uh we are more we emphasise more on the graphical user interface here. The idea is to represent buttons as figures, diagrams, symbols and on so you you can easily when you look at the symbols you understand what it is doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's the function of this button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it makes the the interface really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ea easy to use. So next one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Graphical user interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "function five. So I can use the button, the mouse maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A graphical user interface emphasise the use of pictures.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So next line. So the here are some examples. So they cluster the buttons together. They group them into col they colour them and uh they have different forms as well. Mm but this interface are kind of confusing. Uh basically there are too many buttons. Right. Next one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So some people are propose voice recognition and so ah by the way I receive an email from the from one our departments saying that the voice recognition has been used in the coffee machine for this by a company", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "when you tell the you say good morning coffee machine and the machine are reply to you. So I just got an email saying that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it seems like this voice recognition technology is ready to be used so we might consider that, supposedly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The next one. Mm so somebody some people use uh some people use a spinning wheel th with the L_C_ display so instead of using the mm buttons you have a L_C_D_ screen and then there you can u you can use that as buttons, you can use that as real so so that could be an option as well. Touch screen, I mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Next one. And some people propose a scroll button. Integrated with push buttons or you may have scroll button instead of p just the push button. Like the one we have here. Uh, next one. So mm", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so there are a few aspects that I collected here. So s basically this deals with special users, children, handicapped people, old people, and uh mm and prog basically they are programmable, specially for children. And uh mm yeah yeah. And then they also secure uh covers, to protect uh secure and hidden programming and battery covers that will protect your settings. So But we don't have to integrate all these complicated features. I'm just saying that the currently in the market there are there are control there are remote controllers f customisable for different people. Yeah, so that's the point. The next one. And uh you see this is the one where you have the protection cover. Mm maybe useful for children, they migh you you they only see the buttons outside. And for adults wh where you have more control you can see the one inside. So the adults might wanna have a key to lock that to pr so children will not touch the button inside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The next one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this guy this is another company that provides big buttons. At I see that that is useful for old people and then you don't get it lost. But for our product we don't need a big one because you have voice recognition e eventually with use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And you can call your remote controller if you don't know where it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T_V_ remote controller where are you?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then, he will beeps and to say that I am here, for example.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We should include speech synthesis in this case, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it possible?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh as Norman say if uh there is uh already a commercial product available who t who do this we we can check uh to integrate it i into our uh new remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And uh, this is another one where you can uh the the the part that's a V_ standing for the volume. So there's a up arrow and a down arrow. But you the see that in the V_, the V_ appears to be the down arrow on the top on the top up arrow if you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "up arrow there's a V_ like as as if it's turning down so it's confusing interface, so I wanna avoid this kind of thing in the design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And here are is uh here is a s short summary that I summary that I compiled after the findings I found. Big buttons are convenient, voice recognition helps, push buttons, scroll buttons, spinning wheels can be used as navigation tools. And uh user customisable is important and finally simplicity simplicity is the key. Yeah. So we have many concepts there", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but we have to choose later on which ones are important to be used.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And basically uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I think you it's it's it's fine you have uh reviewed all all the possibilities", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh uh well uh i if we consider that uh the user interface is displayed on the T_V_ screen I don't think we nee uh we need much buttons in the remote", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "since we we just have to navigate and to have a okay or enter key or things like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because uh adding wheels or scrolls uh makes the thing more complicated and more expensive also, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or maybe we can include the user manual in the in the remote control and we should have just a button like help and you say uh and you ik you press the button help and maybe you see the the user m might in the in the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To have a help button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A help button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you are display on the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On T_V_ T_V_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So on the T_V_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the T_V_ screen. On the T_V_ screen the uh how to use your remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So just you push the button", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that eliminates all the complicated documentation,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay. So wi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But people are often enough looking at the help,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If the if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "once they see the help button they say oh this is a complicated stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No In the case where they need help, in the case where they need help.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a psychology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In a marketing point of view.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And let us see what the market demands.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could just go to my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh wel well I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just for user customizable, for kids or old people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it just showed us the remote with an cap which could be used for kids and if you remove the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Same remote with some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can be used by both kids and old people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Both yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Well uh what I s propose is that uh you know a remote controller, i it could be a cube,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is uh a small device that uh looks like a cube and maybe you can just change the um the buttons, if you ch turn one side you get one one buttons, you turn the other side you get the other buttons, so for maybe new generation people who get used to the computer they want lots of controls..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe for kids, kids they like uh t no l they like to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Small.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So le le let's see what uh what people want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's see the market demand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then we can decide what what we can yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What what market yes yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we just made an marketing survey of what people need from our remotes and how it could be special from the other remotes. And we got the best on the responses from the questionnaires. Uh we also have some prizes for the most creative solutions. And we found the following solutions which we could which would be helpful for our design. So seventy percent of the users, they find their remote controls very ugly, they don't find it pleasant to use in the size or usage or anything. And eighty percent of the people they are always l I mean they are willing to spend more money if the remote control would look fancy. And the current remote controls do not match well the operating behaviour of the user. And seventy five percent of the users said they zap a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And fifty percent say they use only ten percent of the buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so the rest of the ninety percent of the buttons they're not used most of the times.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this were the findings which we found. And also they cited frustrations with the present remote controls. Most of fifty percent of the time the remote controls are lost somewhere in the room and people are always searching for them rather than watching the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And by the time they found the remote control the program is finished.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So they're frustrated a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And um if the remote control is too complicated it takes much time to learn the functionality of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, the functionalities yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you can just see the percentage, fifty percent people they responded that they always lose their remotes and thirty four percent they say that it's quite difficult to learn if it's too complex.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So keeping in view all these findings and the frustrations I think this should be the solution for them. We should have an L_C_D_ on the rem remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well mm w well I I I don't really see the advantage of having uh L_C_D_ on the on the remote control if we have a a a big screen and uh display on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Big screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah of course it's fancy trendy and so on but it's it's expensive to produce and it's not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean as our survey says that people are willing to pay more if their remotes are fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if we have a L_C_D_ on the remote, rather than looking onto the T_V_ you just look into a remote and navigate it. It's the same menu as we have saw that iPod remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. The thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We just play around", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but when you play with the iPod you don't have a big screen in front of you, s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can use this screen instead of the big se screen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "instead of use the yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you re-use the existing screen, we element eliminate the L_C_D_, after all the L_C_D_ just to display", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if you have the colourful screen you can make the display colourful, fancy, as fancy as the one on the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe even better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean this were the points which we got from the market demands.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I th I I well I think we we can focus on the uh on the fancy look on the uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. More on a fancy design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on the speech recognition if the technology is available", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but well I think L_C_D_ will uh will uh make us spend a lot of money for not so big results.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Remember we have a s budget for the cost of producing the remote controller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So i is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah we have uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so the thing is you can find out how much an L_C_D_ will cost and then we'll decide again..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean that should be found out by the Industrial Designers..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh maybe you can find out the price and tell us next time. Is i if i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So price of uh L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's always good to have an voice recognition for the remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And also the cost for the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. It's for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ask our R_ and D_ department.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's just for small vocabulary. We it's not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's o only for a limited vocabulary,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And ho", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "say eighty commands or so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And also the scroller button, how much will it cost..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And Well uh compared to the to s the simpl simpler simplest button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Push push.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, the scroll button, from the survey we never see that people would like to have some scrolling button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I think that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because they they just they're just frightened to use the scrollings or help button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I I I think that uh well uh as we have seen in the in the presentation uh well uh about uh uh fifty percent of the of the percent n choose the button", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't use the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so uh I think to have uh five uh simple button is sufficient for our functionality.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It doesn't mean that the other buttons are not necessary or important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Important.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But they are just less used compar", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They're not used much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the uh the thing is is i is that we can add a functionality on the on the T_V_ screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like uh a a list of function", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you choose with the with the button to well you navigate", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So so the at most more power uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or maybe we can u uh or maybe we can uh make this the ten percent of button more bigger than the others.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if i i if we if we could have a a a display uh g a user interface that is very complete on the T_V_ screen I think that just five buttons are sufficient,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "one to go up left right down and uh enter", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you you you just select the functionality you want to access or things like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't have to to switch to a channel to another uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or it could be like this, as the people say, if they have a L_C_D_ on the remote not on the television. Because when you have the L_C_D_ onto the television screen you miss the picture in the background, we are most focused on the commands.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if you have then L_C_D_ in the remote, you just have a menu, and increasing and lower these signs here to change the programs and this menu when you press the menu, in the L_C_D_ displays as you go on pressing the menu it faster displays volume, then the program, then the brightness, contrast and all the stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but if you look at the L_C_D_ you you don't look at the T_V_ screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And accordingly you can just increase or decrease.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so i i it's not really worth to get to have the image if you don't look at, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I if Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I think it's increases the cost of the the remote control if you use L_C_D_. I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that has to be checked out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that there's no contradiction here, because if there are few buttons, you don't have to look at your your controller any more because you know where the buttons are, so if you wanna control the screen d sh sharpness you just say sharpness", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then you t turn you just press lef increase or decrease button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the same for the volume and the channel,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if you had the speech recognition there you just shout your channel, just tell your channel and then you don't even have to look at the butto at the controller so finally that wil eliminates the the need for L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "with the help of speech recogniser you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean, better if we could just check all the cost with L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and also with the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then we could find which would would be a more suitable in this case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Yeah. A and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the third problem was to find the remote control. Always, so fifty percent of the people say they lose the remotes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well so we we can think about a well a a vocal command like uh find", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and when the remote control uh hears fine well yeah just uh to make him beep or t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You will listen to a peep, special peep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right, that's exactly what I mean by voice commander.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or it could be also something like this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh it's always boring to change the batteries of the remotes control,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we have some one charger there and whenever we don't use the remote control we put it in the charger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put it back at the charge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Put.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And when we're using that t remote and if we misplace somewhere, in the charger we have a small button, and just by pressing the button in the charger the uh remote control beeps, wherever it is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And that's a good idea, that's simple, like in phones.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it doe it also doesn't require a voice command,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you don't you don't have to move the the charger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because there are problems with a voice command.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm. Th yeah. Mm yeah. Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have to keep it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean charger would be fixed", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because it's always with electricity plugged.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah if there if there uh there is nuff not enough battery. Also and uh uh the remote is lost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. There's mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That we can what we can do is we can program a function whereby when you press the switch off T_V_ button, the off button, the remote there be s uh instruction on the screen, please charge charge me. You never get it lost", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because uh every time you're off the computer the T_V_ you are asked the the command the T_V_ com remote controller would tell you to put it back to where to the charger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's an good reminder,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you will never get lost yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe for some people lazy people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah because everything is programmed inside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's it's uh it's all about strategy, y", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And of course the final point is a fancy look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "As we have seen earlier the remotes which were displayed by Norman they weren't fancy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They were ugly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean mm very big or something with lot of buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we should have something it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well the last one with the um yeah with the two parts was uh original, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With uh two two two parts controller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean uh I mean uh I mean uh you see if it's like that even a kid who wants to have a control he could just plug it and use it, you can't avoid him.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you can have an button for child lock.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So just by pressing the button with some code, you t you put a lock onto the remote, so that he can't use even.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we can think about uh having uh on the on the on the user interface when you switch on the T_V_ you can uh well write a code or choose a category, if it is kids, uh things like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe you have to to show some specific programmes for kids and then just just yeah just push uh kids button so it's automatically", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. these are probl yeah. Mm. Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". So if he.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think these other four points they're the market demands and so it's for the user interface design and industrial design to just think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So for mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. So for my part I will check the prices the um the prices difference uh of what to use, where to use, and s uh and so on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it should be clearer for us in the next meeting that th uh these could be included.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. I think we need to define also a s the set of vocabularies for the speech recogniser", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because uh if you want uh say we can sort by channels or sort by T_V_ programs, you have to decide a category of vocabularies for them. If numbers, they're easy,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if name the channel by by name.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I think we can we can have just numbers for channels and you can say to your remote control like uh sports and then on the T_V_ you have a list with with uh uh well with sports program playing now", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and and uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, we have a problem there. You see uh if you have a voice commands and you are s you are watching a score on uh basketball score or something, and if the score comes twenty four thirty five, you've just say twenty five", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and suddenly the screen the channel goes to twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think there should be a prefix to some numbers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well but well e every possible word uh has a probability to come about of the T_V_ so..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean the the you just check all the probability that saying T_V_ twenty five and just ordinary twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ordinary twenty five you almost there's a probability of being said around sixty seventy percent", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but well okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and T_V_ twenty five I dunno it will be round about one or two percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's better to have some prefix before the number.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I I I think that the user would like wou would like to associate the channel or call the channel rather than than the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah something, some code.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You say numbe channel number five of the T_V_ correspond to something else in the channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So some people may want to say, I want to see this channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm mm. Well I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That will be too big.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it will be difficult for the vocabulary also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Check with the v R_ and D_ department the capability of recogniser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's difficult to to just say the the name of the channel. It will be difficult to say just the name of the channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because you have to s t uh a ch", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it's convenient for the user.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah but you have to to have all the name of the channel in your vocabulary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Als might be you just forgot the channel name, you kno only know the number.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe the user can create his own vocabulary,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The uh uh mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just pronouncing the the name of channels and include in the vocabulary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I think that I have mm mm I think there's another way you can do is that uh you can uh if when the user ch press a button to choose the channel for example, then what you can do is that the you can make the T_V_ screen to split them into small little little squares of images where you you you have a snapshot of every channel, so let's say it's a four by four matrix of the images, so now what you do is f looking at the all the sixteen channels available at one time, you just use the control button uh, you just you you just choose the the option you want", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then you just hit the button and then you go to that channel. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or lets the user create his own vocabulary of channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. So you you don't use the speech recogniser in that way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Just you have uh in the beginning you have uh t you have to train you have to create the vocabulary by yourself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I uh I also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "By associating each channel with the name or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I also think about uh another problem, if if there is uh more than one person who is watching T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And for each one has his own..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the s well the the speech uh r recogniser should be able to distinguish between the two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because uh I remember when I was a young child with my sister we yeah we always want to w to watch different emission at the at the same time", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or you have to s.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wanna watch this, I wanna watch that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's a pr it could be a problem if uh if well if someone passes by when you are watching T_V_ and say oh T_V_ thirty and just run, s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A and in the same lines we would have a one more problem. If we are using the television in the different environments, say in the factories or in the shops where there is a lot of noise and this voice commands if they fail to work, that would bring a bad name bad uh reputation for our company.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think we should specify some pre-requirements if we want to use a voice commands, say that it should be used in an silent homely environment or s something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or we can switch on or switch off the the special, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right that should be an option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's well I think that's a good uh a good option because it's simple and uh simple to implement also, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think these are the practical problems. So we need to take care of them in the design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we'll discuss them in next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's time to close this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you you stay a five minutes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh it came there on three minutes back so we are I think we can just press the okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thanks for your collaborations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I see ya.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. See you another thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "covid5", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "We'll call this meeting to order. Welcome to the fifth meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order passed on Monday, April20, the committee is meeting today to consider ministerial announcements, to allow members of the committee to present petitions, and to question ministers, including the Prime Minister, about the COVID-19 pandemic. Tomorrow, May8, Dr.AndreaMcCrady, Dominion Carillonneur, will give a special recital to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. Victory in Europe Day, VE Day, commemorates the formal acceptance of Germany's surrender by allied forces at the end of the Second World War. While the pandemic prevents us from gathering to celebrate in person, tomorrow at noon the voice of our nation will ring out in remembrance of this milestone in our history. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Just so you are aware, the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. I would like to remind members that, as in the House of Commons or committee, they should not take photos of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of the interpreters and to allow the meeting to proceed smoothly, I would ask you to follow some instructions. The video conference will be interpreted as in normal meetings of committees and in the House. In the lower part of your screen, you can choose the language: floor, English or French. Please wait until I call on you by name before you begin to speak. When you are ready to speak, click on the microphone icon to activate your microphone, or hold the space bar down while you are speaking. If you release the bar, your microphone will revert to mute, just like a walkie-talkie. Honourable members, I would like to remind you that if you want to speak English, you should be on the English channel. If you want to speak French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Please direct your remarks through the chair. Should you need to request the floor outside of your designated speaking time, you should activate your mike and state that you have a point of order. If a member of the committee wishes to intervene on a point of order raised by another person, you should use the raised hand function to indicate to the chair that you wish to speak. To do this, click on the participant button at the bottom of your screen. When the list appears, you will see the raised hand option beside your name. Speak slowly and clearly at all times. When you are not speaking, leave your microphone on mute. It is highly recommended that you use a headset with a microphone. You have to remember to switch languages. Should any technical challenges arise, for example, in relation to interpretation, please advise the chair immediately by raising a point of order, and the technical team will work on resolving them. Please note that we may need to suspend during these times in order to correct a problem. I want to remind the honourable members to mute their microphones when they are not speaking. If you get accidentally disconnected, please try to rejoin the meeting with the information you used to join initially. If you are unable to rejoin, please contact our technical support team. Before we get started, please note that in the top right-hand corner of your screen is a button that you can use to change views. Speaker view allows you to focus on the person currently speaking; gallery view allows you to see a larger number of participants. You can click through the multiple pages in the gallery view to see who is on and how many more participants there are. I understand there are no ministerial announcements today. We will now proceed to presenting petitions for a period not exceeding 15 minutes. I would like to remind members that any petition presented during the meeting of the special committee must have already been certified by the clerk of petitions. In addition, to ensure a petition is considered properly presented, the certificate of the petition and each page of the petition for a petition certified in a previous Parliament should be mailed to the committee no later than 6 p.m. the day before. Now we'll go to presenting petitions. Mr. Genuis.", "speakerName": "The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.))" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, five years ago when Parliament passed Bill C-14, then justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said that it represented a finely tuned balance between access and safeguards. It also included a five-year review. Petitioners on the first petition I'm presenting are very concerned to see Bill C-7 before Parliament, which removes safeguards ahead of that five-year review. Petitioners specifically mention their concerns about the removal of the mandatory 10-day reflection period, which can already be waived in certain circumstances. They are concerned about reducing the number of witnesses required to oversee it and ensure that a request has been properly made. I commend that petition to the consideration of the House. The second and final petition that I will be presenting today is with respect to Senate Bill S-204. This would make it a criminal offence for a person to go abroad and receive an organ from a person who did not consent. This responds specifically to concerns about organ harvesting in the People's Republic of China involving Falun Gong practitioners and increasing concerns that this is being or about to be applied to Uighurs as well. Canada can and should take action on this. Petitioners are noting that in the previous Parliament there were bills on this, Bill C-350 and Bill S-240. Now, in this Parliament there is a bill, Bill S-204, and the petitioners hope that this 43rd Parliament will be the one that gets it passed.", "speakerName": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood ParkFort Saskatchewan, CPC)" }, { "text": "We will go to Ms. May.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's an honour. This is my first occasion to present a petition in our virtual format of the COVID-19 committee. Thank you to you and your staff, Mr. Chair, for developing a system that allows us to present petitions electronically. The petition I am presenting today, which was previously approved, is from a number of constituents who are concerned that we pursue the Paris Agreement to hold the global average temperature increase to no more than 1.5C. The Paris Agreement itself embeds in it the concept of Just Transition with a capital J and a capital T, the concept of just transition ensuring fairness and support for all workers in the fossil fuel sector. The petitioners call upon the Government of Canada to move forward with an act to ensure just transition and to ensure adequate funding so that workers and communities dependent on the fossil fuel sector receive meaningful support to ensure security in their lives in the transition to more sustainable energy use. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "speakerName": "Ms. Elizabeth May (SaanichGulf Islands, GP)" }, { "text": "Those are all the petitions for today. I want to thank the honourable members for their usual collaboration and now we'll go on to", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "On a point of order, Mr. Chair, on Tuesday, at our COVID-19 committee of the whole meeting, I was asking a question which started at 12:56:06 and was cut off at 1:00:32, so I still have 34 seconds of time remaining in my question time of five minutes. You said it could be no more than five minutes but that I had up to five minutes. Thirty-four seconds leaves a lot of time to have a quick question and a quick response. If you believe that my time was unjustly cut off and that it was unfair treatment of the official opposition when we were raising our points of order, I would ask that the 34 seconds be tacked on to the opening round for the opposition and credited to Rosemarie Falk, who will be leading off for the Conservatives.", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan (SelkirkInterlakeEastman, CPC)" }, { "text": "Normally what happens is the chair uses judgment, and with 35 seconds, there isn't enough time obviously for a full question or answer, most of the time. I'll take it under advisement. I can't allot it. I want everyone to know that I do have a timer next to me and I am timing the questions, and I will be treating the answers the same way. If it's a 25-second question, it will be a 25-second answer. Thank you for bringing that up. I believe that issue has been remedied. We've taken a little bit of the chair's ability to give judgment on it, but it will be from now on. Thank you.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, 34 seconds is a considerable amount of time to do a short question and a short answer.", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "I appreciate the advice. Thank you, Mr. Bezan. We'll now proceed to the questioning of ministers. I would like to remind the honourable members that no member will be recognized for more than five minutes at a time and that members may split their time with one or more members by so indicating to the chair. Ministers responding to the questions should do so by simply turning on their microphone and speaking. Our first questioner is Ms. Falk.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, yesterday, Elizabeth May and the leader of the separatists declared oil to be dead. It's certainly not dead, but it's dying under the Trudeau government. Will the Prime Minister stand up for Canada's energy workers, or does he agree with the fringe left and those who want to destroy our country?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk (BattlefordsLloydminster, CPC)" }, { "text": "I have a point of order.", "speakerName": "Ms. Elizabeth May" }, { "text": "Go ahead, Ms. May.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I believe that the language that the honourable member just used is unparliamentary", "speakerName": "Ms. Elizabeth May" }, { "text": "That's not a point of order.", "speakerName": "Mr. Garnett Genuis" }, { "text": "We can have differences of opinion, but it is absolutely Some hon. members: Debate. Ms. Elizabeth May: unacceptable and violates my privileges to An hon member: Debate. Ms. Elizabeth May: No, it's not debate. I would ask the chair to rule on that, not the member from the Conservative Party. It is unacceptable to assert that anyone who wants to make a point about our economy is trying to destroy the country. This allegation is a violation of my privilege. An hon. member: She was also named by the", "speakerName": "Ms. Elizabeth May" }, { "text": "Order. I didn't recognize anyone. I don't know who is speaking, so I'll just start talking myself. I want to remind honourable members to have respect in their questions and in their answers. When you refer to someone, please refer to them respectfully. This is a committee of the House, and I would expect no less of the honourable members. We'll go to the right honourable Prime Minister. You have 16 seconds.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. As I pointed out this morning in my press conference, we cannot move forward on a transformation of our energy sector without supporting the workers in that energy sector. We need their innovation and we need their hard work if we are going to lower our emissions, if we are going to reach our", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister)" }, { "text": "We'll go to Ms. Falk again.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it has been 43 days since the finance minister promised Canada's energy sector liquidity through the Business Development Bank of Canada. For 43 days the finance minister has failed to deliver on that promise. These delays cost jobs and they are costing us Canadian businesses. If the government doesn't step up to support our energy sector, they are in effect doubling down on their support for foreign, unethically sourced oil. Mr. Chair, when will the credit options be available to Canada's small and medium energy firms?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk" }, { "text": "I want to remind honourable members that we do have interpreters who are listening and translating. In consideration to them, please speak at a reasonable pace so that they can understand and then translate. The right honourable Prime Minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, from the very beginning, our priority through this pandemic and this crisis has been to support workers across the country. We have sent billions of dollars to workers right across the country, including Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C., and Newfoundland and Labrador in the energy sector for them to be able to support their families through this difficult time. We are also working on sectoral supports right across the country. Those will be announced in due course. Our focus from the get-go has been", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We'll move to Ms. Falk.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, another group that has been ignored by the Liberals is our farmers. The announcements to date fall well short of what is needed to maintain a steady supply of affordable and healthy food. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture has asked the government for a $2.6-billion emergency fund. Instead of responding to specific COVID-19 challenges, our farmers are facing the Liberals' reannounced $125 million that was already budgeted in the AgriRecovery program. Will the Prime Minister finally step up and take our food supply chain seriously, or is agriculture just an afterthought for him?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk" }, { "text": "On the contrary, Mr. Chair, we take agriculture and our agricultural sector extremely seriously, which is why we announced hundreds of millions of dollars a couple of days ago to respond to pressing needs. We will continue to make investments to ensure both the safety of workers in our agricultural sector and the safety of our communities, as well as the continued flow of high-quality Canadian food onto our tables right across the country. Supporting the people who produce our food is a priority for this government and will continue to be.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Well, Mr. Chair, recycled program announcements do not respond to the immediate needs facing our farmers. This is absolutely unacceptable. Our farmers are faced with rising operational costs, a disrupted service industry, labour shortages and a reduced capacity at processing plants. The government has a responsibility to take domestic food security seriously. When will the Prime Minister deliver adequate support to address the critical changes facing our ag industry?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I would suggest respectfully that the honourable member take a look once again at the announcement we made, which actually highlights significant new investments to support our agricultural industry. I certainly agree that there is more to do. Every step of the way in this unprecedented situation, we've been moving forward on doing more, on adjusting and on investing more. We need to support our agricultural sector and the people who work so hard to put food on Canadians' tables right across the country and we will continue to.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, Canadians expect to find healthy and affordable food at their grocery stores, but if the government does not take action now, that's not a given. Our farmers are trying to keep Canadians fed while keeping their heads above water. The Liberal government's own failed federal carbon tax is weighing them down. It is an enormous hit to their bottom line, and the recent carbon tax hike is taking even more money out of the pockets of farmers at a time when they can afford it the least. Will the Prime Minister exempt all farm operations from the carbon tax and reimburse the money that they have already taken from them?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it's a shame to hear the member opposite accidentallyunintentionally, I'm certainmislead the House and Canadians. The price on pollution actually puts more money into Canadians' pockets, and that includes farm families. People who pay the cost of the price on pollution on average receive more money back. This is the way of creating a better future for our kids and grandkids, which I know people in communities right across the country, including our farm communities, want to see happen. We are moving forward in a responsible way to put a price on pollution and put more money in average Canadians' pockets.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We now continue with Mrs.Gill. Mrs.Gill, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. As you know, all sectors of the economy are fragile at the moment, specifically the fisheries. I am thinking about the lobster fishery in the Magdalen Islands, the crab fishery on the Cte-Nord or those fishing for herring in the south of the Gasp. Because imports have ceased, because the domestic market is weak and in decline because of the interruption of the tourism and restaurant industries, the fishing industry and its fishers must be supported. I would like to know what the government has done to support our fishers since the crisis began.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Marilne Gill (Manicouagan, BQ)" }, { "text": "Our fishers do exceptional work that is extremely important in feeding Canadians and in contributing to our economic success through their exports around the world. This crisis has struck them very hard. That is why we have established measures in the tens of millions of dollars to support our processors. We have also announced help for the fishers. We know that these are difficult and unprecedented times, and we are going to", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "My thanks to the Prime Minister. I am actually talking about help for the fishers. I know about the processing industry and the $62.5million to be used essentially for freezing products, but I am talking about the fishers themselves. Given the economic situation, most of our fishers are getting ready to leave. First, there are health risks. We know very well that it is impossible for them to observe all the social distancing measures. They have to incur additional expenses in order to conduct their normal fishing activities. In addition, they feel that they will be losing money, because of the drop in the price of their resource. They are just as essential as farmers, but they are going to have to work at a loss and they are not going to have workers to assist them. Workers in the seasonal industry do not know what tomorrow will bring. They do not even know whether they will be able to put food on the table next year. Are you going to do anything else, in addition to the assistance of $62.5million? Time is of the essence. Our fishers have lacked certainty for weeks and they are very concerned.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Marilne Gill" }, { "text": "Yes, indeed, we are going to do other things. Other investments will be made in various sectors in order to support Canadians. We recognize the challenges that fishers must face in terms of social distancing and of work that is often seasonal. We are going to continue working with the industry, with the fishers, and with the coastal communities in order to ensure that people have confidence in their abilities and in their future. In times of crisis, it is important for the government to be there to support people, and that is exactly what we are going to continue to do. This is an unprecedented crisis, but we can see once more that Canadians are there for each other. Our government will continue to be there for the fishers and the fishing industry.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "I would have preferred us to be there from the start. Clearly, this is a difficult crisis. But, given the cyclical nature of the industry, some sectors have had to postpone for several weeks the preparations they need for fishing activities. The current program could be modified in a number of ways, to accommodate the cycle, the dates, and the size of the companies. They would really like to take advantage of the $40,000loan, but they cannot because of their payroll. Given the dates, they are also ineligible for the 75%salary subsidy. I can already suggest a number of solutions to the government and to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, that would bring help to those businesses very quickly. The fishers carry on, because it is a duty for them, because they want to help us and to be part of the effort at this time of crisis. At the same time, they have no guarantee that they will be supported. I would really like to hear a guarantee that they will be supported, that they will be able to put food on the table this year, and that they will be able to support the communities that often depend on the fishing industry, a major industry in those communities.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Marilne Gill" }, { "text": "Minister Jordan has been working with the fishers, the fishing industry and the communities affected by the crisis since the crisis began. We are assessing a number of solutions. We have proposed various solutions to support the communities, the workers and the families. This is an unprecedented situation. From the outset, our priority has been to support the millions of Canadians from coast to coast who have lost their jobs. We have been able to do so, but we are going to continue to work for those who must now face difficulties. We are going to be there for each other. That is what people are expecting from our government and from other Canadians.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Before we move to the next question, I would like to remind members of the committee to speak slowly, and to address their remarks to the chair and not directly to each other. Thank you very much. We will now go to Mr. Bachrach.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, municipalities across Canada are facing a financial crisis. They've seen revenues plummet, and at the same time the cost of delivering municipal services has risen. As the Prime Minister knows, municipalities are unable to run deficits and so they are facing the reality of cutbacks and serious cuts to the services that Canadians depend on. We know that municipalities are vital during this time to provide services to Canadians. They're going to be even more important during the recovery, especially when it comes to delivering on the infrastructure programs before us. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities and mayors across Canada have called for emergency financial relief for the municipal sector. My question for the Prime Minister is, when can they expect federal financial support to arrive?", "speakerName": "Mr. Taylor Bachrach (SkeenaBulkley Valley, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, no government in Canada's history has done more to work with our municipalities, with our cities, with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to respond to the challenges they're facing and to partner with them. Things from infrastructure to investments have made a huge difference right across the country in the quality of life of Canadians in towns, large and small, from coast to coast to coast. As I'm sure the member well knows, our Constitution requires that most of the funding for municipalities flow through the provinces. We are working with the provinces, as we continue to work with the cities, to ensure that we're able to support this order of government that delivers the vast majority of services to Canadians with very little financial means. We know how difficult it is for our cities. We will continue", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Bachrach.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it would seem that the federal government has the fiscal capacity and the responsibility to help municipalities weather this crisis. Transit systems have been hit particularly hard and have seen the bulk of the layoffs in the municipal sector. These transit services carry essential workers to work, whether they are health care workers, grocery store workers, janitors or others. The risk is that we will see higher fares to deal with this financial crisis. We will see service cutbacks precisely at a time when we want to be expanding transit and improving transit in our communities. Does the Prime Minister acknowledge that the federal government needs to step in to safeguard and protect Canada's transit services?", "speakerName": "Mr. Taylor Bachrach" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this federal government recognizes how important it is to support all Canadians, which is why we put forward unprecedented measures to help millions upon millions of Canadians with the CERB and with the wage subsidy. We will continue to work with the provinces, which have jurisdiction over the municipalities. I'll be having a conversation with all other first ministers tonight to talk about a broad range of issues. I can highlight that the issue of transit funding has come up. We have continued to engage with them, but again, it is important to respect the Constitution and understand that funding for municipalities and cities does go through the provinces. The federal government is happy to be there to support, but it must be", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We will go to Mr. Bachrach again.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I am wondering how the Prime Minister could explain to a bus driver in Vancouver who has been laid off that as a public sector worker, she can't access the federal wage subsidy, while an equivalent worker in the airline industry gets to keep her job with the federal help of that program. Could the Prime Minister explain how that is fair?", "speakerName": "Mr. Taylor Bachrach" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm happy to explain to the member and to all Canadians that our Constitution creates federal areas of jurisdiction and provincial areas of jurisdiction. The airline industry, like banking, like telecommunications, is a federal area of jurisdiction that we have been able to move forward on. More than that, we brought the Canada emergency response benefit and the wage subsidy to all industries across this country, because we knew that as the federal government, it was something that we needed to step up on", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We will go back to Mr. Bachrach.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'd like to shift gears a little bit. Faced with minimal health care capacity, remote indigenous communities in my riding are taking matters into their own hands. The Nuxalk have put up a checkpoint on Highway 20 to protect community members and prevent non-essential travel. In particular, it is to protect the three remaining fluent speakers of the Nuxalk language, these cherished elders in their community. The Haida on Haida Gwaii have set up a similar checkpoint, as have communities throughout British Columbia, yet federal support for indigenous communities amounts to only $39 million for all of the indigenous communities in B.C. Does the Prime Minister not agree that more support is warranted to help indigenous communities in my riding and across the country?", "speakerName": "Mr. Taylor Bachrach" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, from the very beginning, we made funds available to Canadians right across the country, particularly people in indigenous remote or northern communities who we knew would be facing more difficult challenges because of the existing vulnerabilities in their health care system and socio-economic circumstances. We have made unprecedented investments and we will continue to make the necessary investments, because we need to make sure that indigenous Canadians, and indeed all Canadians, have the supports they need to make it through this crisis.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We will continue with Mr.Berthold. Mr.Berthold, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr.Chair. I am going to keep talking about the area of jurisdiction that the Prime Minister likes to talk about, except that I want to point out the incompetence of the Liberals in keeping their commitments on infrastructure projects. My question is very simple. As the provinces gradually restart their economies, can the Prime Minister tell us how many projects that the provinces have submitted are waiting for approval from his government?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold (MganticL'rable, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I hope that the length of the pause will not be taken out of my time.", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "No, I stopped the clock for your time. Ms.McKenna, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, Mr.Chair, I was on mute. I'm very pleased with how we are working with the provinces and territories. I have spoken with all of my provincial and territorial counterparts over the last couple of weeks. Work on our historic infrastructure program is progressing well. My department has worked very hard to approve projects, and we will continue to do so. It is very important to build projects that will create good jobs", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna (Minister of Infrastructure and Communities)" }, { "text": "We are returning to Mr.Berthold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "We still haven't had a response. How many projects are currently awaiting government approval? I know that the minister has been meeting virtually with the provinces over the last few days. However, there are still hundreds of projects waiting for approval from the Liberal government. Rather than wait for the right political opportunity to approve these files, will the minister commit today to respecting the provinces and approving by next week all the projects that are sitting on her desk?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I'm pleased with how we are working with the provinces and territories. We are approving projects. If the hon. member speaks to the provinces and territories, he will see how well we are working together. We will announce the approval of projects because it's very important for our economy, our communities and creating good jobs.", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "Does the minister understand that she hasn't told us how many projects are still pending? The construction season is very short. Approval of a project in July means that work can't begin until next year, which won't help revive our economy.", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "I want to make it clear that we have approved hundreds of projects in the last few weeks. We will work with the provinces, territories, municipalities and indigenous communities to implement these projects. These projects are important for the economy and the environment, as well as for jobs", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "We return now to Mr.Berthold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, while the minister is calling for a green recovery of the country's economy, public transit is at risk. Physical distancing measures will cause public transit use to drop for several months. The Union des municipalits du Qubec estimates that the monthly losses are between $75million and $100million. Other countries have included public transit in pandemic relief programs. Why isn't Canada?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, we recognize the importance of public transit for our economy, since some essential workers use public transit. We are working very closely with our counterparts and are listening to the municipalities. As the Prime Minister said, it's the provinces that must help because the money", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "We return now to Mr.Berthold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, once again, what we're hearing is that the government is passing the buck to the provinces. Unfortunately, the minister was unable to answer a single question about the number of infrastructure projects still on the federal government's desk, which is very important. Several large municipalities are waiting for the approval of projects. Moreover, public transit systems are facing an extremely serious financial crisis. Ridership in most systems is down 85%to90%. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is asking for help for small communities, as well as large municipalities. Why is the federal government ignoring the municipalities in the Canadian Federation of Municipalities at this time?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I can reassure the hon. member that we are working very closely with the municipalities. We are listening to the municipalities to find out what their issues are and how we can support them. Of course, we need the help of the provinces and territories. In terms of the number of projects that we've approved, I would be happy to inform the hon. member of the exact number of all the approved projects that my department has been working very hard on over the past few months to approve projects to go forward.", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, do I have any time left?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "No, your time is up. We'll now go on to Mr. Fast.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. This question is directed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. On March 28, the minister personally tweeted out a thank you to the People's Republic of China for donating PPE to Canada. This tweet happened within three hours of China's announcement of that gift. As it turned out, much of the PPE was defective and could not be used. More recently, Taiwan donated half a million surgical masks to Canada, yet here we are, two weeks later, and the minister has yet to personally thank Taiwan for its generosity. Will the minister now thank this free and democratic country for its generous gift to Canadians?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast (Abbotsford, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'd like to thank my colleague for the question. Indeed, we are very grateful to every nation for helping Canada. This is a global pandemic that knows no borders. We have been expressing our thanks to many nations that have contributed. We will continue to do so. It is important in a time of pandemic, Mr. Chair, that we not play politics and that humanity comes together. I can say, after my COVID foreign ministers call, that the world community has come together to make sure that supply chains will remain intact and that we will have transit hubs and air bridges. We will continue to work with every nation when it comes to health. This is a public good. We want to work together with everyone.", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Foreign Affairs)" }, { "text": "We will go back to Mr. Fast now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Well, Mr. Chair, I didn't hear a thank you there, so I'm going to try again. On May 4, the Government of Taiwan delivered 25,000 surgical masks to the Government of British Columbia. On hand were B.C. Minister of Citizens' Services Anne Kang and Minister of State for Child Care Katrina Chen, who, as ministers, officially thanked the Government of Taiwan for its donation. Again, will the minister now do the right thing and, on behalf of Canadians, recognize the generosity of Taiwan and thank its government for that timely donation?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as I said to you before, Canada is grateful to all who have given supplies to Canada. This is a common endeavour. We are thankful. We are grateful to every nation and we will continue to be. As I said, when it comes to global health, when it comes to helping each other, I think it is a duty for all to come together. We are grateful and thankful for all those who have agreed to help Canada and Canadians from coast to coast to coast in times of need. I've repeated that and have said many times in many forums that we are grateful and thankful to all of those who are helping Canada.", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne" }, { "text": "Well, Mr. Chair, again there was no specific thank you to Taiwan. The Government of Taiwan has been the world leader in successfully fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a lot to learn from them and their response. Sadly, the People's Republic of China continues to oppose Taiwan's membership in the World Health Organization. Will the minister now do the right thing and assure Canadians that he will fully support efforts to grant Taiwan membership in the World Health Organization?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'd like to thank the member. As a former trade minister, he's very well aware of Canada's one China policy. That said, we support Taiwan to continue meaningful participation in international multilateral forums, particularly when it comes to health. This is a global good, and we want to support every nation. We recognize that Taiwan and others have been doing very well in fighting this pandemic. We also believe that Taiwan's role as an observer in the World Health Assembly meeting is of interest to the international health community and we have been supportive of that.", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm going to pivot to repatriation flights. The minister has publicly said that over 20,000 stranded Canadians have been repatriated from abroad. Can he tell us exactly how many Canadians remain abroad who have expressed a desire to be repatriated?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Yes, Mr. Chair, I am very happy to update members. As of today, we have repatriated more than 20,000 Canadians on 232 flights from 87 countries. I would say that this is team Canada, and it knows no parties. Many members have written to me to make sure that we take care. It's not an exact science. We have, as I said, repatriated thousands and thousands. We continue, because we know there are still pockets of Canadian travellers who are stranded abroad. As the Prime Minister and I have said from the beginning, we will make our best effort to repatriate everyone who wants to come back home during the crisis.", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne" }, { "text": "We'll go on to Mr. Moore now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, Canadians need to have faith in their justice system, even in a time of crisis. My office has received correspondence from Canadians concerned that trial delays due to COVID-19 may result in criminals walking free. As this government has been working overtime to criminalize law-abiding citizens with new and useless gun laws, will the Minister of Justice ensure that real criminals will not walk free as a result of delays in the justice system?", "speakerName": "Hon. Rob Moore (Fundy Royal, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I thank the honourable member for his question. We have been working with my provincial counterparts across Canada, as well as with the various federal courts and also, through my provincial counterparts, with the superior courts and courts of appeal across Canada. Each particular jurisdiction has taken measures to ensure that basic essential services within the court system are maintained, through a variety of means, and we believe that we will be able to solve these various challenges.", "speakerName": "Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the regional relief and recovery fund was announced weeks ago as a way to help small and medium-sized businesses in rural communities, like those in my riding. In Atlantic Canada, these funds were to be distributed to the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. This is yet another announcement with no details from this Liberal government. Can the minister clarify whether we are days away or weeks away from this support flowing to the businesses that need it so desperately?", "speakerName": "Hon. Rob Moore" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I had the chance to talk with many of the chambers of commerce and business owners throughout Atlantic Canada, and we hear their anxiety. That's why ACOA's doing great work on the ground to make sure we can help them through this very difficult period. The member is right. We have increased the budget of ACOAgood newsand I'll be coming up with the details very soon. It will be a pleasure to collaborate with him to make sure that we can help many businesses and business owners across the Atlantic region.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly (Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, my office has heard from many small business owners who have reached out to me. I know many have reached out to many of my colleagues and probably to all of us here today. They are frustrated by the eligibility requirements for some of the federal programs. In particular, they are unable to access the emergency business account, because they do not have a payroll. This could be the hair salon in my riding that subcontracts out its chairs. There are hundreds and thousands of small businesses in this very situation, vital small businesses in our communities, but they do not meet this requirement. These businesses, many of them, are weeks away from shutting down permanently. What does the Minister of Finance have to say to these small businesses that are suffering right now?", "speakerName": "Hon. Rob Moore" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank my honourable colleague for that really important question. I want all the businesses that he is talking about and all of them throughout the country to know that we continue to work very hard to make sure they're supported through this difficult period. More work needs to be done, and we will continue to do that work. We know that businesses are being supported through getting access to the wage subsidy to keep their employees together, and they're getting help, whether it's with rent or to defray costs by deferring GST and HST or customs duty payments. We're going to continue to work with all our businesses across the country.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng (Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade)" }, { "text": "We'll go to Mr. Moore for a brief question. You have less than 20 seconds, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it's a very specific issue. There are small businesses, thousands of them, that do not have a payroll. Some have a personal account that they've dealt with over the years rather than a business account, and that makes them ineligible. These businesses need help right now.", "speakerName": "Hon. Rob Moore" }, { "text": "I agree with the honourable member. Those businesses absolutely need support from us. We are going to keep working to ensure they are supported.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "We'll go to Mr. Cumming next.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, small businesses are concerned about their ability to survive, and no amount of deferrals, loans or subsidies can substitute for their need to be open and servicing their customers. Can the government confirm that a sectoral risk analysis has taken place to assist the provinces in reopening the economy?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming (Edmonton Centre, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I can assure the member that we've been very clear in terms of our strategy around reopening the economy. We need to make sure that we follow the advice of the experts and the health authorities to do so in a manner that does not compromise the health and well-being of Canadians. We of course will have a sectoral lens, and as you can see by some of the initiatives and the support packages we've put forward", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry)" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Cumming now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, thousands of business owners make a living and utilize dividends as their salary. They also use independent contractors. Can the government confirm that the programs currently in place will be expanded to these hard-working Canadians?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to assure the honourable member that we continue to work with all of our small businesses and I want to thank him for raising this very important issue. I want to assure our Canadian small businesses that we are going to continue to do this work to make sure they are supported.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Can the minister give me a date when she will be able to announce to these businesses that they will be eligible?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "I want to assure our Canadian small businesses of their importance and of the importance of their contributions to all of our communities. I want them to know that we continue to listen and that we will ensure that they are supported and continue to be supported during this difficult time.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Minister, they need more than assurance. Can you give me a date when I can tell these thousands of businesses they will be supported if they pay dividends or if they use contractors within their businesses?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, these businesses are absolutely important and are getting support through a range of means. We will continue to work with these businesses to make sure they are supported through this difficult period.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I spoke to a Second Cup owner whose landlord is not offering any kind of rent relief. The landlord says that he doesn't have the 25% needed to be eligible for the program because he's already paying for common area costs and deferrals on utilities, which he will have to pay on his mortgage. Will the government reform the rent relief program to focus on tenants and not just the landlords?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to let the member know that we are working to make sure that the details of the emergency program for rent are out there so that both tenants and landlords can understand the situation. We're seeing a significant number of both landlords and tenants coming forward to register for this program, and we are convinced that it will be in the best interests of landlords to move forward and give tenants this relief.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau (Minister of Finance)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we've been hearing, however, from small business owners that their landlords don't find the government's rent relief program appealing enough. Can the government confirm, given the program's low eligibility rate, that the program will be expanded and be more efficient in helping tenants?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we recognize that it's critically important that all of the details of this program be out there for landlords and tenants to understand. Those details are being worked on right now. This is a program that we've put out within the last week, and we are confident that it's in the best interests of tenants and landlords.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, during these trying times for small businesses, small businesses need all the help they can get. One easy way to do that would be to expand the Canada summer jobs program to businesses with over 50 employees. Will the government consider doing so to allow students to gain that very valuable work experience over the coming months?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we are very excited about the uptake of the Canada summer jobs program this year. The second uptake provided employers across the country with the ability to add their needs for students to the mix. I'm looking forward to announcing a possible expansion of this program in the coming days.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough (Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion)" }, { "text": "The next question session will go to Mr. Dowdall.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. During this pandemic, the government has consistently called for a team Canada, non-partisan approach, and I was glad to hear that said a little earlier today. In fact, the public has called for that approach as well. However, at the same time, the current government has used a parliamentary back door to launch a poorly thought out gun ban. We have a government that didn't win the popular vote, and I'm just wondering how I explain to my residents, because I'm getting so many calls, that this is not a bloated response because, quite frankly, it is.", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall (SimcoeGrey, CPC)" }, { "text": "First of all, Mr. Chair, I think the honourable member can explain to his constituents that the forming of regulations through order in council is actually the process prescribed in law in Canada under section 117.15 of the Criminal Code. I would also invite the member to advise his constituents that way back in 1991, when there were some Conservatives who called themselves Progressive, the Mulroney government brought forward, in Bill C-17, the authority under that section for an order in council to prescribe specific makes, models and variants of military firearms as prohibited or restricted. The Harper government used the same tool", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair (Scarborough Southwest, Lib.)" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Dowdall.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'm not sure, but I'm hoping, that I'll get an honest answer on this question from the minister, who has everything from rocket launchers to basically toy guns on the ban list. When will we get the cost of this buyback program?", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "I want to remind the honourable members to please be careful in their language when they are referring to others. I won't comment on this one particularly, but I want all of you to be very, very careful when referring to other members. The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "It's a good opportunity, Mr. Chair, to respond to some of the obfuscations and deceptions that have been put out there. We're not banning any toys and we're not banning shotguns. That's all misinformation that's being put out. I think it's very clear, and I invite the member to look at the list of weapons that are", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Dowdall.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you. What will be the cost of the buyback program, please?", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "Actually, I'm very much looking forward to bringing forward legislation as soon as the House resumes. We will have a vigorous debate in Parliament about the form a buyback will take and we will bring forward a budget at that time.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Will those with illegal weapons be eligible for the buyback program?", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "If people are illegally in possession of the weapons and they're committing a crime, they will be dealt with for the crimes they commit.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm going to switch it over. Canadians in my riding who suffer from cystic fibrosis are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. While these Canadians with existing lung conditions are incredibly worried about a virus that attacks the ability to breathe, the good news is that there are life-saving medicines for those with CF. The problem is with the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board and its restrictive guidelines. I am wondering if and when the government will correct these guidelines and give access to life-saving medicines for our most vulnerable.", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as you know, the government has been very committed to improving access and affordability for prescription medications for all Canadians. The PMPRB regulatory amendments will help Canadians be able to afford their prescriptions, and Canada will continue to be an important market for new medicines. In fact, many countries with much lower medicine prices gained access to new medicines in the same time frame as Canada frame, or even faster, so we are excited to do this work.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu (Minister of Health)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, our seniors are being particularly hard hit right now during this pandemic, yet seniors have not been given any direct support. It's one of the number one calls I'm getting in my office. Funding to charities like the United Way is being labelled as support for seniors, but most won't see any of this support. Seniors in my riding have asked for an increase in their CPP and OAS, and to be able to make untaxed bulk withdrawals from their RRSPs while they still have some value. Can the minister confirm when these real and direct supports for seniors will be forthcoming?", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "I want to assure the honourable member and Canadians that our government has been working extremely hard on how best to support and serve seniors during this pandemic. He mentioned. I'm not quite sure what's happening with my machine. I apologize.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte (Minister of Seniors)" }, { "text": "You might want to try your space bar and keep it down while you're speaking. That might solve the problem.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll try that. Thank you very much. I want to assure the honourable member and Canadians that our government has been working extremely hard on how best to support and serve seniors during this pandemic. We have introduced a supplementary GST payment for low- and modest-income seniors. We've reduced the minimum RRIF withdrawal by 25%, and we've made the CERB available to working seniors who have lost their jobs due to the COVID pandemic. We know there's more work to do, and we'll have more to say in the future.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "I want to remind honourable members that if there are issues, we are taking note of them, and we'll hopefully resolve them by the next meeting. We are getting much better, and we're all new at this. Thank you for your patience. We'll now go to Ms.Gaudreau.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. My first question is for the Prime Minister. We've heard a lot about contact tracing apps. Several provinces have already made announcements on this, and others want to follow suit. Today, I'd like to know where the government stands on this. We've been talking about a national strategy for some time. Where are we now?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marie-Hlne Gaudreau (LaurentidesLabelle, BQ)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Obviously, contact tracing is an important part of managing any outbreak. In fact, we have been looking at a number of ways to support increased contact tracing across the country, including working with provinces and territories to boost their capacity through human resources and volunteer organizations. We are working very closely with them to make sure we have the capacity. The member is right that many other countries have used digital contact tracing apps. Anything we put forward as a digital tool to assist with contact tracing would be thoroughly considerate of Canadians' privacy rights.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Let me clarify my question a little. Yes, we are talking about public health, and we are currently experiencing a crisis. But you know as well as I do that the Privacy Commissioner has been calling us to task for a very long time now, because there is also a crisis of confidence. You know as well as I do that for 90%of Canadians, the misuse of their personal data is a cause for concern, whether it be for profiling or business development purposes. This is an issue that concerns all Canadians. The commissioner is indeed calling for a focus on reform of the Privacy Act. I'd like to know whether this commitment will be implemented quickly so that legislation can be passed on this issue, in this case the Privacy Act.", "speakerName": "Ms. Marie-Hlne Gaudreau" }, { "text": "Particular attention must be paid to transparency, privacy and ethical concerns. Naturally, Canadians are concerned about how their data is used. New technologies are subject to the Privacy Act.", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains" }, { "text": "We're talking about public health. The provinces are currently in the process of legislating. We're talking about what is going on in Quebec, among other places, and I would like to make sure that the federal government commits to respecting the proposals regarding geolocation and contact tracing possibilities, with full respect for the right to privacy. Can we commit to respecting the provinces?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marie-Hlne Gaudreau" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have worked very closely with provinces and territories for a long time before the outbreak, but certainly ever since the outbreak. We respect the rights of jurisdictional authorities to use tools that have been properly vetted through their own provincial and territorial legislation. Nothing we would ever do at the federal level would put Canadians' privacy in jeopardy.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Concerning privacy, there are 30million Quebeckers and Canadians who have had their personal data leaked. Why is it that our laws don't allow us to apply financial penalties so that we can then go further? The very basis is to be concerned about our fundamental rights. The commissioner has been making this request for several years now. As the critic for access to information and privacy, I'd like a commitment that the federal government will deal not with what the provinces are doing, but with the Privacy Act.", "speakerName": "Ms. Marie-Hlne Gaudreau" }, { "text": "Your time is up, but I'll give the floor to the minister for 30seconds.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you for the question. Our government will ensure the privacy of Canadians is respected, support responsible innovation and take reasonable steps to strengthen enforcement powers. That's why we created a digital charter. We are strengthening Canada's privacy laws in response to the digital age.", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Mr. Baker.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'll be sharing my time with the member for Malpeque. Mr. Chair, my question is for the Minister of Seniors. Minister, in my riding of Etobicoke Centre, we are mourning the loss of 40 residents to COVID-19 at the Eatonville long-term care centre. Over 143 residents and 88 staff members have now tested positive for the virus. This tragedy is not only taking place in Etobicoke Centre but across Canada. Of all Canadians who have died from COVID-19, 79% were living in long-term care homes. That's over 2,000 seniors. This is a catastrophe, and it's frankly unacceptable. Our seniors and their families deserve better. I understand that long-term care homes fall within the jurisdiction of provincial governments in Canada, but this is a crisis. What is the federal government doing right now to help protect our seniors who are living in long-term care homes from COVID-19? What will we do to reform our long-term care homes in the future to ensure that our seniors in Etobicoke Centre and across Canada get the care they deserve?", "speakerName": "Mr. Yvan Baker (Etobicoke Centre, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to my colleague from Etobicoke Centre for his very thoughtful question. We are deeply concerned by the outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities, and our thoughts are with those who have lost a loved one. It's a very difficult time. As my colleague mentioned, while these facilities are regulated by provinces and territories, we have been focused on protecting the health and safety of long-term care residents and staff while working with our partners in a team Canada approach. We've released guidelines to prevent and control COVID-19 infections. We're working with the provinces and territories to cost-share a temporary salary top-up for long-term care workers. We are working through investing $2 billion to secure personal protective equipment for the health of workers, including those in the long-term care homes, and we've deployed the Canadian Armed Forces to assist 25 long-term care homes in Quebec and Ontario. We all have a role to play to stop the spread of COVID-19 and to protect our seniors and caregivers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Mr. Easter.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. At the finance committee, we've heard a lot of concerns from all sectors of the economy as a result of COVID-19 and we've been presented with quite a number of possible solutions as well, several of which the government has acted upon. My question is on the support offered to the agri-food sector announced on Tuesday. It is very welcome support, but I sincerely believe the farm sector will be taking the Prime Minister up on the suggestion that $250 million should be seen as an initial investment. Potatoes are the number one commodity in Prince Edward Island. However, as a result of reduced processor contracts for next year, plus cancelled seed contracts, millions of dollars of seed and process potatoes have no home. To make matters worse, farmers have high fixed costs that they now have to spread over fewer acres. How does the minister see Tuesday's announcement addressing potato farmers' concerns? Second, in 2013, long-term financial safety nets were gutted by the Harper government. Will the minister be coming forward with improved business risk management programs as a result?", "speakerName": "Hon. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank Mr. Easter, the member for the riding of Malpeque on Prince Edward Island. It's a beautiful rural riding with lots of agricultural production. I want to recognize the hard work of farmers throughout the crisis. On Tuesday, I was proud to announce one more step for supporting our producers and processors. We know the importance of our potato farmers, and that's why we are launching a first-ever surplus food purchase program, a $50-million fund designed to help redistribute existing inventories, such as potatoes, to local food organizations. On the financial safety net that we have in place for our farmers, called the business risk management program, we announced up to $125 million in funding through AgriRecovery and made changes to AgriStability that will help producers quickly. I will continue to discuss with my provincial counterparts toenhance and improve the BRM programs. In the meantime, I want to reiterate that BRM programs, including AgriInvest, are there to help farmers in difficult times.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food)" }, { "text": "We'll go on to Mr. Johns now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, small businesses across Canada closed their doors to stop the spread and for public health. Now they're currently hanging off the edge of a cliff waiting for financial help. Robyn, who has owned Arbutus Health in Tofino for over 13 years, can't apply for the Canada emergency business account loan, simply because she doesn't have a payroll of over $20,000. All of her practitioners are paid contractors, so she is ineligible. With no business income and without emergency financing, it is virtually impossible for her to pay her bills or come up with the 25% needed for the Canada emergency commercial rent assistance program. The government promised to be flexible and willing to adjust its COVID response rollout so that nobody falls through the cracks, but Robyn, like tens of thousands of proprietors who are the economic job creators of our communities, urgently needs the government's help now. Will the government amend its programs to help more business owners so that people like Robyn don't lose their businesses?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns (CourtenayAlberni, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank the honourable member for his really good question. I know he and I have talked about this, and I appreciate the input and the feedback that he is providing from business directly. I want to assure Robyn and her businesses, and many businesses across the country, that we are absolutely listening, and we will continue to make sure we are supporting those businesses during this period. We know that many businesses are being helped through the Canada emergency business account. There are well over 550,000 businesses that are getting support through this emergency business account. We also know that more has to be done, and we will continue to work with you and businesses across the country so that we can indeed give them that necessary support to weather this difficult period of COVID-19.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, that's not going to help Robyn feel comfort. I was talking to Heather last night, who also owns a business in Tofino, Basic Goodness Pizzeria, with her partner Marco. Like many proprietors of family businesses who aren't on payroll, they don't qualify for the business loans. They don't qualify for the wage subsidy because they're a seasonal business. Now with the new rollout of the rent support, they're not sure if their landlord is willing to play ball and even apply. That's three separate programs that leave them out. Heather was in tears last night as she told me that they have done nothing wrong to deserve being excluded from these emergency programs. I agree. Will the government fix the rent support program so that tenants can apply, instead of leaving it up to landlords, and so businesses can get the help they desperately need?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we've been working on this program since the beginning. We've been working on offering a response for small businesses and charities and non-profit organizations, and we are continuing to listen on the ground to how we can better assist the businesses that fall through the cracks. We will continue to do that as we go along in this emergency situation. Thank you very much to the honourable member for sharing the realities of his constituents.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier (OttawaVanier, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, when the government rolled out its commercial rent support program, why didn't it negotiate an eviction moratorium with the provinces, as Australia and other countries did, to protect business owners?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as we know, Canadians are taking action and fighting against COVID-19. We know that many small businesses are worried about being able to pay rent. We've recognized it and we've been working with the provinces and territories to implement the Canada emergency commercial rent", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Johns.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "To qualify for the Canada emergency wage subsidy, a 30% drop in revenue has to be shown. Anyone who's owned a business knows that even with this program, it's going to be hard to survive. Why is the government using a 70% measurement drop to qualify for the rent support program, but a 30% drop for the wage subsidy?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns" }, { "text": "Again, Mr. Chair, thank you to the honourable member for sharing his views on this program. We've been working with provinces and territories to provide forgivable loans to commercial property owners, who in turn lower the rents for their tenants by 75%. We're hoping that tenants and landlords will be working together so we can support businesses during this very difficult crisis.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "Before we move on to the next question, Mr.Berthold, did you have a question or a point of order?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I have a point of order. I checked the clock from the first round of five minutes, and as you may recall, it took a very long time for me to get an answer from the government. I went back and forth with MinisterMcKenna for four minutes and 14seconds.", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "Just a moment. The interpretation isn't coming through. It's working now. Go ahead, Mr.Berthold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'll start over. During my first turn, it took 50seconds before a government minister deigned to answer my questions. After checking my time, I realized that the discussion between Ms.McKenna and I went on for four minutes and 14seconds, so I wasn't able to ask the minister one final question, a very important one. I would ask you to take that into account and allow me to ask MinisterMcKenna one last question, please.", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "The person chairing the meeting uses their judgment and does their best to keep an eye on what's going on. They try to be as fair as possible. I'll try to do a better job. I think it's more or less equal for all the members, but I apologize if the honourable member feels that he was denied a few seconds. Our next question goes to Mr. Doherty.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the Canada-U.S. border agreement is set to expire on May 20. Will the two governments renew the current agreement, or will it be modified?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty (CaribooPrince George, CPC)" }, { "text": "The decision to close the border was made in Canada by Canadians in the best interest of Canadians. We're continuing to monitor the situation carefully.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "When will the government be in a position to inform Canadians of any changes to the agreement?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "I'm pleased to advise the member that we're continuing to monitor the situation, but I'm strongly of the opinion that the circumstances on both sides of our border do not indicate that this is the right time to make a change in the restrictions.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Can the government confirm whether there are any discussions about reopening the border to certain modes of transportation and restricting others?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Before I go to the minister, I want to remind the honourable members that we do have translators, and they are trying to translate. With respect to them, I know we're trying to get as many questions in as possible, but they do have to translate them, so please be considerate of our interpreters. The honourable minister has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Let me please inform the honourable member that we are, of course, aware that the current agreement expires. I had a long conversation yesterday with the Prime Minister", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs)" }, { "text": "When will the government announce a relief package for Canada's aviation industry?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "We are engaged with the industry, and we are working with them on a solution, Mr. Chair.", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, will this relief package include funding for airline ticket refunds similar to what other countries around the world have done? Yes or no?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "It's early to say anything at this moment. We're taking a sectoral approach. This is about making sure that we restart the economy and have a strong recovery.", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains" }, { "text": "Can the Minister of Transport confirm that temperature screening is taking place at Canadian airports. Yes or no?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I can confirm that Air Canada has now adopted a policy of checking temperatures for passengers boarding Air Canada flights.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau (Minister of Transport)" }, { "text": "At which airports is that, and when did this practice start?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the announcement was made recently by Air Canada. It will start shortly and will apply to all places and destinations where Air Canada flies.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this is for the Minister of Transport. Last week I asked the Minister of Labour if they were aware of a letter written on April 6 by CUPE to the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Labour. Minister, were you aware of that letter?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "I want to remind the honourable members to place their questions through the Chair and not directly.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I didn't understand the reference to a letter from CUPE. Could my colleague please clarify?", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "On April 6, CUPE wrote a letter to the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Labour. Is the minister aware of that letter?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, could my colleague clarify what CUPE is referring to?", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "CUPE is the labour organization that represents thousands of flight attendants across our country.", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I do understand. Yes, I will confirm that CUPE, which represents the flight attendants, did write to us. Before that I had conversations with CUPE with respect to flight attendants and the use of personal protective equipment.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "Can the minister confirm whether or not they have provided PPE to the flight attendants and/or training for front-line staff for airlines and airports?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the airlines are providing PPE to flight attendants and flight crews. This has become a policy to ensure the safety not only of passengers on board but also of the flight attendants and flight crew.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, a business owner from Quesnel wrote to my office recently. He stated that he couldn't give his small business tenants a break on rent because the government is penalizing him for paying off his mortgage. When will the government change the CECRA rules to help more businesses?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as you know, we laid out the CECRA program just last week, and we are encouraging landlords to take that opportunity to support the renters. We will continue to look at how we can provide some relief to small businesses with rents.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "With all due respect, Mr. Chair, any landlord who does not have a mortgage on their business is ineligible for CECRA. Is the minister aware of this, and are they trying to revise the CECRA program?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "As you know, we've been working with provinces and territories to present that program. Of course, we will continue to monitor how this program works for landlords and tenants. We are asking, actually encouraging, landlords to do their part and help tenants, like the one you mentioned, go through this.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "We'll go to the next questioner. Go ahead, Ms. Dancho.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Small businesses in Manitoba employ 73% of Manitobans. That's over 286,000 Manitobans. I've been speaking with many small business owners in my riding. It's been heartbreaking, frankly, to hear that everything they've built and sacrificed for is in serious jeopardy, and through no fault of their own. Your government has created programs that are supposed to help them, but many legitimate businesses aren't able to apply. That could mean bankruptcy and cost thousands of Manitobans jobs. This is wrong. I'm hoping to hear specifics, not just nice words, on what you're going to do to help them. There are three issues regarding access to the $40,000 CEBA loan. First, businesses that recently incorporatedfor example, in late 2019are unable to apply their entire 2019 payroll. As a result, many are falling short of the $20,000 payroll threshold required to qualify for this loan. Second, many businesses contract their employees rather than have them on payroll. They also are unable to qualify for this loan. Third, many businesses use personal rather than business banking accounts. They aren't able to qualify for this loan either. What is your government going to do about these three scenarios?", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho (KildonanSt. Paul, CPC)" }, { "text": "I just want to remind honourable members to place their questions through the Chair and not directly to the minister. As well, please take into consideration the interpreters, who have to listen and translate, so that we can have this conversation.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank the honourable member for that question. Right from the very beginning, we've always said that we will listen and that we will work to make sure that measures go out to help our Canadian small businesses. She's absolutely right: 98% of all our businesses in this country are small businesses, so they absolutely contribute enormously to our communities and are job creators. That is why we have put out significant measures. For the Canada emergency business account, over 550,000 small businesses have been approved and are getting that support. I absolutely acknowledge that there is more work to do. I can assure the honourable member that we will continue to do this work so that businesses, all businesses, are supported, whether it is helping keep your employees together, helping with rent support, helping to keep your business's expenses low, or of course helping with the capital that is needed so that you can pay your operating expenses and your bills through this difficult time.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I didn't hear any answers from the minister's remarks, unfortunately. Moving on, there are two issues regarding the 50% commercial rent assistance subsidy, where landlords pay 25%, the government pays 50%, and the tenant is responsible for 25%. First, many of the small landlords aren't able to take a 25% hit to their income, and are unable to provide the subsidy to their tenants. Second, with the 70% decline in revenue threshold for small businesses to even be eligible for the rent assist, many restaurants are at 65% or 67% decline. They desperately need this subsidy but aren't able to qualify. This is not about problems with the program details. What is the government planning to do to streamline this program for small businesses that can't access but desperately need the rent subsidy?", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as the Minister of Official Languages, I just want to raise the fact that interpretation is very complicated right now. In order to make sure that we can continue to uphold bilingualism within the House, I would love it if my colleagues could take down the pace a bit. That would help the interpreters a whole lot. They are working very hard and trying to keep up.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly" }, { "text": "That's a reasonable request. I just want to remind everyone again that when you're asking a question, make sure you are doing it at a pace at which you're considering the people who are interpreting", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this is how fast I speak when we're in the House of Commons. It's just how I talk.", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "I understand. I have a lot of friends who speak very quickly.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Right. I understand. Perhaps we could get back to my question about the rent subsidy.", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "We stopped the time. You're not losing any time on this one.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Okay. I will try to speak more slowly.", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "I appreciate it. Thank you. The interpreters appreciate it. Now we'll go to the minister, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "As you know, we've been working with the provinces and territories to provide this forgivable loan to commercial property owners, who in turn lower the rent of their tenants by 75%. We will continue to monitor how this program is delivered, as we announced it last week. It will be offered pretty soon. It will be very important that we understand what happens across the country, and we will monitor and adapt the program as we", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it has been in the media quite a bit that this rent subsidy is not helping many, many, many small business owners. It's falling short of everything that was announced, so I think it needs to be taken a bit more seriously than that. There are two issues regarding the 75% wage subsidy. First, employers who pay themselves and their employees dividends rather than wages are unable to qualify. Second, there is also a 30% threshold revenue decline needed in order to apply. Many of the businesses in my riding are at 27% or 29%. They desperately need these funds but are unable to qualify. What is the government planning to do for these small businesses?", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "Again, thank you to the hon. member for sharing the realities she's hearing from small business owners. We are providing help and support for businesses through these very difficult times. The wage subsidy has been taken up and is working for many businesses. We know that some still fall through the cracks and we will look at how we can continue to support businesses across the country.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "We are now going to Mr. Kevin Waugh.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends (BrossardSaint-Lambert, Lib.))" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. Three weeks ago, on April 17, the Minister of Canadian Heritage announced funding of $500 million to assist Canada's arts, sports and cultural sectors. We are still waiting to hear who is eligible and when they can expect to receive this funding.", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh (SaskatoonGrasswood, CPC)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we will be releasing the details of that announcement, and how the money is going to be spent, in the coming days.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Canadian Heritage)" }, { "text": "We all know that many media organizations, large and small, in Canada are struggling right now. Allegations have arisen that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, is currently engaging in predatory behaviour and taking advantage of the current situation to harm its competitors using rate cuts. We've seen this from the province of Quebec. Many journalists have talked about this. What is the government going to do to address these allegations against the CBC?", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we have not been informed of these allegations. We will look into this, and we will get back to the hon. colleague if we do find any valuable information.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "Local community and ethnic media outlets and papers have strong ties to their communities that often go much deeper than the major media outlets. Is the government currently using any local or ethnic media outlets to provide crucial coronavirus information through advertising?", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I totally agree with my colleague. We need to get the information to Canadians on COVID-19, which is why we have started an ad-buy campaign of $30 million, which is being distributed in more than 900 local, regional and national newspapers across the country and 500 radio and TV stations in 12 different languages, including Farsi, Mandarin, Spanish, Italian and many more.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "Mr. Minister, I talked to the Winnipeg Free Press yesterday. It has received two ads from an ad agency in connection with the $30 million the government is doling out to help media outlets. They had one ad on March 27. The second ad was on April 11. That is two ads in the Winnipeg Free Press in the last eight weeks. Is this the kind of money you're attempting to dole out to help media: two ads in eight weeks?", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we have been doing a number of things for our media in Canada over the last few months and will continue to do so. On top of that $30 million ad-buy campaign, we have been investing $50 million in local journalism. Just this year, it means that 200 journalists will be hired in areas across the country where journalism is more poorly defined. The federal government has paid part I licence fees of our broadcasters to the CRTC. That means $30 million is staying in the pockets of our broadcasters.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, last week, as the minister would know, 15 community newspapers, including eight in Manitoba and seven in the province of Ontario, closed their doors for good. Is the government currently planning any further measures aimed at assisting community or ethnic media organizations? We understand that many more will close their doors within the next 30 to 60 days.", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "We are planning a number of other measures, some of which will be included in the $500 million. I will be announcing the details of that in the coming days. Of the $595 million that the media will receive, we have a tax credit that has now entered into force, and the cheques should be in the mail by the end of the summer. So there are a number of things we've done and a number of things we will be doing in the coming months as well.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "Mr. Waugh, you may have a short question.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Well, finally, you have the five members associated with that committee to dole out the $595 million. They haven't even met yet. When will they meet?", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "I would like to remind my hon. colleague that in order for us to provide tax breaks for the 2019 period, media outlets had to file their tax returns so we could go ahead. This will now be able to proceed, Madam Chair.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "We now move on to Mr.Godin. Mr.Godin, you may go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, MadamChair. This being the first time I've had the floor during a virtual sitting of Parliament, I'd like to take this opportunity to greet my fellow members, all 259participants. I hope they are taking care of themselves. I'd like to talk about the Prime Minister's appearance on the show Tout le monde en parle. This is what he had to say about his economic recovery plan: We are going to remain focused on the economy as a wholeinnovationresearch and science, the green economy and a fairer economyThere are things we are all reflecting on right now that reflection is going to continue. That was a weak answer. It didn't inspire much confidence. Can the government assure Canadians that it is being proactive and working on a plan to get the economy moving again? It must act now. Things are starting to reopen gradually. Is the government going to take concrete action to revive the economy?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin (PortneufJacques-Cartier, CPC)" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. Our government is wholly committed to restarting the economy, and we are working closely with the provinces to do just that. Last week, our government, together with the provincial and territorial premiers, released the principles that will guide efforts to restore economic activity across the country. That is key. The discussion between the Prime Minister and the premiers is continuing today.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "MadamChair, before we go any further, since it took a while for the minister, or the government, to answer the question, can I have that time back to ask questions?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "I stopped the clock, Mr.Godin.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you. The Prime Minister's answer during his appearance on Tout le monde en parle didn't inspire much confidence and doesn't line up with the Deputy Prime Minister's comments. How can the government be proud of announcing $252million in assistance for the agri-food sector, when that is less than 1% of all the program funding the government has committed to help Canadians get through the COVID-19 crisis? Clearly, the government doesn't see the food supply chain as a priority and has no regard for farmers and pork and beef producers. Does the government realize that eating is vital to Canadians? When is the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food going to adjust the program and show respect for Canadian farmers?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "I have the utmost respect for farmers. We are going step by step. We've already confirmed various supports for the agricultural sector. This week, we focused on beef and pork producers and processors, as well as sectors with product surpluses that can be redirected to food banks. I can assure my fellow member that this is an additional step and that more supports are on the way in the weeks ahead. Bear in mind that a number of programs are already available to farmers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "I'd like to switch topics now. PortneufJacques-Cartier is home to a company that is already licensed by Health Canada and that, for 20years, has been manufacturing medical equipment including masks, face shields and thermometers. This is equipment our health workers need. The company has a licence from the federal government. In mid-March, Health Canada reached out to the company to find out how much equipment it could manufacture to help fight COVID-19. The company confirmed that it could immediately start producing 200,000masks a week, ramping up to a million masks over the next few weeks. Forty-five days later, it is still waiting on its first order from the Canadian government. We are managing a crisis with a limited supply of medical equipment. Can the health minister tell us why, 45days later, this company licensed by Health Canada hasn't received an order?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "Thank you for the question. Industry and suppliers have enthusiastically answered our call to equip Canada with products and goods during the crisis. Many of those suppliers have already received contracts. We have reached out to all the others and will negotiate contracts as needed.", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand (Minister of Public Services and Procurement)" }, { "text": "I would now like to invite hon. member Jenica Atwin to speak.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. Seniors living alone are most at risk of economic insecurity, particularly single senior women, as gender inequality in the job market has translated all too often into inadequate retirement income. Madam Chair, can the minister commit to implementing a poverty reduction plan that addresses the unique challenges faced by older women?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Jenica Atwin (Fredericton, GP)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I want to assure the member that we are quite aware that this pandemic has typically affected single seniors, and many of those, given that they live longer, are single senior women. I want to assure her that we are working on this issue, and we have provided some supports already through measures such as the GST supplementary payment. That is on average almost $400 for single seniors. There's more work to do. We know that, so stay tuned.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, older women represent a high proportion of residents in long-term care facilities. Having spent their lives caring for parents, children and often their partners, they find themselves needing care in nursing homes. Multiple outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care homes in Canada have highlighted systemic gaps that senior and elderly women may face in such facilities, as well as the working conditions of the female-dominated ranks of nurses and personal support workers. Madam Chair, can the minister commit to implementing a federal strategy for long-term care homes that recognizes quality of life for residents and working conditions for the employees, ideally one that goes hand in hand with a poverty reduction plan and enhanced home and community care investments across the country?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Jenica Atwin" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I do want to thank the hon. member for her question. It's an important one. We are obviously deeply saddened by the outbreaks that have been going on in long-term care facilities and those who have lost their lives. We do recognize that the administration of long-term care and palliative care is the responsibility of provinces and territories; however, we have been taking a team Canada approach, and as you already know, we've been doing tremendous work with them to try to ensure that those who live in those facilities can be well cared for and safe. We are doing that with guidelines", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "Ms. Atwin has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, from May 4 to May 10, we are observing Mental Health Week. We know that our essential workers right now are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety, on top of putting their own physical safety and health on the line. Most of these workers work in precarious jobs with no access to paid sick leave or vacation, and without any benefits to access mental health services. Apart from the very welcome investments in online resources, can the minister explain how the government will support these workers now and once the crisis is behind us?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Jenica Atwin" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, thank you very much to the member for the question. I'm so glad that she's raising the issue of mental health and in particular how poor mental health is oftentimes connected to our socio-economic status. I appreciate the nuance in that question. She's right. We do have new resources that are available to all Canadians free of charge through the Wellness Together portal, but there is more to do. I think the announcement of top-up wages, for example, which the Prime Minister spoke about today, is another example of how we're taking the health and wellness of all low-income Canadians very seriously. We know that mental health is not divorced from socio-economic status, and I look forward to working with her more on other measures that we can take together.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we're all very aware of the importance of temporary foreign workers and their role in ensuring our food sovereignty across this country. The pandemic has highlighted how we depend on their work. How are we protecting them? Madam Chair, will the government take action to strengthen legislation and ensure Canadians have access to the food they need while the workers who help bring it to our tables have safe working conditions, regardless of where they are working in this country?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Jenica Atwin" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. We are very concerned, as are countries around the world, that we support and create the environment for the health and safety of our temporary foreign workers and we value their contribution to our food supply chain here in Canada. We have issued guidelines to employers and are working very closely with local public health authorities in the provinces and territories to make sure workers are protected, that physical distancing and other recommendations are adhered to and that there are severe consequences if employers don't take care of their workers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "We are now going to Mr. MacGregor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. My first question is this: Will the Liberal government prevent federal bailout funds from going to companies that use tax havens and avoid paying their fair share here in Canada, yes or no?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor (CowichanMalahatLangford, NDP)" }, { "text": "We are working to make sure that anyone who tries to circumvent the rules faces serious consequences. We are asking businesses to designate a representative to attest their claims. Any employer receiving the subsidy who is deemed ineligible will have to repay the full amount. Anyone who abuses the program could face fines of up to 225% of the subsidy amount as well as five years in prison.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier (Minister of National Revenue)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I didn't really hear a yes to that question, so I'll repeat it. Does the government really think it's appropriate for tax-avoiding corporations to receive funding provided for by taxpayers?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "We will keep going after companies that engage in tax evasion. I want to be clear. We will target those who are responsible, not innocent workers. An employee is an employee, regardless of who they work for. The wage subsidy program does not hand a blank cheque over to employers. It is meant to help Canadians pay their bills, keep their jobs and get through the crisis.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, the agriculture funding announced by the government earlier this week amounts to less than 10% of what the Canadian Federation of Agriculture estimates will be required to help farmers weather this crisis. Why has the Minister of Agriculture shortchanged our farmers?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, this is one more step. This was one more step. We have already committed significant support to our farmers through different programs, and we will do more. I have to remind my colleague that we have put in $5 billion through FCC, $50 million for the temporary foreign workers, two times $50 million for pork and beef producers this week, and $77 million for food processing. This is only the beginning, and we should not forget that the business risk management programs are still there to offer support.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Yes, Madam Chair, but we're nearly two months into this pandemic and this announcement only came this week. Farmers need certainty. When can farmers expect further updates on funding, and how much will the government be providing?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we are working closely with the farmers and their representatives to identify where the gaps are, but once again, we have made improvements to the AgriStability program. They can get, depending on the province, either 50% or 75% in advance payments, and they can also, right now, access their AgriInvest program. There is more than $2 billion ready to access today, if they have", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Mr. MacGregor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, federal disability recipients and seniors on fixed incomes have been hardest hit by cost of living increases from COVID-19. If we acknowledge that $2,000 per month is the minimum needed to get through this time, why are they being asked to survive on far less? When can they expect assistance, and how much will they receive?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I want to make sure people realize that we have provided some assistance through the GST supplementary benefit. We are also providing support to those who are still working, and we have done that by allowing them to access the CERB. There is more work to be done, so you'll be hearing more in the near future.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, as I think we've heard through today's question period, there are countless example of this government designing programs to exclude many small businesses that desperately need help. Whether it's the payroll requirements or other eligibility, we still, to this day, almost two months into the pandemic, have too many small businesses falling through the cracks. Madam Chair, why has the government taken this approach and when can we finally expect fixes to the whole system?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, right from the get-go, we have been committed to making sure that Canadians are helped through this crisis, and that small businesses get the support that they need, so that we are saving businesses and jobs in this country. That is what we have done with many of our programs. You're seeing that we are also listening, so that we can modify them as we need. I want to assure the member that the work is not done. We continue to do this.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Thank you. It is now over to Mr.Perron. Mr.Perron, you may go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. My question will come as no surprise, since it has to do with agriculture. I hear the questions my fellow members are asking, and to be frank, I don't find the answers satisfactory. It is well and good to talk about existing programs, but they aren't working, so enough with that refrain. That's what people are telling us. It's not just members of the opposition saying it. This morning, both farmers and processors came together for a press conference at the Union des producteurs agricoles's head office in Longueuil. Six stakeholders from different sectors sounded the alarm. Can the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food therefore tell us when she will announce significant supports for the industry?", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves Perron (BerthierMaskinong, BQ)" }, { "text": "We have already announced significant amounts of support, and more is on the way. I'd like to correct my fellow member. It's not that the programs aren't working; it's that they aren't generous enough in farmers' eyes. That's why I'm working with my provincial counterparts to make improvements to programming, including AgriStability. Here's an example. After using the online AgriStability benefit estimator, a pork producer found out that he would get $11 per head, as they say in the industry. Pork producers are calling for $20 per head, so it's a good start, even though it's not enough and it isn't what they are asking for. We want to keep working together, but farmers have to access the money available to them through AgriStability.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Now it's my turn to correct the minister. Even before the crisis, we were hearing from people in the industry that the programs were neither suitable nor sufficient. We are in a crisis, and this is an exceptional situation. In the case of mad cow disease, farmers received direct assistance. That's the kind of assistance we are calling for. We don't want to hear about growing levels of debt. Of course, this is a first step, but farms are already deep in debt. A few days ago, the government announced $50million in funding for pork producers, even though they are asking for $20per hog for 27million hogs. The government's support covers just 2.5million hogs. When I call the measure insufficient, I mean it is grossly insufficient. It's high time the government put forth more support. It has to stop saying that it's working hard and examining the situation. The government has to listen to the people in the industry. Again, this morning, they had some interesting proposals. When is the government going to announce a whole lot more in funding support? What's been announced so far is only 10% of what farmers are asking for.", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves Perron" }, { "text": "We are going step by step. The programs are already in place. We are trying to make them better, and we are committed to doing that. These programs are cost-shared with the provinces. However, I would point out to the member that, when it comes to AgriRecovery, we made an exception to the rule. We are moving forward in every province to help pork and beef producers. That's two funding envelopes of $50million each to help cover the additional costs from the decrease in plant processing capacity. That's new money that was not yet available, money we introduced this week. As the Prime Minister said, we are going to do more, and we are moving forward step by step.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "What we concluded in committee this week is that the $125million is not new money. It was already earmarked for the programs. The government can't say that programs already exist and, at the same time, claim that they are new programs. Something doesn't add up there. What's more, there are different ways to make money available. I'd like to talk compensation. Everyone knows that the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement came into force a month earlier than planned, despite the promises that had been made. That resulted in additional losses, once again. An easy way to make money available without committing new spending is to provide compensation and announce programs for supply-managed sectors that got nothing. It seems to me that a time of crisis is a time for the government to practise some judo and announce measures. I am reaching out to the government, as I always do, but it has to come forward with announcements. Can we expect the government to announce measures in the coming days?", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves Perron" }, { "text": "Our commitment to farmers in supply-managed sectorsmeaning, egg, poultry and dairy farmersis as strong as it always was. I repeat, our commitment is clear. Dairy producers received their first payment at the end of last year or the beginning of this year. Support for poultry and egg farmers is in the form of investment programs, which aligns well with the recovery. At this time, we are focusing on emergency programs to help farmers hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. When it comes to the dairy sector, I hope I can count on your support. As you know, legislative changes are needed to grant the Canadian Dairy Commission's request and increase its borrowing limit by $200million so it can buy more butter and cheese.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Our next question will go to Mr. Lake.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we're all inundated, as we've heard during this entire question period, with Canadians' concerns about the economic restrictions and the social restrictions that they're under. Over the last couple of months, the WHO has given one very consistent message in terms of coming out of those economic and social restrictions. On March 16, Dr. Tedros said in his briefing, We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test. On March 25, 44 days ago, he said, Aggressive measures to find, isolate, test, treat and trace are not only the best and fastest way out of extreme social and economic restrictionstheyre also the best way to prevent them. Does the minister agree with the WHO that relentless testing and tracing are critical to a successful economic and social relaunch strategy in Canada?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake (EdmontonWetaskiwin, CPC)" }, { "text": "Thanks to the member for the very astute observation and question. Absolutely, we agree that testing and contact tracing will form an important part of our response to living with COVID. We've been investing heavily in ensuring that we have the lab capacity, the collaboration across provinces and territories, and the variety of testing options to help us increase our capacity to test. We are aiming right now for a high volume of tests, but I will also say that in Canada we have one of the highest testing rates in the world. Although we're doing well, I can assure him that I am with him and I believe we need to do more.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "I have some really quick questions for follow-up. First, what is Canada's current testing capability?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as I mentioned to his colleagues yesterday, we have currently the capacity to do approximately 60,000 tests per day across the country.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "How many tests were conducted each day on average in Canada last week?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it's hard for me to get that exact number, but I will get back to him with the exact number.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "I'll save you the time. The exact number was 28,851, on average, every day last week. That's a gap of 30,000 from what your stated testing capability is. I'll give another quote from Dr. Tam, back on April 22, 15 days ago. She said, As a first tranche, roughly close to 60,000 is where the provinces can potentially expand to as a target already. Does the minister happen to know, ballpark, what the average number of daily tests in Canada has been since that statement?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "Your estimate was slightly higher than what my estimate was going to be, so that's a great piece of news. Listen, I will just say that I think if the premise here is that we could be doing more testing. I would agree, but I will also say that the provinces and territories are working incredibly hard on testing strategies that meet their own specific needs. I'm happy to have a conversation with the member later about that testing strategy. Dr. Tam works with all the chief public health officers across the country to ensure that their testing strategy is going to be applicable and appropriate for their particular jurisdictions. We, as the federal government, provide the capacity for them to conduct those tests.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Following up on that, is there a jurisdiction in Canada where relentless testing is not the appropriate strategy as provinces consider relaunching?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "Each province and territory has its own outbreak and its own epidemic. For example, in British Columbia, where there are relatively fewer cases in general and less disease activity, they may have a different testing strategy than a province like Ontario, which is currently struggling with more outbreaks.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Given your comment that our current testing capability is 60,000, and acknowledging that only at one point in the entire history of our COVID response, over several months, has our weekly average been over 30,000it was about 31,000 for one day on a rolling basisMinister, are you satisfied with our current testing amounts right now, given that we're testing 50% of what the public health officer advises would be best?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "I'm so amazed by the work the provinces and territories have done in a very short time to increase their capacity. We are supporting them with the tools that they need to get more testing done, but also to have other components in place that will allow them to do the rapid tracing of positive cases. I think it's very important to remember that testing strategies will be different across the provinces, based on the outbreak disease epidemiology. Having said that, I know that we can all do better, and I'm certain that my counterparts feel the same.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "I'm going to have to cut the minister off at that one. I want to thank everyone for the session today, I think it went rather well. I'm very proud of you and proud of ourselves for what we managed to accomplish. The committee stands adjourned until Tuesday, May 12, at noon.", "speakerName": "The Chair" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1000b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I see all everybody's here,'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we can start meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's the agenda for this meeting?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The I will uh present here agenda with with with with slides to you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um as you can see here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So first uh just to mention I will take notes uh of this meeting", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh I will try to work them out and give them to you. I've also made notes of the previous meeting and um I was about to send them you but then uh I had to go to this uh meeting so you will get them too uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So y you are the secretary also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right? Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then I hope you all have uh worked out some some uh some some presentations about uh about well you the the task given to you in the previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfectly yeah yeah of course uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. W We will uh in a minute we will uh start with them. Um, we will see in which order we will handle them of. Um then I will uh bring in some some some new requirements I I got uh from the uh account manager, I try to work them out, they were quite abstract, and we can have maybe have com some discussion about it. Uh Um about the functions", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and Well in this meeting we should really try to reach a decision about the target group and the functionality of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You mean the social target group who we wants to target?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I mean well yes w who are we going to uh to well to sell this,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh the customers, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the customers, indeed yes. Think that's that's important matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the big question yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. So And then uh we will close this meeting uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and after this meeting we'll uh we'll have a lunch. Good. Um. Maybe um why uh Anna can you c do you have a presentations?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't have presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I wasn't. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh you want a table to to uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I c I can talk about it but I have no slides or anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes yes maybe maybe you can uh can just talk about it or maybe you can use the whiteboard if necessary um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well I've just been um presented with some research we've done in a small focus group so, a hundred people, just asked them about their remote control usage habits and what they want in a remote control. Um. It's probably can't email this to you, I've just got a web page with some data on it. Um basically it's saying that users generally dislike the look and feel of their remote controls. Um seventy five u seventy five percent of users find most remote controls ugly. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eighty percent of users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy. Um. Current remote controls do not match well the operating behaviour of the user. Uh seventy five percent of users said they zap a lot, so they use their remote control quite frequently while they're watching television. Uh. Fifty percent of users say that they only use ten percent of the buttons, so they've got a remote control with a lot of functionality but really most of the time they only use a small part of that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you Do you have this uh information on the web page you said?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have an a web page yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, mayb maybe you can can send an email to me later uh. Uh about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep, sure. Mm-hmm. So basically um there's a breakdown of how much they use the different functions on a rem remote control. Um, power and volume selection are only used a few times within this uh per hour. Um, channel selection is used a hundred and sixty eight times um and then there's things like channel settings, audio settings, which are only used very infrequently.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Teletext is used um fourteen times in the hour, so it is used but not nearly as much as the channel selection is used. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An interesting thing that this report has brought up is that um fifty fifty percent of users report that the remote control gets lost a lot of the time in the room, so some way of some way of locating the remote control would be very useful to a lot of users. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes yes, I have that too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty four percent said it takes too long to learn to use a remote control, they want something that's easier to use straight away, more intuitive perhaps.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's easy to learn or how do you say it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thirty four percent said it took too much time to learn to use a new one. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay too much time to learn. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. And thirty twenty six percent said remote controls are bad for R_S_I_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not enough.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know how we'd go about combating that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ". What do you mean there?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For R_S_I_? Respet Repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. They think that or do their doctor the doctor says?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's it's the opinion of the uh of the users huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what the report says yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and then it's got a demographic breakdown on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe y y you cannot put this webpage online on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I should be able to actually, if I email it to you now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can disconnect it there", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can maybe just just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh no, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah it's it okay it's a webpage on the C_ it's a file", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, s hang on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "O otherwise you yeah. You can connect this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then you can connect this one or this one yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "All to your computer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are important numbers that Matthew and I need to take into account for our functional um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I need to muck around with this. It's probably easier if you put it on yours and then I'll just email it to you. It's just a web link.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah these numbers have have to be have to be taken into account for the uh both yeah user interface and functional design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One thing it goes on to talk about, which is interesting, is the hang on a minute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because if there are many numbers and we need to select to to constraint uh our design based on what is more important.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, one thing is interesting is talking about um speech recognition in a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And who would pay more for that and whether people would find it useful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "D do you have numbers o o on that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I'll just get this up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that we don't Do we not need any button on the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well potentially yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it would be all based on speech.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think even for interesti", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Interesting idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I think that would not work so well. You wanna have both options.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it would it would be a solution for uh when your remote control is lost,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean when it has speech recognition then uh i then it doesn't matter where it is, my well it's we should be in range,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or maybe it can respond and produce sound, so say where it is. But the these are all quite fancy features", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure whether we will we can make this for for twelve Euro fi and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it would be f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No you can't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we don't know where the state of the art of speech recognition is, maybe you know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Well, it depends you know like there is uh it's a very small vocabulary that you want to do the operations like you want to say on, off, one, two, twenty three,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's quite noisy if there is the T_V_ uh shouting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's going to be li", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that that that that's mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not going to be s so easy but u usually it's going to be more of an isolated case", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you have some more important facts", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's but I don't know with twenty fi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or can we go to the next presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you had to to to summarise maybe the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is now talking about um who would pay for speech recognition in a remote control, who would pay more for it, um. Ninety percent of the fifteen to twenty five year old market said that they would pay more, it goes down from there, seventy six percent for twenty five to thirty five, thirty five percent for thirty five to forty five, um twenty two percent for forty five to fifty five and then eight percent for fifty five to sixty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay it's uh decline.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Decline with age, mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it really depends where we're gonna be targeting this product, um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which we'll be talking about later I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. We will talk about it later..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you get the email?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep, that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just follow that link.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I thi You us", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll be in a different window, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's left that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay perfect....", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. So that's the figure that I was just talking about there, with the different demographics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Another thing it's talking about there is the L_C_D_ screen but there's no figures apparently on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay. um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh maybe uh Mael c c can you give uh uh your presentation uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm I okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I stay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "this is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now you can move I think yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, y y you can move, uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can move as far as Maybe I take your chair?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. You can you can sa take my chair.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a channel selection, a module, this and this function,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry? Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "go to the. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think as everybody knows uh I'm the uh Industrial Designer. And uh in this presentation uh this group presentation um is gonna focus on the working design of the the remote control. Um I'd like first to give a quick a very simple introduction, how does it work, so that everybody knows even if you don't have a very uh technical background uh what is it because I think in the product it is important.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So basically um the basic function of a remote control is to send uh messages to another system that is fixed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so an energy source feeds an integrated circuit, the chip, that can compose messages, usually uh through a um infrared bit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh the user interface controls the chip and accordingly the the messages, alright. So my method for um designing the yeah the work design uh yeah first the the main point is that I would wish to to make a really functional product. I would prefer to have very functional um capabilities rather than fancy stuff that in fact is not used and doesn't work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So for that yeah as it's important to take into account the user requirements from the Marketing uh Expert uh Anna", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and um w to to we should agree on what are the technical functions uh for this remote control and I show you the the working design. So um basically uh here is a really large view of what we want. Uh we want an on off button, it can be uh it's simple but it's it's important, and also uh the to both channels as well as other buttons that come after,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right. So the components I quickly draw here, is that in this part you have the remote control the the sender and on the other part the receiver so that's my method is um will be to well my aim would be to uh design the and choose the chips and the infrared um components to build the remote control", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So of course we need energy sources and uh uh the receiver a a receiver. This is very quick uh design, uh you stop me or interrupt me if uh you don't agree on it on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um so what I have found and after a lot of work actually I I draw this I draw for you this uh schema", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that can be maybe too technical for you but is very important for me", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You drew it a long time ago?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is huh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ninety one..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh that's it so I won't go into details about that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "overwhelming.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh these are my preferences to use uh that kind of components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and why do you want these kind of component?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, are they cheap, or are they uh reliable? What were your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "found and yeah th you have always a compromise with uh reliability and uh i if it's expensive,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh this one was not this one also really uh reliable um so yeah that's it for the working design, uh I hope you get clearer view on uh what what a remote control is uh in terms of uh technical components", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. It it it's more clear now I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but maybe yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But is it uh can you just buy it on the market and f plug it in or you want to ma", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no no we we will uh This is a preference but we can always change uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. What I w what I was thinking about uh the the the schema uh about uh the sender and the receiver, I mean can you can you get back to it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah uh, the receiver is of course already in the television and we are not uh able to change it. So we we must adapt to the to the receiver.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I suppose there is a standard uh way of communicating to televisions uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We will use uh infrared protocol uh using yeah infrared and uh and of course we need to adapt to that protocol that already exists", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and but we what we can do is uh uh adapting the the chips inside uh to the best uh chips and uh infrared bubbles.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Yes. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it to du it's just you had to change the frequencies.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The frequencies?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Of course yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you should be careful,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "in the chip you have it yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "people are sometime becoming problem, like a guy has recently designed a remote uh uh uh which could switch off any other T_V_s, so basically through all the things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That can control o other things. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we should think of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course yeah we should take that into account", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's handy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if the b T_V_ in the next apartment's really loud, you can just turn it off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "in the uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so you can just go on the street and then switch off everyone's T_V_ and you can just walk away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't have to be near the T_V_ at all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I like that idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I feel I I I think M Mael will will consider this uh th these things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe Maybe we can go to to your presentation uh Matthew.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I I assume you were finished here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So I can take I think mine now there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so voila.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm I can take mine it's okay, voila, mm so mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. I Uh, sorry? I know where it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's on the desktop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technical function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well. So um I'm going to talk a little bit about the technical function so wha what actually it's about what is the user going to do, I think my last presented what is going inside,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so what's the user is going to see from the outside and how he is going to use it. So well the approach is that uh basically the idea is to send a message to the T_V_ set, as Mael has pointed, and it will be decoded by the T_V_ and usually we it is easier to have uh keys or buttons with which people can uh press and then um changing a button will basically uh change the message which is being sent to the T_V_ and uh um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a and basically it sends an internal signal and decoded by the receiver. So p as um Anna has said that this ki people are interested in things which are you don't need to k press the keys, people are can have a speech recognition but this is uh s a question which will we have to see later.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But in the present scenario is that you have certain keys and you press it like your mobile phone, and it sends a message to the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um so generally mm I don't have some figures sorry but um so there are two kinds of uh remote if you popularly in the household, actually so you have a standard T_V_ remote where you have just a on, off button and play, uh volume change and uh keys for the number and more than one digit option. And if you see for example righ right now uh uh even the one uh on more than one digit option is for two digit channel which is like ninety nine, but tomorrow you might have one fifty channels you know to browse or two hundred channels to browse who knows, but uh uh. Then there is uh this is the standard one with without any fancy thing you know like i it doesn't have teletext option, it can without any, it's a very simple thing, um which which you can vouch. And then you have uh what's the v video remote file which is like usually it has almost all the keys over there and, but it then it has other options like stop uh and then you play the movie or uh or fo fast forward the movie or something like that so i it has those", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so these are the standard uh commonly found remote controls in the uh market. And then whi which is generally used by the people. And then well personal preferences I would uh basically think of having a kind of aim for the next generation thing where the we could have both the uh the f a T_V_ and the remote video remote control because uh some of the keys in the video's remote control and the T_V_ they could be integrated together so that uh we could um aim for the like in the f coming future um that type of uh applications with.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. How would that work? So you've got say maybe a V_C_R_ and a T_V_ which are separate,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you on my one at home I've got a V_C_R_ remote which then changes the channel on the V_C_R_ and doesn't do anything on the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so is it gonna be like a switch on the remote that says t use the T_V_ or use the V_C_R_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or does it know which one you want to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um actually um you could you could think of um having s a y you can have a key which could tell y it could go to the video thing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um uh yo you you you still can't um in that case when it you use that the function should be able to take up the V_C_R_ option", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you could play it or You can also think about having like um I in a few days you will be ha in in few ye coming years you might even have a system where you have a separate uh sitting setup box", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh you have uh um something like uh uh you do you do you suppose you are not able to watch some programme and actually it downloading all the time for you", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh you can just you know uh when you come back you could just switch on that thing and uh watch a program.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In that case you want to browse faster, browse slow, you want to have those kind of functionalities.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "These are kind of next generation functionalities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's the next generation thing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it is going to come in couple of years.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think it's i i it's already there,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's goi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean the hard disk uh recorders uh I I've seen them in the shop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's going to record your things and you and you you need basically the functionalities what you need in both uh uh video as well as in the standard T_V_ thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. That's fair enough. Mm. But I don't think we're trying to make a universal remote here. That's,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no we are not making a universal remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we are just looking at uh giving a scenario, I have a T_V_ and tomorrow I am going to have set up box", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is going to sit there and uh it's going to do that job for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Because y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W w w w we need to decide on on on on in how far we go to in this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mean, you can go pretty far I f I think with with with functions and possible uh future p uh prospects", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's good to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so that p ends my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Very well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well. So we can always discuss about it for example uh the presently the video market actually uh this demand, video over-demand or what we call it as, it's presently booming up actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it i like people are providing like uh things like uh uh movies, you can select actually so you want to watch a movie and uh your p your provider gives a list of movies, and then you select those list.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "basically you go off, it downloads the movie, it gives for you", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then when you come you want to loo watch it on your T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And thi this is going to come.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or even you don't need to download it, it's streamed uh online uh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it can be streamed online for you and you can say what time I want to watch the movie", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, so u um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have uh received some some some some well points of of thinking over of my account manager and uh I would like to share them with you. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "first thing is uh teletext is a well known feature of televisions", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's it's getting used less and less.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's that's especially because of the internet of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we should think about it um. Do we include it, and do we give it a prominent uh prominent uh place on on on the on well huh on the remote mot control itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh as uh a in any case it's it's not used, well very much, but it's it is still used. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "further yes we must think, uh do we stay uh to to television only, the television as we as we all know it with with broadcasting signals and you can't go back uh huh, or do we uh uh go further as Matthew indicated by supporting uh uh recording uh devices?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So D_V_D_s and V_C_R_s?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh indeed indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and and the hard disk recorders. Um, furthermore, uh, w we need really need to interest uh y younger customers and then with younger customers I mean people uh below the age of forty,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and our our current customers are mainly forty plus", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh which well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fourteen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or for O okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's to that's I mean there's a market but uh they will grow older older", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you'll al always need to have the the future with younger people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um therefore, younger people like trendy trendy designs, so that's w we should make our our our R_C_ as trendy as possible but it should also be uh have a reliable image, so when it looks too too spacey or too fancy people will think well does it work at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's uh well you you can follow the ideas how you want to keep the keys, you know right now if you take it you have like zero, one, two, three like a keys separately,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but suppose if you take the the present trend of mobile phones there are like big thick keys", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you press on the top, it takes one number, you press on the bottom it takes another number, and uh basically uh uh so the space covered so that you don't see two separate keys there actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it it is like uh um i i it is like uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ma Maybe Maybe you can draw it on the on the board uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. But I think taking the idea of getting inspiration from mobile phones is interesting, especially if we're going after a younger market,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yes yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's the the the mm the new and the funky things,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mo", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because they are already used to that, you know, product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes it's recognisable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, there's lot there's lots of pretty mobile phones, not too many pretty remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and they are skilled uh by using it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So for example uh Well uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm....", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, it works. Fine. So, for example you have uh presently uh keys like one, two, three like this, actually, and uh uh four five six like that and uh you can have keys like this in form like uh keys like that", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mael can you hand me over this uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. How much longer have we got for the meeting by the way?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause we haven't talked about demographic at all", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think fi five min", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Forty minutes?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's a very important issue.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so you you you can have uh keys like uh which are which are like so. too sorry, so we basically don't change the uh original order of them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but then the keys are more spacious,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they don't look uh so there there is a very sligh thing, so if you press on the top it takes the one, it takes the three, uh four, sorry four here uh five and six,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so the keys can be it looks you know not very much cluttered but it looks nice", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "for you don't have too many keys", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you can have a lot of options t if you press on the to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.'Kay I I think now that the idea's clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh we should now uh try to decide um on our target group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Which I think is quite tricky.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, basically we're trying to get people to buy a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "wouldn't they already have a remote control with their television when they buy one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course they have already one. So our our our remote control has to be better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's not going to have more functionality,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause it's only a low market, it's a cheap-end remote control, we can't beat modern functionality, we might we'll be able to beat them on th the look of it, th the design of it but that's not a big seller, if they're not just going to buy a new remote control just'cause it looks pretty, they have to actually need it as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I'm not sure how we can get people to buy this thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I well I think many people said uh in your in in your research uh uh uh the appearance of the uh R_C_ is is important when they are buying one", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. But why are they buying one in the first place?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but Indeed. So that will be about functionality.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. But if people are buying a new remote control for functionality they'll buy a universal remote. I've got friends who've got so many things they need a universal remote, otherwise they're using five different remotes for their all their things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In that case they wouldn't buy our product, because it doesn't give them what they need in terms of functionality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So your you think we should go for a more u universal high-performance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we can't, with the price range. We We're not building a universal remote, we're not building a high end product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do What do you think about What componen", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we have yeah twelve point five Euros uh per uh per R_ s R_C_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think uh with this now you know that chips are very uh cheaps", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh we can include it in our control some new new features.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And um But yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But yeah. If we're getting into universal remote territory, we're getting to L_C_D_ screens and things like that", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which would drive the cost up a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. I don't know whether that's necessary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For universal remotes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't think L_C_D_ is not necessary well, th for long term.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think thi this could be this could be a market because uh universal remote controls uh tend to be uh quite expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And quite complicated to use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S so we can try to go in between,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and offer a product which is not as expensive and not as complicated", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Not as flexible maybe, yeah, but s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but but still but still people have the idea this is more functional than a normal uh uh R_C_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Universal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it has more uh it it is in some kind universal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if we're going for the say fifteen to twenty five age group then not many of them would actually own T_V_s to use a remote control on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yes but w we're targeting I think on more on the on the twenty to forty group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So they're yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People yes. Who just have or already have a job and have the money but may not want to spend that much money on a on a universal universal control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep. I don't know really what the the price range for remote controls is. Are we gonna be at the very bottom of the price range, or are we kind of middle to bottom? I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think uh when we think it over I thi I think we are trying to offer the a kind of universal control for for less money.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So d Do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well Well I it's fine with me like the price as long as it is uh not too expensive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh and it d uh Our provin", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because we have to take into account that we are gonna b we are gonna sell uh four aro around four million so when we speak about these numbers uh the price of a chip is uh price of a chip is very cheap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I'm okay for designing um a ne uh less yeah a a kind of universal uh R_C_ yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. You think it's possible for the twelve Euro fifty?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um so then we we decide on on on going to this more universal kind of control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, that's that's what we needed basically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that's needed right now. And uh basically you can look to the standards of other.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's needed, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if we want to get the market, we really need that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I guess what I'd like from a universal remote is maybe choosing between three devices, being able to switch between them, there may be stereo, V_C_R_ and T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Exactly..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And just be able to s use them all from the same remote, but not at the same time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah you can also browse through all the standards you know, where are the limit of standards for all of them and you can just browse through them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that okay for you? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So given we are going for this uh uh universal type uh m maybe it is good when you try to find out which components you therefore need and y you will try to get more specific uh user interface content", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh maybe you can look on on what trends are in this uh in this type of market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Voila. Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So anyone uh has a point to bring in", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or shall we no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh I don't have anything right now. We can we'll we'll go", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's that's fine then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we'll I'm sure we'll up something good", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "for the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we uh we can have lunch now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um Then th th the next meeting will uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so we meet in well what are our.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "after lunch you have uh we have uh thirty minutes of work and then we have the next meeting. But you will be informed via the computer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool. So see you later.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2014a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Right, so start of the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. Right, so agenda of the first meeting. Where we uh We have twenty five minutes for this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We uh are to get acquainted. So does everyone want to say who they are? that seem sensible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm Robin. I'm the Marketing Manager.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm Louisa. I'm the User Interface Designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm Nick. I am the Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I'm Alastair and I'm the project leader. Alright okay, so tool training. Um. Project plan. So does anyone have any uh thoughts as to the tool training that uh is required?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tool training", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not exactly sure what you mean by tool training.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Neither am I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh I see, so we shouldn't really be Oh right okay, so. So we have the project team, which is to um basically to come up with a new r remote control device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we have uh the starting base was the original which has been in existence now for a period of time. And uh our idea is to uh to make the new remote control device uh more user friendly than the previous one, and to to be trendier, to be with it, and therefore to uh to get a bigger market share and bigger audience.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um method of doing this is uh split up as you can see into uh the functional design, the conceptional design, and the detailed design. So um in each of these uh phases we'll uh basically be handing over to yourselves, the designers of this uh this device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh having uh meetings so that we can uh during the course of the day um come up with a better better inst implement than we had before. And therefore um have a successful uh conclusion to the day. Um and you'll be doing uh various designs uh throughout the day to meet this end.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we've got tool training. Try out whiteboard. Uh. So we will um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right so everyone's to uh supposedly uh draw their favourite animal over on the white board over there. I guess this is uh make sure the whiteboard works. So uh I don't know who wishes to go first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you wish to go f Have a first bash at uh whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't mind..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah uh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good job I got pockets today.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But now you you uh you'll move out from the microphone and the camera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your microphone's just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I take it that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we supposed to do this right now, do you think, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would I would guess so. Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You've lost uh your microphone there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Technical problems.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Right here we go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean you designers are meant to come up with these sort of things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I think that I would have to say that my favourite animal is the cat. Little smiley cat there. Um and this would be because they're very independent, uh they're very intelligent, compared to dogs maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and they can be very very affectionate. Some people don't think so but I know very affectionate cats. Um. Um and they can look after themselves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Next..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah. I'll I'll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall I rub that out, actually?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't see as there's any need to. There's plenty of space.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean whatever..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can have have a whole menagerie..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall I see if I can get across without just tangling everything. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We've had more time to prepare over this side,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we've all stuck our bits and pieces in our pockets..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't think of that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The three pens are underneath.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "pens are over here. I'll try the red pen. Okay. Um. I'm gonna go for the bear which I'm be able to draw very well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You get marks for artistic impression..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I'll have a bash at it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ooh ooh I lost it there. I think I've just knocked the microphone. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you're just doing the face..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll g then we'll go for a a s small small bear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and I like my animal that looks nothing like a bear because um I dunno maybe because there's so many cartoon characters made up after the bear like the jungle book characters and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Hello. Um I'm gonna go for the dog, and I'm gonna draw one badly as well. Uh. looks like it's going to be a dachshund or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's quite good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. There's my dog. Um I like dogs because they're very loyal. And they're always happy, so whenever whenever you're feeling sort of a bit a bit down or tired, they're always coming up and they're always um quite excited. So um you can always have a lot of fun with a dog. And they're also good for exercise as well. You can sorta get out and they they sorta never get tired. And and when they're tired they're quite cute as well, so..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, that's why I like dogs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, um. Well I've not actually had too many pets uh over my uh time'cause to be honest with you uh I'm not too keen on them anyway. Not to worry. So what my daughters have got at the moment is they've got uh a few fish and so hopefully um won't prove too difficult to draw. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As you can see that my artist artistic work is useless as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyway um. And uh one of the best uh things about fish is that they don't really take uh too much looking after because uh with most of the animals if you're going away on holiday or whatever, you've gotta spend money or get a friend or whatever to look after them for you. Whereas if you got fish, you just gotta put the food in a a a dripper feed which feeds them over the uh couple of weeks that you're away and uh change the water every couple of months, and buy in a few plants, so. Other than the fact that they keep dying,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh fish are uh are not are are are reasonable pets in that uh they're low maintenance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Okay, uh if we're still all with us. Right okay, so. Work has been done on uh this uh project where by um twenty five Euros is uh the uh expected uh selling price. That information has come from our marketing manager here..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're looking to sell internationally, not just in Europe. We're looking at um having our production costs limited to uh twelve and an half Euro per unit. And therefore making a profit margin of uh well not actually a profit margin it's uh because obviously you're gonna have overheads and various other costs to uh take uh from uh from that to give you your profit margin per unit. And so depending what the uh the overhead uh costs are will determine uh how many units we're uh looking to sell or projecting to sell at this point in time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um Experience with remote control, first ideas. New remote. So I guess we're looking at um having a discussion at this point in time to help uh you um folks design our our new model as it were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh any any thoughts?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I with some remote controls the buttons were a little small so they're quite hard to press so maybe we make something with uh easy to press buttons. As that is the main function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so so basically we're looking for some um we're looking for a device that is um robust and and therefore uh won't get damaged too easily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we're looking for a device that is uh What was the other things you said there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um sort of easy to use so the buttons are accessible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Easy to use. Use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is easy to use and see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can I just check? Is this just a television remote? Because a lot of um systems are kind of T_V_ video combined now, or T_V_ D_V_D_ combined.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And one of the most annoying things is having like five remotes in the house. So if you've got a combined system, it could be a combined remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or is it just a television that we're supposed to be doing?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I w um basically I'll get back to you on that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it seems to me sensible,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause as you rightly said, there's nothing more annoying than having three or four devices littered about the uh about the room.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So a device for for all remotes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry, you go. You go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've Okay. Yeah. Um one of the things um we found from the market research is that people often get confused by the number of buttons on them as well.'Cause there's quite often lots and lots. And um sometimes uh they sort of remote controls defeat their own purpose because you're sat in the chair and the remote is somewhere else in the room. So whereas in the past you'd have to get up to change the channel, now you have to get up to sort of pick up the remote. So so I don't we need to sort of maybe think about how um we could maybe uh develop a remote control which moves around the room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Comes to your whistle..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's maybe something for the future when you can talk to your television, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But is it in a sense it's r um mutually exclusive. You can't have both the th the one device and then have few buttons on it to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause you want you want simplicity as well, you want any idiot to be able to use it. Whilst at the same time you want, as you rightly said, one remote for all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so these are probably mutually exclusive options", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm you could argue that experience of using devices and similar devices as people get more and more used to using remotes, therefore they're more with handling them,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "therefore you can make them more complicated as time goes on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we could um have better instructions with the remote. Or are we just doing the design of the remote control itself, or sort of the instructions that would come with it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Better instructions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean we've done some research um about sort of you know what the cutting edge sort of hand held devices are, and a lot of them sort of use you know they're like they're like mini laptops.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's possible that we could devise a system where where you're you're basically sort of holding a a miniature computer which is controlling all your your sort of your television, your stereo, and where you know if you buy a new thing then it sort of you can link it to that as well, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um well we've got five minutes before the end of the meeting. So uh we have to uh start winding up. Um is there Next meeting in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um Right, so we've got I_D_ the Come on, where's my.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you just click return it should be okay. It'll get rid of the message.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or not..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you hit just hit return and it should get rid of the message.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh you've got..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I was looking for. Right. So we've got function Oh what happened to the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that might be back to the start. Um if you grab the kind of uh slide to the left and pull it down?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "slide four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Sorry about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we've got um the working design for I_D_. For U_I_D_ the technical functions design. Marketing, the user requirement specification. Specific instructions will be sent to you by your person by your personal coach. So. Are we all clear what objectives we're looking to meet in the next thirty minutes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I guess I'll try and write up some minutes of uh this meeting to uh to give it to you for the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not exactly clear on what we're designing the rem remote for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this a mun multi-functional one or do we decide that ourselves as we go away and work on it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you just said at the start it was a television remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Television remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so maybe we should just stick to that unless we get told otherwise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true,'cause during during the course of our day we might make decisions based on information or meetings that would change where we're going.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But at this point in time I think you're right that uh shall we make it just a T_V_. Okay? So we will depart.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We will stay here and uh and break off. And I'll do minutes and and we'll see you in half and hour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, that's great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay cheers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Right s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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Uh transcript one three one one dash one three three zero. three two three four seven six five five three one six two four one six seven seven eight nine zero nine four zero zero three zero one five eight one seven three five three two six eight zero three six two four three zero seven four five zero six nine four seven four eight five seven nine six one five O seven eight O two zero nine six zero four zero zero one two Uh Yeah, you don't actually n need to say the name.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK, this is Barry Chen and I am reading transcript", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That'll probably be bleeped out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. That's if these are anonymized, but Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh I mean not that there's anything defamatory about uh eight five seven or or anything, but", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, anyway. Uh so here's what I have for I I was just jotting down things I think th w that we should do today. Uh This is what I have for an agenda so far Um, We should talk a little bit about the plans for the uh the field trip next week. Uh a number of us are doing a field trip to uh Uh OGI And uh mostly uh First though about the logistics for it. Then maybe later on in the meeting we should talk about what we actually you know, might accomplish. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, in and kind of go around see what people have been doing talk about that, a r progress report. Um, Essentially. Um And then uh Another topic I had was that uh uh Uh Dave here had uh said uh \" Give me something to do. \" And I I have I have uh failed so far in doing that. And so maybe we can discuss that a little bit. If we find some holes in some things that that someone could use some help with, he's he's volunteering to help.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I've got to move a bunch of furniture.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, always count on a serious comment from that corner. So, um, uh, and uh, then uh, talk a little bit about about disks and resource resource issues that that's starting to get worked out. And then, anything else anybody has that isn't in that list? Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was just wondering, does this mean the battery's dying and I should change it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh I think that means the battery's O K..", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Let me see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "d do you", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh OK, so th", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good. You're alright?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Cuz it's full.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. It looks full of electrons. OK. Plenty of electrons left there. OK, so, um, uh. OK, so, uh, I wanted to start this with this mundane thing. Um Uh I I it was it was kind of my bright idea to have us take a plane that leaves at seven twenty in the morning.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um. Uh this is uh The reason I did it uh was because otherwise for those of us who have to come back the same day it is really not much of a of a visit. Uh So um the issue is how how how would we ever accomplish that? Uh what what what part of town do you live in?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, I live in, um, the corner of campus. The, um, southeast corner.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK, so would it be easier those of you who are not, you know, used to this area, it can be very tricky to get to the airport at at uh, you know, six thirty. Um. So. Would it be easier for you if you came here and I drove you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, perhaps, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, so if if everybody can get here at six.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "At six.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm afraid we need to do that to get there on time.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Six, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so. Oh boy. Anyway, so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Will that be enough time?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so I'll just pull up in front at six and just be out front. And, uh, and yeah, that'll be plenty of time. It'll take it it it won't be bad traffic that time of day and and uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I guess once you get past the bridge that that would be the worst.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, Oakland.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Going to Oakland.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oakland.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Once you get past the turnoff to the Bay Bridge.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Bridge oh, the turnoff to the bridge", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Won't even do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, just go down Martin Luther King.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then Martin Luther King to nine - eighty to eight - eighty,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and it's it'd take us, tops uh thirty minutes to get there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that leaves us fifty minutes before the plane it'll just yeah. So Great, OK so that'll It's I mean, it's still not going to be really easy but well Particularly for for uh for Barry and me, we're not we're not staying overnight so we don't need to bring anything particularly except for uh a pad of paper and So, and, uh you, two have to bring a little bit", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but uh you know, don't don't bring a footlocker and we'll be OK So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "s So just.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "W you're staying overnight. I figured you wouldn't need a great big suitcase, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's sort of one night. So. Anyway. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, s six AM, in front.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Six AM in front.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, I'll be here. Uh I'll I'll I'll I'll give you my phone number, If I'm not here for a few m after a few minutes then", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Wake you up.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Nah, I'll be fine. I just, uh it for me it just means getting up a half an hour earlier than I usually do. Not not not a lot,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Wednesday.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so OK, that was the real real important stuff. Um, I I I figured maybe wait on the potential goals for the meeting uh until we talk about wh what's been going on. So, uh, what's been going on? Why don't we start start over here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um. Well, preparation of the French test data actually.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, it means that um, well, it is, uh, a digit French database of microphone speech, downsampled to eight kilohertz and I've added noise to one part, with the actually the Aurora - two noises. And, @ @ so this is a training part. And then the remaining part, I use for testing and with other kind of noises. So we can So this is almost ready. I'm preparing the the HTK baseline for this task. And, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK Uh, So the HTK base lines so this is using mel cepstra and so on, or? Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And again, I guess the p the plan is, uh, to uh then given this What's the plan again?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The plan with these data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "With So So Does i Just remind me of what what you were going to do with the what what what what's y You just described what you've been doing. So if you could remind me of what you're going to be doing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, this is yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Tell him about the cube.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well. The cube? I should tell him about the cube?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh! Cube. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Fill in the cube.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh we actually we want to, mmm, Uh, uh, analyze three dimensions, the feature dimension, the training data dimension, and the test data dimension. Um. Well, what we want to do is first we have number for each uh task. So we have the um, TI - digit task, the Italian task, the French task and the Finnish task.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we have numbers with uh systems I mean I mean neural networks trained on the task data. And then to have systems with neural networks trained on, uh, data from the same language, if possible, with, well, using a more generic database, which is phonetically phonetically balanced, and. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So - so we had talked I guess we had talked at one point about maybe, the language ID corpus?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is that a possibility for that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ye - uh Yeah, but, uh these corpus, w w there is a CallHome and a CallFriend also, The CallFriend is for language ind identification. Well, anyway, these corpus are all telephone speech. So, um. This could be a a problem for Why? Because uh, uh, the the SpeechDat databases are not telephone speech. They are downsampled to eight kilohertz but but they are not uh with telephone bandwidth.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's really funny isn't it? I mean cuz th this whole thing is for developing new standards for the telephone.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Telephone.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the the idea is to compute the feature before the before sending them to the Well, you don't do not send speech, you send features, computed on th the the device,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I know, but the reason.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "or Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I see, so your point is that it's it's it's uh the features are computed locally, and so they aren't necessarily telephone bandwidth, uh or telephone distortions.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So you Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Did you happen to find out anything about the OGI multilingual database?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's wh that's wh that's what I meant.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I said @ @, there's there's there's an OGI language ID, not the not the, uh the CallFriend is a is a, uh, LDC w thing, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yea - Yeah, there are also two other databases. One they call the multi - language database, and another one is a twenty - two language, something like that. But it's also telephone speech.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, they are? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, we' r e e The bandwidth shouldn't be such an issue right? Because e e this is downsampled and and filtered, right? So it's just the fact that it's not telephone. And there are so many other differences between these different databases. I mean some of this stuff's recorded in the car, and some of it's I mean there's there's many different acoustic differences. So I'm not sure if. I mean, unless we're going to include a bunch of car recordings in the in the training database, I'm not sure if it's completely rules it out", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "if our if we if our major goal is to have phonetic context and you figure that there's gonna be a mismatch in acoustic conditions does it make it much worse f to sort of add another mismatch, if you will.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, i i I I guess the question is how important is it to for us to get multiple languages uh, in there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Mm - hmm. Um. Yeah. Well, actually, for the moment if we w do not want to use these phone databases, we we already have uh English, Spanish and French uh, with microphone speech..", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that's what you're thinking of using is sort of the multi the equivalent of the multiple?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well. Yeah, for the multilingual part we were thinking of using these three databases.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And for the difference in phonetic context that you? Provide that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, this Uh, actually, these three databases are um generic databases.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So w f for for uh Italian, which is close to Spanish, French and, i i uh, TI - digits we have both uh, digits training data and also more general training data. So. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, we also have this Broadcast News that we were talking about taking off the disk, which is is microphone data for for English.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, perhaps yeah, there is also TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We could use TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, so there's plenty of stuff around. OK, so anyway, th the basic plan is to, uh, test this cube. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "To fill in the cube.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To fill i fill it in, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and perhaps, um We were thinking that perhaps the cross - language issue is not, uh, so big of a issue. Well, w w we perhaps we should not focus too much on that cross - language stuff. I mean, uh, training training a net on a language and testing a for another language.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. But that's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Perhaps the most important is to have neural networks trained on the target languages. But, uh, with a general database general databases. u So that th Well, the the guy who has to develop an application with one language can use the net trained o on that language, or a generic net,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, depen it depen it depends how you mean \" using the net \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but not trained on a.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, if you're talking about for producing these discriminative features that we're talking about you can't do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Because because the what they're asking for is is a feature set. Right? And so, uh, we're the ones who have been weird by by doing this training. But if we say, \" No, you have to have a different feature set for each language, \" I think this is ver gonna be very bad.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You think so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, in principle, I mean conceptually, it's sort of like they want a re @ @ well, they want a replacement for mel cepstra.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, we say \" OK, this is the year two thousand, we've got something much better than mel cepstra. It's, you know, gobbledy - gook. \" OK? And so we give them these gobbledy - gook features but these gobbledy - gook features are supposed to be good for any language.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Cuz you don't know who's gonna call, and you know, I mean so it's it's it's, uh, uh how do you know what language it is? Somebody picks up the phone. So thi this is their image. Someone picks up the phone, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I chh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And and he he picks up the ph", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the the application is there is a target language for the application.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. y y y", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, if a.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well. But, no but, y you you pick up the phone,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "you talk on the phone,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it sends features out. OK, so the phone doesn't know what a what what your language is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, if Yeah. If it's th in the phone, but.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But that's the image that they have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "well, it that that could be th at the server's side,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It could be,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and, well. Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but that's the image they have, right? So that's that's I mean, one could argue all over the place about how things really will be in ten years. But the particular image that the cellular industry has right now is that it's distributed speech recognition, where the, uh, uh, probabilistic part, and and s semantics and so forth are all on the servers, and you compute features of the uh, on the phone. So that's that's what we're involved in. We might might or might not agree that that's the way it will be in ten years, but that's that's that's what they're asking for. So so I think that th th it is an important issue whether it works cross - language. Now, it's the OGI, uh, folks' perspective right now that probably that's not the biggest deal. And that the biggest deal is the, um envir acoustic - environment mismatch. And they may very well be right, but I I was hoping we could just do a test and determine if that was true. If that's true, we don't need to worry so much. Maybe maybe we have a couple languages in the training set and that gives us enough breadth uh, uh, that that that the rest doesn't matter. Um, the other thing is, uh, this notion of training to uh which I I guess they're starting to look at up there, training to something more like articulatory features. Uh, and if you have something that's just good for distinguishing different articulatory features that should just be good across, you know, a wide range of languages.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, but Yeah, so I don't th I know unfortunately I don't I see what you're comi where you're coming from, I think, but I don't think we can ignore it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we we really have to do test with a real cross - language. I mean, tr for instance training on English and testing on Italian, or Or we can train or else, uh, can we train a net on, uh, a range of languages and which can include the test the test @ @ the target language,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Test on an unseen.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, um, there's there's, uh This is complex. So, ultimately, uh, as I was saying, I think it doesn't fit within their image that you switch nets based on language. Now, can you include, uh, the the target language?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, from a purist's standpoint it'd be nice not to because then you can say when because surely someone is going to say at some point, \" OK, so you put in the German and the Finnish.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, now, what do you do, uh, when somebody has Portuguese? \" you know? Um, and Uh, however, you aren't it isn't actually a constraint in this evaluation. So I would say if it looks like there's a big difference to put it in, then we'd make note of it, and then we probably put in the other, because we have so many other problems in trying to get things to work well here that that, you know, it's not so bad as long as we we note it and say, \" Look, we did do this \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, ideally, what you'd wanna do is you'd wanna run it with and without the target language and the training set for a wide range of languages.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, perhaps. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And that way you can say, \" Well, \" you know, \" we're gonna build it for what we think are the most common ones \",", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but if that somebody uses it with a different language, you know, \" here's what's you're l here's what's likely to happen. \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, cuz the truth is, is that it's it's not like there are I mean, al although there are thousands of languages, uh, from uh, uh, the point of view of cellular companies, there aren't.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There's you know, there's fifty or something, you know? So, uh, an and they aren't you know, with the exception of Finnish, which I guess it's pretty different from most most things. uh, it's it's, uh most of them are like at least some of the others. And so, our guess that Spanish is like Italian, and and so on. I guess Finnish is a is is a little bit like Hungarian, supposedly, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't know anything about Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or is I think well, I kn oh, well I know that H uh, H I mean, I'm not a linguist, but I guess Hungarian and Finnish and one of the one of the languages from the former Soviet Union are in this sort of same family.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But they're just these, you know, uh countries that are pretty far apart from one another, have I guess, people rode in on horses and brought their.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, my turn.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Your turn.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Um, Let's see, I I spent the last week, uh, looking over Stephane's shoulder. And and understanding some of the data. I re - installed, um, um, HTK, the free version, so, um, everybody's now using three point O, which is the same version that, uh, OGI is using.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, without without any licensing big deals, or anything like that. And, um, so we've been talking about this this, uh, cube thing, and it's beginning more and more looking like the, uh, the Borge cube thing. It's really gargantuan. Um, but I I'm Am I.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So are are you going to be assimilated?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Resistance is futile.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Exactly. Um, yeah, so I I've been looking at, uh, uh, TIMIT stuff. Um, the the stuff that we've been working on with TIMIT, trying to get a, um a labels file so we can, uh, train up a train up a net on TIMIT and test, um, the difference between this net trained on TIMIT and a net trained on digits alone. Um, and seeing if if it hurts or helps.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And again, when y just to clarify, when you're talking about training up a net, you're talking about training up a net for a tandem approach?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Um. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And and the inputs are PLP and delta and that sort of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, the inputs are one dimension of the cube,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "which, um, we've talked about it being, uh, PLP, um, M F C Cs, um, J - JRASTA, JRASTA - LDA.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but your initial things you're making one choice there,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Which is PLP, or something?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, I I haven't I haven't decided on on the initial thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Probably probably something like PLP. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, so so you take PLP and you you, uh, do it uh, you you, uh, use HTK with it with the transformed features using a neural net that's trained. And the training could either be from Digits itself or from TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And that's the and, and th and then the testing would be these other things which which which might be foreign language.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I see. I I I get in the picture about the cube.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Um, I mean, those listening to this will not have a picture either, so, um, I guess I'm I'm not any worse off. But but at some point somebody should just show me the cube. It sounds s I I get I think I get the general idea of it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, when you said that you were getting the labels for TIMIT, um, are y what do you mean by that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "b May Mm - hmm. Oh, I'm just I'm just, uh, transforming them from the, um, the standard TIMIT transcriptions into into a nice long huge P - file to do training.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Were the digits, um, hand - labeled for phones?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, the the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or were they those labels automatically derived?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, those were those were automatically derived by by Dan using, um, embedded embedded training and alignment.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Ah, but which Dan?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, Ellis. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I was just wondering because that test you're t", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I I think you're doing this test because you want to determine whether or not, uh, having s general speech performs as well as having specific speech.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, especially when you go over the different languages again, because you'd the different languages have different words for the different digits,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And I was.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, so I was just wondering if the fact that TIMIT you're using the hand - labeled stuff from TIMIT might be confuse the results that you get.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I think it would, but but on the other hand it might be better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, but if it's better, it may be better because it was hand - labeled.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, but still @ @ probably use it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, I I I guess I'm sounding cavalier, but I mean, I think the point is you have, uh, a bunch of labels and and they're han hand uh hand - marked. Uh, I guess, actually, TIMIT was not entirely hand - marked. It was automatically first, and then hand hand - corrected.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but, um, uh, it it, um, it might be a better source. So, i it's you're right. It would be another interesting scientific question to ask, \" Is it because it's a broad source or because it was, you know, carefully? \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh. And that's something you could ask, but given limited time, I think the main thing is if it's a better thing for going across languages on this training tandem system,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "then it's probably.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What about the differences in the phone sets?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, between languages?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, between TIMIT and the the digits.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, um, right. Well, there's a mapping from the sixty - one phonemes in TIMIT to to fifty - six, the ICSI fifty - six.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sixty - one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then the digits phonemes, um, there's about twenty twenty - two or twenty - four of them? Is that right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Out of that fifty - six?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Out of that fifty - six.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, it's it's definitely broader, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But, actually, the issue of phoneti phon uh phone phoneme mappings will arise when we will do severa use several languages", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because you Well, some phonemes are not, uh, in every languages, and So we plan to develop a subset of the phonemes, uh, that includes, uh, all the phonemes of our training languages,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and use a network with kind of one hundred outputs or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. You mean a superset, sort of.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "superset,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I th I looks the SAMPA SAMPA phone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "SAMPA phone? For English uh American English, and the the the language who have more phone are the English.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Of the these language. But n for example, in Spain, the Spanish have several phone that d doesn't appear in the E English and we thought to complete. But for that, it needs we must r h do a lot of work because we need to generate new tran transcription for the database that we have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Other than the language, is there a reason not to use the TIMIT phone set? Cuz it's larger? As opposed to the ICSI phone set?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, you mean why map the sixty - one to the fifty - six?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I have.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, I forget if that happened starting with you, or was it o or if it was Eric, afterwards who did that. But I think, basically, there were several of the phones that were just hardly ever there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I think some of them, they were making distinctions between silence at the end and silence at the beginning, when really they're both silence.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I th I think it was things like that that got it mapped down to fifty - six.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, especially in a system like ours, which is a discriminative system. You know, you're really asking this net to learn.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's it's kind of hard.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "There's not much difference, really. And the ones that are gone, I think are I think there was they also in TIMIT had like a glottal stop, which was basically a short period of silence,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, we have that now, too, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "i It's actually pretty common that a lot of the recognition systems people use have things like like, say thirty - nine, phone symbols, right? Uh, and then they get the variety by by bringing in the context, the phonetic context. Uh. So we actually have an unusually large number in in what we tend to use here. Um. So, a a actually maybe now you've got me sort of intrigued. What there's Can you describe what what's on the cube?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, w I th I think that's a good idea", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "to to talk about the whole cube", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and maybe we could sections in the cube for people to work on.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, OK. Uh, do you wanna do it?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so even even though the meeting recorder doesn't doesn't, uh and since you're not running a video camera we won't get this, but if you use a board it'll help us anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, point out one of the limitations of this medium,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but you've got the wireless on,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have the wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? Yeah, so you can walk around.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Can y can you walk around too? No. OK, well, um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, he can't, actually, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "s basically, the the cube will have three dimensions.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "He's tethered.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The first dimension is the the features that we're going to use. And the second dimension, um, is the training corpus. And that's the training on the discriminant neural net. Um and the last dimension happens to be.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah and again Yeah. So the the training for HTK is always that's always set up for the individual test, right? That there's some training data and some test data. So that's different than this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, right. This is this is for for ANN only. And, yeah, the training for the HTK models is always, uh, fixed for whatever language you're testing on.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then, there's the testing corpus. So, then I think it's probably instructive to go and and and show you the features that we were talking about. Um, so, let's see. Help me out with.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "With what?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "PLP? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "MSG.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "MSG.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, JRASTA.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "JRASTA.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And JRASTA - LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "JRASTA - LDA.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, multi - band.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Multi - band.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So there would be multi - band before, um before our network, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, just the multi - band features, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Ah. Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, something like, uh, s TCT within bands and Well. And then multi - band after networks. Meaning that we would have, uh, neural networks, uh, discriminant neural networks for each band. Uh, yeah. And using the the outputs of these networks or the linear outputs or something like that. Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What about mel cepstrum? Or is that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you don't include that because it's part of the base or something?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah databases.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, y you do have a baseline system that's m that's mel cepstra,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But, uh, well, not for the the ANN. I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, yeah, we could we could add MFCC also.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We could add.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Probably should. I mean at least at least conceptually, you know, it doesn't meant you actually have to do it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but conceptually it makes sense as a as a base line.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It'd be an interesting test just to have just to do MFCC with the neural net", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Without the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and everything else the same.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Compare that with just M - MFCC without the the net.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think I think Dan did some of that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, in his previous Aurora experiments. And with the net it's it's wonderful. Without the net it's just baseline.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, I think OGI folks have been doing that, too. D Because I think that for a bunch of their experiments they used, uh, mel cepstra, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, of course that's there and this is here and so on. OK?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Um, for the training corpus corpus, um, we have, um, the the d digits from the various languages. Um, English Spanish um, French What else do we have?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And the Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Finnish.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Where did th where did that come from?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Digits?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, no, Italian no. Italian no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh. Italian.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I Italian yes. Italian?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Italian.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is that Was that distributed with Aurora, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "One L or two L's?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Where did that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The newer one.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So English, uh, Finnish and Italian are Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And Spanish and French is something that we can use in addition to Aurora. Uh, well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so Carmen brought the Spanish, and Stephane brought the French.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. And, um, oh yeah, and.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is it French French or Belgian French? There's a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's, uh, French French.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "French French.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Like Mexican Spain and Spain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Or Swiss.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think that is more important,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Swiss - German.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mexican Spain. Because more people.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, probably so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, Herve always insists that Belgian is i is absolutely pure French, has nothing to do with but he says those those those Parisians talk funny.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have an accent.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah they they do, yeah. Yeah. But then he likes Belgian fries too, so. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then we have, uh, um, broader broader corpus, um, like TIMIT. TIMIT so far,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And Spanish too.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? Spanish Oh, Spanish stories?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Albayzin is the name.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What about TI - digits?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, TI - digits uh all these Aurora f d data p data is from is derived from TI - digits.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Oh. Oh OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, basically, they they corrupted it with, uh, different kinds of noises at different SNR levels.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Ah. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "y And I think Stephane was saying there's there's some broader s material in the French also?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, we cou we could use.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. The French data.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Spanish stories?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sp - Not Spanish stories?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No. No. Albayz", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Spanish something.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did the Aurora people actually corrupt it themselves, or just specify the signal and the signal - t", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They they corrupted it, um, themselves,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but they also included the the noise files for us, right? Or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so we can go ahead and corrupt other things.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just curious, Carmen I mean, I couldn't tell if you were joking or i Is it is it Mexican Spanish,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No no no no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or is it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No no no no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, no, no. It's it's Spanish from Spain, Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Spanish from Spain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "From Spain.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alright. Spanish from Spain. Yeah, we're really covered there now. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And the French from France.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, the No, the French is f yeah, from, uh, Paris,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, from Paris, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And TIMIT's from lots of different places.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "From TI. From i It's from Texas. So may maybe it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "From the deep South.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So - s so it's not really from the US either.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is that? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. And, um, with within the training corporas um, we're, uh, thinking about, um, training with noise. So, incorporating the same kinds of noises that, um, Aurora is in incorporating in their, um in their training corpus. Um, I don't think we we're given the, uh the unseen noise conditions, though, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think what they were saying was that, um, for this next test there's gonna be some of the cases where they have the same type of noise as you were given before hand and some cases where you're not.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Like Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, presumably, that'll be part of the topic of analysis of the the test results, is how well you do when it's matching noise and how well you do where it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, I guess we can't train on on the the unseen noise conditions.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, not if it's not seen,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. If Not if it's unseen.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. I mean, i i i i it does seem to me that a lot of times when you train with something that's at least a little bit noisy it can it can help you out in other kinds of noise even if it's not matching just because there's some more variance that you've built into things. But, but, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uh, exactly how well it will work will depend on how near it is to what you had ahead of time. So. OK, so that's your training corpus,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and then your testing corpus?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, the testing corporas are, um, just, um, the same ones as Aurora testing. And, that includes, um, the English Spa - um, Italian. Finnish.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, we' r we're gonna get German, right? Ge - At the final test will have German.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, so, yeah, the final test, on a guess, is supposed to be German and Danish,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The s yeah, the Spanish, perhaps,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Spanish. Oh yeah, we can we can test on s Spanish.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "we will have. Yeah. But the the Aurora Spanish, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, there's a there's Spanish testing in the Aurora?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, not yet, but, uh, yeah, uh, e", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's preparing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "pre they are preparing it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They are preparing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, well, according to Hynek it will be we will have this at the end of November, or Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, so, uh, something like seven things in each, uh each column.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that's, uh, three hundred and forty - three, uh, different systems that are going to be developed. There's three of you.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. One hundred each, about.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, so that's hundred and hundred and fourteen each.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What a what about noise conditions?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w Don't we need to put in the column for noise conditions?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Are you just trying to be difficult?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, I just don't understand.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, th uh, when when I put these testings on there, I'm assumi", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just kidding. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "There - there's three three tests. Um, type - A, type - B, and type - C. And they're all they're all gonna be test tested, um, with one training of the HTK system. Um, there's a script that tests all three different types of noise conditions. Test - A is like a matched noise. Test - B is a is a slightly mismatched. And test - C is a, um, mismatched channel.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And do we do all our training on clean data?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, no, no,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Also, we can clean that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "we're we're gonna be, um, training on the noise files that we do have.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, um Yeah, so I guess the question is how long does it take to do a a training? I mean, it's not totally crazy t I mean, these are a lot of these are built - in things and we know we have programs that compute PLP, we have MSG, we have JRA you know, a lot of these things will just kind of happen, won't take uh a huge amount of development, it's just trying it out. So, we actually can do quite a few experiments.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But how how long does it take, do we think, for one of these trainings?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's a good question.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What about combinations of things?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, that's right. I mean, cuz, so, for instance, I think the major advantage of MSG.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Och!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "good point. A major advantage of MSG, I see, th that we've seen in the past is combined with PLP.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Now, this is turning into a four - dimensional cube?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you just select multiple things on the one dimension.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or you just add it to the features.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, I mean, you don't wanna, uh Let's see, seven choose two would be, uh, twenty - one different combinations. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's not a complete set of combinations, though,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Probably.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right? It's not a complete set of combinations, though,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I hope not. Yeah, there's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That would be.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, so PLP and MSG I think we definitely wanna try cuz we've had a lot of good experience with putting those together.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "When you do that, you're increasing the size of the inputs to the net. Do you have to reduce the hidden layer, or something?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, so I mean, so i it doesn't increase the number of trainings.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, no, I'm I'm just wondering about number of parameters in the net. Do you have to worry about keeping that the same, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "There's a computation limit, though, isn't there?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it's just more compu Excuse me?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Isn't there like a limit on the computation load, or d latency, or something like that for Aurora task?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, we haven't talked about any of that at all, have we?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, there's not really a limit. What it is is that there's there's, uh it's just penalty, you know? That that if you're using, uh, a megabyte, then they'll say that's very nice, but, of course, it will never go on a cheap cell phone.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. And, u uh, I think the computation isn't so much of a problem. I think it's more the memory. Uh, and, expensive cell phones, exa expensive hand - helds, and so forth, are gonna have lots of memory. So it's just that, uh, these people see the the cheap cell phones as being still the biggest market, so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. But, yeah, I was just realizing that, actually, it doesn't explode out, um It's not really two to the seventh. But it's but but i i it doesn't really explode out the number of trainings cuz these were all trained individually. Right? So, uh, if you have all of these nets trained some place, then, uh, you can combine their outputs and do the KL transformation and so forth", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and and, uh So, what it it blows out is the number of uh testings. And, you know and the number of times you do that last part. But that last part, I think, is so has gotta be pretty quick, so. Uh. Right? I mean, it's just running the data through.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But wh what about a net that's trained on multiple languages, though?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, you gotta do the KL transformation,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Eight y", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is that just separate nets for each language then combined, or is that actually one net trained on?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Necessary to put in.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good question.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, probably one net. Well. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "One would think one net,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but we've I don't think we've tested that. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, in the broader training corpus we can we can use, uh, the three, or, a combination of of two two languages.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Database three.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In one net. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, I guess the first thing is if w if we know how much a how long a a training takes, if we can train up all these these combinations, uh, then we can start working on testing of them individually, and in combination. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because the putting them in combination, I think, is not as much computationally as the r training of the nets in the first place. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So y you do have to compute the KL transformation. Uh, which is a little bit, but it's not too much.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's not too much,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But Yeah. But there is the testing also, which implies training, uh, the HTK models", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The the model the HTK model.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, well,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. So if you do have lots of combinations, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah. But it's it's it's not so long. It @ @ Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "How long does it take for an, uh, HTK training?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's around six hours, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It depends on the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For training and testing, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "More than six hours.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "More.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "For the Italian, yes. Maybe one day.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "One day?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For HTK?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Really? Running on what?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, M MFCC.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, I'm sorry, ru running on what machine?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, Ravioli.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't know what Ravioli is. Is it is it an Ultra - five, or is it a?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "mmm Um. Who is that?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know what a Ravioli is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We can check really quickly, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think it's - it's - it's not so long because, well, the TI - digits test data is about, uh how many hours? Uh, th uh, thirty hours of speech, I think,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's a few hours.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "something like that. And it p Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so, I mean, clearly, there there's no way we can even begin to do an any significant amount here unless we use multiple machines.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's six hours.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? So so w we I mean there's plenty of machines here and they're n they're often not in in a great great deal of use. So, I mean, I think it's it's key that that the that you look at, uh, you know, what machines are fast, what machines are used a lot Uh, are we still using P - make? Is that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't know how w how we would P - make this, though. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you have a I mean, once you get the basic thing set up, you have just all the uh, a all these combinations,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um. It's it's let's say it's six hours or eight hours, or something for the training of HTK. How long is it for training of of, uh, the neural net?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The neural net? Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I would say two days.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Depends on the corpuses, right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It depends.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It s also depends on the net.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Depends on the corpus.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How big is the net?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "For Albayzin I trained on neural network, uh, was, um, one day also.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, but on what machine?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "On a SPERT board.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh. I I think the neural net SPERT.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you did a you did it on a SPERT board.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, again, we do have a bunch of SPERT boards.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And I think there there there's I think you folks are probably go the ones using them right now.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is it faster to do it on the SPERT, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's it's still a little faster on the", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Used to be.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Ad - Adam Adam did some testing. Or either Adam or or Dan did some testing and they found that the SPERT board's still still faster.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the benefits is that, you know, you run out of SPERT and then you can do other things on your your computer,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and you don't.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you could be we have quite a few SPERT boards. You could set up, uh, you know, ten different jobs, or something, to run on SPERT different SPERT boards and and have ten other jobs running on different computers. So, it's got to take that sort of thing, or or we're not going to get through any significant number of these.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So this is Yeah, I mean, I kind of like this because what it No.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh, no, what I like about it is we we we do have a problem that we have very limited time. You know, so, with very limited time, we actually have really quite a quite a bit of computational resource available if you, you know, get a look across the institute and how little things are being used. And uh, on the other hand, almost anything that really i you know, is is new, where we're saying, \" Well, let's look at, like we were talking before about, uh, uh, voiced - unvoiced - silence detection features and all those sort \" that's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think it's a great thing to go to. But if it's new, then we have this development and and and learning process t to to go through on top of just the the all the all the work. So, I I I don't see how we'd do it. So what I like about this is you basically have listed all the things that we already know how to do.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and all the kinds of data that we, at this point, already have. And, uh, you're just saying let's look at the outer product of all of these things and see if we can calculate them. a a Am I am I interpreting this correctly? Is this sort of what what you're thinking of doing in the short term?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so then I think it's just the the missing piece is that you need to, uh, you know you know, talk to talk to, uh, Chuck, talk to, uh, Adam, uh, sort out about, uh, what's the best way to really, you know, attack this as a as a as a mass problem in terms of using many machines. Uh, and uh, then, you know, set it up in terms of scripts and so forth, and uh, in in kind o some kind of structured way. Uh. Um, and, you know, when we go to, uh, OGI next week, uh, we can then present to them, you know, what it is that we're doing. And, uh, we can pull things out of this list that we think they are doing sufficiently,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "that, you know, we're not we won't be contributing that much. Um. And, uh Then, uh, like, we're there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "How big are the nets you're using?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, for the for nets trained on digits, um, we have been using, uh, four hundred order hidden units. And, um, for the broader class nets we're we're going to increase that because the, um, the digits nets only correspond to about twenty phonemes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Broader class?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, the broader broader training corpus nets like TIMIT. Um, w we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, it's not actually broader class, it's actually finer class, but you mean y You mean more classes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Yeah. More classes. Right, right. More classes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's what I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Carmen, did you do you have something else to add? We you haven't talked too much, and.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "D I begin to work with the Italian database to nnn, to with the f front - end and with the HTK program and the @ @. And I trained eh, with the Spanish two neural network with PLP and with LogRASTA PLP. I don't know exactly what is better if if LogRASTA or JRASTA.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, um, JRASTA has the potential to do better, but it doesn't always. It's i i JRASTA is more complicated. It's it's, uh instead of doing RASTA with a log, you're doing RASTA with a log - like function that varies depending on a J parameter, uh, which is supposed to be sensitive to the amount of noise there is. So, it's sort of like the right transformation to do the filtering in, is dependent on how much noise there is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so in JRASTA you attempt to do that. It's a little complicated because once you do that, you end up in some funny domain and you end up having to do a transformation afterwards, which requires some tables. And, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so it's it's it's a little messier, uh, there's more ways that it can go wrong, uh, but if if if you're careful with it, it can do better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's a bit I'll do better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, it's So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, and I think to to to recognize the Italian digits with the neural netw Spanish neural network, and also to train another neural network with the Spanish digits, the database of Spanish digits. And I working that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But prepa to prepare the the database are difficult. Was for me, n it was a difficult work last week with the labels because the the program with the label obtained that I have, the Albayzin, is different w to the label to train the neural network. And that is another work that we must to do, to to change.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I didn't understand.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, for example Albayzin database was labeled automatically with HTK. It's not hand it's not labels by hand.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, \" l labeled \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Labels.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I have a p I had a problem with the pronunciation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry. The labels. I'm sorry. The labels.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, also that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, OK, so let's start over.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, TI TIMI TIMIT's hand - labeled, and and you're saying about the Spanish?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The Spanish labels? That was in different format, that the format for the em the program to train the neural network.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I necessary to convert. And someti well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you're just having a problem converting the labels.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's it's Yeah. Yeah, but n yes, because they have one program, Feacalc, but no, l LabeCut, l LabeCut, but don't doesn't, eh, include the HTK format to convert.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And, I don't know what. I ask e even I ask to Dan Ellis what I can do that, and h they he say me that h he does doesn't any any s any form to to do that. And at the end, I think that with LabeCut I can transfer to ASCII format, and HTK is an ASCII format. And I m do another, uh, one program to put ASCII format of HTK to ase ay ac ASCII format to Exceed", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and they used LabCut to to pass.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Actually that was complicated,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but well, I know how we can did that do that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure. So it's just usual kind of uh sometimes say housekeeping, right? To get these get these things sorted out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it seems like there's there's some peculiarities of the, uh of each of these dimensions that are getting sorted out. And then, um, if if you work on getting the, uh, assembly lines together, and then the the pieces sort of get ready to go into the assembly line and gradually can start, you know, start turning the crank, more or less. And, uh, uh, we have a lot more computational capability here than they do at OGI, so I think that i if What's what's great about this is it sets it up in a very systematic way, so that, uh, once these all of these, you know, mundane but real problems get sorted out, we can just start turning the crank", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and push all of us through, and then finally figure out what's best.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, I I was thinking two things. Uh, the first thing was, um we we actually had thought of this as sort of like, um not not in stages, but more along the the time axis. Just kind of like one stream at a time,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "je - je - je - je - je check out the results and and go that way.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. No, I'm just saying, I'm just thinking of it like loops,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? And so, y y y if you had three nested loops, that you have a choice for this, a choice for this, and a choice for that,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? And you're going through them all. That that's what I meant.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, uh, the thing is that once you get a better handle on how much you can realistically do, uh, um, concurrently on different machines, different SPERTs, and so forth, uh, and you see how long it takes on what machine and so forth, you can stand back from it and say, \" OK, if we look at all these combinations we're talking about, and combinations of combinations, and so forth, \" you'll probably find you can't do it all.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so then at that point, uh, we should sort out which ones do we throw away.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Which of the combinations across you know, what are the most likely ones, and And, uh, I still think we could do a lot of them. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if we could do a hundred of them or something. But, probably when you include all the combinations, you're actually talking about a thousand of them or something, and that's probably more than we can do. Uh, but a hundred is a lot. And and, uh, um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the the second thing was about scratch space. And I think you sent an email about, um, e scratch space for for people to work on. And I know that, uh, Stephane's working from an NT machine, so his his home directory exists somewhere else.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "His his stuff is somewhere else, yeah. Yeah, I mean, my point I I want to Yeah, thanks for bring it back to that. My th I want to clarify my point about that that that Chuck repeated in his note. Um. We're over the next year or two, we're gonna be upgrading the networks in this place,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but right now they're still all te pretty much all ten megabit lines. And we have reached the this the machines are getting faster and faster. So, it actually has reached the point where it's a significant drag on the time for something to move the data from one place to another.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, you you don't w especially in something with repetitive computation where you're going over it multiple times, you do don't want to have the the data that you're working on distant from where it's being where the computation's being done if you can help it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh. Now, we are getting more disk for the central file server, which, since it's not a computational server, would seem to be a contradiction to what I just said. But the idea is that, uh, suppose you're working with, uh, this big bunch of multi multilingual databases. Um, you put them all in the central ser at the cen central file server.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Then, when you're working with something and accessing it many times, you copy the piece of it that you're working with over to some place that's close to where the computation is and then do all the work there. And then that way you you won't have the the network you won't be clogging the network for yourself and others.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's the idea. So, uh, it's gonna take us It may be too late for this, uh, p precise crunch we're in now, but, uh, we're, uh It's gonna take us a couple weeks at least to get the, uh, uh, the amount of disk we're gonna be getting. We're actually gonna get, uh, I think four more, uh, thirty - six gigabyte drives and, uh, put them on another another disk rack. We ran out of space on the disk rack that we had, so we're getting another disk rack and four more drives to share between, uh primarily between this project and the Meetings Meetings Project. Um. But, uh, we've put another I guess there's another eighteen gigabytes that's that's in there now to help us with the immediate crunch. But, uh, are you saying So I don't know where you're Stephane, where you're doing your computations. If i so, you're on an NT machine, so you're using some external machine", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it, uh Well, to It's Nutmeg and Mustard, I think,.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Do you know these yet?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't know what kind.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Nuh - uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. Uh, are these are these, uh, computational servers, or something? I'm I've been kind of out of it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think, yeah. I think so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Unfortunately, these days my idea of running comput of computa doing computation is running a spread sheet.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, haven't been haven't been doing much computing personally, so. Um. Yeah, so those are computational servers. So I guess the other question is what disk there i space there is there on the computational servers.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, I'm not sure what's available on is it you said Nutmeg and what was the other one?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mustard.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mustard. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, Well, you're the you're the disk czar now.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I'll check on that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so basically, uh, Chuck will be the one who will be sorting out what disk needs to be where, and so on, and I'll be the one who says, \" OK, spend the money. \" So. Which, I mean, n these days, uh, if you're talking about scratch space, it doesn't increase the, uh, need for backup, and, uh, I think it's not that big a d and the the disks themselves are not that expensive. Right now it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What you can do, when you're on that machine, is, uh, just go to the slash - scratch directory, and do a DF minus K, and it'll tell you if there's space available.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, and if there is then, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But wasn't it, uh I think Dave was saying that he preferred that people didn't put stuff in slash - scratch. It's more putting in d s XA or XB or,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, there's different there, um, there's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. So there's the slash - X - whatever disks, and then there's slash - scratch. And both of those two kinds are not backed up. And if it's called \" slash - scratch \", it means it's probably an internal disk to the machine. Um. And so that's the kind of thing where, like if um, OK, if you don't have an NT, but you have a a a Unix workstation, and they attach an external disk, it'll be called \" slash - X - something \" uh, if it's not backed up and it'll be \" slash - D - something \" if it is backed up. And if it's inside the machine on the desk, it's called \" slash - scratch \". But the problem is, if you ever get a new machine, they take your machine away. It's easy to unhook the external disks, put them back on the new machine, but then your slash - scratch is gone. So, you don't wanna put anything in slash - scratch that you wanna keep around for a long period of time. But if it's a copy of, say, some data that's on a server, you can put it on slash - scratch because, um, first of all it's not backed up, and second it doesn't matter if that machine disappears and you get a new machine because you just recopy it to slash - scratch. So tha that's why I was saying you could check slash - scratch on those on on, um, Mustard and and Nutmeg to see if if there's space that you could use there.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You could also use slash - X - whatever disks on Mustard and Nutmeg.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah, and we do have I mean, yeah, so so you yeah, it's better to have things local if you're gonna run over them lots of times so you don't have to go to the network.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right, so es so especially if you're right, if you're if you're taking some piece of the training corpus, which usually resides in where Chuck is putting it all on the on the, uh, file server, uh, then, yeah, it's fine if it's not backed up because if it g g gets wiped out or something, y I mean it is backed up on the other disk. So,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, one of the things that I need to I've started looking at Uh, is this the appropriate time to talk about the disk space stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I've started looking at, um, disk space. Dan David, um, put a new, um, drive onto Abbott, that's an X disk, which means it's not backed up. So, um, I've been going through and copying data that is, you know, some kind of corpus stuff usually, that that we've got on a CD - ROM or something, onto that new disk to free up space on other disks. And, um, so far, um, I've copied a couple of Carmen's, um, databases over there. We haven't deleted them off of the slash - DC disk that they're on right now in Abbott, um, uh, but we I would like to go through sit down with you about some of these other ones and see if we can move them onto, um, this new disk also. There's there's a lot more space there,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it'll free up more space for doing the experiments and things. So, anything that that you don't need backed up, we can put on this new disk. Um, but if it's experiments and you're creating files and things that you're gonna need, you probably wanna have those on a disk that's backed up, just in case something goes wrong. So. Um So far I've I've copied a couple of things, but I haven't deleted anything off of the old disk to make room yet. Um, and I haven't looked at the any of the Aurora stuff, except for the Spanish. So I I guess I'll need to get together with you and see what data we can move onto the new disk.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, I I just an another question occurred to me is is what were you folks planning to do about normalization?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um. Well, we were thinking about using this systematically for all the experiments. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This being?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, but Uh. So that this could be another dimension, but we think perhaps we can use the the best, uh, um, uh, normalization scheme as OGI is using, so, with parameters that they use there,.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "u u", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean it's i i we we seem to have enough dimensions as it is. So probably if we sort of take their.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "probably the on - line line normalization because then it it's if we do anything else, we're gonna end up having to do on - line normalization too, so we may as well just do on - line normalization.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So. Um. So that it's plausible for the final thing. Good. Um. So, I guess, yeah, th the other topic I maybe we're already there, or almost there, is goals for the for next week's meeting. Uh. i i i it seems to me that we wanna do is flush out what you put on the board here. Uh. You know, maybe, have it be somewhat visual, a little bit.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Like a s like a slide?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, so w we can say what we're doing,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah. And, um, also, if you have sorted out, um, this information about how long i roughly how long it takes to do on what and, you know, what we can how many of these trainings, uh, uh, and testings and so forth that we can realistically do, uh, then one of the big goals of going there next week would be to to actually settle on which of them we're gonna do. And, uh, when we come back we can charge in and do it. Um. Anything else that I a a Actually started out this this field trip started off with with, uh, Stephane talking to Hynek, so you may have you may have had other goals, uh, for going up, and any anything else you can think of would be we should think about accomplishing? I mean, I'm just saying this because maybe there's things we need to do in preparation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I think basically, this is this is, uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. OK. Uh. Alright. And uh and the other the the last topic I had here was, um, uh d Dave's fine offer to to, uh, do something on this. I mean he's doing he's working on other things, but to to do something on this project. So the question is, \" Where where could we, uh, uh, most use Dave's help? \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, I was thinking perhaps if, um, additionally to all these experiments, which is not really research, well I mean it's, uh, running programs", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and, um, trying to have a closer look at the perhaps the, um, speech, uh, noise detection or, uh, voiced - sound - unvoiced - sound detection and Which could be important in i for noise noise.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think that would be a I think that's a big big deal. Because the you know, the thing that Sunil was talking about, uh, with the labels, uh, labeling the database when it got to the noisy stuff? The That that really throws things off. You know, having the noise all of a sudden, your your, um, speech detector, I mean the the, um What was it? What was happening with his thing?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He was running through these models very quickly. He was getting lots of, uh, uh insertions, is what it was, in his recognitions.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The only problem I mean, maybe that's the right thing the only problem I have with it is exactly the same reason why you thought it'd be a good thing to do. Um, I I think that Let's fall back to that. But I think the first responsibility is sort of to figure out if there's something that, uh, an an additional Uh, that's a good thing you remove the mike. Go ahead, good. Uh, uh. What an additional clever person could help with when we're really in a crunch for time. Right? Cuz Dave's gonna be around for a long time,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? He's he's gonna be here for years. And so, um,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "over years, if he's if he's interested in, you know, voiced - unvoiced - silence, he could do a lot. But if there if in fact there's something else that he could be doing, that would help us when we're we're sort of uh strapped for time We have we we've, you know, only, uh, another another month or two to you know, with the holidays in the middle of it, um, to to get a lot done. If we can think of something some piece of this that's going to be The very fact that it is sort of just work, and i and it's running programs and so forth, is exactly why it's possible that it some piece of could be handed to someone to do, because it's not Uh, yeah, so that that's the question. And we don't have to solve it right this s second, but if we could think of some some piece that's that's well defined, that he could help with, he's expressing a will willingness to do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What about training up a, um, a multilingual net?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, maybe to, mmm, put together the the label the labels between TIMIT and Spanish or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so defining the superset,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, uh, joining the data and Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah, that's something that needs to be done in any event.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what we were just saying is that that, um I was arguing for, if possible, coming up with something that that really was development and wasn't research because we we're we have a time crunch. And so, uh, if there's something that would would save some time that someone else could do on some other piece, then we should think of that first. See the thing with voiced - unvoiced - silence is I really think that that it's to do to do a a a a poor job is is pretty quick, uh, or, you know, a so - so job. You can you can you can throw in a couple fea we know what what kinds of features help with it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can throw something in. You can do pretty well. But I remember, in fact, when you were working on that, and you worked on for few months, as I recall, and you got to, say ninety - three percent, and getting to ninety - four really really hard.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Another year.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So, um And th th the other tricky thing is, since we are, uh, even though we're not we don't have a strict prohibition on memory size, and and computational complexity, uh, clearly there's some limitation to it. So if we have to if we say we have to have a pitch detector, say, if we if we're trying to incorporate pitch information, or at least some kind of harmonic harmonicity, or something, this is another whole thing, take a while to develop. Anyway, it's a very very interesting topic. I mean, one I think one of the a lot of people would say, and I think Dan would also, uh, that one of the things wrong with current speech recognition is that we we really do throw away all the harmonicity information. Uh, we try to get spectral envelopes. Reason for doing that is that most of the information about the phonetic identity is in the spectral envelopes are not in the harmonic detail. But the harmonic detail does tell you something. Like the fact that there is harmonic detail is is real important. So. Um. So, uh. So I think Yeah. So wh that so the the other suggestion that just came up was, well what about having him work on the, uh, multilingual super f superset kind of thing. Uh, coming up with that and then, you know, training it training a net on that, say, um, from from, uh from TIMIT or something. Is that or uh, for multiple databases. What what would you what would you think it would wh what would this task consist of?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it would consist in, uh, well, um, creating the the superset, and, uh, modifying the lab labels for matching the superset. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, creating a superset from looking at the multiple languages,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, creating the mappings, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and then creating i m changing labels on TIMIT?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Or on or on multiple language multiple languages?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No. The multiple language.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, with the @ @ three languages,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Maybe for the other language because TIMIT have more phone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So you'd have to create a mapping from each language to the superset.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "From each language to the superset,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "There's, um Carmen was talking about this SAMPA thing, and it's, um, it's an effort by linguists to come up with, um, a machine readable IPA, um, sort of thing, right? And, um, they they have a web site that Stephane was showing us that has, um has all the English phonemes and their SAMPA correspondent, um, phoneme,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and then, um, they have Spanish, they have German, they have all all sorts of languages, um, mapping mapping to the SAMPA phonemes, which.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, the tr the transcription, though, for Albayzin is n the transcription are of SAMPA the same, uh, how you say, symbol that SAMPA appear.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "SAMPA? What does \" SAMPA \" mean?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But I don't know if TIMIT o how is TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was gonna say, does that mean IPA is not really international?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, it's it's saying.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It uses special diacritics and stuff, which you can't do with ASCII characters.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "y can't print on ASCII.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So the SAMPA's just mapping those.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. Got it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What, uh Has OGI done anything about this issue? Do they have Do they have any kind of superset that they already have?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't think so. Well, they they they're going actually the the other way, defining uh, phoneme clusters, apparently. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Aha. That's right. Uh, and that's an interesting way to go too.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So they just throw the speech from all different languages together, then cluster it into sixty or fifty or whatever clusters?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think they've not done it, uh, doing, uh, multiple language yet, but what they did is to training, uh, English nets with all the phonemes, and then training it in English nets with, uh, kind of seventeen, I think it was seventeen, uh, broad classes.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Automatically derived Mm - hmm. Automatically derived broad classes, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, and, yeah. And the result was that apparently, when testing on cross - language it was better. I think so. But Hynek didn't add didn't have all the results when he showed me that, so, well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that does make an interesting question, though.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is there's some way that we should tie into that with this. Um. Right? I mean, if if in fact that is a better thing to do, should we leverage that, rather than doing, um, our own. Right? So, if i if if they s I mean, we have i we have the the trainings with our own categories. And now we're saying, \" Well, how do we handle cross - language? \" And one way is to come up with a superset, but they are als they're trying coming up with clustered, and do we think there's something wrong with that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think that there's something wrong", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. What w", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "or Well, because Well, for the moment we are testing on digits, and e i perhaps u using broad phoneme classes, it's it's OK for um, uh classifying the digits, but as soon as you will have more words, well, words can differ with only a single phoneme, and which could be the same, uh, class.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well. So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Although, you are not using this for the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, I'm", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You're using this for the feature generation, though, not the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you will ask the net to put one for th th the phoneme class", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So you're saying that there may not be enough information coming out of the net to help you discriminate the words?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well. Yeah, yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Fact, most confusions are within the phone phone classes, right? I think, uh, Larry was saying like obstruents are only confused with other obstruents, et cetera, et cetera.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is another p yeah, another point.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So so, maybe we could look at articulatory type stuff,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But that's what I thought they were gonna.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did they not do that, or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't think so. Well,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "they were talking about, perhaps, but they d", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They're talking about it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I d", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but that's sort of a question whether they did", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "because that's that's the other route to go.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Instead of this, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Superclass.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Instead of the the the the superclass thing, which is to take So suppose y you don't really mark arti To really mark articulatory features, you really wanna look at the acoustics and and see where everything is, and we're not gonna do that. So, uh, the second class way of doing it is to look at the, uh, phones that are labeled and translate them into acoustic uh, uh articulatory, uh, uh, features. So it won't really be right. You won't really have these overlapping things and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So the targets of the net are these?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Articulatory features.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Articulatory feature.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But that implies that you can have more than one on at a time?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. That's right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You either do that or you have multiple nets.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. And, um I don't know if our software this if the qu versions of the Quicknet that we're using allows for that. Do you know?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Allows for?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Multiple targets being one?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, um, we have gotten soft targets to to work.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So that that'll work, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, um, that's another thing that could be done.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "is that we could we could, uh, just translate instead of translating to a superset, just translate to articulatory features, some set of articulatory features and train with that. Now the fact even though it's a smaller number, it's still fine because you have the the, uh, combinations. So, in fact, it has every, you know it had has has every distinction in it that you would have the other way.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But it should go across languages better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We could do an interesting cheating experiment with that too. We could I don't know, if you had uh the phone labels, you could replace them by their articulatory features and then feed in a vector with those uh, things turned on based on what they're supposed to be for each phone to see if it if you get a big win. Do you know what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, um, I mean, if your net is gonna be outputting, uh, a vector of basically of well, it's gonna have probabilities, but let's say that they were ones and zeros, then y and you know for each, um, I don't know if you know this for your testing data, but if you know for your test data, you know, what the string of phones is and and you have them aligned, then you can just instead of going through the net, just create the vector for each phone and feed that in to see if that data helps. Eh, eh, what made me think about this is, I was talking with Hynek and he said that there was a guy at A T - andT who spent eighteen months working on a single feature. And because they had done some cheating experiments.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This was the guy that we were just talking a that we saw on campus. So, this was Larry Saul who did this did this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He used sonorants.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, OK,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Was what he was doing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right. And they they had done a cheating experiment or something, right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and determined that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He he di he didn't mention that part.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, Hynek said that that, I guess before they had him work on this, they had done some experiment where if they could get that one feature right, it dramatically improved the result.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But. I see. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So I was thinking, you know it made me think about this, that if it'd be an interesting experiment just to see, you know, if you did get all of those right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Should be. Because if you get all of them in there, that defines all of the phones. So that's that's equivalent to saying that you've got got all the phones right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, if that doesn't help, there's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Although, yeah, it would be make an interesting cheating experiment because we are using it in this funny way,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "where we're converting it into features.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then you also don't know what error they've got on the HTK side. You know? It sort of gives you your the best you could hope for, kind of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The soft training of the nets still requires the vector to sum to one, though, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To sum up to one.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you can't really feed it, like, two articulatory features that are on at the same time with ones cuz it'll kind of normalize them down to one half or something like that, for instance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But perhaps you have the choice of the final nonl", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Nonlinearity?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh, nonlinearity,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah. Is it always softmax", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "it's sig No, it's actually sigmoid - X", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "for the.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So if you choose sigmoid it's o it's OK?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did we just run out of disk,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think I think apparently, the, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Why don't you just choose linear? Right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What's that?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Linear outputs?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Linear outputs?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Isn't that what you'll want?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "If you're gonna do a KL Transform on it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, right. Right, but during the training, we would train on sigmoid - X", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, you Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and then at the end just chop off the final nonlinearity.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, we're we're we're off the air, or? About to be off the air.", "speakerName": "Professor F" } ] }

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Okay, so we'll have a functional design individual work um with meeting and then conceptual design t and then detailed design. Okay? Right. Everybody's supposed to try out the whiteboard. Kate, why don't you try it first, if you can either bring your things with you, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, if I can pick up with all these bits and pieces, hang on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And while you're doing that we'll try and figure out how to hook these things on as well,'cause we're all gonna have to be able to walk around.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh right, so you want an animal and the characteristics of that animal..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you have to be able to recognise what animal it is? Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I do not think so,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we all gonna draw a cat?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's just to try out the whiteboard. Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only animal I could thin I could draw.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Its a sort of bunny rabbit cat..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can tell it's not a bunny rabbit by the ears.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I suppose it should have a mouth as well, sort of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. And the characteristics?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the favourite characteristics of the cat um the whiskers I think, um because they're the easiest to draw.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In fact, I'll give it some more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, and the tail", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fantastic. Since you're handy as well, why don't you do yours next, Steph. I think it's to get us used to using the pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Um sure it's not to test our artistic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh no. A mouse-y?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a mouse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not a mouse-y, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's not a mouse. It's a wombat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a ratty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Argh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A ratty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not a mouse, a rat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A webbed foot. Webbed f.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's clothes. That's it's clothes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a ratty with a with a with a very long tail.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And your favourite characteristics of that animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I love whiskers. Uh they're intelligent and they're cheeky and uh fantastic pets", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and very friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Kate?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And they sit on your shoulder and whisper the answers to your homework in your ear when you're doing your homework.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, a fish.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Gosh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A shark?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "why didn't I think of fish? That's even easier to draw than cat..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm this is very representational fish..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I like them because they're sleek", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Favourite characteristics?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they have a lot of freedom but they also do n uh swim in groups,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So they have team elements..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you have a favourite one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I'm with Steph. And I think your pen's running out of whatever. But I'm afraid I take the coward's way out, and the cat's looking the other way..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He's hiding.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um cats are sometimes very independent. My parents had cats. Uh and they can mm decide for themselves what is best. Okay. Now um we have to get down to the nitty-gritty of how to make this and this remote control has to be sold um we're to sell it for twenty five Euros, with a profit aim ultimately of fifty million Euros. That tells you something about how many um we have to sell on an international scale. Um would be an awful lot of these, would be like what, a hundred million of them um to make twenty five Euros on each one and to make a total profit of fifty million. Um the production is to only cost twelve and a half Euros per item. Now if they cost twelve and a half, you're selling it for twenty five, you're making twelve and a half Euros each. Um and we're to make a profit of fifty million, that's t uh can you do the maths and how many are we selling?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. I was just wondering if that's the um If fifty percent is normal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mark-up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B yeah. Um I would think would be more like sixty percent. But um let me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have two thoughts. One hundred, fifty percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and your question is how many do we have to sell?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes,'cause our market um is international and your problem is has to do with marketing of you know, you gotta know how many we're going to be selling to know how big a market you have to target and who is that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At twenty five. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To give you a pretty good idea of where you're looking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's four million of them?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something like that? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's fifty million Euros. In order to make fifty million Euros, and you're only getting twelve and a half each.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if we make Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a lot of selling. Two four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Four million.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To be fifty, be four million. You'd have to sell four million.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay? Right. Experience with a remote control. Any of you use of remote control for a television or D_V_D_ or something? You're both nodding,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That that that's the sorta product we're talking about, one that will work for a in a home environment, for a T_V_s and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "all three. Well I've seen some remote controls that are for more than one device at a time, but I also have heard about them not working well or not well co-ordinated and you wind up working with this one for thi this three and then this one over here for another.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is true that you always sit around you know, you're sitting on your sofa and you wanna change something, there's five different remotes, and one for the D_V_D_ and one for the video and one for cable and one for whatever else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And they don't always talk to each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I presume this is t I presume this is just for television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Don't know. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are there any um ideas for the remote? What would it be for and what group would be be for? We have to think about that one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could make a Hello Kitty", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "themed remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one in b bright colours would be good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one that works would be good..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could totally go for the Japan-a-mation. Well I mean there's also the cachet that um uh the Japanese make great products. Electrical their industrial design is very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one that doesn't have lots of superfluous functions. Like I've got one at home that has well, apart from the obvious, channels, channel up, channel down, volume,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know, subtitles, mute, there's a lotta buttons that I've got no idea what they do, like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, that's a really good point,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think one of the things that being somewhat computer literate, we tend to um go to menus and then make choices, you know, so if it's like an uh volume button, you know, you can go in and say mute or or volume. We don't need to have like the l the numbers if we also have uh uh channel up channel down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. We can make it smart like an iPod, you know, make everything menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh, closing the meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I know this sounds like it was very quick,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was quick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but the I think that's the industrial design is the first one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's Kate, for the working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And user, that's you S Steph, for the technical functions design, and for marketing the user requirements specification. I think there's going to be a lot of we have to help each other and work through this as a group, and I think we all, you know, we like our kitty-cat and our rat and our fish, but I think we all have to like each other um to get this done. Uh as it says, we're gonna get individual instructions, but uh I don't think they allowed a lot of extra time, so I think a little bit of less of this and more at do will set us in good stead. Do you all agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Um then I don't see any reason to prolong it and f we should finish this meeting at ni right now and go into other things. Alright, so this is the end of the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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I'm Heather, I'm your Project Manager.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So um. So that was the opening.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The first thing we'll do is get acquainted with one another. If everyone could go around and explain their role and um, and their name.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. My name's Poppy. I'm the Industrial Designer for this project. Um, I'm going to be responsible for the functional design phase. 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Um, I'll be doing some trend-watching in the conceptual design, and product evaluation for the design phase.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright I'm Heather and I've I said I'm your Project Manager, um Well you can pretty much read what it is that I'm doing. But um um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And uh tool training is one thing that we're going to be doing today, um um as well as planning the project, how we're going to, uh, create this product, and, um, discuss, um, our aims and objects of this, Which brings us to our next subject,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is, um, um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as a team we're going to be designing and creating a new kind of remote control. Um, we want this to be a marketable product that can be trendy, um, a completely new style, so that, um, can really appeal to a, to a generation that doesn't want a simple plain kind of, uh, channel-changer. And, um, it needs to be user-friendly for, um, maybe, for an example, for people that, um, can't see the numbers as well, or, um, perhaps an ergonomic design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So this is a television remote control?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, it's a television remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I believe I should be taking minutes on this right now. So, alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Um, the way that we're going to go about this is, um, we'll have a time where we can, um come up with new ideas alone, and, and work on the project and then, um, after we've brainstormed and, and thought about, we can come together in a meeting and, and discuss what, what um, what kind of functional design we want to use. Same with conceptual design and detailed design. So, um, making sure that it, it's usable, that as a, um and that it's, it's feasible to create, and uh, to come up with a concept of it want, what we want it to look like. Um, tool training. Is, is everyone, um Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Got those notes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Great. Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um One thing that, uh, we're going to do is become more acquainted with the, the tools that we have access to for our project. Um, one of them is our whiteboard. And, um, as a sort of team-building moment, um, I, I'd like us to, um, try out the whiteboard by expressing our favourite animal and the charac characteristics of that animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, why that, why that should be your favourite animal. So, um, I, I'm assuming that we should do that now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With our microphones still attached to our bodies. Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Gosh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay, what's my favourite animal?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do come up..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to go first. Oh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is a team-building time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "are we all doing it individually?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where, um,,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, let's stand up and support you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay cool, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My favourite animal, which changes all the time, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right now it is an elk.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "An elk?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "alright, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A vicious.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it goes like Yeah it's got like big antlers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Looks kinda like, like it has holly growing out of its head.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you have elk where you come from?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have moose too..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have moose and we have deer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have sheep..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sheep. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "cows.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's a great elk.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-oh, we have a good artist..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is really good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm quite.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is my.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, very shapely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Brilliant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's a sketching of my my elk, and it, it is my favourite animal right now,'cause it is a large beautiful majestic creature,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that um, that um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In a way it looks kind of awkward, because it's on spindly legs and it uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it can really overcome harsh terrain, and although it's gorgeous it's also very dangerous, because it has um strong antlers, and uh it can really combat its enemies, even like it it's a it's an herbivore but, uh, it can really defend itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very nice. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, I'm gonna take minutes while, um, you guys express your favourite animals.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll go next. I am a big animal lover. like all sorts of animals, but for the moment I'm gonna draw a cat, in memory of my poor cat that died recently..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's gonna be a bit of a strange drawing, but never mind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not as artistic as Heather's drawing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bit more cartoon style.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I like cats because they're so independent, and they always seem to be doing what they want to be doing. Um, but that doesn't mean they're completely not sociable,'cause they enjoy interacting with humans as well, and they seem to enjoy the good things like sunshine and, um, running around outside as well as being inside, and enjoying their food, and generally just, they just seemed so cool and they just know what they're doing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I reckon they're sort of, they got it sorted. They know what they want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basically, that's why I like cats..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll rub that out. There you go..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I think my favourite animal would be a dog, but I'm not really sure how to draw one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I, I've never drawn a dog, I don't think. I'm tempted to draw a snail'cause I draw them sometimes and they're really easy to draw.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I forget her name.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right it's gonna be a really funny dog,'cause I'm not sure how to draw a dog.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tara", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or Tara.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well there are loads of different types of dogs, so I'm sure it'll represent one kind of dog..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a cartoon dog I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A s I don't ev Oh, oh well. It's a scary cartoon dog. That This,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that does not look like a dog.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It looks kinda like a person..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can pretend..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's Pinocchio.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How do you draw a dog? I suppose it has a lon Oh my god. Right. Yous know what it's supposed to be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a dog.. Um, I like dogs because, um, they're so good to humans, like they can be trained to be police dogs and seeing-eye dogs, and they're just such friendly animals. And, like they're more of a companion than cats.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've nothing against cats. Cats don't really like me, so I can't like them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But they're just so friendly and warm and nice animals,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that don't look like that..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alrighty. I feel like a robot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um, well I guess I had the most time to think about it. I'm going to draw a butterfly, because I saw a butterfly yesterday, that seemed to be like the symbol of Spring arriving. And it was actually the prettiest butterfly I've ever seen out in the wild, and I though that was pretty cool in Scotland. It was like, well it was a little pointier than that. At first I thought it was a dead leaf.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then it landed on the wall next to me. But this part was all brown and then it has these big blue dots like this. And then it kinda there was a green, I think it was a green ring, and there was like red going out like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's kinda like a peacock.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it kinda was actually,'cause it was This part of the body was really dull, and then it was the most colourful exotic butterfly ever, and I'm like, wow this is the middle of Scotland in like March.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I thought that was pretty cool. And it landed by a wall and let me look at it for about two minutes. I wish I'd had my camera. So that's gonna be my favourite animal because after all the snow it seemed to say that like Spring is finally here. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very nice..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, what do we Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you hear the eraser buzzing while you do that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes I do..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yea Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, now that we know how to use the whiteboard,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um, the next, um, thing we need to address is our financial department, to meet our our budget, um or not meet our budget but more, um, like what kind of, uh, selling range we'll be looking at, um, wanna make this um selling price of twenty five Euros. And so we have to, um, come up with a way to, to create a, a uh remote control, where um we can like the price to create it will be significantly less. Um, we'd like to, um to, uh, make fifty million Euro. I'm assuming that's what the M_ means. Um, and make it for an international market. Um, one thing we'd have to think about internationally is in the design of, um, like different kinds of, uh, V_C_R_s. Things like that, depending on which country you are. Another thing for the design team to think about. Um, we want it to cost, uh, absolute maximum of twelve Euro and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so we'll have a hundred percent profit then? Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm bad at math.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so now that, um, that is underway, um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it is discussion time. So this is time for us to bring our initial ideas, any um suggestions that you may have so far, a um your personal experiences with remote controls, and um, um, areas you see that, uh, could be improved in your experience with them. Does anyone have any initial thoughts?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I find that in the dark it's often hard to know what button you're pushing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. So what's something we could, uh, do to remedy that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I always find that in our house the remote control always goes missing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's always, where is the remote control?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe if you could have some kind of tracking device for the remote control or some signal that you could find out where it was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno, some kind of alarm. You can press a button on your wall, signal,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's a great idea. It's a great idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause it always gets lost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do yous not find that, um, like, there's a lot of, um, buttons on your remote control, and you don't know what half of them do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that you don't use half of them..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know what they do..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. There's some remote controls where there's kind of a hidden panel, so all those buttons that you don't really use unless you're programming or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's, that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's useful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you just have like the number buttons, power button, T_V_ video button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Anything about, um, the look of the, uh, remote control that you might have ideas about. Maybe it could be, instead of like a standard rectangular shape, it could be, um, something more interesting like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Any ideas will do that you have at this point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could be shaped like a conch,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can hold it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A novelty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know. Be like a shell-shaped remote..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we going into kind of novelty factors here. Like, I've seen phones like a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if it's a trendy original, um, aspect we're going for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, you're the designers, you c, you can um decide what kind of, um, direction you wanna go in,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but at this point in the, in the first meeting it can be any ideas that we just throw out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I suppose, if we're he heading to have it, like make a huge profit out of this, it needs to be quite a universally accepted thing. Like, a novelty thing might only sell a few things rather than, like, a general kind of more acceptable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't wanna go towards boring,'cause that wouldn't sell either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the key issue here is, is being trendy and original. Um, that does not necessarily mean it needs to be outrageous.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Okay we have five minutes left. So, just to cover We have one more thing. Um, like you can go over your ideas, of course, in your own personal times. Um, our next meeting will be in half an hour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have half an hour to, uh, think about what you want to present. Or not present but bring to the meeting. Um, I_D_, whatever that stands for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Interface?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's me..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, industrial.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have to remember these things. Um. You'll be beginning your, your working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, U_I_D_ the technical functions design will, will be worked on the next thirty minutes. Um, maybe how this can be achieved, and, um, we need the user requirements from the manag Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing Expert..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, you will get specific instructions, um, of what to do in the next half an hour. And I'll see you in half an hour, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm Catherine with a C_. C_A_T_H_ E_R_ I_N_E_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, and", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Gabriel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Gabriel. E_L_ is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_L_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. And you're s r R_E_I_S_S_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am Reissa. R_E_I_S_S_A_. Double S_ A_, yeah yeah. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S just a bit nicer calling people by their names I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, right, welcome to meeting B_. Um this is gonna go a lot better than the last meeting, basically,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh'cause I know what I'm supposed to be doing now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am your Project Manager, and, uh yeah, I'm just here to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sort of liaise between the three of you and get things going, get people talking and and I'm gonna be making notes and sending them off to the powers that be and stuff basically. Um right, this for the purposes of this meeting what this meeting is all about is um I'm gonna have some presentations from all three of you, what you've been working on for the last wee while, when you haven't been getting hit with spam on your computers and and, you know, filling out silly questionnaires and things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But hopefully you've been actually been doing something productive. So we're gonna each of you gonna give us a litt a little presentation. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then we're gonna work, you know, from each of your presentations. We'll we'll uh talk about what we actually need as a final coming together of it all. Um and then we'll, yeah, we'll sort of conclude anything else comes up at the end of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How long is the meeting?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This meeting it's not very long. It's uh probably down to about thirty five minutes now. So I want each of your presentations to not be too long, five five minutes, something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. No problem..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um if you haven't done a PowerPoint thingy, it doesn't matter, it it just it just says that you it's that's just one particular medium. If you haven't had time to prepare one, you can draw stuff on the noteboard, you can talk to us, you can you know however you want to do your little presentation, basically, you can. Don't feel pressurised into using this thing.'Cause I don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh okay. So um. You okay over there? Reissa,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm fine. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are you uh b are you joining in with this meeting here", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I uh yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or are y or are y or are you are you just are you just uh doing some Internet shopping there?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think she's finishing up her presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D I mean, I I'm finishing off my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no. Uh I'm done. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, jolly good. Alright, let's have um well, we all know that it's it's a remote control that we're gonna be dealing with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the first thing we should look at is um probably the um what it is that it is actually supposed to be. So that's gonna be you Catherine,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if we wanna hear from you first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um just connecting this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't have to worry about screwing it in just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we getting i Really?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Cool. Okay. So I've got a very quick uh Uh. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the working design, I've got a very quick presentation on this, so um I've oh no, you can't see a thing. Oh well, I'm gonna draw it on the board then. It's in blue uh, and I couldn't change it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We it's fine on my screen, but never mind. So um the idea is that we've got the energy source um, which in our case will pr, oh well okay, never mind. So um I think maybe uh two batteries, I dunno what they're called six, or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and then um then on the uh remote control itself will have um the sender for the signal, which could be uh an infra-red signal, um which will be sent by an electronic chip. And uh the chip will be controlled by the user interface. So we'll hear about that later from Gabriel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh the sender will send to the telly itself an infra-red signal to tell it to switch on or switch channels. Um and that's it really for the working design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry the presentation wasn't very uh clear but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I prefer the pe I prefer the human touch personally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Really? Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, should I erase this or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you wanna just give us a moment, I just wanna copy this down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I dunno if you guys have got any questions for Catherine on any of this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fine. Or suggestions?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is a battery like the only way of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, it's just, you don't want it plugged in really, s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, alternate energy source, like win wind power or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, you blow on it and i.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In indoors..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bicycle power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I meant like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No'cause like cha'cause always changing um um batteries can get like annoying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The battery's down and maybe, I dunno, solar charged?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno, swi I th I th I think changing your batteries once every six months is not really a pain, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's worked for the last fifty years you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One question I have, and I don't know how much control we have over this is um, as far as the infra-red signal, do we have control over, you know, how far away you can be from the receiving unit, the the T_V_, and still have it be operational? I mean, maybe we want one with a strong signal stream.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How far away is your television?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's never gonna be more than it's never gonna be, you kno unless you've got a T_V_ the size of a football pitch, it's not doesn't have to go that far,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, the thing is uh you you don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "does it? Doesn't have to go through a wall, because you're not gonna be looking through a wall.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but if like you're on the phone in the other room and you need turn television off or something and you don't really want to go into the put the telephone down, and go into the other room..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we can make the the signal strong enough to go through walls if if you fancy it. I didn't think about that but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How about Bluetooth? Instead of using infra-red, use Bluetooth.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why not? I just think that it's it's gonna cost more", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Isn't that a better signal?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah I d it sounds like you you w don't wanna overcomplicate things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I'm I'm not sure it's you're gonna use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know we don't need it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a fancy idea uh it's quite nice, but then I don't th I dunno, either you if you wanna watch the telly you're in the room,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you are gonna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basically, we're we're desi we're designing and marketing a television remote control unit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're not w w w w designing something that you can plug in a headset to and and you know connect to your laptop computer and stuff. It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, we can we can keep the idea if you i We can see at a later stage, maybe, I don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'S just an idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Right, well done, Catherine. Um Gab Gabriel let's uh let's hear from you on on on such things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you need the border?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I'm just gonna use the PowerPoint uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Technical. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so, while this is warming up,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Adjusting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "there it is uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I'm doing the user interface design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and basically uh, as far as methods, I was I was looking looking at looking at uh already existing remotes, trying to find some inspiration from designs that are already out there. Thinking of what we can retain, what we can do away with, uh what we what we can perfect a little bit as far as design um. we don't want to do something that's too radical of a change, I guess, I mean people want a remote that's familiar, that has their favourite functionalities um and and does the basics, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so we can improve what's out there and maintain that, the basic functionality that people want. Um so things that seem like absolute must-haves uh would be a volume control, um so up-down keys for that, uh channel keys up-down, but then also a numerical key pad so that they can just key directly to the channel that they want, rather than doing up-down, and uh a mute button. Uh one thing that I didn't include here, that I forgot that we talked about last time, was doing um some sort of lock uh function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't I dunno, uh that's one possibility. And so in the research that I was doing there's basically two types of remotes, ones that are engineering centred and ones that are more user centred, which I don't know if I can access the web page from here, but I can show you uh. Yeah. So this is a engineer centred one, so you see it's rather busy, but it also lets you play your movie, stop your movie, fast-forward, all this, um freeze frame.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and this is a user centred one. Uh it's it's easier to g just glance at this and see what's possible to do,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're not gonna be staring at it for five minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I judging from what what we all talked about during our last meeting I kind of gathered that that's what we were going after, uh or the direction we were going in at least. Um. So, the engineering centred ones uh provide a lot of functionality, but it can be a little bit overwhelming, so the user centred ones just focus on ease of use. Uh and this sort of overlaps with what the marketing person uh, Reissa,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because uh we we need to find out what what people want before we make firm decisions on this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh, yeah, that's me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. Okay. Now that's I just have a q a q question for you. This w um research that you've been doing looki looking at other, you know, existing units stuff. Um have you found that anyone else has do has looked into the locking function or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that that that seemed like a novel idea as f as far as I know. I mean obviously another exists like you like you said in in mobile phones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was sort of the inspiration for it. Um I've never seen that with in in all my years in in the remote business.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've, haven't I've never seen a locking functionality. I dunno, what uh do you guys have a a yea or nay on that a feeling about whether that's really necessary?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I would say it's If it's simple to do, which I think it probably should be,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "even if it's a physical, you know, a f a like a f a physical switch or a physical cover for the remote, even something like that, um then yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's like, you know, like s you said earlier on ab ab ab a flip thing, something like that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you know being physical. Look into. Um I've had word down from head office that something that we should be centred well, something we should take into account is um we've gotta keep the corporate image within this remote control unit. It's gotta d look like it's in the R_ and R_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, the the company it's it's, from what I can see from our other products, are yellow with blue writing on them. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. And our motto is is we put the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We put the fashion in electronics. There you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think we have to carry that mental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's kinda gotta look it's gotta look new and s you know something fashionable. If if remote control well, if telephones can be fashionable, then maybe remote control units can be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah these, I think, we can so we talked about the layout in my presentation and what I didn't mention yet really is is the sort of like the ergonomic design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because we need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I t I think we can make big improvements over these two that you see here, I mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, everything is going t ergonomic, you know, there's you know mice for your computers that are very ergonomic and keyboards and that could be one of our niches p sort of uh uh in the market, I guess. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, fantastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, well done, Gabriel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um Reissa. Let's plug you in, baby.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where does it go into?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The blue thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, this is getting all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then you just have to do function F_ eight and it should come up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, function F_ eight. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, w it it just takes a wee while.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it just takes a second uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh. Come on. Right. Okay.. Okay. Well, for our marketing report uh we observed remote control users in a usability lab, and also gave so this is research and we also gave participants um questionnaires to fill out. Um total number of people tested were a hundred just so you know, so that hundred people were tested and these were the findings. So seventy five per cent of users find the remote control ugly. Okay, so they don't like the look of the remote control. Um eighty f eighty per cent of them would spend more money if the rem remote control looked really cool and fancy. So I think we all agree with that. Um current remote controls do not match well with the operating behaviour of the user. So, they don't like like the way they operate it doesn't like match how people behave. Um per cent of the users say that they only use ten per cent of the buttons on a remote, so probably if you have like one, two, three, four, five, the whole up to z ten, they probably don't use those, they only use the up and down channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause we've only got five channels..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's another thing. Um seventy five per cent of users say they zap. Not quite sure what they mean, zap, goes like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's k flicking quickly between channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you wanna navigate the channels quickly I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Um takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote. I think especially for uh the older generation. I know my grandmother doesn't like mobile phones, takes ages to work how to use. Anyway um and they also remotes often get lost in the room, so nobody can find them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe tracking devices is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um personal preferences..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You are a child of technology, aren't you?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so yeah um I was thinking something easy to use, especially for older people. Um has to look really cool, flashy groovy for people to buy it. And it's easy to find, so I don't know whether maybe and also we asked them whether they wanted whether they'd be interested in um voice activating.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So voice activation. So and this was what we came up with. Then if you look fifteen to twenty five this is age, sorry, age groups. So fifteen to twenty five said like ninety two ninety one per cent of them said yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So there you go, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so basically the majority except for the forty five to fifty five year olds for some reason didn't want a voice activated one. And neither did the older generation, but the younger generation who we are catering for, like who have most of the money nowadays, do want a voice act speech recognition in a remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but do the younger generation have the money? They they don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I would I would say the older the older people, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's older generation, they're the ones that have gone out and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well the twenty five to thirty five year old, and thirty five, and the thirty five to forty five, forty five point seven per cent say no, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People people from the age of thirty f there's a big drop off there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For people up to the age of thirty five, you're kinda saying, yeah, they want it. Um but no they're not sort of most people that have the money are people from the age of thirty five to fifty five,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be my guess as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh'cause they're the ones that have been working for twenty years.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um d and tha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that's a that's quite a minority there, so yeah, it's not even like fifty fifty that's th thirty five per cent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These guys are growing up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about just from the the prospective of our manufacturing cost? I mean if if it's twelve fifty per unit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, okay, there's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Voice activation might not be the best.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say scra I'd say scrap that straight off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um also with um with buttons, a thing called R_S_I_, so wrist sense.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Repetitive strain uh rep repetitive strain injury", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or like from doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, repetitive strains injury, so they don't I think people who watch T_V_ maybe too often, keep changing channel hurts their wrist.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe they shouldn't watch so much T_V_ then..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So y so it's so it's so you got.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that's something we should have a look into then i when desi when designing the ergonomics of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe not so hard.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "see have a look if um there's any w any medical background we can find out about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it could be, instead of pressing button it could be just touching a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's jus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we just want need to cover our arses so that people aren't gonna sue us in ten years' time, say your remote control gave me repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we should probably consult with our legal department uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. They're having a lunch break at the moment, but yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll see if I can get see if I can get hold of them for the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think we can do some really in in that department, the the ergonomic department, we can make some some really good improvements.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Maybe th the buttons not so high up so you don't have to press so much,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or we just like flat buttons, something. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that is me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's great, thank you very much for that, Reissa. Um okay, so we've basically we've decide we've d we've decided that it's gonna be, you know uh, we're going for a basic television remote. It's gotta be safe to use, it's gotta look cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's gotta be cheap. S um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now going back to the uh industrial design of it, you know, we were looking at whether to use maybe infra-red or Bluetooth. I think, we should just go with the simplest option on everything, uh and that would be infra-red, energy source, that would be batteries. Uh mean we we can look into using the s, you know, the little tiny weeny batteries, all like special long-lasting batteries. Um. But a in there's no I don't think there's any point in making a remote control unit that's gonna last for fifty years, because technology will have changed and, you know, we won't have televisions in ten years' time. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we're all um pretty sussed on that. Um anyone have any questions? Everybody happy in their work?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it seems like we're all on the pretty much on the same page.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now this is good, we've got a good structure going on. We all know where we're going to. Have you been ge has have any of you lot been getting loads of crap spam on your computers?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh it's probably just you,'cause you're the project manager..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, just questionnaires.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sell trying to sell your things..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um okay. Do oh have you guys found out if we can if we can e-mail stuff to each other?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Do all you all know my e-mail address?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. No I don't. I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, in the project announcement, you've got the addresses, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think he's participant one, aren't you?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So Project Manager, it's participant one at A_M_I_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh Oh, it's just participant one oh okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you all d e-mail me your e-mail addresses?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have them i you have them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's just w it's just it's just par participant one, participant two..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we'll send you an e-mail.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Send me, yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want to have friends, don't you?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So are we headed towards like a b a big yellow and black remote as far as maybe that's our next meeting that we discuss that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it yellow and black or is it yellow and blue? I I kind of thought it was blue writing on a yellow background, but I might be just going a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it's like white on i white and blue on a black background with white with yellow borders.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe that's like getting ahead of ourselves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, maybe you can come up with a few with a couple of different ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It wouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can't we have different colours in the remotes, so somebody can choose different col", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, see the thing is is we've gotta keep the company image.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like does it have to be of a certain?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's gotta say people have gotta look at this remote control and instantly recognise that it's a Real Reaction i product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if it's a R_R_, it would be Real Reaction,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's loads of companies that called R_R_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like if it had a symbol on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is slog but this is the slogan, this is the the the the type.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoa.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And this is something that came on down from from the higher ups,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so, I mean, we are sort of beholden to them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have to have it one colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, not necessarily. But we have to incorporate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not one colour, but the pattern needs to be recognisable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not necessarily even if i it just has to ye but you have to look at the product and instantly know that it's one of our products", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "as opposed to a Sony product or a, you know, a Panasonic product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's got to so maybe, so you can have a look at our our other products and see if they all follow a s similar vein, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could come But it could come in different colours and have the R_R_ colours just somewhere", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like just around the lock button could be the R_R_ logo or colours and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Quite poss yeah. Well this is all your department. Mm okay. Well, well done everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um, I think we uh stop for lunch now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, pretty soon I think, I guess that's now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are we are we finished ahead of schedule?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We might possibly have done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, see you all soon.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If we've if we've finished at five minutes before the meeting's supposed to finish, then that means we get an extra five minutes for lunch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, there you go. Right. I just have to there's a few little bits and pieces I have to write down, but Take your headsets off, kick back, smoke'em if you got'em..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "TS3005a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning. Sorry? Yeah, busy job. Good morning. So Oh, good morning everyone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd uh like to welcome you to our first meeting. I've prepared a little presentation. My name is and uh I hope you will introduce yourself uh in a few minutes, as will I. Um I'm the Project Manager of this project, and uh, well I will tell you on what actually is the project. This is uh the agenda for our first meeting. Um this is the opening, then we will get I will hope we will get acquainted to each other. We'll do a little tool training with these two things. We'll take a look at the project plan. Uh there will be time for discussion. Actually we have to discuss because we have to create a product. And then we will close this session. Um but first of all we I'd like to uh introduce you to this room. Um as you probably have noticed there are little black uh fields on the table. Um you have to put your laptop exactly in that field so the little cameras can see your face. Um there are cameras", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "everywhere around the room especially here for your face, of course, and this isn't a pie, it's a a set of microphones", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and there are microphones here also. But please uh don't be afraid of them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They won't hurt you. Um well uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I said I'm the Project Manager and uh I'm hoping uh for a good project and uh I'd like to hear uh who you are and what your functions are uh on this project. Let's start with the ladies.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh I'm uh and my uh function is User Interface Design, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh that's me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, uh I'm uh I'm the Industrial Designer and I uh hope to uh look forward to uh a very uh pleasing uh end of this uh project.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Me too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My name's. I'm uh Marketing Expert. My job is in the company to promote company or promote products to the customers. So I also h hope we have a pleasant uh working with uh with each other.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well we have some expertise from uh different pieces of the of the company.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's good. Um well I said uh we're working on a project and the aim for the project is to to create a to design a new remote control which uh has to be original, trendy and of course, user friendly. And uh I hope we have the expertise to create such a project such a product. Um the way we hope to achieve that is uh the following methods. It consists of three phases, namely the functional design, conceptual design and detailed design. As you can see, all of these phases consists of two parts, namely individual work part and a meeting where we will discuss uh our work so far. Okay. But first I will uh tell you something about the tools we have here. I already talked about the cameras and microphones, but they are not of uh much use to us. Uh we will have to take advantage of these two things. They are smart boards. As you can see, you can give a presentation on them. And uh this one here is a white board. I will uh instruct you about that soon. Um as you also noticed uh this presentation document is in our uh project folder and every document you put in this folder uh is uh it is possible to show that here in our meeting room. Um and yeah there are available on both smart boards but I think we will uh mainly use this one for the documents in the shared folder. As you can see, this is the same tool bar uh as is located here. Um the most functions uh we will use will be to to add a new page, um uh to go back and forward between pages, and of course uh to save it every now and then. Um and this is the pen with which you can draw on the board, for instance like this if everything's okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I first have to put it on the pen, you see I'm new to it too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and then you can write things like test or whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "As you can see you have to move it a little bit slow, it's not such a fast board, it's a smart board but also a slow board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh but you can write things and of course you can also, when you click here, uh erase things, so we have uh est left. And um you can also delete an entire page, but we ask you not to do that. Just simply create a new one and uh start all over because we want to save all the results. Um does everyone understand this", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can't erase anything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "nice application?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you can erase it with the eraser, but uh you shouldn't delete an entire page, but just create a new blank one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will delete this one now because we don't use it yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you can of course erase when you make a mistake, but don't uh delete entire pages. And you can also um let's see I think it's here uh change the uh colour of your pen, for instance take a blue one and uh change the line width like to five. Um that's what you will need for our first exercise, because I'm uh going to ask you to draw your favourite animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's also to gets to know each other because um I'm asking three things, uh for that uh drawing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to do it on a blank sheet, with different colours and I just showed you how to pick a colour, and also with different pen widths which I also showed you. Um and a favourite characteristic can be just uh one word. Well I'm not very good at drawing, but I will uh go first and um try to draw.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or maybe you should guess what I'm drawing, eh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a sheep..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Dinos", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seal, a seal..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Dinosaur.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beaver.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A beaver..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's weird..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "could be everything.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. With a tail and a mouth.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe when I put on", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has wings?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Turtle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this thing it could be a turtle, or a snail,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Snail..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well the snail doesn't have legs.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But a turtle has. And those are slow. And I hope our project group will not be slow,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we will uh work to a good result", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and do it uh as fast as we can. Okay, time for another animal. Would you like to go next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No problem. No problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. It was four months?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nice, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The hell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To make it a little bit easier..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a giraffe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Make that cute..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or a dinosaur..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's a giraffe.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's easy to r uh to recognise as a giraffe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Giraffe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the favourite charis characteristic is that the long neck, it can reach everything. And I hope I can also reach a lot with this project. So that's my favourite animal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anything else you need to know?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could you write the words, uh underneath it? Or more words.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tall..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tall. So,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should I uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I can draw, but uh Uh. Well. Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "B.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a mouse.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bunny rabbit..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A bunny rabbit..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh wrong one. Uh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can guess what it is, I hope..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. No problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Little rabbits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a rabbit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh well uh it's uh quick, I guess. That's uh my uh favourite animal..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And our final drawing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bob Ross.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A dolphin..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Dolphin.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I uh draw I I've drawn a dolphin because of its intelligence.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One of the most intelligent uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "animals in our world.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah intelligent.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With an E_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I've I've uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eraser.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can try out the eraser now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pen. Well not perfect, but okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thank you very much. I can see we have some uh drawing talent uh in this group,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh? Well, nice animals, nice words. Sounds good. Um back to business, back to the money part. Um from the finance department I have learned that we are aiming for a selling price of twenty five Euros. And we're hoping for a aim of fifty million Euros and uh we are hoping to achieve that uh by aiming for an international market. And the production cost will be twelve Euro fifty max. Okay, well it's time uh for some discussion. I've wrote down some examples here of what we can can speak about. Uh what's your experience with remote controls, um what kind of ideas do you have to design a new remote control, maybe for which market segments should we aim, or should we aim for all segments. Uh well actually I'd like to hand the word uh back to you. What's your experience with remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I always lose them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A lot of buttons. And you always lose them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A lot of buttons which you don't use", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or who you don't use", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Complex.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Complex.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not user friendly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "search for the buttons, which one is which", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Boring.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Boring, it's not fun to use a remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Black, all black.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Black colours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe we should try to make it fun.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They use batteries and batteries uh and poor signal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps that you have a lot of road remotes r road con remote controls.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the angle you have to use. You had different remote controls for different devices.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, different remote controls,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "perhaps you can integrate them or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh for the use of different uh devices.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your stereo and your T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh. Perhaps that's an idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but then again you you still have a lot of buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. And which you don't use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you could uh I thin uh there's a possibility to g uh to uh to put those buttons uh behind some uh kind of uh protection", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Flap", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that if y y you only get to see them when you need'em.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, okay, that's possible,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's possible, so that you only get the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it'll get very big the the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You should just give it to..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No n n no, just Uh for example you got th uh the same size uh remote control you use everyday, but um the usual buttons such as uh um zapping uh as you call it in Dutch. Uh and the volume control uh are only the only possible buttons uh to use directly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Changing channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or uh the numbers, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. numbers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh not uh the buttons used to search on the the channels on your television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On and off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You only use those uh the first time, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "play, pause, stop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. So maybe a a minimalist design, the least uh possible amount uh of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. But you should make sure that you have every button they need on it. Because uh things for uh teletext, I dunno uh, w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh teletext.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "what's the name?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you don't want to bother people with uh loads of buttons, but on the other hand they need many buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so they don't have to get out of their seat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because I think a market will be all kind of people. Elderly p el elderly, young people, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if if it's if it's international you should uh look in think in Britain they have uh different things they can do with the T_V_, or so uh that you can choose what you want to see. I dunno if you should uh take that in consideration, or that you just should aim for the normal T_V_s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I I understand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think that's the better one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the B_B_C_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because I think if you you're going to target a lot of people and the whole world and only Britain then I think the cost will uh rise higher than the twelve fifty, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, I don't know if the they have that anywhere else, though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the aim is better to use uh the whole world and Britain, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can leave that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When I think of it uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not that much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the main idea uh of this remote remote control is uh to make it user friendly. So uh I think uh when p uh when uh the customers will buy this remote control, they already have uh the remote control which uh companies uh uh with uh the the standards uh remote control with which comes uh with the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Standard deliver.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it only has to have uh the most used buttons. You don't have to integrate the buttons to search the channels on your television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In those in that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but then you have to to find your other remote control if you want to search.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, th it it's I think that's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but I but it is impossible to uh to accommodate uh accommodate uh all the buttons on the s on the difference different televisions sets on one remote control. It's impossible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because uh for example Sony television uh has the opportunity to s to make uh uh to make it possible for to see on one side of the screen uh teletext, and on the other side uh just n uh regular television. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think n m n most televisions nowadays do this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh they don't use the same signal, uh on remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well not everywhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think numerals.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because you can't use a Panasonic uh remote control on a on a Philips television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you have to choose the always with r universal remotes you have to choose the code.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can choose the code.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can use which which type of television you have. That's no problem. But I think like the two pages on the same screen, like teletext and normal television, that's that's nowadays standard, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh I think that most people uh th uh will buy the remote control because because uh the first they lost the one they lost first one", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simplicity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or the first one is broken,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh uh perhaps they have a got a an older television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that option is not uh optional for those uh people.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah g available.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the people have a new television,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and c if you look into the future, then they want will want the button, if their thing is broke.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we should take that in consideration.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "any more ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh mm, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Guess not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Things'll come up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah well we have some time. Let's see what more I have to tell you. I don't think there is much left. Nope. We're starting to close. Um our next meeting uh will start well we're a little bit early, but our next meeting will start in in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In the meantime uh there's time for some uh individual actions. Um, as you can see, the different roles have uh different tasks. And there's a ping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it my laptop?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Stop the meeting now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah meeting will close in five minutes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's good, five minutes and uh the meeting's over, uh right on schedule.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um the Marketing Expert will uh will take a look at the user requirement specification. The User Interface Designer will work out the technical functions design. And this was the Interface Designer? Or the Interaction Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or what was it, I_D_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Interface.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Interface Designer, okay, first guess was right. Uh will take a look at the the working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the Industrial Designer will take a look at the working design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the in uh usability interaction.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry. Let's just use the acronyms. Um and of course specific instructions uh will be sent to you uh through your personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So So I should look at uh what you should be able to do with the remote, or uh, or how I don't really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well those instructions will be uh in the email you will receive uh shortly, I hope..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Alright. Me too..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And of course you have your own uh expertise.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh that was what I had to say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh are there any more questions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No? Okay well I think then we have to head uh back to our offices and uh start working.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I have one question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, one question?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where does it says we have to make a remote, because I presumed She didn't know who. Okay, no, no problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No problem. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we're still going.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No problem. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I expect everything will be much clearer with the instructions we will receive uh shortly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay well uh see you all in about thirty minutes, then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alrighty. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK, agenda item one,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We went.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "introduce Don. OK, we did that. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I had a just a quick question but I know there was discussion of it at a previous meeting that I missed, but just about the the wish list item of getting good quality close - talking mikes on every speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, so let's let's So let's just do agenda building right now. OK, so let's talk about that a bit.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, that was.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, @ @ tuss close talking mikes, better quality. OK, uh, we can talk about that. You were gonna starting to say something?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, you you, um, already know about the meeting that's coming up and I don't know if if this is appropriate for this. I don't know. I mean, maybe maybe it's something we should handle outside of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "No, no, that's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We can so we can ta so n NIST is NIST folks are coming by next week", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "and so we can talk about that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I think", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Who's coming?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, uh, John Fiscus", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "and, uh, I think George Doddington will be around as well. Uh, OK, so we can talk about that. Uh, I guess just hear about how things are going with, uh, uh, the transcriptions. That's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sure. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "That would sorta be an obvious thing to discuss. Um, An - anything else, uh, strike anybody?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, we started running recognition on one conversation but it's the r isn't working yet. So, But if anyone has.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wha", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, the main thing would be if anyone has, um, knowledge about ways to, uh, post - process the wave forms that would give us better recognition, that would be helpful to know about.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Dome yeah, it sounds like a topic of conversation.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What about, uh, is there anything new with the speech, nonspeech stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're working more on it but, it's not finished.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Alright, that seems like a a good collection of things. And we'll undoubtedly think of other things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I had thought under my topic that I would mention the, uh, four items that I I, uh, put out for being on the agenda f on that meeting, which includes like the pre - segmentation and the and the developments in multitrans.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, under the NIST meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, under the NIST thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Alright, why don't we start off with this, u u I guess the order we brought them up seems fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um, so, better quality close talking mikes. So the one issue was that the the, uh, lapel mike, uh, isn't as good as you would like. And so, uh, it it'd be better if we had close talking mikes for everybody. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ri - um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is that is that basically the point?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah, the And actually in addition to that, that the the close talking mikes are worn in such a way as to best capture the signal. And the reason here is just that for the people doing work not on microphones but on sort of like dialogue and so forth, uh or and even on prosody, which Don is gonna be working on soon, it adds this extra, you know, vari variable for each speaker to to deal with when the microphones aren't similar.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So And I also talked to Mari this morning and she also had a strong preference for doing that. And in fact she said that that's useful for them to know in starting to collect their data too.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right, so one th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, so.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "uh, well one thing I was gonna say was that, um, i we could get more, uh, of the head mounted microphones even beyond the number of radio channels we have because I think whether it's radio or wire is probably second - order. And the main thing is having the microphone close to you,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "u although, not too close.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right, so, uh, actually the way Jose is wearing his is is c correct.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Is.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The good way. So you want to.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I it's not cor it's correct?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that's good.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it's towards the corner of your mouth so that breath sounds don't get on it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then just sort of about, uh, a thumb or a thumb and a half away from your from your mouth.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But we have more than one type of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "How am I d", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, for instance, you're.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And this one isn't very adjustable,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so this about as good as I can get", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "cuz it's a fixed boom.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is fixed. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if we could actually standardize, you know, the the microphones, uh, as much as possible that would be really helpful.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean it doesn't hurt to have a few extra microphones around,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so why don't we just go out and and get an order of of if this microphone seems OK to people, uh, I'd just get a half dozen of these things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well the onl the only problem with that is right now, um, some of the Jimlets aren't working. The little the boxes under the table.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so, w Uh, I've only been able to find three jacks that are working.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Can we get these, wireless?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "No, but my point is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But y we could just record these signals separately and time align them with the start of the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "R r right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I I'm not sure I'm follow. Say that again?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right now, we've got, uh, two microphones in the room, that are not quote - unquote standard. So why don't we replace those.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK, just two.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, however many we can plug in. You know, if we can plug in three, let's plug in three.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Also what we've talked before about getting another, uh, radio,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and so then that would be, you know, three more.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, uh so we should go out to our full complement of whatever we can do, but have them all be the same mike. I think the original reason that it was done the other way was because, it w it was sort of an experimental thing and I don't think anybody knew whether people would rather have more variety or or, uh, more uniformity,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but @ @ but uh, sounds sounds fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sounds like uniformity wins.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, for short term research it's just there's just so much effort that would have to be done up front n uh,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "so yeah, uniformity would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is it because You you're saying the for dialogue purposes, so that means that the transcribers are having trouble with those mikes? Is that what you mean?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well Jane would know more about the transcribers.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that's true. I mean, I we did discuss this. Uh, and and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep. Couple times.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "a couple times, so, um, yeah, the transcribers notice And in fact there're some where, um ugh well, I mean there's it's the double thing. It's the equipment and also how it's worn.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And he's always they always they just rave about how wonderful Adam's Adam's channel is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "What can I say.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And then,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So does the recognizer.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, really? Yeah, I'm not surprised. I mean, \" Baaah! \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Even if if you're talking on someone else's mike it's still you w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I mean it's not just that, it's also you know you", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's also like n no breathing, no You know, it's like it's it's um,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it's really it makes a big difference from the transcribers' point of view", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's an advantage when you don't breath.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and also from the research s point of view.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "When we're doing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that the point of doing the close talking mike is to get a good quality signal. We're not doing research on close talking mikes.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we might as well get it as uniform as we can.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Now, this is locking the barn door after the horse was stolen. We do have thirty hours, of of speech, which is done this way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but, uh, yeah, for future ones we can get it a bit more uniform.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Great, great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So I think just do a field trip at some point.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably yeah, to the store we talked about and that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And there was some talk about, uh, maybe the h headphones that are uncomfortable for people, to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep. So, as as I said, we'll do a field trip and see if we can get all of the same mike that's more comfortable than than these things, which I think are horrible.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Great, thank you very much.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Especially for people with big heads.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's makes our job a lot easier.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, you know, we're researchers, so we all have big heads.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, OK, second item was the, uh, NIST visit, and what's going on there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, so, um, uh, Jonathan Fiscus is coming on the second of February and I've spoken with, uh, u u a lot of people here, not everyone. Um, and, um, he expressed an interest in seeing the room and in, um, seeing a demonstration of the modified multitrans, which I'll mention in a second, and also, um, he was interested in the pre - segmentation and then he's also interested in the transcription conventions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And, um So, um, it seems to me in terms of like, um, i i it wou You know, OK. So the room, it's things like the audio and c and audi audio and acoustic acoustic properties of the room and how it how the recordings are done, and that kind of thing. And, um. OK, in terms of the multi - trans, well that that's being modified by Dave Gelbart to, uh, handle multi - channel recording.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, I should've I was just thinking I should have invited him to this meeting. I forgot to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well that's OK, I mean we'll.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it's t and it looks really great. He he has a prototype. I I, uh, @ @ didn't didn't see it, uh, yesterday but I'm going to see it today. And, uh, that's that will enable us to do nice um, tight time marking of the beginning and ending of overlapping segments. At present it's not possible with limitations of of the, uh, original design of the software. And um. So, I don't know. In terms of, like, pre - segmentation, that that continues to be, um, a terrific asset to the to the transcribers. Do you I know that you're al also supplementing it further. Do you want to mention something about that c Thilo, or?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. What what I'm doing right now is I'm trying to include some information about which channel, uh, there's some speech in. But that's not working at the moment. I'm just trying to do this by comparing energies, uh normalizing energies and comparing energies of the different channels.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And so to to give the transcribers some information in which channel there's there's speech in addition to to the thing we we did now which is just, uh, speech - nonspeech detection on the mixed file. So I'm I'm relying on on the segmentation of the mixed file", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "This is good. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "but I'm I'm trying to subdivide the speech portions into different portions if there is some activity in in different channels.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Excellent, so this'd be like w e providing also speaker ID potentially.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "But Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Wonderful. Wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um, something I guess I didn't put in the list but, uh, on that, uh, same day later on in or maybe it's No, actually it's this week, uh, Dave Gelbart and I will be, uh, visiting with John Canny who i you know, is a CS professor,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "who's interested in ar in array microphones.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "HCC. Oh, he's doing array mikes.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. And so we wanna see what commonality there is here. You know, maybe they'd wanna stick an array mike here when we're doing things", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be cool.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be neat.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "or or maybe it's it's not a specific array microphone they want", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That would be really neat.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but they might wanna just, uh, you know, you could imagine them taking the four signals from these these table mikes and trying to do something with them Um, I also had a discussion So, w uh, we'll be over over there talking with him, um, after class on Friday. Um, we'll let you know what what goes with that. Also had a completely unrelated thing. I had a, uh, discussion today with, uh, Birger Kollmeier who's a, uh, a German, uh, scientist who's got a fair sized group doing a range of things. It's sort of auditory related, largely for hearing aids and so on. But but, uh, he does stuff with auditory models and he's very interested in directionality, and location, and and, uh, head models and microphone things. And so, uh, he's he and possibly a student, there w there's, uh, a student of his who gave a talk here last year, uh, may come here, uh, in the fall for, uh, sort of a five month, uh, sabbatical. So he might be around. Get him to give some talks and so on. But anyway, he might be interested in this stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That that reminds me, I had a a thought of an interesting project that somebody could try to do with the data from here, either using, you know, the the mikes on the table or using signal energies from the head worn mikes,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and that is to try to construct a map of where people were sitting,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, based on.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well Dan Dan had worked on that. Dan Ellis,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, did he? Oh, that's interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah. So that that's the cross - correlation stuff, was was doing b beam - forming.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so you could plot out who was sitting next to who", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "A little bit,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, he didn't do a very extreme thing but just it was just sort of", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, he did start on it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "e e given that, the the the block of wood with the the the two mikes on either side,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "if I'm speaking, or if you're speaking, or someone over there is speaking, it if you look at cross - correlation functions, you end up with a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if if someone who was on the axis between the two is talking, then you you get a big peak there. And if if someone's talking on on on, uh, one side or the other, it goes the other way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then, uh, it it it even looks different if th t if the two two people on either side are talking than if one in the middle. It it actually looks somewhat different, so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Well I was just thinking, you know, as I was sitting here next to Thilo that um, when he's talking, my mike probably picks it up better than your guys's mikes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So if you just looked at.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, that's another cl cue,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yeah, looked at the energy on my mike and you could get an idea about who's closest to who.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or who talks the loudest.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, well you have to the appropriate normalizations are tricky, and and and are probably the key.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You just search for Adam's voice on each individual microphone, you pretty much know where everybody's sitting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. We've switched positions recently so you can't Anyway. OK. So those are just a little couple of news items.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Can I ask one thing? Uh, so, um, Jonathan Fiscus expressed an interest in, uh, microphone arrays.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, is there I mean b And I also want to say, his he can't stay all day. He needs to uh, leave for uh, from here to make a two forty - five flight", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, so just morning.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "from from Oakland.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it makes the scheduling a little bit tight but do you think that, um that, uh, i John Canny should be involved in this somehow or not. I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Probably not but I I'll I'll I'll know better after I see him this Friday what what kind of level he wants to get involved.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's premature. Fine. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Uh, he might be excited to and it might be very appropriate for him to, uh, or he might have no interest whatsoever. I I just really don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Is he involved in Ach! I'm blanking on the name of the project. NIST has has done a big meeting room instrumented meeting room with video and microphone arrays, and very elaborate software. Is is he the one working on that?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well that's what they're starting up.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I mean, that's what all this is about. They they haven't done it yet. They wanted to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. I had read some papers that looked like they had already done some work.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, well I think they've instrumented a room but I don't think they they haven't started recordings yet. They don't have the t the transcription standards. They don't have the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Are they going to do video as well?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think they are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, cuz what what I had read was, uh, they had a uh very large amount of software infrastructure for coordinating all this, both in terms of recording and also live room where you're interacting the participants are interacting with the computer, and with the video, and lots of other stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, I'm I'm I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "All all I know is that they've been talking to me about a project that they're going to start up recording people meet in meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And, uh, it is related to ours. They were interested in ours. They wanted to get some uniformity with us, uh, about the transcriptions and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And one one notable difference u u actually I can't remember whether they were going to routinely collect video or not, but one one, uh, difference from the audio side was that they are interested in using array mikes. So, um, I mean, I'll just tell you the party line on that. The reason I didn't go for that here was because, uh, the focus, uh, both of my interest and of Adam's interest was uh, in impromptu situations. And we're not recording a bunch of impromptu situations but that's because it's different to get data for research than to actually apply it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so, uh, for scientific reasons we thought it was good to instrument this room as we wanted it. But the thing we ultimately wanted to aim at was a situation where you were talking with, uh, one or more other people i uh, in in an p impromptu way, where you didn't didn't actually know what the situation was going to be. And therefore it would not it'd be highly unlikely that room would be outfitted with with some very carefully designed array of microphones. Um, so it was only for that reason. It was just, you know, yet another piece of research and it seemed like we had enough troubles just.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So there's no like portable array of mikes?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. So there's there's uh, there's a whole range of things there's a whole array of things, that people do on this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, um, the, uh the big arrays, uh, places, uh, like uh, Rutgers, and Brown, and other other places, uh, they have, uh, big arrays with, I don't know, a hundred hundred mikes or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Xerox.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And so there's a wall of mikes. And you get really, really good beam - forming with that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it's and, um, in fact at one point we had a a proposal in with Rutgers where we were gonna do some of the sort of per channel signal - processing and they were gonna do the multi - channel stuff, but it d it d we ended up not doing it. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I've seen demonstrations of the microphone arrays. It's amazing how how they can cut out noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's r It's really neat stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then they have little ones too", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And then they had the little ones, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but I mean but they don't have our block of wood, right?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, our block of wood is unique.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But the But the No, there are these commercial things now you can buy that have four mikes or something", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and and, uh, um So, yeah, there's there's there's a range of things that people do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, so if we connected up with somebody who was interested in doing that sort of thing that's that's a good thing to do. I mean, whenever I've described this to other people who are interested on the with the acoustic side that's invariably the question they ask. Just like someone who is interested in the general dialogue thing will always ask \" um, are you recording video? \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and the acoustic people will always say, \" well are you doing, uh, uh, array microphones? \" So it's it's a good thing to do, but it doesn't solve the problem of how do you solve things when there's one mike or at best two mikes in in this imagined PDA that we have. So maybe maybe we'll do some more of it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well one thing I I mean, I don't know. I mean, I know that having an array of I mean, I would imagine it would be more expensive to have a an array of microphones. But couldn't you kind of approximate the natural sis situation by just shutting off uh, channels when you're later on? I mean, it seems like if the microphones don't effect each other then couldn't you just, you know, record them with an array and then just not use all the data?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "It's it's just a lot of infrastructure that for our particular purpose we felt we didn't need to set up.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, if ninety - nine percent of what you're doing is c is shutting off most of the mikes, then going through the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "But if you get somebody who's who who has that as a primary interest then that put then that drives it in that direction.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's right, I mean if someone if someone came in and said we really want to do it,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, we don't care. That would be fine,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So to save that data you You have to have one channel recording per mike in the array?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Buy more disk space.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, uh, at some level at some level.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I usually do a mix.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But then, you know, there's it there's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What you save, I mean, if you're going to do research with it. yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There's I I don't know what they're going to do and I don't know how big their array is. Obviously if you were gonna save all of those channels for later research you'd use up a lot of space.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well their software infrastructure had a very elaborate design for plugging in filters, and mixers, and all sorts of processing. So that they can do stuff in real time and not save out each channel individually.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it was, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But I mean, uh, for optimum flexibility later you'd want to save each channel. But I think in practical situations you would have some engine of some sort doing some processing to reduce this to some to the equivalent of a single microphone that was very directional.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, oh, OK, I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, it seems.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sort of saving the result of the beam - forming.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it seems to me that there's you know, there are good political reasons for for doing this, just getting the data, because there's a number of sites like right now SRI is probably gonna invest a lot of internal funding into recording meetings also, which is good, um, but they'll be recording with video and they'll be You know, it'd be nice if we can have at least, uh, make use of the data that we're recording as we go since it's sort of this is the first site that has really collected these really impromptu meetings, um, and just have this other information available. So, if we can get the investment in just for the infra infrastructure and then, I don't know, save it out or have whoever's interested save that data out, transfer it there, it'd be g it'd be good to have have the recording. I think.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You mean to to actually get a microphone array and do that?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, if Even if we're not.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And video and.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I'm not sure about video. That's sort of an video has a little different nature since right n right now we're all being recorded but we're not being taped. Um, but it definitely in the case of microphone arrays, since if there was a community interested in this, then.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, but I think we need a researcher here who's interested in it. To push it along.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "See the problem is it it took, uh, uh, it took at least six months for Dan to get together the hardware and the software, and debug stuff in in the microphones, and in the boxes. And it was a really big deal. And so I think we could get a microphone array in here pretty easily and, uh, have it mixed to to one channel of some sort.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, e I think for I mean, how we're gonna decide For for maximum flexibility later you really don't want to end up with just one channel that's pointed in the direction of the the the p the person with the maximum energy or something like that. I mean, you you want actually to you want actually to have multiple channels being recorded so that you can And to do that, it we're going to end up greatly increasing the disk space that we use up, we also only have boards that will take up to sixteen channels and in this meeting, we've got eight people and and six mikes. And there we're already using fourteen.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we actually only have fifteen.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "E", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One of them's.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Details.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But fifteen, not sixteen.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well if there's a way to say time to sort of solve each of these f those.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So suppose you can get an array in because there's some person at Berkeley who's interested and has some equipment, uh, and suppose we can as we save it we can, you know, transfer it off to some other place that that holds this this data, who's interested, and even if ICSI it itself isn't. Um, and it it seems like as long as we can time align the beginning, do we need to mix it with the rest? I don't know. You know? The", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think you'd need a separate a separate set up", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and the assumption that you could time align the two.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean it's just it's worth considering as sort of", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And y it'd certainly gets skew.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "once you make the up front investment and can sort of save it out each time, and and not have to worry about the disk space factor, then it mi it might be worth having the data.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I'm not so much worried about disk space actually. I mentioned that, b as a practical matter,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "but the real issue is that, uh, there is no way to do a recording extended to what we have now with low skew. So you would have a t completely separate set up,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which would mean that the sampling times and so forth would be all over the place compared to this. So it would depend on the level of pr processing you were doing later, but if you're d i the kind of person who's doing array processing you actually care about funny little times. And and so you actually wou would want to have a completely different set up than we have,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "one that would go up to thirty - two channels or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So basically.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or a hundred thirty - two.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "or a hun Yeah. So, I'm kinda skeptical, but um I think that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, uh, I don't think we can share the resource in that way. But what we could do is if there was someone else who's interested they could have a separate set up which they wouldn't be trying to synch with ours which might be useful for for them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right, I mean at least they'd have the data and the transcripts,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then we can offer up the room,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can o offer the meetings, and the physical space, and and yeah, the transcripts, and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Right, I mean, just it'd be nice if we have more information on the same data. You know, and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But it's if it's impossible or if it's a lot of effort then you have to just balance the two,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well I thi", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, the thing will be, u u in in again, in talking to these other people to see what you know, what what we can do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, we'll see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is there an interest in getting video recordings for these meetings?.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right, so we have we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. But it's exactly the same problem, that you have an infrastructure problem, you have a problem with people not wanting to be video taped, and you have the problem that no one who's currently involved in the project is really hot to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm. So there's not enough interest to overcome all of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right. Internally, but I know there is interest from other places that are interested in looking at meeting data and having the video. So it's just.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, w although I m I I have to u u mention the human subjects problems, that i increase with video.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right, that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's, uh, people people getting shy about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "There's this human subjects problem. There's the fact that then um, if i I I've heard comments about this before, \" why don't you just put on a video camera? \" But you know, it's sort of like saying, \" uh, well we're primarily interested in in some dialogue things, uh, but, uh, why don't we just throw a microphone out there. \" I mean, the thing is, once you actually have serious interest in any of these things then you actually have to put a lot of effort in.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, you really want to do it right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I know. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So I think NIST or LDC, or somebody like that I think is much better shape to do all that. We there will be other meeting recordings. We won't be the only place doing meeting recordings. We are doing what we're doing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And, uh, hopefully it'll be useful.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I it it occurred to me, has Don signed a human subject's form?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh! Probably not.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "A permission form?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Has Don have you s did you si I thought you did actually.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I was Yeah, I was I was here I was here before once.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Didn't you read a digit string?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "You were here at a meeting before.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You were here at a meeting before.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and you and you signed a form.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, I think so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Did you sign a form?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Did I? I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I'm pretty sure. Well I'll I'll get another one before the end of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You don't you don't have to leave for it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But I just.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Can I verbally consent?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well I can't, I'm wired in.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "We we we we don't, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. You're on recor you're being recorded", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "o", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "we don't we don't perform electro - shock during these meetings,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't care. You can do whatever you want with it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Usually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Uh, transcriptions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Transcriptions, OK. Um, I thought about there are maybe three aspects of this. So first of all, um, I've got eight transcribers. Uh, seven of them are linguists. One of them is a graduate student in psychology. Um, Each I gave each of them, uh, their own data set. Two of them have already finished the data sets. And the meetings run, you know, let's say an hour. Sometimes as man much as an hour and a half.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "How big is the data set?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, it's what I mean is one meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Each each person got their own meeting. I didn't want to have any conflicts of, you know, of of when to stop transcribing this one or So I wanted to keep it clear whose data were whose, and and and so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, meetings, you know, I think that they're they go as long as a almost two hours in some in some cases. So, you know, that means you know, if we've got two already finished and they're working on Uh, right now all eight of them have differe uh, uh, additional data sets. That means potentially as many as ten might be finished by the end of the month.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hope so. But the pre - segmentation really helps a huge amount.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, uh, also Dan Ellis's innovation of the, uh the multi - channel to here really helped a r a lot in terms of clearing clearing up h hearings that involve overlaps. But, um, just out of curiosity I asked one of them how long it was taking her, one of these two who has already finished her data set. She said it takes about, uh, sixty minutes transcription for every five minutes of real time. So it's about twelve to one, which is what we were thinking.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "or Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's well in the range.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "It's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK. Uh, these still, when they're finished, um, that means that they're finished with their pass through. They still need to be edited and all but But it's word level, speaker change, the things that were mentioned. OK, now I wanted to mention the, um, teleconference I had with, uh, Jonathan Fiscus. We spoke for an hour and a half and, um, had an awful lot of things in common.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "He, um, um, he in indicated to me that they've that he's been, uh, looking, uh, uh, spending a lot of time with I'm not quite sure the connection, but spending a lot of time with the ATLAS system. And I guess that I mean, I I need to read up on that. And there's a web site that has lots of papers. But it looks to me like that's the name that has developed for the system that Bird and Liberman developed for the annotated graphs approach.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So what he wants me to do and what we what we will do and uh, is to provide them with the u already transcribed meeting for him to be able to experiment with in this ATLAS System. And they do have some sort of software, at least that's my impression, related to ATLAS and that he wants to experiment with taking our data and putting them in that format, and see how that works out. I I I explained to him in in detail the, uh, conventions that we're using here in this in this word level transcript. And, um, you know, I I explained, you know, the reasons that that we were not coding more elaborately and and the focus on reliability. He expressed a lot of interest in reliability. It's like he's he's really up on these things. He's he's very Um, independently he asked, \" well what about reliability? \" So, he's interested in the consistency of the encoding and that sort of thing. OK, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Sorry, can you explain what the ATLAS I'm not familiar with this ATLAS system.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, you know, at this point I think Uh, well Adam's read more in more detail than I have on this. I need to acquaint myself more with it. But, um, there there is a way of viewing Uh, whenever you have coding categories, um, and you're dealing with uh, a taxonomy, then you can have branches that that have alternative, uh, choices that you could use for each each of them. And it just ends up looking like a graphical representation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Is is Is ATLAS the his annotated transcription graph stuff? I don't remember the acronym. The the one the what I think you're referring to, they they have this concept of an an annotated transcription graph representation.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And that's basically what I based the format that I did I based it on their work almost directly, in combination with the TEI stuff. And so it's very, very similar. And so it's it's a data representation and a set of tools for manipulating transcription graphs of various types.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is this the project that's sort of, uh, between, uh, NIST and and, uh, a couple of other places?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Including LDC.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "y right, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Then there's their web site that has lots of papers. And I looked through them and they mainly had to do with this, um, this, uh, tree structure, uh, annotated tree diagram thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um, um and, you know, in terms of like the conventions that I'm a that I've adopted, it there there's no conflict at all.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And he was, you know, very interested. And, \" oh, and how'd you handle this? \" And I said, \" well, you know, this way \" and And and we had a really nice conversation. Um, OK, now I also wanted to say in a different a different direction is, Brian Kingsbury. So, um, I corresponded briefly with him. I, uh, c I He still has an account here. I told him he could SSH on and use multi - trans, and have a look at the already done, uh, transcription. And he and he did. And what he said was that, um, what they'll be providing is will not be as fine grained in terms of the time information. And, um, that's, uh You know, I need to get back to him and and, uh, you know, explore that a little bit more and see what they'll be giving us in specific,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The p the people.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but I just haven't had time yet.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The the folks that they're, uh, subcontracting out the transcription to, are they like court reporters", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry, what? Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Apparently Well, I get the sense they're kind of like that. Like it's like a pool of of somewhat uh, secretarial I don't think that they're court reporters. I don't think they have the special keyboards and that and that type of training.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I get the sense they're more secretarial. And that, um, uh, what they're doing is giving them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Hmm. Like medical transcriptionist type people.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Nu - it's mostly it's for their speech recognition products,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But aren't they're.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "that they've hired these people to do.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, so they're hiring them, they're coming. It's not a service they send the tapes out to.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well they they do send it out but my understanding is that that's all this company does is transcriptions for IBM for their speech product.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Ah! Oh. OK. I gotcha.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So most of it's ViaVoice, people reading their training material for that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Up to now it's been monologues, uh, as far my understood.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep, exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And and what they're doing is", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Brian himself downloaded So So, um, Adam sent them a CD and Brian himself downloaded uh, cuz, you know, I mean, we wanted to have it so that they were in familiar f terms with what they wanted to do. He downloaded from the CD onto audio tapes. And apparently he did it one channel per audio tape. So each of these people is transcribing from one channel.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then what he's going to do is check it, a before they go be beyond the first one. Check it and, you know, adjust it, and all that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So each person gets one of these channels.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So if they hear something off in the distance they don't they just go.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well, but that's OK, because, you know, you'll do all them and then combine them.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But there could be problems, right? with that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I have t I, you know I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think it would be difficult to do it that way. I really", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well if you're tran if you got that channel right there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "d uh, in my case.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, no. We're talking about close talking, not the not the desktop.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "No, close talk.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Are you?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes. Well I th I think so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I sure hope so. It'd be really foolish to do otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I would think that it would be kind of hard to come out with Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I I think it's sort of hard just playing the you know, just having played the individual files. And I I mean, I know you. I know what your voice sounds like. I'm sort of familiar with.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, it's pretty hard to follow, especially", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "One side.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "there are a lot of words that are so reduced phonetically that make sense when you know what the person was saying before.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, it sort of depends where you are in.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And especially since a lot of these.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But I mean we had this we've had this discussion many times.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And the answer is we don't actually know the answer because we haven't tried both ways.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, except I can say that my transcribers use the mixed signal mostly", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "unless there's a huge disparity in terms of the volume on on the mix. In which case, you know, they they wouldn't be able to catch anything except the prominent channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "then they'll switch between.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well I think that that might change if you wanted really fine time markings.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But but really Well, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But they're not giving f really fine time markings.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Actually, are th so are they giving any time markings?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "In other words, if.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I have to ask him.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's that's my email to him. That needs to be forthcoming.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Cuz OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but the, uh I did want to say that it's hard to follow one channel of a conversation even if you know the people, and if you're dealing furthermore with highly abstract network concepts you've never heard of So, you know, one of these people was was transcribing the, uh, networks group talk and she said, \" I don't really know what a lot of these abbreviations are, \" \" but I just put them in parentheses cuz that's the that's the convention and I just \" Cuz you know, if you don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, I'd be curious to to look at that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Just out of curiosity, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They also all have h heavy accents.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The networks group meetings are all.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Given all of the effort that is going on here in transcribing why do we have I B M doing it? Why not just do it all ourselves?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, it's historical. I mean, uh, some point ago we thought that uh, it \" boy, we'd really have to ramp up to do that \",", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "you know, like we just did, and, um, here's, uh, a a, uh, collaborating institution that's volunteered to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, that was a contribution they could make. Uh in terms of time, money, you know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it still might be a good thing", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm just wondering now.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actu yeah, Mar - Mari asked me the same question as sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I'm I'm wondering now if it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well we can talk about more details later.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "um, you know, yeah, whether to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We'll see. I mean, I think, th you know, they they they've proceeded along a bit. Let's see what comes out of it, and and, uh, you know, have some more discussions with them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. It's very a real benefit having Brian involved because of his knowledge of what the how the data need to be used and so what's useful to have in the format.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, um, Liz, with with the SRI recognizer, can it make use of some time marks?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK, so this is a, um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I guess I don't know what that means.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and actually I should say this is what Don has b uh, he's already been really helpful in, uh, chopping up these So so first of all you um, I mean, for the SRI front - end, we really need to chop things up into pieces that are f not too huge. Um, but second of all, uh in general because some of these channels, I'd say, like, I don't know, at least half of them probably on average are g are ha are have a lot of cross - ta sorry, some of the segments have a lot of cross - talk. Um, it's good to get sort of short segments if you're gonna do recognition, especially forced alignment. So, uh, Don has been taking a first stab actually using Jane's first the fir the meeting that Jane transcribed which we did have some problems with, and Thilo, uh, I think told me why this was, but that people were switching microphones around in the very beginning, so the SRI re", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, th Yeah. No. They they were not switching them but what they were they were adjusting them,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and they They were not.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Adjusting. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And aft after a minute or so it's it's way better.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So we have to sort of normalize the front - end and so forth, and have these small segments.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So we've taken that and chopped it into pieces based always on your your, um, cuts that you made on the mixed signal. And so that every every speaker has the same cuts. And if they have speech in it we run it through. And if they don't have speech in it we don't run it through. And we base that knowledge on the transcription.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "On Just on the marks. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um, the problem is if we have no time marks, then for forced alignment we actually don't know where you know, in the signal the transcriber heard that word. And so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean, if if it's a whole conversation and we get a long, uh, you know, par paragraph of of talk,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "it's for the length. I see.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "uh, I don't know how they do this. Um, we actually don't know which piece goes where.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I understand.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And, um, I think with.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well you would need to like a forced alignment before you did the chopping, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, we used the fact that So when Jane transcribes them the way she has transcribers doing this, whether it's with the pre - segmentation or not,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's already chunked.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "they have a chunk and then they transcribes the words in the chunk. And maybe they choose the chunk or now they use a pre - segmentation and then correct it if necessary. But there's first a chunk and then a transcription.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Then a chunk, then a transcription. That's great, cuz the recognizer can.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, it's all pretty good sized for the recognizer also.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right, and it it helps that it's made based on sort of heuristics and human ear I think.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Good. Oh good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Th - but there's going to be a real problem, uh, even if we chop up based on speech silence these, uh, the transcripts from I B M, we don't actually know where the words were, which segment they belonged to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So that's sort of what I'm worried about right now.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Why not do a a a forced alignment?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's what she's saying, is that you can't.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "If you do a forced alignment on something really.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Got uh six sixty minutes of.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "well even if you do it on something really long you need to know you can always chop it up but you need to have a reference of which words went with which, uh, chop.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Now wasn't I thought that one of the proposals was that IBM was going to do an initial forced alignment,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "after they.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I I think that they are,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We'll have to talk to Brian.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "um, yeah, I'm sure they will and so we we have to have a dialogue with them about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, it sounds like Liz has some concerns", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe they have some you know, maybe actually there is some, even if they're not fine grained, maybe the transcribers.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh, I don't know, maybe it's saved out in pieces or or something. That would help.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "But, uh, it's just an unknown right now.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I need to to write to him.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I just you know, it's like I got over - taxed with the timing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right. But the it is true that the segments I haven't tried the segments that Thilo gave you but the segments that in your first meeting are great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I mean, that's that's a good length.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "A good size. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right, cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I I was thinking it would be fun to to uh, uh, if if you wouldn't mind, to give us a pre - segmentation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "y yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, maybe you have one already of that first m of the meeting that uh, the first transcribed meeting, the one that I transcribed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um, I'm sure I have some", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do you have a could you generate a pre - segmentation?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "February sixteenth I think.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "but but that's the one where we're, um, trai training on, so that's a little bit.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "It's a little bit at odd to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, darn. Of course, of course, of course. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And actually as you get transcripts just, um, for new meetings, um, we can try.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I mean, the the more data we have to try the the alignments on, um, the better. So it'd be good for just to know as transcriptions are coming through the pipeline from the transcribers, just to sort of we're playing around with sort of uh, parameters f on the recognizer,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "cuz that would be helpful. Especially as you get, en more voices.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Excellent, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The first meeting had I think just four people,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Four speakers, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, Liz and I spoke d w at some length on Tuesday and and I and I was planning to do just a a preliminary look over of the two that are finished and then give them to you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, great, great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's great. I guess the other thing, I I can't remember if we discussed this in the meeting but, uh, I know you and I talked about this a little bit, there was an issue of, uh, suppose we get in the, uh, I guess it's enviable position although maybe it's just saying where the weak link is in the chain, uh, where we we, uh uh, we have all the data transcribed and we have these transcribers and we were we're the we're still a bit slow on feeding at that point we've caught up and the the the, uh, the weak link is is recording meetings. OK, um, two questions come, is you know what how how do we uh, it's not really a problem at the moment cuz we haven't reached that point but how do we step out the recorded meetings? And the other one is, um, uh, is there some good use that we can make of the transcribers to do other things? So, um, I I can't remember how much we talked about this in this meeting but there was.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We had spoken with them about it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And there is one use that that also we discussed which was when, uh, Dave finishes the and maybe it's already finished the the modification to multi - trans which will allow fine grained encoding of overlaps. Uh, then it would be very these people would be very good to shift over to finer grain encoding of overlaps. It's just a matter of, you know, providing So if right now you have two overlapping segments in the same time bin, well with with the improvement in the database in in the, uh, sorry, in the interface, it'd be possible to, um, you know, just do a click and drag thing, and get the uh, the specific place of each of those, the time tag associated with the beginning and end of of each segment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right, so I think we talking about three level three things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "One one was uh, we had s had some discussion in the past about some very high level labelings,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The types of overlaps.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "types of overlaps, and so forth that that someone could do. Second was, uh, somewhat lower level", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "just doing these more precise timings. And the third one is is, uh, just a completely wild hair brained idea that I have which is that, um, if, uh if we have time and people are able to do it, to take some subset of the data and do some very fine grained analysis of the speech. For instance, uh, marking in some overlapping potentially overlapping fashion, uh, the value of, uh, ar articulatory features.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "You know, just sort of say, OK, it's voiced from here to here, there's it's nasal from here to here, and so forth. Um, as opposed to doing phonetic uh, you know, phonemic and the phonetic analysis,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and, uh, assuming, uh, articulatory feature values for those those things. Um, obviously that's extremely time - consuming. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be really valuable I think.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but, uh, we could do it on some small subset.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Also if you're dealing with consonants that would be easier than vowels, wouldn't it? I mean, I would think that that, uh, being able to code that there's a a fricative extending from here to here would be a lot easier than classifying precisely which vowel that was.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Which one.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think vowels vowels are I think harder.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but I think also it's just the issue that that when you look at the u w u u when you look at Switchboard for instance very close up there are places where whether it's a consonant or a vowel you still have trouble calling it a particular phone", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "at that point", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but just saying what the.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "because it's you know, there's this movement from here to here", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm sure. Uh, yeah, I I know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and and and it's so I", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You're saying r sort of remove the high level constraints and go bottom - up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, describe describe it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Then just say.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep, just features.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Now I'm suggesting articulatory features. Maybe there's there's even a better way to do it but it but but that's, you know, sort of a traditional way of describing these things,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um, and uh, I mean, actually this might be a g neat thing to talk to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Acoustic features versus psychological categories.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sort of. I mean, it's still.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "some sort of categories but but something that allows for overlapping change of these things and then this would give some more ground work for people who were building statistical models that allowed for overlapping changes, different timing changes as opposed to just \" click, you're now in this state, which corresponds to this speech sound \" and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is like gestural uh, these g", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, actually if we get into that it might be good to, uh, uh, haul John Ohala into this", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and ask his his views on it I think.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But is is the goal there to have this on meeting data,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "like so that you can do far field studies of those gestures or um, or is it because you think there's a different kind of actual production in meetings that people use? Or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, I think I think it's for for for that purpose I'm just viewing meetings as being a a neat way to get people talking naturally. And then you have i and then and then it's natural in all senses,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Just a source of data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "in the sense that you have microphones that are at a distance that you know, one might have, and you have the close mikes, and you have people talking naturally. And the overlap is just indicative of the fact that people are talking naturally,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? So so I think that given that it's that kind of corpus,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if it's gonna be a very useful corpus um, if you say w OK, we've limited the use by some of our, uh, uh, censored choices, we don't have the video, we don't and so forth, but there's a lot of use that we could make of it by expanding the annotation choices.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, most of the things we've talked about have been fairly high level, and being kind of a bottom - up person I thought maybe we'd, do some of the others.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, that would be good.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's a nice balance.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be really nice to offer those things with that wide range.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah and hopefully someone would make use of it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Really nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I mean, people didn't.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "uh, I mean, people have made a lot of use of of TIMIT and, uh w due to its markings, and then the Switchboard transcription thing, well I think has been very useful for a lot of people.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I guess I wanted to, um, sort of make a pitch for trying to collect more meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I actually I talked to Chuck Fillmore and I think they've what, vehemently said no before but this time he wasn't vehement and he said you know, \" well, Liz, come to the meeting tomorrow", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and try to convince people \". So I'm gonna try. Go to their meeting tomorrow and see if we can try, uh, to convince them", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Cuz they have something like three or four different meetings,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because they have And they have very interesting meetings from the point of view of a very different type of of talk than we have here", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Talk.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and definitely than the front end meeting, probably. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You mean in terms of the topic topics?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, yes and in terms of the the fact that they're describing abstract things and, uh, just dialogue - wise,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, so I'll try. And then the other thing is, I don't know if this is at all useful, but I asked Lila if I can maybe go around and talk to the different departments in this building to see if there's any groups that, for a free lunch,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "if we can still offer that, might be willing.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You mean non - ICSI?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "non - ICSI, non - academic,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess you you can try", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "you know, like government people,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The problem is so much of their stuff is confidential.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "It would be very hard for them.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is is it in these departments?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Also it does seem like it takes us way out of the demographic. I mean, it seems like we we had this idea before of having like linguistics students brought down for free lunches", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well, tha I think that's her point.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and that's a nice idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right, and then we could also we might try advertising again because I think it'd be good if if we can get a few different sort of non - internal types of meetings", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and just also more data. So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Does does John Ohala have weekly phonetics lab meetings?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And I think, uh, if we could get.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So I actually wrote to him and he answered, \" great, that sounds really interesting \". But I never heard back because we didn't actually advertise openly. We a I mean w I told I d asked him privately. Um, and it is a little bit of a trek for campus folks.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah. You might give them a free lunch.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um, so it's still worthwhile.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, um, it would be nice if we got someone other than me who knew how to set it up and could do the recording", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so u I didn't have to do it each time.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Exactly, and and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "and I was thinking.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He - he's supposed he's supposed to be trained to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Plus we could also get you know, a s a student.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, next week you're going to do it all.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And I'm willing to try to learn. I mean, I'm I would do my best. Um, the other thing is that there was a number of things at the transcription side that, um, transcribers can do, like dialogue act tagging,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's not that hard.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "disfluency tagging, um, things that are in the speech that are actually something we're y working on for language modeling. And Mari's also interested in it, Andreas as well. So if you wanna process a utterance and the first thing they say is, \" well \", and that \" well \" is coded as some kind of interrupt u tag. Uh, and things like that, um, th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Of course some of that can be li done lexically.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "A lot of it can be done.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And I also they are doing disfluency tagging to some degree already.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Great. So a a lot of this kind of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I think there's a second pass and I don't really know what would exist in it. But there's definitely a second pass worth doing to maybe encode some kinds of, you know, is it a question or not,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "or um, that maybe these transcribers could do. So Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They'd be really good. They're they're very they're very consistent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, I wanted to whi while we're Uh, so, to return just briefly to this question of more meeting data, um I have two questions. One of them is, um, Jerry Feldman's group, they they, uh, are they I know that they recorded one meeting. Are they willing?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I think they're open to it. I think, you know, all these things are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think there's we should go beyond, uh, ICSI but, I mean, there's a lot of stuff happening at ICSI that we're not getting now that we could.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, that we could.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's just.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "OK. I thought that all these people had sort of said \" no \" twice already.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If that's not the case then.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, no. No. So th there was the thing in Fillmore's group but even there he hadn't What he'd said \" no \" to was for the main meeting. But they have several smaller meetings a week,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and, uh, the notion was raised before that that could happen. And it just, you know it just didn't come together", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Just OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, and and the other thing too is when they originally said \" no \" they didn't know about this post - editing capability thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. That was a big fear.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's important.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I mean there's possibilities there. I think Jerry's group, yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, there's there's, uh, the networks group, uh, I don't Do they still meeting regularly or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know if they meet regularly or not but they are no longer recording.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But I mean, ha ha have they said they don't want to anymore or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, ugh, what was his name?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, i i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Joe Sokol?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "When with him gone, it sorta trickled off.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK, so they're down to three or four people", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They and they stopped Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but the thing is three or four people is OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "We might be able to get the administration.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well he was sort of my contact, so I just need to find out who's running it now.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I see that Lila has a luncheon meeting in here periodically.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it One thing that would be nice", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "and this it sounds bizarre but, I'd really like to look at to get some meetings where there's a little bit of heated discussion, like ar arguments and or emotion, and things like that. And so I was thinking if there's any like Berkeley political groups or something. I mean, that'd be perfect. Some group, \" yes, we must \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Who's willing to get recorded and distributed?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, you know, something.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't think the more political argumentative ones would be willing to.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, with with with potential use from the defense department.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, but maybe stu student, uh, groups or, um, film - makers, or som Something a little bit colorful.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, th there's a problem there in terms of, uh, the um commercial value of of st uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course there is this problem though, that if we give them the chance to excise later we e might end up with like five minutes out of a f of m one hour", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Film - maker.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Of beeps,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And I don't mean that they're angry", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "of Yes. Really.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "but just something with some more variation in prosodic contours and so forth would be neat. So if anyone has ideas, I'm willing to do the leg work to go try to talk to people but I don't really know which groups are worth pursuing.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well there was this K P F A", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "No that's.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "but OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Legal.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "it it it it turned out to be a bit of a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And I had one other one other aspect of this which is, um, uh, uh, Jonathan Fiscus expressed primar uh y a major interest in having meetings which were all English speakers. Now he wasn't trying to shape us in terms of what we gather", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but that's what he wanted me to show him. So I'm giving him our, um our initial meeting because he asked for all English. And I think we don't have a lot of all English meetings right now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Of all all nat all native speakers.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Did he mean, uh did he mean and non - British?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The all native.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's what I mean, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well if he meant and non - British I think we have zero.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "He doesn't care. No. Eh, well, British is OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "He said British was OK?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but Sure, sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "British is English?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Different varieties of English.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Ooo, ooo.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, I don't I don't I don't think if he didn't say that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Native speaking. Native speaking English.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I bet he meant native speaking American.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I bet he did.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "American English?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, really.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So, why would he care?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Knowing the application.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I remember wh I I remember a study.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I was thinking, knowing the, uh, n National Institute of Standards, it is all.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I remember a study that BBN did where they trained on this was in Wall Street Journal days or something, they trained on American English and then they tested on, uh, different native speakers from different areas. And, uh, uh, the worst match was people whose native tongue was Mandarin Chinese. The second worst was British English.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's funny.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So h it's, you know, t", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Alright. And so that would make sense.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "the the the German was much better,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ooo, ooo.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I didn't have the context of that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "it was Swiss w Yeah, so it's so I think, you know, if he's if he's thinking in terms of recognition kind of technology I I I think he would probably want, uh American English,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "All America, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I wonder if we have any.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "yeah. It it yeah, unless we're gonna train with a whole bunch of.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think that the Feldman's meetings tend to be more that way, aren't they? I mean, I sort of feel like they have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I think so,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And maybe there are a few of with us where it was.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you know, Dan wasn't there and before Jose started coming,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's pretty tough, uh, this group. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, uh, what about what about people who involved in some artistic endeavor?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, film - making or something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly, that's what I was.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You'd think like they would be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "A film - maker.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "something where there there is actually discussion where there's no right or wrong answer but but it's a matter of opinion kind of thing. Uh, anyway, if you if you have ideas.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's be fun.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "RASTA. PLP. RASTA. PLP.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We can just discu we can just have a political discussion one day.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, we could.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "A any department that calls itself science", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Department.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, I could make that pretty.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, like computer science.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Computer sci", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "We could get Julia Child. I know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I'm I'm actually serious", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "because, uh, you know, we have the set up here", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Got a ticket.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know you are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and and that that has a chance to give us some very interesting fun data. So if anyone has ideas,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if you know any groups that are m you know,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well I had asked some some of the students at the business school.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "student groups c like clubs, things like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I could.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Not not.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Put a little ad up saying, \" come here and argue \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. \" If you're really angry at someone use our conference room. \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The Business school. Uh, the business school might be good. I actually spoke with some students up there", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and they they they expressed willingness back when they thought they would be doing more stuff with speech.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Really.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But when they lost interest in speech they also stopped answering my email about other stuff, so.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or people who are really h", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They could have a discussion about te", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We should probably bleep that out.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "about about tax cuts or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I heard that at Cal Tech they have a special room someone said that they had a special room to get all your frustrations out that you can go to and like throw things and break things.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, now that is not actually what we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we can like post a.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Th - that's not what we want.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "No, not to that extent", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, far field mikes can pick up where they threw stuff on the wall.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but, um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we don't want them to throw the far field mikes is the thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The fa", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" Please throw everything in that direction. \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Padded cell.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It'd be fun to get like a a p visit from the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "There was a dorm room at Tech that, uh, someone had coated the walls and the ceiling, and, uh, the floor with mattresses.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The entire room.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I had as my fourth thing here processing of wave forms.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "What did we mean by that? Remember @ @?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, Liz wanted to talk about methods of improving accuracy by doing pre - processing.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Pre - processing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well I think that that was just sort of I I already asked Thilo", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, you already did that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but that, um, it would be helpful if I can stay in the loop somehow with, um, people who are doing any kind of post - processing, whether it's to separate speakers or to improve the signal - to - noise ratio, or both, um, that we can sort of try out as we're running recognition. Um, so, i is that Who else is work I guess Dan Ellis and you", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Dan, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, and Dave uh Gel - Gelbart again,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and Dave.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "he's he's interested in in fact we're look starting to look at some echo cancellation kind of things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Which uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I am not sure how much that's an issue with the close talking mikes,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but who knows?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, let's w i isn't that what what you want.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I'm bad.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "t No, so No, i w wha what you what you want when you're saying improving the wave form you want the close talking microphone to be better.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's like like.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And the question is to w to what extent is it getting hurt by, uh by any room acoustics or is it just uh, given that it's close it's not a problem?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It doesn't seem like big room acoustics problems to my ear", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but I'm not an expert. It seems like a problem with cross - talk.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "e I bet with the lapel mike there's plenty, uh, room acoustic", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That that may be true.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but I I think the rest is cross - talk.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But I don't know how good it can get either by those the those methods.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So I I think it's just,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, what you said, cross - talk.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "All I meant is just that as sort of as this pipeline of research is going on we're also experimenting with different ASR, uh, techniques.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And so it'd be w good to know about it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the problem is like, uh, on the microphone of somebody who's not talking they're picking up signals from other people and that's causing problems?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "R right, although if they're not talking, using the the inhouse transcriptions, were sort of O K because the t no one transcribed any words there and we throw it out.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if they're talking at all and they're not talking the whole time, so you get some speech and then a \" mm - hmm \", and some more speech, so that whole thing is one chunk. And the person in the middle who said only a little bit is picking up the speech around it, that's where it's a big problem.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, this does like seem like it would relate to some of what Jose's been working on as well, the encoding of the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And and he also, he was.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The energy,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "right. Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I was t I was trying to remember, you have this interface where you i you ha you showed us one time on your laptop that you you had different visual displays as speech and nonspeech events.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, c Yeah. May I I only display the different colors for the different situation. But, eh, for me and for my problems, is uh is enough. Because, eh, it's possible, eh, eh, in a simp sample view, uh, to, nnn, to compare with c with the segment, the the kind of assessment what happened with the the different parameters. And only with a different bands of color for the, uh, few situation, eh, I consider for acoustic event is enough to @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I I I see that, eh, you are considering now, eh, a very sophisticated, eh, ehm, eh, @ @ set of, eh, graphic s eh, eh, ehm, si symbols to to transcribe. No? Because, uh, before, you you are talking about the the possibility to include in the Transcriber program eh, um, a set of symbols, of graphic symbol to t to mark the different situations during the transcription", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I w Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "during the transcription. No?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, you're saying So, uh, symbols for differences between laugh, and sigh, and and and slam the door and stuff?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The s the symbols, you you talk of before.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or some other kind of thing?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "No? To to mark.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I wouldn't say symbols so much. The the main change that I that I see in the interface is is just that we'll be able to more finely c uh, time things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But I I also st there was another aspect of your work that I was thinking about when I was talking to you", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which is that it sounded to me, Liz, as though you and, uh, maybe I didn't q understand this, but it sounded to me as though part of the analysis that you're doing involves taking segments which are of a particular type and putting them together.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And th so if you have like a p a s you know, speech from one speaker, then you cut out the part that's not that speaker,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and you combine segments from that same speaker to and run them through the recognizer. Is that right?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well we try to find as close of start and end time of as we can to the speech from an individual speaker,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "because then we we're more guaranteed that the recognizer will for the forced alignment which is just to give us the time boundaries, because from those time boundaries then the plan is to compute prosodic features.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And the sort of more space you have that isn't the thing you're trying to align the more errors we have. Um, so, you know, that that it would help to have either pre - processing of a signal that creates very good signal - to - noise ratio,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Cuz i OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "which I don't know how possible this is for the lapel, um, or to have very to have closer, um, time you know, synch times, basically, around the speech that gets transcribed in it, or both. And it's just sort of a open world right now of exploring that. So I just wanted to see, you know, on the transcribing end from here things look good. Uh, the IBM one is more it's an open question right now. And then the issue of like global processing of some signal and then, you know, before we chop it up is is yet another way we can improve things in that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What about increasing the flexibility of the alignment?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Do you remember that thing that Michael Finka did?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that experiment he did a while back?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. You can, um The problem is just that the acoustic when the signal - to - noise ratio is too low, um, you you'll get, a uh an alignment with the wrong duration pattern or it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, so that's the problem, is the the signal - to - noise ratio.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not the fact that you have like I mean, what he did is allow you to have, uh, words that were in another segment move over to the at the edges of of segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Or even words inserted that weren't weren't there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right, things things near the boundaries where if you got your alignment wrong.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "cuz what they had done there is align and then chop.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, and this problem is a little bit j more global. It's that there are problems even in inside the alignments, uh, because of the fact that there's enough acoustic signal there t for the recognizer to to eat, as part of a word. And it tends to do that. S So, uh,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but we probably will have to do something like that in addition. Anyway. So, yeah, bottom bottom line is just I wanted to make sure I can be aware of whoever's working on these signal - processing techniques for, uh, detecting energies,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because that that'll really help us.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "O K, uh tea has started out there I suggest we c run through our digits and,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Uh, So, OK, we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" } ] }

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So I I the the problem is that I actually don't know how th these held meetings are held, if they are very informal and sort of just people are say what's going on", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's usually what we do.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We just sorta go around and people say what's going on, what's the latest uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. So I guess that what may be a reasonable is if I uh first make a report on what's happening in Aurora in general, at least what from my perspective.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and uh so, I I think that Carmen and Stephane reported on uh Amsterdam meeting,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh o", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which was kind of interesting because it was for the first time we realized we are not friends really, but we are competitors. Cuz until then it was sort of like everything was like wonderful and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It seemed like there were still some issues,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? that they were trying to decide?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There is a plenty of there're plenty of issues.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Like the voice activity detector,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well and what happened was that they realized that if two leading proposals, which was French Telecom Alcatel, and us both had uh voice activity detector. And I said \" well big surprise, I mean we could have told you that n n n four months ago, except we didn't because nobody else was bringing it up \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Obviously French Telecom didn't volunteer this information either, cuz we were working on mainly on voice activity detector for past uh several months", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because that's buying us the most uh thing. And everybody said \" Well but this is not fair. We didn't know that. \" And of course uh the it's not working on features really. And be I agreed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I said \" well yeah, you are absolutely right, I mean if I wish that you provided better end point at speech because uh or at least that if we could modify the recognizer, uh to account for these long silences, because otherwise uh that that th that wasn't a correct thing. \" And so then ev ev everybody else says \" well we should we need to do a new eval evaluation without voice activity detector, or we have to do something about it \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And in principle I uh I we agreed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We said uh \" yeah \". Because uh but in that case, uh we would like to change the uh the algorithm because uh if we are working on different data, we probably will use a different set of tricks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But unfortunately nobody ever officially can somehow acknowledge that this can be done, because French Telecom was saying \" no, no, no, now everybody has access to our code, so everybody is going to copy what we did. \" Yeah well our argument was everybody ha has access to our code, and everybody always had access to our code. We never uh uh denied that. We thought that people are honest, that if you copy something and if it is protected protected by patent then you negotiate, or something,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? I mean, if you find our technique useful, we are very happy.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But And French Telecom was saying \" no, no, no,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "there is a lot of little tricks which uh sort of uh cannot be protected and you guys will take them, \" which probably is also true. I mean, you know, it might be that people will take uh uh th the algorithms apart and use the blocks from that. But I somehow think that it wouldn't be so bad, as long as people are happy abou uh uh uh honest about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think they have to be honest in the long run, because winning proposal again uh what will be available th is will be a code. So the uh the people can go to code and say \" well listen this is what you stole from me \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" so let's deal with that \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I don't see the problem. The biggest problem of course is that f that Alcatel French Telecom cl claims \" well we fulfilled the conditions. We are the best. Uh. We are the standard. \" And e and other people don't feel that, because they so they now decided that that is the whole thing will be done on well - endpointed data, essentially that somebody will endpoint the data based on clean speech, because most of this the SpeechDat - Car has the also close speaking mike and endpoints will be provided.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh we will run again still not clear if we are going to run the if we are allowed to run uh uh new algorithms, but I assume so. Because uh we would fight for that, really. uh but since uh u u n u at least our experience is that only endpointing a a mel cepstrum gets uh gets you twenty - one percent improvement overall and twenty - seven improvement on SpeechDat - Car", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "then obvious the database uh I mean the the the uh the baseline will go up. And nobody can then achieve fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So they agreed that uh there will be a twenty - five percent improvement required on on uh h u m bad mis badly mismatched.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But wait a minute, I thought the endpointing really only helped in the noisy cases.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, but you still have that with the MFCC.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah but you have the same prob I mean MFCC basically has an enormous number of uh insertions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so, so now they want to say \" we we will require fifty percent improvement only for well matched condition, and only twenty - five percent for the serial cases. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh and they almost agreed on that except that it wasn't a hundred percent agreed. And so last time uh during the meeting, I just uh brought up the issue, I said \" well you know uh quite frankly I'm surprised how lightly you are making these decisions because this is a major decision. For two years we are fighting for fifty percent improvement and suddenly you are saying \" oh no we we will do something less \", but maybe we should discuss that. And everybody said \" oh we discussed that and you were not a mee there \" and I said \" well a lot of other people were not there because not everybody participates at these teleconferencing c things. \" Then they said \" oh no no no because uh everybody is invited. \" However, there is only ten or fifteen lines, so people can't even con you know participate. So eh they agreed, and so they said \" OK, we will discuss that. \" Immediately Nokia uh raised the question and they said \" oh yeah we agree this is not good to to uh dissolve the uh uh the uh the criterion. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So now officially, Nokia is uh uh complaining and said they they are looking for support, uh I think QualComm is uh saying, too \" we shouldn't abandon the fifty percent yet. We should at least try once again, one more round. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is where we are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I hope that I hope that this is going to be a adopted.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Next Wednesday we are going to have uh another uh teleconferencing call, so we'll see what uh where it goes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what about the issue of um the weights on the for the different systems, the well - matched, and medium - mismatched and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what that's a g very good uh point, because David says \" well you know we ca we can manipulate this number by choosing the right weights anyways. \" So while you are right but uh you know but", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, if of course if you put a zero uh weight zero on a mismatched condition, or highly mismatched then then you are done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But weights were also deter already decided uh half a year ago. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And they're the staying the same?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, of course people will not like it. Now What is happening now is that I th I think that people try to match the criterion to solution.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They have solution. Now they want to make sure their criterion is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think that this is not the right way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh it may be that that Eventually it may ha may ha it may have to happen. But it's should happen at a point where everybody feels comfortable that we did all what we could.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I don't think we did.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Basically, I think that that this test was a little bit bogus because of the data and uh essentially there were these arbitrary decisions made, and and everything. So, so so this is so this is where it is. So what we are doing at OGI now is uh uh uh working basically on our parts which we I think a little bit neglected, like noise separation. Uh so we are looking in ways is in uh which uh with which we can provide better initial estimate of the mel spectrum basically, which would be a l uh, f more robust to noise, and so far not much uh success.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We tried uh things which uh a long time ago Bill Byrne suggested, instead of using Fourier spectrum, from Fourier transform, use the spectrum from LPC model. Their argument there was the LPC model fits the peaks of the spectrum, so it may be m naturally more robust in noise. And I thought \" well, that makes sense, \" but so far we can't get much much out of it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh we may try some standard techniques like spectral subtraction and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You haven't tried that yet?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "not not not much. Or even I was thinking about uh looking back into these totally ad - hoc techniques", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like for instance uh Dennis Klatt was suggesting uh the one way to uh deal with noisy speech is to add noise to everything.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. I mean, uh uh add moderate amount of noise to all data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that makes uh th any additive noise less addi less a a effective,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? Because you already uh had the noise uh in a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it was working at the time. It was kind of like one of these things, you know, but if you think about it, it's actually pretty ingenious. So well, you know, just take a take a spectrum and and and add of the constant, C, to every every value.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well you're you're basically y Yeah. So you're making all your training data more uniform.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Exactly. And if if then if this data becomes noisy, it b it becomes eff effectively becomes less noisy basically.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But of course you cannot add too much noise because then you'll s then you're clean recognition goes down, but I mean it's yet to be seen how much, it's a very simple technique.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes indeed it's a very simple technique, you just take your spectrum and and use whatever is coming from FFT, add constant,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know? on onto power spectrum. That that Or the other thing is of course if you have a spectrum, what you can s start doing, you can leave start leaving out the p the parts which are uh uh low in energy and then perhaps uh one could try to find a a all - pole model to such a spectrum. Because a all - pole model will still try to to to put the the continuation basically of the of the model into these parts where the issue set to zero. That's what we want to try. I have a visitor from Brno. He's a kind of like young faculty. pretty hard - working so he so he's so he's looking into that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then most of the effort is uh now also aimed at this e e TRAP recognition. This uh this is this recognition from temporal patterns.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm! What is that?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah, you don't know about TRAPS!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The TRAPS sound familiar, I but I don't.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean tha This is familiar like sort of because we gave you the name, but, what it is, is that normally what you do is that you recognize uh speech based on a shortened spectrum.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Essentially L P - LPC, mel cepstrum, uh, everything starts with a spectral slice. Uh so if you s So, given the spectrogram you essentially are sliding sliding the spectrogram along the uh f frequency axis", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you keep shifting this thing, and you have a spectrogram.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you can say \" well you can also take the time trajectory of the energy at a given frequency \", and what you get is then, that you get a p vector.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this vector can be a a s assigned to s some phoneme. Namely you can say i it I will I will say that this vector will eh will will describe the phoneme which is in the center of the vector. And you can try to classify based on that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And you so you classi so it's a very different vector, very different properties, we don't know much about it, but the truth is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. But you have many of those vectors per phoneme,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, so you get many decisions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then you can start dec thinking about how to combine these decisions. Exactly, that's what yeah, that's what it is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because if you run this uh recognition, you get you still get about twenty percent error uh twenty percent correct. You know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "on on like for the frame by frame basis, so uh uh so it's much better than chance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "How wide are the uh frequency bands?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's another thing. Well c currently we start I mean we start always with critical band spectrum. For various reasons. But uh the latest uh observation uh is that you you you are you can get quite a big advantage of using two critical bands at the same time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Are they adjacent, or are they s", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Adjacent, adjacent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the reasons there are some reasons for that. Because there are some reasons I can I could talk about, will have to tell you about things like masking experiments which uh uh uh uh yield critical bands, and also experiments with release of masking, which actually tell you that something is happening across critical bands, across bands. And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well how do you how do you uh convert this uh energy over time in a particular frequency band into a vector of numbers?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's uh uh uh I mean time T - zero is one number, time t", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah but what's the number? Is it just the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a spectral energy, logarithmic spectral energy,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it's just the amount of energy in that band from f in that time interval.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah. Yes, yes. Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that's what that's what I'm saying then, so this is a this is a starting vector. It's just like shortened f spectrum, or something. But now we are trying to understand what this vector actually represents,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "for instance a question is like \" how correlated are the elements of this vector? \" Turns out they are quite correlated, because I mean, especially the neighboring ones, right? They they represent the same almost the same configuration of the vocal tract.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So there's a very high correlation. So the classifiers which use the diagonal covariance matrix don't like it. So we're thinking about de - correlating them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then the question is uh \" can you describe elements of this vector by Gaussian distributions \", or to what extent? Because uh And and and so on and so on. So we are learning quite a lot about that. And then another issue is how many vectors we should be using,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean the so the minimum is one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I mean is the is the critical band the right uh uh dimension? So we somehow made arbitrary decision, \" yes \". Then but then now we are thinking a lot how to uh how to use at least the neighboring band because that seems to be happening This I somehow start to believe that's what's happening in recognition. Cuz a lot of experiments point to the fact that people can split the signal into critical bands, but then oh uh uh so you can you are quite capable of processing a signal in uh uh independently in individual critical bands. That's what masking experiments tell you. But at the same time you most likely pay attention to at least neighboring bands when you are making any decisions, you compare what's happening in in this band to what's happening to the band to to to the to the neighboring bands. And that's how you make uh decisions. That's why the articulatory events, which uh F F Fletcher talks about, they are about two critical bands. You need at least two, basically. You need some relative, relative relation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Absolute number doesn't tell you the right thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You need to you need to compare it to something else, what's happening but it's what's happening in the in the close neighborhood. So if you are making decision what's happening at one kilohertz, you want to know what's happening at nine hundred hertz and it and maybe at eleven hundred hertz, but you don't much care what's happening at three kilohertz.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's really w It's sort of like saying that what's happening at one kilohertz depends on what's happening around it. It's sort of relative to it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To some extent, it that is also true. Yeah. But it's but for but for instance, th uh uh what what uh humans are very much capable of doing is that if th if they are exactly the same thing happening in two neighboring critical bands, recognition can discard it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is what's happening.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hey!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey! OK, we need us another another voice here.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hey Stephane.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Sure. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so so so for instance if you d if you a if you add the noise that normally masks masks the uh the the signal right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you can show that in that if the if you add the noise outside the critical band, that doesn't affect the the decisions you're making about a signal within a critical band.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Unless this noise is modulated. If the noise is modulated, with the same modulation frequency as the noise in a critical band, the amount of masking is less. The moment you moment you provide the noise in n neighboring critical bands.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So the s m masking curve, normally it looks like sort of I start from from here, so you you have uh no noise then you you you are expanding the critical band, so the amount of maching is increasing. And when you e hit a certain point, which is a critical band, then the amount of masking is the same.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that's the famous experiment of Fletcher, a long time ago. Like that's where people started thinking \" wow this is interesting! \" So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, if you if you if you modulate the noise, the masking goes up and the moment you start hitting the another critical band, the masking goes down. So essentially essentially that's a very clear indication that that that cognition can take uh uh into consideration what's happening in the neighboring bands. But if you go too far in a in a if you if the noise is very broad, you are not increasing much more, so so if you if you are far away from the signal uh from the signal f uh the frequency at which the signal is, then the m even the when the noise is co - modulated it it's not helping you much.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. So things like this we are kind of playing with with with the hope that perhaps we could eventually u use this in a in a real recognizer.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Like uh partially of course we promised to do this under the the the Aurora uh program.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But you probably won't have anything before the next time we have to evaluate,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Probably not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, maybe, most likely we will not have anything which c would comply with the rules.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like because uh uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Latency and things.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "latency currently chops the require uh significant uh latency amount of processing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because uh we don't know any better, yet, than to use the neural net classifiers, uh and uh and uh TRAPS.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Though the the work which uh everybody is looking at now aims at s trying to find out what to do with these vectors, so that a g simple Gaussian classifier would be happier with it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or to what extent a Gaussian classifier should be unhappy uh that, and how to Gaussian - ize the vectors, and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is uh what's happening. Then Sunil is uh uh uh asked me f for one month's vacation and since he did not take any vacation for two years, I had no I didn't have heart to tell him no. So he's in India.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is he getting married or something?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh well, he may be looking for a girl, for for I don't I don't I don't ask. I know that Naran - when last time Narayanan did that he came back engaged.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Well, I mean, I've known other friends who they they go to Ind - they go back home to India for a month, they come back married,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I know. I know, I know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you know, huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then of course then what happened with Narayanan was that he start pushing me that he needs to get a PHD because they wouldn't give him his wife. And she's very pretty and he loves her and so so we had to really.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So he finally had some incentive to finish,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. We had well I had a incentive because he he always had this plan except he never told me.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sort of figured that That was a uh that he uh he told me the day when we did very well at our NIST evaluations of speaker recognition, the technology, and he was involved there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We were after presentation we were driving home and he told me.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "When he knew you were happy,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I I said \" well, yeah, OK \" so he took another another three quarter of the year but uh he was out.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I wouldn't surprise me if he has a plan like that, though though uh Pratibha still needs to get out first.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz Pratibha is there a a year earlier.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And S and Satya needs to get out very first because he's he already has uh four years served, though one year he was getting masters. So. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So have the um when is the next uh evaluation? June or something?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which? Speaker recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, for uh Aurora?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh there, we don't know about evaluation, next meeting is in June.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh uh but like getting get together.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Are people supposed to rerun their systems,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Nobody said that yet.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I assume so. Uh yes, uh, but nobody even set up yet the date for uh delivering uh endpointed data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this uh that that sort of stuff. But I uh, yeah, what I think would be of course extremely useful, if we can come to our next meeting and say \" well you know we did get fifty percent improvement. If if you are interested we eventually can tell you how \", but uh we can get fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because people will s will be saying it's impossible.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Do you know what the new baseline is? Oh, I guess if you don't have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Twenty - two t twenty twenty - two percent better than the old baseline.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Using your uh voice activity detector?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u Yes. Yes. But I assume that it will be similar, I don't I I don't see the reason why it shouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Similar, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I d I don't see reason why it should be worse.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz if it is worse, then we will raise the objection,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "we say \" well you know how come? \" Because eh if we just use our voice activity detector, which we don't claim even that it's wonderful, it's just like one of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We get this sort of improvement, how come that we don't see it on on on on your endpointed data?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess it could be even better,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because the voice activity detector that I choosed is something that cheating, it's using the alignment of the speech recognition system,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. C yeah uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and only the alignment on the clean channel, and then mapped this alignment to the noisy channel.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and on clean speech data. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well David told me David told me yesterday or Harry actually he told Harry from QualComm and Harry uh brought up the suggestion we should still go for fifty percent he says are you aware that your system does only thirty percent uh comparing to to endpointed baselines? So they must have run already something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. And Harry said \" Yeah. But I mean we think that we we didn't say the last word yet, that we have other other things which we can try. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So there's a lot of discussion now about this uh new criterion. Because Nokia was objecting, with uh QualComm's we basically supported that, we said \" yes \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Now everybody else is saying \" well you guys might must be out of your mind. \" uh The Guenter Hirsch who d doesn't speak for Ericsson anymore because he is not with Ericsson and Ericsson may not may withdraw from the whole Aurora activity because they have so many troubles now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ericsson's laying off twenty percent of people.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where's uh Guenter going?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well Guenter is already he got the job uh already was working on it for past two years or three years.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "he got a job uh at some some Fachschule, the technical college not too far from Aachen.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's like professor u university professor", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know, not quite a university, not quite a sort of it's not Aachen University, but it's a good school and he he's happy.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And he well, he was hoping to work uh with Ericsson like on t uh like consulting basis, but right now he says says it doesn't look like that anybody is even thinking about speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They think about survival.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. But this is being now discussed right now, and it's possible that uh that that it may get through, that we will still stick to fifty percent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But that means that nobody will probably get this im this improvement. yet, wi with the current system. Which event es essentially I think that we should be happy with because that that would mean that at least people may be forced to look into alternative solutions", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But maybe I I mean we are not too far from from fifty percent, from the new baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, but not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Which would mean like sixty percent over the current baseline, which is.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes. Yes. We we getting we getting there, right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well. We are around fifty, fifty - five.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Is it like sort of is How did you come up with this number? If you improve twenty by twenty percent the c the f the all baselines, it's just a quick c comp co computation?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know exactly if it's.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. I think it's about right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, because it de it depends on the weightings", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Yeah. But. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm. How's your documentation or whatever it w what was it you guys were working on last week?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, finally we we've not finished with this. We stopped.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "More or less it's finished.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Ma - nec to need a little more time to improve the English, and maybe s to fill in something some small detail, something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but it's more or less ready.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we have a document that explain a big part of the experiments,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Necessary to to include the bi the bibliography.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it's not, yeah, finished yet. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So have you been running some new experiments? I I thought I saw some jobs of yours running on some of the machine.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. We've fff done some strange things like removing C - zero or C - one from the the vector of parameters, and we noticed that C - one is almost not useful at all. You can remove it from the vector, it doesn't hurt.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Really?! That has no effect?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Eh Is this in the baseline? or in uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In the No, in the proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "in uh - huh, uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we were just discussing, since you mentioned that, in it w", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "driving in the car with Morgan this morning, we were discussing a good experiment for b for beginning graduate student who wants to run a lot of who wants to get a lot of numbers on something", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "which is, like, \" imagine that you will you will start putting every co any coefficient, which you are using in your vector, in some general power.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "In some what?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "General pow power. Like sort of you take a s power of two, or take a square root, or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So suppose that you are working with a s C - zer C - one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So if you put it in a s square root, that effectively makes your model half as efficient. Because uh your uh Gaussian mixture model, right? computes the mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and uh i i i but it's the mean is an exponent of the whatever, the the this Gaussian function.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You're compressing the range,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you're compressing the range of this coefficient, so it's becoming less efficient.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? of that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. Morgan was @ @ and he was he was saying well this might be the alternative way how to play with a with a fudge factor, you know, uh in the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know, just compress the whole vector.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I said \" well in that case why don't we just start compressing individual elements, like when when because in old days we were doing when when people still were doing template matching and Euclidean distances, we were doing this liftering of parameters, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because we observed that uh higher parameters were more important than lower for recognition. And basically the the C - ze C - one contributes mainly slope,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it's highly affected by uh frequency response of the of the recording equipment and that sort of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so so we were coming with all these f various lifters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh Bell Labs had he this uh uh r raised cosine lifter which still I think is built into H HTK for reasons n unknown to anybody, but but uh we had exponential lifter, or triangle lifter, basic number of lifters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And. But so they may be a way to to fiddle with the f with the f", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Insertions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Insertions, deletions, or the the giving a relative uh basically modifying relative importance of the various parameters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The only of course problem is that there's an infinite number of combinations and if the if you s if y", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - huh. You need like a some kind of a.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, you need a lot of graduate students, and a lot of computing power.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You need to have a genetic algorithm, that basically tries random permutations of these things.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I know. Exactly. Oh. If you were at Bell Labs or I d d I shouldn't be saying this in on on a mike, right? Or I uh IBM, that's what maybe that's what somebody would be doing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I mean, I mean the places which have a lot of computing power, so because it is really it's a p it's a it's it will be reasonable search", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh but I wonder if there isn't some way of doing this uh search like when we are searching say for best discriminants.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know actually, I don't know that this wouldn't be all that bad. I mean you you compute the features once,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? And then these exponents are just applied to that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Absolutely. And hev everything is fixed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Everything is fixed. Each each.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And is this something that you would adjust for training? or only recognition?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For both, you would have to do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You would do it on both.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You have to do bo both.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So you'd actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because essentially you are saying \" uh this feature is not important \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or less important, so that's th that's a that's a painful one, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So for each uh set of exponents that you would try, it would require a training and a recognition?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But but wait a minute. You may not need to re uh uh retrain the m model. You just may n may need to c uh give uh less weight to to uh a mod uh a component of the model which represents this particular feature. You don't have to retrain it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. So if you Instead of altering the feature vectors themselves, you you modify the the the Gaussians in the models.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You just multiply. Yeah. Yep. You modify the Gaussian in the model, but in the in the test data you would have to put it in the power, but in a training what you c in a training uh in trained model, all you would have to do is to multiply a model by appropriate constant.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. But why if you're if you're multi if you're altering the model, why w in the test data, why would you have to muck with the uh cepstral coefficients?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because in uh test in uh test data you ca don't have a model. You have uh only data. But in a in a tr", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. But you're running your data through that same model.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That is true, but w I mean, so what you want to do You want to say if uh obs you if you observe something like Stephane observes, that C - one is not important, you can do two things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you have a trained trained recognizer, in the model, you know the the the the component which I I mean di dimension wh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. All of the all of the mean and variances that correspond to C - one, you put them to zero.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To the s you you know it. But what I'm proposing now, if it is important but not as important, you multiply it by point one in a model.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But what are you multiplying? Cuz those are means, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You're multiplying the standard deviation?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean you're.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think that you multiply the I would I would have to look in the in the math, I mean how how does the model uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think you'd have to modify the standard deviation or something, so that you make it wider or narrower.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Effectively, that's that that's I Exactly. That's what you do. That's what you do, you you you modify the standard deviation as it was trained.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Effectively you, you know y in f in front of the of the model, you put a constant. S yeah effectively what you're doing is you is you are modifying the the the deviation. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The spread,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oop.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, the spread.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's the same same mean,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And and and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So by making th the standard deviation narrower, uh your scores get worse for.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "unless it's exactly right on the mean.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Your als No. By making it narrower,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh y your.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean there's you're you're allowing for less variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes, so you making this particular dimension less important. Because see what you are fitting is the multidimensional Gaussian, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a it has it has uh thirty - nine dimensions, or thirteen dimensions if you g ignore deltas and double - deltas.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So in order if you in order to make dimension which which Stephane sees uh less important, uh uh I mean not not useful, less important, what you do is that this particular component in the model you can multiply by w you can you can basically de - weight it in the model. But you can't do it in a in a test data because you don't have a model for th I mean uh when the test comes, but what you can do is that you put this particular component in and and you compress it. That becomes uh th gets less variance, subsequently becomes less important.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Couldn't you just do that to the test data and not do anything with your training data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That would be very bad, because uh your t your model was trained uh expecting uh, that wouldn't work. Because your model was trained expecting a certain var variance on C - one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And because the model thinks C - one is important. After you train the model, you sort of y you could do you could do still what I was proposing initially, that during the training you you compress C - one that becomes then it becomes less important in a training.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if you have if you want to run e ex extensive experiment without retraining the model, you don't have to retrain the model. You train it on the original vector. But after, you wh when you are doing this parametric study of importance of C - one you will de - weight the C - one component in the model, and you will put in the you will compress the this component in a in the test data. s by the same amount.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Could you also if you wanted to if you wanted to try an experiment uh by leaving out say, C - one, couldn't you, in your test data, uh modify the all of the C - one values to be um way outside of the normal range of the Gaussian for C - one that was trained in the model? So that effectively, the C - one never really contributes to the score?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, that would be a severe mismatch,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you know what I'm say", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? what you are proposing? N no you don't want that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, someth", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because that would then your model would be unlikely. Your likelihood would be low, right? Because you would be providing severe mismatch.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But what if you set if to the mean of the model, then? And it was a cons you set all C - ones coming in through your test data, you you change whatever value that was there to the mean that your model had.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No that would be very good match, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That you would.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Which Well, yeah, but we have several means. So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see what you are sa saying,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Saying.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but uh, no, no I don't think that it would be the same. I mean, no, the If you set it to a mean, that would No, you can't do that. Y you ca you ca Ch - Chuck, you can't do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, that's true, right, yeah, because you you have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wait. Which.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Because that would be a really f fiddling with the data,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you can't do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But what you can do, I'm confident you ca", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "well, I'm reasonably confident and I putting it on the record, right? I mean y people will listen to it for for centuries now, is what you can do, is you train the model uh with the with the original data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Then you decide that you want to see how important C C - one is. So what you will do is that a component in the model for C - one, you will divide it by by two. And you will compress your test data by square root.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then you will still have a perfect m match. Except that this component of C - one will be half as important in a in a overall score.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then you divide it by four and you take a square, f fourth root. Then if you think that some component is more is more important then th th th it then then uh uh i it is, based on training, then you uh multiply this particular component in the model by by by.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You're talking about the standard deviation?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, multiply this component uh i it by number b larger than one,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you put your data in power higher than one. Then it becomes more important. In the overall score, I believe.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but, at the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But don't you have to do something to the mean, also?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But I think it's uh the The variance is on on the denominator in the in the Gaussian equation. So. I think it's maybe it's the contrary. If you want to decrease the importance of a c parameter, you have to increase it's variance.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes. Right. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Multiply.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah. So you so you may want to do it other way around,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. That's right. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But if your If your um original data for C - one had a mean of two.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And now you're you're you're changing that by squaring it. Now your mean of your C - one original data has is four. But your model still has a mean of two. So even though you've expended the range, your mean doesn't match anymore.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Let's see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you see what I mean?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think What I see What could be done is you don't change your features, which are computed once for all,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but you just tune the model. So. You have your features. You train your your model on these features.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then if you want to decrease the importance of C - one you just take the variance of the C - one component in the in the model and increase it if you want to decrease the importance of C - one or decrease it.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. You would have to modify the mean in the model. I you I agree with you. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, but it's it's i it's do - able,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so y", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? I mean, it's predictable. Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's predictable, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it's predictable.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But as a simple thing, you could just just muck with the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just adjust the model, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "to get uh this uh this the effect I think that you're talking about,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It might be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Could increase the variance to decrease the importance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, because if you had a huge variance, you're dividing by a large number, you get a very small contribution.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it becomes more flat", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, the sharper the variance, the more more important to get that one right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, you know actually, this reminds me of something that happened uh when I was at BBN. We were playing with putting um pitch into the Mandarin recognizer.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this particular pitch algorithm um when it didn't think there was any voicing, was spitting out zeros. So we were getting uh when we did clustering, we were getting groups uh of features", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "p Pretty new outliers, interesting outliers, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah, with with a mean of zero and basically zero variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Variance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, when ener when anytime any one of those vectors came in that had a zero in it, we got a great score. I mean it was just, you know, incredibly high score, and so that was throwing everything off.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So if you have very small variance you get really good scores when you get something that matches.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So. So that's a way, yeah, yeah That's a way to increase the yeah, n That's interesting. So in fact, that would be That doesn't require any retraining.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, that's right. So it's", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So that means it's just", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "just tuning the models and testing, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "recognitions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It would be quick.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You you have a step where you you modify the models, make a d copy of your models with whatever variance modifications you make, and rerun recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then do a whole bunch of those.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That could be set up fairly easily I think, and you have a whole bunch of you know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Chuck is getting himself in trouble.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's an interesting idea, actually. For testing the Yeah. Huh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Didn't you say you got these uh HTK's set up on the new Linux boxes?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "In fact, and and they're just t right now they're installing uh increasing the memory on that uh the Linux box.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And Chuck is sort of really fishing for how to keep his computer busy,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Absinthe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you know, that's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Absinthe. We've got five processors on that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "that's yeah, that's a good thing", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because then y you just write the \" do \" - loops and then you pretend that you are working while you are sort of you c you can go fishing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And two gigs of memory.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Pretend, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Go fishing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "See how many cycles we used?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then you are sort of in this mode like all of those ARPA people are, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, since it is on the record, I can't say uh which company it was, but it was reported to me that uh somebody visited a company and during a d during a discussion, there was this guy who was always hitting the carriage returns uh on a computer.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So after two hours uh the visitor said \" wh why are you hitting this carriage return? \" And he said \" well you know, we are being paid by a computer ty I mean we are we have a government contract. And they pay us by by amount of computer time we use. \" It was in old days when there were uh of PDP - eights and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, my gosh! So he had to make it look like.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because so they had a they literally had to c monitor at the time at the time on a computer how much time is being spent I i i or on on this particular project.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. How Idle time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Nobody was looking even at what was coming out.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Have you ever seen those little um It's it's this thing that's the shape of a bird and it has a red ball and its beak dips into the water?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So if you could hook that up so it hit the keyboard.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's an interesting experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It would be similar similar to I knew some people who were uh that was in old Communist uh Czechoslovakia, right? so we were watching for American airplanes, coming to spy on on uh on us at the time,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so there were three guys uh uh stationed in the middle of the woods on one l lonely uh watching tower, pretty much spending a year and a half there because there was this service right? And so they very quickly they made friends with local girls and local people in the village", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ugh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and so but they there was one plane flying over s always uh uh above, and so that was the only work which they had. They like four in the afternoon they had to report there was a plane from Prague to Brno Basically f flying there,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so they f very q f first thing was that they would always run back and and at four o' clock and and quickly make a call, \" this plane is uh uh passing \" then a second thing was that they they took the line from this u u post to uh uh a local pub. And they were calling from the pub. And they but third thing which they made, and when they screwed up, they finally they had to p the the p the pub owner to make these phone calls because they didn't even bother to be there anymore. And one day there was there was no plane. At least they were sort of smart enough that they looked if the plane is flying there, right? And the pub owner says \" oh my four o' clock, OK, quickly p pick up the phone, call that there's a plane flying. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There was no plane for some reason,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And there wasn't?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "it was downed, or and so they got in trouble. But. But uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Huh! Well that's that's a really i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That wouldn't be too difficult to try.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe I could set that up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we'll just.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, at least go test the s test the uh assumption about C - C - one I mean to begin with. But then of course one can then think about some predictable result to change all of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's just like we used to do these uh these uh um the the uh distance measures. It might be that uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the first set of uh variance weighting vectors would be just you know one modifying one and leaving the others the same.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And and do that for each one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because you see, I mean, what is happening here in a in a in a in such a model is that it's tells you yeah what has a low variance uh is uh is uh is more reliable,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be one set of experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? How do we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wh - yeah, when the data matches that, then you get really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How do we know, especially when it comes to noise?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But there could just naturally be low variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because I Like, I've noticed in the higher cepstral coefficients, the numbers seem to get smaller, right? So d", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They t", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, just naturally.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They have smaller means, also. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly. And so it seems like they're already sort of compressed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The range of values.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah that's why uh people used these lifters were inverse variance weighting lifters basically that makes uh uh Euclidean distance more like uh Mahalanobis distance with a diagonal covariance when you knew what all the variances were over the old data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What they would do is that they would weight each coefficient by inverse of the variance. Turns out that uh the variance decreases at least at fast, I believe, as the index of the cepstral coefficients. I think you can show that uh uh analytically.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So typically what happens is that you you need to weight the uh weight the higher coefficients more than uh the lower coefficients.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "When Yeah. When we talked about Aurora still I wanted to m make a plea uh encourage for uh more communication between between uh uh different uh parts of the distributed uh uh center. Uh even when there is absolutely nothing to to s to say but the weather is good in Ore - in in Berkeley. I'm sure that it's being appreciated in Oregon and maybe it will generate similar responses down here, like, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We can set up a webcam maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What you know, nowadays, yeah. It's actually do - able, almost.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is the um if we mail to \" Aurora - inhouse \", does that go up to you guys also?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't think so. No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we should do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So i What is it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We should definitely set up.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah we sh Do we have a mailing list that includes uh the OGI people?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh no. We don't have.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh! Maybe we should set that up. That would make it much easier.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that would make it easier.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So maybe just call it \" Aurora \" or something that would.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And then we also can send the the dis to the same address right, and it goes to everybody", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Maybe we can set that up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because what's happening naturally in research, I know, is that people essentially start working on something and they don't want to be much bothered, right? but what the the then the danger is in a group like this, is that two people are working on the same thing and i c of course both of them come with the s very good solution, but it could have been done somehow in half of the effort or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, there's another thing which I wanted to uh uh report. Lucash, I think, uh wrote the software for this Aurora - two system. reasonably uh good one, because he's doing it for Intel, but I trust that we have uh rights to uh use it uh or distribute it and everything. Cuz Intel's intentions originally was to distribute it free of charge anyways.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u s And so so uh we we will make sure that at least you can see the software and if if if if it is of any use. Just uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It might be a reasonable point for p perhaps uh start converging.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Because Morgan's point is that He is an experienced guy. He says \" well you know it's very difficult to collaborate if you are working with supposedly the same thing, in quotes, except which is not s is not the same.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which which uh uh one is using that set of hurdles, another one set is using another set of hurdles. So. And And then it's difficult to c compare.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What about Harry? Uh. We received a mail last week and you are starting to to do some experiments.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "He got the he got the software. Yeah. They sent the release.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And use this Intel version.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah because Intel paid us uh should I say on a microphone? uh some amount of money, not much. Not much I can say on a microphone. Much less then we should have gotten for this amount of work. And they wanted uh to to have software so that they can also play with it, which means that it has to be in a certain environment.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "they use actu actually some Intel libraries, but in the process, Lucash just rewrote the whole thing because he figured rather than trying to f make sense uh of uh including ICSI software uh not for training on the nets", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but I think he rewrote the the the or so maybe somehow reused over the parts of the thing so that so that the whole thing, including MLP, trained MLP is one piece of uh software.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is it useful?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye - Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, I remember when we were trying to put together all the ICSI software for the submission.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or That's what he was saying, right. He said that it was like it was like just so many libraries and nobody knew what was used when, and and so that's where he started and that's where he realized that it needs to be needs to be uh uh at least cleaned up,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and so I think it this is available.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, the the only thing I would check is if he does he use Intel math libraries,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh e ev", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because if it's the case, it's maybe not so easy to use it on another architecture.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "n not maybe Maybe not in a first maybe not in a first ap approximation because I think he started first just with a plain C C or C - plus - plus or something before.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I I can check on that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh in otherwise the Intel libraries, I think they are available free of f freely. But they may be running only on on uh on uh Windows.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or on on the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "On Intel architecture maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, on Intel architecture, may not run in SUN.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That is p that is that is possible. That's why Intel of course is distributing it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "right? Or That's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well there are at least there are optimized version for their architecture.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I never checked carefully these sorts of.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I know there was some issues that initially of course we d do all the development on Linux but we use we don't have we have only three uh uh uh uh s SUNs and we have them only because they have a SPERT board in. Otherwise otherwise we t almost exclusively are working with uh PC's now, with Intel. In that way Intel succeeded with us, because they gave us too many good machines for very little money or nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. So we run everything on Intel.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Does anybody have anything else? to Shall we read some digits?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes. I have to take my glasses.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. Hynek, I don't know if you've ever done this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The way that it works is each person goes around in turn, and uh you say the transcript number and then you read the digits, the the strings of numbers as individual digits.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So you don't say \" eight hundred and fifty \", you say \" eight five oh \", and so forth.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. OK. So can maybe can I t maybe start then?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" } ] }

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So the popularity of the since the popularity of the internet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I think we don't need lighting adaptive, so the remote control should be only used for the the television. And of course we should have our image in the in the design. So, let's start with the the industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or y you can use the whiteboard if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh Well I have a PowerPoint pr presentation stored in my in my personal folder", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I I I think you can reach it from here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just go to explorer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or open. Participant two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Open uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh open..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you want to open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because it's open you mean..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, so um I will talk about the the w working design and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Slide show, view slide show,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um well I I will present my my first idea on how to build the our new remote control for television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh can you go one page down, please. So I think the first things to do is to define the hardware components neededs to achieve uh what we want to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh mm I'm thin uh I think uh I I'll do a survey about what is uh what is available on the market and what what is the the cheapest possible things we hav we can use. Then uh I will try with the technical team to to build a prototype and to see uh with uh h how this little box would uh look look like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And how an and we can uh start troubleshooting first uh com communication problems or things like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And when we are ready with this first prototype I I think we can add some software functionalities on a programmable chip like browsing by content or um things like that. Okay so can you go down uh So, wha what I think for now is we don't want to have a remote control w which is wired", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh I think we u we can use a battery for the. Then two programmable chips for both software functionalities and communication. And the communication with the T_V_ set is uh made through uh infrared communication So uh this is the the schema of the o of the future uh remote controls", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did you draw it?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so uh you can you can see the components, uh battery and uh the two chips goes to the infrared uh connection to the T_V_ set.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is the other chip for? The one on top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The one on top is for the um well the functionali the functionalities", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One is a communication.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the the th red um sorry the green one is is to well, putting things together, um f transform the data into uh qu into the format to to uh to communicate with the T_V_ set.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For men. To the in Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And, that's it. I think we should use a F_P_G_A_ for for the functionalities which is easy to to t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. What is F_P_G_A_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's field programmable uh something array.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Gateway arrays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a field programmable gateway arrays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So why's it how is it different from the Bluetooth?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, uh a F_P_G_A_ is just a chip you can uh you can pr programme it uh wi with wh whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Programme it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh well the Bluetooth chip is just responsible to uh make the communication uh between uh the two devices.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh So this are the they have to work together? Or? Do they have to work together or two separate choice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Well, th the F_P_G_A_ will produce the the data to send.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or it's something like isn't hardware the first one? And the second one is for the software.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is the is the software par alri okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah to run th to make it run.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can control if you want, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright and that's it for the working design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if you have any questions?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, and how about the battery power? Uh you mean that battery would be somewhere there and the remote contro the power to the battery comes through infrared?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no no no no, I think uh we have uh to to uh have uh embedded uh b batteries in in the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Into the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah into the t.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "more compact and uh okay,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I I don't think it will need um very uh much power to make it run, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. You can put it on the charger when uh you when you don't need to use it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Having a charger rather than putting the battery cells always.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "People don't like it to have to buy the batteries when they run out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm. Uh mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We just make a small charger", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and put it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can i yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because you are using because you are using Bluetooth, if some people have P_D_A_ they can use their P_D_A_ to control the T_V_ if they want to, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ma", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also, but but I I I think uh the the goal is to sell our remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we can change the b.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Our remote,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we do not want to make it P_D_A_..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S okay, so charger for is the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So is mine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's mine. Participant one, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah, this your.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Oh we have so let's move to to user interface design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you can open uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Participant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "three. Yeah. So So I'm working on the technical functions design. can you show the next slide. So the the purpose is to to find uh the important questions to ask is what effect should the apparatus have. So so I found on a webs on the internet", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "During the weekend.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. I spent a lot of time searching.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's good..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh and I found that uh the function of remote control is to send messages to television set.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For example switch on, switch off, switch the next channel and so on and so on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "G", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I found two very good prototypes for for this interface from our competitors", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so can you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This are usual functionality.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ours is a bit uh different. So these are two example. One is from the other one is from, yeah, uh engineering centr yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tasks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is the most competing prototypes I've found.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then uh loo but then I found if you look at you see on the left one there are too many buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And they are small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. O on the right I tried to play with the problem is that uh if I have hundred channels I have uh I have to choo press the other button to choose the hundred channels and I have to compose the number", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's very lousy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you so you move to the next the next one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I talk about the problem. And then I I look at the user manual they are a hundred pages thick, so we don't want that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I propose the easy to use uh prototype. You can navigate on T_V_ screen and we can the user's preference and we need to have the T_V_ connected to internet so we end in order to access the T_V_ programmes by X_M_L_ and we need some to do some preprocessing. From the technical aspect, the processing should be done on the T_V_ set than on the on the remote controller, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then we the speech recognition as uh Harry says we may just put in we may K_I_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean by the pa pa processing will be done on the T_V_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, all the processing is done the T_V_ is a compu has some processing power the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "than the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we should have specific T_V_? Or? We can use this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to sell a T_V_ with the remote control too..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah because are you just wondering what controller okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. J j just the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, not the T_V_s.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think there there is there is al there there is a a technology like show view who is already available on most of the T_V_ set on recorders or thing like that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we can try t to get this information on to the remote control to to do the processing on the remote control because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So i the processing on on the remote controller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it can u be used in any T_V_, any conventional T_V_ sets?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N yeah, that's all. The next one? So I come up with a simple design, just keep the v navigation buttons..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, that's a good idea, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Keep the navigation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We d we don't we we don't need really much buttons to i if we have a screen to navigate on on the T_V_ so uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, f four five buttons, it's sufficient.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's easy to build,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it does not consume much power..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, that's all..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, but you have a catch there, um assume that um if you want to go to if you are watching channel two and if you want to go to channel ninety nine, then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then y you you go to the main menu and uh you have uh go to channel", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then uh you can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. No, because you choose by channel, so you choose by T_V_ program", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh huh huh huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you don't have hundred channels to choose from. If you go by channel, you don't have to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh I I think i i if you if you want to to make uh well a a big jump but uh well you you have to to have a a a device when you could you could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah. Ah, a big jump.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah then yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A mouse or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, not a mouse but uh something that that says more clearly that uh right, left, up, down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well, the to have the ability to to to write something to the navigator, maybe directly, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm hmm hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can think of buttons like in the telephone to send messages or things like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How the this remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we'll see..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh it's gonna be small.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it'll beep if you wanna find it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "too small that it goes under the sofa and we can't find it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you just uh shout y h just it just has to re respond to you when you look for the device.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno how bu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just give it a name and we call him.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And responds to you, and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh next presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Participant four. So Harry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, after having the inputs from industrial design and user interface, I think most of the points which I want to are already covered here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And to find the most interesting features what the users would be interested, then what we have done is we have put a feedback forms in all the magazines, and the users send the feedbacks, and based on that These are the findings which we got and yeah adding of a speech interface is always good for a T_V_ remote but the technology We already know that as discussed earlier.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I I think it will be a, yes, a bit complicated to um make a speech recognisers runs on the small uh ts", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "An it does how feasible it is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I- mm. But I think if you to recognise numbers it's a well-studied problem. I if you just recognise uh numbers is a limited you have limited vocabulary.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh we can put an limited vocabulary as in the mobile phones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We just have the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And this can allow to choose the the program, for instance without uh adding uh buttons", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's not going to take much space also. It's going to be very slim.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And next one was the size of the remote control. It has to be of course a very slim and small one. And of course most of the people are interested in if it's less expensive,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so this is an important criteria here is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But do you think what they sug suggested s possibility.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean we have to look for a trade-off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The features and the cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I no I I think that uh i if we go for quality people may tolerate for high quality and of course comes with uh reasonable cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe not less, but they may be willing to pay little bit more for comfort,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Little bit more if it's with extra features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, extra features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, s s speech is a important extra feature I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But is it useful or not u I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There is in the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, for a lazy guys they could say nine and the nine channel comes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or they say movie name or I don't go for movie names but only for the numbers on the channel, or volume up, volume down, brightness, contrast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, I think this should be a good idea, to put this features. And the fourth one was the teletext in various languages.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we we just have to find a mean how to to add a m a a a microphone or uh well yes a microphone into the the remote control, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think i.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it will be alright..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's necessary can you can do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is the teletext? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can integrate small microphone in the remote", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's not really a problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about lighting adaptive options?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah as discussed in the earlier meeting, but I think uh not much people are really interested in this point if it's not really required.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "According to the re to the new requirements I think we don't need that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is interesting but we are only concerned with the remote controller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you need s special T_V_ sets to do that? Or it's it's done via this remote controller? It's very complex.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's a bit complex too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean yeah, it's for the um industrial design and users interface designers to decide if it's going to be working or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For our next product, our new T_V_ set with uh automatical uh sound adjustment light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then we can conclude that. Yeah. Yeah, but it's quite possible but maybe not in this project.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have I think we have s still we have couple of minutes. Mm-mm. So any things to to discuss? Or any suggestions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think as I discussed th that four points would be good for um marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The speech interface and uh less uh reasonable uh cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Expensive. Price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the lighting adaptation", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the teletext. And regarding the teletext uh these are the subtitl these are the text information which you got on the televisions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you are watching an foreign movie, you get subtitles sometimes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh if you are a French guy watching an English movie you would like to have it in French.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And if I am a German then I would like to have the my options in German.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, the remote it should have some it should give me some flexibility of choosing the ch languages.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That should be a good uh point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but well what about the the new project's requirement? I I I think we should give up with teletext, no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we we can we is the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Well, so maybe we we can j we can already think uh about a way to to access the internet via the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because if.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Using the T_V_ to access the internet? Or what? I didn't quite understand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh we can think that in a few years there will be T_V_ set that can access the internet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's a good idea if i i if we i if if we uh think about how to to to build up our remote uh control w with this functionality in a w which will c which will come in a few years.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We already have some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if we already have it in our remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have to anticipate the the future?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. The future demand, market demand..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, to desi", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well, not not to implement it, but to well, to find a way to to add to add this functionality in a yeah, in an in an easy manner, if is possible..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The functionality in the future.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In future.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Yeah. Because all the T_V_ sets will be digital, right. All the programmes, everything will be in digital than analog. Th the system will change and we have to anticipate for those change.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So let's go for the the lunch break, and we will meet after.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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No, nobody's told me anything.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, this was the, uh, talk where they were supposed to try to decide.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "To to decide what to do,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Ah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, that would have been a good thing to find out before this meeting, that's. No, I have no I have no idea. Um, Uh, so I mean, let's let's assume for right now that we're just kind of plugging on ahead,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because even if they tell us that, uh, the rules are different, uh, we're still interested in doing what we're doing. So what are you doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, well, we've a little bit worked on trying to see, uh, what were the bugs and the problem with the latencies.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To improve.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, We took first we took the LDA filters and, uh, we designed new filters, using uh recursive filters actually.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So when you say \" we \", is that something Sunil is doing or is that?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm sorry?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Who is doing that?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, us. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So we took the filters the FIR filters and we designed, uh, IIR filters that have the same frequency response.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, similar, but that have shorter delays.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So they had two filters, one for the low frequency bands and another for the high frequency bands. And so we redesigned two filters. And the low frequency band has sixty - four milliseconds of delay, and the high frequency band filter has something like eleven milliseconds compared to the two hundred milliseconds of the IIR filters. But it's not yet test. So we have the filters but we still have to implement a routine that does recursive filtering", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You you had a discussion with Sunil about this though?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah, you should talk with him.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I mean, because the the the the whole problem that happened before was coordination,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "right? So so you need to discuss with him what we're doing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, cuz they could be doing the same thing and or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, I yeah, I don't know if th that's what they were trying to They were trying to do something different like taking, uh well, using filter that takes only a past", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and this is just a little bit different. But I will I will send him an email and tell him exactly what we are doing, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean We just we just have to be in contact more. I think that the the fact that we we did that with had that thing with the latencies was indicative of the fact that there wasn't enough communication.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, Yeah. Well, there is w one, um, remark about these filters, that they don't have a linear phase. So,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know, perhaps it perhaps it doesn't hurt because the phase is almost linear but. Um, and so, yeah, for the delay I gave you here, it's it's, uh, computed on the five hertz modulation frequency, which is the mmm, well, the most important for speech so. Uh, this is the first thing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So that would be, uh, a reduction of a hundred and thirty - six milliseconds,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The low f f", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "which, uh What was the total we ended up with through the whole system?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Three hundred and thirty.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So that would be within?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but there are other points actually, uh, which will perhaps add some more delay. Is that some other other stuff in the process were perhaps not very um perf well, not very correct, like the downsampling which w was simply dropping frames.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, so we will try also to add a nice downsampling having a filter that that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "well, a low - pass filter at at twenty - five hertz. Uh, because wh when when we look at the LDA filters, well, they are basically low - pass but they leave a lot of what's above twenty - five hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, and so, yeah, this will be another filter which would add ten milliseconds again.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, and then there's a third thing, is that, um, basically the way on - line normalization was done uh, is just using this recursion on on the um, um, on the feature stream,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and but this is a filter, so it has also a delay. Uh, and when we look at this filter actually it has a delay of eighty - five milliseconds. So if we.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Eighty - five.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. If we want to be very correct, so if we want to the estimation of the mean t t to to be well, the right estimation of the mean, we have to t to take eighty - five milliseconds in the future. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm! That's a little bit of a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, But, well, when we add up everything it's it will be alright. We would be at six so, sixty - five, plus ten, plus for the downsampling, plus eighty - five for the on - line normalization. So it's", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "plus plus eighty for the neural net and PCA.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah, but then there's Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it would be around two hundred and forty so, well,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just just barely in there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "plus plus the frames, but it's OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What's the allowable?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Two - fifty, unless they changed the rules.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Which there is there's some discussion of.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What were they thinking of changing it to?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, well the people who had very low latency want it to be low uh, very very very narrow, uh, latency bound. And the people who have longer latency don't. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Unfortunately we're the main ones with long latency, but", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, and basically the best proposal had something like thirty or forty milliseconds of latency.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know, it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, so they were basically I mean, they were more or less trading computation for performance and we were, uh, trading latency for performance. And they were dealing with noise explicitly and we weren't, and so I think of it as complementary, that if we can put the.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Think of it as what?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Complementary.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think the best systems so, uh, everything that we did in in a way it was it was just adamantly insisting on going in with a brain damaged system, which is something actually, we've done a lot over the last thirteen years. Uh, which is we say, well this is the way we should do it. And then we do it. And then someone else does something that's straight forward. So, w th w this was a test that largely had additive noise and we did we adde did absolutely nothing explicitly to handle ad additive noise.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We just, uh, you know, trained up systems to be more discriminant. And, uh, we did this, uh, RASTA - like filtering which was done in the log domain and was tending to handle convolutional noise. We did we actually did nothing about additive noise. So, um, the, uh, spectral sub subtraction schemes a couple places did seem to seem to do a nice job. And so, uh, we're talking about putting putting some of that in while still keeping some of our stuff. I think you should be able to end up with a system that's better than both but clearly the way that we're operating for this other stuff does involved some latency to to get rid of most of that latency. To get down to forty or fifty milliseconds we'd have to throw out most of what we're doing. And and, uh, I don't think there's any good reason for it in the application actually. I mean, you're you're you're speaking to a recognizer on a remote server and, uh, having a a a quarter second for some processing to clean it up. It doesn't seem like it's that big a deal.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "These aren't large vocabulary things so the decoder shouldn't take a really long time, and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And I don't think anybody's gonna notice the difference between a quarter of a second of latency and thirty milliseconds of latency.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So. No. What what does wa was your experience when you were doing this stuff with, uh, the the the surgical, uh, uh, microscopes and so forth. Um, how long was it from when somebody, uh, finished an utterance to when, uh, something started happening?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, we had a silence detector, so we would look for the end of an utterance based on the silence detector.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And I I can't remember now off the top of my head how many frames of silence we had to detect before we would declare it to be the end of an utterance.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, but it was, uh, I would say it was probably around the order of two hundred and fifty milliseconds.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's when you'd start doing things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, we did the back trace at that point to get the answer.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of course that didn't take too long at that point.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, no it was pretty quick.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you you so you had a", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "this w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so you had a a quarter second delay before, uh, plus some little processing time,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and then the the microscope would start moving or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And there's physical inertia there, so probably the the motion itself was all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it felt to, uh, the users that it was instantaneous. I mean, as fast as talking to a person. It th I don't think anybody ever complained about the delay.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you would think as long as it's under half a second or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, I'm not an expert on that", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't remember the exact numbers but it was something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't think you can really tell. A person I don't think a person can tell the difference between, uh, you know, a quarter of a second and a hundred milliseconds, and I'm not even sure if we can tell the difference between a quarter of a second and half a second.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean it just it feels so quick.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, basically if you yeah, if you said, uh, um, \" what's the, uh, uh what's the shortest route to the opera? \" and it took half a second to get back to you,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, it would be f I mean, it might even be too abrupt. You might have to put in a s a s a delay.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, it may feel different than talking to a person", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "because when we talk to each other we tend to step on each other's utterances. So like if I'm asking you a question, you may start answering before I'm even done.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it it would probably feel different", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but I don't think it would feel slow.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. Well, anyway, I mean, I think we could cut we know what else, we could cut down on the neural net time by by, uh, playing around a little bit, going more into the past, or something like that. We t we talked about that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So is the latency from the neural net caused by how far ahead you're looking?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And there's also well, there's the neural net and there's also this, uh, uh, multi - frame, uh, uh, KLT.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Wasn't there Was it in the, uh, recurrent neural nets where they weren't looking ahead at all?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They weren't looking ahead much. They p they looked ahead a little bit.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "A little bit. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you could do this with a recurrent net. And and then But you also could just, um, I mean, we haven't experimented with this but I imagine you could, um, uh, predict a, uh um, a label, uh, from more in the past than in than than in the future. I mean, we've d we've done some stuff with that before. I think it it works OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We've always had usually we used the symmetric windows", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but I don't think.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we've but we played a little bit with with asymmetric, guys.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You can do it. So. So, that's what that's what you're busy with, s messing around with this,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. And, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Also we were thinking to to, uh, apply the eh, spectral subtraction from Ericsson", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and to to change the contextual KLT for LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Change the what?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The contextual KLT.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm missing that last word. Context", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "K KLT.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "KLT.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "KLT.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. KLT.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, KLT.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "KLT, I'm sorry. Uh, to change and use LDA discriminative.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What is the advantage of that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it's that by the for the moment we have, uh, something that's discriminant and nonlinear. And the other is linear but it's not discriminant at all. Well, it's it's a linear transformation, that Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So at least just to understand maybe what the difference was between how much you were getting from just putting the frames together and how much you're getting from the discriminative, what the nonlinearity does for you or doesn't do for you. Just to understand it a little better I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Well uh yeah. Actually what we want to do, perhaps it's to replace to to have something that's discriminant but linear, also. And to see if it if it improves ov over over the non - discriminant linear transformation.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And if the neural net is better than this or, well. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, that's what I meant, is to see whether whether it having the neural net really buys you anything.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ye Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, it doe did look like it buys you something over just the KLT.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But maybe it's just the discrimination and and maybe yeah, maybe the nonlinear discrimination isn't necessary.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "S maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Could be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good good to know. But the other part you were saying was the spectral subtraction, so you just kind of, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "At what stage do you do that? Do you you're doing that, um?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it would be on the um on on the mel frequency bands,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We was think", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so. Yeah, be before everything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so just do that on the mel f", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "we no nnn We we was thinking to do before after VAD or", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, we don't know exactly when it's better.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Before after VAD or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so you know that that that the way that they're.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and then", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, one thing that would be no good to find out about from this conference call is that what they were talking about, what they're proposing doing, was having a third party, um, run a good VAD, and and determine boundaries.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then given those boundaries, then have everybody do the recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Begin to work.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The reason for that was that, um, uh if some one p one group put in the VAD and another didn't, uh, or one had a better VAD than the other since that they're not viewing that as being part of the the task, and that any any manufacturer would put a bunch of effort into having some s kind of good speech - silence detection. It still wouldn't be perfect but I mean, e the argument was \" let's not have that be part of this test. \" \" Let's let's separate that out. \" And so, uh, I guess they argued about that yesterday and, yeah, I'm sorry, I don't don't know the answer but we should find out. I'm sure we'll find out soon what they, uh what they decided. So, uh Yeah, so there's the question of the VAD but otherwise it's it's on the the, uh the mel fil filter bank, uh, energies I guess?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You do doing the?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And you're you're subtracting in the in the in the I guess it's power power domain, uh, or or magnitude domain. Probably power domain, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I guess it's power domain, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "why", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't remember exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But yeah, so it's before everything else,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, if you look at the theory, it's it should be in the power domain but but, uh, I've seen implementations where people do it in the magnitude domain", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I have asked people why and they shrug their shoulders and say, \" oh, it works. \" So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, and there's this I guess there's this mysterious I mean people who do this a lot I guess have developed little tricks of the trade. I mean, there's there's this, um you don't just subtract the the estimate of the noise spectrum. You subtract th that times.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "A little bit more and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or or less, or.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Huh!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And generated this this,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "um, so you have the estimation of the power spectra of the noise, and you multiply this by a factor which is depend dependent on the SNR. So. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "When the speech lev when the signal level is more important, compared to this noise level, the coefficient is small, and around one. But when the power le the s signal level is uh small compared to the noise level, the coefficient is more important. And this reduce actually the music musical noise,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh which is more important during silence portions,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "when the s the energy's small.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So there are tricks like this but, mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is the estimate of the noise spectrum a running estimate? Or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, that's I mean, that's what differs from different different tasks and different s uh, spectral subtraction methods.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, if if you have, uh, fair assurance that, uh, the noise is is quite stationary, then the smartest thing to do is use as much data as possible to estimate the noise, get a much better estimate, and subtract it off.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But if it's varying at all, which is gonna be the case for almost any real situation, you have to do it on - line, uh, with some forgetting factor or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So do you is there some long window that extends into the past over which you calculate the average?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, there's a lot of different ways of computing the noise spectrum. So one of the things that, uh, Hans - Guenter Hirsch did, uh and pas and other people actually, he's he wasn't the only one I guess, was to, uh, take some period of of of speech and in each band, uh, develop a histogram. So, to get a decent histogram of these energies takes at least a few seconds really. But, uh I mean you can do it with a smaller amount but it's pretty rough. And, um, in fact I think the NIST standard method of determining signal - to - noise ratio is based on this.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "A couple seconds?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So No, no, it's based on this kind of method,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "this histogram method. So you have a histogram. Now, if you have signal and you have noise, you basically have these two bumps in the histogram, which you could approximate as two Gaussians.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But wh don't they overlap sometimes?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So you have a mixture of two Gaussians.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? And you can use EM to figure out what it is. You know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So so basically now you have this mixture of two Gaussians, you you n know what they are, and, uh I mean, sorry, you estimate what they are, and, uh, so this gives you what the signal is and what the noise e energy is in that band in the spectrum. And then you look over the whole thing and now you have a noise spectrum. So, uh, Hans - Guenter Hirsch and others have used that kind of method. And the other thing to do is which is sort of more trivial and obvious is to, uh, uh, determine through magical means that that, uh, there's no speech in some period, and then see what the spectrum is.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, but, you know, it's that that that's tricky to do. It has mistakes. Uh, and if you've got enough time, uh, this other method appears to be somewhat more reliable. Uh, a variant on that for just determining signal - to - noise ratio is to just, uh you can do a w a uh an iterative thing, EM - like thing, to determine means only. I guess it is EM still, but just just determine the means only. Don't worry about the variances.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then you just use those mean values as being the the, uh uh signal - to - noise ratio in that band.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But what is the it seems like this kind of thing could add to the latency. I mean, depending on where the window was that you used to calculate the signal - to - noise ratio.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. But Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Not necessarily. Cuz if you don't look into the future, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, well that I guess that was my question,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "if you just yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, if you just if you you, uh a at the beginning you have some.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Guess.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "esti some guess and and, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's an interesting question. I wonder how they did do it?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually, it's a mmm If - if you want to have a good estimation on non - stationary noise you have to look in the in the future. I mean, if you take your window and build your histogram in this window, um, what you can expect is to have an estimation of th of the noise in in the middle of the window, not at the end. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the but but people.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but what does what what what does Alcatel do?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And and France Telecom.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The They just look in the past. I guess it works because the noise are, uh pret uh, almost stationary", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Pretty stationary.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Pretty stationary,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, the thing, e e e e", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, y I mean, you're talking about non - stationary noise but I think that spectral subtraction is rarely is is not gonna work really well for for non - stationary noise,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, if y if you have a good estimation of the noise,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah, because well it it has to work.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But it's hard to.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but that's hard to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's hard to do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so I think that that what what is wh what's more common is that you're going to be helped with r slowly varying or stationary noise.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's what spectral subtraction will help with, practically speaking.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If it varies a lot, to get a If if to get a good estimate you need a few seconds of speech, even if it's centered, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "if you need a few seconds to get a decent estimate but it's changed a lot in a few seconds, then it, you know, i it's kind of a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, imagine e five hertz is the middle of the of the speech modulation spectrum,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "right? So imagine a jack hammer going at five hertz.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, good good luck. So,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So in this case, yeah, sure, you cannot.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I think y um, Hirsch does experiment with windows of like between five hundred milliseconds and one second. And well, five hundred wa was not so bad. I mean and he worked on non - stationary noises, like noise modulated with well, wi with amplitude modulations and things like that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Were his, uh, windows centered around the.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and But Um, yeah. Well, I think Yeah. Well, in in the paper he showed that actually the estimation of the noise is is delayed. Well, it's there is you you have to center the window, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, I understand it's better to do but I just think that that, uh, for real noises wh what what's most likely to happen is that there'll be some things that are relatively stationary", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "where you can use one or another spectral subtraction thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and other things where it's not so stationary and I mean, you can always pick something that that falls between your methods,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, uh, but I don't know if, you know, if sinusoidally, uh, modul amplitude modulated noise is is sort of a big problem in in in practice.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think that it's uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We could probably get a really good estimate of the noise if we just went to the noise files, and built the averages from them.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What What do you mean?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just cheat You're saying, cheat.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But if the if the noise is stationary perhaps you don't even need some kind of noise estimation algorithm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We just take th th th the beginning of the utterance and", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I know p I don't know if people tried this for Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's the same.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, everybody seems to use some kind of adaptive, well, scheme", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "A dictionary.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "is it very useful", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know, stationary.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Very slow adaptation.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and is the c", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right, the word \" stationary \" is has a very precise statistical meaning. But, you know, in in signal - processing really what we're talking about I think is things that change slowly, uh, compared with our our processing techniques.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So if you're driving along in a car I I would think that most of the time the nature of the noise is going to change relatively slowly. It's not gonna stay absolute the same. If you if you check it out, uh, five minutes later you may be in a different part of the road", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or whatever. But it's it's i i i using the local characteristics in time, is probably going to work pretty well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But you could get hurt a lot if you just took some something from the beginning of all the speech, of, you know, an hour of speech and then later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, so they may be you know, may be overly, uh, complicated for for this test but but but, uh, I don't know. But what you're saying, you know, makes sense, though. I mean, if possible you shouldn't you should you should make it, uh, the center of the center of the window. But uh, we're already having problems with these delay, uh delay issues.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, uh, we'll have to figure ways without it. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "If they're going to provide a, uh, voice activity detector that will tell you the boundaries of the speech, then, couldn't you just go outside those boundaries and do your estimate there?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. You bet. Yeah. So I I imagine that's what they're doing, right? Is they're they're probably looking in nonspeech sections and getting some, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, they have some kind of threshold on on the previous estimate, and So. Yeah. I think. Yeah, I think Ericsson used this kind of threshold. Yeah, so, they h they have an estimate of the noise level and they put a threshold like six or ten DB above, and what's under this threshold is used to update the estimate. Is is that right", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it's it's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I have not here the proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's like saying what's under the threshold is silence,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Does France Telecom do this.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Does France Telecom do th do the same thing? More or less?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I d I Y you know, perhaps?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No. I do I have not here the proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, OK, if we're we're done done with that, uh, let's see. Uh, maybe we can talk about a couple other things briefly, just, uh, things that that we've been chatting about but haven't made it into these meetings yet. So you're coming up with your quals proposal, and, uh Wanna just give a two three minute summary of what you're planning on doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, um, two, three, it can be shorter than that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um. Well, I've I've talked to some of you already. Um, but I'm, uh, looking into extending the work done by Larry Saul and John Allen and uh Mazin Rahim. Um, they they have a system that's, uh, a multi - band, um, system but their multi - band is is a little different than the way that we've been doing multi - band in the past, where um Where we've been @ @ uh taking um sub - band features and i training up these neural nets and on on phonetic targets, and then combining them some somehow down the line, um, they're they're taking sub - band features and, um, training up a detector that detects for, um, these phonetic features for example, um, he presents um, uh, a detector to detect sonorance. And so what what it basically is is, um it's there's at the lowest level, there it's it's an OR ga I mean, it's an AND gate. So, uh, on each sub - band you have several independent tests, to test whether um, there's the existence of sonorance in a sub - band. And then, um, it c it's combined by a soft AND gate. And at the at the higher level, for every if, um The higher level there's a soft OR gate. Uh, so if if this detector detects um, the presence of of sonorance in any of the sub - bands, then the detect uh, the OR gate at the top says, \" OK, well this frame has evidence of sonorance. \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What are what are some of the low level detectors that they use?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And these are all Oh, OK. Well, the low level detectors are logistic regressions. Um, and the, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So that, by the way, basically is a is one of the units in our in our our neural network.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the one o", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So that's all it is. It's a sig it's a sigmoid,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, with weighted sum at the input,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which you train by gradient descent.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, so he uses, um, an EM algorithm to to um train up these um parameters for the logistic regression.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, actually, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so I was using EM to get the targets. So so you have this this this AND gate what we were calling an AND gate, but it's a product product rule thing at the output. And then he uses, uh, i u and then feeding into that are I'm sorry, there's it's an OR at the output, isn't it? Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so that's the product. And then, um, then he has each of these AND things. And, um, but so they're little neural neural units. Um, and, um, they have to have targets. And so the targets come from EM.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And so are each of these, low level detectors are they, uh are these something that you decide ahead of time, like \" I'm going to look for this particular feature or I'm going to look at this frequency, \" or What what what are they looking at?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What are their inputs?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh Right, so the OK, so at each for each sub - band there are basically, uh, several measures of SNR and and correlation.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah, OK, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, um and he said there's like twenty of these per per sub - band. Um, and for for every s every sub - band, e you you just pick ahead of time, um, \" I'm going to have like five i independent logistic tests. \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And you initialize these parameters, um, in some some way and use EM to come up with your training targets for a for the the low - level detectors.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then, once you get that done, you you you train the whole whole thing on maximum likelihood. Um, and h he shows that using this this method to detect sonorance is it's very robust compared to, um to typical, uh, full - band Gaussian mixtures um estimations of of sonorance.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh so so that's just that's just one detector. So you can imagine building many of these detectors on different features. You get enough of these detectors together, um, then you have enough information to do, um, higher level discrimination, for example, discriminating between phones", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and then you keep working your way up until you you build a full recognizer.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um, that's that's the direction which I'm I'm thinking about going in my quals.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, it has a number of properties that I really liked. I mean, one is the going towards, um, using narrow band information for, uh, ph phonetic features of some sort rather than just, uh, immediately going for the the typical sound units.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Another thing I like about it is that you t this thing is going to be trained explicitly trained for a product of errors rule, which is what, uh, Allen keeps pointing out that Fletcher observed in the twenties,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, for people listening to narrow band stuff. That's Friday's talk, by the way. And then, um, Uh, the third thing I like about it is, uh, and we've played around with this in a different kind of way a little bit but it hasn't been our dominant way of of operating anything, um, this issue of where the targets come from. So in our case when we've been training it multi - band things, the way we get the targets for the individual bands is, uh, that we get the phonetic label for the sound there", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and we say, \" OK, we train every \" What this is saying is, OK, that's maybe what our ultimate goal is or not ultimate but penultimate goal is getting these these small sound units. But but, um, along the way how much should we, uh uh, what should we be training these intermediate things for? I mean, because, uh, we don't know uh, that this is a particularly good feature. I mean, there's no way, uh someone in the audience yesterday was asking, \" well couldn't you have people go through and mark the individual bands and say where the where it was sonorant or not? \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, you know, I think having a bunch of people listening to critical band wide, uh, chunks of speech trying to determine whether I think it'd be impossible.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ouch.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's all gonna sound like like sine waves to you, more or less.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean Well not I mean, it's g all g narrow band uh, i I m I think it's very hard for someone to to a person to make that determination. So, um, um, we don't really know how those should be labeled. It could sh be that you should, um, not be paying that much attention to, uh, certain bands for certain sounds, uh, in order to get the best result.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um, what we have been doing there, just sort of mixing it all together, is certainly much much cruder than that. We trained these things up on the on the, uh the final label. Now we have I guess done experiments you've probably done stuff where you have, um, done separate, uh, Viterbis on the different.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Forced alignment on the sub - band labels?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You've done that. Did did that help at all?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, it helps for one or t one iteration but um, anything after that it doesn't help.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So so that may or may t it that aspect of what he's doing may or may not be helpful because in a sense that's the same sort of thing. You're taking global information and determining what you how you should But this is this is, uh, I th I think a little more direct.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How did they measure the performance of their detector?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And Well, he's look he's just actually looking at, uh, the confusions between sonorant and non - sonorant.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So he hasn't applied it to recognition or if he did he didn't talk about it. It's it's just And one of the concerns in the audience, actually, was that that, um, the, uh, uh he he did a comparison to, uh, you know, our old foil, the the nasty old standard recognizer with mel mel filter bank at the front, and H M Ms, and and so forth. And, um, it didn't do nearly as well, especially in in noise. But the one of the good questions in the audience was, well, yeah, but that wasn't trained for that. I mean, this use of a very smooth, uh, spectral envelope is something that, you know, has evolved as being generally a good thing for speech recognition but if you knew that what you were gonna do is detect sonorants or not So sonorants and non - sonorants is is is almost like voiced - unvoiced, except I guess that the voiced stops are are also called \" obstruents \". Uh, so it's it's uh, but with the exception of the stops I guess it's pretty much the same as voiced - unvoiced,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? So so Um. So, um, if you knew you were doing that, if you were doing something say for a a, uh a a Vocoder, you wouldn't use the same kind of features. You would use something that was sensitive to the periodicity and and not just the envelope. Uh, and so in that sense it was an unfair test. Um, so I think that the questioner was right. It it was in that sense an unfair test. Nonetheless, it was one that was interesting because, uh, this is what we are actually using for speech recognition, these smooth envelopes. And this says that perhaps even, you know, trying to use them in the best way that we can, that that that we ordinarily do, with, you know, Gaussian mixtures and H M Ms and so forth, you you don't, uh, actually do that well on determining whether something is sonorant or not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Didn't they.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Which means you're gonna make errors between similar sounds that are son sonorant or obstruent.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Didn't they also do some kind of an oracle experiment where they said \" if we could detect the sonorants perfectly and then show how it would improve speech recognition? I thought I remember hearing about an experiment like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The - these same people?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't remember that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That would that's you're right, that's exactly the question to follow up this discussion, is suppose you did that, uh, got that right. Um, Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What could be the other low level detectors, I mean, for Other kind of features, or? in addition to detecting sonorants or? Th - that's what you want to to to go for also", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What t Oh, build other other detectors on different phonetic features?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Other low level detectors? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, uh Let's see, um, Yeah, I d I don't know. e Um, um, I mean, w easiest thing would be to go go do some voicing stuff but that's very similar to sonorance.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "When we when we talked with John Ohala the other day we made a list of some of the things that w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "like frication,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh! OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "abrupt closure,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "R - coloring, nasality, voicing Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there's a half dozen like that that are.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, nasality.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Now this was coming at it from a different angle but maybe it's a good way to start. Uh, these are things which, uh, John felt that a a, uh a human annotator would be able to reliably mark. So the sort of things he felt would be difficult for a human annotator to reliably mark would be tongue position kinds of things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Placing stuff,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "There's also things like stress.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You can look at stress.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But stress doesn't, uh, fit in this thing of coming up with features that will distinguish words from one another,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right? It's a it's a good thing to mark and will probably help us ultimate with recognition", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a few cases where it can like permit and permit.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But that's not very common in English. In other languages it's more uh, important.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, but i either case you'd write PERMIT, right? So you'd get the word right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, I'm saying, i i e I thought you were saying that stress doesn't help you distinguish between words.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, I see what you're saying. As long as you get The sequence,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We're g if we're doing if we're talking about transcription as opposed to something else.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So where it could help is maybe at a higher level. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Like a understanding application.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Understanding, yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But that's this afternoon's meeting. Yeah. We don't understand anything in this meeting. Yeah, so that's yeah, that's, you know, a neat neat thing and and, uh So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "S so, um, Ohala's going to help do these, uh transcriptions of the meeting data?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh, well I don't know. We d we sort of didn't get that far. Um, we just talked about some possible features that could be marked by humans and, um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "because of having maybe some extra transcriber time we thought we could go through and mark some portion of the data for that. And, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean, that's not an immediate problem, that we don't immediately have a lot of extra transcriber time.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but, uh, in the long term I guess Chuck is gonna continue the dialogue with John and and, uh, and, we'll we'll end up doing some I think.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm definitely interested in this area, too, f uh, acoustic feature stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's an interesting interesting way to go.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, I say it like \" said - int \". I think it has a number of good things. Um, so, uh, y you want to talk maybe a c two or three minutes about what we've been talking about today and other days?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ri Yeah, OK, so, um, we're interested in, um, methods for far mike speech recognition, um, mainly, uh, methods that deal with the reverberation in the far mike signal. So, um, one approach would be, um, say MSG and PLP, like was used in Aurora one and, um, there are other approaches which actually attempt to remove the reverberation, instead of being robust to it like MSG. And so we're interested in, um, comparing the performance of um, a robust approach like MSG with these, um, speech enhancement or de - reverber de - reverberation approaches.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And, um, it looks like we're gonna use the Meeting Recorder digits data for that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the de - reverberation algorithm, do you have can you give some more details on this or? Does it use one microphone?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "o o", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Several microphones? Does it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, well, um, there was something that was done by, um, a guy named Carlos, I forget his last name, who worked with Hynek, who, um,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Avendano.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Who, um,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um, it was like RASTA in the sense that of it was, um, de - convolution by filtering um, except he used a longer time window,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "like a second maybe. And the reason for that is RASTA's time window is too short to, um include the whole, um, reverberation um, I don't know what you call it the reverberation response. I if you see wh if you see what I mean. The reverberation filter from my mouth to that mike is like it's t got it's too long in the in the time domain for the um for the RASTA filtering to take care of it. And, um, then there are a couple of other speech enhancement approaches which haven't been tried for speech recognition yet but have just been tried for enhancement, which, um, have the assumption that um, you can do LPC um analysis of th of the signal you get at the far microphone and the, um, all pole filter that you get out of that should be good. It's just the, um, excitation signal that is going to be distorted by the reverberation and so you can try and reconstruct a better excitation signal and, um, feed that through the i um, all pole filter and get enhanced speech with reverberation reduced.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There's also this, uh, um, uh, echo cancellation stuff that we've sort of been chasing, so, uh we have, uh and when we're saying these digits now we do have a close microphone signal and then there's the distant microphone signal. And you could as a kind of baseline say, \" OK, given that we have both of these, uh, we should be able to do, uh, a cancellation. \" So that, uh, um, we we, uh, essentially identify the system in between the linear time invariant system between the microphones and and and and re and invert it, uh, or or cancel it out to to some some reasonable approximation", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "through one method or another. Uh, that's not a practical thing, uh, if you have a distant mike, you don't have a close mike ordinarily, but we thought that might make also might make a good baseline. Uh, it still won't be perfect because there's noise. Uh, but And then there are s uh, there are single microphone methods that I think people have done for, uh for this kind of de - reverberation. Do y do you know any references to any? Cuz I I w I was w w I I lead him down a a bad path on that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, I g I guess I guess when people are working with single microphones, they are more trying to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "well, not not very Well, there is the Avendano work,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but also trying to mmm, uh trying to f t find the de - convolution filter but in the um not in the time domain but in the uh the stream of features uh I guess. Well, @ @ there there's someone working on this on i in Mons", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So perhaps, yeah, we should try t to He's working on this, on trying to.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "on re reverberation, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The first paper on this is gonna have great references, I can tell already.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's always good to have references, especially when reviewers read it or or one of the authors and, feel they'll \" You're OK, you've r You cited me. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, yeah. Well, he did echo cancellation and he did some fancier things like, uh, uh, training different network on different reverberation conditions and then trying to find the best one, but. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The oth the other thing, uh, that Dave was talking about earlier was, uh, uh, multiple mike things, uh, where they're all distant. So, um, I mean, there's there's all this work on arrays, but the other thing is, uh, what can we do that's cleverer that can take some advantage of only two mikes, uh, particularly if there's an obstruction between them, as we as we have over there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "If there is?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "An obstruction between them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It creates a shadow which is is helpful. It's part of why you have such good directionality with, with two ears", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "even though they're not several feet apart. For most for most people's heads.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That could help though.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that Yeah, the the head, in the way, is really that's what it's for. It's basically,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's what the head's for? To separate the ears?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's to separate the ears. That's right, yeah. Yeah. Uh, so. Anyway, O K. Uh, I think that's that's all we have this week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, uh, I think it's digit time.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually the, um For some reason the digit forms are blank.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, I think th that may be due to the fact that Adam ran out of digits, uh, and didn't have time to regenerate any.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh! Oh! I guess it's Well there's no real reason to write our names on here then,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you want to put your credit card numbers and, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "is there?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, no?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Or do did any do we need the names for the other stuff,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, I do need your names and and the time, and all that,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "cuz we put that into the \" key \" files.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um. But w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's why we have the forms, uh, even if there are no digits.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, yeah, I didn't notice this. I'm sitting here and I was I was about to read them too. It's a, uh, blank sheet of paper.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I guess we're we're done.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, I'll do my credit card number later. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" } ] }

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And then I'm flying to Germany t to go to a MOKU - Treffen which is the meeting of all the module - responsible people in SmartKom,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and, represent ICI and myself I guess there. And um. That's the mmm actual reason. And then I'm also going up to EML for a day, and then I'm going to meet the very big boss, Wolfgang Walster, in Saarbruecken and the System system integration people in Kaiserslautern and then I'm flying back via Sicily pick up my son come back here on the fourth of July. And uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What a great time to be coming back to the", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "God bless America.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You'll see maybe see the fireworks from your plane coming in.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And I'm sure all the the people at the airport will be happy to work on that day.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. You'll get even better service than usual.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Wait, aren't you flying on Lufthansa though?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Alitalia.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh. Well then the you know, it's not a big deal. Once you get to the United States it'll be a problem, but", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And um, that's that bit of news, and the other bit of news is we had you know, uh, I was visited by my German project manager who A, did like what we did what we're doing here, and B, is planning to come here either three weeks in July or three weeks in August, to actually work.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "On?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "With us.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And we sat around and we talked and he came up we came up with a pretty strange idea. And that's what I'm gonna lay on you now. And um, maybe it might be ultimately the most interesting thing for Eva because she has been known to complain about the fact that the stuff we do here is not weird enough.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So this is so weird it should even make you happy.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh great.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Imagine if you will, that we have a system that does all that understanding that we want it to do based on utterances.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It should be possible to make that system produce questions. So if you have the knowledge of how to interpret \" where is X? \" under given conditions, situational, user, discourse and ontological conditions, you should also be able to make that same system ask \" where is X? \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "in a sper certain way, based on certain intentions. So in instead of just being able to observe phenomenon, um, and, guess the intention we might be able just to sort of give it an intention, and make it produce an utterance.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, like in AI they generally do the take in, and then they also do the generation phase, like Nancy's thing. Or uh, you remember, in the the hand thing in one - eighty - two, like not only was it able to recognize but it was also to generate based upon situations. You mean that sort of thing?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And once you've done that what we can do is have the system ask itself. And answer, understand the answer, ask something else, and enter a dialogue with itself. So the the ba basic the same idea as having two chess computers play against each other.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Except this smacks a little bit more of a schizophrenic computer than AI.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah you c if you want, you can have two parallel machines um, asking each other. What would that give us? Would A be something completely weird and strange, and B, i if you look at all the factors, we will never observe people let's say, in wheelchairs under you know, in under all conditions,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, when they say \" X \", and there is a ride at the goal, and the parking is good, we can never collect enough data. It's it's it's not possible.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But maybe one could do some learning. If you get the system to speak to itself, you may find n break downs and errors and you may be able to learn. And make it more robust, maybe learn new things. And um, so there's no no end of potential things one could get out of it, if that works. And he would like to actually work on that with us.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well then, he probably should be coming back a year from now.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So Yeah, I w See the the generation bit, making the system generate generate something, is shouldn't be too hard.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, once the system understands things.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. No problem.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I just don't think I think we're probably a year away from getting the system to understand things.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. 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And so it's it's you're right, it's not the same as the understanding. It's in some ways easier and some ways harder. nuh?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But, um, I think it'd be fun to look at it, or into that question.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Nnn, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's a pretty strange idea. And so that's that's But.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The basic idea I guess would be to give allow the system to have intentions, basically? Cuz that's basically what needs to be added to the system for it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, look at th eee, I think even think even What it would be the the prior intention. So let's uh uh, let's say we have this.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well we'd have to seed that, I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No. Let's we have to we have some some top - down processing, given certain setting. OK, now we change nothing, and just say ask something. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What would it ask?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It wouldn't know what to ask. I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It shur", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Unless it was in a situation. We'd have to set up a situation where, it didn't know where something was and it wanted to go there.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Which means that we'd need to set up an intention inside of the system. Right? Which is basically, \" I don't know where something is and I need to go there \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Eh, n", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ooh, do we really need to do that? Because,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, no I guess not. Excel", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "s It's i I know it's it's strange, but look at it look at our Bayes - net. If we don't have Let's assume we don't have any input from the language. Right? So there's also nothing we could query the ontology, but we have a certain user setting. If you just ask, what is the likelihood of that person wanting to enter some something, it'll give you an answer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right? That's just how they are. And so, @ @ whatever that is, it's the generic default intention. That it would find out. Which is, wanting to know where something is, maybe nnn and wanting I don't know what it's gonna be, but there's gonna be something that", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well you're not gonna are you gonna get a variety of intentions out of that then? I mean, you're just talking about like given this user, what's the th what is it what is that user most likely to want to do?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well you can observe some user and context stuff and ask, what's the posterior probabilities of all of our decision nodes.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, have it talk about OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You could even say, \" let's take all the priors, let's observe nothing \", and query all the posterior probabilities. It - it's gonna tell us something. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, it will d r assign values to all the nodes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And Yes. And come up with posterior probabilities for all the values of the decision nodes. Which, if we have an algorithm that filters out whatever the the best or the most consistent answer out of that, will give us the intention ex nihilo. And that is exactly what would happen if we ask it to produce an utterance, it would be b based on that extension, ex nihilo, which we don't know what it is, but it's there. So we wouldn't even have to t to kick start it by giving it a certain intention or observing anything on the decision node. And whatever that maybe that would lead to \" what is the castle? \",", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm just.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "or \" what is that whatever \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I guess what I'm afraid of is if we don't, you know, set up a situation, we'll just get a bunch of garbage out, like you know, everything's exactly thirty percent.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So what we actually then need to do is is write a little script that changes all the settings, you know, go goes through all the permutations, which is we did a didn't we calculate that once?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well that was that was absurdly low, in the last meeting,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's a.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "cuz I went and looked at it cuz I was thinking, that could not be right, and it would it was on the order of twenty output nodes and something like twenty.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And like thirty input nodes", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "thirty input nodes.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "or some.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So to test every output node, uh, would at least Let's see, so it would be two to the thirty for every output node? Which is very th very large.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh! That's n", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "that's that's nothing for those neural guys. I mean, they train for millions and millions of epochs.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm talking about", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, I was gonna take a drink of my water. I'm talking about billions and billions and billions and a number two to the thirty is like a Bhaskara said, we had calculated out and Bhaskara believes that it's larger than the number of particles in the universe. And if i", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I don't know if that's right or not. Th - that's big. That's just That's uh It's a billion, right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Two to the thirty? Well, two to the thirty is a billion, but if we have to do it two to the twenty times, then that's a very very large number.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. Argh. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah, that's big.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Cuz you have to query the node, for every a uh, or query the net two to the twenty times.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure. Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Or not two to th excuse me, twenty times.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. So, is it t comes to twenty billion or something?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes. As far as.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's pretty big, though.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's @ @ That's big. Actually Oh! We calculated a different number before. How did we do that?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I remember there being some other one floating around. But anyway, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I don't really know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's g Anyway, the point is that given all of these different factors, it's uh e it's it's still going to be impossible to run through all of the possible situations or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ooo, it's just big.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But I mean, this'll get us a bit closer at least, right? I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If it takes us a second to do, for each one, and let's say it's twenty billion, then that's twenty billion seconds, which is.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Eva, do the math.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Can't.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Long!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hours and hours and hours and hours. But we can do randomized testing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Tah - dah!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Which probabilistically will be good enough.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. So, it be it it's an idea that one could n for for example run run past, um, what's that guy's name? You know? He - he's usually here. Tsk. J J Jer - Jerj", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Here in the group? Jerry Feldman.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. That's the guy. We we we we g", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wait, who?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, i that would the g the bald guy.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh! My advisor!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And um. so this is just an idea that's floating around and we'll see what happens. And um, hmm, what other news do I have? Well we fixed some more things from the SmartKom system, but that's not really of general interest, Um, Oh! Questions, yeah. I'll ask Eva about the E Bayes and she's working on that. How is the generation XML thing?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm gonna work on that today and tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. No need to do it today or tomorrow even. Do it next week or.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm gonna finish it today, uh hopefully.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I wanna do one of those things where I stay here. Cuz uh, if I go home, I can't finish it. I've tried about five times so far, where I work for a while and then I'm like, I'm hungry. So I go home, and then I think.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I'm not going back.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Either that or I think to myself, I can work at home. And then I try to work at home, but I fail miserably.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Like I ended up at Blakes last night.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Non - conducive.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No. I almost got into a brawl. But I did not finish the uh, But I've been looking into it. I th @ @ It's not like it's a blank slate. I found everything that I need and stu and uh,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But st", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "At the b uh furthermore, I told Jerry that I was gonna finish it before he got back. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's approaching. He's coming back when? Uh next.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I think we think we'll see him definitely on Tuesday for the next Or, no, wait. The meetings are on Thursday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Who knows.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, we'll see him next week.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's good. Yeah. The paper.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I was thinking about that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think I will try to work on the SmartKom stuff and I'll if I can finish it today, I'll help you with that tomorrow, if you work on it? I don't have a problem with us working on it though? So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So you would say it's funky cool.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean we just I mean it wouldn't hurt to write up a paper, cuz then, I mean, yeah I was talking with Nancy and Nancy said, you don't know whether you have a paper to write up until you write it up. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And since Jerry's coming back, we can run it by him too. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yep. Um, what's your input?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, um, I don't have much experience with uh, conference papers for compu in the computer science realm, and so when I looked at what you had, which was apparently a complete submission, I just sort of said what just I I didn't really know what to do with it, like, this is the sort of the basic outline of the system or whatever, or or \" here's an idea \", right? That's what that paper was, \" here's here's one possible thing you could do \",", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "short, eight pages, and I just don't know what you have in mind for expanding. Like I'd I what I didn't do is go to the web site of the conference and look at what they're looking for or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, it seems to me that um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wait, is this a computer science conference or is it a.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, well it's more It's both, right? It's it's sort of t cognitive, neural, psycho, linguistic, but all for the sake of doing computer science. So it's sort of cognitive, psycho, neural, plausibly motivated, architectures of natural language processing. So it seems pretty interdisciplinary, and I mean, w w the keynote speaker is Tomasello and blah - blah - blah,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so, W the the question is what could we actually do and and and keep a straight face while doing it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, I really can't keep a straight face doing anything.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And i My idea is,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Setting that aside.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "well, you can say we have done a little bit and that's this, and uh sort of the rest is position paper, \" we wanna also do that \". Which is not too good. Might be more interesting to do something like let's assume um, we're right, we have as Jerry calls it, a delusion of adequacy, and take a \" where is X \" sentence,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and say, \" we will just talk about this, and how we cognitively, neurally, psycho - linguistically, construction grammar - ally, motivated, envision uh, understanding that \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So we can actually show how we parse it. That should be able to we should be able to come up with, you know, a sort of a a parse.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's on, just just put it on.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Did Ben harass you?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Was he supposed to harass me?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, he just told me that you came looking for me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You don", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "figure this out.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You will suffer in hell, you know that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Backwards. There's a s diagram somewhere which tells you how to put that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I know, I didn't understand that either!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No wait. You have to put it on exactly like that,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "This is it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so put that those things over your ears like that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "See the p how the plastic things ar arch out like that? There we go.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. It hurts.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It hurts. It hurts real bad.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It does! I'm sorry I didn't mean to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But that's what you get for coming late to the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry, oh these are all the same. OK! th this is not very on target.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is your mike on?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "An", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Shoot.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Alright, you guys can continue talking about whatever you were talking about before.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "We're talking about this um, alleged paper that we may, just, sort of w", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh! Which Johno mentioned to me. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. And I just sort of brought forth the idea that we take a sentence, \" Where is the Powder - Tower \",", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and we we p pretend to parse it, we pretend to understand it, and we write about it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm. About how all of these things.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What's the part that's not pretend? The writing?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, then we pretend to write about.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The submitting to a major international conference. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Tha - Which conference is it for?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's the whatever, architectures, eh you know, where There is this conference, it's the seventh already international conference, on neu neurally, cognitively, motivated, architectures of natural language processing.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh. Wow. Interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the keynote speakers are Tomasello, MacWhinney?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Whinney. MacWhinney. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We - MacWhinney, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, interesting, both, like, child language people.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So maybe you wanna write something too.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe I wanna go. Um, why are they speaking at it if it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "is is it normally like like, dialogue systems, or, you know, other NLP - ish things?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No no no no no no no no. It's it's like a.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, it's cognitive. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Even neuro.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And uh, both learning and like, comprehension, production, that kinda stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Psycho. You could look at the web site.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I'll.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. I don't know about it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the ad and and the deadline is the fifteenth of June.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah that's pretty soon.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hey. Plenty of time.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Why, we've got over a week!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It would be nice to go write two papers actually. Yeah. And one one from your perspective, and one from our peve per per", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I mean, th that's the kinda thing that maybe like, um, the general uh con sort of like NTL - ish like, whatever, the previous simulation based pers maybe you're talking about the same kind of thing. A general paper about the approach here would probably be appropriate. And good to do at some point anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, I I also think that if we sort of write about what we have done in the past six months, we we we could sort of craft a nice little paper that if it gets rejected, which could happen, doesn't hurt", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because it's something we eh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Having it is still a good thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "having it is a good good thing.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's a nice exercise, it's I usually enjoy writing papers. It's not I don't re regard it as a painful thing.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. It's fun.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And um, we should all do more for our publication lists. And. It just never hurts. And Keith and - or Johno will go, probably.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Will I?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "When is it and where?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "In case of.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's on the twenty second of September, in Saarbruecken Germany.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Ah, it's in Germany. Ah, OK. I s I see. Tomasello's already in Germany anyway, so makes sense. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um. OK. So, is the What Are you just talking about you know, the details of how to do it, or whether to do it, or what it would be?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What would one possibly put in such a paper?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What to write about.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Or what to write about?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What is our what's our take home message. What what do we actually Because I mean, it I don't like papers where you just talk about what you plan to do. I mean, it's obvious that we can't do any kind of evaluation, and have no you know, we can't write an ACL type paper where we say, \" OK, we've done this", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and now we're whatever percentage better than everybody else \". You know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's far too early for that. But uh, we we can tell them what we think. I mean that's never hurts to try. And um, maybe even That's maybe the time to introduce the the new formalism that you guys have cooked up.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Are in the process of.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "How many pages?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "don't they need to finish the formalism?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's just like four pages.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Four pages?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean it's it's not even a h", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so it's a little thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you said it was four thousand lines?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Is that what you s", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. Four pages is, like, really not very much space.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know w Did you look at it? Yeah, it depends on the format.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh my gosh. Oh, I thought you were I thought we were talking about something which was much more like ten or something.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No that's I mean that's actually a problem. It's difficu it's more difficult to write on four pages than on eight.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And it's also difficult to even if you had a lot of substance, it's hard to demonstrate that in four pages, basically.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That would be hard.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean it's still it's still.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well I uh maybe it's just four thousand lines. I do I don't They don't want any They don't have a TeX f style @ @ guide.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh, uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They just want ASCII. Pure ASCII lines,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "whatever. Why, for whatever reason,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Not including figures and such?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know. I don't know. Very unspecific unfortunately.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Well,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We'll just uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I would say that's closer to six pages actually. Four thousand lines of ASCII?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK then. It's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Four thousand lines. I mean. Isn't a isn't it about fifty s fifty five, sixty lines to a page?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I d don't quote me on this. This is numbers I I have from looking o", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "How many characters are on a line?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "ASCII?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Let's let's wh wh what should we should should we uh, um, discuss this over tea and all of us look at the web? Oh, I can't. I'm wizarding today.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, look at the web page?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wha - w", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Look at the web page and let's talk about it maybe tomorrow afternoon?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "More cues for us to find it are like, neural cons", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Johno will send you a link.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, you have a link. OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I got an email.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "By the way, Keith is comfortable with us calling him \" cool Keith \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh. Cool. Keith.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "He he decided I'm chilling in the five - one - O.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Cool, \" cool Keith \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's a very cool T - shirt.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And I'm also flying.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I got this from the two one two.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "New York? Excellent.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Sorry. Yes?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I'm flying to Sicily next in a w two weeks from now,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, lucky you.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "w and a week of business in Germany. I should mention that for you. And otherwise you haven't missed much, except for a really weird idea, but you'll hear about that soon enough.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The idea that you and I already know about? That you already told me? Not that OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, no, no. Yeah, that is something for the rest of the gang to to g", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The thing with the goats and the helicopters?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Change the watchband. It's time to walk the sheep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "like", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um. Did you catch that allusion? It's time to walk the sheep?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's a a uh presumably one of the Watergate codes they uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Anyways, th um, um, don't make any plans for spring break next year. That's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, shoot.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's the other thing. We're gonna do an int EDU internal workshop in Sicily.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's what That's what he says.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I've already got the funding.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I kn That's great!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Does that mean Does that mean you'll get you'll fly us there?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We'll see.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, that's Yeah, that's what it means.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hhh! OK, cool. Uh - a a", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And he'll put us up, too.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I know I know about that part. I know about the the almond trees and stuff. Not joking.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Name a vegetable, OK. Oh, um, kiwi?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm, too easy.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Coconut.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ki", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Pineapple. See? Mango? OK. OK. Too easy?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Too easy. Yeah, mangos go everywhere.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So do kiwi.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh. OK, but I was trying to find something that he didn't grow on his farm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But coconut anana pineapple, that's that's tricky, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Sorry. Anyway. Cantaloupe.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, but we have to decide what, like, sort of the general idea of.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Potatoes. So. Sorry!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, I mean, we're gonna have an example case um, right? I m the the point is to like this \" where is \" case, or something.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe you have It would be kind of The paper ha would have, in my vision, a nice flow if we could say, well here is th the th here is parsing if you wanna do it c right, here is understanding if you wanna do it right, and you know without going into technical.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But then in the end we're not doing like those things right yet, right? Would that be clear in the paper or not?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That would be clear, we would.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I I mailed around a little paper that I have.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It would be like, this is the idea. Oh, I didn't get that,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "w we could sort of say, this is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "did I? Oops. Did I?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oops. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, y I don't think you got it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "See this, if you if you're not around, and don't partake in the discussions, and you don't get any email,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, go on. So parsing done right is like chicken done right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Su So we could we could say this is what what's sort of state of the art today. Nuh?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And say, this is bad. Nuh?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then we can say, uh well what we do is this.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Parsing done right, interpretation done right, example.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. And", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And how much to get into the cognitive neural part?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's the only That's the question mark.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Don't you need to reduce it if it's a or reduce it, if it's a cognitive neuro.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, you don't have t I mean the conference may be cognitive neural, doesn't mean that every paper has to be both. Like, NLP cognitive neural.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and you can you can just point to the to the literature,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you can say that construction - based You know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So i so this paper wouldn't particularly deal with that side although it could reference the NTL - ish sort of, like, um, approach.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The fact that the methods here are all compatible with or designed to be compatible with whatever, neurological neuro neuro - biol su stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess four pages you could I mean you could definitely it's definitely possible to do it. It's just It'd just be small. Like introducing the formalism might be not really possible in detail, but you can use an example of it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, l looking at yeah, looking at that paper that that you had, I mean you know, like, you didn't really explain in detail what was going on in the XML cases or whatever you just sorta said well, you know, here's the general idea, some stuff gets put in there. You know, hopefully you can you can say something like constituents tells you what the construction is made out of, you know, without going into this intense detail.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So it be like using the formalism rather than you know, introducing it per se.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Give them the one paragraph whirlwind tour of w w what this is for,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And people will sort of figure out or ask about the bits that are implicit.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So this will be sort of documenting what we think, and documenting what we have in terms of the Bayes - net stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And since there's never a bad idea to document things, no?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's th that's definitely a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That would be my, uh We we should sketch out the details maybe tomorrow afternoon - ish, if everyone is around. I don't know. You probably wouldn't be part of it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe you want? Think about it. Um, You may may ruin your career forever, if you appear.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, you might get blacklisted.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And um, the uh, other thing, yeah we actually Have we made any progress on what we decided, uh, last week? I'm sure you read the transcript of last week's meeting in red so sh so you're up to dated caught up.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We decided t that we're gonna take a \" where is something \" question, and pretend we have parsed it, and see what we could possibly hope to observe on the discourse side.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Remember I came in and I started asking you about how we were sor going to sort out the uh, decision nodes?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yes! What'd you say?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I remember you talking to me, just not what you said.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I do remember you talking to me. Um, a few more bits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, there was like we needed to or uh, in my opinion we need to design a Bayes another sub - Bayes - net You know, it was whether it was whether we would have a Bayes - net on the output and on the input,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or whether the construction was gonna be in the Bayes - net,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "a and outside of it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So that was was that the question? Was that what.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well that was related to what we were talking about.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Should I introduce it as SUDO - square?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We have to put this in the paper. If we write it. This is this is my only constraint. The th So. The SUDO - square is, \" Situation \", \" User \", \" Discourse \", right? \" Ontology \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh I saw the diagram in the office,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh my god, that's amazing!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah. Whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Way!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Someone's gonna start making Phil Collins jokes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, god, I hope not.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You guys are too young.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know like \" Sussudio \",", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, come on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "that horrible, horrible song that should never have been created.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, oh, oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I know, that was horrible. Sussudio.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I've blocked every aspect of Phil Collins out of my mind.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, I haven't. Not on purpose.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "in here", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh Well, also he's talking about suicide, and that's that's not a notion I wanna have evoked.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, he's not. Really?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "He is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oops. I didn't really listen to it,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I was too young.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It sounds too rocking for that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway. So, what's going on here? So what are what.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Was wollte der Kuenstler uns damit sagen?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Stop excluding me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, so we have tons of little things here,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I can't believe that that's never been thought of before.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and we've", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wait, what are the dots? I don't remember what the dots were.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Those are little bugs.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Cool Keith.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You know, these are our, whatever, belief - net decision nodes, and they all contribute to these things down here.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wait, wait, what's the middle thing?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's EDU.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's a c", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "e e Our e e e", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But wh I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You. We. Us.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But what is it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, in the moment it's a Bayes - net. And it has sort of fifty not - yet - specified interfaces. OK. Eh I have taken care that we actually can build little interfaces, to other modules that will tell us whether the user likes these things and, n the or these things, and he whether he's in a wheelchair or not,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Is that supposed to be the international sign for interface?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I'd I'd never seen it before either.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. Just t Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm. So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz things fit onto that, see?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "In a vaguely obscene fashion.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, this is a RME core by agent design, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's so great.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "There's maybe a different", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So wait, what a what are these letters again, Situr - Situation, User, Discourse and", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Situation, user, d ontology.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "User?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ontology.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What about the utterance?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Discourse.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's here.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, discourse. So that's not like context, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Discourse is all things linguistic, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So this this includes the the current utterance plus all the previous utterances.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Interesting, uh - huh. User.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And for example w i s I Irena Gurevich is going to be here eh, end of July.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "User.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "She's a new linguist working for EML. And what she would like to do for example is great for us. She would like to take the ent ontolog", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Ouch.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, we have discussed in terms of the EVA.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Grateful for us?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Did you just say grateful for us? OK, sorry. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Think of back at the EVA vector, and Johno coming up with the idea that if the person discussed the discussed the admission fee, in eh previously, that might be a good indication that, \" how do I get to the castle? \", actually he wants to enter.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or, you know, \" how do I get to X? \" discussing the admission fee in the previous utterance, is a good indication.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So we don't want a hard code, a set of lexemes, or things, that person's you know, sort of filter, or uh search the discourse history.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So what would be kind of cool is that if we encounter concepts that are castle, tower, bank, hotel, we run it through the ontology, and the ontology tells us it has um, admission, opening times, it has admission fees, it has this, it has that, and then we we we make a thesaurus lexicon, look up, and then search dynamically through the uh, discourse history for occurrences of these things in a given window of utterances.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And that might, you know, give us additional input to belief A versus B. Or E versus A.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So it's not just a particular word's OK, so the you're looking for a few keys that you know are cues to sorry, a few specific cues to some intention.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You can dynamically look up keys, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, so, wait so um, since this since this sort of technical stuff is going over my head,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And then grep, basically.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "the the point is that you uh that when someone's talking about a castle, you know that it's the sort of thing that people are likely to wanna go into? Or, is it the fact that if there's an admission fee, then one of the things we know about admission fees is that you pay them in order to go in? And then the idea of entering is active in the discourse or something? And then", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "blah - blah - blah?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "the the idea is even more general.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The idea is to say, we encounter a certain entity in a in a in a utterance. So le let's look up everything we the ontology gives us about that entity, what stuff it does, what roles it has, what parts, whatever it has. Functions. And, then we look in the discourse, whether any of that, or any surface structure corresponding to these roles, functions aaa has ever occurred.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And then, the discourse history can t tell us, \" yeah \", or \" no \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And then it's up for us to decide what to do with it. t So i", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So No, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, we may think that if you say um, \" where is the theater \", um, whether or not he has talked about tickets before, then we he's probably wanna go there to see something.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Or \" where is the opera in Par - Paris?,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah? Lots of people go to the opera to take pictures of it and to look at it,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and lots of people go to attend a performance.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, the discourse can maybe tell us w what's more likely if we know what to look for in previous statements. And so we can hard code \" for opera, look for tickets, look for this, look for that,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or look for Mozart, look for thi \" but the smarter way is to go via the ontology and dynamically, then look up u stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. But you're still doing look up so that when the person So the point is that when the person says, \" where is it? \" then you sort of say, let's go back and look at other things and then decide, rather than the other possibility which is that all through discourse as they talk about different things You know like w prior to the \" where is it \" question they say, you know, \" how much does it cost to get in, you know, to to see a movie around here \", um, \" where is the closest theater \" The the the point is that by mentioning admission fees, that just sort of stays active now.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You know. That becomes part of like, their sort of current ongoing active conceptual structure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And then, um, over in your Bayes - net or whatever, when when the person says \" where is it \", you've already got, you know since they were talking about admission, and that evokes the idea of entering, um, then when they go and ask \" where is it \", then you're Enter node is already active", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "because that's what the person is thinking about.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean that's the sort of cognitive linguistic - y way,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, e ultimately that's also what we wanna get at.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and probably not practical.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think that's that's the correct way. So, of course we have to keep memory of what was the last intention, and how does it fit to this, and what does it tell us, in terms of of the the what we're examining.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And furthermore, I mean we can idealize that, you know, people don't change topics,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but they do. But, even th for that, there is a student of ours who's doing a dialogue act um, recognition module.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, maybe, we're even in a position where we can take your approach, which is of course much better, as to say how how do these pieces.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm. And much harder to r program.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And much harder to p to program.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. How how do these pieces fit together? Uh - huh. And um. But, OK, nevertheless. So these are issues but we what we actually decided last week, is to, and this is, again, for your benefit is to um, pretend we have observed and parsed an utterance such as \" where is the Powder - Tower \", or \" where is the zoo \", and specify um, what what we think the the output uh, observe, out i input nodes for our Bayes - nets for the sub sub - D, for the discourse bit, should be. So that And I will I will then come up with the ontology side uh, bits and pieces, so that we can say, OK we we always just look at this utterance. That's the only utterance we can do, it's hard coded, like Srini, sort of hand parsed, hand crafted, but this is what we hope to be able to observe in general from utterances, and from ontologies, and then we can sort of fiddle with these things to see what it actually produces, in terms of output.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So we need to find out what the \" where is X \" construction will give us in terms of semantics and Simspec type things.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Just OK. Just \" where is X \"?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Or any variants of that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. No! Um, look at it this way, i Yeah. What did we decide. We decided sort of the the prototypical \" where is X \", where you know, we don't really know, does he wanna go there, or just wanna know where it is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well we were", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So the difference of \" where is the railway station \", versus where where \" where is Greenland \". Nuh?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh s I was just dancing, sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We're not videotaping any of this. So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh ah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, um, we're supposed to I mean we're talking about sort of anything that has the semantics of request for location, right? actually? Or, I mean, anyway, the node in the uh the ultimate, uh, in in the Bayes - net thing when you're done, the the node that we're talking about um, is one that says \" request for location, true \", or something like that, right? Um, and and exactly how that gets activated, you know, like whether we want the sentence \" how do I get there? \" to activate that node or not, you know, that's that's sort of the issue that sort of the linguistic - y side has to deal with, right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it Yea - Nnn Well actually more m more the other way around. We wanted something that represents uncertainty uh we in terms of going there or just wanting to know where it is, for example. Some generic information.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And so this is prototypically @ @ found in the \" where is something \" question, surface structure,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "We", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "which can be p you know, should be maps to something that activates both. I mean the idea is to.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Alright, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hhh. I guess. I don't.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "let's have it fit nicely with the paper.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I don't see unde how we would be able to distinguish between the two intentions just from the g utterance, though.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean, uh bef or, before we don't before we cranked it through the Bayes - net. I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we wouldn't. That's exactly what we want.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We would?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We want to get No. We wouldn't.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, but then so basically it's just a for every construction we have a node in the net, right? And we turn on that node.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. What what is this gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oy.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Exactly. What is the uh Well.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And then given that we know that the construction has these two things, we can set up probabilities we can s basically define all the tables for ev for those.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be So we have um, i let's assume we we call something like a loc - X node and a path - X node. And what we actually get if we just look at the discourse, \" where is X \" should activate or should.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm. Should be both, whereas maybe \" where is X located \", we find from the data, is always just asked when the person wants to know where it is, and \" how do I get to \" is always asked when the person just wants to know how to get there. Right? So we want to sort of come up with what gets uh, input, and how inter in case of a \" where is \" question. So what what would the outcome of of your parser look like? And, what other discourse information from the discourse history could we hope to get, squeeze out of that utterance? So define the the input into the Bayes - net based on what the utterance, \" where is X \", gives us. So definitely have an Entity node here which is activated via the ontology,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so \" where is X \" produces something that is s stands for X, whether it's castle, bank, restroom, toilet, whatever. And then the ontology will tell us.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That it has a location or something like that? or th the ontology will tell us where actually it is located?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No. Not at all.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where it is located, we have, a user proximity node here somewhere,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "e which tells us how far the user how far away the user is in respect to that uh entity.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So you're talking about, for instance, the construction obviously involves this entity or refers refers to this entity,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and from the construction also you know that it is a location is or a thing thing that can be located. Right? Ontology says this thing has a location slot. Sh - and that's the thing that is being that is the content of the question that's being queried by one interpretation of \" where is X \". And another one is, um, path from current user current location to that location.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So. So is the question I mean it's just that I'm not sure what the Is the question, for this particular construction how we specify that that's the information it provides? Or or asked for? b Both sides, right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, you don't need to even do that. It's just sort of what what would be @ @ observed in uh in that case.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Observed when you heard the speaker say \" where is X \", or when when that's been parsed?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So these little circles you have by the D? Is that? OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's exactly what we're looking for.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I d I just I don't like having characterizing the constructions with location and path, or li characterizing them like that. Cuz you don't It seems like in the general case you wouldn't know how how to characterize them.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You wouldn't.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean or, for when. There could be an interpretation that we don't have a node for in the I mean it just seems like @ @ has to have uh a node for the construction and then let the chips fall where they may. Versus uh, saying, this construction either can mean location or path. And, in this cas and since since it can mean either of those things, it would light both of those up.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's the same.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Thoughts? Questions?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I'm thinking about it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It will be the same.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So I think r in here we have \" I'll go there \", right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Answers?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And we have our Info - on. So in my c my case, this would sort of make this happy, and this would make the Go - there happy. What you're saying is we have a Where - X question, Where - X node, that makes both happy. Right? That's what you're proposing, which is, in my mind just as fine. So w if we have a construction node, \" where is X \", it's gonna both get the po posterior probability that it's Info - on up,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Info - on is True - up, and that Go - there is True - up, as well. Which would be exactly analogous to what I'm proposing is, this makes uh makes something here true, and this makes something also something here true, and this makes this True - up, and this makes this True - up as well.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I kinda like it better without that extra level of indirection too. You know with with this points to this points to that, and so on because I don't know, it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Is - uh,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, because we get we get tons of constructions I think. Because, you know, mmm people have many ways of asking for the same thing,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So un", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I change I changed my mind actually.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I have a different kinda question, might be related, which is, OK so implicitly everything in EDU, we're always inferring the speaker intent, right? Like, what they want either, the information that they want, or It's always information that they want probably, of some kind. Right? Or I I don't know, or what's something that they.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The system doesn't massage you, no. No.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I I I don't OK. So, um, let's see. So I don't know if the I mean i if th just there's more s here that's not shown that you it's already like part of the system whatever, but, \" where is X \", like, the fact that it is, you know, a speech - act, whatever, it is a question. It's a question that, um, queries on some particular thing X, and X is that location. There's, like, a lot of structure in representing that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that seems different from just having the node \" location - X \" and that goes into EDU, right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Precisely. That's that's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So tha is that what you're t talking about?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, w Exactly. We have su we have specified two.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "wh what kinds of structure we want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, the next one would be here, just for mood.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The next one would be what we can squeeze out of the uh I don't know, maybe we wanna observe the uh, um, uh the length of of the words used, and, or the prosody", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and g a and t make conclusions about the user's intelligence.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So in some ways.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um, so in some ways in the other sort of parallel set of mo more linguistic meetings we've been talking about possible semantics of some construction.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right? Where it was the simulation that's, according to it you know, that that corresponds to it, and as well the as discourse, whatever, conte infor in discourse information,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "such as the mood, and, you know, other stuff. So, are we looking for a sort of abbreviation of that, that's tailored to this problem? Cuz that that has, you know, basically, you know, s it's in progress still it's in development still, but it definitely has various feature slots, attributes, um, bindings between things.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. U that's exactly r um, why I'm proposing It's too early to have to think of them of all of these discourse things that one could possibly observe,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so let's just assume", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "For the subset of.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "human beings are not allowed to ask anything but \" where is X \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This is the only utterance in the world. What could we observe from that?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. That exactly \" where is X \",", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "In ter", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "not the the choices of \" where is X \" or \" how do I get to X \". Just \" where is X \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just just \" where is X \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, but you know, do it do it in such a way that we know that people can also say, \" is the town hall in front of the bank \", so that we need something like a w WH focus. Nuh? Should be should be there, that, you know, this the whatever we get from the.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wait, so do, or do not take other kinds of constructions into account?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, if you if you can, oh definitely do,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Where possible. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "where possible. Right? If i if if it's not at all triggered by our thing, then it's irrelevant,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and it doesn't hurt to leave it out for the moment. Um, but.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, it seems like for instance, \" where is X \", the fact that it might mean um, \" tell me how to get to X \", like Do y So, would you wanna say that those two are both, like Those are the two interpretations, right? the the ones that are location or path. So, you could say that the s construction is a question asking about this location, and then you can additionally infer, if they're asking about the location, it's because they wanna go to that place, in which case, the you're jumping a step step and saying, \" oh, I know where it is", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but I also know how to get they wanna seem they seem to wanna get there so I'm gonna tell them \". So there's like structure", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, th this it's not it's not that this is sort of like semantically ambiguous between these two.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "i do you kn sort of uh, that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's really about this but why would you care about this? Well, it's because you also want to know this, or something like that right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it's like you infer the speaker intent,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and then infer a plan, a larger plan from that, for which you have the additional information,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "you're just being extra helpful.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Think Uh, well this is just a mental exercise.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "If you think about, focus on this question, how would you design that?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Is it do you feel confident about saying this is part of the language already to to detect those plans, and why would anyone care about location, if not, you know and so forth.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Or do you actually, I mean this is perfectly legitimate, and I I would not have any problems with erasing this and say, that's all we can activate, based on the utterance out of context.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And just by an additional link Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "like,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then the the the miracle that we get out the intention, Go - there, happens, based on what we know about that entity, about the user, about his various beliefs, goals, desires, blah - blah - blah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "with context and enough user information, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Absolutely fine. But this is the sort of thing, I I propose that we think about,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so that we actually end up with um, um, nodes for the discourse and ontology so that we can put them into our Bayes - net, never change them, so we all there is is \" where is X \", and, Eva can play around with the observed things, and we can run our better JavaBayes, and have it produce some output. And for the first time in th in in the world, we look at our output, and um and see uh whether it it's any good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know? I mean,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Here's hoping.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Here's hoping. Right? Now cross your fingers.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I mean, for me this is just a ba matter of curiosity, I wanna would like to look at uh, what this ad - hoc process of designing a belief - net would actually produce.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "If if we ask it where is something. And, maybe it also h enables you to think about certain things more specifically, um, come up with interesting questions, to which you can find interesting answers. And, additionally it might fit in really nicely with the paper. Because if if if we want an example for the paper, I suggest there it is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So th this might be a nice opening paragraph for the paper as saying, \" you know people look at kinds of at ambiguities \", and um, in the literature there's \" bank \" and whatever kinds of garden path phenomenon.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And we can say, well, that's all nonsense. A, A, uh these things are never really ambiguous in discourse, B, B, don't ever occur really in discourse, but normal statements that seem completely unambiguous, such as \" where is the blah - blah \", actually are terribly complex, and completely ambiguous.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And so, what every everybody else has been doing so far in in in you know, has been completely nonsensical, and can all go into the wastepaper bin, and the only.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's always a good way to begin. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. And the the the only.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I am great.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "All others are useless.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Nice overture, but, you know, just not really OK, I'm eja exaggerating, but that might be, you know, saying \" hey \", you know, some stuff is is actually complex, if you look at it in in in the vacuum", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and ceases to be complex in reality. And some stuff that's as that's absolutely straightforward in the vacuum, is actually terribly complex in reality. Would be nice sort of, uh, also, nice, um bottom - up linguistics, um, type message.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. True.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Versus the old top - down school. I'm running out of time. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "When do you need to start wizarding?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "At four ten. OK, this is the other bit of news. The subjects today know Fey, so she can't be here, and do the wizarding. So I'm gonna do the wizarding", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and Thilo's gonna do the instructing.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Also we're getting a a person who just got fired uh, from her job. Uh a person from Oakland who is interested in maybe continuing the wizard bit once Fey leaves in August. And um, she's gonna look at it today. Which is good news in the sense that if we want to continue, after the thir thir after July, we can. We could. And, um and that's also maybe interesting for Keith and whoever, if you wanna get some more stuff into the data collection. Remember this, we can completely change the set - up any time we want.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Look at the results we've gotten so far for the first, whatever, fifty some subjects?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Fifty? You've had fifty so far, or?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, we're approaching twenty now.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, until Fey is leaving, we surely will hit the some of the higher numbers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And um, so that's cool. Can a do more funky stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Sure. Yeah, I'll have to look more into that data. Is that around? Like, cuz that's pretty much getting posted or something right away when you get it?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Or? I guess it has to be transcribed, huh?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "We have uh, eh found someone here who's hand st hand transcribing the first twelve.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "First dozen subjects", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "just so we can build a a language model for the recognizer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But, um So those should be available soon.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The first twelve. And I can ch ch st e", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You know I mean you know that I that I looked at the first the first one and got enough data to keep me going for, you know, probably most of July. So. But, um. Yeah, a probably not the right way to do it actually.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But you can listen to a y y y You can listen to all of them from your Solaris box.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If you want.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's always fun.", "speakerName": "Grad D" } ] }

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Channel three?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You know, I discovered something yesterday on these, um, wireless ones.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Channel two.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You can tell if it's picking up breath noise and stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, it has a little indicator on it on the AF.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So if you yeah, if you breathe under breathe and then you see AF go off, then you know it's p picking up your mouth noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, that's good. Cuz we have a lot of breath noises.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep. Test.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "In fact, if you listen to just the channels of people not talking, it's like \" @ @ \". It's very disgust", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What? Did you see Hannibal recently or something?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sorry. Exactly. It's very disconcerting. OK. So, um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I was gonna try to get out of here, like, in half an hour, um, cuz I really appreciate people coming, and the main thing that I was gonna ask people to help with today is to give input on what kinds of database format we should use in starting to link up things like word transcripts and annotations of word transcripts, so anything that transcribers or discourse coders or whatever put in the signal, with time - marks for, like, words and phone boundaries and all the stuff we get out of the forced alignments and the recognizer. So, we have this, um I think a starting point is clearly the the channelized output of Dave Gelbart's program, which Don brought a copy of,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I'm I'm familiar with that. I mean, we I sort of already have developed an XML format for this sort of stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um, which.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can I see it?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so the only question is it the sort of thing that you want to use or not? Have you looked at that? I mean, I had a web page up.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. So,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I actually mostly need to be able to link up, or I it's it's a question both of what the representation is and.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You mean, this I guess I am gonna be standing up and drawing on the board.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, yeah. So you should, definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um, so so it definitely had that as a concept. So tha it has a single time - line,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and then you can have lots of different sections, each of which have I Ds attached to it, and then you can refer from other sections to those I Ds, if you want to. So that, um so that you start with with a time - line tag. \" Time - line \". And then you have a bunch of times. I don't e I don't remember exactly what my notation was,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, I remember seeing an example of this.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, \" T equals one point three two \", uh And then I I also had optional things like accuracy, and then \" ID equals T one, uh, one seven \". And then, I also wanted to to be i to be able to not specify specifically what the time was and just have a stamp.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, so these are arbitrary, assigned by a program, not not by a user. So you have a whole bunch of those. And then somewhere la further down you might have something like an utterance tag which has \" start equals T - seventeen, end equals T - eighteen \". So what that's saying is, we know it starts at this particular time. We don't know when it ends.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right? But it ends at this T - eighteen, which may be somewhere else. We say there's another utterance. We don't know what the t time actually is but we know that it's the same time as this end time.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, thirty - eight, whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you're essentially defining a lattice.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Yes, exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then, uh and then these also have I Ds. Right? So you could you could have some sort of other other tag later in the file that would be something like, um, oh, I don't know, uh, \" noise - type equals door - slam \". You know? And then, uh, you could either say \" time equals a particular time - mark \" or you could do other sorts of references. So or or you might have a prosody \" Prosody \" right? D? T? D? T? T?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's an O instead of an I, but the D is good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You like the D? That's a good D.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um, you know, so you could have some sort of type here, and then you could have, um the utterance that it's referring to could be U - seventeen or something like that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, I mean, that seems that seems g great for all of the encoding of things with time and,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, well.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um I I guess my question is more, uh, what d what do you do with, say, a forced alignment?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "How - how", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean you've got all these phone labels, and what do you do if you just conceptually, if you get, um, transcriptions where the words are staying but the time boundaries are changing, cuz you've got a new recognition output, or s sort of what's the, um, sequence of going from the waveforms that stay the same, the transcripts that may or may not change, and then the utterance which where the time boundaries that may or may not change?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, that's That's actually very nicely handled here because you could you could all you'd have to change is the, um, time - stamps in the time - line without without, uh, changing the I Ds.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. And you'd be able to propagate all of the the information?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. That's, the who that's why you do that extra level of indirection. So that you can just change the time - line.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Except the time - line is gonna be huge. If you say.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "suppose you have a phone - level alignment.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, especially at the phone - level.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You'd have you'd have.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The we we have phone - level backtraces.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, this I don't think I would do this for phone - level. I think for phone - level you want to use some sort of binary representation", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "because it'll be too dense otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, if you were doing that and you had this sort of companion, uh, thing that gets called up for phone - level, uh, what would that look like?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Why", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I would use just an existing an existing way of doing it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "How would you?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm. But but why not use it for phone - level?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "H h", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's just a matter of it's just a matter of it being bigger. But if you have you know, barring memory limitations, or uh I w I mean this is still the m", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's parsing limitations. I don't want to have this text file that you have to read in the whole thing to do something very simple for.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, no. You would use it only for purposes where you actually want the phone - level information, I'd imagine.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So you could have some file that configures how much information you want in your in your XML or something.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, you'd y", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I am imagining you'd have multiple versions of this depending on the information that you want.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "cuz th it does get very bush with Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um, I'm just what I'm wondering is whether I think for word - level, this would be OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "For word - level, it's alright.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "For lower than word - level, you're talking about so much data that I just I don't know. I don't know if that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, we actually have So, one thing that Don is doing, is we're we're running For every frame, you get a pitch value,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Lattices are big, too.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and not only one pitch value but different kinds of pitch values", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, for something like that I would use P - file", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "depending on.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or or any frame - level stuff I would use P - file.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Meaning?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, that's a well, or something like it. It's ICS uh, ICSI has a format for frame - level representation of features. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. That you could call that you would tie into this representation with like an ID.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Or or there's a there's a particular way in XML to refer to external resources.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So you would say \" refer to this external file \". Um, so that external file wouldn't be in.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that might that might work.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But what what's the advantage of doing that versus just putting it into this format?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "More compact, which I think is is better.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, if you did it at this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean these are long meetings and with for every frame,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You don't want to do it with that Anything at frame - level you had better encode binary", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or it's gonna be really painful.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or you just compre I mean, I like text formats. Um, b you can always, uh, G - zip them, and, um, you know, c decompress them on the fly if y if space is really a concern.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was thi I was thinking the advantage is that we can share this with other people.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, but if you're talking about one per frame, you're talking about gigabyte - size files. You're gonna actually run out of space in your filesystem for one file.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "These are big files. These are really I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right? Because you have a two - gigabyte limit on most O Ss.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right, OK. I would say OK, so frame - level is probably not a good idea. But for phone - level stuff it's perfectly.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And th it's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Like phones, or syllables, or anything like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Phones are every five frames though, so. Or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But but but most of the frames are actually not speech. So, you know, people don't v Look at it, words times the average The average number of phones in an English word is, I don't know, five maybe?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we actually.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, look at it, t number of words times five. That's not that not.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, so you mean pause phones take up a lot of the long pause phones.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. That's true. But you do have to keep them in there. Y yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So I think it it's debatable whether you want to do phone - level in the same thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But I think, a anything at frame - level, even P - file, is too verbose.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I would use something tighter than P - files.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Do you Are you familiar with it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I haven't seen this particular format,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, I've I've used them.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't know what their structure is.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I've forgot what the str", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, wait a minute, P - file for each frame is storing a vector of cepstral or PLP values,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's whatever you want, actually.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So that what's nice about the P - file It i Built into it is the concept of frames, utterances, sentences, that sort of thing, that structure. And then also attached to it is an arbitrary vector of values. And it can take different types.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it th they don't all have to be floats. You know, you can have integers and you can have doubles, and all that sort of stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that that sounds that sounds about what I w", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. Right? And it has a header it has a header format that describes it to some extent. So, the only problem with it is it's actually storing the utterance numbers and the frame numbers in the file, even though they're always sequential. And so it does waste a lot of space.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But it's still a lot tighter than than ASCII. And we have a lot of tools already to deal with it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You do? OK. Is there some documentation on this somewhere?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a ton of it. Man - pages and, uh, source code, and me.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, great. So, I mean, that sounds good. I I was just looking for something I'm not a database person, but something sort of standard enough that, you know, if we start using this we can give it out, other people can work on it,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not standard.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or Is it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, it's something that we developed at ICSI. But, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But it's been used here", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But it's been used here", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and people've.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and, you know, we have a well - configured system that you can distribute for free, and.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, it must be the equivalent of whatever you guys used to store feat your computed features in, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, th we have Actually, we we use a generalization of the the Sphere format.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, but Yeah, so there is something like that but it's, um, probably not as sophist", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, what does H T K do for features?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And I think there's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or does it even have a concept of features?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "They ha it has its own I mean, Entropic has their own feature format that's called, like, S - SD or some so SF or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I'm just wondering, would it be worth while to use that instead?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Th - this is exactly the kind of decision It's just whatever.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, I mean, people don't typically share this kind of stuff, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They generate their own.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Actually, I I just you know, we we've done this stuff on prosodics and three or four places have asked for those prosodic files, and we just have an ASCII, uh, output of frame - by - frame.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Which is fine, but it gets unwieldy to go in and and query these files with really huge files.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, we could do it. I was just thinking if there's something that where all the frame values are.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And a and again, if you have a if you have a two - hour - long meeting, that's gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm? They're they're fair they're quite large.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, they'd be emo enormous.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And these are for ten - minute Switchboard conversations,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and So it's doable, it's just that you can only store a feature vector at frame - by - frame and it doesn't have any kind of,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Is is the sharing part of this a pretty important consideration", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or does that just sort of, uh a nice thing to have?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I don't know enough about what we're gonna do with the data. But I thought it would be good to get something that we can that other people can use or adopt for their own kinds of encoding. And just, I mean we have to use some we have to make some decision about what to do.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And especially for the prosody work, what what it ends up being is you get features from the signal, and of course those change every time your alignments change. So you re - run a recognizer, you want to recompute your features, um, and then keep the database up to date.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or you change a word, or you change a utterance boundary segment, which is gonna happen a lot. And so I wanted something where all of this can be done in a elegant way and that if somebody wants to try something or compute something else, that it can be done flexibly. Um, it doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to be, you know, easy to use, and.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, the other thing We should look at ATLAS, the NIST thing,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and see if they have anything at that level.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, I'm not sure what to do about this with ATLAS, because they chose a different route. I chose something that Th - there are sort of two choices. Your your file format can know about know that you're talking about language and speech, which is what I chose, and time, or your file format can just be a graph representation. And then the application has to impose the structure on top. So what it looked like ATLAS chose is, they chose the other way, which was their file format is just nodes and links, and you have to interpret what they mean yourself.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And why did you not choose that type of approach?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, because I knew that we were doing speech, and I thought it was better if you're looking at a raw file to be t for the tags to say \" it's an utterance \", as opposed to the tag to say \" it's a link \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, but.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But other than that, are they compatible? I mean, you could sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, they're reasonably compatible.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, you you could.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You could probably translate between them.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's w So,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, well, the other thing is if we choose to use ATLAS, which maybe we should just do, we should just throw this out before we invest a lot of time in it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. I don't So this is what the meeting's about,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "just sort of how to Um, cuz we need to come up with a database like this just to do our work. And I actually don't care, as long as it's something useful to other people, what we choose.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So maybe it's maybe oth you know, if if you have any idea of how to choose, cuz I don't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The only thing Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Do they already have tools?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, I I chose this for a couple reasons. One of them is that it's easy to parse. You don't need a full XML parser. It's very easy to just write a Perl script to parse it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "As long as uh each tag is on one line.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Exactly. Exactly. Which I always do.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And you can have as much information in the tag as you want, right?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, I have it structured. Right? So each type tag has only particular items that it can take.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Can you But you can add to those structures if you.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Sure. If you have more information. So what What NIST would say is that instead of doing this, you would say something like \" link start equals, um, you know, some node ID,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "end equals some other node ID \", and then \" type \" would be \" utterance \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, so it's very similar.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So why would it be a a waste to do it this way if it's similar enough that we can always translate it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It probably wouldn't be a waste. It would mean that at some point if we wanted to switch, we'd just have to translate everything.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Write a translator. But it se Since they are developing a big.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But it but that sounds.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But that's I don't think that's a big deal.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "As long as it is.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "they're developing a big infrastructure. And so it seems to me that if if we want to use that, we might as well go directly to what they're doing, rather than.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "If we want to Do they already have something that's that would be useful for us in place?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. See, that's the question. I mean, how stable is their Are they ready to go,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The I looked at it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The last time I looked at it was a while ago, probably a year ago, uh, when we first started talking about this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And at that time at least it was still not very complete. And so, specifically they didn't have any external format representation at that time. They just had the sort of conceptual node uh, annotated transcription graph, which I really liked. And that's exactly what this stuff is based on. Since then, they've developed their own external file format, which is, uh, you know, this sort of s this sort of thing. Um, and apparently they've also developed a lot of tools, but I haven't looked at them. Maybe I should.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We should we should find out.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, would the tools would the tools run on something like this, if you can translate them anyway?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um, th what would would would what would worry me is that maybe we might miss a little detail", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's a hassle", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, that I guess it's a question that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "if.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "that would make it very difficult to translate from one to the other.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I think if it's conceptually close, and they already have or will have tools that everybody else will be using, I mean, it would be crazy to do something s you know, separate that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, we might as well. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So I'll I'll take a closer look at it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Actually, so it's that that would really be the question, is just what you would feel is in the long run the best thing.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Cuz once we start, sort of, doing this I don't we don't actually have enough time to probably have to rehash it out again", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The Yep. The other thing the other way that I sort of established this was as easy translation to and from the Transcriber format.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and s Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, I like this. This is sort of intuitively easy to actually r read,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "as easy it could as it could be. But, I suppose that as long as they have a type here that specifies \" utt \", um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's almost the same.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "it's yeah, close enough that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The the the the point is with this, though, is that you can't really add any supplementary information. Right? So if you suddenly decide that you want.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You have to make a different type.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You'd have to make a different type.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So Well, if you look at it and Um, I guess in my mind I don't know enough Jane would know better, about the types of annotations and and But I imagine that those are things that would well, you guys mentioned this, that could span any it could be in its own channel, it could span time boundaries of any type,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "it could be instantaneous, things like that. Um, and then from the recognition side we have backtraces at the phone - level.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "If if it can handle that, it could handle states or whatever. And then at the prosody - level we have frame sort of like cepstral feature files,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh, like these P - files or anything like that. And that's sort of the world of things that I And then we have the aligned channels, of course,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It seems to me you want to keep the frame - level stuff separate.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I definitely agree and I wanted to find actually a f a nicer format or a maybe a more compact format than what we used before.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Just cuz you've got ten channels or whatever and two hours of a meeting. It's it's a lot of.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Huge.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Now now how would you how would you represent, um, multiple speakers in this framework? Were You would just represent them as.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You would have like a speaker tag or something?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "there's a spea speaker tag up at the top which identifies them and then each utt the way I had it is each turn or each utterance, I don't even remember now, had a speaker ID tag attached to it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And in this format you would have a different tag, which which would, uh, be linked to the link. So so somewhere else you would have another thing that would be,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "um Let's see, would it be a node or a link? Um And so so this one would have, um, an ID is link link seventy - four or something like that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then somewhere up here you would have a link that that, uh, you know, was referencing L - seventy - four and had speaker Adam.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is i?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, or something like that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Actually, it's the channel, I think, that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, channel or speaker or whatever.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, w yeah, channel is what the channelized output out", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It doesn't.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This isn't quite right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I have to look at it again.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But but so how in the NIST format do we express a hierarchical relationship between, um, say, an utterance and the words within it? So how do you tell that these are the words that belong to that utterance?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, you would have another structure lower down than this that would be saying they're all belonging to this ID.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So each thing refers to the utterance that it belongs to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. And then each utterance could refer to a turn,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's it's not hi it's sort of bottom - up.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and each turn could refer to something higher up.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And what if you actually have So right now what you have as utterance, um, the closest thing that comes out of the channelized is the stuff between the segment boundaries that the transcribers put in or that Thilo put in, which may or may not actually be, like, a s it's usually not um, the beginning and end of a sentence, say.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, that's why I didn't call it \" sentence \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, right. Um, so it's like a segment or something.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, I mean, I assume this is possible, that if you have someone annotates the punctuation or whatever when they transcribe, you can say, you know, from for from the c beginning of the sentence to the end of the sentence, from the annotations, this is a unit, even though it never actually i It's only a unit by virtue of the annotations at the word - level.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Sure. I mean, so you would you would have yet another tag.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then that would get a tag somehow.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You'd have another tag which says this is of type \" sentence \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And, what.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But it's just not overtly in the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, cuz this is exactly the kind of.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think that should be possible as long as the But, uh, what I don't understand is where the where in this type of file that would be expressed.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. You would have another tag somewhere. It's well, there're two ways of doing it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S so it would just be floating before the sentence or floating after the sentence without a time - mark.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You could have some sort of link type type equals \" sentence \", and ID is \" S - whatever \". And then lower down you could have an utterance. So the type is \" utterance \" equals \" utt \". And you could either say that No. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So here's the thing.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I take that back.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Can you can you say that this is part of this,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "See, cuz it's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hhh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You would just have a r", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or do you say this is part of this? I think.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You would refer up to the sentence.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But they're.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, the thing.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "they're actually overlapping each other, sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "the thing is that some something may be a part of one thing for one purpose and another thing of another purpose.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So f", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You have to have another type then, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "s Um, well, s let's let's ta so let's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I think I'm I think w I had better look at it again", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because I I'm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "y So for instance @ @ sup", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There's one level there's one more level of indirection that I'm forgetting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Suppose you have a word sequence and you have two different segmentations of that same word sequence. f Say, one segmentation is in terms of, um, you know, uh, sentences. And another segmentation is in terms of, um, I don't know, prosodic phrases. And let's say that they don't nest. So, you know, a prosodic phrase may cross two sentences or something.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I don't know if that's true or not but let's as", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, it's definitely true with the segment.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's what I exactly what I meant by the utterances versus the sentence could be sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, you want to be s you want to say this this word is part of that sentence and this prosodic phrase.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But the phrase is not part of the sentence", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and neither is the sentence part of the phrase.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I'm pretty sure that you can do that, but I'm forgetting the exact level of nesting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, you would have to have two different pointers from the word up one level up, one to the sent", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So so what you would end up having is a tag saying \" here's a word, and it starts here and it ends here \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then lower down you would say \" here's a prosodic boundary and it has these words in it \". And lower down you'd have \" here's a sentence,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "An - Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and it has these words in it \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you would be able to go in and say, you know, \" give me all the words in the bound in the prosodic phrase", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and give me all the words in the \" Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So I think that's that would wor", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Let me look at it again.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. The the o the other issue that you had was, how do you actually efficiently extract, um find and extract information in a structure of this type?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So you gave some examples like.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, uh, and, I mean, you guys might I don't know if this is premature because I suppose once you get the representation you can do this, but the kinds of things I was worried about is,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No, that's not clear.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, yeah, you c sure you can do it,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, OK. So i if it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but can you do it sort of l l you know, it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I mean, I can't do it, but I can um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "y y you gotta you gotta do this you you're gonna want to do this very quickly", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or else you'll spend all your time sort of searching through very complex data structures.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. You'd need a p sort of a paradigm for how to do it. But an example would be \" find all the cases in which Adam started to talk while Andreas was talking and his pitch was rising, Andreas's pitch \". That kind of thing.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, that's gonna be Is the rising pitch a feature, or is it gonna be in the same file?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, the rising pitch will never be hand - annotated. So the all the prosodic features are going to be automatically.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But the I mean, that's gonna be hard regardless,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So they're gonna be in those.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right? Because you're gonna have to write a program that goes through your feature file and looks for rising pitches.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So Right. So normally what we would do is we would say \" what do we wanna assign rising pitch to? \" Are we gonna assign it to words? Are we gonna just assign it to sort of when it's rising we have a begin - end rise representation? But suppose we dump out this file and we say, uh, for every word we just classify it as, w you know, rise or fall or neither?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Well, in that case you would add that to this format", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "r", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So we would basically be sort of, um, taking the format and enriching it with things that we wanna query in relation to the words that are already in the file,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and then querying it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You want sort of a grep that's that works at the structural on the structural representation.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You have that. There's a standard again in XML, specifically for searching XML documents structured X - XML documents, where you can specify both the content and the structural position.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's it's not clear that that's That's relative to the structure of the XML document,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "If.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "not to the structure of what you're representing in the document.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You use it as a tool. You use it as a tool, not an end - user. It's not an end - user thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's it's you would use that to build your tool to do that sort of search.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Be Because here you're specifying a lattice.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So the underlying that's the underlying data structure. And you want to be able to search in that lattice.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But as long as the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's a graph, but.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's different from searching through the text.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But it seems like as long as the features that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, no, no, no. The whole point is that the text and the lattice are isomorphic. They represent each other completely.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that I mean th", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's true if the features from your acoustics or whatever that are not explicitly in this are at the level of these types.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hhh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That that if you can do that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's gonna be the trouble no matter what. Right? No matter what format you choose, you're gonna have the trou you're gonna have the difficulty of relating the the frame - level features.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's right. That's true. That's why I was trying to figure out what's the best format for this representation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And it's still gonna be.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "it's still gonna be, uh, not direct.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You know, it Or another example was, you know, uh, where in the language where in the word sequence are people interrupting? So, I guess that one's actually easier.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What about what about, um, the idea of using a relational database to, uh, store the information from the XML? So you would have XML basically would Uh, you you could use the XML to put the data in, and then when you get data out, you put it back in XML. So use XML as sort of the the transfer format,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Transfer.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh, but then you store the data in the database, which allows you to do all kinds of good search things in there.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The, uh One of the things that ATLAS is doing is they're trying to define an API which is independent of the back store,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so that, uh, you could define a single API and the the storage could be flat XML files or a database.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "My opinion on that is for the s sort of stuff that we're doing, I suspect it's overkill to do a full relational database, that, um, just a flat file and, uh, search tools I bet will be enough.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But that's the advantage of ATLAS, is that if we actually take decide to go that route completely and we program to their API, then if we wanted to add a database later it would be pretty easy.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It seems like the kind of thing you'd do if I don't know, if people start adding all kinds of s bells and whistles to the data. And so that might be I mean, it'd be good for us to know to use a format where we know we can easily, um, input that to some database if other people are using it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I guess I'm just a little hesitant to try to go whole hog on sort of the the whole framework that that NIST is talking about, with ATLAS and a database and all that sort of stuff,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "cuz it's a big learning curve, just to get going.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Whereas if we just do a flat file format, sure, it may not be as efficient but everyone can program in Perl and and use it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But this is.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, as opposed to.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I I'm still, um, not convinced that you can do much at all on the text on the flat file that that you know, the text representation. e Because the text representation is gonna be, uh, not reflecting the structure of of your words and annotations. It's just it's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, if it's not representing it, then how do you recover it? Of course it's representing it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No. You you have to what you have to do is you have to basically.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's the whole point.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Y yeah. You can use Perl to read it in and construct a internal representation that is essentially a lattice. But, the and then.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, that was a different point.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? So what I was saying is that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But that's what you'll have to do. Bec - be", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "For Perl if you want to just do Perl. If you wanted to use the structured XML query language, that's a different thing. And it's a set of tools that let you specify given the D - DDT DTD of the document, um, what sorts of structural searches you want to do. So you want to say that, you know, you're looking for, um, a tag within a tag within a particular tag that has this particular text in it, um, and, uh, refers to a particular value. And so the point isn't that an end - user, who is looking for a query like you specified, wouldn't program it in this language. What you would do is, someone would build a tool that used that as a library. So that they so that you wouldn't have to construct the internal representations yourself.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is a See, I think the kinds of questions, at least in the next to the end of this year, are there may be a lot of different ones, but they'll all have a similar nature. They'll be looking at either a word - level prosodic, uh, an a value,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "like a continuous value, like the slope of something. But you know, we'll do something where we some kind of data reduction where the prosodic features are sort o uh, either at the word - level or at the segment - level,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or or something like that. They're not gonna be at the phone - level and they're no not gonna be at the frame - level when we get done with sort of giving them simpler shapes and things. And so the main thing is just being able Well, I guess, the two goals. Um, one that Chuck mentioned is starting out with something that we don't have to start over, that we don't have to throw away if other people want to extend it for other kinds of questions,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and being able to at least get enough, uh, information out on where we condition the location of features on information that's in the kind of file that you put up there. And that would that would do it,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that there are quick and dirty solutions,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, for me.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and then there are long - term, big - infrastructure solutions. And so we want to try to pick something that lets us do a little bit of both.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "In the between, right. And especially that the representation doesn't have to be thrown away,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "even if your tools change.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so it seems to me that I mean, I have to look at it again to see whether it can really do what we want, but if we use the ATLAS external file representation, um, it seems like it's rich enough that you could do quick tools just as I said in Perl, and then later on if we choose to go up the learning curve, we can use the whole ATLAS inter infrastructure,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, that sounds good to me.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "which has all that built in.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I I don't So if if you would l look at that and let us know what you think.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, I think we're sort of guinea pigs, cuz I I want to get the prosody work done but I don't want to waste time, you know, getting the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I wouldn't wait for the formats, because anything you pick we'll be able to translate to another form.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well Ma well, maybe you should actually look at it yourself too to get a sense of what it is you'll you'll be dealing with,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "because, um, you know, Adam might have one opinion but you might have another, so", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think the more eyes look at this the better.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Especially if there's, e um you know, if someone can help with at least the the setup of the right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hi, Jane.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, hi.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the right representation, then, i you know, I hope it won't We don't actually need the whole full - blown thing to be ready,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can you Oh, well.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so. Um, so maybe if you guys can look at it and sort of see what,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um I think we're we're we're actually just.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We're about done.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "wrapping up, but, um Yeah, sorry, it's a uh short meeting, but, um Well, I don't know. Is there anything else, like I mean that helps me a lot,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, I think the other thing we might want to look at is alternatives to P - file.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, th the reason I like P - file is I'm already familiar with it, we have expertise here, and so if we pick something else, there's the learning - curve problem. But, I mean, it is just something we developed at ICSI.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is there an is there an IP - API?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There's an API for it. And, uh,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "There used to be a problem that they get too large,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "a bunch of libraries, P - file utilities.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and so basically the uh the filesystem wouldn't.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, that's gonna be a problem no matter what. You have the two - gigabyte limit on the filesystem size. And we definitely hit that with Broadcast News.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Maybe you could extend the API to, uh, support, uh, like splitting up, you know, conceptually one file into smaller files on disk so that you can essentially, you know, have arbitrarily long f", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep. Most of the tools can handle that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that we didn't do it at the API - level. We did it at the t tool - level. That that most many of them can s you can specify several P - files and they'll just be done sequentially.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, I guess, yeah, if if you and Don can if you can show him the P - file stuff and see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So this would be like for the F - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, if you do \" man P - file \" or \" apropos P - file \", you'll see a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I've used the P - file, I think. I've looked at it at least, briefly, I think when we were doing s something.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What does the P stand for anyway?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, in there.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I didn't de I didn't develop it. You know, it was I think it was Dave Johnson. So it's all part of the Quicknet library. It has all the utilities for it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, P - files were around way before Quicknet. P - files were were around when w with, um, RAP.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, were they?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's like the history of ICSI.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You worked with P - files.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I worked with P - files.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't remember what the \" P \" is, though.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But there are ni they're The Quicknet library has a bunch of things in it to handle P - files,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so it works pretty well.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And that isn't really, I guess, as important as the the main I don't know what you call it, the the main sort of word - level.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Neither do I.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Probably stands for \" Phil \". Phil Kohn.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's a Phil file?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's my guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Huh. OK. Well, that's really useful. I mean, this is exactly the kind of thing that I wanted to settle. Um, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've been meaning to look at the ATLAS stuff again anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, just keep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess it's also sort of a political deci I mean, if if you feel like that's a community that would be good to tie into anyway, then it's sounds like it's worth doing.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it it w", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "j I think there's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, w uh, as I said, I what I did with this stuff I based it on theirs. It's just they hadn't actually come up with an external format yet. So now that they have come up with a format, it doesn't it seems pretty reasonable to use it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But let me look at it again.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, great.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "As I said, that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Cuz we actually can start.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's one level there's one more level of indirection and I'm just blanking on exactly how it works. I gotta look at it again.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, we can start with, um, I guess, this input from Dave's, which you had printed out, the channelized input. Cuz he has all of the channels, you know, with the channels in the tag and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've seen it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that would be i directly,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep. Easy easy to map.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um Yeah. And so then it would just be a matter of getting making sure to handle the annotations that are, you know, not at the word - level and, um, t to import the", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Where are those annotations coming from?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, right now, I g Jane would would.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Are you talking about the overlap a annotations?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, any kind of annotation that, like, isn't already there. Uh, you know, anything you can envision.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So what I was imagining was um, so Dave says we can have unlimited numbers of green ribbons. And so put, uh, a a green ribbon on for an overlap code. And since we w we I I think it's important to remain flexible regarding the time bins for now. And so it's nice to have However, you know, you want to have it, uh, time time uh, located in the discourse. So, um, if we if we tie the overlap code to the first word in the overlap, then you'll have a time - marking. It won't it'll be independent of the time bins, however these e evolve, shrink, or whatever, increase, or Also, you could have different time bins for different purposes. And having it tied to the first word in an overlap segment is unique, uh, you know, anchored, clear. And it would just end up on a separate ribbon.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So the overlap coding is gonna be easy with respect to that. You look puzzled.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I I just I don't quite understand what these things are.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What, the codes themselves?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Well, th overlap codes.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or the?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I'm not sure what that @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, is that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It probably doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, we don't have to go into the codes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I mean, it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, I d", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We don't have to go into the codes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I mean, that not for the topic of this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But let me just No. W the idea is just to have a separate green ribbon, you know, and and and let's say that this is a time bin. There's a word here. This is the first word of an overlapping segment of any length, overlapping with any other, uh, word uh, i segment of any length. And, um, then you can indicate that this here was perhaps a ch a backchannel, or you can say that it was, um, a usurping of the turn, or you can you know, any any number of categories. But the fact is, you have it time - tagged in a way that's independent of the, uh, sp particular time bin that the word ends up in. If it's a large unit or a small unit, or", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "we sh change the boundaries of the units, it's still unique and and, uh, fits with the format,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "flexible, all that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Um, it would be nice um, eh, gr this is sort of r regarding uh, uh it's related but not directly germane to the topic of discussion, but, when it comes to annotations, um, you often find yourself in the situation where you have different annotations of the same, say, word sequence. OK?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And sometimes the word sequences even differ slightly because they were edited s at one place but not the other.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So, once this data gets out there, some people might start annotating this for, I don't know, dialogue acts or, um, you know, topics or what the heck. You know, there's a zillion things that people might annotate this for. And the only thing that is really sort of common among all the versi the various versions of this data is the word sequence, or approximately.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Or the time.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Or the times. But, see, if you'd annotate dialogue acts, you don't necessarily want to or topics you don't really want to be dealing with time - marks.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You'd it's much more efficient for them to just see the word sequence, right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, most people aren't as sophisticated as as we are here with, you know, uh, time alignments and stuff. So So the the the point is.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Should should we mention some names on the people who are n?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. So, um, the p my point is that you're gonna end up with, uh, word sequences that are differently annotated. And you want some tool, uh, that is able to sort of merge these different annotations back into a single, uh, version. OK? Um, and we had this problem very massively, uh, at SRI when we worked, uh, a while back on, uh well, on dialogue acts as well as, uh, you know, um, what was it? uh,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, all the Switchboard in it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "utterance types. There's, uh, automatic, uh, punctuation and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Because we had one set of annotations that were based on, uh, one version of the transcripts with a particular segmentation, and then we had another version that was based on, uh, a different s slightly edited version of the transcripts with a different segmentation. So, we had these two different versions which were you know, you could tell they were from the same source but they weren't identical. So it was extremely hard to reliably merge these two back together to correlate the information from the different annotations.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep. I I don't see any way that file formats are gonna help us with that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's it's all a question of semantic.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No. But once you have a file format, I can imagine writing not personally, but someone writing a tool that is essentially an alignment tool, um, that mediates between various versions,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and uh, sort of like th uh, you know, you have this thing in UNIX where you have, uh, diff.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Diff.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "W - diff or diff.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's the, uh, diff that actually tries to reconcile different two diffs f based on the same original.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Is it S - diff?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Something like that, um, but operating on these lattices that are really what's behind this uh, this annotation format.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There's actually a diff library you can use to do things like that that so you have different formats.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You could definitely do that with the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So somewhere in the API you would like to have like a merge or some some function that merges two two versions.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's gonna be very hard. Any sort of structured anything when you try to merge is really, really hard", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because you ha i The hard part isn't the file format. The hard part is specifying what you mean by \" merge \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's very difficult.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But the one thing that would work here actually for i that is more reliable than the utterances is the the speaker ons and offs. So if you have a good,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But this is exactly what I mean, is that that the problem i", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um Yeah. You just have to know wha what to tie it to.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. The problem is saying \" what are the semantics,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "what do you mean by \" merge \"? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. So so just to let you know what we where we kluged it by, uh, doing uh, by doing Hhh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Both were based on words, so, bo we have two versions of the same words intersp you know, sprinkled with with different tags for annotations.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then you did diff.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And we did diff. Exactly!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's just what I thought.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And that's how.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's just wh how I would have done it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, you know, it had lots of errors and things would end up in the wrong order, and so forth. Uh, so, um, if you had a more.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, it it was a kluge because it was basically reducing everything to uh, to uh, uh, to textual alignment.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "A textual.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, d isn't that something where whoever if if the people who are making changes, say in the transcripts, cuz this all happened when the transcripts were different ye um, if they tie it to something, like if they tied it to the acoustic segment if they You know what I mean? Then Or if they tied it to an acoustic segment and we had the time - marks, that would help.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But the problem is exactly as Adam said, that you get, you know, y you don't have that information or it's lost in the merge somehow,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, can I ask one question?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It it seems to me that, um, we will have o an official version of the corpus, which will be only one one version in terms of the words where the words are concerned. We'd still have the the merging issue maybe if coding were done independently of the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And you're gonna get that", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "because if the data gets out, people will do all kinds of things to it. And, uh, s you know, several years from now you might want to look into, um, the prosody of referring expressions. And someone at the university of who knows where has annotated the referring expressions. So you want to get that annotation and bring it back in line with your data.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But unfortunately they've also hand - edited it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, then.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But they've also Exactly. And so that's exactly what we should somehow when you distribute the data, say that you know, that have some way of knowing how to merge it back in and asking people to try to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, then the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "What's what's wrong with doing times? I.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I agree. That was what I was wondering.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, time is the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Time is unique. You were saying that you didn't think we should.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Time is passing!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Time time times are ephemeral.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Andreas was saying Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "what if they haven't notated with them, times?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. He he's a language modeling person, though.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So so imagine I think his his example is a good one. Imagine that this person who developed the corpus of the referring expressions didn't include time.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He included references to words.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Ach!", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He said that at this word is when when it happened.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, then.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Or she.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or she.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But then couldn't you just indirectly figure out the time tied to the word?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But still they Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Sure. But what if what if they change the words?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Not Well, but you'd have some anchoring point. He couldn't have changed all the words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But can they change the words without changing the time of the word?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Sure. But they could have changed it a little. The the point is, that that they may have annotated it off a word transcript that isn't the same as our word transcript, so how do you merge it back in? I understand what you're saying.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And I I guess the answer is, um, it's gonna be different every time. It's j it's just gonna be.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I it's exactly what I said before,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You only know the boundaries of the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "which is that \" what do you mean by \" merge \"? \" So in this case where you have the words and you don't have the times, well, what do you mean by \" merge \"? If you tell me what you mean, I can write a program to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Right. You can merge at the level of the representation that the other person preserved and that's it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. And that's about all you can do.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And beyond that, all you know is is relative ordering and sometimes even that is wrong.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So so in so in this one you would have to do a best match between the word sequences,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "extract the times f from the best match of theirs to yours, and use that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then infer that their time - marks are somewhere in between.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But it could be that they just uh, I mean, it could be that they chunked they they lost certain utterances and all that stuff,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, exactly. So it could get very, very ugly.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Definitely. Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Well, I guess, w I I didn't want to keep people too long and Adam wanted t people I'll read the digits. If anyone else offers to, that'd be great. And", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah, well.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "if not, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "For th for the for the benefit of science we'll read the digits.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "More digits, the better. OK, this is", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Thanks thanks a lot. It's really helpful. I mean, Adam and Don will sort of meet and I think that's great. Very useful. Go next.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Scratch that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "O three", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bed012", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "So I guess this is more or less now just to get you up to date, Johno. This is what, uh,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "This is a meeting for me.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um, Eva, Bhaskara, and I did.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Did you add more stuff to it? later?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um. Why?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um. I don't know. There were, like, the you know, @ @ and all that stuff. But. I thought you you said you were adding stuff", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, no.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "This is Um, Ha! Very nice. Um, so we thought that, We can write up uh, an element, and for each of the situation nodes that we observed in the Bayes - net? So. What's the situation like at the entity that is mentioned? if we know anything about it? Is it under construction? Or is it on fire or something happening to it? Or is it stable? and so forth, going all the way um, f through Parking, Location, Hotel, Car, Restroom, @ @ Riots, Fairs, Strikes, or Disasters.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So is This is A situation are is all the things which can be happening right now? Or, what is the situation type?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's basically just specifying the the input for the w what's", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, I see y Why are you specifying it in XML?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um. Just because it forces us to be specific about the values here?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, also, I mean, this is a what the input is going to be. Right? So, we will, uh This is a schema. This is.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. I just don't know if this is th l what the Does This is what Java Bayes takes? as a Bayes - net spec?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, because I mean if we I mean we're sure gonna interface to We're gonna get an XML document from somewhere. Right? And that XML document will say \" We are able to We were able to observe that w the element, um, @ @ of the Location that the car is near. \" So that's gonna be Um.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So this is the situational context, everything in it. Is that what Situation is short for, shi situational context?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So this is just, again, a an XML schemata which defines a set of possible, uh, permissible XML structures, which we view as input into the Bayes - net. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And then we can r uh possibly run one of them uh transformations? That put it into the format that the Bayes n or Java Bayes or whatever wants?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yea - Are you talking are you talking about the the structure?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean when you observe a node.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "When you when you say the input to the v Java Bayes, it takes a certain format,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "right? Which I don't think is this. Although I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, it's certainly not this. Nuh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So you could just Couldn't you just run a.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "XSL. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. To convert it into the Java Bayes for format?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's That's no problem, but I even think that, um I mean, once Once you have this sort of as running as a module Right? What you want is You wanna say, \" OK, give me the posterior probabilities of the Go - there node, when this is happening. \" Right? When the person said this, the car is there, it's raining, and this is happening. And with this you can specify the what's happening in the situation, and what's happening with the user. So we get After we are done, through the Situation we get the User Vector. So, this is a.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So this is just a specification of all the possible inputs?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. And, all the possible outputs, too. So, we have, um, for example, the, uh, Go - there decision node", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "which has two elements, going - there and its posterior probability, and not - going - there and its posterior probability, because the output is always gonna be all the decision nodes and all the the a all the posterior probabilities for all the values.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And then we would just look at the, eh, Struct that we wanna look at in terms of if if we're only asking about one of the So like, if I'm just interested in the going - there node, I would just pull that information out of the Struct that gets return that would that Java Bayes would output?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, pretty much, yes, but I think it's a little bit more complex. As, if I understand it correctly, it always gives you all the posterior probabilities for all the values of all decision nodes. So, when we input something, we always get the, uh, posterior probabilities for all of these. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So there is no way of telling it t not to tell us about the EVA values.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, wait I agree, that's yeah, use oh, uh Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So so we get this whole list of of, um, things, and the question is what to do with it, what to hand on, how to interpret it, in a sense. So y you said if you \" I'm only interested in whether he wants to go there or not \", then I just look at that node, look which one.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Look at that Struct in the output,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Look at that Struct in the the output, even though I wouldn't call it a \" Struct \". But.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well i well, it's an XML Structure that's being res returned,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So every part of a structure is a \" Struct \". Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I just uh I just was abbreviated it to Struct in my head, and started going with that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That element or object, I would say.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Not a C Struct. That's not what I was trying to k", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "though yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. And, um, the reason is why I think it's a little bit more complex or why why we can even think about it as an interesting problem in and of itself is Um. So. The, uh Let's look at an example.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, w wouldn't we just take the structure that's outputted and then run another transformation on it, that would just dump the one that we wanted out?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. w We'd need to prune. Right? Throw things away.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, actually, you don't even need to do that with XML.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "D Can't you just look at one specific.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. The @ @ Xerxes allows you to say, u \" Just give me the value of that, and that, and that. \" But, we don't really know what we're interested in before we look at the complete at at the overall result. So the person said, um, \" Where is X? \" and so, we want to know, um, is Does he want info? o on this? or know the location? Or does he want to go there? Let's assume this is our our question.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Nuh? So. Um. Do this in Perl. So we get OK. Let's assume this is the output. So. We should con be able to conclude from that that I mean. It's always gonna give us a value of how likely we think i it is that he wants to go there and doesn't want to go there, or how likely it is that he wants to get information. But, maybe w we should just reverse this to make it a little bit more delicate. So, does he wanna know where it is? or does he wanna go there?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "He wants to know where it is.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. I I I tend to agree. And if it's If.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well now, y I mean, you could.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And i if there's sort of a clear winner here, and, um and this is pretty, uh indifferent, then we then we might conclude that he actually wants to just know where, uh t uh, he does want to go there.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, out of curiosity, is there a reason why we wouldn't combine these three nodes? into one smaller subnet? that would just basically be the question for We have \" where is X? \" is the question, right? That would just be Info - on or Location? Based upon.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or Go - there. A lot of people ask that, if they actually just wanna go there. People come up to you on campus and say, \" Where's the library? \" You're gonna say y you're gonna say, g \" Go down that way. \" You're not gonna say \" It's It's five hundred yards away from you \" or \" It's north of you \", or \" it's located \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean But the there's So you just have three decisions for the final node, that would link thes these three nodes in the net together.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um. I don't know whether I understand what you mean. But. Again, in this Given this input, we, also in some situations, may wanna postulate an opinion whether that person wants to go there now the nicest way, use a cab, or so s wants to know it wants to know where it is because he wants something fixed there, because he wants to visit t it or whatever. So, it n I mean a All I'm saying is, whatever our input is, we're always gonna get the full output. And some some things will always be sort of too not significant enough.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wha Or i or i it'll be tight. You won't it'll be hard to decide.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But I mean, I guess I guess the thing is, uh, this is another, smaller, case of reasoning in the case of an uncertainty, which makes me think Bayes - net should be the way to solve these things. So if you had If for every construction,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "right? you could say, \" Well, there Here's the Where - Is construction. \" And for the Where - Is construction, we know we need to l look at this node, that merges these three things together", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "as for th to decide the response. And since we have a finite number of constructions that we can deal with, we could have a finite number of nodes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Say, if we had to y deal with arbitrary language, it wouldn't make any sense to do that, because there'd be no way to generate the nodes for every possible sentence.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But since we can only deal with a finite amount of stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, basically, the idea is to f to feed the output of that belief - net into another belief - net.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, so basically take these three things and then put them into another belief - net.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But, why why why only those three? Why not the whol", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, d For the Where - Is question. So we'd have a node for the Where - Is question.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But we believe that all the decision nodes are can be relevant for the Where - Is, and the Where How - do - I - get - to or the Tell - me - something - about.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You can come in if you want.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes, it is allowed.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "As long as y you're not wearing your h your h headphones. Well, I do I See, I don't know if this is a good idea or not. I'm just throwing it out. But uh, it seems like we could have I mea or uh we could put all of the all of the r information that could also be relevant into the Where - Is node answer", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "node thing stuff. And uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean Let's not forget we're gonna get some very strong input from these sub dis from these discourse things, right? So. \" Tell me the location of X. \" Nuh? Or \" Where is X located at? \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We u", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Nuh?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, but the Bayes - net would be able to The weights on the on the nodes in the Bayes - net would be able to do all that,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "wouldn't it? Here's a k Oh! Oh, I'll wait until you're plugged in. Oh, don't sit there. Sit here. You know how you don't like that one. It's OK. That's the weird one. That's the one that's painful. That hurts. It hurts so bad. I'm h I'm happy that they're recording that. That headphone. The headphone that you have to put on backwards, with the little little thing and the little little foam block on it? It's a painful, painful microphone.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think it's th called \" the Crown \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The crown?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, versus \" the Sony \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The Crown? Is that the actual name? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. The manufacturer.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I don't see a manufacturer on it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You w", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, wait, here it is. h This thingy. Yeah, it's \" The Crown \". The crown of pain!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You're on - line?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Are you are your mike o Is your mike on?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Indeed.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. So you've been working with these guys? You know what's going on?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes, I have. And, I do. Yeah, alright. s So where are we?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Excellent!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We're discussing this.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I don't think it can handle French, but anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. Assume we have something coming in. A person says, \" Where is X? \", and we get a certain We have a Situation vector and a User vector and everything is fine? An - an and and our and our.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Did you just sti Did you just stick the m the the the microphone actually in the tea?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I'm not drinking tea. What are you talking about?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "let's just assume our Bayes - net just has three decision nodes for the time being. These three, he wants to know something about it, he wants to know where it is, he wants to go there.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "In terms of, these would be wha how we would answer the question Where - Is, right? We u This is i That's what you s it seemed like, explained it to me earlier", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but, mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "w We we're we wanna know how to answer the question \" Where is X? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I can I can do the Timing node in here, too, and say \" OK. \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, but in the s uh, let's just deal with the s the simple case of we're not worrying about timing or anything. We just want to know how we should answer \" Where is X? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. And, um, OK, and, Go - there has two values, right?, Go - there and not - Go - there. Let's assume those are the posterior probabilities of that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Info - on has True or False and Location. So, he wants to know something about it, and he wants to know something he wants to know Where - it - is,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "has these values. And, um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, I see why we can't do that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, um, in this case we would probably all agree that he wants to go there. Our belief - net thinks he wants to go there,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "In the, uh, whatever, if we have something like this here, and this like that and maybe here also some.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You should probably make them out of Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "something like that,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, it", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "then we would guess, \" Aha! He, our belief - net, has s stronger beliefs that he wants to know where it is, than actually wants to go there. \" Right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That it Doesn't this assume, though, that they're evenly weighted?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Like I guess they are evenly weighted.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The different decision nodes, you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, the Go - there, the Info - on, and the Location?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, d yeah, this is making the assumption. Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What do you mean by \" differently weighted \"? They don't feed into anything really anymore.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But I mean, why do we.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or I jus", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "If we trusted the Go - there node more th much more than we trusted the other ones, then we would conclude, even in this situation, that he wanted to go there.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Le", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, in that sense, we weight them equally right now.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Makes sense. Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So the But I guess the k the question that I was as er wondering or maybe Robert was proposing to me is How do we d make the decision on as to which one to listen to?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, the final d decision is the combination of these three. So again, it's it's some kind of, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Bayes - net.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK so, then, the question i So then my question is t to you then, would be So is the only r reason we can make all these smaller Bayes - nets, because we know we can only deal with a finite set of constructions? Cuz oth If we're just taking arbitrary language in, we couldn't have a node for every possible question, you know?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "A decision node for every possible question, you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, I like, in the case of Yeah. In the ca Any piece of language, we wouldn't be able to answer it with this system, b if we just h Cuz we wouldn't have the correct node. Basically, w what you're s proposing is a n Where - Is node, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And and if we And if someone says, you know, uh, something in Mandarin to the system, we'd - wouldn't know which node to look at to answer that question,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So is Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, but but if we have a finite What?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I don't see your point. What what what I am thinking, or what we're about to propose here is we're always gonna get the whole list of values and their posterior probabilities. And now we need an expert system or belief - net or something that interprets that, that looks at all the values and says, \" The winner is Timing. Now, go there. \" \" Uh, go there, Timing, now. \" Or, \" The winner is Info - on, Function - Off. \" So, he wants to know something about it, and what it does. Nuh? Uh, regardless of of of the input. Wh - Regardle", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but But how does the expert but how does the expert system know how who which one to declare the winner, if it doesn't know the question it is, and how that question should be answered?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Based on the k what the question was, so what the discourse, the ontology, the situation and the user model gave us, we came up with these values for these decisions.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah I know. But how do we weight what we get out? As, which one i Which ones are important? So my i So, if we were to it with a Bayes - net, we'd have to have a node for every question that we knew how to deal with, that would take all of the inputs and weight them appropriately for that question.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Does that make sense? Yay, nay?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, I mean, are you saying that, what happens if you try to scale this up to the situation, or are we just dealing with arbitrary language?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is that your point?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, no. I I guess my question is, Is the reason that we can make a node f or OK. So, lemme see if I'm confused. Are we going to make a node for every question? Does that make sense?.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "For every question?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Every construction.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm. I don't Not necessarily, I would think. I mean, it's not based on constructions, it's based on things like, uh, there's gonna be a node for Go - there or not, and there's gonna be a node for Enter, View, Approach.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Wel W OK. So, someone asked a question.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "How do we decide how to answer it?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, look at look Face yourself with this pr question. You get this You'll have y This is what you get. And now you have to make a decision. What do we think? What does this tell us? And not knowing what was asked, and what happened, and whether the person was a tourist or a local, because all of these factors have presumably already gone into making these posterior probabilities. What what we need is a just a mechanism that says, \" Aha! There is \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I just don't think a \" winner - take - all \" type of thing is the.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, in general, like, we won't just have those three, right? We'll have, uh, like, many, many nodes. So we have to, like So that it's no longer possible to just look at the nodes themselves and figure out what the person is trying to say.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep. Because there are interdependencies, right? The uh Uh, no. So if if for example, the Go - there posterior possibility is so high, um, uh, w if it's if it has reached reached a certain height, then all of this becomes irrelevant. So. If even if if the function or the history or something is scoring pretty good on the true node, true value.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wel I don't know about that, cuz that would suggest that I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "He wants to go there and know something about it?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Do they have to be mutual Yeah. Do they have to be mutually exclusive?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think to some extent they are. Or maybe they're not.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cuz I, uh The way you describe what they meant, they weren't mutu uh, they didn't seem mutually exclusive to me.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, if he doesn't want to go there, even if the Enter posterior proba So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wel", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Go - there is No. Enter is High, and Info - on is High.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, just out of the other three, though, that you had in the.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "those three nodes. The - d They didn't seem like they were mutually exclusive.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, there's No. But It's through the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So th s so, yeah, but some So, some things would drop out, and some things would still be important.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But I guess what's confusing me is, if we have a Bayes - net to deal w another Bayes - net to deal with this stuff,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "you know, uh, is the only reason OK, so, I guess, if we have a Ba - another Bayes - net to deal with this stuff, the only r reason we can design it is cuz we know what each question is asking?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then, so, the only reason way we would know what question he's asking is based upon Oh, so if Let's say I had a construction parser, and I plug this in, I would know what each construction the communicative intent of the construction was", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and so then I would know how to weight the nodes appropriately, in response. So no matter what they said, if I could map it onto a Where - Is construction, I could say, \" ah!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Ge Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "well the the intent, here, was Where - Is \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and I could look at those.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes, I mean. Sure. You do need to know I mean, to have that kind of information.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, I'm also agreeing that a simple pru Take the ones where we have a clear winner. Forget about the ones where it's all sort of middle ground. Prune those out and just hand over the ones where we have a winner. Yeah, because that would be the easiest way. We just compose as an output an XML mes message that says. \" Go there now. \" \" Enter historical information. \" And not care whether that's consistent with anything. Right? But in this case if we say, \" definitely he doesn't want to go there. He just wants to know where it is. \" or let's call this this \" Look - At - H \" He wants to know something about the history of. So he said, \" Tell me something about the history of that. \" Now, the e But for some reason the Endpoint - Approach gets a really high score, too. We can't expect this to be sort of at O point three, three, three, O point, three, three, three, O point, three, three, three. Right? Somebody needs to zap that. You know? Or know There needs to be some knowledge that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We Yeah, but, the Bayes - net that would merge I just realized that I had my hand in between my mouth and my micr er, my and my microphone. So then, the Bayes - net that would merge there, that would make the decision between Go - there, Info - on, and Location, would have a node to tell you which one of those three you wanted, and based upon that node, then you would look at the other stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, it i Does that make sense?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. It's sort of one of those, that's It's more like a decision tree, if if you want. You first look o at the lowball ones,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, i", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I didn't intend to say that every possible OK. There was a confusion there, k I didn't intend to say every possible thing should go into the Bayes - net, because some of the things aren't relevant in the Bayes - net for a specific question. Like the Endpoint is not necessarily relevant in the Bayes - net for Where - Is until after you've decided whether you wanna go there or not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Show us the way, Bhaskara.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I guess the other thing is that um, yeah. I mean, when you're asked a specific question and you don't even Like, if you're asked a Where - Is question, you may not even look like, ask for the posterior probability of the, uh, EVA node, right? Cuz, that's what I mean, in the Bayes - net you always ask for the posterior probability of a specific node. So, I mean, you may not even bother to compute things you don't need.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um. Aren't we always computing all?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No. You can compute, uh, the posterior probability of one subset of the nodes, given some other nodes, but totally ignore some other nodes, also. Basically, things you ignore get marginalized over.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's that's just shifting the problem. Then you would have to make a decision,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you have to make.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "\" OK, if it's a Where - Is question, which decision nodes do I query? \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes. But I would think that's what you want to do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's un", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, eventually, you still have to pick out which ones you look at.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So it's pretty much the same problem,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah it's it's it's apples and oranges.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "isn't it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Nuh? I mean, maybe it does make a difference in terms of performance, computational time.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So either you always have it compute all the posterior possibilities for all the values for all nodes, and then prune the ones you think that are irrelevant,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or you just make a p @ @ a priori estimate of what you think might be relevant and query those.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So basically, you'd have a decision tree query, Go - there. If k if that's false, query this one. If that's true, query that one. And just basically do a binary search through the?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I don't know if it would necessarily be that, uh, complicated. But, uh I mean, it w", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, in the case of Go - there, it would be. In the case Cuz if you needed an If y If Go - there was true, you'd wanna know what endpoint was. And if it was false, you'd wanna d look at either Lo - Income Info - on or History.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true, I guess. Yeah, so, in a way you would have that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Also, I'm somewhat boggled by that Hugin software.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, why's that?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I can't figure out how to get the probabilities into it. Like, I'd look at.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's somewha It's boggling me.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Alright. Well, hopefully it's fixable.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ju", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's there's a.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, yeah. I d I just think I haven't figured out what the terms in Hugin mean, versus what Java Bayes terms are.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um, by the way, are Do we know whether Jerry and Nancy are coming?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So we can figure this out.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "They should come when they're done their stuff, basically, whenever that is. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What d what do they need to do left?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, I guess, Jerry needs to enter marks, but I don't know if he's gonna do that now or later. But, uh, if he's gonna enter marks, it's gonna take him awhile, I guess, and he won't be here.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And what's Nancy doing?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Nancy? Um, she was sorta finishing up the, uh, calculation of marks and assigning of grades, but I don't know if she should be here. Well or, she should be free after that, so assuming she's coming to this meeting. I don't know if she knows about it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "She's on the email list, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is she? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK. Because basically, what where we also have decided, prior to this meeting is that we would have a rerun of the three of us sitting together", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "sometime this week again", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and finish up the, uh, values of this. So we have, uh Believe it or not, we have all the bottom ones here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, I.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You added a bunch of nodes, for?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. We we we have Actually what we have is this line.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, what do the, uh, structures do?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So the the the For instance, this Location node's got two inputs,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Four inputs.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "that one you.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Those are The bottom things are inputs, also.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, that was OK. That makes a lot more sense to me now.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cuz I thought it was like, that one in Stuart's book about, you know, the.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alarm in the dog?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "U Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or the earthquake and the alarm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sorry. Yeah, I'm confusing two.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a dog one, too, but that's in Java Bayes,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "isn't it?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But there's something about bowel problems or something with the dog.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And we have all the top ones, all the ones to which no arrows are pointing. What we're missing are the these, where arrows are pointing, where we're combining top ones. So, we have to come up with values for this, and this, this, this, and so forth. And maybe just fiddle around with it a little bit more. And, um. And then it's just, uh, edges, many of edges. And, um, we won't meet next Monday. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cuz of Memorial Day?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We'll meet next Tuesday, I guess.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "When's Jerry leaving for Italia?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "On on Friday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which Friday?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This this Friday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. This Friday?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Ugh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "This Friday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "As in, four days?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Or, three days?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is he How long is he gone for?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Two weeks.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Italy, huh? What's, uh what's there?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it's a country. Buildings. People.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Pasta.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But it's not a conference or anything.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "He's just visiting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Just visiting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Vacation.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's a pretty nice place, in my brief, uh, encounter with it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Do you guys Oh, yeah. So. Part of what we actually want to do is sort of schedule out what we want to surprise him with when when he comes back. Um, so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, I think we should disappoint him.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah? You or have a finished construction parser and a working belief - net, and uh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That wouldn't be disappointing. I think w we should do absolutely no work for the two weeks that he's gone.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, that's actually what I had planned, personally. I had I I had sort of scheduled out in my mind that you guys do a lot of work, and I do nothing. And then, I sort of.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, that sounds good, too.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "sort of bask in in your glory. But, uh, i do you guys have any vacation plans, because I myself am going to be, um, gone, but this is actually not really important. Just this weekend we're going camping.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm wanna be this gone this weekend, too.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Ah. But we're all going to be here on Tuesday again? Looks like it?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, then. Let's meet meet again next Tuesday. And, um, finish up this Bayes - net. And once we have finished it, I guess we can, um and that's going to be more just you and me, because Bhaskara is doing probabilistic, recursive, structured, object - oriented, uh,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Killing machines!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "reasoning machines.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, um.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Killing, reasoning. What's the difference?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Wait. So you're saying, next Tuesday, is it the whole group meeting, or just us three working on it, or or?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh. The whole group. And we present our results, our final,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "definite.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, when you were saying we need to do a re - run of, like.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "h What?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What Like, just working out the rest of the.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. We should do this th the upcoming days.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "This week?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, this week, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "When you say, \" the whole group \", you mean the four of us, and Keith?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, Ami might.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Ami might be here, and it's possible that Nancy'll be here?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because, th you know, once we have the belief - net done.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You're just gonna have to explain it to me, then, on Tuesday, how it's all gonna work out. You know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We will. OK. Because then, once we have it sort of up and running, then we can start you know, defining the interfaces and then feed stuff into it and get stuff out of it, and then hook it up to some fake construction parser and.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That you will have in about nine months or so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The first bad version'll be done in nine months.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I can worry about the ontology interface and you can Keith can worry about the discourse. I mean, this is pretty Um, I mean, I I I hope everybody uh knows that these are just going to be uh dummy values, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "where the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which ones?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "S so so if the endpoint if the Go - there is Yes and No, then Go - there - discourse will just be fifty - fifty. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, what do you mean? If the Go - there says No, then the Go - there is.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't get it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I don't u understand.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Like, the Go - there depends on all those four things.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, what are the values of the Go - there - discourse?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, it depends on the situation. If the discourse is strongly indicating that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but, uh, we have no discourse input.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. The d See, uh, specifically in our situation, D and O are gonna be, uh Yeah. Sure. So, whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, so far we have Is that what the Keith node is?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. And you're taking it out? for now?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, this is D.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, this, I can I can get it in here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "All the D's are.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I can get it in here, so th We have the, uh, um, sk let's let's call it \" Keith - Johno", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Johno?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "node \". There is an H somewhere printed.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. People have the same problem with my name.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Does th th does the H go b before the A or after the A?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, in my name? Before the A.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, good. Cuz you kn When you said people have the same problem, I thought Cuz my H goes after the uh e e e the v", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "People have the inverse problem with my name.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. I always have to check, every time y I send you an email, a past email of yours, to make sure I'm spelling your name correctly.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I worry about you.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I appreciate that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, when you abbreviate yourself as the \" Basman \", you don't use any H's.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "\" Basman \"? Yeah, it's because of the chessplayer named Michael Basman, who is my hero.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You're a geek. It's O K. I", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "How do you pronou How do you pronounce your name?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Eva.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Eva?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Not Eva?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What if I were What if I were to call you Eva?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'd probably still respond to it. I've had people call me Eva, but I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, not just Eva, Eva. Like if I u take the V and s pronounce it like it was a German V?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Which is F.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, no idea then.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Voiced.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It sounds like an F.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There's also an F in German,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, it's just the difference between voiced and unvoiced.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "which is why I Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "As long as that's O K.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean, I might slip out and say it accidentally. That's all I'm saying.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It doesn't matter what those nodes are, anyway, because we'll just make the weights \" zero \" for now.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep. We'll make them zero for now, because it who who knows what they come up with, what's gonna come in there. OK. And, um, then should we start on Thursday?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And not meet tomorrow?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. I'll send an email, make a time suggestion.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wait, maybe it's OK, so that that that we can that we have one node per construction. Cuz even in people, like, they don't know what you're talking about if you're using some sort of strange construction.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, they would still c sort of get the closest, best fit.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, but I mean, the uh, I mean, that's what the construction parser would do.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, if you said something completely arbitrary, it would f find the closest construction,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "right? But if you said something that was completel er h theoretically the construction parser would do that But if you said something for which there was no construction whatsoever, n people wouldn't have any idea what you were talking about.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Like \" Bus dog fried egg. \" I mean. You know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or, if even something Chinese, for example.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Or, something in Mandarin, yeah. Or Cantonese, as the case may be. What do you think about that, Bhaskara?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean Well But how many constructions do could we possibly have nodes for?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "In this system, or in r", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, we. Like, when people do this kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, when p How many constructions do people have?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I have not the slightest idea.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is it considered to be like in are they considered to be like very, uh, sort of s abstract things?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Every noun is a construction.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so it's like in the thousands.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The Yeah. Any any form - meaning pair, to my understanding, is a construction.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And form u starts at the level of noun Or actually, maybe even sounds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Phoneme. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And goes upwards until you get the ditransitive construction.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then, of course, the c I guess, maybe there can be the Can there be combinations of the dit", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Discourse - level constructions.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. The \" giving a speech \" construction,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Rhetorical constructions.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, I mean, you know, you can probably count count the ways. I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's probab Yeah, I would s definitely say it's finite.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And at least in compilers, that's all that really matters, as long as your analysis is finite.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "How's that? How it can be finite, again?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Nah, I can't think of a way it would be infinite.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you can come up with new constructions.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. If the if your if your brain was totally non - deterministic, then perhaps there's a way to get, uh, infin an infinite number of constructions that you'd have to worry about.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But, I mean, in the practical sense, it's impossible.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Cuz if we have a fixed number of neurons?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So the best - case scenario would be the number of constructions or, the worst - case scenario is the number of constructions equals the number of neurons.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, two to the power of the number of neurons.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. 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{ "meetingId": "ES2016a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Oh, that's not gonna work. Oh, alright. Okay. Okay. Um alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, uh, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll just put that there. Uh as you all know we're here to create a brand new fantastic remote. Uh I'm Nick Debusk, I'm the Project Manager. Uh we'll just get started with everyone kind of letting each other know who they are and what you're doing, what your what your role is um. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I am Corinne Whiting and I will be the Marketing Expert and in each of the three phases I will have a different role. In the function design phase I will be talking about user requirement specification, and this means what needs and desires are to be fulfilled, and I'll be doing research to figure this out. In the conceptual design phase I will be dealing with trend watching and I'll be doing marketing research on the web. And then finally in the um detailed design phase I will be doing product evaluation and so I will be collecting the requirements and ranking all the requirements to see how we did.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hiya, I'm Ryan. Um I'm the User Interface Designer. Um likewise I've three different roles for each stage of design. Um the functional design is looking at the tex technical functions of a remote control. Um in the concept design, the user interface, how the user reacts with the the product. And the detailed design um sort of like the user interface design, what they might be looking for, uh things like fashions, what makes wha how we're gonna make it special. That's about it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. I'm Manuel and I'm the Industrial Designer in in this project um. In the functional design phase I'm I'll be dealing mostly with the requirements, um we'll discuss what the prog what functions the the product has to fulfil and so and so on. Um I suppose we'll work pretty much together on that one. Um um in the conceptual design um I'll be pro mostly dealing with properties and materials um of our product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh the detailed design in the detailed design I'll be concerned with the look and feel of the product itself, um so we're pretty much working together obviously on the design front here. Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um so we've got our opening, our our agenda is the opening, uh acquaintance which we've kinda done. Uh tool training, project plan discussion and then closing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh grand total of twenty five minutes we have here. Um so we are putting together a new remote control. Um we want it to be something original. Um of course we're a not only a electronics company but a fashion um conscious electronics company, so we want it to be trendy um and we want it to be easy to use. Um we've got the functional design, conceptual design and detailed design um which basically is is the three of you um. And w uh well um functional design um. Um do we have um any ideas of of maybe d let's just throw out some ideas of what kind of remote control we want to have, and then we can go into how we're gonna design it and and how we're gonna do the detailing on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well uh s function of remote control is just just you know, change channels is its main function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we want it to be um a T_V_ remote or I I mean do we want it to to do other things besides just be a a television remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right. I suppose you c try make it a universal remote", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "for could work on all sort of electrical products in in one person's house. But, you know, they all sorta have the same role changing channels, volumes and then programming.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think they all work on the same prin principle as well sorta like I don't actually know. But is it just infra-red? Is that standard?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think yeah, yeah, r universal remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ye yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um this is my first uh go-round with creating a remote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ours too..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we're all in the same boat here. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um one thing I thought of with the remote control is you always lose'em.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if there's a g a way of finding it quite easily, I thought that'd be quite good quite a good feature.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Ch", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we should we should set our remote control up to where it has a uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a tracking device?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like a tracking device or or like a a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh you can get those key well you could whistle or make a noise", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It makes a noise,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it'd beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there's a button on the T_V_ that you press", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Be good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Generally, all remotes are sort of quite similar in their appearance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do we want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so they're kinda like long and rectangular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we want something crazy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Black usually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, we want something new that's gonna stand out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Lot more modern.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A m a modern so our remote should be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so. Maybe sorta spherical or something. A ball.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe like user-friendly, like a little", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, where you can use both hands, like a little keyboard type thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought maybe, because people always tend to throw a remote control about the place to one another if it was in a ball,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and maybe the actual controls are inside or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there are of course certain restrictions, you can't have it be any form and fulfil all functions at the same time,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so there are always the some restrictions we have to apply here. Um however um one question is how stable is that thing supposed to be, that refers to the material, pretty much um. What are we gonna build that thing out of?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How sturdy is it gonna be? Do we want it to last longer or rather have people whatever, have to buy one every half a year?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so yeah, so we want it to be sturdy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we want it to to hold up to somebody's child, you know, throwing it across the room or, as you said, people kinda throw it, so ball-shaped, uh you know, if it were ball-shaped maybe,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could be cased on the outside and t everything could be inside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um so we want it to be modern, fun, sturdy, um So our form and our function. Um we want it to be um easy to find. Um What else it what else do we want it to to do? So we want it to be universal. It's something that we're supposed to sell for about twenty five Euros um and you know, goals for profits are I think somewhere around uh fifty million Euros, what they wanna make on it, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Also since we're partners of the International Remote Control Association, maybe we wanna make it something that would globally appeal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's more on the research end, but the marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So marketing, you know, how maybe uh marketing, you could s find out what is the most universally um appealing remote control out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And maybe as far as design goes, maybe we could have different ones for different target audiences,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause maybe one won't apply to all of the countries we're targeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ye Small.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Do you guys have any ideas for what it should look like? Maybe we could draw it up on the on the board over there. Some ideas? We want it to be a b a ball,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd I could draw sorta the ball idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, we'll draw up we'll draw up the ball and maybe th um where the buttons are located.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My original idea was just simply sort of a sphere, where maybe you this is where it's connected together, and then when you open it out, it could fol it could be maybe flip, like a flip phone, and then when you fold it out the middle Maybe a hinge that'll have to be the strongest part of it. If that if we did use a hinge, or if it was just two parts,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you'd have just sorta you you you know, your buttons. Thing is inside I think, sometimes remotes have too many buttons, so maybe as simple as possible, um as few buttons inside as possible. Um, I dunno, what's the idea for. Just something maybe if you ha if it had like if some kind of like light or something or lights around it. It's looking a bit like something out of Star Wars at the moment though, to be fair.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Futuristic..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was that was a sorta simple idea I had", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then you know you could about Right, it would almost be like a ball. So that was just just an idea I had. I don't know whether anybody else has other ideas?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. One problem you'd get with this design is um the ball is a nice idea because of it's stability really,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but of course, since it's a ball, it'll roll, so we'd have to have it flat on one side at least, down here somewhere,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe f yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "take away that part. That's one of the big issues. Also also you risk the hinges here. That's that's um a problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's g that's a good idea. Yeah. The idea it didn't have to necessarily be f a hinge,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's that's interesting of course,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that was just one idea though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's of course a weak point, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How would we go about um making you know getting rid of our weak points? What I mean would we just have a flat spot on the bottom of the ball?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not to put you on the spot,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E No no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What did you say your title was again?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're the the Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I'm your Industrial Designer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so i b well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the point is that well maybe I dunno. The shape is perhaps not the most ideal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As as stable as it is, there must be a compromise between um stability and design here, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I suppose that things become design. But I mean i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was trying to think of like the design of others. I can't think of anything other than a long rectangle for remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe small, sort of fatter ones, but there's nothing being done sort of out of left field, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not new, it's not innovative, it's you know, everybody does long remote because it's easy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's it's stable um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, I'll draw something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My idea was just to have it be kind of like a keyboard type shape, you know, like video games", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "l so. But maybe I mean that would be kinda big and bulky. We could also try to do the hinge thing, so it could like flip out that way. I don't know. That's my idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think definitely doing something different", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean maybe design something, that's sort of like suppose not everybody's everybody's hand's the same, but something that would maybe fit in the hand easier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something with a grip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, with a grip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because even I suppose even with the ball", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It still might be hard to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it still not the ho easiest thing to hold, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it might not be the easiest to hold onto um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So perhaps the the joystick the the keyboard idea might work better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then again, people like to use one hand to flip and one hand to hold their soda, so maybe maybe we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's d yeah. I think it's definitely got to be a a one-handed a one-handed job.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I feel like I'm just shooting everything down here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're the boss, you're allowed to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well with the one-handed design you also have the the problem of the size w'cause you know from cell phones, they can be too small. So if the remote is too small it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if it's small it probably looks better, but may not be th as functional. So for that there's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "unfortunately we've got about five minutes here to come up with our um remote control idea and start rolling with it. Um we've talked about our experiences with remote control and um we've got a couple ideas um. Let's see here. What if we had what if we had not only um say we went with the ball the ball function um, but maybe we give it sort of grips along the side s um to make it easier to hold on to. So you know um s so it's easier to hold onto that way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Course that'll then remove some of our our ball. Unless this unless this part were raised, so say the cover flips over and covers that part. So the grip is No, that wouldn't work either um. But if we're gonna make it flat on the bottom, then that eliminates our ball anyways. So if it were flat on the bottom and then had the sorta grips on the side here I guess, um and then flat uh And then we have the problem with the hinge. So if we're flat on the bottom, it's not gonna roll away, it'll stay where we want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The question is also, I dunno, d do you really always want to open that thing when you have to use it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's probably going to lie around opened all the time anyway, so I don't know if a lid is a good idea. From stabil stability point of view uh it certainly is, but also you have to face it and take into account the more of these things break by accident, uh the more we sell. So it's don't make it too stable uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we don't have it flip open. We just have a ball.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then maybe to go back to the to th s something along those things then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To the other design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so then we forget the ball.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It looks cool..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Looks cool though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks cool, but it's really not it's not functional um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh functional.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we've got our sort of keyboard kind. What if we flipped it around here, so that it were um Sorry, that doesn't look anything like what you had there. Um so it's up and down, you hold it this way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Course then it's it's like the rectangular again, only with a couple of jutting out points..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it's one-handed um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Question is what makes those game pads functional? W I think that's pretty much the form for full hand. So it's a round shape underneath that makes it comfy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "makes it nice, so that's the essential part. Except for that I think we'll not probably not get a get away from some longer design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause you also have to know which way around to point this thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, all", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because it doesn't have a cord, like joysticks do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that dif batteries right, and Batteries go weak as well, so um after a while you have to point it towards the uh towards the equipment you wanna control with it, right? So, have to m show which is the front, which is the back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it possible to have it to where it would work with a like a sensor on either side? So that either way you're pointing it it would work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose you could do that. O of course the more technology you stick in that, the more it'll cost, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "More expensive and yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Course you can do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean of course it'll be evident after a while or if you look at it, it'll it'll be evident which way around to point it, since you have the the numbers and the and the the buttons and stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um it's rather about an instinctual thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Put it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like you just grab it, you don't have to s look at it, you know, which way around to point it. Otherwise the design of or the the point of putting two sensors on both sides um would probably work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even if you designed it in some in a way that you know, isn't a rectangle, but still pointed in a direction that had definite points. So if that's your thing and you got something like that instead,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and there's your s you kn you know which way you're gonna pointing it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry to interrupt, but we have a warning to finish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we out of time?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well, just to finish up, should we s go with this plan, start making some Are good ideas, what are not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does it say what does it say for n", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Obviously.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it says on there what we need to do for the next meeting, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Must finish now, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then marketing will look and see what uh what people want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And Project Manager will design a better meeting for next time around, be a little bit more prepared.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh alright, good meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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Um Um we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E excuse me I forgot my", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "copy..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He's gonna get his pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um Will you guys first with your prototype um before we get to the good news?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's good news?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have budget problems.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Cutbacks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm afraid you're all sacked. Oops.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't even have this on..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, have you got a presentation to make?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, not mine yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's just your your show.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um maybe we should bring so that the camera can see. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We made three for you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three? Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um one's based on the banana, one's based on the tomato", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tomato? What tomato?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the other one is st", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't recall a tomato..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look. Oh yeah, well yeah, we had v some red left over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah I see, okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. Okay, so this is the um non to non uh no buttons one, or as mm few buttons as possible,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mainly speak recognition. The yellow there is the um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Logo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the slogan, yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, brilliant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that we need to incorporate, it's very simple. If you do need buttons, you can flip it over, and there's some there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um but mainly it's speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so the buttons would be like, you know individual users, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and yeah they might project things onto the screen which you can do on there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm I'm not sure about that. Um and this one is the one w more like the one w that we looked at earlier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you guys can have a look at that if you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's groovy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh can I have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I like the feel of it, I like the feel of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. Um that one is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh sorry s.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no, it's delicate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "At Oh dear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's already got its stand that one. That's it stand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It does also lie flat, but that's the that yellow stand there represents the the charging stand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, brilliant mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the black on the back is the slogan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, nice and obvious there,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, we did think of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if it's standing up, I guess, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if it's standing up it's it's on there, but also we're gonna have the company name on the front, which is the little black kind of line in the middle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay, brilliant. Like that from its centre.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um and that's the um transmit the L_E_D_ thing. These are the s two scroll ones which we thought could be channel up and down and volume up and down. We n were weren't sure about putting them there, because um i it's it kind of could get bashed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where you're, yeah, uh were you're holding it kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, if you hold it, you can you all can hold it, is it does actually feel quite ergonomic,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if you've got small hands.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, obviously I don't think that's real sized.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It would have to be a bit bigger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, scale model, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um that's a speaker at the top, so you can speak into it like a little walkie-talkie as well for speak recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um then the buttons. Yeah kind of self-explanatory, just buttons whenever you need them. Tried to keep it simple. Oh that's the charging base prongs at the bottom.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We used those. And um then the big red button in the middle is the on and off one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not in the traditional place,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um it's quite an obvious place.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's out of the way as well, I suppose, so. Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there we go and and um we have the banana-based one too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This one is uh, I suppose for the younger audiences.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A a more friendly type of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so so Barney the banana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, right. It's to uh induce more television watching I suppose or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah excellent, just what we need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Say it for the camera.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lo Sort of Loch Ness banana..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool yeah. Well, nice to have uh options at least.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So are there any um improvements or issues or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It won't stand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh there are issues, oh there are issues.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just let it lie down, it wont stand..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um main problem that we have unfortunately being finance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, let's just enter in the um evaluation criteria.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um unfortunately the unit we are currently going to produce minus the extra scroll buttons, uh it's gonna cost us fourteen point six Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's on the uh on the left?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "rea Sorry, I've accidentally highlighted somehow Um. There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh god, why is it doing that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There we go. So basically, um in order to save our two Euros um I was thinking that we could have essentially the same shape, but just have it flattened.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More like a traditional remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean it's already got a kind of cool shape, so but it wouldn't have to be curved sort of in and out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And by doing so Oh no, hold on. Doesn't save us quite as much. I don't know what's going on with this again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W why is the uh double curved two of them?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, good point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And double curve on both sides?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Curve. Yeah, this is double-curve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's sort of curve in and out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is double-curve. It This one is single curve.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause this is single curve, this is curved on both sides. So double-curve.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I think it means double curved as in um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like an S_ shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like uh a single curve on that bottom half, and the double curved would be if it was that similar curve upward.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I might be wrong though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like this, one curve on this side, one curve on that side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't think that counts as a curve, I think that's just a shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A curvature is like the this case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause that's the uh the biggest expense there, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "got two of them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and why why I've got it two, I don't know, I can't seem to select any more however.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Well we can work around that um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cut things out. But you think it should be one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's meant to be one, yeah, I don't know why I put two in there,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but um Hold on till I find it, I think this shift button might be stuck again. No maybe the shift button's stuck in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um okay, so that would take away three, which would give us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh that's fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we're.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eleven uh eleven Euros sixty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool. Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we could even add something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We cou Oh not quite, have the scroll-wheel, unfortunately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should fire the accountants.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fire the accountants..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah, we could add things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe if you click back in that bottom right cell, where you're starting from, and then use the arrow keys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does that work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, that just extends it as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh you can do one thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You just select one box outsi yeah, this box. Then move it with the help of this Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It One of the buttons is sticking, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just uh just uh Okay, just a minute. Okay. No input, like this. Shift. No it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it's'cause the uh the shift button's stuck, or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not working.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it the other shift button maybe?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should we ask Meli", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should we ask our technical expert Melissa?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that's fine. Um we've worked out what it would be anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you try both shift buttons? It could be the other side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cancel. Piss off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's too bad.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh well, never mind. Um. Right, so that's finances and I dunno what we what could we reckon we could add? Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well maybe we could add something, but maybe if.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I suppose that's our that's that's our design that we've got. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you th We're trying to save money, so. Yeah, if we're happy with the design there's no point in spending money, if we don't have to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if there is anything you think we've missed out there, then, you know, feel free to add it. Maybe I mean obviously it would be bigger so there might be more space for the the slogan on the front,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it's not in an ideal place right now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that's that's uh Okay, so project evaluation. We have under twelve Euros fifty. Project process, how do we think that went? Are we happy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think we have a a winning product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Evaluation. Oh we've been writing this up for m months.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it went quite smoothly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh room for creativity, were we happy with that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W I think we were very creative.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I mea I think it means sort of individually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, no, maybe?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Groovy. So uh we're just gonna. Uh yeah, okay. Teamwork? Leadership, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great leadership..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent leadership..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. You're all get you're all getting a raise. Uh teamwork. I thought went well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, everyone got enough input, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh and well means, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The technical stuff was brilliant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's buy more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh Right. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These pens are are neat though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what, new ideas found, means, to be honest.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, these are new ideas, like glow-in-the-dark or something like that. We discussed all the new ideas, but of course we couldn't reach any proper goals, we couldn't use these, but we h we are using these scroll buttons like this. These are new ideas we And new shapes, everything", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". At le.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Groovy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So just general thumbs up for all of us then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That kind of unfortunately is too quick.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. I suppose yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so let's talk about our bonuses and the raises we're getting for this, right..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's it, um I think another couple of days holiday pay might be well in order for all of you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh Let's see if I can get this bloody thing to work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh maybe we should start cleaning up the clay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whoops..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does it go back in, does it? Reusable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something we should get.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what this is but it's really really annoying.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Uh Brian, have you have you finished?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh mine needs also this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I have, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At last mine is also the presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Huh? Oh right, okay, you've got more, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, you got a presentation,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh ok", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It didn't bother to tell me that on this", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "thing. Is it? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh is the project evaluated, that is mine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Doesn't tell me. Oh you're doing that..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We evaluated ourselves, we thought we were great..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, love to eat that now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anybody.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kind of a green banana now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Clay covered banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's this as well, sorry, we forgot to mention it'll be made out of kind of a rubbery latex, new material that we've got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O okay, hold on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "blue.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I wonder w which cell do I want..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's fun to touch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I didn't realise you had that bit..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh could you pass the tomato please.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry. Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So now is the final evaluation, final evaluation of the uh uh of our product. How we are going to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "means uh at what standard what standard whether it meets our standards or not. How mu What rating we will give to these products. So of course this is will be a team work, w we together have to decide wha what rating we will give to this product and everything. So what methodology I will tell you on what basis we are going to discuss all this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We will give the rating to this product based on the user requirements, whether it meets the user requirements or not, this product. Then trends, whether it is as fashion trends or not? Means because we have already stated that people do prefer fashionable things nowadays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is also an important factor for our evaluation also. Then marketing strategy of the company. As we have already discussed that our company is quite in the market, not only in terms of providing quality products, not only in pro providing latest technologies, but also in terms of providing environmental s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry. Sorry,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "carry on..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So but also in terms of providing environmental safe products, uh yeah like uh keeping uh keeping in mind all the safety issues. So Now comes the criteria rating with seven point scale. I'm having this scale this scale,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we have to do it on a board.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the user requirem I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The board working again, is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have the uh the marker for the board?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are the three crite criterias for our evaluation of our product. First of all uh comes user requirement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we will see whether this product meets all user requirements or not. I I will first I would like to have your views, what do you think whether it meets all user requirements or not?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think Yeah, it did.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It had all the basic buttons that they needed as well as the uh new technology that people said they wanted.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When the user requirement is essentially just to operate the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does it work?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what do you think you will personally give.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of course we haven't actually got a working model yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say seven.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seven. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seven is good, yeah, isn't it? I can't True or false? No sorry tr one is true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh one is means highest ranking, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I think highest ranking is seven, or one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it's it's like true is one end, and false is the oth", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's false.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, right right. So it's one for from your point of view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And what do you say our Industrial Expert?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. It's hard to know. I I give it a two..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh d you can you can tell on on the like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think she has given her views on the basis of design, because she was our i Interface Expert.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you can give your views based on technology, whether the technology meets the requirements of the customers or not?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I think i it might even exceed it um. But I guess there is a kind of a shortage of buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I'm gonna give it a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And what about uh you, Brian?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, I'll go for a one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You will go for one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Basic requirements but of the pro of the project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh for me personally it is everything fine, it may be having good design, it may be uh meeting all the requirements of the customers like technology-wise, price-wise, but there is one thing which limits the customers, like we are having only two, three designs, like we are having one banana design and the other one is orange,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, lower end. And the third one is what you ge uh that is not a f fruit look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if a person doesn't like banana, or orange, you are limiting him.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Come on that was the tha.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, don't buy our product, because we are l we like this only.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we are showing our preference for particular fruits,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Being fruitist..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two or three kinds rather, and Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that no is that not trends?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh no, uh personally as a Marketing Expert I don't believe that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because whatever companies they launch their products in the shape of fruits, they give a range of products, a range of shapes, like if we see, look at the smallest thing, toffee chocolates, they give a variety of different things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some children like to buy banana shape, some apple shape, some even pineapple shape, some orange shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can what shape a person will like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So in this case giving only one or two choices we are lim limiting our customers. And by limiting them, we are limiting our sales, limiting our profit also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. But in electronics, I think, it's not q always quite so um you don't always have so many choices as with chocolates.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think, you know, if you're going to buy a T_V_ maybe a company'll have That you're going to choose from, a company'll have two or three choices, but they're different designs. We were coming up with one product.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh maybe. Okay but I will I will personally won't give it beyond three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I mean uh obviously your opinion,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm just trying to Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He's a tough cookie.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, on an average we can think three, four sevenths, maybe. Three or four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, no sorry,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it should be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six. Five or six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What are we doing?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What are we doing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, we are doing a very wrong thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Adding them up?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're gonna average them?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, we are taking everything,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So seven fourths.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that's I have taken it very wrongly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "About one point f one point eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "three four four two six seven seven sev Yeah one pe exactly. So we can say one or two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because it is one point eight uh two, so we will do two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah round it up to two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So trends.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So where were the trends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you explain what you want us to write there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How it how conforms to the current trends?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, again the the fashion trends, this also like whether it it will be fashionable to have these products in the uh as a fruit shape or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well um going on uh the specifications that we had, that fruit and vegetables are quite popular, and that people like something that is good to look at and not many buttons, I would give it um, well, because it's hard to make a fruit good to look at, that that looks cool, you know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I would actually give it a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tha three or four, I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three. Go for three. That's fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. As far as the uh technology it its' got the latest trends in speech technology, but it's missing the screen, as we said, um but it does have the push-buttons, or the scroll-buttons, um but it doesn't have that fancy solar power or the the vibrating energy mechanism. So I give it a a four. I'd give it a kinda middle of the road for", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I am sort of pret uh Just the fruit does me in, I mean uh it might", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it might be trendy to some, but I'm just not swallowing the fruit, so um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh also uh I would have liked to have seen the L_C_D_ screen in it. Um so yeah I'd say about four as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh personally I wi uh I think that in terms of trends, these products are quite good, like, these products are in fruit shape, because that wha people now our fashion trend shows that people like everything all f everything that is being advertised, like clothes, shoes, and everything is being advertised in the form of fruits and vegetables, or getting them or showing some association with them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So and in this way our product is good. And the second thing, now people don't want any complicated or bulky products and ours is quite simple and quite handy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that is also ef that also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Our product meets the f the fashion uh trends of the market. And yes. It is cus spongy also. So they can play with it, it's quite good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So then I think, maybe I can give it two. So four five ten thirteen thirteen. So we can Is it fine? So what about company strategy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it was yellow..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the company strategy, okay. Um there was lot of discussing, that was good. Um I feel I got my say. Um so I'd give the company strategy a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's the the remote control conforms to the the company strategy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that the question?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so one or two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One. Okay, just leave it, it's fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll go with two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what about you, Brian?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, a three. Pretty much kept to the company strategy, so I would go for a a one, as we not only kept it, but we were limited by.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and me also, like, this product me uh me uh me uh this meets all company strategy like our product should be as per customers' requirement, as per latest technology, and it should be environmental safe. So since our product meets all these requirements, so I would also prefer to give it rank one. So four six six", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So one and a half.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we can say two or one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A two..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So th seven seven. Uh overall we are getting two something, but we can round it as two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think overall uh evaluation of our product is quite good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool, groovy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can launch it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool. Brilliant..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Woo-hoo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In which case we are done.'Cause we've evaluated and we are within budget..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Champagne lunch anyone?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Great..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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Yeah I received an email so I thought I I can't mail you so I thought I'd just drop it in the folder, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah pretty much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey what's wrong with my computer?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it unlocked?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah that's my presentation..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Woah. I uh kind of opened it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you have to uh change your desktop uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "size.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Everybody ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. Yes yes yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "computer is uh not functioning?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Where do I find this? I'm not so g display huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then uh settings?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Appearance?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm I'm not sure I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You read the newsflash?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Can we get started", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No what was it about?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or is there some pressing issue?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah my computer is not functioning properly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh no pressing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you plug in the power cable when you come back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. No but my screen is reduced in size..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's difficult. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Feedback.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "alt delete..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Format..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Format save.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". So it doesn't draw the attention away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is dreadful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I made uh uh my own map.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No not this, but the task.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have Playstation also?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. No that's okay. No I just flapped it, closed it, took it here and then this happened. Ah. Uh where was it? In settings? Okay. Alright. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you guys like your tasks?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I spent a lot of time thinking about what I was gonna do and then a couple of minutes before this I get my function you know the information that I need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah wa wa you actually Yeah. But it it's not clear what you have to to to type uh type in your presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So frustrating.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I had a whole idea and then just was typing it and then oh. I have to do that so switch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah exactly. This presentation is mainly based on my own ideas'cause I hadn't time to intergrate tha the information yet so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Really annoying.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So there we are again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "By your humble P_M_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay this is the agenda. Um we have three presentations, I heard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Really..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah really. So who wants to start?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have to start it right away?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh this is you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional? Yeah functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. I'm gonna talk about functional requirements. Um Well uh some research has be done uh has been done. Uh observing of one hundred uh subjects in the usability lab using a remote control. Uh and they also filled in a questionnaire. The findings were um, well you can see them for yourself. They disliked the look-and-feel of current remotes controls. Users think they're ugly. Um they do not match the the operating behaviour of the users. So they they d they don't match what they want to have on it. Um they are often lost somewhere in the room. Um it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control. And they're bad for R_S_I_. I don't know uh how a user can reach that but okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ts", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is also uh was also some research on uh the most relevant and and and irrelevant uh f functions. Uh most irrelevant and less used were audio settings, mono, stereo, uh pitch, bass. Um screen settings for brightness and colour and stuff like that. Um but they are used. I mean the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So they do need to be in the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah they do need to be on the on the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean if you can't control the the sound settings I mean if you dislike a very uh loud bass or something, you you need to change that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "often.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um yeah we have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "By the way my T_V_ doesn't have an equ equaliser but", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We c we c Yeah I mean w we can't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next generation does..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "my my T_V_ has,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but we we can leave them uh away. Uh most relevant, uh most used functions, uh they speak for themselves I guess. Uh power button, uh channel, volume selection. Uh teletext but we can skip that because I saw the newsflash, and teletext is so outdated that it it's i should not be used uh any more in the future.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N not used anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So forget this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh channel settings, so for programming uh your channels in in the right order.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "By the way where did you guys get that newsflash from?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was wondering uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I didn't get anything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, on on the project uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Not by mail. I receiv the mail but you don't. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you you've got more information than uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No so it's a text file n in the project folder. So teletext can be skipped.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's in the presentation, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um there was some research on new features in a remote control. Uh about an L_C_D_ screen uh and speech recognition. Well we got an update for the for the audience. Or the the the targeted group. So it's above forty I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh below I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The new product? Or below.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah below forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because that's pretty relevant.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought I read a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Our current customers are in the age group forty plus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the new product should reach new markets, which is the customers below forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Below? Okay well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But where did you get uh that information?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's in a newsflash.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's that's in the newsfla", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay that's a good to know. Um because you see see a clear distinction between the age groups, concerning the features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean uh above forty people are not so interested uh not so interested in a screen or speech recognition. Uh but below that age they uh they pretty much are. So I think we can build that in. Um Yeah well we can skip this part as well, because I thought I read above forty so we could skip the features, but we just have to build them in because uh they find it very interesting. Um well we have to keep all the classic functions but make the buttons as user-friendly as possible. Um and and also there's so not only the design of the bus uh buttons but o how you can push them, and stuff like that. So the physical uh aspect of it. Um And I think and certainly for for the for the lower age groups, uh nice design, which uh does not make the remote control in your room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's it's actually a part of your interior, of of your design in your room. So it's the people can say, well what's that, well that's my remote control, so it's d it has to look nice and feel nice, and and have all the functions that uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it also needs to have corporate identity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so the the logo has to be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Present and the colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh present yeah, and the colours as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we can't change much of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so but I I don't think that's that's a problem because the thing has to have a colour anyway, and most of the times there is a brand present on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think that's not gonna gonna affect it very uh very much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well that are the the consequences uh on a marketing uh part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's open already so you can use to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "find yours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F_ five. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go Jurgen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. What is this?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How do I uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You pressed alt F_ four?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no. I pressed the mouse button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh great..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's th that's the self-destruct button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh maybe you can do it from your computer so talk us through it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um if you all go stand around uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Computer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's nice..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F_ five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I uh had uh two examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um this one is the the yeah the advanced one with a lot of options and functions and buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This the easy one", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we have to to combine them. And uh yeah merge the best functions of all examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um but yeah the the age is uh under forty?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and and and marketing research stated that that that kind of users are not afraid of of a lot of functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we Okay so so we have the option for more functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So not not too much but yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we do have to integrate the screen and the the speech.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the speech recognition yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah this this one we can remove for kids. It's just only for adults so uh we can uh use some advanced options. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah from age of sixteen so yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but I prefer we we uh use the the basic options uh yeah. We have to to make them very easy so for just uh zapping around the channels you can just push one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you want to to use your your video recorder or something else, you should use use an uh an advanced option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh the the newsflash also stated that it should control only one device, only your television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay one device.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So n it's very easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I didn't see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now yeah it's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay and I also uh yeah. W yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there are not extra options in this case, but uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have to make it fashionable. Like you uh said uh before.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah the basic functions. Um yeah only use a extra function if they are really needed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah so maybe you can hide them or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well what what we can do with the screen is is all the the configuration options, you can put that in the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you make a screen menu or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the and the yeah screen menu to to to uh to do that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then the basic function just on the device itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it looks very simple and all the advanced features are hidden in the screen, uh with a clear menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and the other oth other uh functionality is the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What does the screen do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did I uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh. What are wh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's low power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "did I break it?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what does the screen do? They said they needed it but what does it do? What do they want with the screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For for the advanced functions I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's what we make it up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well it yeah it didn't", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So but what did the marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it didn't say what they want to do with the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I, my guess is it's it's pretty handy for advanced uh advanced functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay it's handy. With no predefined uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like searching for channels and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah searching for channels, programming them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have your uh oh never mind..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're back online..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. That's uh I'm al I'm almost finished so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the we have to to to watch out for the i if we make it f very fashionable, it it the functional functionality will go down. So we have to make uh a compromise between functionality and fashional fashionable", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Content and form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah content and form.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now that that was uh was the end.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was the end. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well my presentation is a bit uh sucky..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you can improvise right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh which one is it? Technical functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah a little bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh no. No no..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Functional requirements?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think that would be it then..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You didn't put it in? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we we can go for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That w.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's not really English..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let me check. I know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh kick off. Oh working design I got it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can go for the look-and-feel of the the left example, and then a screen on top of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright how do I uh skip pages?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just uh press uh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The keys yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. Um yeah well I was working on this before I got my information. So I was just working off the top of my head and using my colin common knowledge about uh remote controls.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And well the info on the website which came too late.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so I didn't really know what kind of functions we had to put into it yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh uh this is basically an overview of what we discussed in our last uh meeting. Those were my uh starting points.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I was working on a s yeah on a schedule, and I was supposed to do it like this. But um yeah then uh the information came and it was kind of exact with all the steps in the remote control that I had to follow, so I was trying to organise them for myself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then make the", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the design, a the actual design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I never came around to do that. So I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to say about it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean everything speaks for itself I guess. Mean you press a button um the it tru goes, it sends a signal to a chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which uh translates it into infrared signal of certin spatial frequencies.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah frequency. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh or temporal fr frequencies actually. And then uh through a uh transformer, it the signal gets boosted and then sent to the to the receiver on the T_V_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah decoder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the T_V_ will translate it into a function. Um Yeah well this was actually all I got around to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Blank. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean I dunno if I'm too slow for this stuff, but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Work harder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay shou should we make a list of the of all the functions we want uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we want to incorporate in uh into it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um for those that didn't see yet um the basic new requirements of the management were no teletext, only for T_V_. Uh it should be designed for a use g uh group below forty, but I don't think it's w wrong if we can uh target the current customer group as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh the corporate identity should be clear in the design of the remote control. And we have to decide on the functions, and on the, let's see what was it, uh the target group. We have to make be clear what that is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "group of users, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah users.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it says below forty I mean..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so I think it's easy but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess that's that's the tar yeah uh or male and female.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh it's it's also for children or just uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's below forty so we can decide where to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh six the marketing research started on s on the age of sixteen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sixteen to twenty five, twenty five to thirty five, thirty five to forty five, something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So below forty is okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we need an lower level which to s uh focus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So is it from sixteen to forty? Is it from twenty to forty? Is it from thirty?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh sixteen to forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We we have to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I guess people of sixteen are are quite used to technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they they adapt to it pretty soon I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if we have a larger public we have uh yeah more options to to uh sell our product.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so what we might wanna do is uh yeah cust I have customised the screen functions, if you know what I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The uh younger users are more acquainted with these kind of machines so they can use more advanced functions. But maybe elderly people don't understand it so well, so they need a simpler remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And yeah that you can choose what the design displays, or wha whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's that's why uh I wanted to to make yeah two uh different uh yeah groups of functions. The the simple functions for for the the whole public, and the the advanced options for the younger people yeah who are more yeah experienced with uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And maybe y", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Experienced yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh all incorporated in the screen or or just on the remote itself?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Na I w I should uh put uh the the yeah the extra advanced options on the onto the onscreen display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like like you have a visual of the of the brightness with with a kind of sliding bar and a bus and and stuff like that for sound and and vis and and visuals?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So is you should have a menu for all the the functions you don't use regular and which are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh you can make a if you make a drawing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Aye yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall I uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh black's okay. And draw it very big.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, it doesn't have line control, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we get the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well, this is basically uh it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The remote, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "alright the remote? Um well usually the power button is on top I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Basic. Is on top. Which should be easy, easily reached with the thumb.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so it should fit right in into your hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. L left top or right uh top?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T I s should said right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right top.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I most people are right-handed so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe left-handed special addition, but okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you put it like like here. Or something. I dunno. Um then you could put a screen, like on a mobile phone, also on top I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but if you are using the the normal functions, the the basic functions, you normally press them on the u yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do the also with the thumb. So it should be a little bit longer so that you can put your uh thumb, also reach the middle. Or you should screen at the bottom and then you can see it very clearly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so y yeah you have you have it in your hand, and the screen is below, and the buttons are in the middle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You you need to be able to hold it so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay for example if you put the screen here, it's more about the functions now than the than the layout.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay that's true. Layout. That's for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Doesn't work too well. It's uh it's bent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I can't help it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You broke it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Man..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay you get it. Uh for example if y if you put all the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You want the normal piece of paper? And you have a pen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And might be easier huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe this. kind of works.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like if you have like uh ten buttons for for all the for all the channels,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um and here one for for", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the for flipping up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. And volume control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that that usually uh like here, here, here, here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have up and down for the for the channels, and left and right for the volume uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And left to right. And those can also be used for the menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah exactly. I thought but this is really your department, that we need just the functional display and four cursors.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but this is function so if you can use them for multiple things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you you have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "most of the time you have one button in the middle. It says menu,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For the menu. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then if you press it you the screen gets activated and then you can use these buttons to scroll up and down and left and right to go into functon", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mo most of the time this menu button is also like okay, to to confirm a a kind of action.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you scroll into it, okay. You select a function like v like uh bass. You just adjust it with these two buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then okay to confirm, and then uh on on each on each screen there's there should be an option to go back to a to a upper level.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then finally say okay, exit. Or or one button to exit it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh in one time I dunno, that's not really my department.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And do we need a a logo on our uh remote control, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's more your uh your department to to uh to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it should be if the screen is here then the logo should be like on on top,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the left uh top yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. I mean it's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but that depends on where you put the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's essential that there is a screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I mean the position of the screen is also more essential than I mean we we look where we have space left and then put the logo over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And for the speech uh recognition part, if we want to incorporate that, we need a microphone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um Yeah so it should be I mean if you have it in your hand here, should be on top somewhere, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This would be uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why did we wanna put the display in the bottom?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that's not s sure so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not sure", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh we need a display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah may maybe because you're.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because yeah if you use the functions your hand will block the display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but only for the basic functi if you're going to use the advanced option, you're going to press the the menu button and then yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean a screen on top looks more lo logical to me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Normal for logical t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Also because people use m mobile phones and they also have the screen on top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah they're used to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay the yeah. That's possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you you just have to reach a little bit for the power button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean if you grab it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On once it's on it's on. You don't need the power button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But most most of the times if a if if a T_V_'s on standby people just press a channel to put it on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Okay we put it on top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we put this on top, and then make the corporate logo", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like over here. R_R_. And j and the microphone, I mean it can be very small. If you look at your mobile phones are some stripes, little little holes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe on the top or even on the side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe on the side. I mean if the if the microphone is good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but then it's possible that you cover it with your hand so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. So on the on the top is better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that top is the best option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you uh if you hold the ma the remote like this, if you put it on the top on the side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno. Should be able to work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Depends on the sensitivity of the microphone, but I think that's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Never mind. Can we leave this up to you?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it doesn't matter that much. So but um the screen is on top? Which functions did we have left? I mean this is basically numbers, volume, uh channel up and down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume. Up. Channel up and down, and the control of the advanced options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Screen is over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe it, we should decide what advanced options we want to put in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. If we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. That's uh that's a good one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so we we needed to integrate the sound and uh and image options right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so sounds?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like uh bass uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sound?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we need kind of an equaliser. If you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Equaliser. So if you have sound But not too advanced. I mean most T_V_s use only treble and bass.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it it's just a remote control so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah treble, middl middle, bass or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They're not used often so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's uh pretty hard to write.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah as.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay but you have sound?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah sounds.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh y you have digital uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "better write it down over there yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course. I'm just a secretary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you have sound.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Coffee?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah sound and then within sound I guess treble and bass?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes please.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Treble bass.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the mono stereo option?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And there there was something else also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pitch I believe, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then pitch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pitch. Yeah. But pitch, isn't that yeah that's the the height of the tone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The fr yeah the frequency of the tones, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and mono stereo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "wh why would you use that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah isn't that that depends on the on the signal of the of what program you're watching.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If people like talk like uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also the tuning part?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Programming part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah programming. So channel programming?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so we have sound, yeah? Channel programming.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And yeah in the functionality of the", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Television uh itself uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no no of the remote uh do do we want uh the buttons to make sound when you press them? As a confirmation or whatever you know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it g it gets annoying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean most mobile phones used that in the beginning but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we could make an option for it, but uh you can disable s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Under the a yeah advanced option menu you can put those things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But uh the the television itself has also the the options brightness and uh screen colour etcetera. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Contrast yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but people don't want to sit on their knees on their knees in front of their television with only three buttons then it's very hard to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. No. Uh, so contrast,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y yeah contrast and brightness?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "bright,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah those are the most used I guess. If you look at your monitor.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh And the others were in your presentation right? So I can just copy those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah well I guess that these were the only ones, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. It's easy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But so we have we have T_V_ options, which is all this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I will look it up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the button options and the L_C_D_ options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The sound, sound and image. And you have in that uh the indeed the remote control options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we need two menus kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you have basically a button menu, which you can use directly, uh according to the old principle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the L_C_D_ options are activated by some some software options, thats communicates with the infrared uh decoder yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah with the chip and then I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you You have an additional processor and and software part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. Well yeah we have power button, whether that's present.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Compared to o", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Channel volume selection present. Uh numbers present. Yeah a audio settings, mono, stereo, pitch, bass, treble. Screen settings, brightness and colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "L_ s Yeah. Colour. Yeah I I call it contrast.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah con contrast is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I make it c colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, colour and brightness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and what you say, channel settings or channel programming? So you you have an option to to start scanning all the frequencies, and when it encounters one, well it shows on your T_V_. And then you can um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and automatically um Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and then you can select uh a number in your remote on which you want to save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so I've g channel program is autoseek?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, autoseek.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh name a channel, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well most T_V_s automatically display the name, which they get through the cable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh they get automatic names, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you only have to choose the position on your", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It only has to match the the channel frequency on your T_V_, with with the with the position on your T_V_ and and so your remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah but can you also say I want f uh Veronica on the channel number uh five or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Help.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you already programmed it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you want to move it. Yeah that should be possible too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. How do you call that?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah how do you call that? Mm? Wait you you should be able to to browse through a list or something, which w displays all the all the values, all the channels which are possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Channels? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean like one to f thirty of or ninety or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ninety nine or something. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just browse through it and then um in some kind of way see if it if it if it is programmed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S swap channels? Can I call it that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Swap channels.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Swap's good option. Okay. Uh other functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you most of the time if you if you swap it S uh let's say for example you have uh R_T_L_ five on on channel five. And Veronica on channel eight and you want to move Veronica to channel five, most of the times you override the previous uh the previous one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. Well that's's up to uh Mister User Interface Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's pretty uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah I mean you have to look on on the menu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "working design. Doch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's you're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He only has to figure out how it has to look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but also, which buttons you have to press to get a certain result?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And how", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the working design was to specify how ph the physical interation between the components was, as I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. But You did your homework. But um yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or or is it too hard to to ju to just do it all on your remote? To programme the channels?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. It should be able to do any remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think the communication with the television is difficult. But that's not our part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We don't have to design a protocol so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true. That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank god.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we have a figure a figure out a way to to do that easily. I mean th the autoseek is is not a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that's the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean you uh you uh current channel and then then it just says, uh on which number do you want to save this, and you just press a number on your remote, and then say confirm, okay, and then it's it's saved. It's easier, it's it's it's harder to, if you have already programmed it, to to swap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to think of something for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um The User Interface Designer can design a menu for all these function I put them on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah k kind of structure into layers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the uh yeah can you i make a a map with with all the yeah'cause it's now there are lots and lots of documents", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Yeah. Yeah I can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll just try to reorganise uh things. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you design the basic function menu for the L_C_D_ screen? Uh um I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and the layout of of the thing itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "th I think the yeah the layout of the screen", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the layout of the remote control?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I think you can concentrate more on the button placement and the placement of the uh screen itself on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Isn't that more the the u uh the user interface part?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". No I d I think that's more in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh all the functional uh aspects of the remote I think are in my department.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe more on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have to know what it has to do, so if you wanna you know the changing the channels kind of s thing is, I have to integrate that in the design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So he's layout and you're function.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Form function okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's a that's a good separation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do I have to to uh to yeah to make the the menu layout also? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you going to do that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I guess so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? I I'm going to make.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think i that's your department yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah o okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because w he already knows what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we have to kind of work together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If if I make the the the yeah the menu like, I have to state which function has to be in the menu,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we're not allowed..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then you have to decide, it's, in a in a way that b is user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Y you you are going to make a list of what functions are uh are going to to be on the the screen, the menu screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I'm going to make a a nice menu uh with with pages and yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With with some l with some layers in it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and also make clear which buttons to press to get certain result,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So some menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because that's always the difficulty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Every device has its own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I guess this this button, the the the okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Menu okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "menu okay. Or you can incorporate two uh difference uh different buttons. Uh like uh for your mobile phone. Um so this is only for to get in the menu, or to exit it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then one to confirm, and one to go one step back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Back. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's like the the save button on your your mobile phone, if you have a Nokia or like that. Or the or the no button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To go one step back you it's only two extra buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. W we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but if it if it's very clear that they are for the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think we have to to group, to make two groups. Um the one group for the for the display, and one group for the basic functions, and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but they're incorporated? Up and down is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but we we have a m", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because this this is used for both.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah but maybe that's that's not uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Smart?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah if you're if you're z zapping uh with your uh yeah remote control, you can press the the menu button, and then you are suddenly into the the yeah the display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Into your screen. Okay. So you", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna separate uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "l should leave the menu button out of here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and just put it under the screen, the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put it on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah j just just group group the yeah we make these the advanced functions and these the basic functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we make a yeah a line between them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But we should place the screen on top, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F oh yeah. Okay yeah we swap uh Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that's uh J Jurgen's department.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we make it a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You just you just find out and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You just make the layout. You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "do we do the extra two buttons or not?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's easier. If you put too many functions in one button it gets confusing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. That's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we have a a menu button and a s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And to, okay and back, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay and back button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, or confirm and back. Whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And of course the four arrows.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But those are still y doubly used. Both the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we save this picture, or or you know what it looks like?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm I'm not s clear about uh the the extra two buttons. We have a menu button and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That that just to to activate the screen. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the the one with the yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu button access the menu in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then with these buttons, woa, y you navigate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can navigate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you can also navigate the channels. And the volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so that that's not uh Yeah that Those are", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Those are both both.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "multifunctional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey is it interesting for users if we put LED lights under the buttons? So that if you uh press on the menu function that only the buttons that are used for the menu are ligh li light up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. L l litten up yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's very good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Light uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a good idea because then it becomes clear which buttons are active now, which you can use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and then it's also easier to integrate several functions in one button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Those buttons are are lit up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But just one thing. Should we use those two? Them? Or only this to to scroll?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then use the two functional buttons to confirm, to go into something? Oh no we have to use this to adjust some some bars?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah keep it optional'cause maybe you can you know go left to right and up and down in a in one menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And maybe we should use this also as an okay button, still. And then just only a back button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we have those buttons. We use all four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The pr the problem with the okay button in the middle is, sorry", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorry, uh is uh if you're pressing up and down, you can easily press the okay once you, when you're not already at your choice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So maybe make one uh one okay button and and one navigation button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that was already decided.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And one back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the with with the the channel and the volume uh yeah m a multifunctional navigation button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay that's what we decided earlier on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right okay. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna close down huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I wanna close down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have to, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not because I don't like you but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yh we have lunch break,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Already.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then we can work for thirty minutes, and I have to write very fast to make the minich min minutes. And then uh we'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. How m how long is the lunchbreak?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know. Nobody told me..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have to ask..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do we have to write uh to write down uh the our stuff now? Or first lunchbreak?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No I th believe there's first lunch break.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because I I've everything in my head now so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or you can just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you can put uh the laptop back in the room and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes sir..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Time pressure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Yeah it's a lot of pressure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sorry for my uh not finished presentation uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's okay. Oh yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we'll kick your ass later. No. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bring it on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if it works but it should be saved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Aye Y you saved it? Does it save automatically in the project folder? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. We'll see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should be here. Smart board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just put back my laptop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Don't know if you can use it but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you can open it with the picture preview or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh we have to make uh some maps with uh with the all the the data we uh gathered.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I try to organise it by these three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". It's it's just my own map so I put everything into the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't really mind. I just put the minutes here and we'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you got some extra information uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's in the functional design uh folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah that's just basically what I just showed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But where do you did you get the newsflash?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I got it by.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're the only one uh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. I'm gonna get kicked if I don't do it so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "internet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Make me proud.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll try to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So first we have a lunchbreak now?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I believe so. just ask..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I dunno where she.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education2", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received apologies for absence from Siân Gwenllian, and I'm very pleased to welcome Helen Mary Jones, who is substituting for Siân today. Can I ask whether Members want to declare any interests, please? Can I just, then, place on record that I have got a son who was about to do A-levels, so is affected by the exam decision? We'll move on, then, to our substantive item today, which is an evidence session with the Welsh Government around the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on education in Wales. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams, Minister for Education; Steve Davies, who is director of the education directorate; Huw Morris, who is the group director, skills, higher education and lifelong learning; and Rob Orford, who is the chief scientific adviser for health. Thank you all for coming. We know that this is a really difficult and pressurised time for everyone, and we appreciate your attendance. Minister, I understand you wanted to make an opening statement today.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, if that's okay, Chair. As you know, it's not usually my practice to do that, but I think it is important today. COVID-19 coronavirus is one of the most significant issues that the Welsh Government and the people of Wales have dealt with in recent times. Dealing with the impacts of this pandemic is extremely challenging. Things are changing on an hourly basis, and we have to make decisions quickly to ensure public safety. But I would like to assure you that our aim, and my aim, and my main concern as the education Minister is to protect all staff and pupils in our schools and other educational settings. But we also have a duty to ensure continuing and continuity of education. Public health is clearly the priority here, but that does not change our belief that no child should miss out on any education, unless absolutely necessary. So, the decision to close all schools from tomorrow for statutory education provision was not taken lightly, but I believe it was necessary, given the advice and recommendations that we had received from a public health perspective and the situation that was developing on the ground. From next week, schools will have a new purpose. They will help support those most in need, including people involved in the immediate response to the coronavirus outbreak, and I'm working with my colleagues in the Cabinet, with Government officials and our partners in local government to develop and finalise these plans. The key areas that we're looking at are supporting and safeguarding the vulnerable and ensuring continuity of learning. This includes all of those who benefit from free school meals and children with additional learning needs. I can confirm that all maintained schools in Wales already have access to a range of digital tools that can support distance learning through the world-class Hwb digital learning platform, including virtual classrooms and video-conferencing facilities. A guide on what tools are available and how schools can use them has been developed and is being promoted widely. Yesterday, I announced that, whilst there are no easy choices, we have agreed that the best way forward is not to proceed with the summer exam series. Learners due to sit these exams will be awarded a fair grade to recognise their work, drawing on a range of information that is available, and I will announce further details shortly, but I felt it necessary to give early certainty to students and to staff. I would like to put on record my thanks to everyone working in education settings for the hard work that they have put in over the last few months in dealing with the virus and ensuring that pupils have been able to continue to learn. We need to continue to do this work together, as we face the continuing challenges posed by the coronavirus. Diolch yn fawr.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Minister, for that statement. We'll go to questions from Members now, and I've got some questions from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Can I thank you, Kirsty, for your statement and the really difficult decisions that you've been having to make? You've already indicated in your statement this morning that these decisions are not taken lightly, and we understand that that is the case across Government. So, thank you for what you've been doing. You've outlined a little bit further there in your statement to us this morning about the new purpose. I take from what you're saying that you haven't really developed that yet in terms of exactly what that is going to look like. You've talked about the children of key workers, free school meals, additional learning needs. Is there anything else you can tell us about that at the moment and how you might staff the schools in those particular areas?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Dawn. So, you're absolutely right, our priority now is to operationalise, with colleagues in local government and schools, a practical response. And I have to say, we're working to timescales that I would have hoped to have avoided, but given the fact that we're having to make these decisions quite quickly, I hope that you will understand that perhaps where we start on Monday might change when we have more time and more opportunities to develop programmes going forward. Steve will be able to give you more details of the practical work that has already been going on, but our expectation will be that schools will be playing an important part in providing safe and secure places for children of those on the front-line response to dealing with the coronavirus to attend, and work is already under way with local authorities and individual schools on what that will look like for the emergency situation on Monday. Our other priority is indeed free school meals, and, again, where we eventually end up might be a different place to where we are on Monday. Again, we're responding to the emergency situation that there will be families that were expecting a free school meal on Monday, and, again, individual schools and local authorities are developing those plans at pace to be able to provide an emergency response as we work out a longer term plan to deal with the situation. The same thing also goes for additional learning needs, and attending to the needs of that particular group of learners. So, those conversations began a few days ago. I had the opportunity to meet with the First Minister and Andrew Morgan, the leader of the Welsh Local Government Association, yesterday to talk about what local government could do, and what they were already doing. Those plans in some places are already quite developed, and are now working at pace, but I hope you will understand that where we start on Monday is the emergency response, and that work will develop as we go forward. But, Steve, perhaps you could—? Because Steve was the one making all those phone calls and doing the practical operational stuff, rather than me. Steve.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "In short, the new purpose is to meet the needs of particular groups of children and young people. In some cases, some of the response to supporting free school meals, in the short term in particular, we may use the schools as part of that, and I'm certain that will happen in some cases. The second area is looking at how we support the children of key workers. Now, there is still work to be done on identifying exactly the categories of key workers, but I think it's really encouraging that in my discussions yesterday—I spoke with all 22 directors of education, and the examples we're picking up in their work with schools is they're already ahead of the curve in working with schools. So, schools have identified the number of children with health workers. It will grow, and we will need to look at that range. Then, the third area is vulnerable children. They're vulnerable sometimes in terms of education other than at school, vulnerable in terms of mental health, and for those children, as well as having an experience that we want to be planned, some have compared it to a snow day, particularly on Monday, when you're putting something together in the short term, but it will not be a formal curriculum that those children would normally go through. So, the range of activities—some will be focused on educational activities, some will be cultural, some will be sporting, and that plan will be developed on the basis of the age range of children, which in some cases may go from extremely young children up to those at the age of 16 in our all-through schools, but there will be a planned set of activities to cater for those children. What we are doing currently—I have staff back at Cathays Park who are in touch and working with directors of education to ensure that schools over the next two days will have been able to identify, at least at the earlier stage, in terms of health workers, the type and numbers of people. There are already schools who have informed us, and local authorities, of their plans for these activities to be starting next week, which is quite amazing, actually, given where we are. But we are expecting, and we're writing to schools today, that during the course of next week, headteachers to be in schools, and with their staff, taking into consideration the health guidance as to which staff should or should not be in, and in that period from next Monday through the two-week period, to Easter, we expect staff to be both planning for delivery post Easter, but also, as I said, building on and reflecting the good practice that's already in place for schools that have engaged in activities, and I'm sure a number of them will be inviting and enabling those children to come in on Monday. So, Monday will be a challenge for some, and not all will be delivering it, but we will be working so that we can get as much as possible delivered for those groups over the next two weeks, and particularly to have resilient programmes post Easter for the groups of children in those three categories that I said.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Those that have been identified. Can I just clarify one thing? One of the identified vulnerable groups would clearly be children on the at-risk register. They would be included.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, definitely. Vulnerable children, yes.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "In our discussions, we have asked local government to be working with the social services departments and individual schools to identify those children who may be in that situation. We know that, for some children, being at school is part of their safeguarding arrangements, and obviously we will need to be able to respond to those needs.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I wrote specifically yesterday to all directors of education to be assured that, for those children, the register is up to date and the plans are in place. I'm working with Albert Heaney my colleague, the director for social services, who is meeting with the 22 directors of social services today to look to ensure that we are joined up in ensuring none of these children fall through the gap.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Okay. I've got a supplementary from Hefin, and then Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "A very quick and simple question: how are you going to communicate this to parents? There's a bigger picture and it's changing all the time, as you said. The Welsh Government have a route to communication. The most helpful thing I've seen is that Public Health Wales have a single website with information regarding the wider issue of the virus. How will this then be cascaded to schools, because there's obviously a time lag? So, have you considered how this is going to be communicated directly to parents?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "We're using all of our platforms of communication to get these messages across. So, we're using the more informal methods of communication, but are relying on a systematic approach via individual directors and through to individual schools. Welsh Government already has a dedicated website page with all of the relevant information about coronavirus. We're looking, as quickly as we can, to have a frequently asked education questions page that we can update. Understandably, people are communicating to us on Twitter asking questions. It is impossible for the communications team here to be able to respond individually to every single person that is sending Facebook messages and sending tweets, so the best way we can do that is to collate the types of questions people are asking and then to be able to have a frequently updated question and answer page to try to respond to that. With regard to parents, for instance, we're aware of schools that have already sent a questionnaire out last night to parents saying,'Do you consider yourself to be a key worker? Do you work in the NHS? Please let us know by tomorrow so we can put arrangements in place for your children.' So, schools are already taking the initiative and having those conversations with parents about what their needs will be. And, as I said, Hefin, will it be perfect on Monday? No. It won't be perfect by Monday, because we're working to such constrained timescales. But we will continue to build that resilience. We also have to think about systems that look at what might the epidemic do and have systems of resilience that may work next week, given the situation we find ourselves in with public health advice at the moment. But that public health advice may change. Therefore, have we got a system that will be resilient in those circumstances? These are some of the challenges that we're having to grapple with. So, as I said, what happens on Monday might look very different to where we are if schools are still off in May. So, I hope people will understand that we are working in those kinds of scenarios.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Suzy, you had a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just on this question of vulnerable children, I'm just wondering how much discretion teachers are going to have in including individual children who may not be obviously under social services' care or on a risk register or whatever. Teachers know their pupils and, very sensitively, they could include people who may not be obviously in need.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We would absolutely respect the professional judgment of individual headteachers to be able to have those conversations with their directors. As you said, quite rightly, they are the individuals who know their children best and know which children, perhaps, will need this extra support. We will put no constraints on those teachers trying to do that work.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. The second part of my question is: there were going to be Easter holidays anyway, weren't there? What was going to happen about free-school-meal children during that period? Has that gone out of the window now, the normal holiday provision for children? Because that's not there normally, is it, except in separate—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We do find ourselves in a strange situation. My understanding is what we're trying to work to is that we would have ongoing provision and not to make some strange,'You get this for two weeks, then you don't get it for two weeks, and then you're back in.' My understanding is, in England, that is what they're going to do. We're trying to create a system where it will be seamless and it will not necessarily matter that two of those weeks were formally holidays. It won't matter to those nurses and doctors who will need to be in work during those weeks. We're trying to create a system that will run uniformly. That's our policy goal at the moment.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Helen Mary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just briefly, building on Suzy's question, one particular group of children and young people that I hope will be eligible to be included in the potentially vulnerable category is young carers. For some of them, they may not be able to come into school because the people they're caring for may have to be excluded because of their conditions. But I think that, for other young carers, coming to school is an absolute lifeline, because they're working at home. So, I don't know if it's appropriate for you to specifically mention those in discussions with local authorities, but it's a group of young people who, again, may not be vulnerable in other ways, but because of their caring responsibilities they may need school. And the other group—and this, I suppose, goes back to Suzy's point about teachers knowing their young people—is the children who may be living in situations where they're at risk of witnessing domestic abuse. Again, these may very well not be children who are in any formal contact with social services, but being at home may be really not a good place for them to be. So, again, I'd put in an appeal for that to be something that perhaps can be raised with schools. If a teacher is worried about what a child's circumstances are like at home, whether they can be, as you said, Kirsty, included as one of the—. They may not be formally identified, but if the teacher knows that they're at risk, or there is an instinct that they're at risk, they might be able to be included in children who are allowed to take advantage of this special provision you're making at this difficult time.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "We will certainly raise those issues. We have to do that in the context of what is deliverable, and we also have to do that in the context of the public health advice that we are receiving as well. One of the reasons why schools are closing is to help manage this disease. We know that the ability for school closures to make a contribution to that diminishes if we have significant children in school still. So, we will take these issues into consideration, but remembering this is part of an epidemic mitigation plan. Rob is the expert on that, not me.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. This is a rapidly-evolving problem and the scale is something that we haven't seen in 100 years, and so we're having to evolve and iterate things as we go. Next week, I think, will look different to this week. So, it kind of is what it is. We've all got a role to play, and schools certainly have a significant role to play in breaking those chains of transmission. Areas that we're worried about are displacement activities. If we close the schools, then people collect at others' houses. We need to send a really clear message that you're all part of the solution, and the things that you do by distancing yourselves from your friends and your family are really important for us to get on top of this outbreak. The more that we can do that, the easier it will be when we go forward.", "speakerName": "Rob Orford" }, { "text": "I'm sure that that's true, but I'm sure that we wouldn't be wanting a child who's in a very pressured environment with perhaps a very difficult relationship between mum and dad—. It may be very important for those children to be out of that for some of the time. Hopefully, we're talking about relatively small numbers, but I just—.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "We will look at vulnerability in a holistic way.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Janet, you had a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair, and good morning, Minister, and your team. Can I just put on record my thanks for all that you're having to endure at this moment? I think it's fair to say you have the support of Assembly Members and, indeed, our communities. Now, the question I have: if Cylch Meithrin have to close, where will they get money from to pay their staff? Because, currently, thankfully, there's support for businesses.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Janet, we're not doing Cylch Meithrin at the moment; we are sticking with schools, as we discussed in advance. Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Can I just get some clarity, Steve, around what you were saying in terms of next week? Because I think the practical applications of this—and I understand that you don't know all of this yet, I understand that—the practical applications are what is coming to us, obviously, with constituents saying,'Well, what's going to happen to that?' Just so that I can be clear, are you saying that, at this stage, every headteacher will be in school on Monday, as will all their staff?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Within the scope of the guidance in terms of their health, the expectation—and this will be conveyed in letters by the Minister today, to be made clear—is that they are closing for the majority of pupils, but our expectation within the guidance is that the headteacher with their staff will be coming in; for some to start the delivery of what we just described, but that will probably be small numbers, but more importantly to plan to ensure that, after the formal Easter period, which is school holidays, the schools are geared to cater for the range of pupils that we've been discussing.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "So, would you anticipate—again, I know this is all a bit'if and when', and it depends on the changing nature of the advice, but from what you're saying, I think we can probably anticipate that, as we go forward, there will probably be fewer schools opening and operable—that we may be moving those children on to fewer sites. Would that possibly—?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "That is a potential. So, we already know that one of our local authorities already has identified a strategic pattern of schools that they will want to operate in this way. That local authority has already chosen those locations, and is already having communications with how they will then staff those centres. So, that could well—. That, I expect, in the longer term, will be the nature of the provision that we will get to. But that's not for us to dictate. The local authorities are best placed to understand what is the best, pragmatic use of the resources that they have available; and of course those resources, primarily, are human beings. So, we've talked a lot this morning in the context of teaching staff, teaching assistants, but we're also having discussions with local authorities, and I met with the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services this week, to look at deploying youth workers, to look to be deploying other staff that the local authority may employ, like sports development officers. There may be cultural officers that can have something to offer. Welsh Government will be talking with a range of our partners who perhaps their normal activities can't continue at the moment, but actually have personnel who want to add to this effort, who want to be able to be part of a provision going forward in the longer term, to be able to provide a great place for children to be. We want to give parents, who we are asking—. Let's think about it, in these worst of times, we're asking parents to leave their children so that they can go and do essential work, and some of that essential work is putting themselves at risk, potentially. And we want to give those parents confidence that, when they leave their child with us, that child will receive something really worthwhile, and they can direct all of their attention to doing their job.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Just before you—. Janet, have you got a supplementary on schools now, not on early years settings?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I lost the signal before, so it's a little bit confusing at this end, so bear with me. Just in terms of the closure of schools, I have been asked by teachers what does new purpose—you may have covered it, but bear in mind [Inaudible.]—mean in practice. And also, they're already asking what will next—? I know you said earlier that next week could look and probably will look significantly different than this week, but what can they expect to be happening next week in terms of this new purpose work?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We've covered that, Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "First of all, Janet, I just want to say thank you very much for your kind comments. That's really, really kind of you. We will be sending a letter today to clarify those positions. So, each school will receive letters today about the expectations of schools next week.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think you're having trouble hearing us, aren't you, so I think—?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "No, I heard that loud and clear.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "But I think you missed the earlier comments, when we went into some detail on the new purpose of schools. So, I'm sorry about that; we are having some problems with the connection.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we couldn't get a signal.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just in relation to special schools and how they will fit into this new purpose arrangement.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, they're absolutely central to that planning. We know, again, that some of these children are our most vulnerable and they are some of our most pressurised families. Therefore, the same situation that we've just described for maintained schools also applies to special schools. We'll be having discussions about what arrangements can be made for those children within their own usual settings. In some cases, that may not be possible. So, again, already local authorities are making different provision. Can I give a shout out to the work of Rhondda Cynon Taf in this regard, who are already doing some excellent work with regard to how they can keep in touch with their children who usually would attend their special schools. But, again, Steve can give more detail.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think special schools have already been hit by this challenge, because a significant proportion of their children, because of their conditions, have not been coming to school, they've been isolated. But the principle we've used there is, actually, even if it's a minority of children who go to those schools and are vulnerable, they deserve and need that support through the school. So, we would expect that to function with the focus on vulnerable children. But similarly, even in special schools, there will be children whose parents will be key workers, so we would expect them to apply that same principle. Just quickly in response to the earlier question, while we may bring some groups of children into separate schools, we’ll have to continue with the principle of keeping social distance and any provision for a child in a special school in a different setting would be unlikely, given the nature of the special school, so we would look to cater for that within the original school.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Just a couple more questions from me. It’s likely, because I know it has already happened, that some schools might actually close before Monday. Some schools have already partially closed. Are you quite happy that headteachers still have the discretion to do that, if they feel that’s the right thing to do?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "In this situation, the discretion of the head still remains. As I said, we will be communicating with all schools today about our expectations, if at all possible, to have schools open for staff to do some of this planning and to be able to respond to these priority needs that we've just talked about.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "The rationale of headteachers for closing schools up to now has been that they can't cope with the safety of the children. I think, moving forward, it's unlikely that that would be a rationale that headteachers would want to use for not engaging and planning for the future.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "We're only talking about one more day, now, anyway, aren't we? So, just in terms of confirmed cases in schools, is your view at this stage that, if there is a confirmed case in a school, once that school has been deep-cleaned, it can reopen again?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "If we had a confirmed case in a school, then all the usual mechanisms arranged by Public Health Wales would kick in at that point.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And my final question is in relation to the position of early years and childcare settings. I know that kind of crosses over into somebody else's portfolio as well, but I think we know that. Certainly what I've seen, and I'm sure this is true elsewhere as well, we've seen nurseries closing down because the parents are actually taking the children out of those nurseries. I've got one in particular, there are kids from the ages of 6 to 12 years in there, and the parents are taking them out. They've got 30 staff there, catering for 200 children and no children to care for and the organisation, at this stage, is unable to claim on their insurance for the ongoing payment of those staff wages. Is there any advice that we can give to people in that situation at this stage?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Sure. As you say, many of these settings are businesses—people's businesses and they play a hugely important role and it's a very worrying time for them. We have said that we will continue to pay for childcare, delivered under the childcare offer even when a child is unable, or a parent is unwilling, to take up that place. So, if that setting is receiving a childcare payment from the Welsh Government as part of our childcare offer, that will be paid, regardless of whether that child attends or not. And I know that we're also working with local authorities to ensure a similar position on Flying Start childcare and early education. So, that payment will be made, regardless of whether a child is attending. It's also important that childcare settings will be able to apply for the various packages of support that are being made available by my colleague, Ken Skates.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Hefin, then Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I'd just like to turn that around from the parents' point of view. With schools closing, there are a lot of parents then losing 10 hours of free childcare, but from a settings point of view, they'll continue to be able to receive, for the time being, the nursery care.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, so the decision that has been taken by my colleague, Julie Morgan, is that settings should stay open at the moment unless public health changes. That's being kept under constant review on public health. Again, the issue is that we know that that childcare is vital to many families, especially—and we're particularly concerned about those individuals who are trying to help us overcome and solve these problems. If you have any specific questions about that, we'll be happy to take them back to Julie Morgan.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Is this the Cylch question?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Sorry, thank you. Yes, just basically, Cylch Meithrin, there are concerns—[Interruption.]", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We've lost Janet. We'll come back to her.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think if the issue is about funding for Cylch Meithrin, these are not normal circumstances. As a Welsh Government, we will take every step to provide continuity of funding, if at all possible. We will overcome this, and when we overcome this situation we find ourselves in, we will need those childcare settings, we will need those private businesses and we will need our Cylch Meithrin to be there to respond and to be able to go on doing the job that they usually do for us. And if there is any way that we can, as a Government, ensure that that happens by carrying on funding things, even if they are not able to run, all usual—[Inaudible.]— around service-level agreements are off. I'm not setting the precedent—let me make that absolutely clear. [Laughter.] But, you know, we will not undermine businesses and voluntary provision like Cylch by withdrawing Welsh Government funding. I hope I've been clear.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you for that.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Kirsty.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "If we can move on to talk about exams, obviously you made the announcement yesterday. I completely understand that everything is a very fast-moving situation, but, as you know, there are a lot of questions that people have about young people who've put a lot of work in. Are you able to tell us any more today? In particular, have you got any idea about timescales now for setting out what the approach will be to handling the lack of summer exams?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, it is a devastating decision to have to have been taken, but I have done so on the very, very clear and unambiguous advice from Qualifications Wales. I met with Qualifications Wales and the WJEC yesterday. What was most important to them was that I made an early decision and I did not equivocate on what would happen for the exams. I was able to make an informal decision at that meeting, and then, of course, there is a formal process that we have to go through. That, now, allows Qualifications Wales and the exam board to operationalise that decision, and they will be communicating with schools as quickly as possible about what schools will need to do to ensure that the systems that they will now put in place can work. We are trying, as far as we can, as I understand it, to be able to mirror as closely as possible the usual results day, for instance. It might not be possible, because, of course, we're dealing with a situation that requires human beings to be involved in it, and those human beings could find themselves unwell. So, our best attempts will be to maintain the normal rhythm of an exams day in August, but that has to be caveated by the fact that we're dealing with difficult circumstances. But, the WJEC and Qualifications Wales will be making urgent communications to exam centres to explain what will need to happen next.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Janet, you had a question on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think I raised it yesterday, Kirsty, but you were receiving loads of questions. I'd just ask for some further clarification about coursework, because only 30 per cent of that is done. Years 11 and 13, typically, in my case they're what's been raised with me—do you have any advice for them?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Okay, so, all exams are cancelled, but year 11 and year 13 will be given a grade—I think that's a distinction that people need to be aware of. That is because those years and those grades are gateway qualifications, and they are points of movement in the education system. So, it's really important for those students that they are not disadvantaged in any way by not being able to receive a grade that helps them to make a decision as a qualifying step into what they will do next, whether that be university, whether that be a degree apprenticeship or whether that be going into sixth form, into a college, into an apprenticeship or into some work-based learning opportunities. That's why we have to focus on those children, because for them, it is absolutely critical that we do. We are at an advantage in Wales, can I say? Because of the nature of our examination system, those students already have a lot of externally assessed work that we can use as a basis to move forward on. Because we've kept our AS-levels, we have got that data. Because we have a GCSE system—. Our year 11s, if they're doing triple science, they've already done 40 per cent of their paper, so we're very fortunate. Because of the structures that we have got in our qualification system, there is already lots and lots of externally-verified work that we can use, alongside, potentially, teacher evaluation of students as well. And I think that's really important. We’re starting from a better base than simply having none of that externally-verified data. What will also be important is that these children have confidence in those qualifications, and so we will be looking at a modulated arrangement within Wales, and I know that Qualifications Wales are discussing with their counterparts across the UK a modulated system across the UK. So, actually, we can make sure that our standards are maintained by actually having that modulation across the UK. So, we know that those children never have to worry about the rigour that has gone into determining that grade. So, they can have real confidence.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Helen Mary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. A supplementary question that might feed into that moderation. You'll know that the National Union of Students has suggested that black and minority ethnic children and children from the working class, on the whole, don't do as well, in terms of their assessment by their own teachers. I don't know what their evidence is for that. We also know, of course, that boys tend to do better in exams, and girls tend to do better at coursework, for whatever reason that is. So, just to ask you at this early stage to build in those considerations around potential unconscious bias into that overall system that you're talking about. And, of course, you are right to say that, because we have got some elements of external moderation here, those factors may be less for us in Wales than they might for colleagues in England.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think we are starting at a different base, thank goodness. So, you're quite right. As I said, students will have done unit 1 papers last year if they're GCSE students. Dare I say it, some might even have done early entry. So, we still have elements of coursework that are externally verified. So, children might well have done lots of oral exams in their English and in their Welsh language. So, we have lots of pieces of work that will have been externally verified. I certainly will ensure that these concerns are passed on. I'm sure that Qualifications Wales are thinking about it. I have every confidence that they and the WJEC will come up with a very comprehensive way of establishing those grades, but I have to say, in some ways, I have to step back now, because you would not expect me, in normal circumstances, to dictate to the WJEC how much percentage goes for that, and how much percentage is allocated for that; that would not be appropriate for a Minister. My job is to make the decision on the examinations on the basis of having confidence that what can be put in place is fair and is equitable, and I have confidence that that will be the case.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "A few things from me. One is, obviously, pupils are being asked to work at home as well now, some of whom will be doing GCSE and A-level courses. So, there's just a question, generally, from me— because we're encouraging these kids to carry on working—how that will be accommodated by Qualifications Wales, I guess, in this modulation process. It may be that your at-home work will be of a higher standard or a lower standard than a teacher would be expecting. Secondly, you mentioned the AS-levels, of course, as being of value at the moment, but we've got people in Year 12 who now won't be doing their ASs. Is there any steer at this stage about what they will be expected to do? Will they be doing two sets of exams next year, for example? Or is AS just off the table? In which case, how are the A2s going to be calculated in due course? And then, finally from me, we do have some vocational qualifications that are up for examination as well—your BTECs, and I think it's the Association of Accounting Technicians, which is a lot of computer-based learning—which is due to be examined within three weeks. Those aren’t A-levels or GCSEs. I appreciate that you may not have the answer just at the moment, but are they off as well is the question, I guess?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "With regard to AS-levels—no final decision has been made for exactly how those students will be treated. There are a range of options that could be used, but again, we will want to be thinking about student well-being, fairness and equity in that regard, and I will update Members as soon as I have received definitive advice from Qualifications Wales around that, and that hasn't happened yet. With regard to other types of qualifications, as you will be aware, the vast majority of BTECs is a modular, continually-assessed piece of work, and we would have every expectation that BTECs will be able to be awarded, but clearly, those conversations are with awarding bodies—they tend to be UK awarding bodies, rather then necessarily our WJEC exam board—and those conversations are ongoing. But I have every expectation that those qualifications will be awarded and, of course, because of their nature there's even more evidence of continued assessment. Huw, I don't know if there's anything else that you would like to add about those types of qualifications.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No. I think you've covered most of it. I don't have a definitive answer for the ATT qualification, but we can look into that and come back to you.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Well, I've just had a constituent ask, so that would be very helpful. And homeworking—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Homeworking, right.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—is that going to count towards the assessments, overall assessments?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, potentially, as I said. I don't know the exact elements. What will be absolutely necessary is that Qualifications Wales and the WJEC will be able to give absolute clarity and simplicity around how those grades will be arrived at, because parents, teachers and students will want to know that, and my expectation is on them to be able to clearly communicate what elements will and will not be taken into consideration when awarding those grades.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's great. At least we covered it. Thank you, Minister—thank you, Kirsty.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "And, just before we move on, have the universities across the UK indicated that they are content with this approach going forward—content to accept students on this basis?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Certainly. There have been discussions with universities and UCAS, of course, that this also has a bearing on. One of the—. And the views of university and how university terms might be impacted is one of the ways and one of the reasons that we've factored in to making these decisions. Those discussions with universities are ongoing, aren't they, Huw?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, we've been in regular conversation with Universities Wales and through them with Universities UK and we've received every indication that the approach that's been adopted here has been welcomed by the institutions. Those conversations will continue as we work through the practicalities of how the gradings that are awarded are going to feed through into university admissions decisions and enrolment.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Well, we've got some questions now from Suzy on the potential closures of colleges and universities.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, it's a very general question, really. I appreciate you've already indicated there are lots of ongoing conversations, but my understanding is whether colleges or universities close is pretty much still at their own discretion. We're going to be asking some questions on emergency legislation shortly, which may impact on the answer you can give today, but what sort of conversations are you having with FE and HE at the moment about how they decide?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, you're absolutely right. As we often say in this committee, universities are autonomous institutions—a status that they guard jealously and we would never want to question. Universities have been making the decision to move as much of their learning online as they possibly can and we continue to have conversations with them. Colleges are in a similar position, looking to do as much as they can to be able to provide continuity of learning via distance learning methods, and the Bill, potentially, does give us more powers of intervention in both the FE and the HE sector.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I might ask you about that in a minute, because I don't even know what the Bill says yet.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Huw, I don't know if there's anything you want to add.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No—just to confirm what's been said and also to add in that independent training providers, similarly autonomous, like colleges and universities, have been moving in the same direction. We've been very impressed with the maturity and forward-planning that's been adopted by all of those institutions and their representative bodies. We've got consistency in the approach and a common desire, and investment in moving towards online support for students.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "And there's still this safety net idea. Certainly, colleges have indicated, as with schools, that, for the most vulnerable learners, they'll have something in place that might permit attendance on an individual basis.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "That's my understanding, yes, and, again, we've been in regular conversation with them about that. My understanding is that they're going to spend the next week working through the detail of how that will work for the institutions.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "That's fair enough. And, presumably, education maintenance allowance will still be paid.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Arrangements have been made to ensure that EMA continues to be paid to all students who are entitled.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's right. You indicated that any Welsh Government support's going to stay, whatever the circumstances are—in your portfolio.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I'm doing my best, but it's an absolute yes on the EMA. There will be no disruption to EMA.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. You might get some further questions on HE and FE.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. We've got some further questions, indeed, from Helen Mary and then Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Now or in a bit?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just further to EMA, of course, at the moment, that has an attendance qualification, doesn't it? And you don't get your EMA if you don't turn up. Should we take from your last answer that that attendance qualification doesn't apply anymore?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes. They can't turn up if the institution is not open, and that's not their fault.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, but that is something that's been a worry, so that's really encouraging to hear. Thinking about students in higher education, can you give an assurance that student maintenance payments will continue as normal? Is that the intention?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's really good to hear. And have you given any special ministerial instruction to Student Finance Wales on processing applications for support or changes of circumstances, or is that something that's kind of ongoing at the moment?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Those conversations are ongoing with the Student Loans Company. As I said, we anticipate no disruption to—. We don't anticipate any change in the approach to students as a result of this. Individual student circumstances could well change and our expectation would be that the Student Loans Company would respond to that. All I would say is, just to remind people: people who work for the Student Loans Company are no more able to resist this disease than anybody else. There will undoubtedly in some cases be really practical challenges to service delivery, simply because organisations could be losing staff because of illness or the need to self-isolate or because they are reacting to social-distancing messages from the Government. So, I think we just need to bear that in mind: that these organisations are doing their best, but, if they are badly affected by staff numbers being off because of the virus, then I hope people will give them due consideration.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that makes sense, of course, because we've been told that universities won't be able to entirely close, because there will be students who can't go home—", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "It is their home.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—overseas students, for example. What discussions have you been having with the sector to make sure that those students' basic needs are met, that there's still food, shelter, whatever they need?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Well, obviously, universities have a duty of care to those students that find themselves in those circumstances, and every conversation that Huw's been having would suggest that universities are well aware of their need to do that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "We instituted a monitoring process very early on in the onset of the disease, not least because a number of institutions have campuses and activities in China and other parts of south-east Asia. And so, as the disease has progressed, we've seen lessons being learned from the support for students who are in isolation coming from there to the UK, and I am assured that the universities here in Wales have got processes in place that support those learners.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "That's really helpful. And on this specifically—last question from me— have you considered whether students might need to be refunded some of their tuition fees, should the academic year not be completed?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "So, as the institutions move more and more of their material and some of their assessment online, clearly, there are lessons that will need to be taken on board. There are established quality assurance and enhancement procedures in institutions to enable the tutors and other supporters to make sure that that material meets their needs. The intention in all of these institutions is that they will complete their course of study. There are appeals mechanisms and feedback mechanisms through the students union and through course committees and other things within institutions to make sure that any concerns or incomplete work are addressed. Failing those institutional mechanisms, there is a UK-wide system through the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for students to take forward any concerns that they have. So, we're confident that that system will be robust and will make sure that the students are getting a course of learning that meets their needs.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Okay. Suzy, you had a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "No, Mr Morris has answered my question.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We've got a couple more questions now on vulnerable learners. I've got Helen Mary, then Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think, Chair, the Minister has already answered what the—. But thinking just a little bit more broadly about the mental health and well-being of staff and learners across a range of educational settings, or, indeed, young people who can't access educational settings, what considerations are you giving to how that mental health and well-being might be supported through what is an incredibly difficult time for everyone?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that is correct. So, our expectation would be that during a prolonged period of closure—which I think, if we're honest, we have to acknowledge is what we're looking at—we would expect school staff—well-being staff, for instance in school—to be doing check-ins—phone check-ins, potentially, or FaceTime check-ins, with students, just to keep in touch with them as we go forward. We'll be looking to promote amongst young people a range of online facilities that are available—so, for instance, Meic website—so, looking to use a variety of platforms. We do, of course, have the formal NHS counselling services. I'm concerned, of course, that for some children their access to their counsellor is via their school. We know that, and we're just double checking the capacity of online counselling that already exists—online counselling tools that children already use because they don't want to go to the counsellor in the school and be seen in the school corridor going to the counsellor. They're already using those online methods and we expect to be able to continue, as far as possible, those kinds of mechanisms where children can have their mental health needs and their questions answered, and their worries. I think we have to remember that this is a really worrying time for children and young people. One of the reasons, again, that we wanted to keep schools going as long as possible—and teachers have been working so hard to do that—is because that routine of going into school and that normality is one that we've needed and wanted to maintain. Children will have worries about their own health; they'll have worries about the health of their parents and their grandparents; they will be consuming potentially media and news stories that have empty supermarket shelves. So, we need to understand, and I think we will also have to recognise, that this support will have to be ongoing once we're back to normal, and we will have to continue to look to support children in the longer term who will have lived through this experience. They are incredibly resilient, and they have been the champions of some of our public health messages. They are so much better and so much more compliant on the whole'washing your hands' and things like that than even adults have been. So, they are incredibly resilient, but we also have to recognise that it can be a really worrying time for them.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Can I just—? Just a supplementary to that—you've mentioned already, Kirsty, the importance of youth services, and, particularly thinking voluntarily youth services, you've given the commitment, when were talking about Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin earlier, that services that are part-funded by grants through the Welsh Government, for example, thinking of the national youth voluntary service—will those be able to be maintained even if settings have had to be shut as well? Obviously, local authorities will have to make their own decisions about whether youth settings are kept open, but, in terms of the direct support from Welsh Government, can organisations that receive it rely on that through this time?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "No formal decision has been made, but if people are in receipt of a Government grant from my department to run a service and that service can no longer run because of the public—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Because it's not safe.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "—because it's not safe to do so, I do not foresee that we will be turning around and saying,'We'll have our money back, thank you very much.'", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "That will make a lot of people happy, thank you. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "As I said, we are facing unprecedented circumstances. The normal rules of engagement have to change and, those organisations, we'll need them to be providing youth services for children when we are back to normal, and we wouldn't want to do anything that would undermine their ability to do that. Our call to the youth service is a call to arms, though. When we're trying to maintain services for vulnerable children and for front-line staff children, they have a valuable role to play and I know that local government and the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services are already in discussion about how youth services—. Many of our youth services work on an outreach basis. Those traditional youth clubs, because of austerity, are not necessarily there anymore, so they are well used to being out and about and doing outreach work, and they will have an important part to play in the services that we talked about earlier.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Hefin, briefly, and then we're going to take one final question from Suzy on emergency legislation.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "All right. I'll declare an interest as a parent of a child with additional learning needs, although the question I'm about to ask doesn't reflect her interests. Additional learning needs pupils who are waiting outcomes of referrals—if they're currently waiting an outcome of a referral, will that process will be suspended or will it continue as normal? And, if it is suspended, will it pick up where it left off from this point?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think we have to recognise that the ability to deliver business as usual has been massively compromised. I'm sure people will try and continue to do their normal activities and their normal jobs, but that might not be possible. I will have to check that, Hefin, to be honest. I don't want to give you any false assurance if, actually, the intelligence on the ground is that that simply will not be able to happen. But we don't—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Can we have a clear line on that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "We don't want to jeopardise anybody, but as I said, some of the normal services are simply not available as everybody turns their attention to trying to respond to the pandemic.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Final question—because I know that the Minister's got a lot of things that she needs to get on with—from Suzy on emergency legislation.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'm not going to ask you if you'll use any powers you get under the emergency legislation, but are you able to give us some indication of what they might be?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Sure. For instance, the Bill will provide Welsh Ministers with powers to temporarily close schools or other educational institutions, childcare premises; powers to give temporary continuity direction—so, actually, the other way around, force things to be open—and to be able to direct resources. So, that includes, as I said, I could direct something to stay open if that institution was trying to close down. The powers also give flexibility to maybe be able to direct staff to other institutions that they would not normally work in, if that was part of our resilience needs. We'd also be looking at, for instance, relaxing requirements around ratios in childcare settings, or we might be wanting to do things around food. So, obviously, we have rules around the level of nutrition that schools should be giving their children. If there is a continuing role for schools in providing food, we might have to be a bit more flexible about what that might look like. So, those kinds of flexibilities—to be able to suspend things, direct things—that we would not normally have in normal circumstances.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And just to finish this one off—you may not be able to answer this one, in all fairness—in those situations where it's the Government who says'no' to various things, does that then help people in the situation of Dawn's nursery, and insurance claims suddenly become more likely?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I'm not an expert on insurance, and I don't know if anybody here can help me. But what my understanding is, is that even where Government has given a direction that does not necessarily mean that you will be covered by your insurance. What we're finding in the private sector is that insurance companies are not paying out, because even when a Government has directed it, they do not regard this as a disruption to business. So, the insurance industry is not my area of expertise.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, no, I accept that.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "It's not my area of expertise, but from what I understand from discussions around the Cabinet table, this is particularly problematic. Let me give you an example about how we've been trying to overcome some of this—it feels like an awfully long time ago now— you'll be aware that we gave directions earlier around cancellation of school trips abroad. Trying to make sure that that direction came from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, rather than the Department for Education was a real battle, because again there were fears that, unless that advice came from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, insurance would not kick in, and that was a two-day discussion.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. This is helpful to know, actually.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, these are the kinds of things that we're grappling with. But, as I said, thinking about it, that was only last week, but it feels like an aeon ago.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I'm not holding you to that, but it helps us manage the questions we get asked.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, but as I said, insurance is not my area of expertise.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, but thank you for answering.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, we've come to the end of our time. Can I thank you for attending this morning, and your officials? We do recognise what an incredibly challenging time this is, and we'd like to place on record our thanks to all of you for the work that you're doing to try and see us through this crisis. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting. Thank you again, all of you, for your attendance. Item 3, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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The participants highlighted:\n* Schools would need to have systems in place to identify vulnerable children and young people who would need to still attend school.\n* Schools would need to develop a plan to provide continuity of learning for all students while adhering to social distancing guidelines.\n* Schools would need to address the mental health and well-being of students and staff during the pandemic.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 1, "endIndex": 1 }, { "startIndex": 5, "endIndex": 8 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Apart from the issues related to vulnerable children, mental health, and remote learning, what other challenges did the participants anticipate schools may face during the closures?", "response": "The participants discussed the challenges that schools may face in implementing the new policies and procedures related to the pandemic. Some of the challenges may include:\n* Ensuring all staff and students are provided with the necessary training and support to implement the new policies and procedures.\n* Addressing the concerns of parents and staff who may be reluctant to return to school due to safety concerns.\n* Ensuring the schools have the appropriate resources to implement the new policies and procedures, such as hand sanitizer, face mask, and cleaning supplies.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 87, "endIndex": 87 }, { "startIndex": 114, "endIndex": 115 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Did anyone disagree with Kirsty Williams regarding the necessity of including youth workers and other community support staff in the effort to continue education for vulnerable youth during school closures?", "response": "This information was not discussed in the meeting transcript. Therefore, I do not have any information on whether individuals disagreed with Kirsty Williams on the inclusion of community support staff in the education of vulnerable youth.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did anyone in the meeting express disagreement with Kirsty Williams’ suggestion to include the local council, social services, and youth service workers in an attempt to continue education for vulnerable children during school closures?", "response": "This information was not discussed in the meeting transcript. Therefore, I do not have any information on whether individuals expressed disagreement with Kirsty Williams’ suggestion to include various local service workers in the education of vulnerable children.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was Kirsty Williams’ stance on the issue of school closures as a result of the pandemic?", "response": "Kirsty Williams acknowledged the challenges schools would face due to closures and stated she believes it was a necessary step given the advice and recommendations they had received from a public health perspective.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 1, "endIndex": 1 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What decision was made regarding the alteration of the summer curriculum?", "response": "The participants agreed that the summer exam series would be cancelled and a fair grade would be awarded to students based on available information, but further details would be announced soon to ensure certainty for students and staff.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 1, "endIndex": 1 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did Steve Davies recommend to do when considering the mental well-being of students during school closures?", "response": "This information was not discussed in the meeting transcript. Therefore, I do not have any information regarding Steve Davies’ suggestions for considering students’ mental well-being during school closures.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

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I think we've met before, like, I remember talking to you about Aspect or something like that at some point or other.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "A couple times yeah.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "It's the uh twenty nineteenth.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Nineteenth?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And you were my GSI briefly, until I dropped the class.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK, wh wh", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No offense.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Some in some introductions are in order.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Getting ahead of myself.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So. Um. For those who don't know Everyone knows me, this is great. Um, apart from that, sort of the old gang, Johno and Bhaskara have been with us from from day one", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yay!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and um they're engaged in in various activities, some of which you will hear about today. Ami is um our counselor and spiritual guidance and um also interested in problems concerning reference of the more complex type,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh wow.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and um he sits in as a interested participant and helper. Is that a good characterization?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "u That's pretty good, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Keith is not technically one of us yet,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Not yet.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "ha - ha. but um it's too late for him now.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "\" One of us. \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah right. I've got the headset on after all.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um. Officially I guess he will be joining us in the summer.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And um hopefully it is by by means of Keith that we will be able to get a b a better formal and a better semantic um idea of what a construction is and um how we can make it work for us. Additionally his interest um surpasses um English because it also entails German, an extra capability of speaking and writing and understanding and reading that language. And um, is there anyone who doesn't know Nancy? Do you do you know Nancy?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Me?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I know Nancy.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I made that joke already, Nancy, sadly.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The \" I don't know myself \" joke.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You did? When?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh before you came in.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Man!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "About me or you?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "About me.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. 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It it's exactly how you interpreted it, sort of s", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The list of majors in the department?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "M m Majors?", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Ma - majors, majors.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Majors?", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "\" Mayors \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, mayor.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Majors.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Something I don't know about these", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "The department has many mayors.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Majors and um just sending the the little write - up that we did on to those email lists", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it was really Carol Snow who was confused, not me and not Jerry.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Yep, yep, yep. OK. So. So, that is uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's good. So I should still do that.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And using the thing that you wrote up.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Wonderful. And um we have a little description of asking peop subjects to contact Fey for you know recruiting them for our thing and um there was some confusion as to the consent form, which is basically that that what what you just signed", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and since we have one already um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did Jerry talk to you about maybe using our class? the students in the undergrad class that he's teaching?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um well he said um we definitely \" yes \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "e", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "however there is always more people in a in a facul uh in a department than are just taking his class or anybody else's class at the moment", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and one should sort of reach out and try and get them all.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, but th I guess it's that um people in his class cover a different set so than the c is the CogSci department that you were talking about?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I guess. See", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "uh reaching out to?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "that's what I suggested to him, that people like like Jerry and George and et cetera just.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Cuz we have you know people from other areas", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "advertise in their classes as well.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah or even I could you know I could do the actual.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Cuz I mean I I know how to contact our students,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's generally the way it's done.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "so if there's something that you're sending out you can also s um send me a copy,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "me or Bhaskara could either of us could post it to uh is it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "A mailing list.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "if it's a general solicitation that you know is just contact you then we can totally pro post it to the news group", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Do it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "OK, so you'll send it or something so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "As a matter of fact, if you.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I can send it.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "if.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'll send it,", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "You can send it to me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Now, i", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "OK. Don't worry, we this doesn't concern you anymore, Robert.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "How however I suggest that if you if you look at your email carefully you may think you may find that you already have it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's fine. Oops. Already? Really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Probab", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. W we'll see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I don't remember getting anything.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Anyhow, um the uh Yeah, not only Also we will talk about Linguistics and of course Computer Science.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um and then, secondly, we had, you may remember, um the problem with the re - phrasing, that subject always re - phrase sort of the task that uh we gave them,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and so we had a meeting on Friday talking about how to avoid that, and it proved finally fruitful in the sense that we came up with a new scenario for how to get the the subject m to really have intentions and sort of to act upon those, and um there the idea is now that next actually we we need to hire one more person to actually do that job because it it's getting more complicated. So if you know anyone interested in in what i'm about to describe, tell that person to to write a mail to me or Jerry soon, fast. Um the idea now is to sort of come up with a high level of sort of abstract tasks \" go shopping \" um \" take in uh a batch of art \" um \" visit do some sightseeing \" blah - blah - blah - blah - blah, sort of analogous to what Fey has started in in in compiling compiling here and already she has already gone to the trouble of of anchoring it with specific um o um entities and real world places you will find in Heidelberg. And um. So out of these f s these high level categories the subject can pick a couple, such as if if there is a cop uh a category in emptying your roll of film, the person can then decide \" OK, I wanna do that at this place \", sort of make up their own itinerary a and and tasks and the person is not allowed to take sort of this h high level category list with them, but uh the person is able to take notes on a map that we will give him and the map will be a tourist's sort of schematic representation with with symbols for the objects. And so, the person can maybe make a mental note that \" ah yeah I wanted to go shopping here \" and \" I wanted to maybe take a picture of that \" and \" maybe um eat here \" and then goes in and solves the task with the system, IE Fey, and um and we're gonna try out that Any questions?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so um y you'll have those say somewhere what their intention was so you still have the the nice thing about having data where you know what the actual intention was?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But they will um There's nothing that says you know \" these are the things you want to do \" so they'll say \" well these are the things I want to do \" and Right, so they'll have a little bit more natural interaction?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hopefully.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So they'll be given this map, which means that they won't have to like ask the system for in for like high level information about where things are?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah it's a schematic tourist map. So it'll be uh i it'll still require the that information and An", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It w it doesn't have like streets on it that would allow them to figure out their way.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "N not not not really the street network. Nuh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you're just saying like what part of town the things are in or whatever?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah a and um the map is more a means for them to have the buildings and their names and maybe some ma ma major streets and their names", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and we want to maybe ask them, if you have get it sort of isolated street the the, whatever, \" River Street \", and they know that they have decided that, yes, that's where they want to do this kind of action um that they have it with them and they can actually read them or sort of have the label for the object because it's too hard to memorize all these st strange German names. And then we're going to have another we're gonna have w another trial run IE the first with that new setup tomorrow at two and we have a real interesting subject which is Ron Kay for who those who know him, he's the founder of ICI. So he'll he's around seven seventy years old, or something.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I didn't know he was the founder. That's OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And he also approached me and he offered to help um our project and he was more thinking about some high level thinking tasks and I said \" sure we need help you can come in as a subject \" and he said \" OK \". So that's what's gonna happen, tomorrow, data.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Using this new new um plan,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "New new set up.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Which I'll hopefully sort of scrape together t But, thanks to Fey, we already have sort of a nice blueprint and I can work with that. Questions? Comments on that? If not, we can move on. No? No more questions?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm not sure I totally understand this", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So what's the s this is what you made, Fey?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but I'm not sure I totally understand everything that's being talked about", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Like so So it's just based on like the materials you had about Heidelberg.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um are you familiar with with the with the very rough setup of the data?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but I I imagine I'll c just catch on.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Based on the web site, yeah, at the.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Oh OK there's a web site", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "experiment?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "and then you could like um figure out what the cate", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's a tourist information web site,", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Uh, this is where they're supposed to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Talk to a machine and it breaks down and then the human comes on.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The question is just sort of how do we get the tasks in their head that they have an intention of doing something and have a need to ask the system for something without giving them sort of a clear wording or phrasing of the task.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Because what will happen then is that people repeat repeat, or as much as they can, of that phrasing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm. Um, are you worried about being able to identify.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um. The The goals that we've d you guys have been talking about are this these you know identifying which of three modes um their question uh concerns.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's like the Enter versus View.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we we will sort of get a protocol of the prior interaction,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "right? That's where the instructor, the person we are going to hire, um and the subjects sit down together with these high level things", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and so th the q first question for the subject is, \" so these are things, you know, we thought a tourist can do. Is there anything that interests you? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And the person can say \" yeah, sure sh this is something I would do. I would go shopping \". Yeah? and then we can sort of this s instructor can say \" well, uh then you you may want to find out how to get over here", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because this is where the shopping district is \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So the interaction beforehand will give them hints about how specific or how whatever though the kinds of questions that are going to ask during the actual session?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No. Just sort of OK, what what what would you like to buy and then um OK there you wanna buy a whatever cuckoos clocks", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK and the there is a store there.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So the task then for that person is t finding out how to get there, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's sort of what's left.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And we know that the intention is to enter because we know that the person wants to buy a cuckoos clock.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, that's what I mean so like those tasks are all gonna be um unambiguous about which of the three modes.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hopefully.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. OK. So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, so the idea is to try to get the actual phrasing that they might use and try to interfere as little as possible with their choice of words.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hopefully.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "t That they'll be here?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yes. In a sense that's exactly the the the idea,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh uh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which is never possible in a in a s in a lab situation,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, u u the one experiment th that that that I've read somewhere, it was they u used pictures.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "nuh?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So to to uh actually um uh specify the the tasks.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh, but you know i i", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. We had exactly that on our list of possible way things so we uh I even made a sort of a silly thing how that could work, how you control you are here you you want to know how to get someplace, and this is the place and it's a museum and you want to do some and and and there's a person looking at pictures. So, you know, this is exactly getting someplace with the intention of entering and looking at pictures.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "However, not only was the common census were among all participants of Friday's meeting was it's gonna be very laborious to to make these drawings for each different things,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "all the different actions, if at all possible, and also people will get caught up in the pictures. So all of a sudden we'll get descriptions of pictures in there.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And people talking about pictures and pictorial representations", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and um", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I would s I would still be willing to try it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, I I'm I'm not saying it's necessary but but uh i uh uh i you might be able to combine you know text uh and and some sort of picture and also uh I think it it will be a good idea to show them the text and kind of chew the task and then take the test away the the the the the text away", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so that they are not uh guided by by by what you wrote,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We will.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but can come up with their with their own.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, they will have no more linguistic matter in front of them when they enter this room.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Then I suggest we move on to the to we have um uh the EDU Project, let me make one more general remark, has sort of two two side uh um actions, its um action items that we're do dealing with, one is modifying the SmartKom parser and the other one is modifying the SmartKom natural language generation module. And um this is not too complicated but I'm just mentioning it put it in the framework because this is something we will talk about now. Um, I have some news from the generation, do you have news from the parser?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, not.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "By that look I.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes, uh, I would really p It would be better if I talked about it on Friday.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "If that's OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, wonderful. Um, did you run into problems or did you run into not h having time?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But not not any time part.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK, so that's good. That's better than running into problems.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And um I I do have some good news for the natural language generation however. And the good news is I guess it's done. Uh, meaning that Tilman Becker, who does the German one, actually took out some time and already did it in English for us. And so the version he's sending us is already producing the English that's needed to get by in version one point one.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So I take it that was similar to the what what we did for the parsing?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I it even though the generator is a little bit more complex and it would have been, not changing one hundred words but maybe four hundred words,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "but it would have been", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "but this this is I guess good news, and the uh the time and especially Bhaskara and uh and um Oh do I have it here? No. The time is now pretty much fixed. It's the last week of April until the fourth of May so it's twenty - sixth through fourth. That they'll be here. So it's it's extremely important that the two of you are also present in this town during that time.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Wait, what what are the days? April twenty - sixth to the May fourth?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, something like that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'll probably be here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You will be here.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "There is a d Isn't finals coming up then pretty much after that?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Finals was that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah w it doesn't really have much meaning to grad students but final projects might.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah actually, that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Anyway, so this is.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well I'll be here working on something. Guaranteed, it's just uh will I be here, you know, in uh I'll be here too actually but.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No it's just um you know they're coming for us so that we can bug them", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and ask them more questions and sit down together and write sensible code and they can give some nice talks and stuff. But uh", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But it's not like we need to be with them twenty - four hours a day s for the seven days that they're here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "just make a Not not unless you really really want to.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "They're very dependent", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Not unless you really want to. And they're both nice guys so you may may want to. OK, that much from the parser and generator side, unless there are more questions on that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, no sample generator output yet?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No. It Just a mail that, you know, he's sending me the the the stuff soon", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. This is being sent, mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and I was completely flabbergasted here", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and I and that's also it's it's going to produce the concept - to - speech uh blah - blah - blah information for necessary for one point one in English based on the English, you know, in English. So. I was like \" OK,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We're done.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "we're done! \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that was like one of the first l You know, the first task was getting it working for English. So that's basically over now. Is that right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So the basic requirement fulfilled.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, the basic requirement is fulfilled almost. When Andreas Stolcke and and his gang,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "when they have um changed the language model of the recognizer and the dictionary, then we can actually a put it all together", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So the speech recognizer also works. Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and you can speak into it and ask for TV and movie information", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Toll.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and then when if if something actually happens and some answers come out, then we're done.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. If and they're kind of correct.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So it's not done basically.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And they kind of are are correct.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. Perhaps if the answers have something to do with the questions for example.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's not just like anything. And they're mostly in English. So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Then um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Are they is it using the database? the German TV movie.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So all the actual data might be German names?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um well actually th um", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or are they all like American TV programs?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um well.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I want to see \" Die Dukes Von Hazard \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The OK, so you don't know how the German dialogue uh the German the demo dialogue actually works. It works the first thing is what's, you know, showing on TV, and then the person is presented with what's running on TV in Germany on that day, on that evening", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and so you take one look at it and then you say \" well that's really nothing there's nothing for me there \" \" what's running in the cinemas? \" So maybe there's something better happening there.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And then you get you're shown what movies play which films, and it's gonna be of course all the Heidelberg movies and what films they are actually showing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And most of them are going to be Hollywood movies. So, \" American Beauty \" is \" American Beauty \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "right? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But they're shown like on a screen.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's a I mean so would the generator, like the English language sentence of it is \" these are the follow you know the following films are being shown \" or something like that?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it in that sense it doesn't make In that case uh it doesn't really make sense to read them out loud.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "if you're displaying them.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it'll just display OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But uh it'll tell you that this is what's showing in Heidelberg and there you go.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So we don't have to worry about um Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And the presentation agent will go \" Hhh! \" Nuh?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Like that the avatar.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And um. And then you pick pick a movie and and and it show shows you the times and you pick a time and you pick seats and all of this. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Pretty straightforward.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But it's so this time we we are at an advantage because it was a problem for the German system to incorporate all these English movie titles.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Nuh? But in English, that's not really a problem,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "unless we get some some topical German movies that have just come out and that are in their database. So the person may select \" Huehner Rennen \" or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" Chicken Run \".", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. Then uh on to the modeling. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um then modeling, there it is.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. What's the next thing?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "e", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "This is very rough but this is sort of what um Johno and I managed to come up with. The idea here is that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "This is the uh s the schema of the XML here, not an example or something like that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah this is not an XML this is sort of towards an a schema,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "nuh? definition. The idea is, so, imagine we have a library of schema such as the Source - Path - Goal and then we have forced uh motion, we have cost action,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "we have a whole library of schemas.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And they're gonna be, you know, fleshed out in in their real ugly detail, Source - Path - Goal, and there's gonna be s a lot of stuff on the Goal and blah - blah - blah, that a goal can be and so forth. What we think is And all the names could should be taken \" cum grano salis \". So. This is a the fact that we're calling this \" action schema \" right now should not entail that we are going to continue calling this \" action schema \". But what that means is we have here first of all on the in the in the first iteration a stupid list of Source - Path - Goal actions", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Actions that can be categorized with or that are related to Source - Path - Goal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "wi to that schema", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and we will have you know forced motion and cost action actions.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then those actions can be in multiple categories at the same time if necessary.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So a push may be in in in both you know push uh in this or this uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Forced motion and caused action for instance,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Also, these things may or may not get their own structure in the future. So this is something that, you know, may also be a res As a result of your work in the future, we may find out that, you know, there're really s these subtle differences between um even within the domain of entering in the light of a Source - Path - Goal schema, that we need to put in fill in additional structure up there. But it gives us a nice handle. So with this we can basically um you know s slaughter the cow any anyway we want. Uh. It it is It was sort of a it gave us some headache, how do we avoid writing down that we have sort of the Enter Source - Path - Goal that this But this sort of gets the job done in that respect and maybe it is even conceptually somewhat adequate in a sense that um we're talking about two different things. We're talking more on the sort of intention level, up there, and more on the this is the your basic bone um schema, down there.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh one question, Robert. When you point at the screen is it your shadow that I'm supposed to look at?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's the shadow.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Whereas I keep looking where your hand is, and it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, that wouldn't have helped you at all.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Basically, what this is is that there's an interface between what we are doing and the action planner", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Spit right here.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and right now the way the interface is \" action go \" and then they have the what the person claimed was the source and the person claimed as the goal passed on.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And the problem is, is that the current system does not distinguish between goes of type \" going into \", goes of type \" want to go to a place where I can take a picture of \", et cetera.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So this is sort of what it looks like now, some simple \" Go \" action from it from an object named \" Peter's Kirche \" of the type \" Church \" to an object named \" Powder - Tower \" of the type \" Tower \". Right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "This is the uh what the action planner uses?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. Currently.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "This is OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Currently.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And is that and tha that's changeable? or not?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Like are we adapting to it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We This is the output, sort of, of the natural language understanding,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "the input into the action planning, as it is now.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And what we are going to do, we going to and you can see here, and again for Johno please please focus the shadow,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "um we're gon uh uh here you have the action and the domain object and w and on on.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What did you think he was doing?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "A laser pointer would be most appropriate here I think.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah I I um have I have no.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Eee.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Robert likes to be abstract and that's what I just thought he was doing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You look up here.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Sort of between here and here,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so as you can see this is on one level and we are going to add another um \" Struct \", if you want, IE a rich action description on that level.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So in the future.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's just an additional information.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Exactly. In the future though, the content of a hypothesis will not only be an object and an an action and a domain object but an action, a domain object, and a rich action description,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right? that doesn't hurt the current way. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Which which we're abbreviating as \" RAD \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "which is.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Rad!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So um you had like an action schema and a Source - Path - Goal schema,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "right? So how does this Source - Path - Goal schema fit into the uh action schema? Like is it one of the tags there?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah can you go back to that one?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So the Source - Path - Goal schema in this case, I've if I understand how we described we set this up, um cuz we've been arguing about it all week, but uh we'll hold the the Well in this case it will hold the I mean the the features I guess. I'm not it's hard for me to exactly s So basically that will store the the object that is w the Source will store the object that we're going from, the Goal will store the the f", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So the fillers of the role source.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "we'll fill those in fill those roles in, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The S Action - schemas basically have extra See we so those are schemas exist because in case we need extra information instead of just making it an attribute and which which is just one thing we we decided to make it's own entity so that we could explode it out later on in case there is some structure that that we need to exploit.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, so th sorry I just don't kn um um um This is just uh XML mo notational but um the fact that it's action schema and then sort of slash action schema that's a whole entit", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's a block, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's a block, whereas source is just an attribute?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Source is just not spelled out here. Source meaning Source will be uh will have a name, a type, maybe a dimensionality,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "maybe canonical uh orientation.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh, uh - huh. OK could it it could also be blocked out then as.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, the So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "s Source it will be, you know we'll f we know a lot about sources so we'll put all of that in Source.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But it's independent whether we are using the SPG schema in an Enter, View, or Approach mode, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "This is just properties of the SPG schema. We can talk about Paths being the fastest, the quickest, the nicest and so forth, uh or or and the Trajector should be coming in there as well.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And then G the same about Goals.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So I guess the question is when you actually fill one of these out, it'll be under action schema? Those are It's gonna be one y you'll pick one of those for.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK these are this is just a layout of the possible that could go play that role.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right, so the the the roles will be filled in with the schema", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, go it. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and then what actual a action is chosen is will be in the in the action schema section.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. OK. S S OK, so one question. This was in this case it's all um clear, sort of obvious, but you can think of the Enter, View and Approach as each having their roles, right? the I mean it's it's implicit that the person that's moving is doing entering viewing and approaching, but you know the usual thing is we have bindings between sort of they're sort of like action specific roles and the more general Source - Path - Goal specific roles. So are we worrying about that or not for now?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yes, yes. Since you bring it up now, we will worry about it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Tell us more about it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "What do you what do you.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What's that? Oh I guess it I I may be just um reading this and interpreting it into my head in the way that I've always viewed things", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and that that may or may not be what you guys intended. But if it is, then the top block is sort of like um, you know, you have to list exactly what X - schema or in this action schema, there'll be a certain one, that has its own s structure and maybe it has stuff about that specific to entering or viewing or approaching, but those could include roles like the thing that you're viewing, the thing that you're entering, the thing that you're", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So very specific role names are \" viewed thing \", \" entered thing \".", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "whatever, you know, that which are think think of enter, view and approach as frames", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and they have frame - specific parameters and and roles", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and you can also describe them in a general way as Source - Path - Goal schema and maybe there's other image schemas that you could you know add after this that you know, how do they work in terms of you know a force dynamics", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm, Mm - hmm, Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or how do they work in f terms of other things. So all of those have um basically f either specific frame specific roles or more general frame specific roles that might have binding. So the question is are um how to represent when things are linked in a certain way. So we know for Enter that there's Container potentially involved", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and it's not uh I don't know if you wanna have in the same level as the action schema SPG schema it it's somewhere in there that you need to represent that there is some container and the interior of it corresponds to some part of the Source - Path - Goal um you know goal uh goal I guess in this case.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So uh is there an easy way in this notation to show when there's identity basically between things", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and I di don't know if that's something we need to invent or you know just.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The wa wasn't there supposed to be a link in the", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't know if this answers your question, I was just staring at this while you were talking, sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh a link between the action schema, a field in the s in the schema for the image schemas that would link us to which action schema we were supposed to use so we could.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, well that's that's one one thing is that we can link up, think also that um we can have one or m as many as we want links from from the schema up to the s action um description of it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But the notion I got from Nancy's idea was that we may f find sort of concepts floating around i in the a action description of the action f \" Enter \" frame up there that are, e when you talk about the real world, actually identical to the goal of the the S Source - Path - Goal schema,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Exactly. Right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and do we have means of of telling it within that a and the answer is absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The way we absolutely have those means that are even part of the M - three - L A API,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh great. s Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "meaning we can reference. So meaning.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Great. That's exactly what is necessary.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. St", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And um. This referencing thing however is of temporary nature because sooner or later the W - three - C will be finished with their X - path, uh, um, specification and then it's going to be even much nicer. Then we have real means of pointing at an individual instantiation of one of our elements here", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and link it to another one, and this not only within a document but also via documents,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and and all in a v very easy e homogenous framework.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you know happen to know how what what \" sooner or later \" means like in practice?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's but it's soon.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or estimated. OK, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So it's g it's the spec is there and it's gonna part of the M - three - L AP API filed by the end of this year so that this means we can start using it basically now. But this is a technical detail.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So a pointer a way to really say pointers.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Basically references from the roles in the schema the bottom schemas to the action schemas is wha uh I'm assuming.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I mean personally, I'm looking even more forward to the day when we're going to have X forms, which l is a form of notation where it allows you to say that if the SPG action up there is Enter, then the goal type can never be a statue.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Uh - huh. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So you have constraints that are dependent on the c actual s specific filler, uh, of some attribute.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, yeah. W Yeah e exactly. Um, you know this, of course, does not make sense in light of the Statue of Liberty,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "however it is uh you know sort of these sort of things are imaginable.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Tsk. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S So um, like are you gonna have similar schemas for FM", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or the Gateway Arch in St.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Louis. So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "like forced motion and caused action and stuff like you have for SPG?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And if so like can are you able to enforce that you know if if it's if it's SPG action then you have that schema, if it's a forced motion then you have the other schema present in the.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um we have absolute No. We have absolutely no means of enforcing that, so it would be considered valid if we have an SPG action \" Enter \" and no SPG schema, but a forced action schema. Could happen.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Whi - which is not bad, because I mean, that there's multiple sens I mean that particular case, there's mult there there's a forced side of of that verb as well.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm. It maybe it means we had nothing to say about the Source - Path - Goal.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "What's also nice, and for a i for me in my mind it's it's crucially necessary, is that we can have multiple schemas and multiple action schemas in parallel.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And um we started thinking about going through our bakery questions, so when I say \" is there a bakery here? \" you know I do ultimately want our module to be able to first of all f tell the rest of the system \" hey this person actually wants to go there \" and \" B \", that person actually wants to buy something to eat there. Nuh? And if these are two different schemas, IE the Source - Path - Goal schema of getting there and then the buying snacks schema, nuh?.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Would they both be listed here in.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Under so o under action schema there's a list that can include both both things.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "ye Yeah, they they would both schemas would appear, so what is the uh is is there a \" buying s snacks \" schema?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Snack action.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "What is the uh have", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "the buying snack schema?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "See.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Buying buying his food.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "I'm sure there's a commercial event schema in there somewhere.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oop. I d f", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, a \" commercial event \" or something.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah I I.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah? So uh so we would we would instantiate the SPG schema with a Source - Path - Goal blah - blah - blah", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and the buying event you know at which however that looks like, the place f thing to buy.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Uh - huh. Interesting. Would you say that the like I mean you could have a flat structure and just say these are two independent things, but there's also this sort of like causal, well, so one is really facilitating the other and it's part of a compound action of some kind, which has structure.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now it's technically possible that you can fit schema within schema, and schema within schemata.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh I I think that's nicer for a lot of reasons but might be a pain so uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um Well, for me it seems that uh r Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean there are truly times when you have two totally independent goals that they might express at once, but in this case it's really like there's a purpo means that you know f for achieving some other purpose.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, if I'm if I'm recipient of such a message and I get a Source - Path - Goal where the goal is a bakery and then I get a commercial action which takes place in a bakery, right? and and and they they are obviously, via identifiers, identified to be the same thing here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah. See that that bothers me that they're the same thing.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, no, just the Yeah?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah because they're two different things one of which is l you could think of one a sub you know pru whatever pre - condition for the second.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, yeah. So. So. OK. So there's like levels of granularity. So uh there's there's um a single event of which they are both a part. And they're independently they they are events which have very different characters as far as Source - Path - Goal whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So when you identify Source - Path - Goal and whatever, there's gonna to be a desire, whatever, eating, hunger, whatever other frames you have involved, they have to match up in in nice ways. So it seems like each of them has its own internal structure and mapping to these schemas", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you know from the other But you know that's just That's just me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I think we're gonna hit a lot of interesting problems", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Like I I.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and as I prefaced it this is the result of one week of arguing about it", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Between you guys", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "uh", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and um and so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean I I still am not entirely sure that I really fully grasp the syntax of this.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well it's not it's not actually a very actually, it doesn't actually.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um it occur it occurs to me that I mean ne", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You know, like what Right. Or the intended interpretation of this.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um well I should have we should have added an ano an XML example,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or some XML examples", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah that would be that would be nice.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and and this is on on a on on my list of things until next next week.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's also a question of the recursiveness and and a hier hierarchy um in there.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Do we want the schemas just blump blump blump blump? I mean it's if we can actually you know get it so that we can, out of one utterance, activate more than one schema, I mean, then we're already pretty good,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well well you have to be careful with that uh uh thing because uh I mean many actions presuppose some um almost infinitely many other actions. So if you go to a bakery you have a general intention of uh not being hungry.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mayb - yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You have a specific intentions to cross the traffic light to get there.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You have a further specific intentions to left to lift your right foot", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and so uh uh I mean y you really have to focus on on on", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and decide the level of of abstraction that that you aim at it kind of zero in on that,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and more or less ignore the rest, unless there is some implications that that you want to constant draw from from sub - tasks um that are relevant uh I mean but very difficult.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "M Th The other thing that I just thought of is that you could want to go to the bakery because you're supposed to meet your friend there or som", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you know so you like being able to infer the second thing is very useful and probably often right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well the the the utterance was \" is there a bakery around here? \",", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But having them separate.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "not \" I want to go to a bakery. \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well maybe their friend said they were going to meet them in a bakery around the area.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And I'm, yeah I'm I'm inventing contexts which are maybe unlikely,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sure it OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but yeah I mean like but it's still the case that um you could you could override that default by giving extra information", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "which is to me a reason why you would keep the inference of that separate from the knowledge of \" OK they really want to know if there's a bakery around here \",", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "which is direct.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well there there there should never be a hard coded uh shortcut from the bakery question to the uh double schema thing,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "how uh And, as a matter of fact, when I have traveled with my friends we make these exactly these kinds of appointments.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We o o", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly. It's I met someone at the bakery you know in the Victoria Station t you know train station London before,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well. I have a question about the slot of the SPG action.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah. It's like.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So the Enter - View - Approach the the the EVA um, those are fixed slots in this particular action. Every action of this kind will have a choice. Or or or or will it just um uh is it change.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Every SPG every SPG action either is an Enter or a View or an Approach,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So so I I mean for for each particular action that you may want to characterize you would have some number of slots that define uh uh uh you know in some way what this action is all about.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It can be either A, B or C. Um. So is it a fixed number or or do you leave it open it could be between one and fifteen uh it's it's it's flexible.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, the uh Well, it sort of depends on on if you actually write down the the schema then you have to say it's either one of them or it can be none, or it can be any of them. However the uh it seems to be sensible to me to r to view them as mutually exclusive um maybe even not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "J Do you mean within the Source - Path - Goal actions?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "uh ye uh uh b I uh I u I understand", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Those three?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "uh but.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And um how how where is the end? So that's.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, no. There a a actually by I think my question is simpler than that, um is OK, so you have an SPG action and and it has three different um uh aspects um because you can either enter a building or view it or or approach it and touch it or something. Um now you define uh another action, it's it's called um uh s S P G - one", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Forced action or forced motion. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "action a different action. Um and this uh action - two would have various variable possibilities of interpreting what you would like to do. And i in in a way similar to either Enter - View - Approach you may want to send a letter, read a letter, or dictate a letter, let's say. So, h", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh the OK uh maybe I'd The uh These actions I don't know if I'm gonna answer your question or not with this, but the categories inside of action schemas, so, SPG action is a category. Real although I think what we're specifying here is this is a category where the actions \" enter, view and approach \" would fall into because they have a related Source - Path - Goal schema in our tourist domain. Cuz viewing in a tourist domain is going up to it and or actually going from one place to another to take a picture, in this in a.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. Oh, s so it's sort of automatic derived fr from the structure that that is built elsewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "derived I don't know if I u", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "This is a cate this a category structure here,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "right? Action schema. What are some types of action schemas? Well one of the types of action schemas is Source - Path - Goal action. And what are some types of that? And an Enter, a View, an Approach.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Those are all Source - Path - Goal actions.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Inside of Enter there will be roles that can be filled basically. So if I want to go from outside to inside then you'd have the roles that need to filled, where you'd have a Source - Path - Goal set of roles. So you'd the Source would be outside and Path is to the door or whatever, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So if you wanted to have a new type of action you'd create a new type of category. Then this category would we would put it or not necessarily We would put a new action in the m uh in the categories that in which it has the um Well, every action has a set of related schemas like Source - Path - Goal or force, whatever, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So we would put \" write a letter \" in the categories uh that in which it had it w had uh schemas u", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "There could be a communication event action or something like that", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Schemas uh that of that type.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and you could write it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And then later, you know, there the we have a communication event action where we'd define it down there as.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm. So there's a bit a redundancy, right? in in which the things that go into a particular You have categories at the top under action schema and the things that go under a particular category are um supposed to have a corresponding schema definition for that type. So I guess what's the function of having it up there too? I mean I guess I'm wondering whether You could just have under action schema you could just sort of say whatever you know it's gonna be Enter, View or Approach or whatever number of things", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and pos partly because you need to know somewhere that those things fall into some categories. And it may be multiple categories as you say which is um the reason why it gets a little messy", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um but if it has if it's supposed to be categorized in category X then the corresponding schema X will be among the structures that that follow.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. Well, this is one of things we were arguing about.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's like.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "th this is this r", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "this is this is more this is probably the way that th that's the way that seemed more intuitive to Johno I guess", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You didn't tell me to.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "also for a while for", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. But now you guys have seen the light.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, no, no. Uh we have not we have not seen the light.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The the reason One reason we're doing it this way is in case there's extra structure that's in the Enter action that's not captured by the schemas,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I it's easy to go back and forth isn't it? Uh - huh. I agree. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which is why I would think you would say Enter and then just say all the things that are relevant specifically to Enter. And then the things that are abstract will be in the abstract things as well. And that's why the bindings become useful.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right, but.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Ri - You'd like so you're saying you could practically turn this structure inside out? or something, or?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um Ye - I see what you mean by that,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No basically w", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but I I don't if I would I would need to have t have that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Get get rid of the sort of SPG slash something uh or the sub - actions category,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because what does that tell us?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um and I agree that you know this is something we need to discuss,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I in fact what you could say is for Enter,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you could say \" here, list all the kinds of schemas that on the category that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "List all the parent categories.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know i list all the parent categories \". It's just like a frame hierarchy,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "like you have these blended frames. So you would say enter and you'd say my parent frames are such - and - such, h and then those are the ones that actually you then actually define and say how the roles bind to your specific roles which will probably be f richer and fuller and have other stuff in there.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. This sounds like a paper I've read around here recently in terms of.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah it could be not a coincidence. Like I said, I'm sure I'm just hitting everything with a hammer that I developed,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but I mean you know uh it's I'm just telling you what I think, you just hit the button and it's like.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And, I guess fr uh", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean but there's a good question here. Like, I mean uh do you When do you need Damn this headset! When you this uh, eh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Metacomment.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's all recorded. Um. Why do you.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "\" Damn this project. \" No just kidding.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I don't know. Like How do I how do I come at this question? Um. I just don't see why you would I mean does th Who uses this uh this data structure? You know? Like, do you say \" alright I'm going to uh do an SPG action \". And then you know somebody ne either the computer or the user says \" alright, well, I know I want to do a Source - Path - Goal action so what are my choices among that? \" And \" oh, OK, so I can do an Enter - View - Approach \". It's not like that, right? It's more like you say \" I want to, uh I want to do an Enter. \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well only one of.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And then you're more interested in knowing what the parent categories are of that. Right? So that the um the uh sort of representation that you were just talking about seems more relevant to the kinds of things you would have to do?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I'd I", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think I'd I'm not sure if I understand your question. Only one of those things are gonna be lit up when we pass this on. So only Enter will be.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "if we if our if our module decided that Enter is the case, View and Approach will not be there.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well uh it's it sort of came into my mind that sometimes even two could be on, and would be interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um nevertheless um", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mayb - Well maybe I'm not understanding where this comes from and where this goes to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well in that case, we can't we can't w if if.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "l let's let's not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "well the thing is if that's the case we our I don't think our system can handle that currently.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What are we doing with this?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, not at all. But U s t So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "In principle.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "\" Approach and then enter. \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "the I think the in some sense we we ex get the task done extremely well", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Run like this uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because this is exactly the discussion we need need.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Period. No more qualifiers than that. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, this is the useful,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and um and and I th I hope", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you know, don don't worry.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um uh let's make a a a a sharper claim. We will not end this discussion anytime soon.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I can guarantee that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And it's gonna get more and more complex the the l complexer and larger our domains get.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sigh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And I think um we will have all of our points in writing pretty soon. So this is nice about being being recorded also. The um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "The r uh the in terms of why is it's laid out like this versus some other.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "the people.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um that's kind of a contentious point between the two of us but this is one wa so this is a way to link uh the way these roles are filled out to the action.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "In my view.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Because if we know that Enter is a t is an SPG action,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "we know to look for an SPG schema and put the appropriate fill in the appropriate roles later on.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And you could have also indicated that by saying \" Enter, what are the kinds of action I am? \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right? So there's just like sort of reverse organization, right? So like unless @ @ Are there reasons why one is better than the other I mean that come from other sources?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Again.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes because nobod no the modules don't.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. uh", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "This is this is a schema that defines XML messages that are passed from one module to another,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "mainly meaning from the natural language understanding, or from the deep language understanding to the action planner.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Now the the reason for for not using this approach is because you always will have to go back, each module will try have to go back to look up which uh you know entity can have which uh, you know, entity can have which parents, and then So you always need the whole body of of y your model um to figure out what belongs to what. Or you always send it along with it,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "nuh? So you always send up \" here I am I am this person, and I can have these parents \" in every message.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "which e", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so it's just like a pain to have to send it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It may or may not be a just a pain it's it's I'm completely willing to to to throw all of this away", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, I understand.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and completely redo it,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know and and and it after some iterations we may just do that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I would just like to ask um like, if it could happen for next time, I mean, just beca cuz I'm new", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and I don't really just I just don't know what to make of this and what this is for, and stuff like that, you know, so if someone could make an example of what would actually be in it,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "like first of all what modules are talking to each other using this,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we I will promise for the next time to have fleshed out N XML examples for a a run through and and see how this this then translates,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? And OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and how this can come about,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Be great.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "nuh? including the sort of \" miracle occurs here \" um part.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And um is there more to be said? I think um In principle what I I think that this approach does, and e e whether or not we take the Enter - View and we all throw up up the ladder um wha how do how does Professor Peter call that?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The uh hhh, silence su sublimination? Throwing somebody up the stairs? Have you never read the Peter's Principle anyone here?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, uh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "People reach their level of uh max their level of at which they're incompetent or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Maximum incompetence", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and then you can throw them up the stairs", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Promote them, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, so we can promote Enter - View all all up a bit and and get rid of the uh blah - blah - X - blah uh asterisk sub - action item altogether. No no problem with that", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we w we we will play around with all of them but the principal distinction between having the the pure schema and their instantiations on the one hand, and adding some whatever, more intention oriented specification um on parallel to that that this approach seems to be uh workable to me. I don't know. If you all share that opinion then that made my day much happier.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "This is a simple way to basically link uh roles to actions.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh yeah wait R Yeah, yeah. That's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's the that was the intent of of it, basically.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Although um roles.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So I I do I'm I'm not.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I'm I'm never happy when he uses the word \" roles \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah I I.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was going to.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I b I mean ROLLS so", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Bread rolls?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh you meant pastries, then?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, pastries is what I'm talking about.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Pastry oh ba oh the bak bakery example.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Bakery. Bakery.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "This is the bakery example. Got it. Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I see. Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Help!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I guess I'll agree to that, then.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. That's all I have for today. Oh no, there's one more issue. Bhaskara brought that one up. Meeting time rescheduling.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I n Didn't you say something about Friday,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or? Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So it looks like you have not been partaking, the Monday at three o' clock time has turned out to be not good anymore. So people have been thinking about an alternative time and the one we came up with is Friday two - thirty? three? What was it?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You have class until two, right? so if we don't want him if we don't want him to run over here", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Two - th Two - thirty - ish or three or Friday at three or something around that time.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So do I. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "two thirty - ish or three is.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. e", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um how how are your.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That would be good.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "uh Friday uh Yeah, that's fine.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And I know that you have until three You're busy?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So three is sounds good?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I'll be free by then.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I could do that. Yeah I mean earlier on Friday is better but three you know I mean if it were a three or a three thirty time then I would take the three or whatever,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but yeah sure three is fine.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and you can always make it shortly after three probably.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I don't need to be here particularly deeply.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Often, no, but uh,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "whenever.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But yeah.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "You are more than welcome if you think that this kind of discussion gets you anywhere in in your life then uh you're free to c", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's fascinating.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "\" That's the right answer. \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm just glad that I don't have to work it out", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just glad that don't have to work it out myself, that I'm not involved at all in the working out of it because.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Uh but you're a linguist.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You should.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. That's why I'm glad that I'm not involved in working it out.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's at Friday at three? there that's", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And um", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So already again this week,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "How diligent do we feel?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do feel that we have done our chores for this week or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I mean clearly there's I can talk about the um the parser changes on Friday at least,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK, Bhaskara will do the big show on Friday.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And you guys will argue some more?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And between now and then yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Between now and then.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and have some?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We will r", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Promise?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "probably.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We will. Don't worry.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And we'll get the summary like, this the c you know, short version, like.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "An - and I would like to second Keith's request.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "An example wo would be nice t to have kind of a detailed example.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes. I've I've I've I guess I'm on record for promising that now.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Like have it we'll have it in writing. So. or, better, speech. So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "This is it and um", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The other good thing about it is Jerry can be on here on Friday and he can weigh in as well.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. and um if you can get that binding point also maybe with a nice example that would be helpful for Johno and me.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah uh OK. let's uh yeah they're.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Give us.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No problem,", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "I think you've got one on hand,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I have several in my head, yeah. Always thinking about binding.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well the the the binding is technically no problem but it's it for me it seems to be conceptually important that we find out if we can s if if there if there are things in there that are sort of a general nature, we should distill them out and put them where the schemas are.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "If there are things that you know are intention - specific, then we should put them up somewhere, a", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, in general they'll be bindings across both intentions and the actions.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yep. That's wonderful.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So Yeah. So it's gen it's general across all of these things", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "it's like I mean Shastri would say you know binding is like an essential cognitive uh process. So. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So I don't think it will be isolated to one or the two, but you can definitely figure out where Yeah, sometimes things belong and So actually I'm not sure I would be curious to see how separate the intention part and the action part are in the system. Like I know the whole thing is like intention lattice, or something like that,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? So is the ri right now are the ideas the rich rich the RAD or whatever is one you know potential block inside intention. It's still it's still mainly intention hypothesis", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and then that's just one way to describe the the action part of it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's an a attempt to refine it basically.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's And yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, great uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "it's an an it's it's sort of.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Not just that you want to go from here to here, it's that the action is what you intend", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and this action consists of all com complicated modules and image schemas and whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. And and there will be a a a relatively high level of redundancy", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "in the sense that um ultimately one.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. which is, yeah, It's fine", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so th so that if we want to get really cocky we we will say \" well if you really look at it, you just need our RAD. \" You can throw the rest away, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Because you're not gonna get anymore information out of the action a as you find it there in the domain object.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But then again um in this case, the domain object may contain information that we don't really care about either. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "H But w we'll see that then, and how how it sort of evolves.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean if if people really like our our RAD, I mean w what might happen is that they will get rid of that action thing completely, you know, and leave it up for us to get the parser input um", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm. We know the things that make use of this thing so that we can just change them so that they make use of RAD.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You don't have to use the acronym.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "I can't believe we're using this term. So I'm like RAD! Like every time I say it, it's horrible. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I see what you mean.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "RAD's a great term.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Is the But what is the \" why \"?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's rad, even!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It happened to c be what it stands for.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It just happened to be the acronym.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's doesn't make it a great term. It's just like those jokes where you have to work on both levels.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "ye no but i", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Just think of it as as \" wheel \" in German.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "but if you if you if you work in th in that XML community it is a great acronym", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Do you see what I mean? Like", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because it e evokes whatever RDF.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "RDF is the biggest thing right? That's the rich sort of \" Resource Description Framework \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh \" rich de \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and um and also So, description, having the word d term \" description \" in there is wonderful,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "uh \" rich \" is also great, rwww.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Who doesn't like to be a", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Everybody likes action.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Plus it's hip. The kids'll like it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But what if it's not an action?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's it's rad,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah all the kids'll love it.", "speakerName": "Undergrad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And intentions will be \" RID \"? Like, \" OK \". Um are the are the sample data that you guys showed sometime ago like the things maybe maybe you're gonna run a trial tomorrow. I mean, I'm just wondering whether the ac some the actual sentences from this domain will be available. Cuz it'd be nice for me to like look if I'm thinking about examples I'm mostly looking at child language which you know will have some overlap but not total with the kinds of things that you guys are getting. So you showed some in this here before", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and maybe you've posted it before but where would I look if I want to see?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh I You want audio?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "or do you want transcript?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No just just transcript.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, well just transcript is just not available because nobody has transcribed it yet.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um I can e I can uh I'll transcribe it though.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. 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{ "meetingId": "education6", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask if there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Stage 2 proceedings. I'm pleased to welcome Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, deputy director, children and families division at Welsh Government; and Emma Gammon, lawyer for Welsh Government. Thank you for attending this morning and welcome to the committee. I'm just going to run through the procedures that we're going to follow now. As I said, the purpose of the meeting is to undertake Stage 2 proceedings on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. For these proceedings, Members should have copies of the marshalled list of amendments, the groupings of the amendments for debate and the voting order for the amendments. The marshalled list of amendments is the list of all amendments tabled, marshalled into the order in which the sections appear in the Bill. The order in which we consider amendments will be the default order—that is, sections 1 to 3 and the long title. You will see from the groupings list that amendments have been grouped to facilitate debate. However, the order in which they're called and moved for decision is dictated by the marshalled list. Members will, therefore, need to follow the two papers, although I will advise Members when I call them whether they're being called to speak in the debate or to move their amendments for a decision. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. Members who wish to speak in a particular group should indicate to me in the usual way. I will call the Deputy Minister to speak on each group. For the record, in accordance with the convention agreed by the Business Committee, as Chair I will move amendments in the name of the Deputy Minister. For expediency, I will assume that the Deputy Minister wishes me to move all of her amendments, and I will do so at the appropriate place in the marshalled list. Deputy Minister, if you do not want a particular amendment to be moved, please indicate to me at the relevant point in proceedings. In line with our usual practice, legal advisers to the committee and the Deputy Minister are not expected to provide advice on the record. If Members wish to seek legal advice during proceedings, please do so by passing a note to the legal adviser and, if necessary, we can adjourn. My intention is to try to dispose of all amendments during today's meeting. I will call a short break in proceedings at an appropriate time, if necessary. Okay, thank you. So, we will proceed, then, to group 1, which is the duty to promote public awareness. The lead amendment in the group is amendment 1 in the name of the Deputy Minister. I move amendment 1 in the Deputy Minister's name and call on the Deputy Minister to speak to her amendment and the other amendments in this group.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Chair. My amendments 1 and 4 will place a duty on Welsh Ministers to provide information and increase awareness about the change in the law to ensure that the public are made aware of how the law will change as a result of the defence of reasonable punishment being abolished and that physical punishment would be prohibited once the Act commences. I tabled these amendments in response to this committee's recommendation—this was a recommendation from this committee in the Stage 1 report, so I have responded to that. I've already made a commitment to a high-intensity awareness-raising campaign over approximately six years from Royal Assent, should the Bill be passed. I've considered amendments 1A to 1E, which have been tabled by Janet Finch-Saunders, and which relate to the duty to raise awareness. Amendment 1A introduces a reference to public understanding. We don't think, actually, that this adds anything to the Government amendment, which already mentions awareness. It makes the awareness-raising duty open-ended with no time limit, which is not necessary. By commencement, messaging around the change in the law will be embedded. The awareness-raising campaign will continue for a number of years. Therefore, an ongoing duty referring specifically to the law change would not be required. I understand, of course, that the awareness-raising campaign needs to be comprehensive, well planned and to reach out to all those people and all those communities who need to be aware of the law change, and understand how to respond to it. But I don't think it's helpful or necessary to highlight specific groups, such as visitors to Wales, on the face of the Bill—that's the approach taken in amendment 1E—as it risks placing too much emphasis on certain groups at the expense of others. In relation to children, the committee will know that I'm fully committed to children’s rights, and that Welsh Ministers are already under a duty to have due regard to the rights of children whenever they exercise their functions. An additional due regard requirement, such as the one set out in amendment 1D, relating specifically to the need to promote awareness among children is not needed. This would be part and parcel of the Welsh Government approach to putting children’s rights at the heart of our policy making. Similarly, I don't think it's necessary for the Bill to set out specifically the topics that need to be covered in the awareness-raising campaign, as is suggested in amendments 1B and 1C. That level of detail, I don't think, is for the face of the Bill. Information required about parenting support will be considered by the parenting expert group, under the auspices of the Bill’s strategic implementation group, working with my officials and the expert stakeholder group on the awareness-raising campaign. And, really, their thinking should not be constrained in any way by specifications on the face of the Bill. I think we always need to bear in mind that what the Bill does is remove a defence to an existing criminal offence; it does not create a new offence. And in this context, it doesn't make sense for this Bill to contain a provision requiring the provision of information about how a person may raise concerns if it appears to them that a child is being physically punished. As I set out in my letter to this committee responding to recommendation 15 on this point, safeguarding is everyone’s business, and, as now, the public have a role in highlighting to relevant services if they are concerned about a child. I'm asking for the support of Members for amendments 1 and 4, and I ask Members to reject amendments 1A to 1E because this would place unnecessary provisions on the face of the Bill.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Deputy Minister. Are there other Members who wish to speak? Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I wish to speak to amendments 1A to 1E, which relate to the Deputy Minister's amendment on the duty to promote public awareness. While we believe it is absolutely imperative that the public are made aware of this controversial change in the law, the Deputy Minister's amendment lacks a number of key points that the committee were actually keen to address at Stage 1. An important thread runs throughout each and every amendment that I've tabled within this group—that of a sustained awareness campaign, which not only stretches beyond the implementation of the Bill, but serves as a duty for future administrations. Amendment 1A: primarily, amendment 1A changes amendment 1 to include the promotion of understanding changes to the law. I don't think it's enough for the Welsh Government to say that the public should be made aware of the coming into force of section 1 and that a public awareness campaign needs to be sustained until the Welsh Government's objectives have been achieved. Despite the fact that it is intended to change behaviour, the consequences of this law are far greater than that of organ donation or prohibiting smoking indoors. Instead of an opt-out system or a civil offence, this law will remove a defence for parents, information on which could be there on their records for the rest of their lives, potentially separate parents, and could affect employment chances. As such, whilst we agree with the necessity of the awareness campaign, it is important too that the Welsh Government take stock and ensures that parents are not penalised due to a weak awareness campaign. The witnesses we heard before this committee also noted the necessity of ensuring that the public understands—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Janet, Dawn is asking if you'll take an intervention.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I just wanted to know—could you give us examples of any other piece of legislation where there's been indefinite public awareness campaigns once it's been passed?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "There's a lot of legislation. The first Assembly term when I was here—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, what I'm asking—", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I'm trying to respond—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "What I'm asking for is: can you give us specific examples of where there have been indefinite public awareness campaigns running indefinitely past the enactment of a piece of legislation?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "The very first term that I was an Assembly Member, we passed 25 pieces of separate legislation. Even today, as I sit here, the public are not aware of many of those pieces of legislation. This particular piece of legislation will have a profound effect on the parenting of children in Wales. So, therefore, I think there is a necessity for both children and parents to become involved, and I shall speak now—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "With respect, Chair, that's not the question I asked.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "—to my amendments.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I can call you in the debate, if you'd like to make a more substantive contribution on this. Yes.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The witnesses who we heard from before this committee also noted the necessity of ensuring that the public understands the implications. And that's what we're talking about here, Members—the implications of removing this defence. Strikingly, the Office of Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent stated the following:'the potential for public resistance to the Bill through misunderstanding or confusion over it implications may pose the largest barrier to its implementation.' If you are intent on removing the defence of reasonable punishment, it is therefore not unreasonable to ensure that law-abiding parents fully understand the ramifications of this Bill. Additionally, the committee found that while the current Welsh Government's intention to deliver a public awareness campaign was beyond doubt, future Governments may have less of a commitment. This places further weight on the fact that the Welsh Government should be under a duty to promote awareness and understanding of the Bill beyond its commencement. Furthermore, the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill quite clearly notes that, under section 2, the Scottish Ministers must take such steps as they consider appropriate to promote public awareness and understanding about the effect of section 1 on the abolition for the defence of reasonable punishment. Therefore, I would be grateful if the Deputy Minister can respond as to the reasons why the Welsh Government has deviated from this course of action in their amendment. [Interruption.] Should our amendment be agreed—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Are you taking an intervention?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "No. I'd rather crack on, to be honest.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I can call you in the debate, Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Should our amendment to be agreed, we also request that a printing change be made to ensure that the new heading reflects promoting awareness of the changes to the law made by section 1. Amendment 1B: amendment 1B is in line with the committee's recommendation 9, which stated that, as part of a public awareness campaign, there should be details about the support available to parents to use alternatives to physical punishment when disciplining their children. During evidence at Stage 1, the witnesses we saw before the committee raised serious concerns about harder-to-reach groups who needed to be made aware of removing the defence. For example, Children in Wales, Action for Children and Play Wales stated that some families and communities may be harder to reach with information and support. Welsh Government needs to make sure that they receive the information they need. Now, while the Deputy Minister states that she would work hard to ensure that harder-to-reach groups receive this information, a duty to provide information on alternatives to physical punishment would ensure that future Welsh Governments would maintain a successful awareness-raising campaign. I note the Deputy Minister accepted the recommendation, through our amendment, but this does not explicitly include a duty to provide details about support for parents. As will be expanded upon later, the Deputy Minister has relied upon the'Parenting: Give it Time' campaign to be delivered alongside awareness raising. However, this is only an online resource and she must be clear about what other avenues will be available to parents who do not have access to the internet or are part of harder-to-reach groups. Amendment 1C: amendment 1C supports the committee's recommendation 15 that explains that the Welsh Government should ensure clear advice is provided on what people can do if they have seen or learned of a child being physically assaulted. We urged, at Stage 1, that although many professionals were already under a duty to report concerns about physical punishment, regardless of the Bill, other witnesses raised concerns that it could create the potential for claims of abuse that are unfounded. In particular, some were worried that children, who may not realise the implications of reporting, could make allegations that are actually untrue. While we would expect the awareness-raising campaign to include the consequences of false accusations, this could also be reflected among adults, if the public are not sufficiently made aware of how they can report and in what situations they can report a case of assault.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I've got several speakers. I've got Suzy Davies first, then Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you Minister, and thank you, Janet, for that. I think it's worth just pointing out at this stage that the majority of the amendments that are being made and articulated by Janet there are based on committee recommendations, and those recommendations were made after taking evidence from the public at large, but also you as well. So, that suggests that, at that stage, we weren't reassured by the offer that you were making because we felt the need to put these recommendations into our report. Now, I recognise that you've moved some way on some of these amendments, and we'll been talking about that through the course of the debates on other groups. But the one thing to bear in mind here is this is legislation, now—that means that this is the instrument of the Assembly, not of Government, and if this Assembly feels that the face of the Bill is unclear on the minimum requirements of a public awareness campaign, then we have the right to suggest the things that we would like to see in that public awareness-raising campaign. The list that Janet has given is a minimum. The reason these have been tabled individually and independently is that some may be acceptable where others may not be, so it will be disappointing to hear that you're rejecting them all, and the reason they need to go on the face of the Bill is that, if you are going to introduce specifics via regulation, at the moment we have no reassurance about how you're going to do that—about what input the Assembly, on behalf of our constituents, could have in designing that public awareness-raising campaign. Unless you accept some amendments in other groups, that is the position with this Bill: the influence of the Assembly will be zero over the content of an awareness-raising campaign. In terms of it being non-time limited, I think the amendment has been tabled in the way it has not to oblige you to an everlasting, never-ending campaign of awareness raising. But if you bear in mind that, seven years after the introduction of this Bill, there's going to be some reporting on the effectiveness of the Bill, what is the point of doing that if you don't then have an obligation, should the reports require it to be necessary, to continue promoting the changes in the law? I accept that that can't go on for centuries, but to actually limit it to two years on an issue that is so sensitive, and which has a reach beyond our boundaries, I think is genuinely a mistake. Finally, you mention that safeguarding is everyone's business. I think that's true, but I think Janet Finch-Saunders was right to say that members of the public, ordinary individuals, not professionals, will need assurance that they're doing the right thing. The amendment as listed is not even there to encourage people to do that, although that can be read in that way, but it is to help them be certain that they are doing the right thing. If this is going to be up to the individual, as you've said, and the committee itself wasn't reassured that individuals would know what to do, perhaps I can ask you to consider at Stage 3, if you're going to reject this amendment, how you can reassure members of the public that, if they are going to intervene on the back of this law, they're making things better, not worse.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Suzy. Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "My comments, really, relate to ongoing awareness-raising campaigns, which I think all of us would want to see, and would appreciate in any changes in legislation. My point, really, is that we have a plethora of legislation that this Assembly has passed in the last 20 years, and I'm not aware of any legislation where, on the face of the Bill we have ongoing awareness-raising campaigns on an indefinite basis. It seems to me that, for some reason, you seem to be wanting to take a completely different approach to this piece of legislation. From what the Deputy Minister is saying—and perhaps I will get some clarity on this—there will be an amendment to the legislation that will say that we have an awareness campaign. That awareness campaign can be the subject of consultation with interested parties in terms of what needs to be included in it. It could also, I assume, Deputy Minister, be an awareness campaign that can be written into a set of guidance for future use. But the point I'm trying to make is that I don't believe that any piece of legislation requires ongoing and indefinite awareness-raising campaigns, and particularly in relation to visitors to Wales. Again, we have other pieces of legislation in Wales that are not applicable in the other parts of the UK. I am not aware that there is a necessity for awareness-raising campaigns with visitors coming into Wales on the raft of the other pieces of legislation that we have that they don't. And similarly, when we go to visit countries that have different legislation, we don't necessarily know what legislation we're going into when we visit that country—you just go there and you accept that you go to a different country and you abide by their laws. So, my key point, Chair, is just the necessity of an ongoing, endless awareness campaign being written onto the face of the Bill.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Dawn. Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "My comments follow logically from Dawn Bowden's comments, particularly in relation to amendments 1D and 1E. What you would be doing is that this Senedd, if this was on the face of the Bill, the duty on Ministers, would be putting the duty on Ministers in law beyond the life of the fifth Senedd, into the next Senedd term, and putting that duty on those newly elected Ministers after that, which, in principle, would be against the principles of binding—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Hefin, are you taking an intervention from Suzy?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, happy to.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "When you've finished your point.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I'm happy to take it now, because I was going to sum up by agreeing with the point you made, actually.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I'd love that. You referred to this potentially binding Ministers in future Assemblies; at the moment, we've got an implementation period and a five-year reporting period that takes any reporting on this Act into the Assembly after next. I'm wondering if you're going to have any comments on that when we come to the amendment to change that later on.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, when we get to that amendment, I'll make comments if I feel it necessary. But at this point in time, we're talking about amendments 1D and 1E, and particularly in relation to 1D and 1E it just isn't necessary, given the fact that—I won't call it a concession, because I think you made a reasonable point about the Minister making a statement at Stage 3, and I think Dawn Bowden actually supported that as well. That, therefore, makes those amendments unnecessary. Given that, in these circumstances, it is unnecessary to bind Ministers in future Parliaments. And that's my key point, really, which is why I wouldn't vote for those two amendments.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. I just want to speak against amendment 1A and also amendment 1B. I don't believe that there is a need for an indefinite campaign, as is outlined in 1A. I agree entirely that there is a need for a campaign during the period of change, and therefore I'm very glad to see that the Government has brought forward amendment 1, and I do hope that there will be a real push during the period of change. In terms of amendment 1B, I do have sympathy with what is being said here, but I believe that any kind of information or campaign in terms of enabling parents to learn about alternatives to physical punishment should be the subject of continual far-reaching work by the Government, through various programmes, and it should not be an addition on the face of this Bill, which deals with a small change to the common law. And then, on 1D also, if I may—I don't agree with this either. Again, I believe that there is a need to promote awareness amongst children, but that should happen through the children's rights convention, as part of a broader programme to promote children's rights.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Siân. I call on the Deputy Minister to speak, then.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you all very much for your contributions to the debate and your comments on these amendments today. I just want to re-emphasise that it is as a result of the recommendation from this committee that we are putting this duty to have the awareness campaign on the face of the Bill, and I absolutely recognise the crucial role awareness raising has to play in supporting the implementation of the Bill. I'm very grateful for and appreciate the committee's interest and the work that you've done in this area of work. But I do think that these amendments are unnecessary. If we go through them, amendment 1A is really open-ended on promoting public awareness. We're committed to a high-intensity awareness over six years from Royal Assent, and there is an expert stakeholder group supporting us with the development of the awareness campaign. All the points that you've been making will be being considered by that group. I think the level of detail on the face of the Bill is not needed.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Would you just take an intervention on that just to help me understand? A two-year awareness-raising campaign—how have you concluded that—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Six-year.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I thought it was two years before section 1 comes into force.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We've got six years from Royal Assent.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Oh, so it is going to continue beyond section 1 coming into force—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Oh yes, it's going to continue.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "That's very helpful.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Definitely, yes. So, I don't think that's needed, amendment 1A. Amendment 1B, about support available to parents and how to access it—again, this level of detail is not required on the face of the Bill. I just want to emphasise we have got this expert implementation group, who are working on all aspects of this Bill, many of whom represent organisations who gave evidence to this committee. The Bill is a simple one, with a clear purpose. It aims to remove the defence of reasonable punishment. I think lots of these amendments are very helpful and interesting, but would be discussed and would be acted on in the normal pathway of planning and development, and they're not required on the face of the Bill. So, I'm not putting them down, I'm just saying that we don't need them to be there on the face of the Bill. And then amendment 1C—the information about how to raise concerns—I do repeat that safeguarding is everybody's business, and the same issues apply now as will after this defence has been removed. Amendment 1D—Ministers to have regard to the need to promote awareness among children—now, children's rights are absolutely enshrined in our policy making, and the entire Bill is about protecting the rights of children. So, it is unnecessary duplication. So, we hope that the Bill will remain focused. Again, in terms of visitors, the level of detail is simply not required on the face of the Bill. Our awareness-raising campaign will be comprehensive. And then to pick up a few of the other points that were raised, revisions to the impact assessments are being considered as part of my commitment to update the explanatory memorandum ahead of Stage 3. So, there will be more details on the regulatory impact assessment. The issue that was raised about the Scottish Bill, that it refers to'understanding'—now, the Scottish Bill was not a Government Bill, it was a private Member's Bill, and our view is that nothing is added by adding the'understanding';'awareness' is sufficient. So, basically, I think that the points made have been very useful, but I urge committee members to accept my amendments, but to reject those proposed by Janet Finch-Saunders, as they are unnecessary provisions in terms of what the awareness-raising duty needs to achieve.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Deputy Minister. Before disposing of amendment 1, we will deal with the amendments to that amendment. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 1A?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. The question is that amendment 1A be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we have an objection. I therefore take a vote by show of hands. The question is that amendment 1A be agreed. All those in favour, please raise your hands. All those against. There voted two in favour, four against. So, amendment 1A is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 1B?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 1B be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, I'll take a vote by show of hands. All those in favour of amendment 1B. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 1B is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 1C?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. The question is that amendment 1C be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay. All those in favour of amendment 1C, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against, and amendment 1C is not agreed. Janet, do you want to move amendment 1D?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. The question is that amendment 1D be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, as there's an objection, I'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 1D, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against, and amendment 1D is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 1E?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Okay. The question is that amendment 1E be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 1E, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against, and amendment 1E is not agreed. If amendment 1 is not agreed, amendment 2C and amendment 4 will fall. Deputy Minister, do you wish to proceed to a vote on amendment 1?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Okay. I move amendment 1 in the name of the Deputy Minister. The question is that amendment 1 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we have an objection, so we'll take a vote by show of hands. All those in favour of amendment 1. All those against. So, there voted four in favour, two against, and amendment 1 is agreed. We'll move on now then to group 2, which relates to the duty to report on the effect of the legislation. The lead amendment in the group is amendment 2, in the name of the Deputy Minister. I move amendment 2 in the Deputy Minister's name, and call on the Deputy Minister to speak to her amendments, and the other amendments in this group.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. The amendments in this group are to do with the post-implementation review of the Bill, and I believe there was also a committee recommendation to this end from your committee, so you strongly influenced this amendment. It's clear from Members' contributions to this group and recommendations by the committee at Stage 1 that they share my commitment to the importance of post-implementation review of the effect of the abolition of the defence of reasonable punishment. I've already provided assurance that I agree with the importance placed on such a review, both in the explanatory memorandum and during Stage 1 scrutiny. I also made a commitment to bring forward a Government amendment to put a duty to undertake a post-implementation review on the face of the Bill. I have done this with amendment 2. Amendment 5 sets out that this provision will come into force the day after Royal Assent. As I said in my responses to the Stage 1 committee report, and as set out in the explanatory memorandum, the post-implementation review of this Bill will not be a single piece of work, but a continuous programme of work during the years following the commencement of section 1. Firstly, we will continue to conduct attitudinal surveys, which will be used to track changes in attitude towards the physical punishment of children and prevalence of parents reporting that they use physical punishment. The surveys will also be used to monitor the effectiveness of our awareness-raising campaign. Secondly, through a dedicated task and finish group, we are working with organisations to put in place arrangements to establish robust methods for capturing meaningful data relating to the Bill and to consider the possible impact on services. Turning to amendment 2C, this amendment would require Welsh Ministers to prepare and lay before the Assembly a report on the effect of their promotion of public awareness before section 1 is commenced. This amendment is unnecessary and is in conflict with what I think is a priority for the implementation of this Bill: that is, given certainty on the commencement date and in enabling us to work towards this with our partners and stakeholders. I also think this amendment is not required because, as I've already stated, we are preparing to assess the effectiveness of our awareness raising. In June, I shared the findings of a representative survey, which establishes a baseline on public awareness and opinion towards physical punishment of children and the proposed legislation. I shared this with the committee.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Deputy Minister. I open it up for discussion now, then. Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I speak to amendments 2C, excluding 2D, to 2K, which relate to the Deputy Minister's amendment 2 on preparing a published report on the effect of abolishing the defence of reasonable punishment. Again, I must stress the importance of getting this right due to the controversial and long-lasting effects of removing the defence of reasonable punishment. Amendments 2E to 2K outline what we would expect to be within this report, and we would wish to see a commitment from the Deputy Minister to ensure the National Assembly for Wales is fully apprised and able to scrutinise the result of this report. Amendment 2C requests that the Welsh Government prepare a report on the awareness-raising campaign and lays it before the Assembly before section 1 commences. As I have outlined under my amendments in group 1, the understanding of the public about the implications of the Bill cannot be sidelined. Although the Deputy Minister has repeated her commitment to a public awareness campaign, we, as the National Assembly for Wales, must be able to scrutinise its effectiveness before section 1 begins. As I noted under amendments 1B to 1E, there are specific groups of people who need to be evaluated on their understanding of the Bill's effect. I'm sure that the Deputy Minister will agree that the harder-to-reach groups are undoubtedly the most vulnerable to any negative impacts that the Bill will have because of the greater potential of a lack of awareness. It is, therefore, important for the Assembly to be able to determine whether the awareness-raising campaign has had a positive effect on these groups of people. As will also be elaborated under amendment 2D, it is extremely important that we, as the Parliament of Wales, are fully apprised of the awareness-raising campaign's impact. Before we implement what will be a criminal offence, it is vital that we ensure that those affected are not adversely impacted because of a poorly targeted awareness campaign. Therefore, I would be grateful if the Deputy Minister would commit to an independent evaluation of the awareness campaign's effects before section 1 commences.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Janet. Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Deputy Minister, first of all, can I just say thank you for your opening remarks about the possibility of perhaps doing some work around amendment 2B? I'll come to that a little bit later, if I may. I just want to begin by commenting briefly on what you said about why you'll be rejecting amendment 2C here. I actually don't think that this amendment should affect or jeopardise the commencement date in any way at all. It's an operational requirement to get this work done before the commencement date that's in the draft Bill at the moment. So, failing to meet that would be as a result of operations not going well, rather than anything intrinsic in the Bill, so I'm not sure I can accept your argument on that. And, on 2D—very pleased to hear that you'd be willing to introduce something about'laying' rather than'publishing' at Stage 3, but, in the spirit of recognising that this is the legislature, perhaps I could encourage you just to accept the amendment at this stage, because it doesn't make any difference. Your amendment is going to pass, and this amendment to it would be—I think the gesture there would be very much appreciated. I'll be speaking mainly to amendments 2A and 2B, but I want to begin, again, by thanking you for moving some way on this and considering amendments to the Bill on the issue of reporting, because I know you were keen to avoid amendments in the name of simplicity; you mentioned it earlier. But this is not a newid bychan, I'm afraid, Siân; the terms and the effect of this Bill are quite extensive, and it does need the reassurances, if you like, necessary to mitigate potentially disproportionate effects of this Bill on families where parents' actions had been lawful up until this point in statute. It does need statutory underpinning. So, I am grateful to you for accepting this duty. I know that you're sincere that you want this duty to report to show that the Bill is effective in stopping smacking as a punishment, and also that it is not as harmful to parents as perhaps some of us fear. But, if this were me bringing forward this Bill, I think I'd want to show the world that I was doing the right thing a lot sooner than you appear to wish to do. Amendment 2 means that the efficacy of the Bill will not formally be assessed until seven years after it has passed. There are Acts on the statute book that have lasted a lot less time than that. If you're relying on the two-year period before section 1 comes into operation to do much of the heavy lifting on the culture change, and I think that is what you're expecting—you know, showing a reduction in the incidence of physical punishment, reducing the number of, and indeed the likelihood of, parents putting themselves in the path of criminal liability once those two years are up—I really would have thought you'd want people to know sooner, or as soon as the first possible opportunity on that. Waiting five years, I think, will diminish the ability of you to prove the efficacy of those initial two years, and this is why I'm grateful to you for your offer, because there may be a way where we can overcome that. If the trend of culture change is continuing after year 3—so, basically, in the first year after section 1 comes into effect—that's great, but there's a possibility it's going to reverse. Again, I don't think I'd want to wait five years to find that out. For myself, I think one year would probably be enough, but I think three years is a reasonable compromise, as opposed to five years, for a reporting period. I think seven years is just way too long for a formal evaluation of a Bill's effectiveness. I can't see the reason for quite that length of time—I know you've talked about New Zealand—but neither can the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee. I think that's worth pointing out. When they took the step of recommending this duty to evaluate and report, they also took the step of suggesting a three-year reporting period being more in keeping with other post-legislative scrutiny. That's something I think we perhaps need to bear in mind now, as we enter this period of the consolidation of law. Five/seven years is really something of an outlier, and while that might have been appropriate, perhaps, in New Zealand, I don't think that fits in with our timetables generally here in Wales, and, of course, there are other countries that have introduced this over a period of years, and I note that you haven't drawn on them in order to support your argument. So, can I urge Members and the Minister to consider the arguments behind these amendments? I don't think it's going to reassure anyone—you may want to intervene at this point, Hefin—that we not only won't hear in this Assembly, we won't hear in the next Assembly, about the formal evaluation of this, unless I follow—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I won't intervene; I'll speak.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Is that okay?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I'll make the point.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay, I've got—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I'll take the intervention.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, he doesn't want to make an intervention—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I won't do an intervention; I'll speak.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "—he'll make a contribution.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Oh, apologies—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Just to say—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I'll wait.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, let me put the intervention—. I'll do it as an intervention, then. I just feel that—I take your point, and I was expecting it. The point I was making about 1D and 1E is they close down choices to Ministers in future Assemblies. An evaluative practice would actually open up those choices and give future Parliaments more options with regard to this Bill, so I think it's entirely consistent. I don't think the Minister, in putting in amendment 2, was trying to undermine my argument. Actually, I think she's being constructive by doing that, and I think amendment 2 is a practical amendment that's quite helpful, and its consequence will be to open up choices to future Parliaments, whereas my objection to 1D and 1E is they close those down.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay, well, as I say, I think, actually, the Deputy Minister's offer of a three-year interim period might be part of a resolution to this. Because I'm not 100 per cent sure I accept your argument, either, because it closes it down for the interim period if we don't move on with the Deputy Minister's suggestion—which I'll talk about now, actually. Because I am tempted to accept your offer. It absolutely makes sense and it's clearly made with the best good faith here. But I need some clarity on what you would allow this Assembly to do in helping define the terms of that interim report. Because you've been very clear that you don't want to accept the things that Janet Finch-Saunders has been talking about in a final report, and yet I can tell you we want to hear about these things. So, if you're in a position where you can give a commitment at Stage 3 not only to introduce an interim report, but that you will consult with, perhaps, this committee—I'll leave it to you—on the contents of that interim report, what we would want to see tested, then I'll be minded not to move amendment 2B. If you can't give me that reassurance, then I'm going to move it anyway and we'll return to it at Stage 3, if you don't mind. Just a final point on this issue of reporting within three months rather than as soon as practicable, and I do take your point that there may be a misalignment with reporting periods from the organisations you hope to talk to. Again, at Stage 3, I'm happy if you want to make three months six months, or something like that, but'as soon as practicable' is open ended, and what you think is practicable may be very different from what I or my constituents think is practicable. So, I don't want to stick with what is practicable; I would like you to put a date on this. If it's a case that you think six months is long enough for data gathering and reporting from third parties, I think that's fairly reasonable as well, but I'm not minded to allow you to just keep this open ended. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Suzy. Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I welcome adding to the Bill through amendment 2, and what you've said today also, that you're willing to provide an interim report and bring an amendment forward to allow that through the Bill, and to lay a report before the Assembly. I am interested in what Suzy is saying, and have a lot of sympathy with trying to tie it down to specific time periods, and not say'when it will be practicable'. Therefore, I would encourage you not to move your amendments if you have the confirmation that you want to hear this morning from the Minister regarding these issues.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I would like to. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Any other Members? No. Deputy Minister.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, just to start off on that point, I think your suggestion about how we consult and discuss, I think I'm very happy to accept that. So, I'm happy to discuss that with you, and with the committee, before the third Stage. So, I hope you will consider removing—.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "No, genuinely I am.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Right, thank you. Well, just to go on to cover some of the points that have been raised, on the issue of training now, I think Janet raised a number of points about training, and we do have an operations, procedures, processes and training task and finish group as part of our implementation work, and they are considering guidance and training requirements. There are many professional bodies represented on that group, many of whom I think have given evidence here today, and they've really got a chance to have their say. The officials are also looking at training as part of the revision of the explanatory memorandum at Stage 3, so there will be more information about training there. But we have this group looking at it, and it is very key. Generally, I think that all the contributions are very helpful, and I know they're meant in the spirit of trying to improve the legislation. I can't support amendments 2A, 2C, and amendments 2E to 2K, because these amendments make little difference in terms of practical effect to what we have in the Bill already, or they're covered by the Government amendments that I've moved. But I do hope the committee is reassured that we are committed to undertaking a very thorough, multifaceted review of the impact of the legislation that includes tracking public attitudes and considering impacts on public services. Now, tracking the public attitudes will be going along at regular points, so there's no question there of having to wait; we'll be having regular reporting of public attitudes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Would you take an intervention there, Deputy Minister? Thank you very much. Of course, I appreciate that you will not be supporting these amendments, but can you give us some indication of how many of the areas of interest to us you will be reporting on? So, even if this is not a statutory commitment, what exactly from our list, our wish list here, would you be prepared to include in your evaluation?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, I would actually have thought all of them. All the areas you've raised are very relevant, I think. Obviously, this is not a statutory thing I'm saying, but—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "No, no, and this is not a—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, but considering those points you've put forward, I think all of them have got a great deal of relevance. We will certainly be reporting to the group to consider any of the ideas that you've suggested and, in particular with the data collection and the monitoring task and finish group, which is about developing methods to collect data, we will be putting forward some of the suggestions that you've made on those issues. So, I don't see any problem with that at all.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, as I say, I can't support the amendments. I'm hopeful you may withdraw the two amendments—I think one of yours and it was one of Janet's, wasn't it—so that we could work together on those before the next stage. Because I am sympathetic to your views on these matters, and I think they do reflect some of the discussions in the committee as well. So, I'd be happy to work with you to bring forward the amendments at Stage 3. In line with the recommendations of the Finance Committee, further details of the costs associated with the post-implementation review will be provided in a revised regulatory impact assessment at Stage 3. So, I think at this point I would ask that Members reject the non-Government amendments and agree to my amendments 2 and 5, which will ultimately achieve the same policy aim without the need for unnecessary detail on the Bill, with the exception, obviously, of those two amendments, which I'm prepared to look at a way of moving forward on.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you, Deputy Minister. Before disposing of amendment 2, we will deal with the amendments to that amendment. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 2C?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 2C be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We have an objection, so I'll take a vote by show of hands. All those in favour of amendment 2C, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 2C is lost. Suzy, do you wish to move amendment 2A?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move amendment 2A, yes.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 2A be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 2A, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 2A is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 2D?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Janet, do you wish to move amendment 2E?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 2E be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 2E, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 2E is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 2F?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 2F be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We have an objection, so can I see all those in favour of amendment 2F? All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against, and amendment 2F is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 2G?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 2G be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, can I see all those in favour of amendment 2G? All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against, and amendment 2G is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 2H?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 2H be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We have an objection, so can I see all those in favour of amendment 2H? All those against? So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 2H is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 2I?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 2I be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay. Can I see all those in favour of amendment 2I? All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 2I is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 2J?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 2J be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We have an objection, so I'll take a vote. Can I see all those in favour of 2J? All those against? So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 2J is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 2K?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 2K be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] I'll therefore take a vote by show of hands. All those in favour of amendment 2K? All those against? So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 2K is not agreed. Suzy, do you wish to move amendment 2B?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "In view of the Deputy Minister's reassurances, I won't move this amendment today, but obviously I reserve the right to bring something back if we can't reach consensus. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Does any other Member wish to move amendment 2B? Okay, no. Thank you. We'll move on, then. If amendment 2 is not agreed, amendment 5 will fall. Deputy Minister, do you wish to proceed to a vote on amendment 2?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. The question is that amendment 2 be agreed. Does any Member object? Amendment 2—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Objection.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "You're objecting?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Right, we'll therefore take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 2, please show. All those against. So, there voted four in favour, two against, and amendment 2 is agreed. That takes us on to group 3, which relates to the regulation-making powers in the Bill. The lead amendment in the group is amendment 3 in the name of the Deputy Minister. I move amendment 3 in the Deputy Minister's name and call on the Deputy Minister to speak to her amendments and the other amendments in this group.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Chair. Members will note that I've brought forward an amendment to provide certainty on the date of commencement of the core provision in the Bill, which is obviously to abolish the defence of reasonable punishment. And that is going to be debated under group 5. So, we're obviously debating that after we deal with these particular technical issues—these are technical issues here, basically. As a consequence of proposing to remove the power for a Welsh Minister to make an Order for commencement, the power to make transitory, transitional or saving provisions in connection with section 1 of the Bill coming into force would also be removed. So, I'm not seeking here to add any new powers to the Bill; amendment 3 will simply add this existing power back onto the face of the Bill where amendments 7 and 8 remove it, and amendment 6 will bring the power into force the day after Royal Assent. In fact, removing the power for the Welsh Ministers to commence the provision in section 1 by Order means the statutory instrument will actually do less than originally intended. These amendments are technical in nature and while I acknowledge that the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee raised the issue of what procedure should be applied, their report did not call for any change to no procedure being applied. The absence of an Assembly procedure does not mean that Ministers' decisions in relation to transitional powers cannot be scrutinised by the Assembly. Any concerns about the Welsh Ministers' proposals could be put to me in the Senedd. This was a point made to CLAC and, as I say, their final conclusion was that no procedure is the appropriate procedure for such a power. For those reasons, I encourage Members to reject amendment 3A from Suzy.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. Well perhaps, Deputy Minister, I can begin by saying that one person's technical issue is another person's essential part of the legislative procedure and a keen element in scrutiny. But I thank you for noting the Assembly's observations on the ministerial powers granted in this Bill—this time by CLAC, as you say. Moving this—and I'm glad actually that amendment 8, I think it was, has removed an Order provision and we're moving into an area where at least statutory instruments do feature here. I have to say that amendment 3A is something of a probing amendment, and I'll explain why now. Your amendment 3 seeks to give a familiar range of powers in connection with the coming into force of section 1, but it's actually in a substantive part of section 1 itself now—it's not a separate commencement power. And, actually, I've been listening to the rest of this debate, and thinking that, if you're going to be introducing an awareness campaign and a report, the chances are you're going to need some regulatory powers to introduce some of the aspects of both those policy areas, I think. And I'm wondering whether the—what is it—transitory, transitional and saving provisions are actually enough powers for you under the course of this Bill. I'm wondering whether you want to consider actually amending this to give yourself the more usual unrestricted power to make regulations in order for you to get section 1 implemented, bearing in mind that it has now been amended from that original, very short and simple—or at least simple in terms of drafting—initial draft. As I say, in anticipation of you rejecting amendments in group 1 I tabled this, in order to make sure that an opportunity remains for the Assembly to bring anything you may wish to introduce under section 1, when it comes into effect, onto the floor of the Assembly. Because while I completely accept that you've acknowledged that statutory instrument is the process for introducing things from now on, it's still possible to do that without procedure, and so I have no idea whether you think what you introduce would be better suited to be introduced by a negative or affirmative procedure. Amendment 3A is a holding position, which we will return to you in Stage 3, because I think, again, this is an area where it might be valuable for us to discuss quite what kind of powers you're looking for, because I think you probably need something that's beyond transitional, transitory and saving.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Suzy, have you finished?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Are there any other Members who wish to speak on this group? No. Deputy Minister.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I thank Suzy for that input. We don't actually think it's necessary to have wider powers, but we will keep this under review and at Stage 3, I think that—. When I was looking at this, I was concerned to know what the transitory powers—what we would actually need to do at that stage, but I can understand that there may be links to other Bills in ways that we are not anticipating at the moment that would make it necessary to have those powers. So, basically, I don't think it is necessary to have wider powers, but I can assure you that we'll keep that in review coming up to Stage 3.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Can I just ask a question on the back of that?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Will you take a brief intervention at the end, Minister?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Will you take the briefest intervention before your full stop?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I was going to end there, yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Right, okay, well, just before your full stop, would you just confirm that you're happy for us to discuss this before Stage 3?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, very happy. Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Before disposing of amendment 3, we will deal with the amendment to that amendment. Suzy, do you wish to move amendment 3A?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'll move it, yes.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 3A be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, I'll take a vote by show of hands. All those in favour of amendment 3A. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 3A is not agreed. If amendment 3 is not agreed, amendment 6 will fall. Deputy Minister, do you wish to proceed to a vote on amendment 3?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 3 be agreed. Does any Member object? Amendment 3 is therefore agreed. The committee will now break for 10 minutes and reconvene at 11.05 a.m. Can I welcome Members back? We will move on to group 4, which relates to the duty to ensure sufficient funding. The lead amendment in the group is amendment 11 in the name of Janet Finch-Saunders. I call on Janet Finch-Saunders to move amendment 11 and to speak to her amendments. Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I speak to both amendments in this group. As I outlined under amendments 2I and 2J, there are ongoing concerns about the potential costs for Welsh devolved authorities and the lack of quantifiable costs within the regulatory impact assessment. Now, it was absolutely clear from evidence that we received in this committee that unknown costs would be challenging and potentially problematic. As I have mentioned previously, these concerns would doubtless be most keenly felt in our hard-pressed social services. Furthermore, the Welsh Local Government Association stated that there must be a commitment that whatever the costs are, those costs are met, because it is legislation that is being led by the National Assembly for Wales. Now, during evidence, the Deputy Minister, when asked about the reliance on a limited number of reporting of cases likely to happen and the potential for a degree of unknown costs stated:'we are doing our very best to prepare to cover all eventualities that we can anticipate.' But you couldn't commit to a broad figure, instead telling us that:'we have to rely on what the people who run those organisations are telling us.' And:'We have to measure it as we go along.' Given that devolved authorities need to plan their budgets for these changes, we only think it is fair for the Welsh Government to provide sufficient funding to alleviate the cost implications of this Bill. Now, while amendment 11 makes reference to costs borne by local authorities and health boards, I note that amendment 12 takes this further by including other devolved authorities that are not funded by Welsh Government. Anticipating the Deputy Minister's response that few under this category, if any at all, would be affected by the Bill, we are pursuing a principle here, and it is agreement to the principle of providing sufficient funding that we are seeking from you as the Deputy Minister. Now, these are just two examples of Welsh Government legislation to date that have been underfunded. The Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013: last year, the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee found that the Wales annual spend on walking and cycling is half that of England's and one sixth of Holland's. Furthermore, the committee highlighted that the passing of the Act put a requirement on local authorities to continuously improve active travel routes, but were constrained by the funding made available to them. The Minister at the time announced a three-year funding settlement of £60 million. Now, my local authority and other authorities that have done some monitoring on the active travel Act—they simply were not awarded sufficient funding to actually allow the active travel Act to become a meaningful piece of legislation, and the same goes with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. This month, the auditor general has raised concerns that the public services boards created under the Act were limited in their work and impact due to the lack of dedicated funding. Outside of the Welsh Government's regional grant that cannot be spent on projects, councils often contribute through officer time or facilities, but resources and capacity to support those PSBs remain a key risk, as partners don't have the capacity to take on more. The reason that I wanted these amendments placed in here is I genuinely do not believe that you've even envisioned what, or even estimated the likely cost to be borne by the organisations, and certainly our local authorities and health boards, the impact this Bill is going to have.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Janet. Are there other Members who would like to speak in this group, please? No. Okay. I call the Deputy Minister, then.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I can understand that the Member is concerned about the impact of this Bill on public services, but you will see from the explanatory memorandum and from the raft of impact statements published with the Bill that we've done a thorough and extremely diligent job of considering the potential impacts of this Bill before introduction. And as far as we're aware, no other country has done more than us to consider the impacts of similar legislation, and also comprehensively prepared for implementation. We've explored the published data, which is available from other countries, on the impact of measures they've taken to prohibit the physical punishment of children. We've also spoken to a range of stakeholders in Ireland, New Zealand and Malta, who have legal systems similar to our own. And in these countries, there is no evidence that public services have been overwhelmed following law reform. And stakeholders have been clear when giving evidence to this committee that they do not consider there will be runaway costs, and I think we should trust their judgment on this. In fact, as this committee notes in its Stage 1 report, those delivering services on the front line have said, without exception, that'this Bill will improve their ability to protect children living in Wales because it will make the law clear.' Sally Jenkins of the Association of Directors of Social Services said to this committee:'In terms of thresholds for children’s services, we would not be anticipating a huge number of referrals to us. There may be a small number of referrals that come through. What we know from other nations is that it will peak and then settle. We recognise that’s likely to happen.' That's from the front line. Jane Randall, chair of the National Independent Safeguarding Board Wales, said:'there's no expectation that there's going to be a huge increase in the number of referrals coming through to local authority social services, I think it would be dealt with within their existing resources.' And Dr Rowena Christmas, Royal College of General Practitioners, said:'I can't see it's going to lengthen consultations. I can't see that it's going to increase the number of consultations, and I don't think it's going to increase the number of referrals I make to the health visitor or to social services, because if I was worried, I'd make those referrals now regardless of the Bill.' I just want to say again that the Bill is removing a defence to an offence of common assault, which has formed part of the common law of England and Wales for a very long time. And social services already receive and investigate reports of children being assaulted, including from health and education, so it's not a whole new area of costly activity for any of them. I do think that the evidence that you had at your committee did highlight those points. As I've already pointed out when discussing group 2 amendments, we're working with organisations to put in place arrangements to collect data about the possible impact on their services, and this will be analysed as part of the post-implementation review of the legislation. Welsh Government can consider with relevant organisations how best to manage any impact on workloads or resources and any cost implications. I can assure you that work to update the regulatory impact assessment has continued, and I've asked officials to prepare a revised RIA, as recommended at Stage 2, and I expect to share an updated RIA with you in advance of Stage 3. Serious consideration is being given on how to provide more detailed estimates of the unknown costs to public services arising from the Bill, but I think you should be reassured by the evidence that was given, particularly to this committee, from the professionals at the front line. What the amendments are proposing is outside the normal funding arrangements that operate within Government, and it's not clear why, in the context of the evidence heard at Stage I, such provisions are necessary. I'm sure that Members will agree that future Governments need to be able to consider, within the context of the budget-setting process, what the priorities are, and these considerations would need to be made within the context at that time, for example taking into account any issues that there are—UK Government actions, what happens in relation to Brexit, or any other unforeseen impacts on the economy or Welsh society. All those issues would have to be taken into account. Furthermore, as is the case now, the National Assembly for Wales scrutinises the Welsh Government budget annually, so it would be able to make an argument for additional funding for public bodies, should it consider that this is required. I do think all the evidence has shown that we do not anticipate that there will be a huge increase of a demand for funding, so I urge Members to reject these amendments, which I believe are unnecessary.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Chair, could I ask a question?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "You can reply to the debate now, Janet, yes.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'd like to ask a question of the Deputy Minister. When we were taking evidence, at an earlier stage, I noticed that part of the stakeholder group—there was some liaison going on with social services departments across Wales. Now, we have 22 local authorities. At that time, the numbers mentioned were quite small—I think only a handful. What discussions have taken place with our local authorities in terms of their social services departments in terms of the lead, the cabinet members, or, indeed, the head of service? I can speak from my own experiences, when going around my constituency, but when I've spoken to some of the family support groups, and, indeed, the departments themselves, they are very concerned about the financial impact that this is going to have on the provision. They're already overstretched, and they see this as another burden—primarily another financial burden. So, how much have you engaged with them?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "There's been extensive engagement. We've had meetings with the Association of Directors of Social Services, and they're represented on all our groups, and we're working very closely with them, because, of course, they represent all the local authorities. But I have to say, when I've been going round and meeting lots of different groups, the first thing they say is,'I'm so glad that you're doing this', and they haven't mentioned any financial implications. But, obviously, we will be very aware of—we are looking at any more evidence that comes up.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. So, I'll still move my amendments. I'm disappointed, really. I was hoping to see some commitment to—this Bill was going to go through, and it's one that could be implemented fully, because sufficient resources were there. I'm not convinced about that, and I know that other organisations are not also. So, I move my amendments.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 11 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] I therefore take a vote by show of hands. All those in favour. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 11 is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to proceed to a vote on amendment 12?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 12 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] All those in favour of amendment 12. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 12 is not agreed. Deputy Minister, do you wish to proceed to a vote on amendment 4?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I move amendment 4 in the name of the Deputy Minister. The question is that amendment 4 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We have an objection, so I'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 4, please show. All those against. So, there voted four in favour, two against, and amendment 4 is agreed. Deputy Minister, do you want to proceed to a vote on amendment 5?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I move amendment 5 in the name of the Deputy Minister. The question is that amendment 5 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We have an objection, so I'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 5, please show. All those against. So, there voted four in favour, two against, and amendment 5 is agreed. Deputy Minister, do you want to move to a vote on amendment 6?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I move amendment 6, then, in the name of the Deputy Minister. The question is that amendment 6 be agreed. Does any Member object? Amendment 6 is therefore agreed. This takes us, then, to the fifth and final group, which relates to commencement. The lead amendment in the group is amendment 9 in the name of Suzy Davies. And I call Suzy Davies to move amendment 9 and to speak to the amendment and the other amendments in the group.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Chair. Amendment 9 is actually consequential on amendment 10 passing, but it's the lead amendment in the group, so I'll move it to begin the debate. Minister, I'm speaking here now to amendments 10 and 15 specifically. You've said repeatedly, and I believe you, that you do not wish to criminalise parents but just to stop them physically punishing their children. You could have chosen to try and achieve this through awareness raising and civil enforcement, but by choosing to remove the defence to a criminal act you have entered the arena of criminal law, where the logical consequence is opening parents up to liability—not necessarily getting prosecuted, but liability to prosecution, not just liability to civil sanctions. I'm sure you'd prefer parents not to be prosecuted, but that decision does not and cannot lie with you. You, like us, have no agency in this, because the powers and the duties of the police and the Crown Prosecution Service sit outside our competence. You cannot and we cannot, by law or otherwise, instruct either of them in the delivery of your policy intention of not criminalising parents. You've acknowledged to this committee and the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee that revised CPS charging guidance and any other guidance on, for example, out-of-court disposals, are key to delivering your policy objectives. You'll remember how concerned this committee was when we learned that your advisory group—the strategic implementation group, is it—was only in the early stages of discussing what these guidelines might look like. So, you're actually asking us to pass law when we have no control over how parents might be punished for smacking their children—no control of the regard given to the relevance of force, the frequency of the offence, any prior conviction, any prior reporting, not even the views of the child in how they might be sentenced, or thresholds that would be appropriate for cautions and other out-of-court disposals; no guidance to the police on thresholds for arrest, let alone charging. And you argue that the rights of the child are what matter, and I agree with you here, but everybody, adult or child, has a right to natural justice and proportionate remedy or censure, and you are in no position to offer us any comfort on these matters at this stage. Now, CLAC recommended that any revised guidance be made available to AMs before Stage 3. I anticipate that that's unlikely, and I hope I'm wrong, but that's why Janet and I have tabled amendments 10 and 15, which prevent you bringing section 1 into force until that CPS guidance has been fully updated to take into account the change in the law and until pathways away from prosecution have been devised and agreed. That reflects our recommendation 4, this committee's recommendation, as well as CLAC's recommendation 1. It gives your strategic implementation board time to consider how it can get around the other fundamentally worrying issue of the effect of recording reports of apparent physical punishment, even if those reports ultimately prove unfounded. And you have not addressed these in your own amendments. I have to say, Minister, I think these points are so serious that I would have liked to have tabled amendments preventing you seeking Royal Assent for this Bill until the Assembly has seen drafts of the range of official guidance needed for the police and CPS. I'd have sought a Report Stage, if I could, so that we could consider that evidence. But I'm therefore asking you to support the amendments we have tabled, 10 and 15, so that we can bring some damage limitation to a process that you ultimately cannot control once this Bill has passed. Now, I know you've got the numbers to pass this Bill, whether you accept amendments or not, but I just hope you can see the danger in pushing forward with a Bill that changes a person's relationship with the criminal law when you have no legal control over the consequences of that, and you're inviting this Assembly to fall into the same trap. I therefore urge the Assembly to avoid this recklessness by supporting these two amendments.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Suzy. Are there other Members who wish to speak? No. Janet, do you want to speak?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I wish to speak to amendments 14 and 16. Amendment 14, however, is consequential to amendment 16 passing. Amendment 16 prevents this from commencing until parenting support services have been established by the Welsh Government. As was clear during the committee's evidence sessions, present Welsh Government support programmes for parents have insufficient coverage. For example, the capacity and reach of the Healthy Child Wales programme came under question on its role in awareness raising, with health representatives acknowledging that universality had not been achieved, with 53.2 per cent of children in Wales reported as being contacted. Furthermore, existing parenting support is often only available as part of a targeted programme in specific areas, such as Flying Start, and even the children's commissioner noted that much more is needed to support parents to find alternatives to disciplining their children. Now, the Deputy Minister mentioned the'Parenting: Give it Time' campaign as part of proposals on a wider package of support for children and their parents. However, the Deputy Minister was challenged on this fact, that this is an online campaign only, and could only respond that the mapping exercise she will undertake. Consequently, it should be remembered that this Bill will affect all parents. Therefore, the Deputy Minister needs to assure the committee and the public that universal support will be provided before the removal of the defence occurs.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Janet. Deputy Minister.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I've listened to what stakeholders and committees have said about the importance of ensuring sufficient time is available prior to the change in the law to abolish the defence of reasonable punishment during Stage 1. As a result, I have brought forward amendments in this group to provide certainty around the date for the change in the law. My amendment 7 will remove the power to commence this core provision of the Bill by Order of the Welsh Ministers and ensure that the defence of reasonable punishment is abolished at the end of a two-year period beginning the day after Royal Assent. That was done to give certainty on the length of time. Up to then, we'd always said'up to two years'—well, we're giving two years. This certainty will allow key partners, including the police, social services and the Crown Prosecution Service, to plan for changes to guidance, training and data-collection systems more effectively. It'll also provide a focus for our awareness-raising campaign. My amendment 8 in this group has the consequence of removing the power to make transitional provision, which is replaced by my amendments 3 and 6, and we discussed those in the previous group. I've listened to the arguments put forward by Suzy Davies and Janet Finch-Saunders for the amendments in this group that they have tabled. These amendments are all about making the commencement of the Bill conditional on something else happening, whether it's waiting for the revision of Crown Prosecution Service guidance, or the establishment of a pathway for diversion from the criminal justice system, or for the provision of parenting support services. And, really, I don't think that we should be going down that road. As I set out in my letter of response to the Stage 1 report from the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, we've got good working relations with the CPS through the strategic implementation group, and we work very closely with them. But the CPS are an independent body, as Suzy Davies has said in her contribution, not answerable to Welsh Ministers or this legislature, and it's not appropriate for a Minister or the National Assembly to seek to influence the CPS guidelines. We're discussing the issues with the CPS in the implementation group. And, in fact, I think that these amendments—Suzy's amendments in particular—wouldn't just seek to influence the CPS, but would actually give power to a non-devolved body on the way that we legislate in Wales. So, I don't think we should make it conditional on those guidelines being decided. I think you have to rely on the fact that we have got this very good relationship, very close working relationship. And I know they did give evidence to your committee, I believe, the CPS. And I think legislating to effectively give a non-devolved body a power to commence, or not, Assembly legislation would be highly unusual and would raise great uncertainty, I think, if we did go down that track, because I think this is very important Welsh legislation, which does have broad support across the Assembly. And I don't think we should allow non-devolved bodies to be the final arbiters of commencement of our legislation. So, I don't support those amendments. I think the CPS is entirely independent of Government, and must be entirely independent of Government, and will make its own decisions about how and when it will revise its guidance. In addition, you suggest we allow the UK Government to have a say in when Welsh legislation is commenced in an area that was specifically devolved to the Assembly. The test applied by the proposed amendments as to when commencement could lawfully occur is uncertain. If these amendments passed, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to judge when section 1 could be commenced. This contravenes what stakeholders and committees have asked for, and raises huge uncertainty, which potentially jeopardises the Bill. And I want to assure you again, not only do we have good working relations with the CPS, but also very good working relationships with the police, who are, of course, the other non-devolved body who have great involvement and interest in these issues. The work we do in these groups should not affect the timing of the Bill's commencement. In fact, it's the other way round. My amendment to provide a two-year period between Royal Assent and commencement means these groups can plan their work to a known timescale and deliver in good time before the law comes into force. And then, when it comes to parenting support, the committee knows that I've committed to reviewing the existing provision of parenting support, and work is already under way through the parenting expert group on this very issue. I have already said I will expand the age range of the'Parenting: Give it Time' campaign, and I think—. I know Janet Finch-Saunders has made the point that it is an online facility. It is very widely used. It is a very successful tool. But, of course, the universal services are also there. For example, the universal service of the health visitors is absolutely crucial, and that is a service that is for every child. And, of course, the health visitors welcome this legislation very strongly. And the expert group is considering what it'll recommend for the future, and it needs the time to be able to do that, to support the Bill as well as to support parenting more widely. So, as I said, I think these are important points that you have raised, but I don't think they are appropriate. So, I therefore urge the committee not to support amendments 9 and 10, nor 13, 14 and 15.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy to reply to the debate.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, and thank you very much, Deputy Minister, as well. I'm disappointed that you haven't seen what's behind Janet Finch-Saunders's final amendment there, actually. Maybe it's something we'll raise again with you at Stage 3, or maybe in the conversations that we have between now and then. But I want to go back to amendments 10 and 15 that I've raised and your assertion that we're giving, or attempting to give, power to the CPS here. We are not. This amendment is drafted very specifically and in full knowledge that we have no legislative competence in this area. And this is why I go back to where my contribution to this started, and it's your choice to try and resolve the problem of—or, sorry, to try and protect children's rights through the medium of a change to the criminal law rather than the many opportunities that were available to you through the civil law and over which you would have had complete competence. This Bill—and, actually, you've said a couple of times in your response today that it's important that it's commenced on a certain date. My argument is: it shouldn't be commenced at all unless you are absolutely certain about how it is likely to affect the parents who will now be captured by the removal of the defence. And, while I claim no mischief on the part of the CPS or the police—obviously I don't—there is nothing you can do that would prevent the CPS, should they wish to do it, or indeed the police with their own guidelines, putting in place something that is wholly disproportionate to the offence that is now being released by the removal of a defence. And, because of that, I ask you to consider, or balance, actually, two important things here: one is the rights of the child, obviously at the forefront of your argument on this, which I would argue could be completely and safely protected through the use of civil law on this occasion; and, actually, the rights of the child again to have a good relationship with parents over whose future they will have no say—or at least you cannot allow them to have any say in how those parents might be treated in terms of sentencing. The relationship between parents and children obviously is different in every family, but that's something you ought to protect in what you're trying to do here, and by leaving it open, as you say, to completely different—sorry, undevolved, two undevolved authorities to make decisions about how that relationship could be affected deeply worries me. I know this isn't going to stop your Bill going forward, but I really want you to consider my arguments and how you might try and address them at Stage 3, because leaving, effectively, the delivery of your policy objectives to somebody over whom you have no control, despite your great relationship with them, should worry us all as a legislature. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you, Suzy. Do you wish to proceed to a vote on amendment 9?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Oh, because of the voting order—. Yes, please.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 9 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We have an objection, so I'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 9, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 9 is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 13?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 13 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 13, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 13 is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 14?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 14 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 14, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 14 is not agreed. Deputy Minister, do you wish to move to a vote on amendment 7?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I move amendment 7 in the name of the Deputy Minister. The question is that amendment 7 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We have an objection, so I'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 7, please show. All those against. So, there voted four in favour, two against. Amendment 7 is agreed. Suzy, do you wish to move amendment 10?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, please.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 10 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 10, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 10 is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 15?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 15 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 15, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 15 is not agreed. Janet, do you wish to move amendment 16?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I move.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "The question is that amendment 16 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We have an objection, so I'll take a vote. All those in favour of amendment 16, please show. All those against. So, there voted two in favour, four against. Amendment 16 is not agreed. Deputy Minister, do you wish to proceed to a vote on amendment 8?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I move amendment 8, then, in the name of the Minister. The question is that amendment 8 be agreed. Does any Member object? Amendment 8 is therefore agreed. Well, that has brought us to the end of our amendments, so can I thank the Deputy Minister and her officials for their attendance? As usual, you will be sent a transcript of the meeting to check for factual accuracy. This completes Stage 2 proceedings. Stage 3 begins tomorrow, and the relevant date of Stage 3 proceedings will be published in due course. Standing Orders make provision for the Deputy Minister to prepare a revised explanatory memorandum, taking account of the amendments agreed today. The revised memorandum will be laid at least five working days before Stage 3 proceedings. Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you all very much.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, following our meeting on 2 October. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services updating the committee on the'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' strategy. And paper to note 3 is a letter from myself to the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services regarding early childhood education and care, following the session that we held on 2 October. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Item 4, then, is for me to propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "All today, huh?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. So there was this conference call this morning, um, and the only topic on the agenda was just to discuss a and to come at uh, to get a decision about this latency problem.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, this I'm sorry, this is a conference call between different Aurora people or just?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. It's the conference call between the Aurora, uh, group.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's the main conference call. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. There were like two hours of discussions, and then suddenly, uh, people were tired, I guess, and they decided on a number, two hundred and twenty, um, included e including everything. Uh, it means that it's like eighty milliseconds less than before.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And what are we sitting at currently?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, currently d uh, we have system that has two hundred and thirty. So, that's fine.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Two thirty.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's the system that's described on the second point of this document.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it's we have to reduce it by ten milliseconds somehow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's Yeah. That's not a problem, I I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. W It's it's p d primary primarily determined by the VAD at this point,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "S so we can make the VAD a little shorter.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. At this point, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. We probably should do that pretty soon so that we don't get used to it being a certain way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Was Hari on the on the phone?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, it was mainly a discussion between Hari and David,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "who was like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "mmm Uh, yeah. So, the second thing is the system that we have currently. Oh, yes. We have, like, a system that gives sixty - two percent improvement, but if you want to stick to the this latency Well, it has a latency of two thirty, but if you want also to stick to the number of features that limit it to sixty, then we go a little bit down but it's still sixty - one percent. Uh, and if we drop the tandem network, then we have fifty - seven percent.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, but th the two th two thirty includes the tandem network?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. And i is the tandem network, uh, small enough that it will fit on the terminal size in terms of?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, no, I don't think so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's still in terms of computation, if we use, like, their way of computing the the maps the the MIPs, I think it fits,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but it's, uh, m mainly a problem of memory.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, and I don't know how much this can be discussed or not, because it's it could be in ROM, so it's maybe not that expensive. But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ho - how much memory d? H how many?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I d I d uh, I I don't kn remember exactly, but Uh. Yeah, I c I I have to check that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd like to see that, cuz maybe I could think a little bit about it, cuz we maybe we could make it a little smaller or I mean, it'd be it'd be neat if we could fit it all.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, I'd like to see how far off we are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But I guess it's still within their rules to have have it on the, uh, t uh, server side. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And this is still? Uh, well, y you're saying here. I c I should just let you go on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, there were small tricks to make this tandem network work. Uh, mmm, and one of the trick was to, um, use some kind of hierarchical structure where the silence probability is not computed by the final tandem network but by the VAD network. Um, so apparently it looks better when, uh, we use the silence probability from the VAD network", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we re - scale the other probabilities by one minus the silence probability. Um. So it's some kind of hierarchical thing, uh, that Sunil also tried, um, on SPINE and apparently it helps a little bit also. Mmm. And. Yeah, the reason w why why we did that with the silence probability was that, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Could? Uh, uh, I'm I'm really sorry. Can you repeat what you were saying about the silence probability?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I only My mind was some.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there is the tandem network that e e e estimates the phone probabilities", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and the silence probabilities also.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And things get better when, instead of using the silence probability computed by the tandem network, we use the silence probability, uh, given by the VAD network,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The VAD network is?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Which is smaller, but maybe, um So we have a network for the VAD which has one hundred hidden units, and the tandem network has five hundred. Um. So it's smaller but th the silence probability from this network seems, uh, better.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Uh. Well, it looks strange, but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but it", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe it's has something to do to the fact that we don't have infinite training data and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We don't?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well! And so Well, things are not optimal", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Are you you were going to say why what made you wh what led you to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, there was a p problem that we observed, um, that there was there were, like, many insertions in the in the system.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Actually plugging in the tandem network was increasing, I I I think, the number of insertions.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um So it looked strange and then just using the the other silence probability helps. Mmm. Um Yeah. The next thing we will do is train this tandem on more data.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, you know, in a way what it might i it's it's a little bit like combining knowledge sources.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? Because the fact that you have these two nets that are different sizes means they behave a little differently,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "they find different things. And, um, if you have, um f the distribution that you have from, uh, f speech sounds is w sort of one source of knowledge.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And this is and rather than just taking one minus that to get the other, which is essentially what's happening, you have this other source of knowledge that you're putting in there. So you make use of both of them in in what you're ending up with. Maybe it's better.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Anyway, you can probably justify anything if what's use", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And and the features are different also. I mean, the VAD doesn't use the same features there are.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That might be the key, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Cuz you were really thinking about speech versus nonspeech for that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Uh. Well, there are other things that we should do but, um, it requires time and We have ideas, like so, these things are like hav having a better VAD. Uh, we have some ideas about that. It would probably implies working a little bit on features that are more suited to a voice activity detection.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Working on the second stream. Of course we have ideas on this also, but w we need to try different things and Uh, but their noise estimation, um uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, back on the second stream, I mean, that's something we've talked about for a while. I mean, I think that's certainly a high hope.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, so we have this this default idea about just using some sort of purely spectral thing?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "for a second stream?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But, um, we we did a first try with this, and it it clearly hurts.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, uh, how was the stream combined?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. It was c it was just combined, um, by the acoustic model. So there was, no neural network for the moment.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. So, I mean, if you just had a second stream that was just spectral and had another neural net and combined there, that that, uh, might be good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Mmm. Yeah. Um Yeah, and the other thing, that noise estimation and th um, maybe try to train uh, the training data for the t tandem network, right now, is like i is using the noises from the Aurora task and I think that people might, um, try to argue about that because then in some cases we have the same noises in for training the network than the noises that are used for testing,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and So we have t n uh, to try to get rid of these this problem.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe you just put in some other noise, something that's different.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, it it's probably helpful to have have a little noise there. But it may be something else", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "th at least you could say it was.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then if it doesn't hurt too much, though.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. The last thing is that I think we are getting close to human performance. Well, that's something I would like to investigate further, but, um, I did, like, um I did, uh, listen to the m most noisy utterances of the SpeechDat - Car Italian and tried to transcribe them. And, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So this is a particular human. This is this i this is Stephane.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "St - Stephane.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "that's the the flaw of the experiment. This is just i j it's just one subject,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Getting close.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but but still, uh, what happens is is that, uh, the digit error rate on this is around one percent,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "while our system is currently at seven percent. Um, but what happens also is that if I listen to the, um a re - synthesized version of the speech and I re - synthesized this using a white noise that's filtered by a LPC, uh, filter.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, well, you can argue, that, uh that this is not speech,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so the ear is not trained to recognize this. But s actually it sound like whispering, so we are.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "eh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There's two problems there. I mean I mean, so so the first is that by doing LPC - twelve with synthesized speech w like you're saying, uh, it's i i you're you're adding other degradation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? So it's not just the noise but you're adding in fact some degradation because it's only an approximation. Um, and the second thing is which is m maybe more interesting is that, um, if you do it with whispered speech, you get this number. What if you had done analysis re - synthesis and taken the pitch as well? Alright? So now you put the pitch in.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What would the percentage be then?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "See, that's the question. So, you see, if it's if it's if it's, uh Let's say it's back down to one percent again.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That would say at least for people, having the pitch is really, really important, which would be interesting in itself. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if i on the other hand, if it stayed up near five percent, then I'd say \" boy, LPC n twelve is pretty crummy \". You know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So I I I'm not sure I'm not sure how we can conclude from this anything about that our system is close to the human performance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye Yeah. Well, the point is that eh l ey the point is that, um, what I what I listened to when I re - synthesized the LP - the LPC - twelve spectrum is in a way what the system, uh, is hearing, cuz @ @ all the all the, um, excitation all the well, the excitation is is not taken into account. That's what we do with our system. And", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, you're not doing the LPC.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "in this case.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, so so what if you did a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, it's not LPC, sure,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What if you did LPC - twenty?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but LPC?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Twenty. Right? I mean, th the thing is LPC is not a a really great representation of speech.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, all I'm saying is that you have in addition to the w the, uh, removal of pitch, you also are doing, uh, a particular parameterization,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which, um, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, so, let's see, how would you do? So, fo", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But that's that's what we do with our systems. And.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No. Actually, we d we we don't, because we do we do, uh, uh, mel filter bank, for instance. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but is it that is it that different, I mean?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know what mel, uh, based synthesis would sound like,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but certainly the spectra are quite different.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Couldn't you t couldn't you, um, test the human performance on just the original audio?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. This is the one percent number.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's one percent. He's trying to remove the pitch information", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. OK,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and make it closer to what to what we're seeing as the feature vectors.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So, y uh, your performance was one percent, and then when you re - synthesize with LPC - twelve it went to five.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean We were we were j It it it's a little bit still apples and oranges because we are choosing these features in order to be the best for recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, um, i if you listen to them they still might not be very Even if you made something closer to what we're gonna i it might not sound very good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, and i the degradation from that might might actually make it even harder, uh, to understand than the LPC - twelve. So all I'm saying is that the LPC - twelve puts in synthesis puts in some degradation that's not what we're used to hearing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and is, um It's not it's not just a question of how much information is there, as if you will always take maximum advantage of any information that's presented to you.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "In fact, you hear some things better than others. And so it it isn't.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, I agree that it says that, uh, the kind of information that we're feeding it is probably, um, um, a little bit, um, minimal. There's definitely some things that we've thrown away. And that's why I was saying it might be interesting if you an interesting test of this would be if you if you actually put the pitch back in. So, you just extract it from the actual speech and put it back in, and see does that is that does that make the difference? If that if that takes it down to one percent again, then you'd say \" OK, it's it's in fact having, um, not just the spectral envelope but also the also the the pitch that, uh, @ @ has the information that people can use, anyway. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But from this it's pretty safe to say that the system is with either two to seven percent away from the performance of a human. Right? So it's somewhere in that range.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, or it's it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Two two to six percent.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so It's it's one point four times, uh, to, uh, seven times the error,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "To f seven times, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "for Stephane.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, uh uh, but i I don't know. I do don't wanna take you away from other things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But that's that's what that's the first thing that I would be curious about, is, you know, i i when you we", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But the signal itself is like a mix of um, of a a periodic sound and, @ @ uh, unvoiced sound, and the noise", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "which is mostly, uh, noise. I mean not periodic. So, what what do you mean exactly by putting back the pitch in? Because.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "In the LPC synthesis? I think.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. You did LPC re - synthesis.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "L PC re - synthesis.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, uh and you did it with a noise source, rather than with with a s periodic source.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? So if you actually did real re - synthesis like you do in an LPC synthesizer, where it's unvoiced you use noise, where it's voiced you use, uh, periodic pulses.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's neither purely voiced or purely unvoiced. Esp - especially because there is noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it might be hard to do it", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but it but but the thing is that if you um, if you detect that there's periodic s strong periodic components, then you can use a voiced voice thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, it's probably not worth your time. It's it's a side thing and and and there's a lot to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But I'm I'm just saying, at least as a thought experiment, that's what I would wanna test.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, I wan would wanna drive it with a a a two - source system rather than a than a one - source system.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then that would tell you whether in fact it's Cuz we've talked about, like, this harmonic tunneling or other things that people have done based on pitch, maybe that's really a key element. Maybe maybe, uh, uh, without that, it's it's not possible to do a whole lot better than we're doing. That that could be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I was thinking by doing this es experiment,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "like Mmm. Evi", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, I mean, other than that, I don't think it's I mean, other than the pitch de information, it's hard to imagine that there's a whole lot more in the signal that that, uh that we're throwing away that's important.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Yeah. Mm - hmm. Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, we're using a fair number of filters in the filter bank and uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That look", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's that's I mean, one one percent is sort of what I would I would figure. If somebody was paying really close attention, you might get I would actually think that if, you looked at people on various times of the day and different amounts of attention, you might actually get up to three or four percent error on digits. Uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it's you know, we're not we're not incredibly far off. On the other hand, with any of these numbers except maybe the one percent, it's st it's not actually usable in a commercial system with a full telephone number or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah. At these noise levels.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. These numbers, I mean. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good. Um, while we're still on Aurora stuff maybe you can talk a little about the status with the, uh, Wall Street Journal things for it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So I've, um, downloaded, uh, a couple of things from Mississippi State. Um, one is their software their, uh, LVCSR system. Downloaded the latest version of that. Got it compiled and everything. Um, downloaded the scripts. They wrote some scripts that sort of make it easy to run the system on the Wall Street Journal, uh, data. Um, so I haven't run the scripts yet. Uh, I'm waiting there was one problem with part of it and I wrote a note to Joe asking him about it. So I'm waiting to hear from him. But, um, I did print something out just to give you an idea about where the system is. Uh, they on their web site they, uh, did this little table of where their system performs relative to other systems that have done this this task. And, um, the Mississippi State system using a bigram grammar, uh, is at about eight point two percent. Other comparable systems from, uh were getting from, uh, like six point nine, six point eight percent. So they're.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is on clean test set?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is on clean on clean stuff. Yeah. They they've started a table where they're showing their results on various different noise conditions but they they don't have a whole lot of it filled in and and I didn't notice until after I'd printed it out that, um, they don't say here what these different testing conditions are.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You actually have to click on it on the web site to see them. So I I don't know what those numbers really mean.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What kind of numbers are they getting on these on the test conditions?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, see, I was a little confused because on this table, I'm the they're showing word error rate. But on this one, I I don't know if these are word error rates because they're really big. So, under condition one here it's ten percent. Then under three it goes to sixty - four point six percent.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's probably Aurora.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So m I guess maybe they're error rates but they're, uh they're really high.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I I don't find that surpri", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, we W what's what's some of the lower error rates on on on uh, some of the higher error rates on, uh, some of these w uh, uh, highly mismatched difficult conditions? What's a?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah, it's around fifteen to twenty percent.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Correct?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the baseline, eh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Accuracy?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, error rate.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Twenty percent error rate,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So twenty percent error rate on digits.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, on digits.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So if you're doing so if you're doing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "On digits.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this is so so still the baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "sixty - thousand.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and if you're saying sixty - thousand word recognition, getting sixty percent error on some of these noise condition not at all surprising.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The baseline is sixty percent also on digits,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, is it?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "on the m more mismatched conditions.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, yeah, that's probably what it is then. Yeah. So they have a lot of different conditions that they're gonna be filling out.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's a bad sign when you looking at the numbers, you can't tell whether it's accuracy or error rate.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. It's it's gonna be hard. Um, they're I I'm still waiting for them to release the, um, multi - CPU version of their scripts, cuz right now their script only handles processing on a single CPU, which will take a really long time to run. So. But their s", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is for the training?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh I beli Yes, for the training also. And, um, they're supposed to be coming out with it any time,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "the multi - CPU one. So, as soon as they get that, then I'll I'll grab those too", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and so w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz we have to get started,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "cuz it's cuz, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'll go ahead and try to run it though with just the single CPU one,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "if the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I they they, um, released like a smaller data set that you can use that only takes like sixteen hours to train and stuff. So I can I can run it on that just to make sure that the the thing works and everything.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh! Good. Yeah. Cuz we'll.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I guess the actual evaluation will be in six weeks or something. So. Is that about right you think?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, we don't know yet, I I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Really, we don't know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It wasn't on the conference call this morning?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm. Did they say anything on the conference call about, um, how the Wall Street Journal part of the test was going to be run? Because I I thought I remembered hearing that some sites were saying that they didn't have the compute to be able to run the Wall Street Journal stuff at their place,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so there was some talk about having Mississippi State run the systems for them. And I Did did that come up at all?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, no. Well, this first, this was not the point at all of this the meeting today", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Some", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh, frankly, I don't know because I d didn't read also the most recent mails about the large - vocabulary task. But, uh, did you do you still, uh, get the mails? You're not on the mailing list or what?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm - mm. The only, um, mail I get is from Mississippi State.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. So we should have a look at this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "about their system. I I don't get any mail about.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I have to say, there's uh something funny - sounding about saying that one of these big companies doesn't have enough cup compute power do that, so they're having to have it done by Mississippi State.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It just just sounds funny.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It does.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm I'm wondering about that", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because there's this whole issue about, you know, simple tuning parameters, like word insertion penalties.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And whether or not those are going to be tuned or not, and So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, it makes a big difference. If you change your front - end, you know, the scale is completely can be completely different, so. It seems reasonable that that at least should be tweaked to match the front - end. But.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You didn't get any answer from Joe?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I did, but Joe said, you know, \" what you're saying makes sense", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and I don't know \". So he doesn't know what the answer is.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, that's th We had this back and forth a little bit about, you know, are sites gonna are you gonna run this data for different sites? And, well, if if Mississippi State runs it, then maybe they'll do a little optimization on that parameter, and, uh But then he wasn't asked to run it for anybody. So i it's it's just not clear yet what's gonna happen.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, he's been putting this stuff out on their web site and for people to grab but I haven't heard too much about what's happening.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it could be I mean, Chuck and I had actually talked about this a couple times, and and over some lunches, I think, that, um, one thing that we might wanna do The - there's this question about, you know, what do you wanna scale? Suppose y you can't adjust these word insertion penalties and so forth, so you have to do everything at the level of the features. What could you do? And, uh, one thing I had suggested at an earlier time was maybe some sort of scaling, some sort of root or or something of the, um, uh, features. But the problem with that is that isn't quite the same, it occurred to me later, because what you really want to do is scale the, uh, @ @ the range of the likelihoods rather than.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nnn, the dist Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, what might get at something similar, it just occurred to me, is kind of an intermediate thing is because we do this strange thing that we do with the tandem system, at least in that system what you could do is take the, um, uh, values that come out of the net, which are something like log probabilities, and scale those. And then, uh, um then at least those things would have the right values or the right the right range. And then that goes into the rest of it and then that's used as observations. So it's it's, um, another way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. But, these values are not directly used as probabilities anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I know they're not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So there are there is.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I know they're not. But but, you know So because what we're doing is pretty strange and complicated, we don't really know what the effect is at the other end.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, um, my thought was maybe I mean, they're not used as probabilities, but the log probabilities we're taking advantage of the fact that something like log probabilities has more of a Gaussian shape than Gaus - than probabilities, and so we can model them better. So, in a way we're taking advantage of the fact that they're probabilities, because they're this quantity that looks kind of Gaussian when you take it's log. So, uh, maybe maybe it would have a a reasonable effect to do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I d I don't know. But, I mean, I guess we still haven't had a a ruling back on this. And we may end up being in a situation where we just you know really can't change the word insertion penalty. But the other thing we could do is also we could I mean, this this may not help us, uh, in the evaluation but it might help us in our understanding at least. We might, just run it with different insper insertion penalties, and show that, uh, \" well, OK, not changing it, playing the rules the way you wanted, we did this. But in fact if we did that, it made a a big difference. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I wonder if it it might be possible to, uh, simulate the back - end with some other system. So we we get our f front - end features, and then, uh, as part of the process of figuring out the scaling of these features, you know, if we're gonna take it to a root or to a power or something, we have some back - end that we attach onto our features that sort of simulates what would be happening.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And just adjust it until it's the best number?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and just adjust it until that our l version of the back - end, uh, decides that that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, we can probably use the real thing, can't we? And then jus just, uh, use it on a reduced test set or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then we just use that to determine some scaling factor that we use.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I mean, I I think that that's a reasonable thing to do and the only question is what's the actual knob that we use?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the knob that we use should uh, uh, unfortunately, like I say, I don't know the analytic solution to this cuz what we really want to do is change the scale of the likelihoods,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "not the cha not the scale of the the observations. But but, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Out of curiosity, what what kind of recognizer is the one from Mississippi State?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh, w what do you mean when you say \" what kind \"?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is it? Um, is it like a Gaussian mixture model?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Gaussian mixture model.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's the same system that they use when they participate in the Hub - five evals. It's a, um sort of came out of, uh uh, looking a lot like HTK. I mean, they started off with um, when they were building their system they were always comparing to HTK to make sure they were getting similar results. And so, it's a Gaussian mixture system, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Do they have the same sort of mix - down sort of procedure, where they start off with a small number of some things", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know. Yeah. And then divide the mixtures in half.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know if they do that. I'm not really sure.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "D Do you know what kind of tying they use? Are they they sort of some sort of a bunch of Gaussians that they share across everything? Or or if it's?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, th I have I I I don't have it up here but I have a the whole system description, that describes exactly what their system is", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I I'm not sure. But, um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's some kind of a mixture of Gaussians and, uh, clustering and, uh They're they're trying to put in sort of all of the standard features that people use nowadays.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So the other, uh, Aurora thing maybe is I I dunno if any of this is gonna come in in time to be relevant, but, uh, we had talked about, uh, Guenter playing around, uh, uh, over in Germany", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and and, @ @ uh, possibly coming up with something that would, uh, uh, fit in later. Uh, I saw that other mail where he said that he uh, it wasn't going to work for him to do CVS.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So now he has a version of the software.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So he just has it all sitting there. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So if he'll he might work on improving the noise estimate or on some histogram things, or.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I just saw the Eurospeech We we didn't talk about it at our meeting but I just saw the just read the paper. Someone, I forget the name, and and Ney, uh, about histogram equalization? Did you see that one?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, it was a poster. Or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, I just read the paper.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I didn't see the poster.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um It was something similar to n on - line normalization finally I mean, in the idea of of normalizing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's a little more it it's a little finer, right? So they had like ten quantiles", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and and they adjust the distribution.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you you have the distributions from the training set,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then, uh So this is just a a histogram of of the amplitudes, I guess. Right? And then Um, people do this in image processing some.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You have this kind of of histogram of of levels of brightness or whatever. And and and then, when you get a new new thing that you you want to adjust to be better in some way, you adjust it so that the histogram of the new data looks like the old data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You do this kind of piece - wise linear or, uh, some kind of piece - wise approximation. They did a uh one version that was piece - wise linear and another that had a power law thing between them between the points. And, uh, they said they s they sort of see it in a way as s for the speech case as being kind of a generalization of spectral subtraction in a way, because, you know, in spectral subtraction you're trying to get rid of this excess energy. Uh, you know, it's not supposed to be there. Uh and, uh, this is sort of adjusting it for for a lot of different levels. And then they have s they have some kind of, uh, a floor or something,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so if it gets too low you don't don't do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And they they claimed very nice results,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So is this a histogram across different frequency bins?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, I think this i You know, I don't remember that. Do you remember?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think they have, yeah, different histograms. I uh Something like one per frequency band,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, one histogram per frequency bin.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "One per critical.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or But I did Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And that's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But I should read the paper. I just went through the poster quickly,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And I don't remember whether it was filter bank things", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and I didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "or whether it was FFT bins", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And and that that, um, histogram represents the different energy levels that have been seen at that frequency?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't remember that. And how often they you've seen them. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. And they do they said that they could do it for the test So you don't have to change the training. You just do a measurement over the training. And then, uh, for testing, uh, you can do it for one per utterance. Even relatively short utterances. And they claim it it works pretty well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So they, uh Is the idea that you you run a test utterance through some histogram generation thing and then you compare the histograms and that tells you what to do to the utterance to make it more like?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I guess in pri Yeah. In principle.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I didn't read carefully how they actually implemented it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "whether it was some, uh, on - line thing, or whether it was a second pass, or what. But but they That that was sort of the idea.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that that seemed, you know, different. We're sort of curious about, uh, what are some things that are, u u um, @ @ conceptually quite different from what we've done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Cuz we you know, one thing that w that, uh, Stephane and Sunil seemed to find, uh, was, you know, they could actually make a unified piece of software that handled a range of different things that people were talking about, and it was really just sort of setting of different constants. And it would turn, you know, one thing into another. It'd turn Wiener filtering into spectral subtraction, or whatever. But there's other things that we're not doing. So, we're not making any use of pitch, uh, uh, which again, might might be important, uh, because the stuff between the harmonics is probably a schmutz. And and the, uh, transcribers will have fun with that. Uh And, um, the, uh, stuff at the harmonics isn't so much. And and, uh And we there's this overall idea of really sort of matching the the hi distributions somehow. Uh, not just, um, um not just subtracting off your estimate of the noise. So. So I guess, uh, Guenter's gonna play around with some of these things now over this next period,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, I dunno.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't have feedback from him, but", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I guess he's gonna, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, he's got it anyway, so he can.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So potentially if he came up with something that was useful, like a diff a better noise estimation module or something, he could ship it to you guys u up there", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "we could put it in.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So, that's good. So, why don't we just, uh, um I think starting starting a w couple weeks from now, especially if you're not gonna be around for a while, we'll we'll be shifting more over to some other other territory. But, uh, uh, uh, n not not so much in this meeting about Aurora, but but, uh, uh, maybe just, uh, quickly today about maybe you could just say a little bit about what you've been talking about with Michael. And and then Barry can say something about what what we're talking about.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So Michael Kleinschmidt, who's a PHD student from Germany, showed up this week. He'll be here for about six months. And he's done some work using an auditory model of, um, human hearing, and using that f uh, to generate speech recognition features. And he did work back in Germany with, um, a toy recognition system using, um, isolated digit recognition as the task. It was actually just a single - layer neural network that classified words classified digits, in fact. Um, and he tried that on I think on some Aurora data and got results that he thought seemed respectable. And he w he's coming here to u u use it on a uh, a real speech recognition system. So I'll be working with him on that. And, um, maybe I should say a little more about these features, although I don't understand them that well. The I think it's a two - stage idea. And, um, the first stage of these features correspond to what's called the peripheral auditory system. And I guess that is like a filter bank with a compressive nonlinearity. And I'm - I'm not sure what we have @ @ in there that isn't already modeled in something like, um, PLP. I should learn more about that. And then the second stage is, um, the most different thing, I think, from what we usually do. It's, um it computes features which are, um, based on sort of like based on diffe different w um, wavelet basis functions used to analyze the input. So th he uses analysis functions called Gabor functions, um, which have a certain extent, um, in time and in frequency. And the idea is these are used to sample, um, the signal in a represented as a time - frequency representation. So you're sampling some piece of this time - frequency plane. And, um, that, um, is is interesting, cuz, @ @ for for one thing, you could use it, um, in a a multi - scale way. You could have these instead of having everything like we use a twenty - five millisecond or so analysis window, typically, um, and that's our time scale for features, but you could using this, um, basis function idea, you could have some basis functions which have a lot longer time scale and, um, some which have a lot shorter, and so it would be like a set of multi - scale features. So he's interested in, um Th - this is because it's, um there are these different parameters for the shape of these basis functions, um there are a lot of different possible basis functions. And so he he actually does an optimization procedure to choose an an optimal set of basis functions out of all the possible ones.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm. H What does he do to choose those?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The method he uses is kind of funny is, um, he starts with he has a set of M of them. Um, he and then he uses that to classify I mean, he t he tries, um, using just M minus one of them. So there are M possible subsets of this length - M vector. He tries classifying, using each of the M possible sub - vectors.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Whichever sub - vector, um, works the the best, I guess, he says the the fe feature that didn't use was the most useless feature,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Y yeah. Gets thrown out. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so we'll throw it out and we're gonna randomly select another feature from the set of possible basis functions.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's a.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So i so it's actuall", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it's a little bit like a genetic algorithm or something in a way.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, it's it's much simpler.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's like a greedy.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But it's but it's uh, it's there's a lot number of things I like about it, let me just say.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Greedy.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, first thing, well, you're absolutely right. I mean, i i in truth, both pieces of this are have their analogies in stuff we already do. But it's a different take at how to approach it and potentially one that's m maybe a bit more systematic than what we've done, uh, and a b a bit more inspiration from from auditory things. So it's so I think it's a neat thing to try. The primary features, um, are in fact Yeah, essentially, it's it's, uh, you know, PLP or or mel cepstrum, or something like that. You've you've got some, uh, compression. We always have some compression. We always have some you know, the the the kind of filter bank with a kind of quasi - log scaling. Um, if you put in if you also include the RASTA in it i RASTA the filtering being done in the log domain has an AGC - like, uh, characteristic, which, you know, people typi typically put in these kind of, uh, um, uh, auditory front - ends. So it's very, very similar, uh, but it's not exactly the same. Um, I would agree that the second one is is somewhat more different but, um, it's mainly different in that the things that we have been doing like that have been um, had a different kind of motivation and have ended up with different kinds of constraints. So, for instance, if you look at the LDA RASTA stuff, you know, basically what they do is they they look at the different eigenvectors out of the LDA and they form filters out of it. Right? And those filters have different, uh, kinds of temporal extents and temporal characteristics. And so in fact they're multi - scale. But, they're not sort of systematically multi - scale, like \" let's start here and go to there, and go to there, and go to there \", and so forth. It's more like, you run it on this, you do discriminant analysis, and you find out what's helpful..", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I it's multi - scale because you use several of these in parallel,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. They use several of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "is that right? Of.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, you don't have to but but but, uh, Hynek has. Um, but it's also, uh Hyn - when Hynek's had people do this kind of LDA analysis, they've done it on frequency direction and they've done it on the time direction. I think he may have had people sometimes doing it on both simultaneously some two - D and that would be the closest to these Gabor function kind of things. Uh, but I don't think they've done that much of that. And, uh, the other thing that's interesting the the, uh the feature selection thing, it's a simple method, but I kinda like it. Um, there's a a old, old method for feature selection. I mean, eh, uh, I remember people referring to it as old when I was playing with it twenty years ago, so I know it's pretty old, uh, called Stepwise Linear Discriminant Analysis in which you which I think it's used in social sciences a lot. So, you you you you pick the best feature. And then you take y you find the next feature that's the best in combination with it. And then so on and so on. And what what Michael's describing seems to me much, much better, because the problem with the stepwise discriminant analysis is that you don't know that you know, if you've picked the right set of features. Just because something's a good feature doesn't mean that you should be adding it. So, um, uh, here at least you're starting off with all of them, and you're throwing out useless features. I think that's that seems, uh that seems like a lot better idea. Uh, you're always looking at things in combination with other features. Um, so the only thing is, of course, there's this this artificial question of of, uh, exactly how you how you a how you assess it and if if your order had been different in throwing them out. I mean, it still isn't necessarily really optimal, but it seems like a pretty good heuristic. So I th I think it's it's I think it's kinda neat stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and and, uh, the thing that I wanted to to add to it also was to have us use this in a multi - stream way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, so so that, um, when you come up with these different things, and these different functions, you don't necessarily just put them all into one huge vector, but perhaps you have some of them in one stream and some of them in another stream, and so forth. And, um, um, um And we've also talked a little bit about, uh, uh, Shihab Shamma's stuff, in which you the way you look at it is that there's these different mappings and some of them emphasize, uh, upward moving, uh, energy and fre and frequency. And some are emphasizing downward and fast things and slow things and and so forth. So. So there's a bunch of stuff to look at. But, uh, I think we're sorta gonna start off with what he, uh, came here with and branch out branch out from there. And his advisor is here, too, at the same time. So, he'll be another interesting source of wisdom.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "As as we were talking about this I was thinking, um, whether there's a relationship between um, between Michael's approach to, uh, some some sort of optimal brain damage or optimal brain surgeon on the neural nets.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, like, if we have, um we have our we have our RASTA features and and presumably the neural nets are are learning some sort of a nonlinear mapping, uh, from the the the features to to this this probability posterior space.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right? And, um and each of the hidden units is learning some sort of some sort of some sort of pattern. Right? And it could be, like like these, um these auditory patterns that Michael is looking at. And then when you're looking at the the, uh, um, the best features, you know, you can take out you can do the do this, uh, brain surgery by taking out, um, hidden units that don't really help at all.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Or the or features.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this is k sorta like.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean, y actually, you make me think a a very important point here is that, um, if we a again try to look at how is this different from what we're already doing, uh, there's a a, uh a nasty argument that could be made th that it's it's not different at at all, because, uh if you ignore the the selection part because we are going into a a very powerful, uh, nonlinearity that, uh, in fact is combining over time and frequency, and is coming up with its own you know, better than Gabor functions its, you know, neural net functions,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "its whatever it finds to be best.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, so you could argue that in fact it But I I don't actually believe that argument because I know that, um, you can, uh computing features is useful, even though in principle you haven't added anything in fact, you subtracted something, from the original waveform You know, uh, if you've you've processed it in some way you've typically lost something some information. And so, you've lost information and yet it does better with with features than it does with the waveform. So, uh, I I know that i sometimes it's useful to to constrain things. So that's why it really seems like the constraint in in all this stuff it's the constraints that are actually what matters. Because if it wasn't the constraints that mattered, then we would've completely solved this problem long ago, because long ago we already knew how to put waveforms into powerful statistical mechanisms. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, if we had infinite processing power and data, I guess, using the waveform could.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah Uh, then it would work. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. There's the problem.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then it would work. But but, I mean, i it's With finite of those things I mean, uh, we we have done experiments where we literally have put waveforms in and and and, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "we kept the number of parameters the same and so forth, and it used a lot of training data. And it and it it, uh not infinite but a lot, and then compared to the number parameters and it it, uh it just doesn't do nearly as well. So, anyway the point is that you want to suppress.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it's not just having the maximum information, you want to suppress, uh, the aspects of the input signal that are not helpful for for the discrimination you're trying to make. So. So maybe just briefly, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, that sort of segues into what what I'm doing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, so, uh, the big picture is k um, come up with a set of, uh, intermediate categories, then build intermediate category classifiers, then do recognition, and, um, improve speech recognition in that way. Um, so right now I'm in in the phase where I'm looking at at, um, deciding on a initial set of intermediate categories. And I'm looking for data data - driven methods that can help me find, um, a set of intermediate categories of speech that, uh, will help me to discriminate later down the line. And one of the ideas, um, that was to take a take a neural net train train an ordinary neural net to uh, to learn the posterior probabilities of phones. And so, um, at the end of the day you have this neural net and it has hidden hidden units. And each of these hidden units is um, is learning some sort of pattern. And so, um, what what are these patterns?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know. Um, and I'm gonna to try to to look at those patterns to to see, um, from those patterns uh, presumably those are important patterns for discriminating between phone classes. And maybe maybe some, uh, intermediate categories can come from just looking at the patterns of um, that the neural net learns.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Be - before you get on the next part l let me just point out that s there's there's a a pretty nice relationship between what you're talking about doing and what you're talking about doing there. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, it seems to me that, you know, if you take away the the the difference of this primary features, and, say, you use as we had talked about maybe doing you use P - RASTA - PLP or something for the the primary features, um, then this feature discovery, uh, uh, thing is just what he's talking about doing, too, except that he's talking about doing them in order to discover intermediate categories that correspond to these uh, uh, what these sub - features are are are are showing you. And, um, the other difference is that, um, he's doing this in a in a multi - band setting, which means that he's constraining himself to look across time in some f relatively limited, uh, uh, spectral extent. Right? And whereas in in this case you're saying \" let's just do it unconstrained \". So they're they're really pretty related and maybe they'll be at some point where we'll see the the connections a little better and connect them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um. Yeah, so so that's the that's the first part uh, one one of the ideas to get at some some patterns of intermediate categories. Um, the other one was, um, to, uh, come up with a a a model um, a graphical model, that treats the intermediate categories as hidden hidden variables, latent variables, that we don't know anything about, but that through, um, s statistical training and the EM algorithm, um, at the end of the day, we have, um we have learned something about these these latent, um latent variables which happen to correspond to intermediate categories. Um. Yeah, and so those are the the two directions that I'm I'm looking into right now. And, uh, um Yeah. I guess that's that's it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. Should we do our digits and get ou get our treats?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, tea time?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's kind of like, you know, the little rats with the little thing dropping down to them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's ri", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We do the digits and then we get our treats.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" } ] }

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They're they're sort of practical.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I thought somebody had.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I don't know if you're.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "if if that's too practical for what we're focused on.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, we don't want anything too practical.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we only want th useless things.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, why don't we talk about practical things?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, um, I can give you an update on the transcription effort.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, maybe raise the issue of microphone, uh, um procedures with reference to the cleanliness of the recordings.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK, transcription, uh, microphone issues.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And then maybe ask, th uh, these guys. The we have great great, uh, p steps forward in terms of the nonspeech - speech pre - segmenting of the signal.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, we have steps forward.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, it's a it's a big improvement.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I would prefer this.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, well. OK. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We talk about the the results of", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You have some Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I have a little bit of IRAM stuff", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "use.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but I'm not sure if that's of general interest or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, bigram?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "IRAM.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "IRAM.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "IRAM.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "IRAM, bigram,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, m maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Bi - Bigram.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, let's let's see where we are at three - thirty.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Since, uh since I have to leave as usual at three - thirty, can we do the interesting stuff first?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I beg your pardon?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Which is?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "What's the interesting stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I beg your pardon?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Th - now you get to tell us what's the interesting part.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Please specify.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, uh, I guess the work that's been done on segmentation would be most.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think that would be a good thing to start with.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Um, and, um, the other thing, uh, which I'll just say very briefly that maybe relates to that a little bit, which is that, um, uh, one of the suggestions that came up in a brief meeting I had the other day when I was in Spain with, uh, Manolo Pardo and Javier, uh, Ferreiros, who was here before, was, um, why not start with what they had before but add in the non - silence boundaries. So, in what Javier did before when they were doing, um h he was looking for, uh, speaker change points.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um. As a simplification, he originally did this only using silence as, uh, a putative, uh, speaker change point.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, uh, he did not, say, look at points where you were changing broad sp uh, phonetic class, for instance. And for Broadcast News, that was fine. Here obviously it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, um, so one of the things that they were pushing in d in discussing with me is, um, w why are you spending so much time, uh, on the, uh, feature issue, uh, when perhaps if you sort of deal with what you were using before", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then just broadened it a bit, instead of just ta using silence as putative change point also?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Nnn, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So then you've got you already have the super - structure with Gaussians and H - you know, simple H M Ms and so forth. And you you might So there was a there was a little bit of a a a a difference of opinion because I I thought that it was it's interesting to look at what features are useful.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, uh, on the other hand I saw that the they had a good point that, uh, if we had something that worked for many cases before, maybe starting from there a little bit Because ultimately we're gonna end up with some s su kind of structure like that,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "where you have some kind of simple HMM and you're testing the hypothesis that, uh, there is a change.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so anyway, I just reporting that.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, uh, uh So. Yeah, why don't we do the speech - nonspeech discussion?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do I I hear you you didn't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Speech - nonspeech? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um, so, uh, what we basically did so far was using the mixed file to to detect s speech or nonspeech portions in that.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And what I did so far is I just used our old Munich system, which is an HMM - ba based system with Gaussian mixtures for s speech and nonspeech. And it was a system which used only one Gaussian for silence and one Gaussian for speech. And now I added, uh, multi - mixture possibility for for speech and nonspeech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And I did some training on on one dialogue, which was transcribed by Yeah. We we did a nons s speech - nonspeech transcription.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Jose.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Adam, Dave, and I, we did, for that dialogue and I trained it on that. And I did some pre - segmentations for for Jane. And I'm not sure how good they are or what what the transcribers say. They they can use it or?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, they they think it's a terrific improvement. And, um, it real it just makes a a world of difference.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, um, y you also did some something in addition which was, um, for those in which there was, uh, quiet speakers in the mix.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, yeah. That that was one one one thing, uh, why I added more mixtures for for the speech. So I saw that there were loud loudly speaking speakers and quietly speaking speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And so I did two mixtures, one for the loud speakers and one for the quiet speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And did you hand - label who was loud and who was quiet, or did you just?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I did that for for five minutes of one dialogue", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that was enough to to train the system.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "W What?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so it it adapts, uh, on while running. So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "What kind of, uh, front - end processing did you do?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hopefully.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's just our our old Munich, uh, loudness - based spectrum on mel scale twenty twenty critical bands and then loudness.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And four additional features, which is energy, loudness, modified loudness, and zero crossing rate. So it's twenty - four twenty - four features.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And you also provided me with several different versions,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "which I compared.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so you change parameters. What do you wanna say something about the parameters that you change?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You can specify the minimum length of speech or and silence portions which you want. And so I did some some modifications in those parameters, basically changing the minimum minimum length for s for silence to have, er to have, um yeah to have more or less, uh, silence portions in inserted. So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. So this would work well for, uh, pauses and utterance boundaries and things like that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But for overlap I imagine that doesn't work at all,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that you'll have plenty of s sections that are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's true. But it it saves so much time the the transcribers", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "just enormous, enormous savings. Fantastic.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's great. Um, just qu one quickly, uh, still on the features. So you have these twenty - four features.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, a lot of them are spectral features. Is there a a transformation, uh, like principal components transformation or something?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It was IS two.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No. W w we originally we did that", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "but we saw, uh, when we used it, uh, f for our close - talking microphone, which yeah, for our for our recognizer in Munich we saw that w it's it's not it's not so necessary. It it works as well f with with without, uh, a LDA or something.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. OK. No, I was j curious.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't think it's a big deal for this application,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but but Yeah, it's a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK. But then there's another thing that also Thilo's involved with, which is, um OK, and and also Da - Dave Gelbart. So there's this this problem of and w and so we had this meeting. Th - the also Adam, before the the before you went away. Uh we, um regarding the representation of overlaps, because at present, um, because of the limitations of th the interface we're using, overlaps are, uh, not being encoded by the transcribers in as complete and, uh, detailed a way as it might be, and as might be desired I think would be desired in the corpus ultimately.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So we don't have start and end points at each point where there's an overlap. We just have the the overlaps encoded in a simple bin. Well, OK. So @ @ the limits of the over of of the interface are such that we were at this meeting we were entertaining how we might either expand the the interface or find other tools which already do what would be useful. Because what would ultimately be, um, ideal in my my view and I think I mean, I had the sense that it was consensus, is that, um, a thorough - going musical score notation would be the best way to go. Because you can have multiple channels, there's a single time - line, it's very clear, flexible, and all those nice things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. So, um, um, I spoke I had a meeting with Dave Gelbart on on and he had, uh, excellent ideas on how the interface could be modified to to do this kind of representation. But, um, he in the meantime you were checking into the existence of already, um, existing interfaces which might already have these properties. So, do you wanna say something about that?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yes. Um, I talked with, uh, Munich guys from from Ludwi - Ludwig Maximilians University, who do a lot of transcribing and transliterations.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And they basically said they have they have, uh, a tool they developed themselves and they can't give away, uh, f it's too error - prone, and had it's not supported, a a a and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But, um, Susanne Bur - Burger, who is at se CMU, he wa who was formally at in Munich and w and is now at with CMU, she said she has something which she uses to do eight channels, uh, trans transliterations, eight channels simultaneously,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "but it's running under Windows.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Under Windows.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So I'm not sure if if if we can use it.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "She said she would give it to us.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It wouldn't be a problem. And I've got some some kind of manual down in my office.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, maybe we should get it and if it's good enough we'll arrange Windows machines to be available.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. We could uh, potentially so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I also wanted to be sure I mean, I've I've seen the this this is called Praat, PRAAT, which I guess means spee speech in Dutch or something.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then I'm not sure that's the right thing for us.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But In terms of it being Windows versus.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No, no. Praat isn't Praat's multi - platform.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But I'm just wondering, is?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "No. No, Praat Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh! I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. So Praat may not be.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's not Praat. It's called \" trans transedit \" I think.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's a different one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The the, uh the tool from from Susanne.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. Oh, I see. OK. OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The other thing, uh, to keep in mind, uh I mean, we've been very concerned to get all this rolling so that we would actually have data,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but, um, I think our outside sponsor is actually gonna kick in", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and ultimately that path will be smoothed out. So I don't know if we have a long - term need to do lots and lots of transcribing. I think we had a very quick need to get something out and we'd like to be able to do some later because just it's inter it's interesting. But as far a you know, uh, with with any luck we'll be able to wind down the larger project.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But you s", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What our decision was is that we'll go ahead with what we have with a not very fine time scale on the overlaps.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And and do what we can later to clean that up if we need to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And and I was just thinking that, um, if it were possible to bring that in, like, you know, this week, then when they're encoding the overlaps it would be nice for them to be able to specify when you know, the start points and end points of overlaps.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "uh Th - they're making really quick progress.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, um, so my my goal was w m my charge was to get eleven hours by the end of the month. And it'll be I'm I'm I'm clear that we'll be able to do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And did you, uh, forward Morgan Brian's thing?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I sent it to, um who did I send that to? I sent it to a list and I thought I sent it to the e to the local list.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Meeting Recorder.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, you did? OK. So you probably did get that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You saw that? So Brian did tell me that in fact what you said, that, uh that our that they are making progress and that he's going that they're going he's gonna check the f the output of the first transcription and and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, basically it's it's all the difference in the world. I mean, basically he's he's on it now.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, that's this is a new development.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So so so this is so i it'll happen.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. Super. Super. OK. Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, basically it's just saying that one of our one of our best people is on it,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "you know, who just doesn't happen to be here anymore. Someone else pays him. So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But about the need for transcription,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Isn't that great?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, don't we didn't we previously decide that the IBM transcripts would have to be checked anyway and possibly augmented?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yes. That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, I think having a good tool is worth something no matter what.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. S OK. That's that's a good point.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, and Dave Gelbart did volunteer,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and since he's not here, I'll repeat it to at least modify Transcriber, which, if we don't have something else that works, I think that's a pretty good way of going.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And we discussed on some methods to do it. My approach originally, and I've already hacked on it a little bit it was too slow because I was trying to display all the waveforms. But he pointed out that you don't really have to. I think that's a good point.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That if you just display the mix waveform and then have a user interface for editing the different channels, that's perfectly sufficient.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. And just keep those things separate. And and, um, Dan Ellis's hack already allows them to be able to display different waveforms to clarify overlaps and things,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "No. They can only display one,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so that's already.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but they can listen to different ones.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, yes, but Well, uh, yes, but what I mean is that, uh, from the transcriber's perspective, uh, those two functions are separate. And Dan Ellis's hack handles the, um, choice the ability to choose different waveforms from moment to moment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But only to listen to, not to look at.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The waveform you're looking at doesn't change.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's that's OK, cuz they're they're, you know, they're focused on the ear anyway.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then and then", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "the hack to preserve the overlaps better would be one which creates different output files for each channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "which then would also serve Liz's request of having, you know, a single channel, separable, uh, cleanly, easily separable,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "uh, transcript tied to a single channel, uh, audio.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Have, uh, folks from NIST been in contact with you?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Not directly. I'm trying to think if if I could have gotten it over a list.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I don't I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK. Well, holidays may have interrupted things, cuz in in in They seem to want to get absolutely clear on standards for transcription standards and so forth with with us.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh! This was from before December. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. Because they're they're presumably going to start recording next month.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, we should definitely get with them then,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and agree upon a format. Though I don't remember email on that. So was I not in the loop on that?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah, I don't think I mailed anybody. I just think I told them to contact Jane that, uh, if they had a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "if, uh that that, uh, as the point person on it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Just, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, yeah. Maybe I'll, uh, ping them a little bit about it to get that straight.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. I'm keeping the conventions absolutely as simple as possible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So is it cuz with any luck there'll actually be a a there'll be collections at Columbia, collections at at UW I mean Dan Dan is very interested in doing some other things,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's important both for the notation and the machine representation to be the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and collections at NIST. So Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "N there was also this, uh, email from Dan regarding the speech - non nonspeech segmentation thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I don't know if, uh, uh, we wanna, uh and Dan Gel - and Dave Gelbart is interested in pursuing the aspect of using amplitude as a a a as a basis for the separation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Cross - correlation.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. He was talking he was talking I mean, uh, we he had.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Cross", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, cross - correlation.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Cross", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I had mentioned this a couple times before, the c the commercial devices that do, uh, uh, voice, uh you know, active miking,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "basically look at the amp at the energy at each of the mikes. And and you basically compare the energy here to some function of all of the mikes.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, by doing that, you know, rather than setting any, uh, absolute threshold, you actually can do pretty good, uh, selection of who who's talking.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh And those those systems work very well, by the way, I mean, so people use them in panel discussions and so forth with sound reinforcement differing in in sort of,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh and, uh, those if Boy, the guy I knew who built them, built them like twenty twenty years ago,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so they're it's the the techniques work pretty well.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Fantastic. Cuz there is one thing that we don't have right now and that is the automatic, um, channel identifier.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That that, you know, that would g help in terms of encoding of overlaps.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "The the transcribers would have less, uh, disentangling to do if that were available.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think, you know, basically you can look at some p you have to play around a little bit, uh, to figure out what the right statistic is,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but you compare each microphone to some statistic based on the on the overall.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh, and we also have these we have the advantage of having distant mikes too. So that, you cou yo", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, although the the using the close - talking I think would be much better. Wouldn't it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um. I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I just it'd be If I was actually working on it, I'd sit there and and play around with it, and and get a feeling for it. I mean, the the the, uh But, uh, you certainly wanna use the close - talking, as a at least.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know if the other would would add some other helpful dimension or not.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK. What what are the different, uh, classes to to code, uh, the the overlap, you will use?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, to code d", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "What you you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so types of overlap?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, so at a meeting that wasn't transcribed, we worked up a a typology.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Look like, uh, you t you explaining in the blackboard? The? Yeah? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly. That hasn't changed. So it i the it's basically a two - tiered structure where the first one is whether the person who's interrupted continues or not. And then below that there're subcategories, uh, that have more to do with, you know, is it, uh, simply backchannel", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "or is it, um, someone completing someone else's thought, or is it someone in introducing a new thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. And I hope that if we do a forced alignment with the close - talking mike, that will be enough to recover at least some of the time the time information of when the overlap occurred.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Huh. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, one would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We hope.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Who knows?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That'd be that'd be nice. I mean, I I I I've.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So who's gonna do that? Who's gonna do forced alignment?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, u uh, IBM was going to. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and I imagine they still plan to but but, you know, I haven't spoken with them about that recently.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, uh, my suggestion now is is on all of these things to, uh, contact Brian.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. I'll do that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is wonderful to have a direct contact like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "uh Well, th lemme ask you this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It occurs to me one of my transcribers t told me today that she'll be finished with one meeting, um, by.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "well, she said tomorrow but then she said you know, but the, you know let's let's just, uh, say", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "maybe the day after just to be s on the safe side. I could send Brian the, um the transcript. I know these are er, uh, I could send him that if it would be possible, or a good idea or not, to try to do a s forced alignment on what we're on the way we're encoding overlaps now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, just talk to him about it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, basically he's he just studies, he's a colleague, a friend, and,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "uh, they and and, you know, the the organization always did wanna help us.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Super. Super.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It was just a question of getting, you know, the right people connected in, who had the time.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, um, eh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Is he on the mailing list? The Meeting Recorder mailing li?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We should add him.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I don't know for sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Did something happen, Morgan, that he got put on this, or was he already on it,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Add him.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, I, eh, eh, p It it oc I h it's Yeah, something happened. I don't know what.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "He asked for more work.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But he's on it now.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That would be like that'd be like him. He's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. So, uh, where are we? Maybe, uh, uh, brief Well, let's why don't we talk about microphone issues?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. That'd be great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That was that was a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um, so one thing is that I did look on Sony's for a replacement for the mikes for the head m head - worn ones cuz they're so uncomfortable. But I think I need someone who knows more about mikes than I do, because I couldn't find a single other model that seemed like it would fit the connector, which seems really unlikely to me. Does anyone, like, know stores or know about mikes who who would know the right questions to ask?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I probably would. I mean, my knowledge is twenty years out of date but some of it's still the same.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So Uh, so maybe we c we can take a look at that.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "You couldn't you couldn't find the right connector to go into these things?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. When I looked, i they listed one microphone and that's it", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Huh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "as having that type of connector. But my guess is that Sony maybe uses a different number for their connector than everyone else does. And and so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, let's look at it together", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "it seems it seems really unlikely to me that there's only one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And there's no adaptor for it?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Seems like there'd be a OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "As I said, who knows?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Who who are we buying these from?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That'd be", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I have it downstairs. I don't remember off the top of my head.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Yeah. We we can try and look at that together.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And then, uh just in terms of how you wear them I mean, I had thought about this before. I mean, when when when you use a product like DragonDictate, they have a very extensive description about how to wear the microphone and so on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But I felt that in a real situation we were very seldom gonna get people to really do it and maybe it wasn't worth concentrating on. But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, I think that that's that's a good back - off position. That's what I was saying earlier, th that, you know, we are gonna get some recordings that are imperfect and, hey, that's life. But I I think that it it doesn't hurt, uh, the naturalness of the situation to try to have people wear the microphones properly, if possible,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because, um, the natural situation is really what we have with the microphones on the table.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh. That's true.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, I think, you know, in the target applications that we're talking about, people aren't gonna be wearing head - mounted mikes anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So this is just for u these head - mounted mikes are just for use with research.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, uh, it's gonna make You know, if if An - Andreas plays around with language modeling, he's not gonna be m wanna be messed up by people breathing into the microphone.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So it's it's, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, I'll dig through the documentation to DragonDictate and ste s see if they still have the little form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But it does happen.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, and any.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's interesting, uh, I talked to some IBM guys, uh, last January, I think, I was there. And so people who were working on the on their ViaVoice dictation product.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And they said, uh, the breathing is really a a terrible problem for them, to to not recognize breathing as speech.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, anything to reduce breathing is is is a good thing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, that's the It seemed to me when I was using Dragon that it was really microphone placement helped an in, uh an enormous amount.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So you want it enough to the side so that when you exhale through your nose, it doesn't the wind doesn't hit the mike.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then, uh Everyone's adjusting their microphones, of course. And then just close enough so that you get good volume. So you know, wearing it right about here seems to be about the right way to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Is Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I remember when I was when I I I I used, uh, um, a prominent laboratory's, uh, uh, speech recognizer about, uh This was, boy, this was a while ago, this was about twelve twelve years ago or something. And, um, they were they were perturbed with me because I was breathing in instead of breathing out. And they had models for they they had Markov models for br breathing out but they didn't have them for breathing in.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's interesting. Well, what I wondered is whether it's possible to have to maybe use the display at the beginning", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "to be able to to judge how how correctly I mean, have someone do some routine whatever, and and then see if when they're breathing it's showing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, when when it's on, you can see it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know if the if it's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "You can definitely see it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Can you see the breathing?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And so, you know, I've I've sat here and watched sometimes the breathing,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and the bar going up and down, and I'm thinking, I could say something, but", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I don't want to make people self - conscious. Stop breathing!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It it's going to be imperfect.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "You're not gonna get it perfect. And you can do some, uh, you know, first - order thing about it, which is to have people move it, uh, uh, a away from being just directly in front of the middle", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but not too far away.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, i", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And then, you know, I think there's not much Because you can't al you know, interfere w you can't fine tune the meeting that much, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's sort of.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's true. It just seems like i if something l simple like that can be tweaked and the quality goes, you know, uh, dramatically up, then it might be worth doing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yep. And then also the position of the mike also. If it's more directly, you'll get better volume. So so, like, yours is pretty far down below your mouth. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But Mm - hmm. My my feedback from the transcribers is he is always close to crystal clear and and just fan fantastic to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I don't know why that is.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, you Yeah, of course. You're you're also uh, your volume is is greater. But but still, I mean, they they say.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I've been eating a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I it makes their their job extremely easy.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And then there's mass.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I could say something about about the Well, I don't know what you wanna do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "About what?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "About the transcribers or anything or? I don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, the other.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But, uh, just to to, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "why don't we do that?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "One more remark, uh, concerning the SRI recognizer. Um. It is useful to transcribe and then ultimately train models for things like breath, and also laughter is very, very frequent and important to to model.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "if you can in your transcripts mark.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "mark them?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "mark very audible breaths and laughter especially,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They are.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They're putting Eh, so in curly brackets they put \" inhale \" or \" breath \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, great.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It they and then in curly brackets they say \" laughter \". Now they're they're not being awfully precise, uh, m So they're two types of laughter that are not being distinguished.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "One is when sometimes s someone will start laughing when they're in the middle of a sentence.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and then the other one is when they finish the sentence and then they laugh. So, um, I I did s I did some double checking to look through I mean, you'd need to have extra e extra complications, like time tags indicating the beginning and ending of of the laughing through the utterance.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's not so I don't think it's, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And that and what they're doing is in both cases just saying \" curly brackets laughing \" a after the unit.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "As as long as there is an indication that there was laughter somewhere between two words I think that's sufficient,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Good. Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Against they could do forced alignment.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "because actually the recognition of laughter once you kn um you know, is pretty good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So as long as you can stick a you know, a t a tag in there that that indicates that there was laughter,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, I didn't know that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "that would probably be, uh, sufficient to train models.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That would be a really interesting prosodic feature,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Then.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And let me ask y and I gotta ask you one thing about that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "when.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, um, if they laugh between two words, you you'd get it in between the two words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But if they laugh across three or four words you you get it after those four words. Does that matter?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, the thing that you is hard to deal with is whe when they speak while laughing. Um, and that's, uh I don't think that we can do very well with that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, um, that's not as frequent as just laughing between speaking,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So are do you treat breath and laughter as phonetically, or as word models, or what?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh is it?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Huh. I I think it's frequent in in the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think he's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We tried both. Uh, currently, um, we use special words. There was a there's actually a word for uh, it's not just breathing but all kinds of mouth.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mouth stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh, mouth mouth stuff. And then laughter is a is a special word.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "How would we do that with the hybrid system?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Same thing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So train a phone in the neural net?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Same thing? Yeah. Yeah. You ha Oh. And each of these words has a dedicated phone.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, it does?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So the so the the mouth noise, uh, word has just a single phone, um, that is for that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. So in the hybrid system we could train the net with a laughter phone and a breath sound phone.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, it's it's it's always the same thing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, you could you could say well, let we now think that laughter should have three sub sub sub - units in the the three states, uh different states.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then you would have three I mean, you know, eh, eh, it's u", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Do whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the the pronun the pronunciations the pronunciations are l are somewhat non - standard.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They actually are uh, it's just a single, s uh, you know, a single phone in the pronunciation, but it has a self - loop on it, so it can.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To go on forever?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "r can go on forever.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And how do you handle it in the language model?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's just a it's just a word.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's just a word in the language model.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We train it like any other word.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. We also tried, um, absorbing these uh, both laughter and and actually also noise, and, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes. OK. Anyway. We also tried absorbing that into the pause model I mean, the the the model that that matches the stuff between words.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, um, it didn't work as well. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Huh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Can you hand me your digit form?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I just wanna mark that you did not read digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Say hi for me.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Good. You you did get me to thinking about I I'm not really sure which is more frequent, whether f f laughing I think it may be an individual thing. Some people are more prone to laughing when they're speaking.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I was noticing that with Dan in the one that we, uh we hand tran hand - segmented,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But I can't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that th he has these little chuckles as he talks.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I'm sure it's very individual. And and one thing that c that we're not doing, of course, is we're not claiming to, uh, get be getting a representation of mankind in these recordings. We have this very, very tiny sample of of.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Speech researchers?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. And Yeah, r right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Speech research.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, uh, who knows. Uh Yeah. Why don why don't we just since we're on this vein, why don't we just continue with, uh, what you were gonna say about the transcriptions", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um, um, the I I'm really very for I'm extremely fortunate with the people who, uh, applied and who are transcribing for us. They are, um, um, uh really perceptive and very, um and I'm not just saying that cuz they might be hearing this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Cuz they're gonna be transcribing it in a few days.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, they're super. They're the they very quick.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK. Turn the mikes off and let's talk.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know. I am I'm serious. They're just super. So I, um, e you know, I I brought them in and, um, trained them in pairs because I think people can raise questions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "you know, i i the they think about different things and they think of different and um, I trained them to, uh, f on about a minute or two of the one that was already transcribed. This also gives me a sense of You know, I can I can use that later, with reference to inter - coder reliability kind of issues. But the main thing was to get them used to the conventions and, you know, the idea of the th th the size of the unit versus how long it takes to play it back so these th sort of calibration issues. And then, um, I just set them loose and they're they all have e a already background in using computers. They're, um they're trained in linguistics.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Good. Oh, no. Is that good or bad?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They got.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, they they're very perce they'll So one of them said \" well, you know, he really said \" n \", not really \" and \",", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so what what should I do with that? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And I said, \" well for our purposes,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I do have a convention. If it's an a noncanonical p \" That one, I think we you know, with Eric's work, I sort of figure we we can just treat that as a variant. But I told them if if there's an obvious speech error, uh, like I said in one thing,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and I gave my my example, like I said, \" microfon \" in instead of \" microphone \". Didn't bother I knew it when I said it. I remember s thinking \" oh, that's not correctly pronounced \". But it but I thought it's not worth fixing cuz often when you're speaking everybody knows what what you mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "You'll self - repair. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But I have a convention that if it's obviously a noncanonical pronunciation a speech error with you know, wi within the realm of resolution that you can tell in this native English American English speaker, you know that I didn't mean to say \" microfon. \" Then you'd put a little tick at the beginning of the word,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and that just signals that, um, this is not standard, and then in curly brackets \" pron error \". And, um, and other than that, it's w word level. But, you know, the fact that they noticed, you know, the \" nnn \". \" He said \" nnn \", not \" and \". What shall I do with that? \" I mean, they're very perceptive. And and s several of them are trained in IPA. C they really could do phonetic transcription if if we wanted them to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right. Well Well, you know, it might be something we'd wanna do with some, uh, s small subset of the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm. Where were they when we needed them?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We certainly wouldn't wanna do it with everything.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And I'm also thinking these people are a terrific pool. I mean, if, uh so I I told them that, um, we don't know if this will continue past the end of the month", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and I also m I think they know that the data p source is limited and I may not be able to keep them employed till the end of the month even, although I hope to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The other thing we could do, actually, uh, is, uh, use them for a more detailed analysis of the overlaps.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And Oh, that'd be so super. They would be so s so terrific.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, this was something that we were talking about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We could get a very detailed overlap if they were willing to transcribe each meeting four or five times. Right? One for each participant. So they could by hand.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, that's one way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But I've been saying the other thing is just go through it for the overlaps.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And with the right in interface.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Given that y and and do so instead of doing phonetic, uh, uh, transcription for the whole thing,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which we know from the Steve's experience with the Switchboard transcription is, you know, very, very time - consuming. And and you know, it took them I don't know how many months to do to get four hours. And so that hasn't been really our focus. Uh, we can consider it. But, I mean, the other thing is since we've been spending so much time thinking about overlaps is is maybe get a much more detailed analysis of the overlaps.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But anyway, I'm I'm open to c our consideration.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I don't wanna say that by fiat.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I'm open to every consideration of what are some other kinds of detailed analysis that would be most useful.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And, uh, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I I think this year we we actually, uh, can do it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's a we have we have due to @ @ variations in funding we have we seem to be doing, uh, very well on m money for this this year, and next year we may have have much less.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Is you mean two thousand one?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So I don't wanna hire a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Calendar year or?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, calendar year two thousand one.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's uh, it's we don't wanna hire a bunch of people, a long - term staff,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Full - time. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "because the the funding that we've gotten is sort of a big chunk for this year. But having temporary people doing some specific thing that we need is actually a perfect match to that kind of, uh, funding.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then school will start in in the sixt on the sixteenth.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Some of them will have to cut back their hours at that point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Are they working full - time now, or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But Some of them are.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, why do I wouldn't say forty - hour weeks. No. But what I mean is Oh, I shouldn't say it that way because that does sound like forty - hour weeks. No. I th I I would say they're probably they don't have o they don't have other things that are taking away their time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I don't see how someone could do forty hours a week on transcription.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But it's you can't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No. You're right. It's i it would be too taxing. But, um, they're putting in a lot of.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And and I checked them over.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I I I haven't checked them all, but just spot - checking. They're fantastic.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think it would be.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I remember when we were transcribing BeRP, uh, uh, uh, Ron Kay, uh, volunteered to to do some of that. And, he was the first first stuff he did was transcribing Chuck. And he's saying \" You you know, I always thought Chuck spoke really well. \"", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, and I also thought, y Liz has this, eh, you know, and I do also, this this interest in the types of overlaps that are involved. These people would be great choices for doing coding of that type if we wanted,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We'd have to mark them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or whatever. So, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it would also be interesting to have, uh, a couple of the meetings have more than one transcriber do,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "cuz I'm curious about inter - annotator agreement.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Th - that'd be I think that's a a good idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "You know, there's also, the e In my mind, I think A An - Andreas was leading to this topic, the idea that, um, we haven't yet seen the the type of transcript that we get from IBM, and it may just be, you know, pristine. But on the other hand, given the lesser interface Cuz this is, you know we've got a good interface, we've got great headphones, m um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It could be that they will uh theirs will end up being a kind of fir first pass or something.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Maybe an elaborate one, cuz again they probably are gonna do these alignments, which will also clear things up.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's that's true. Al - although you have to s Don't you have to start with a close enough approximation of the of the verbal part to be able to?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, tha that's that's debatable.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, so the so the argument is that if your statistical system is good it will in fact, uh, clean things up.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right? So it it's got its own objective criterion.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, uh, so in principle you could start up with something that was kind of rough I mean, to give an example of, um, something we used to do, uh, at one point, uh, back back when Chuck was here in early times, is we would take, um, da take a word and, uh, have a canonical pronunciation and, uh, if there was five phones in a word, you'd break up the word, uh, into five equal - length pieces which is completely gross.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Wrong.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, th the timing is off all over the place in just about any word.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But it's O K. You start off with that and the statistical system then aligns things, and eventually you get something that doesn't really look too bad.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, excellent. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So so I think using a a good aligner, um, actually can can help a lot. Um. But, uh, you know, they both help each other. If you have a if you have a better starting point, then it helps the aligner. If you have a good alignment, it helps the, uh, th the human in in taking less time to correct things.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Excellent. I guess there's another aspect, too, and I don't know uh, this this is very possibly a different, uh, topic. But, uh, just let me say with reference to this idea of, um, higher - order organization within meetings. So like in a you know, the topics that are covered during a meeting with reference to the other, uh, uses of the data,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "so being able to find where so - and - so talked about such - and - such, then, um, um e I mean, I I I did sort of a a rough pass on encoding, like, episode - like level things on the, uh, transcribed meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "already transcribed meeting. And I don't know if, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "where that i if that's something that we wanna do with each meeting, sort of like a, um it's like a manifest, when you get a box full of stuff, or or if that's, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I mean, i I I don't know what uh, level of detail would be most useful. I don't know i if that's something that I should do when I look over it, or if we want someone else to do, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But this issue of the contents of the meeting in an outline form. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Meaning really isn't my thing. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I think it just whoever is interested can do that. I mean, so if someone wants to use that data.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We're running a little short here.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We, uh, uh, cou trying to.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I'm finished.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "eh, was p Well, you know, the thing I'm concerned about is we wanted to do these digits", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and and I haven't heard, uh, from Jose yet.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK. What do you want?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We could skip the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We don't have to read digits each time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh I I I think it you know, another another bunch of digits. More data is good.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so I'd like to do that. But I think, do you, maybe, eh? Did you prepare some whole thing you wanted us just to see?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's prepared.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or what was that? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, k Sorry.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh, how long a?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I I think it's it's fast, because, uh, I have the results, eh, of the study of different energy without the law length. Eh, um, eh, in the in the measurement, uh, the average, uh, dividing by the by the, um, variance. Um, I th i", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "the other, uh the the last w uh, meeting eh, I don't know if you remain we have problem to with the with with the parameter with the representations of parameter, because the the valleys and the peaks in the signal, eh, look like, eh, it doesn't follow to the to the energy in the signal.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And it was a problem, uh, with the scale.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "With what?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Eh, the scale.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Scale.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Scale.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Eh, and I I change the scale and we can see the the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. But the bottom line is it's still not, uh, separating out very well.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "The distribution the distribution is is similar.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. So that's that's that's enough then. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, I mean, that there's no point in going through all of that if that's the bottom line, really.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, I I think we have to start Uh, I mean, there there's two suggestions, really, which is, uh what we said before is that,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um, it looks like, at least that you haven't found an obvious way to normalize so that the energy is anything like a reliable, uh, indicator of the overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, I I'm I'm still a little f think that's a little funny. These things l @ @ seems like there should be,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but but you don't want to keep, uh keep knocking at it if it's if you're not getting any any result with that. But, I mean, the other things that we talked about is, uh, pitch - related things and harmonicity - related things,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so which we thought also should be some kind of a reasonable indicator. Um But, uh, a completely different tack on it wou is the one that was suggested, uh, by your colleagues in Spain,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which is to say, don't worry so much about the, uh, features.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That is to say, use, you know, as as you're doing with the speech, uh, nonspeech, use some very general features.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, uh, then, uh, look at it more from the aspect of modeling.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know, have a have a couple Markov models and and, uh, try to indi try to determine, you know, w when is th when are you in an overlap, when are you not in an overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And let the, uh, uh, statistical system determine what's the right way to look at the data.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I, um, I think it would be interesting to find individual features and put them together. I think that you'd end up with a better system overall.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But given the limitation in time and given the fact that Javier's system already exists doing this sort of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, but, uh, its main limitation is that, again, it's only looking at silences which would.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "maybe that's a better place to go.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I I I think that, eh, the possibility, eh, can be that, eh, Thilo, eh, working, eh, with a new class, not only, eh, nonspeech and speech, but, eh, in in in the speech class,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "dividing, eh, speech, eh, of from a speaker and overlapping, to try to to do, eh, eh, a fast a fast, eh, experiment to to prove that, nnn, this fea eh, general feature, eh, can solve the the the problem,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and wh what nnn, how far is.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Maybe. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, I I have prepared the the pitch tracker now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And I hope the the next week I will have, eh, some results and we we will show we will see, eh, the the parameter the pitch, eh, tracking in with the program.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, nnn, nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ha - h have you ever looked at the, uh, uh Javier's, uh, speech segmenter?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. Maybe m you could, you kn uh show Thilo that.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Cuz again the idea is there the limitation there again was that he was he was only using it to look at silence as a as a as a as a p putative split point between speakers.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if you included, uh, broadened classes then in principle maybe you can cover the overlap cases.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I'm not too sure if if we can really represent overlap with with the s detector I I I used up to now,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think with.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "the to speech - nonspeech as.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's right. But I think Javier's.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "it's only speech or it's it's it's nonspeech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Ah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think Javier's might be able to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "N n", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It doesn't have the same Gaus - uh, H M M modeling,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "which is I think a drawback.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it's sort of has a simple one.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Does it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right? It's it's just it's just a isn't it just a Gaussian", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "for each?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then he ch you choose optimal splitting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, it doesn't have it doesn't have any temporal, uh?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Maybe I'm misremembering, but I did not think it had a Markov.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I thought it Yeah. I gues I guess I don't remember either. Uh. It's been a while.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, I could have a look at it.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Javier.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You mean Ja - eh, eh, Javier program?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, Javier di doesn't worked with, uh, a Markov.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I didn't think so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "He on only train.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So he's just he just computes a Gaussian over potential.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It was only Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And so I I think it would work fine for detecting overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This is the idea.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And and.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's just, uh, that i it he has the two - pass issue that What he does is, as a first pass he he p he does, um, a guess at where the divisions might be and he overestimates. And that's just a data reduction step, so that you're not trying at every time interval.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so those are the putative places where he tries.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And right now he's doing that with silence and that doesn't work with the Meeting Recorder. So if we used another method to get the first pass, I think it would probably work.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's a good method. As long as the len as long the segments are long enough.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's the other problem.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "O - k OK. So let me go back to what you had, though.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The other thing one could do is Couldn't I mean, it's So you have two categories", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and you have Markov models for each. Couldn't you have a third category? So you have, uh you have, uh, nonspeech, single - person speech, and multiple - person speech?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "He has this on his board actually. Don't you have, like those those several different categories on the board?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right? And then you have a Markov model for each?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure. I I thought about, uh, adding, uh, uh, another class too. But it's not too easy, I think, the the transition between the different class, to model them in in the system I have now. But it it it could be possible, I think,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "in principle.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, I This is all pretty gross.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, the th the reason why, uh, I was suggesting originally that we look at features is because I thought, well, we're doing something we haven't done before,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "we should at least look at the space and understand.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It seems like if two people two or more people talk at once, it should get louder,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh, and, uh, uh, there should be some discontinuity in pitch contours,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I had the impression.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and, uh, there should overall be a, um, smaller proportion of the total energy that is explained by any particular harmonic sequence in the spectrum.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So those are all things that should be there.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So far, um, uh, Jose has has been By the way, I was told I should be calling you Pepe, but.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "by your friends, but Anyway,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um, uh, the has has, uh, been exploring, uh, e largely the energy issue and, um, as with a lot of things, it is not uh, like this, it's not as simple as it sounds.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then there's, you know Is it energy? Is it log energy? Is it LPC residual energy? Is it is it is it, uh, delta of those things? Uh, what is it no Obviously, just a simple number absolute number isn't gonna work. So it should be with compared to what? Should there be a long window for the normalizing factor and a short window for what you're looking at?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or, you know, how b short should they be? So,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "th he's been playing around with a lot of these different things and and so far at least has not come up with any combination that really gave you an indicator.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So I I still have a hunch that there's it's in there some place, but it may be given that you have a limited time here, it it just may not be the best thing to to to focus on for the remaining of it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. To overrule, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So pitch - related and harmonic - related, I'm I'm somewhat more hopeful for it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But it seems like if we just wanna get something to work,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that, uh, their suggestion of of Th - they were suggesting going to Markov models, uh, but in addition there's an expansion of what Javier did. And one of those things, looking at the statistical component,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "even if the features that you give it are maybe not ideal for it, it's just sort of this general filter bank", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or or cepstrum or something, um Eee it's in there somewhere probably.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But, eh, what did you think about the possibility of using the Javier software? Eh, I mean, the, uh the, uh the BIC criterion, the the t to train the the Gaussian, eh, using the the mark, eh, by hand, eh, eh, to distinguish be mmm, to train overlapping zone and speech zone. I mean, eh, I I I think that an interesting, eh, experiment, eh, could be, th eh, to prove that, mmm, if s we suppose that, eh, the the first step I mean, the the classifier what were the classifier from Javier or classifier from Thilo? W What happen with the second step? I I mean, what what happen with the, eh the, uh, clu the, uh the clu the clustering process?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Using the the Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You mean Javier's?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What do you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I I mean, that is is enough is enough, eh, to work well, eh, to, eh, separate or to distinguish, eh, between overlapping zone and, eh, speaker zone? Because th if if we if we, eh, nnn, develop an classifier and the second step doesn't work well, eh, we have another problem.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I Yeah. I had tried doing it by hand at one point with a very short sample,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and it worked pretty well, but I haven't worked with it a lot. So what I d I d I took a hand - segmented sample", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Nnn, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and I added ten times the amount of numbers at random,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and it did pick out pretty good boundaries.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. But is is if.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But this was just very anecdotal sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But it's possible with my segmentation by hand that we have information about the the overlapping,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. So if we if we fed the hand - segmentation to Javier's and it doesn't work, then we know something's wrong.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh Yeah. The N n Yeah. No. The demonstration by hand. Segmentation by hand I I I think is the fast experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that's probably worthwhile doing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, we can prove that the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Whether it'll work or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "this kind o emph emphasises parameter and Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yep. Y do you know where his software is? Have you used it at all?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I yeah have. I have.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. I I have as well, so if you need need help let me know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Let's read some digits.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. uuh", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And we are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2016c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Okay. Alright. Is everyone here?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. This is our conceptual design meeting. And I'll just take a few minutes and uh go through the previous minutes. Um then each of you will have your presentation, um and then we will need to make a decision on the concept for the remote control. And then we'll have uh forty minutes for finishing up. Um I'll go through the mee through the minutes first. Um, we just refreshed our our uh goal of making the finest remote control available.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um we decided that, or we know that we need to use company colours, company logo. Um and our Marketing Expert uh gave us some i uh information from interviews with a hundred different remote users. Um with some statistics that backed basically what we were thinking before. People thought their remotes were ugly, um um that remotes zap a lot. Um they only use uh a finite amount of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and that they often lose the it's easy to lose a remote. Um which were all things we were thinking we would wanna make it simple. Um And uh some sort of locator. Either a button or tracking device. Um And that it should look different than what's out there. Um Kind of mixed mixed response on the speech recognition. The younger people said they wanted it, older people did not. Um uh I think we decided that um the expense was not necessarily worth it, and that it was probably a gimmick, that um would increasingly wear on the consumers' nerves. Um Then the User Interface Designer um explored some of the technical functions of the remote. Um the simple versus the um the complex. The simple one being better for a user, the complex better for an engineer. Um Um and some personal preferences that were found in that would be that it should be a user-oriented remote, something simple. Um and that we didn't wanna go with a universal remote, because uh increasing cost and increasing complexity. Um we would just have a T_V_ remote. Um and that we should also focus on the appearance of the remote. Have it s be something that looks different. And finally our um Industrial Designer uh gave us a rundown of how the remote will work. Um from energy source, um uh what we would use. Batteries because we don't wanna have a a cable. Um How that would power the remote and the lamp. If we were to to have one. Uh um the user interface then would connect to a chip, which would work with the infrared controls uh to send the signal to the T_V_. Um I believe then we came up with a couple of ideas for what we think the design of the remote will be. Um Um something that will fit into uh easily into someone's hand. And with a, just a few buttons. Just the basics. And with a scrolling um function also. Okay and I will leave that, leave it at that. So Marketing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're watching trends.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Can I have your cable please?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suppose that you can have this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks. Okay so I was looking at trend-watching. Um unfortunately I wasn't given too much information. I was given a brief executive summary, and then an update on some recent fashion trends that we might like to look at. And then I'll just tell you some personal preferences that I got from that. Um okay the most important finding was that the fancy look-and-feel seems to be twice as important to the users as the current functional look-and-feel design, which I think we've kind of already discussed before. Um the second most important finding was that the remote should be technologically innovative. And again these are all things we've kind of already come up with on our own, but this just backs it up. And thirdly the remote would be easy to use. As far as fashion update, we've learned that fruits and vegetables will be the most important theme for cloths, shoes and furniture.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that might be a bit of a challenge to incorporate this into our remote, but we can try. Um and also, as opposed to last year, this year the material is expected to be spongy in feel. Okay so from that um, as we've already said, we need to focus on a fancy look-and-feel. Um I think we've already discovered that it's kind of hard to go away from the traditional rectangular design. But I think that, even if it's very subtle, we need to kind of trick our consumers, so they at least get the idea that they're getting something that's new and modern and sleek and Whether it's through the shape or the colours or all of that. Um for technologically innovative, we've talked about the tracking device. We brought up the idea of having two pieces, which we could discuss further. And Manuel had suggested um the energy source and the user interface, discussing some of those, um that we could change a little bit. We need to keep it simple, have limited buttons, which I think the two piece idea might be really beneficial for. Um we need to incorporate this fashion trend of fruits and vegetables. I don't know, I mean I guess the two options are if we had our remote in the shape of a fruit or vegetable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A banana shape?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh it was sort of banana shaped..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Right. Or with exterior designs. But my question is, I mean the stereotypically speaking, you kind of picture males with their remote controls, and I'm not sure how they'd feel about having fruity logos on the outside.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe we could have something that's somewhat removable, or I don't know, different options for female, male target groups. And then the spongy feel. I guess we could look at mobile phones and other technology that's out there. C and look at different types of material that might please our users who want spongy-feeling remote controls. So that's that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So possibly like a uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry, just to butt in for a second. Possibly uh like a cover like they have for mobile phones?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I was thinking yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Those like, yeah, sort of spongy ones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have one with a flag, and one with a banana and one that's a spongy", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So when you buy your remote you can buy", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "feel to it. You can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "various coverings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm various covers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's it called? Cust you personalised, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Personalise your remote..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We could leave that to the cover department..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We all know they've got nothing to do all day.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Why can't I see the crazy. Um yeah I talking about the interface concept and how the customer relates to, will use the, consumer will use the actual device. Um so I've looked at some of the stuff I was sent, um, try and get some inspiration. But keep in mind that our own ideas that we had. Um I was sent some information from the company saying that they, the technology department have devised a new speech recognition technology, where you can program questions into such devices. They gave an example of a coffee machine where you program a question, you program the answer, and the machine responds accordingly. Um okay. There's different ways of a user can use products l like a remote. Um there's a graphical use, where you you look at pictures and well on a screen. A command line where you obviously type things in, and you get a response. Um and then it ju that's just to point out the sort of inconsistent u sort of use of interface in remotes. You can't really see that picture well, but there's various different remotes, once again with lots of different buttons on, making it more complicated.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, then I had a look at new products that are on the market. Not necessarily remote controls but ones that you'll recognise. Um this is the voice, there is a voice recognition remote control, which can control mus multiple devices. I have a there is a picture. You surf your favourite channels uh with your voice. Store up to eighty speech samples, controls four devices, T_V_, cable, satellite, V_C_R_, D_V_D_ and audio. And you can record your own v verbal labels, that are connected to remote control functions. So the technology is there. Um the one on the left is very similar to what we drew up on the board in the previous meeting, where there has scroll down functions on the side. You can sort of just make those out. And then on the right is obviously an iPod, which is you know possibly one of the simplest things to use out there, and really is, and all that is is just a a nice big scroll menu that y you sort of go through. That is a possibility. And nothing's simpler really. Um then there's things like this, which is a a a kid's remote, where the the parents have the facility to control and program what children can watch before. So the remote control it o only allows them to access the channels that their parents want them to watch. And um it means that th children have a novelty of having their own remote control. So I don't know if there's a possibility of having one remote contr you know like we just had two components, maybe it can have more components you know, different remotes. Um the point made at the end there here is that you have to be sort of be need to be clear on your um devices, as to what, you know, things you use. Sometimes an arrow pointing down, which may suggest volume down, could become confused just as a V_ for volume. Just little things like that, which would need to be made clear in the design. Um I think, d carrying on from what I've already said, a user friendly remote with minimum buttons. Maybe we've so suggested this two-part thing, where if it was to have a speech recognition thing, you could maybe control that on the do it or program all that on the control bit. And then just have the simple sort of hand-held thing that we sort of devised earlier, as the actual remote. Um I don't it could be a graphical display, the actual remote contr the actual control port maybe could have like an iPod where you just sort of control through the menus. Stuff like gets more and more compli complicated. And then the the hand-held bit should be ergonomically designed. And that is it. Why am I Oh yeah. Just. Where are we? Uh. Just to sort of show you. M they've even got things like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huge things. Which is just for your gr ninety year old grandma yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's industrial design for cranes, stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Notice the giant dog bone shape?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Makes sense, makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Also good for animals.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. See. things.. Why's my screen crazy?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh Well let's see. I'm going to bore you with a couple of descriptions of the interior.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just to to make it more obvious what we have to fit in there, and that we do have to fit the stuff in there. I've more information on possible materials um as well. What we can and cannot do. Um but let's just wait for this to load up and I'll show you what we're talking about here. Okay. The details of the components' design, as you can see there, what we have is the board, main board of the remote control. The underside, that's pretty cheap piece of of technology really top left side you can see the chip, which is the, what we were talking about, this was is the device to recognise the signals the input, and it passes it on to a row of um further transistors and stuff like that on the right side that actually amplify the signal, which later on is being, is being transferred to a infrared lamp which then um of course shines infrared light onto the television which then will recognise what signal um it's getting and will do what you tell it. Um So much for the the workings of the of the uh remote control itself. Its job is to wait for you to press a key, then to translate that key press into infrared light signals, um that are received by the television. When you press a key um you complete a specific connection. The chip senses the connection and knows what button you pressed. It produces a morse code line signal specific to that button. Right. Pretty clear. Transistor amplifies the signal and then sends the m sends the signal to the L_E_D_ which translates the signal into infrared light. The sensor in the T_V_ can see the infrared light, and seeing the signal reacts appropriately. This is the circuit board from the other side. Um the lower part of it, I don't know if you can see that properly, with the green greenish board is is what we what we saw in the first the first slide just flipped over. Um you can see the circuit board itself. That's the cheapest uh way to make electronic connections basically on the market. Um what you do is you have, don't have cables, but you have the connections actually in these in these lines on the on the board. These are the actual keys that are being pressed. They close the electric circuit. That then sends the signal to the chip on the other side. That would be behind here. Um which uh sends it over to the transistors and all that stuff that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "amplify the signal and all that is being sent to the infrared lamp up there. Now as you can see this is the the rubber button version of it. Um the way it works is that you have the keys here. The rubber button has a little metal uh plate on the other side, which closes the circuit here. And thus gives on the signal. Now this is the simple version. Um we are talking um this this the simple and cheapest version at the same time. We are talking something more complicated of course, it's going to be more expensive as well. And not only that. Um we are also restricted in the use of our outer shell, or in the material that we could use for our outer shell. Um I've gotten some information that we could use for the case material plastic, rubber, as well. Um rubber that is used in these anti-stress balls. So it's pretty squishy. That would that would serve that purpose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we could also use wood, or titanium.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's the approximate per hundred thousand for the titanium?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh fya", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't have an information on that. However our company obviously can provide us with uh with the titanium, so I assume, I'm, I was given an okay to use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It certainly is an expensive material,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm aware of that, but I was given an okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But there are certain restrictions to certain materials. Now let's first go through the list with the materials. So we what we can use is plastic, rubber, wood and titanium. Can also mix these. Um as for the energy source, um we were talking about that shortly in the other meeting. Um what we could use is, or what I was offered, or what we could use, is a basic bateer battery. Right? Uh a dynamo. Interestingly enough.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we could use solar cells. Or a device that was not n not further specified that provides kinetic energy. Such as like watches you know. Where you just move them m move the the actual device and this pr uh provides it with with uh some energy. So um obviously I personally have to say that dynamo is out of the question really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't wanna wind up your remote control before you can use it right? Um solar cell is interesting. May fail though, every here and there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would you have to leave it by the window?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Or you know you lose it, it lies behind the couch for a week", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Works well in Arizona but in Edinburgh not so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Always the you But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y probably not yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um the kinetic energy thing um might work, um but the same problem. You leave it lying around and you first have to shake it before it it starts to work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I'd say what we're stuck with really is um the basic battery. Which also makes a base station basically obsolete. We don't need that then. Um However our interface options are push-buttons. In which uh in the production of which or in manufacture of which um our company is expert. Um However we've discussed that scroll wheels are a better option. And they are possible. We have an okay for scroll wheels. Okay. Um however when it comes to the scroll wheel of the iPod I've one big objection and that is that we have to fit an L_C_D_ into the remote control as well. This however may exclude certain um materials. If you have a squishy uh kind of remote control, then an L_C_D_ screen may be affected by the movement. Hence we might not be able to put it in there. So um There's also restrictions to, when it comes to the chip. If we have a more sophistic uh sophisticated scroll wheel rather than this very basic uh set-up that we that I've just presented, um the chip has to be more s more sophisticated and thus more expensive as well. I don't have any details to, when it comes to the cost but um it will be a significant difference. I'd rather say drop the titanium and therefore let's have a more sophisticated chip, but that's not up to me to decide really. So that's for the for the scroll wheel. Um it limits our choice and squishy is hip, so I'd say rather not go for for that. Let's see now. Um um solar cells cannot be used on a curved or latex um surface or um remote control. But obviously that's not our problem um since we have decided or against solar cells, I assume right? Or is anybody still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I think I think batteries are probably the way to go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh which makes it very conventional but therefore traditional I assume. Um Um With the titanium um we cannot make it a curved design. We would just be able to make it flat and and um yeah a straight design pretty much. Which I assume would exclude uh some of the more sophisticated versions..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would the sort of spongy and the the plasticky thing y you can get those mobile phones that initially have a it is plastic but then they have sort of a a s a cover on it which is just sort of soft and stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Like a covering. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I don't know if that would still be possible to have you know in plastic. But then where do people hold it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just all be sort of spongy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The we can have the fruits and vegetables on the spongy parts, so they can remove it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you as the the possibility of having a a graphical display on it, like a screen? Like the iPod?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can have an L_C_D_ screen. Um but therefore no rubber will be used.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright? So plastic yes, titanium yes, but this will of course influence the form. With plastic, as I understand it, you can use any form. Um latex is tricky. Or rubber and um and titanium also seems to be tricky when it comes to the form. So the way to go is if you want a scroll wheel you either make it flat and angular, uh add an L_C_D_ screen, and um then you can basically choose either plastic or titanium. Or wood even.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um if you wanna make it a particular shape, use plastic. Add an L_C_D_ screen, add a scroll wheel, that'll be fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or make it just push-buttons. Basically plastic gives you the b biggest variety of of options. Maybe not the nicest feel. Or not much originality really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the ru wait the rubbery we can shape it however we want? Or the rubbery we cannot?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With rubber we could uh sh pretty much shape it the way we wanted it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we cannot add scroll wheels, and we cannot add an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the tricky thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could we not you know have a shape with a scroll and the screen, and then j just sort of that initial shape we had, just which is uh sort of banana-esque. So that's thing if we did it yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um you know you just p stick on just sort of rubber things that that sort of grip the thumb bit. They wouldn't have any they're just on the exterior. They wouldn't be necessary to the actual shape of the thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that an option, a plastic shell with a rubbery coating on at certain spots?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S Certainly can be done yes. Um yeah. if that doesn't affect the functional side of it all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like say just the underside or so then it can be done. I assume. Yeah. So The fruit design um How about um affecting the surface of the actual um remote control? Say we don't make it p a particular fruit shape obviously,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh give it like the surface of an orange, banana, whatever. You name it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about a smell?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just design-wise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T to the remote?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Nice one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You could just sell it in different colours as well I suppose. In different ye yellows.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bright citrus colours yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't suppose we have to stick to co", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we we're supposed to stick to the company colours though,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Stick to the colours yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's yellow and grey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yellow and grey.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yellow and grey.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what have we, lemon, banana, is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm grapefruit..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Grapefruit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Grapefruit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is what we'd go for, when it comes to the outer appearance perhaps. But mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say, if I were to make a decision, I would probably put the fruit aspect at the lower lower end of the spectrum of of importance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think having a shape could be a little ridiculous,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we have it banana-shaped already, kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we kinda do yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well perhaps the implied shape will be enough to lure that fruit-minded remote buyer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. and if it if it was done yellow, which is a company colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if it's yellow?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's yellow. It's curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I it's yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Grey buttons yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's sort of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well so why not add a couple of grey stripes and make it look like a banana?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "couple of couple of grey stripes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could put the grey stripes on the bottom so that that person could turn it over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the the gr the rubbery grips could be grey.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It would look like a banana just sitting on their table.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rather than rather th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could and then you could actually h put the banana-shaped thing on the fruit bowl, on the coffee table,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then people would always know where it was.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe the holder, if we were to have a holder, it could be shaped like a fruit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nice. Could look like a fruit bowl.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could be an ape..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could be,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it could be an ape or a fruit bowl. we could have a variety of options here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you have more to your presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's pretty much it. I informed you about the materials, what the interior has to look like, and what the limitations to certain materials are on", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "there you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm gonna plug in here real quick. If I could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Hang on. There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like I said we have to make a decision on a couple of these items here. Um ow. Ow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So is the two piece idea out? Or have we not decided?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we sort of rid of that because gonna use a battery. And the base station might not be necessary.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we can still design a two-piece uh remote um without having a base, having one of them be a base station,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but just have it be an optional either big remote with lots of functions, or you take out the smaller piece.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can still do that. However of course this would be like designing two remotes pretty much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um which then, as I understand it, would probably limit the, limit again the the the use of certain materials, because they would be too expensive. Say like have a scroll wheel and uh on both of them, or have an L_C_D_ screen and so on so on. You'd probably have to stick rather with a just traditional rubber button", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "design which we saw there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But could be done, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh so these are the decisions that we do need to make by the end of this meeting. Um for our components concept we need to come up with the energy source, um the chip-on-print, and the case. Probably case um material. And probably a shape also. Um and then for the user interface concept we need to decide what the tape, what, what the type is. And what kind of supplements we'll have. Um Energy source I think we've, I think we've decided batteries, although not exciting, are probably our best bet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we have five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay when it comes to the chip-on-print, as I said, the the more advanced features you want, um the fancier the chip has to be and the more expensive. Uh if you want just a normal button version, the chip-on-print is gonna be", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "a cheap one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So Um I guess we should pick the case then. If we go with the plasticky case, or the the plastic case, um then the chip-on-print is still kind of, we could have either or. We could have a complex one or a a non-complex. But did we decide that the rubbery feel was important enough to us?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well what about what you said, like putting the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "finger grips just on top of the plastic?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Just a little bit of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we would, we would have the L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as long as the pla uh the rubber is nowhere near the controls, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. So I guess the case would be plastic, with Perhaps that's not even enough rubber to qualify as being part of it. It's more of a su it's more of a supplement maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M more of a l lamination perhaps..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So then for the scroll, are we going for the iPod type?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think so. I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which will require a more expensive chip-on-print right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. It does.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. So I guess that, is that, is that about it? So we have a good idea of what we're gonna need to to do on this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um okay so we will have another meeting in thirty minutes. Um Here's what's gonna be going on. Um Um Ryan you'll be working on the user interface design. Um Manuel you'll be working on the look-and-feel design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Corrine we'll want a product evaluation. And the two of you get to play with the uh modelling components and uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe and and get us a prototype. Which should go along well with your look-and-feel design and your interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that basically just be working on the prototype, uh we'll accomplish your other two actions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Okay. Let's do it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2008b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good to see you all again. Let's see if that comes up. This is our functional design meeting. Um. Just a sec while my PowerPoint comes up. Et voila. Okay. Mm um we put the fashion in electronics. Let's start. Okay, our agenda today um just check the time, it's twelve thirteen. Um. I'm gonna do an opening, talk about um did you all get the minutes? I e-mailed them to you. I'm also putting'em them in the shared folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um then I we'll talk about our general objectives", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and have your three presentations. Um I'll talk about the new project requirements I've just received, and then we have to make a decision on our remote control functions. Finally we'll just close. We're starting this meeting at approximately twelve thirteen and we have forty minutes. So First of all the functional design objectives. Uh we need to keep in mind the user requirement specification, what needs and desires are to be fulfilled, the functions design, what effects the apparatus should have, and the working design, how the apparatus actually works to fulfil its function. Okay, three presentations, um you can go in any order you choose um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm shall we go in the order that you just did it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure, please do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno. How do I hook my screen up?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think, you might have to disconnect Rose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there's a wee a wee plug just just that one there", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where does it go? Mm-hmm. Hmm, I'm not supposed to move this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah that's it, yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then you have to press function F_ eight", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Function, F_ eight, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it is on your laptop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The blue one, F_N_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where's function? No signal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it plugged in all the way and you screwed it in and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, wait,'s screw in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think you just have to push it in really hard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Push the screw.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, got it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm alright", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's taking it a little bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've never attached to anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, neither have I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, so,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if you guys are able to get access to um the report that was online or if I'm the only one who is. But, I don't even know how to play this. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Press the little presentation. It's the um it looks like a Y_ kind of over there above Draw. There, that one, there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. So we're just gonna talk a little bit about the functional requirements that people specified when they were asked. Um I guess Real Reaction did some market research. They had a hundred subjects and their usability lab and they watched them watch T_V_ and recorded the frequency that they used particular buttons and the relevance that those buttons had. What they found was they analysed people's desires and needs. Focusing on their desires, um people specifically said that they thought remotes were ugly, seventy five per cent of the a hundred subjects noted that and that they more importantly though, eighty per cent said that they would be willing to pay more for a fancier looking remote. I don't know anything beyond what fancy means,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but that's particularly of use to us, I think. Um also they did some questions on voice recognition and found that the desire for voice recognition was inversely related to age, so younger people were more inclined to want something with voice recognition, whereas the older people in the like sixty and above segment or so did not really think that they would pay more money for voice recognitions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um people also had certain frustrations, that I think that we could try to take into consideration with our design. That being people k um frustrated with losing their remotes. I think, over fifty percent of the people mentioned that that was their biggest frustration. People are also frustrated with the difficulty it is to learn how to use a remote and I think that ties back to what you were saying before", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just that there's too many buttons, it just needs to be easy to use. It also mentioned something called R_S_I_ and I was hoping someone might be able to inform me as to what R_S_I_ is,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What? Ah. There we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow. People do not like that. So I guess sort of the carpal tunnel type thing, people do not like that, um the repetitive use, I guess, caused a strain. Um looking at the needs people specified, the problem right now is that people's remotes are not matching their operating behaviour. People are only using ten per cent of the buttons that they have offered to them on their remote. And what people do most often is changing the channel and changing the volume. People also zap like to change the channel, about um sixty five per cent during an hour of use. So we really just need to focus in on those volumes and channel changers rather than things like the audio settings, the screen settings and the channel settings, because they're used much more infrequently and probably just complicate what's going on. So I think that some things that we might wanna think about, the idea of an L_C_D_ screen was brought up although they didn't have any details on what people's preferences on that were, so I dunno know if that's coming to me later, or something like that. But something for us to consider also just the phenomenon that less is more when it comes to the buttons on the remote or what we wanna make easiest to use, make sure that, you know, something like an audio setting isn't given as much importance and visibility on the remote as something like channel changing that's used a lot more often. And basically in order for us to win over to the consumer we just need to focus on what it looks like, that it has a fancy appeal and that it's not ugly and that it feels like the way they're gonna use it, so it doesn't give them any hand injuries or things like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. That was that was great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um's move on to the next presentation um on effects. Was that you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, have I unscrewed it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Push. User interface, right. Interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cheers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And I think that's in the shared, if I did it right, if anyone wants to look at it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here we go. Right so I'm gonna talk about the technical technical functions design of the remote control um. We need to start by considering what a remote control actually is. It's a device that allows us to produce certain effects on our television, so i it's basically a communication device. We we tell the remote control what we want to do, it sends a message to the television saying change the channel, change the volume, uh yeah, adjust these settings, adjust the brightness. Um how do we actually go about designing a new television remote control? First thing to do is to come up with the design specifications. We need to know what our final product is gonna be like, so we need a a clear idea of exactly what this product does, uh how it works, and what the end-user is gonna want from this product. Um. Oh, a way I'd suggest that we could go about this is by designing uh several different prototypes of user interfaces for this product, um and then uh trying to get some feedback uh about", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "h how well these particular prototypes work, uh sorta find out what people think of'em. Um using a remote control is is quite a subjective experience. Um,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and different different people sort of prefer different things. Um we should remember that remote controls are a a fairly standard piece of equipment. When a users using a remote control, he or she expects the buttons to be in certain places. So in some sense we're gonna we're gonna have to aim for a device which is fairly conventional in design uh so that we're not completely shocking people. But I think within that there is also room for us to introduce novel ideas uh and to make something that's that's perhaps a little bit different, something that stands out. Um also in in designing the user interface we need to consider practicalities. Uh the first of these is is technological ye uh what can we do with the current state of technology as it is. The second is is economic, uh we need to find a balance between features and price. So as you mentioned things like voice recognition would would add to the price uh but it would also im improve the design of the product.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I had a look on the on the web uh to see if I could find a few examples of existing television remote controls. In analysing these we can consider what what things what's good about them, uh what things do they get right, what's bad about them, what's wrong with'em, um how we can improve on the designs that that that I found and what can we do to make our product stand out from from the large majority of remote controls. Here's two examples uh probably at the extreme ends of the spectrum.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um on the left here we've got uh an engineering-based design for a remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's one that's got lots of buttons, it's it's fully featured, everything you might possibly want to do is there, you know, it's got forward, backwards, up, down, channel numbers, volume, uh freeze frame. Yeah, it's it's fully featured and it might take a while to get to learn to use it, but once you've learned it you can you can do whatever you want with your T_V_. The one on the right is a lot more basic. It's just got the essential functions of the T_V_ changing the channel, play, stop, volume. It would be a lot quicker to learn to use it, but again th it's it's swings and roundabouts. There are disadvantages, you can't use it say to to freeze the television picture. Uh there's a lot of features that are missing from that remote control. So we've got to to find our find a way of striking a balance between the two. Um as I said before, remote controls are subjective, different people want want different things. Um personally wa what I want from a remote control is a device that's simple, it it's easy to use, uh it's got big buttons for doing the things I do most often, changing the volume, changing the channel. It it does everything that I need it to uh, as I said before, I'm quite lazy, I don't wanna walk across the room just to adjust my television. I also want something that that looks cool, um and that that feels good, that's ergonomically designed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Thank you very much. That was very useful. It's funny to see the drastic difference between those two remotes. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And neither of them were very pretty, you know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that could be our selling point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A fashion fashion remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think there's there's certainly a market for technology that looks cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I think that's that's why companies like Apple've've've made a lot of progress.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, I really can't see what I'm doing, so does anyone have a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You there it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah-ha, look at that, showing up already.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lovely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So wait, did it let you go on the Internet or was that just what it let you see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh that was just on the d on the company web site, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.'Cause I was like googling", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then I'm like wait it won't let me google..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright um No, how do I play again?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um the it's right above Draw. There are three thingy if it's way at the bottom. Under three icons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's the one that looks like a desk. Yeah, that one. There are Y_s.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So this is our working design presentation. Um I had a bit of some issues with this, because I wasn't able to find everything I needed, but I guess that's we're still in early stages. Um so, yeah, this is this. Though th the thing about working design is the what we're trying to do as a working design is figure out how the aparata apparatus can fulfil its function. Um one of the examples that kept coming up for me is that a coffee grinder. It works because it converts electrical energy to grinding the beans and then you put the bean through a filter and that filters out, and then you get coffee at the end that's nice and hot because of the combination of electrical energy and then the other things that are brought in to make it work. Don't know if I'm explaining that very well, but how do I get to the next s ah. So h the method as um working designers figure out what you need to make it fulfil this practical function, what what needs to be done and how do we convert all the elements to make that done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So wha the easiest thing to do is to break down all the points at which you need something to happen. So you make a schematic of the way that the the energy is converted tsh towards this practical function. And then I think the easiest thing to do is gonna be work on each task separately. So um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You just press.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, just click. That'll be fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the findings that I got uh very just very briefly is that you have a choice of the way that the information is projected to the receiver and in my opinion infra-red is the best way to do that'cause you don't need a sight line. So that's one thing we're gonna work on. Um the user interface is critical here, because a lot of the things that happen in a remote control happen through the chip that controls that converts the electrical energy into data, which then goes through the infra-red, so the the chip that uh I think Ian is designing, is gonna be crucial. And really it all comes down to the to the user, because they're the one that's controlling most of the working design. So the components that we find here are the energy source, you know the battery or whatever that's gonna m make it work, then the chip, which converts the data, the user that's controlling the chip, and the infra-red bulb that's gonna let us move the data to the receiver. So you have four main components and they are designed sort of like this. You have your energy source right there which then um brings uh energy or information to the chip, which is also controlled by the users. You have energy going to the user who's controlling the chip ooh's not what I wanted to do uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yeah use that thing you can go back, previous.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Previous. Sorry about that, guys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pardon.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no, no, no, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, let's just get back to my schematic here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ye Double click on it. With the right with the left hand one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W yeah, yeah. I think it's frozen. Here. Don't show me that tip again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we are. Sorry about this, guys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm kind of pathetic with things like this. Um alright. So you have your energy source, your user interface who's controlling the chip, the chip also uses the energy, and the chip through the use of the user interface is gonna control the switch which will work your infra-red bulb, which will then bring the data to the receiver. So hopefully that makes sense for everyone in my kind of garbled way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is the the parts of the working design that need to be figured out. And personal preferences, besides the fact that I can't spell, we need a long-lasting energy source, people don't wanna be changing it a lot. We need a chip that works well with the user interface, that isn't too complicated. We need a straightforward interface, like Ian was saying, simple, not overwhelming it with information and we need a reliable and clear infra-red signal, so that you're not waving your remote around", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and having to get frustrated and go do it by hands. So that's pretty much it for the working design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent. So, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rose, do you think you can give me a hand with this?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. Ah I can never tell which way to turn these things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lefty loosey, righty tighty, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's up?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Lefty loosey, righty tighty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lefty loosey. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Never heard that before,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll think of that every time now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's gonna stick in your head.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good one it'll stick with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Um I have nothing on my screen. Just a sec. Here we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Ooh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah, it's fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no signal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, requirements. We have a couple new requirements that I was just e-mailed right before the meeting and that we have to keep in in um in mind as we're creating this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We didn't bring it up yet, or at all in the meetings so far, but we're not gonna work with teletext because um well it that's been taken over by the internet, so we're not gonna worry about um we're not gonna worry about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's teletext?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, it's a British thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't have it in the States?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no. W d could would you care to explain it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, I didn't realise. Um yeah, it's like a I suppose it's kind of similar to a very very basic web browser. Um you have like you have uh numbers on your remote control, uh y and you type in the page number you want,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so like you type a hundred on your remote control and this this kind of index appears on the television screen with just some some text and some very blocky looking graphics on it. And you just type numbers to go to different pages and it gives you information, mostly rather boring stuff like what's on T_V_ next and share prices and that kind of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S Lottery numbers and sport scores.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, news headlines.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if you ever see the T_V_ saying like go to page one sixty on Ceefax now, that's what they're talking about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's earl it's pretty old technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like nineteen eighties.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That explains a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have no idea why we don't have it, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Interesting. Okay um, well, we're not gonna the management has decided we're not gonna work with that. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um and we're also gonna w like your question earlier um whether this is going to be t for television, video, or etcetera. Just for television. That's what we're focused on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um otherwise becomes to complex, we wanna get this out um very quickly. We only have a a short amount of time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and finally there's more marketing, I think, um, our corporate image has to be recognisable. So while we're gonna make it look pretty we need to use our colour and our slogan i in the new design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what's our corporate image like? It's It's kind of yellow colour with uh we put fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks like, yeah, kind of a yellow and black and we have that the emphasis on the R_s in um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's like double R_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's, yeah, we put the um fashion in electronics. So we gotta keep that in that in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so we want something that looks good", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and is yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, or ha maybe some buttons could be yellow. Like, we can we can play around with it a little bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. Okay, we need to talk about our functions and our target group. We need to decide who our target group is. You um in your analysis of different market um of the marketing, you identified that different groups wanted different things", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or had certain preferences, for example that um that older people didn't really care for um voice recognition, but younger people did.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and so who are we aiming this at?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if we're gonna say that function um fashion we put the fashion in in electronics then you automatically, I think, a sort of younger group that that's who's gonna be attracted to this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I do think, who's gonna have the money to buy that also, that one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. It's gonna be twenty five Euro remember, so um it has to be avai marketable to um whomever it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it is it something that's gonna be sold separately from the television or is it something that comes w with a television?'Cause that would affect the way that we market it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well at least right now what we're doing is um deciding on just the remote itself, so it will probably be sold separately, twenty five Euro by itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The only break-down that I was given in terms of age was the voice activation and basically there's a big jump, after thirty five people don't really care if it has voice, so it's like basically fifteen to thirty five that think that that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno I'm gonna be given any other numbers broken down in terms of age later, but if that's sort of the only quality that we have that is divided into age then we would wanna stick between the fifteen and thirty five range.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's probably uh a population w quite a little bit of disposable income for use on technology anyway, so that might be a fairly good target group for us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now, those are that's all specific for speech recognition. Are we gonna use that as one of our functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I would say no, because it's gonna add too much to the price. Especially if we are marketing it as a separate product, people are gonna be paying", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh, well, uh we've got a price limit of was it twelve twelve and a half Euros for to produce it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To produce it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To produce it, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I wonder if we can get voice recognition into that twelve and a half Euros without having to make too many other compromises.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what else are we gonna put, I mean not that I'm really gung-ho about it, I don't know what else you can put in a remote to make it technologically advanced though. So like other than just making it look good, how is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean it can look really great and still have the same up-n-down buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and why's anyone gonna buy a new remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well but why are we why are we aiming for a technological advancement? Everything we're talking about is ease of use and simple and that doesn't necessarily mean more technology,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a good thing to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in fact it could use it could mean, not. If they might be overwhelmed with with remotes that have too many buttons and too much technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If someone's looking to buy a new remote, don't they want like an upgrade? I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Upgrade? Well, we can look for we can look at upgrade or we can look at um user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, simplification.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simplification,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They could have a crap remote", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that came with their T_V_ that's just impossible to use, or maybe it broke, or maybe they're just missing it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, mm. And we also need to talk about if we're only gonna have the very simple ones or also have the other ones just separate somehow or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you like I mean this may be too complicated, but, I wish I had something to explain it, like if it was just a simple, either this way or this way, that had like the main buttons and then you could like pull something out, kind of and like you got the rest the buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but the rest of them like went in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you know what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kind of pull out of the side.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There are remote controls like that, yeah. Like some T_V_s they have a sort of uh a sliding screen on the remote control of it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that hides all the complicated buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if you wanna do something complicated like programme your television or re-tune it, then you you open up this little hatch or or slide the screen down", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and there's all the all the special buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause then's like people who don't wanna ever look at them, never even have to see them", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and if you like get the instruction manual that comes with it and you just don't even read it then you'll never even know that those things can pull out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you're a happy person and everyone else doesn't have to have like two remotes, one that has the easy ones and one that has", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "more complicated ones,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but's all still in one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we have to be careful that that that doesn't impede um the chip transmitting information, but um that's gonna be mostly technological thing. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um, so what are we emphasising? I what in this project?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Si simplicity and fashion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Simplicity and fashion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think simplicity, fashion.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, those are very good goals, I think, um that we have to keep in mind in with everything we do. Simplicity and fashion and, yeah, or usability speci however you wanna say that, which includes um an emphasis on making the infra-red very functional, so that you don't have to travel around a lot.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What can you do to like make the infra-red more functional, like why would it not be? I'm just wondering.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's a lot to do with battery, but that's just my.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The battery and that I think that the chip takes the data and presents it well, without sort of scattering.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So's just the quality of the chip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The quality uh quality of all the components really, I mean, we can't really do anything shoddy work,'cause it's", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "gonna be visible down the line.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So our target group, we're saying, fifteen to thirty five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I dunno how useful that number is if we're not doing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S voice recognition, which I kind of I kind of feel like voice recognition is not necessary in a remote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like it might be necessary for a T_V_ but not for the remote c, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty high-tech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seems a little bit Mm-hmm. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it might be too expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if the whole idea is you're using a remote then why would you have voice,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like you know what I mean and then it's like you wouldn't need a remote you'd just talk to your T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's for, like, the ultimately lazy people,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "who can't even be bothered to pick up the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe I mean if I get m more numbers, I'll e-mail you before the next meeting in terms of ages. But this doesn't divide up anything and there was only a hundred subjects also,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which isn't, I mean, really isn't that representative, especially if it's a hundred subjects that th they then can subdivide into age groups that means there's very few in each age group, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I th I think regardless we're we're aiming for the under sixty five or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Under sixty five, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's a good start. Um. I'd say we're uh can we narrow it down to maybe um teenagers and families?'Cause that would go up to like fifty?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or like single professionals or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, single.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twenty to like fifty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's hard to narrow it down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's really hard to figure out right now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think the product appeals across a quite a broad range of ages.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, we we said simplicity is is one of the features, so it's going to appeal to people, maybe people who have problems with technology, you know, people who get scared by having lots of buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that might be older people,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but then we've also got fashion, which is something that definitely appeals to younger people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well maybe we don't have to defi define the target group by the demographic of age,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe we can define it by like the demographic of like h t how much money they have to spend or something like that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah aim for a an income group.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like, well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "obviously it has to be someone who owns a television,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and like how recently have they bought their television like that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe it's more useful to d d to define objectives like fashion and simplicity than to find specific target group as far as age is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, t probably.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because, yeah, things so different will appeal to different people, but Okay. Um oh, there're a couple functions do we want something so that do we want some kind of thing to find it if it's lost? Like a button on a T_V_ you can press", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it'll ring or something, I don't know like or beep?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "H I mean, like I said before, fifty per cent of of the fru f like frustration someone can have that was the biggest one and half the people said that happened and we all mentioned it before we knew about it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if we're talking about making something easy that sort of goes along with it so it wouldn't be like a random thing to sort of add in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It would be relevant to like the overall goal I think,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that'll probably be good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we have to we have about four minutes left to define our functions. So let's do that quickly. Um so we want something to keep it from getting lost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we want um we want large buttons for the essential things. Large, accessible buttons for the essentials.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We want a possibility to um to get um a possibility to get the extra functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which are kind of hidden away in some way or well not hidden but they're uh they're not as prominent as the main features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, hidden way. And we also want it to be fashionable, which I'm not sure if that's a function so much as a um yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on your coffee table, it's not like an eye sore, that kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, do it. Any other essential functions that we need? Battery? Do we need a long-life battery?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Battery battery use. Yeah, but I think that goes in with simplicity and ease of use really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we might as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you never have to change the battery.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We should maybe investigate whether it needs a battery at all. I suspect the remote control does need a battery,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would imagine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I dunno if you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just'cause it is an electronic device, the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It I think it does. I don't I don't think of a way you can operate a chip and convert that much data without without one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, without the energy, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you could maybe have it in a little charging station like a mobile phone, or like a little cradle for your iPod.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's possible. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could we could maybe do that instead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Charging.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you don't ha you got like a rechargeable battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno, that might contribute to less people losing it too if it it stays in one place.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have to think about um space in living-rooms, too, like'cause they're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, would you put it on top of the T_V_? I don't know, just think okay, that's that's a good idea, we'll keep it. Think it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's just off the top of my head.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And maybe fun. Okay. Um'kay we're gonna conclude now, has everyone said their functions and'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um after the meeting we're gonna each complete a sks um a questionnaire and a summaries summary. I don't know what summarisation. Um and then we'll have our lunch break. After that we have thirty minutes of individual work. Um I'll make sure to put up um the minutes and the project documentation and including these PowerPoint slides. If everyone could do that as well, that'd be great. Um you each have individual actions, I_ um I_D_ Industrial Design you've your components concept, User Interface, the user interface concept, market trend wa watching.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And as as per last time you'll get specific incrat instructions from your personal coach e-mailed to you. And hopefully, I hope, next time you'll be able to access more of the web site that they they seem to tell you that you could. It's kinda frustrating,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, who knows.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but um Be sure to note any frustrations or any um issues that come up in your um in your um summary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great seeing y'all..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did you um were you able to like put yours in the group folder?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, I just did that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hopefully it is there for people.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Looks like there are um looks like there's a second one kind of of mine that's that I didn't do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's from like an earlier project, I think so um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where is that? Yours is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Under the shared folder, I don't know it might not even be under yours as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technical. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Projects.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in there we have technical functions presentation, working design presentation and the functional requirements. At least that's what I have in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I only have three, I just have like our three. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what I have as well, R Rose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. You don't have mine?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but that's'cause I think yours is in the e-mail separate, like it's not on the server.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if I open it and then save it, probably will be there. Oh wait, never mind you can't save it to the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well I'll figure that out in the meantime.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bro018", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK. So uh, he's not here,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so you get to.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I will try to explain the thing that I did this this week during this week.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well eh you know that I work I begin to work with a new feature to detect voice - unvoice.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What I trying two MLP to to the with this new feature and the fifteen feature uh from the eh bus base system", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The the mel cepstrum?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, satly the mes the Mel Cepstrum, the new base system the new base system.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK, the Aurora system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah the Aurora system with the new filter, VAD or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I'm trying two MLP, one one that only have t three output, voice, unvoice, and silence,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and other one that have fifty - six output. The probabilities of the allophone. And I tried to do some experiment of recognition with that and only have result with with the MLP with the three output. And I put together the fifteen features and the three MLP output. And, well, the result are li a little bit better, but more or less similar.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, I I'm I'm slightly confused.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What what feeds the uh the three - output net?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Voice, unvoice, and si", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No no, what feeds it? What features does it see?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The feature the input? The inputs are the fifteen the fifteen uh bases feature.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the with the new code. And the other three features are R, the variance of the difference between the two spectrum,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the variance of the auto - correlation function, except the the first point, because half the height value is R - zero", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and also R - zero, the first coefficient of the auto - correlation function. That is like the energy with these three feature,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "also these three feature.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You wouldn't do like R - one over R - zero or something like that? I mean usually for voiced - unvoiced you'd do yeah, you'd do something you'd do energy", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but then you have something like spectral slope, which is you get like R - one ov over R - zero or something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What are the R's?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "R correlations.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm sorry I missed it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, R c No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Auto - correlation? Yes, yes, the variance of the auto - correlation function that uses that", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ye - Well that's the variance, but if you just say \" what is \" I mean, to first order, um yeah one of the differences between voiced, unvoiced and silence is energy. Another one is but the other one is the spectral shape.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I'll The spectral shape,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, and so R - one over R - zero is what you typically use for that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah. No, I don't use that I can't use.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, I'm saying that's what people us typically use.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "See, because it because this is this is just like a single number to tell you um \" does the spectrum look like that or does it look like that \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. R R R - zero.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So if it's if it's um if it's low energy uh but the but the spectrum looks like that or like that, it's probably silence.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh but if it's low energy and the spectrum looks like that, it's probably unvoiced.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So if you just if you just had to pick two features to determine voiced - unvoiced, you'd pick something about the spectrum like uh R - one over R - zero, um and R - zero", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "or i i you know you'd have some other energy measure and like in the old days people did like uh zero crossing counts.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. S S", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I can also th use this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Bec - because the result are a little bit better but we have in a point that everything is more or less the similar more or less similar.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. But um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's not quite better.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right, but it seemed to me that what you were what you were getting at before was that there is something about the difference between the original signal or the original FFT and with the filter which is what and the variance was one take uh on it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I used this too.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. But it it could be something else. Suppose you didn't have anything like that. Then in that case, if you have two nets, Alright, and this one has three outputs, and this one has f", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "whatever, fifty - six, or something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if you were to sum up the probabilities for the voiced and for the unvoiced and for the silence here, we've found in the past you'll do better at voiced - unvoiced - silence than you do with this one. So just having the three output thing doesn't doesn't really buy you anything. The issue is what you feed it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I have yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you're saying take the features that go into the voiced - unvoiced - silence net and feed those into the other one, as additional inputs, rather than having a separate.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "w W well that's another way.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That wasn't what I was saying but yeah that's certainly another thing to do. No I was just trying to say if you b if you bring this into the picture over this, what more does it buy you?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And what I was saying is that the only thing I think that it buys you is um based on whether you feed it something different. And something different in some fundamental way. And so the kind of thing that that she was talking about before, was looking at something uh ab um something uh about the difference between the the uh um log FFT uh log power uh and the log magnitude uh F F - spectrum uh and the um uh filter bank.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so the filter bank is chosen in fact to sort of integrate out the effects of pitch and she's saying you know trying So the particular measure that she chose was the variance of this m of this difference, but that might not be the right number.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? I mean maybe there's something about the variance that's that's not enough or maybe there's something else that that one could use, but I think that, for me, the thing that that struck me was that uh you wanna get something back here, so here's here's an idea. uh What about it you skip all the all the really clever things, and just fed the log magnitude spectrum into this?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is f You have the log magnitude spectrum, and you were looking at that and the difference between the filter bank and and c c computing the variance.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's a clever thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What if you stopped being clever? And you just took this thing in here because it's a neural net and neural nets are wonderful", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and figure out what they can what they most need from things, and I mean that's what they're good at.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So I mean you're you're you're trying to be clever and say what's the statistic that should we should get about this difference but uh in fact, you know maybe just feeding this in or or feeding both of them in", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know, another way, saying let it figure out what's the what is the interaction, especially if you do this over multiple frames?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Then you have this over time, and and both kinds of measures and uh you might get uh something better.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So so don't uh don't do the division, but let the net have everything.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's another thing you could do yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um. I mean, it seems to me, if you have exactly the right thing then it's better to do it without the net because otherwise you're asking the net to learn this you know, say if you wanted to learn how to do multiplication.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean you could feed it a bunch of s you could feed two numbers that you wanted to multiply into a net and have a bunch of nonlinearities in the middle and train it to get the product of the output and it would work. But, it's kind of crazy, cuz we know how to multiply and you you'd be you know much lower error usually if you just multiplied it out. But suppose you don't really know what the right thing is. And that's what these sort of dumb machine learning methods are good at. So. Um. Anyway. It's just a thought.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How long does it take, Carmen, to train up one of these nets?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, not too much.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm, one day or less.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's probably worth it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What are what are your f uh frame error rates for for this?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Eh fifty - f six uh no, the frame error rate?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "O", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Fifty - six I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that maybe that's accuracy?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Percent.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fif - fifty - six percent accurate for v voice - unvoice", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The accuracy. Mm - hmm. No for, yes f I don't remember for voice - unvoice,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "maybe for the other one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, voiced - unvoiced hopefully would be a lot better.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "for voiced. I don't reme", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Should be in nineties somewhere.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Better. Maybe for voice - unvoice.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This is for the other one. I should I can't show that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But I think that fifty - five was for the when the output are the fifty - six phone.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That I look in the with the other nnn the other MLP that we have are more or less the same number. Silence will be better but more or less the same.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think at the frame level for fifty - six that was the kind of number we were getting for for uh um reduced band width uh stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think that I I I think that for the other one, for the three output, is sixty sixty - two, sixty three more or less.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's all?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's pretty bad.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, because it's noise also.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Aha!", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And we have", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Aha! Yeah. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But even i in Oh yeah, in training. Still, Uh. Well actually, so this is a test that you should do then. Um, if you're getting fifty - six percent over here, uh that's in noise also, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh OK. If you're getting fifty - six here, try adding together the probabilities of all of the voiced phones here and all of the unvoiced phones", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "will be.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and see what you get then.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I bet you get better than sixty - three.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well I don't know, but I th I I think that we I have the result more or less. Maybe. I don't know. I don't I'm not sure but I remember @ @ that I can't show that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK, but that's a That is a a good check point, you should do that anyway,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK? Given this this uh regular old net that's just for choosing for other purposes, uh add up the probabilities of the different subclasses and see see how well you do. Uh and that you know anything that you do over here should be at least as good as that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I will do that. But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The targets for the neural net, uh, they come from forced alignments?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, no.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "TIMIT canonical ma mappings.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. So, this is trained on TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, noisy TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah this for TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But noisy TIMIT?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Noisy TIMIT. We have noisy TIMIT with the noise of the the TI - digits. And now we have another noisy TIMIT also with the noise of uh Italian database.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see. Yeah. Well there's gonna be it looks like there's gonna be a noisy uh some large vocabulary noisy stuff too. Somebody's preparing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I forget what it'll be, resource management, Wall Street Journal, something. Some some read task actually, that they're preparing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "For what For Aurora?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the uh Uh, the issue is whether people make a decision now based on what they've already seen, or they make it later. And one of the arguments for making it later is let's make sure that whatever techniques that we're using work for something more than than connected digits.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "When are they planning When would they do that?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm, I think late uh I think in the summer sometime.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. OK, thanks.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is the work that I did during this date", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and also mmm I H Hynek last week say that if I have time I can to begin to to study well seriously the France Telecom proposal", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "to look at the code and something like that to know exactly what they are doing because maybe that we can have some ideas", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but not only to read the proposal. Look insi look i carefully what they are doing with the program @ @ and I begin to to work also in that. But the first thing that I don't understand is that they are using R - the uh log energy that this quite I don't know why they have some constant in the expression of the lower energy. I don't know what that means.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They have a constant in there, you said?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, at the front it says uh \" log energy is equal to the rounded version of sixteen over the log of two \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh. uh times the.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Then maybe I can understand.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, this is natural log, and maybe it has something to do with the fact that this is I I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is that some kind of base conversion, or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but but um, then there's the sixty - four, Uh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Because maybe they're the threshold that they are using on the basis of this value.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Experimental results.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mc - McDonald's constant.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly, because well th I thought maybe they have a meaning. But I don't know what is the meaning of take exactly this value.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's pretty funny looking.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So they're taking the number inside the log and raising it to sixteen over log base two.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know. Yeah, I um Right. Sixteen over two.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Does it have to do with those sixty - fours, or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. If we ignore the sixteen, the natural log of t one over the natural log of two times the natu I don't know. Well, maybe somebody'll think of something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but this is uh It may just be that they they want to have for very small energies, they want to have some kind of a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, the e The effect I don't @ @ I can understand the effect of this, no? because it's to to do something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it says, since you're taking a natural log, it says that when when you get down to essentially zero energy, this is gonna be the natural log of one, which is zero.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No? Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it'll go down to uh to the natural log being So the lowest value for this would be zero. So y you're restricted to being positive. And this sort of smooths it for very small energies. Uh, why they chose sixty - four and something else, that was probably just experimental. And the the the constant in front of it, I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well. I I will look to try if I move this parameter in their code what happens, maybe everything is Maybe they tres hole are on basis of this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh I mean it they they probably have some fi particular s fixed point arithmetic that they're using,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then it just.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just gonna say maybe it has something to do with hardware,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "something they were doing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean that they're s probably working with fixed point or integer or something. I think you're supposed to on this stuff anyway, and and so maybe that puts it in the right realm somewhere.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it just, yeah, puts it in the right range, or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think, given at the level you're doing things in floating point on the computer, I don't think it matters, would be my guess,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I this more or less anything", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, and wh when did Stephane take off? He took off.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think that Stephane will arrive today or tomorrow.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, he was gone these first few days, and then he's here for a couple days before he goes to Salt Lake City.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "He's I think that he is in Las Vegas or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So he's he's going to ICASSP which is good. I I don't know if there are many people who are going to ICASSP", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so so I thought, make sure somebody go.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Do have Have people sort of stopped going to ICASSP in recent years?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, people are less consistent about going to ICASSP and I think it's still it's still a reasonable forum for students to to present things. Uh, it's I think for engineering students of any kind, I think it's it's if you haven't been there much, it's good to go to, uh to get a feel for things, a range of things, not just speech. Uh. But I think for for sort of dyed - in - the - wool speech people, um I think that ICSLP and Eurospeech are much more targeted.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. And then there's these other meetings, like HLT and and uh ASRU.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so there's there's actually plenty of meetings that are really relevant to to uh computational uh speech processing of one sort or another.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So. I mean, I mostly just ignored it because I was too busy and didn't get to it. So uh Wanna talk a little bit about what we were talking about this morning?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh! um uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just briefly, or Or anything else?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. I I guess some of the progress, I I've been getting a getting my committee members for the quals. And um so far I have Morgan and Hynek, Mike Jordan, and I asked John Ohala and he agreed. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I'm I I just need to ask um Malek. One more. Um. Tsk. Then uh I talked a little bit about um continuing with these dynamic ev um acoustic events, and um we're we're we're thinking about a way to test the completeness of a a set of um dynamic uh events. Uh, completeness in the in the sense that um if we if we pick these X number of acoustic events, do they provide sufficient coverage for the phones that we're trying to recognize or or the f the words that we're gonna try to recognize later on. And so Morgan and I were uh discussing um s uh s a form of a cheating experiment where we get um we have uh um a chosen set of features, or acoustic events, and we train up a hybrid um system to do phone recognition on TIMIT. So i i the idea is if we get good phone recognition results, using um these set of acoustic events, then um that that says that these acoustic events are g sufficient to cover a set of phones, at least found in TIMIT. Um so i it would be a a measure of \" are we on the right track with with the the choices of our acoustic events \". Um, So that's going on. And also, just uh working on my uh final project for Jordan's class, uh which is.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Actually, let me.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hold that thought.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Let me back up while we're still on it. The the other thing I was suggesting, though, is that given that you're talking about binary features, uh, maybe the first thing to do is just to count and uh count co - occurrences and get probabilities for a discrete HMM cuz that'd be pretty simple because it's just Say, if you had ten ten events, uh that you were counting, uh each frame would only have a thousand possible values for these ten bits, and uh so you could make a table that would say, if you had thirty - nine phone categories, that would be a thousand by thirty - nine, and just count the co - occurrences and divide them by the the uh uh uh occ uh count the co - occurrences between the event and the phone and divide them by the number of occurrences of the phone, and that would give you the likelihood of the of the event given the phone. And um then just use that in a very simple HMM and uh you could uh do phone recognition then and uh wouldn't have any of the issues of the uh training of the net or I mean, it'd be on the simple side, but", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh um you know, if uh uh the example I was giving was that if if you had um onset of voicing and and end of voicing as being two kinds of events, then if you had those a all marked correctly, and you counted co - occurrences, you should get it completely right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. um But you'd get all the other distinctions, you know, randomly wrong. I mean there'd be nothing to tell you that. So um uh If you just do this by counting, then you should be able to find out in a pretty straightforward way whether you have a sufficient uh set of events to to do the kind of level of of uh classification of phones that you'd like. So that was that was the idea. And then the other thing that we were discussing was was um OK, how do you get the your training data.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz uh the Switchboard transcription project uh uh you know was half a dozen people, or so working off and on over a couple years, and uh similar similar amount of data to what you're talking about with TIMIT training. So, it seems to me that the only reasonable starting point is uh to automatically translate the uh current TIMIT markings into the markings you want. And uh it won't have the kind of characteristic that you'd like, of catching funny kind of things that maybe aren't there from these automatic markings,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but but uh it's uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's probably a good place to start.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah and a short short amount of time, just to again, just to see if that information is sufficient to uh determine the phones.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, you could even then to to get an idea about how different it is, you could maybe take some subset and you know, go through a few sentences, mark them by hand and then see how different it is from you know, the canonical ones,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "just to get an idea a rough idea of h if it really even makes a difference.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can get a little feeling for it that way, yeah that is probably right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean uh my my guess would be that this is since TIMIT's read speech that this would be less of a big deal,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "if you went and looked at spontaneous speech it'd be more more of one.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the other thing would be, say, if you had these ten events, you'd wanna see, well what if you took two events or four events or ten events or t and you know, and and hopefully there should be some point at which having more information doesn't tell you really all that much more about what the phones are.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. You could define other events as being sequences of these events too.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, you could, but the thing is, what he's talking about here is a uh a translation to a per - frame feature vector, so there's no sequence in that, I think. I think it's just a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Unless you did like a second pass over it or something after you've got your.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we're just talking about something simple here, yeah, to see if.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm adding complexity.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just You know. The idea is with a with a very simple statistical structure, could you could you uh at least verify that you've chosen features that are sufficient.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, and you were saying something starting to say something else about your your class project, or?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah th Um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So for my class project I'm um I'm tinkering with uh support vector machines? something that we learned in class, and uh um basically just another method for doing classification. And so I'm gonna apply that to um compare it with the results by um King and Taylor who did um these um using recurrent neural nets, they recognized um a set of phonological features um and made a mapping from the MFCC's to these phonological features, so I'm gonna do a similar thing with with support vector machines and see if.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So what's the advantage of support vector machines? What.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So, support vector machines are are good with dealing with a less amount of data", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and um so if you if you give it less data it still does a reasonable job in learning the the patterns.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um and um", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess it yeah, they're sort of succinct, and and they uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Does there some kind of a distance metric that they use or how do they for cla what do they do for classification?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Right. So, the the simple idea behind a support vector machine is um, you have you have this feature space, right? and then it finds the optimal separating plane, um between these two different um classes,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and um and so um, what it i at the end of the day, what it actually does is it picks those examples of the features that are closest to the separating boundary, and remembers those", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and uses them to recreate the boundary for the test set. So, given these um these features, or or these these examples, um, critical examples, which they call support f support vectors, then um given a new example, if the new example falls um away from the boundary in one direction then it's classified as being a part of this particular class", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and otherwise it's the other class.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So why save the examples? Why not just save what the boundary itself is?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um. Hmm. Let's see. Uh. Yeah, that's a good question. I yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's another way of doing it. Right? So so it I mean I I guess it's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Sort of an equivalent.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, it it goes back to nearest - neighbor sort of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? Um, i i if is it eh w When is nearest - neighbor good? Well, nearest - neighbor good is good if you have lots and lots of examples. Um but of course if you have lots and lots of examples, then it can take a while to to use nearest - neighbor. There's lots of look ups. So a long time ago people talked about things where you would have uh a condensed nearest - neighbor, where you would you would you would pick out uh some representative examples which would uh be sufficient to represent to to correctly classify everything that came in.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I think s I think support vector stuff sort of goes back to to that kind of thing. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I see. So rather than doing nearest neighbor where you compare to every single one, you just pick a few critical ones, and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And th the You know, um neural net approach uh or Gaussian mixtures for that matter are sort of fairly brute force kinds of things, where you sort of you predefine that there is this big bunch of parameters and then you you place them as you best can to define the boundaries, and in fact, as you know, these things do take a lot of parameters and and uh if you have uh only a modest amount of data, you have trouble uh learning them. Um, so I I guess the idea to this is that it it is reputed to uh be somewhat better in that regard.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. I it can be a a reduced um parameterization of of the the model by just keeping certain selected examples.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But I don't know if people have done sort of careful comparisons of this on large tasks or anything. Maybe maybe they have. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know either.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "S do you get some kind of number between zero and one at the output?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Actually you don't get a you don't get a nice number between zero and one. You get you get either a zero or a one. Um, uh there are there are pap Well, basically, it's it's um you you get a distance measure at the end of the day, and then that distance measure is is um is translated to a zero or one. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But that's looking at it for for classification for binary classification,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's for classification, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And you get that for each class, you get a zero or a one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But you have the distances to work with.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You have the distances to work with,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz actually Mississippi State people did use support vector machines for uh uh speech recognition and they were using it to estimate probabilities.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they they had a had a way to translate the distances into into probabilities with the with the simple um uh sigmoidal function.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and d did they use sigmoid or a softmax type thing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And didn't they like exponentiate or something", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "there's some there's like one over one plus the exponential or something like that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and then divide by the sum of them, or? Oh it i Oh, so it is a sigmoidal.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Did the did they get good results with that?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, they're OK, I I don't I don't think they were earth earth shattering, but I think that uh this was a couple years ago,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I remember them doing it at some meeting, and and um I don't think people were very critical because it was interesting just to to try this and you know, it was the first time they tried it, so so the you know, the numbers were not incredibly good", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but there's you know, it was th reasonable.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I don't remember anymore. I don't even remember what the task was, it was Broadcast News, or something. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh s So Barry, if you just have zero and ones, how are you doing the speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh I'm not do I'm not planning on doing speech recognition with it. I'm just doing detection of phonological features.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So uh for example, this this uh feature set called the uh sound patterns of English um is just a bunch of um binary valued features. Let's say, is this voicing, or is this not voicing, is this sonorants, not sonorants, and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Did you find any more mistakes in their tables?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh! Uh I haven't gone through the entire table, yet. Yeah, yesterday I brought Chuck the table and I was like, \" wait, this is Is the mapping from N to to this phonological feature called um \" coronal \", is is should it be shouldn't it be a one? or should it should it be you know coronal instead of not coronal as it was labelled in the paper? \" So I ha haven't hunted down all the all the mistakes yet,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But a as I was saying, people do get probabilities from these things,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and and uh we were just trying to remember how they do, but people have used it for speech recognition, and they have gotten probabilities. So they have some conversion from these distances to probabilities.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "There's you have you have the paper, right? The Mississippi State paper?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you're interested y you could look,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I can I can show you I.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah, our.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So in your in in the thing that you're doing, uh you have a vector of ones and zeros for each phone?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, is this the class project, or?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. um", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is that what you're.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right, Right, right f so for every phone there is there is a um a vector of ones and zeros f uh corresponding to whether it exhibits a particular phonological feature or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. And so when you do your wh I'm what is the task for the class project? To come up with the phones?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or to come up with these vectors to see how closely they match the phones,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Right, um to come up with a mapping from um MFCC's or s some feature set, um to uh w to whether there's existence of a particular phonological feature.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or? Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And um yeah, basically it's to learn a mapping from from the MFCC's to uh phonological features. Is it did that answer your question?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. C", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess I mean, uh I'm not sure what you what you're what you get out of your system. Do you get out a uh a vector of these ones and zeros and then try to find the closest matching phoneme to that vector,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. I'm not I'm not planning to do any any phoneme mapping yet. Just it's it's basically it's it's really simple, basically a detection of phonological features.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and um cuz the uh So King and and Taylor um did this with uh recurrent neural nets,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and this i their their idea was to first find a mapping from MFCC's to uh phonological features", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then later on, once you have these phonological features, then uh map that to phones.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I'm I'm sort of reproducing phase one of their stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm. So they had one recurrent net for each particular feature?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I see. I wo did they compare that I mean, what if you just did phone recognition and did the reverse lookup.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you recognize a phone and which ever phone was recognized, you spit out it's vector of ones and zeros.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I expect you could do that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's probably not what he's going to do on his class project. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So um have you had a chance to do this um thing we talked about yet with the uh um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Insertion penalty?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. No actually I was going a different That's a good question, too, but I was gonna ask about the the um changes to the data in comparing PLP and mel cepstrum for the SRI system.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh. Well what I've been \" Changes to the data \", I'm not sure I.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. So we talked on the phone about this, that that there was still a difference of a of a few percent", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you told me that there was a difference in how the normalization was done. And I was asking if you were going to do redo it uh for PLP with the normalization done as it had been done for the mel cepstrum.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh right, no I haven't had a chance to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What I've been doing is uh trying to figure out it just seems to me like there's a um well it seems like there's a bug, because the difference in performance is it's not gigantic but it's big enough that it it seems wrong.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I agree, but I thought that the normalization difference was one of the possibilities,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and Yeah, but I don't I'm not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess I don't think that the normalization difference is gonna account for everything.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So what I was working on is um just going through and checking the headers of the wavefiles, to see if maybe there was a um a certain type of compression or something that was done that my script wasn't catching. So that for some subset of the training data, uh the the the features I was computing were junk.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Which would you know cause it to perform OK, but uh, you know, the the models would be all messed up. So I was going through and just double - checking that kind of think first, to see if there was just some kind of obvious bug in the way that I was computing the features.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I see. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Looking at all the sampling rates to make sure all the sampling rates were what eight K, what I was assuming they were,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that makes sense, to check all that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I was doing that first, before I did these other things, just to make sure there wasn't something.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Although really, uh uh, a couple three percent uh difference in word error rate uh could easily come from some difference in normalization, I would think. But", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I think, hhh I'm trying to remember but I think I recall that Andreas was saying that he was gonna run sort of the reverse experiment. Uh which is to try to emulate the normalization that we did but with the mel cepstral features. Sort of, you know, back up from the system that he had. I thought he said he was gonna I have to look back through my my email from him.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, he's probably off at at uh his meeting now,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, he's gone now.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But yeah", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "the I sh think they should be roughly equivalent, um I mean again the Cambridge folk found the PLP actually to be a little better. Uh So it's um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean the other thing I wonder about was whether there was something just in the the bootstrapping of their system which was based on but maybe not, since they.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah see one thing that's a little bit um I was looking I've been studying and going through the logs for the system that um Andreas created. And um his uh the way that the S R I system looks like it works is that it reads the wavefiles directly, uh and does all of the cepstral computation stuff on the fly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And, so there's no place where these where the cepstral files are stored, anywhere that I can go look at and compare to the PLP ones, so whereas with our features, he's actually storing the cepstrum on disk, and he reads those in.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But it looked like he had to give it uh even though the cepstrum is already computed, he has to give it uh a front - end parameter file. Which talks about the kind of uh com computation that his mel cepstrum thing does,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so i I I don't know if that it probably doesn't mess it up, it probably just ignores it if it determines that it's already in the right format or something but the the the two processes that happen are a little different.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So anyway, there's stuff there to sort out.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, OK. Let's go back to what you thought I was asking you.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah no and I didn't have a chance to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ha! Oh! You had the sa same answer anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I've been um, I've been working with um Jeremy on his project and then I've been trying to track down this bug in uh the ICSI front - end features.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So one thing that I did notice, yesterday I was studying the um the uh RASTA code", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and it looks like we don't have any way to um control the frequency range that we use in our analysis. We basically it looks to me like we do the FFT, um and then we just take all the bins and we use everything. We don't have any set of parameters where we can say you know, \" only process from you know a hundred and ten hertz to thirty - seven - fifty \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "At least I couldn't see any kind of control for that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't think it's in there, I think it's in the uh uh uh the filters. So, the F F T is on everything, but the filters um, for instance, ignore the the lowest bins and the highest bins. And what it does is it it copies", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The the filters? Which filters?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um The filter bank which is created by integrating over F F T bins.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "When you get the mel When you go to the mel scale.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, it's bark scale, and it's it it um it actually copies the uh um the second filters over to the first. So the first filters are always and you can s you can specify a different number of uh features different number of filters, I think, as I recall. So you can specify a different number of filters, and whatever um uh you specify, the last ones are gonna be ignored. So that that's a way that you sort of change what the what the bandwidth is. Y you can't do it without I think changing the number of filters, but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I saw something about uh that looked like it was doing something like that, but I didn't quite understand it. So maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the idea is that the very lowest frequencies and and typically the veriest highest frequencies are kind of junk.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so um you just for continuity you just approximate them by by the second to highest and second to lowest. It's just a simple thing we put in.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and so if you h", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But so the but that's a fixed uh thing?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's a fixed thing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's nothing that lets you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But see see my point? If you had If you had ten filters, then you would be throwing away a lot at the two ends.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And if you had if you had fifty filters, you'd be throwing away hardly anything.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, I don't remember there being an independent way of saying \" we're just gonna make them from here to here \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Use this analysis bandwidth or something.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I I I don't know, it's actually been awhile since I've looked at it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I went through the Feacalc code and then looked at you know just calling the RASTA libs and thing like that. And I didn't I couldn't see any wh place where that kind of thing was done. But um I didn't quite understand everything that I saw,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, see I don't know Feacalc at all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But it calls RASTA with some options, and um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I I think in I don't know. I guess for some particular database you might find that you could tune that and tweak that to get that a little better, but I think that in general it's not that critical. I mean there's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can You can throw away stuff below a hundred hertz or so and it's just not going to affect phonetic classification at all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Another thing I was thinking about was um is there a I was wondering if there's maybe um certain settings of the parameters when you compute PLP which would basically cause it to output mel cepstrum. So that, in effect, what I could do is use our code but produce mel cepstrum and compare that directly to.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, it's not precisely. Yeah. I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um, um what you can do is um you can definitely change the the filter bank from being uh a uh trapezoidal integration to a a a triangular one,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "which is what the typical mel mel cepstral uh filter bank does.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And some people have claimed that they got some better performance doing that, so you certainly could do that easily. But the fundamental difference, I mean, there's other small differences.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's a cubic root that happens, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but, you know, as opposed to the log in the other case. I mean the fundamental d d difference that we've seen any kind of difference from before, which is actually an advantage for the P L P i uh, I think, is that the the smoothing at the end is auto - regressive instead of being cepstral uh, from cepstral truncation. So um it's a little more noise robust.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, and that's that's why when people started getting databases that had a little more noise in it, like like uh um Broadcast News and so on, that's why c Cambridge switched to PLP I think.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So um That's a difference that I don't think we put any way to get around, since it was an advantage. um uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but we did eh we did hear this comment from people at some point, that um it uh they got some better results with the triangular filters rather than the trapezoidal. So that is an option in RASTA.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh and you can certainly play with that. But I think you're probably doing the right thing to look for bugs first. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah just it just seems like this kind of behavior could be caused by you know s some of the training data being messed up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Could be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You know, you're sort of getting most of the way there, but there's a So I started going through and looking One of the things that I did notice was that the um log likelihoods coming out of the log recognizer from the PLP data were much lower, much smaller, than for the mel cepstral stuff, and that the average amount of pruning that was happening was therefore a little bit higher for the PLP features.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh - huh!", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, since he used the same exact pruning thresholds for both, I was wondering if it could be that we're getting more pruning.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh! He he He used the identical pruning thresholds even though the s the range of p of the likeli", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh well that's That's a pretty good point right there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I would think that you might wanna do something like uh you know, look at a few points to see where you are starting to get significant search errors.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so That's Right. Well, what I was gonna do is I was gonna take um a couple of the utterances that he had run through, then run them through again but modify the pruning threshold and see if it you know, affects the score.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. But I mean you could uh if if if that looks promising you could, you know, r uh run the overall test set with a with a few different uh pruning thresholds for both,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and presumably he's running at some pruning threshold that's that's uh, you know gets very few search errors", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but is is relatively fast", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right. I mean, yeah, generally in these things you you turn back pruning really far,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so I I didn't think it would be that big a deal because I was figuring well you have it turned back so far that you know it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But you may be in the wrong range for the P L P features for some reason.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the uh the the run time of the recognizer on the PLP features is longer which sort of implies that the networks are bushier, you know, there's more things it's considering which goes along with the fact that the matches aren't as good. So uh, you know, it could be that we're just pruning too much.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe just be different kind of distributions and and", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah so that's another possible thing. They they should really shouldn't.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There's no particular reason why they would be exactly behave exactly the same.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. There's lots of little differences.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Trying to track it down.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess this was a little bit off topic, I guess, because I was I was thinking in terms of th this as being a a a a core item that once we once we had it going we would use for a number of the front - end things also.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um Wanna.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's as far as my stuff goes,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What's what's on.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah, well I tried this mean subtraction method.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um. Due to Avendano, I'm taking s um six seconds of speech, um I'm using two second FFT analysis frames, stepped by a half second so it's a quarter length step and I I take that frame and four f the four I take Sorry, I take the current frame and the four past frames and the four future frames and that adds up to six seconds of speech. And I calculate um the spectral mean, of the log magnitude spectrum over that N. I use that to normalize the s the current center frame by mean subtraction. And I then then I move to the next frame and I I do it again. Well, actually I calculate all the means first and then I do the subtraction. And um the I tried that with HDK, the Aurora setup of HDK training on clean TI - digits, and um it it helped um in a phony reverberation case um where I just used the simulated impulse response um the error rate went from something like eighty it was from something like eighteen percent to um four percent. And on meeting rec recorder far mike digits, mike on channel F, it went from um forty - one percent error to eight percent error.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "On on the real data, not with artificial reverb?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that that was um trained on clean speech only, which I'm guessing is the reason why the baseline was so bad. And.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's ac actually a little side point is I think that's the first results that we have uh uh uh of any sort on the far field uh on on the far field data uh for recorded in in meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh um actually um Adam ran the SRI recognizer.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Did he? On the near field, on the ne", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "On the far field also. He did one PZM channel and one PDA channel.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh did he? Oh! I didn't recall that. What kind of numbers was he getting with that?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I'm not sure, I think it was about five percent error for the PZM channel.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "f I think. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So why were you getting forty - one here? Is this.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um. I I'm g I'm guessing it was the the training data. Uh, clean TI - digits is, like, pretty pristine training data, and if they trained the SRI system on this TV broadcast type stuff, I think it's a much wider range of channels and it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, but wait a minute. I I I th I think he What am I saying here? Yeah, so that was the SRI system. Maybe you're right. Yeah. Cuz it was getting like one percent So it's still this kind of ratio. It was it was getting one percent or something on the near field. Wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, or it wa a it was around one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I think it was getting around one percent for the near for the n for the close mike.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Huh? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So it was like one to five So it's still this kind of ratio. It's just yeah, it's a lot more training data. So So probably it should be something we should try then is to is to see if is at some point just to take i to transform the data and then and then uh use th use it for the SRI system.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "b You me you mean um ta", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So you're so you have a system which for one reason or another is relatively poor,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and and uh you have something like forty - one percent error uh and then you transform it to eight by doing doing this this work. Um. So here's this other system, which is a lot better, but there's still this kind of ratio. It's something like five percent error with the the distant mike, and one percent with the close mike.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So the question is how close to that one can you get if you transform the data using that system.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "r Right, so so I guess this SRI system is trained on a lot of s Broadcast News or Switchboard data. Is that right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do you know which one it is?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's trained on a lot of different things. Um. It's trained on uh a lot of Switchboard, Call Home,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "um a bunch of different sources, some digits, there's some digits training in there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "O one thing I'm wondering about is what this mean subtraction method um will do if it's faced with additive noise. Cuz I I it's cuz I don't know what log magnitude spectral subtraction is gonna do to additive noise.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's that's the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "well, it's it's not exactly the right thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but uh but you've already seen that cuz there is added noise here.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's that's Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, so it's then then it's it's it's reasonable to expect it would be helpful if we used it with the SRI system and", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, as helpful I mean, so that's the question. Yeah, w we're often asked this when we work with a system that that isn't isn't sort of industry industry standard great,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "uh and we see some reduction in error using some clever method, then, you know, will it work on a on a on a good system. So uh you know, this other one's it was a pretty good system. I think, you know, one one percent word error rate on digits is uh digit strings is not uh you know stellar, but but given that this is real digits, as opposed to uh sort of laboratory.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it wasn't trained on this task either.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it wasn't trained on this task. Actually one percent is sort of you know, sort of in a reasonable range.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "People would say \" yeah, I could I can imagine getting that \". And uh so the the four or five percent or something is is is quite poor.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, you know, if you're doing a uh a sixteen digit uh credit card number you'll basically get it wrong almost all the time.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So. So. Uh, um a significant reduction in the error for that would be great.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And and then, uh Yeah. So. Yeah. Cool.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright, um, I actually have to run. So I don't think I can do the digits, but um, I guess I'll leave my microphone on?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah. That'll work.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I can be out of here quickly. That's I just have to run for another appointment. OK, I t Yeah. I left it on. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bro007", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK So uh today we're looking at a number of uh things we're trying and uh fortunately for listeners to this uh we lost some of it's visual but um got tables in front of us. Um what is what does combo mean?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So combo is um a system where we have these features that go through a network and then this same string of features but low - pass filtered with the low - pass filter used in the MSG features. And so these low - pass filtered goes through M eh another MLP and then the linear output of these two MLP's are combined just by adding the values and then there is this KLT. Um the output is used as uh features as well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um so let me try to restate this and see if I have it right. There is uh there is the features uh there's the OGI features and then um those features um go through a contextual uh l l let's take this bottom arr one pointed to by the bottom arrow. Um those features go through a contextualized KLT. Then these features also uh get um low - pass filtered", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah so yeah I could perhaps draw this on the blackboard", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sure. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The graph, yeah another one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we have these features from OGI that goes through the three paths.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Three, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The first is a KLT using several frames of the features.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The second path is uh MLP also using nine frames several frames of features", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The third path is this low - pass filter.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, MLP", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Aha! aha!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Adding the outputs just like in the second propose the the proposal from for the first evaluation.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah? Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then the KLT and then the two together again.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, the KLT. And those two together. That's it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Two HTK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK so that's that's this bottom one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. So this is yeah", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so uh and then the the the one at the top and I presume these things that uh are in yellow are in yellow because overall they're the best?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah that's the reason, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh let's focus on them then so what's the block diagram for the one above it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "For the f the f first yellow line you mean?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah so it's uh basically s the same except that we don't have this uh low - pass filtering so we have only two streams.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Step.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well. There's there's no low low - pass processing used as additional feature stream.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do you e um they mentioned made some uh when I was on the phone with Sunil they they mentioned some weighting scheme that was used to evaluate all of these numbers.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh actually the way things seems to um well it's uh forty percent for TI - digit, sixty for all the SpeechDat - Cars, well all these languages. Ehm the well match is forty, medium thirty five and high mismatch twenty - five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um and we don't have the TI - digits part yet?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, no.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But yeah. Generally what you observe with TI - digits is that the result are very close whatever the the system.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. And so have you put all these numbers together into a single number representing that?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh not yet.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK so that should be pretty easy to do and that would be good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. Mmm yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "then we could compare the two and say what was better.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um and how does this compare to the numbers oh so OGI two is just the top top row?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So yeah to actually OGI two is the the baseline with the OGI features but this is not exactly the result that they have because they've they're still made some changes in the features", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and well but uh actually our results are better than their results. Um I don't know by how much because they did not send us the new results", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh OK so the one one place where it looks like we're messing things up a bit is in the highly mismatched Italian.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "An", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah there is something funny happening here because yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But there are thirty - six and then sometimes we are we are we are around forty - two and", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Now up", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh so one of the ideas that you had mentioned last time was having a a second um silence detection.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there are some results here", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "For the Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh so the third and the fifth line of the table", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "For this one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So filt is what that is?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Filt, yeah", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um yeah so it seems f for the the well match and mismatched condition it's uh it brings something. Uh but uh actually apparently there are there's no room left for any silence detector at the server side because of the delay. Uh well", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh we can't do it. Oh OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "For that for that we.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Too bad. Good idea, but can't do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Except I don't know because they I think they are still working well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh t two days ago they were still working on this trying to reduce the delay of the silence detector so but yeah if we had time perhaps we could try to find uh some kind of compromise between the delay that's on the handset and on the server side. Perhaps try to reduce the delay on the handset and but well hmm For the moment they have this large delay on the the feature computation and so we don't", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. So Alright so for now at least that's not there you have some results with low - pass filter cepstrum doesn't have a huge effect but it but it looks like it you know maybe could help in a couple places.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I th", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh little bit.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um and um um Yeah and uh let's see What else did we have in there? Uh I guess it makes a l um at this point this is I I guess I should probably look at these others a little bit uh And you you yellowed these out uh but uh uh Oh I see yeah that that one you can't use because of the delay. Those look pretty good. Um let's see that one Well even the just the the second row doesn't look that bad right? That's just uh yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And and that looks like an interesting one too.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Actually the yeah the second line is uh pretty much like the first line in yellow except that we don't have this KLT on the first on the left part of the diagram. We just have the features as they are.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah so when we do this weighted measure we should compare the two cuz it might even come out better. And it's it's it's a little slightly simpler.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so there's so I I would put that one also as a as a maybe. Uh and it yeah and it's actually does does significantly better on the uh uh highly mismatched Italian, so s and little worse on the mis on the MM case, but uh Well yeah it's worse than a few things", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so uh let's see how that c that c c see how that comes out on their their measure and are are we running this uh for TI - digits or uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Now is TI di is is that part of the result that they get for the uh development th the results that they're supposed to get at the end of end of the month, the TI - digits are there also?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. It's included, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh OK. OK. And see what else there is here. Um Oh I see the one I was looking down here at the the o the row below the lower yellowed one. Uh that's uh that's with the reduced uh KLT size reduced dimensionality.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm? Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "What happens there is it's around the same and so you could reduce the dimension as you were saying before a bit perhaps.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's significantly worse well but Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's significantly worse it's it's uh it's it's mostly worse.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exc - except for the HM", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "For many a mismatch it's worse.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it is little. I mean not not by a huge amount, I don't know. What are what are the sizes of any of these sets, I I'm I'm sure you told me before, but I've forgotten. So you know how many words are in uh one of these test sets?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "About?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um it's it depends well the well matched is generally larger than the other sets and I think it's around two thousand or three thousand words perhaps, at least.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Ye But words well word I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm? The words, yeah. S sentences.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sentences.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Some sets have five hundred sentences, so.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So the so the sets so the test sets are between five hundred and two thousand sentences, let's say", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and each sentence on the average has four or five digits or is it most of them longer or", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah for the Italian even seven digits y more or less", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It it d Seven digits.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but sometime the sentence have only one digit and sometime uh like uh the number of uh credit cards, something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right, so between one and sixteen. See the I mean the reason I'm asking is is is we have all these small differences and I don't know how seriously to take them, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So uh i if if you had uh just you know to give an example, if you had uh um if you had a thousand words then uh a a tenth of a percent would just be one word,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "right? So so it wouldn't mean anything.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "um so um yeah it be kind of I'd kind of like to know what the sizes of these test sets were actually.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The size that we have?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We could we could run run some kind of significance tests", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah since these well also just to know the numbers,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "right. So these these are word error rates", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so this is on how many words.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah we have the result that the output of the HTK", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The number of of sentences, no it's the number isn't.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah sure sure. Yeah sure.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah so anyway if you could just mail out what those numbers are and then then that that be great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um what else is there here? Um see the second second from the bottom it says SIL, but this is some different kind of silence or thing or what was that?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It the the output silence of the MLP.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh yeah I see.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's only one small experiment to know what happened. To apply also to in include also the the silence of the MLP we have the fifty - six form and the silence to pick up the silence and we include those.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes. Uh - huh, uh - huh. The silence plus the KLT output? Oh so you're only using the silence.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, because when we apply the KLT", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No they're I think there is this silence in addition to the um KLT outputs", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "in addition, yes.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it is because we we we just keep uh we don't keep all the dimensions after the KLT", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "In addition t", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and we not s we are not sure if we pick we have the silence.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So we try to add the silence also in addition to the these twenty - eight dimensions.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. OK. And what and what's OGI forty - five? The bottom one there?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh it's o it's OGI two, it's so the th it's the features from the first line", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's in fact OGI two.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right, but I mean what's the what does the last row mean?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's uh basically this but without the KLT on the from the left path.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I thought that was the one I thought that was the second row. So what's the difference between the second", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh the second line you don't have this combo stuff so you just", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So this is like the second line but with with the combo stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And with the all the output of the combo.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK, so alright so it looks to me I guess the same given that we have to take the filt ones out of the the running because of this delay problem so it looks to me like the ones you said I agree are are the ones to look at", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but I just would add the the the second row one", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and then um if we can um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "oh yeah also when when they're using this weighting scheme of forty, thirty - five, twenty - five is that on the percentages or on the raw errors? I guess it's probably on the percentages right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh I guess, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I guess, yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's not clear here.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Maybe maybe they'll argue about it. Um OK so if we can know what how many words are in each and then um Dave uh Dave promised to get us something tomorrow which will be there as far as they've gotten Friday", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and then we'll operate with that", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and uh how long did it I guess if we're not doing all these things if we're only doing um um I guess since this is development data it's legitimate to do more than one, right? I mean ordinarily if in final test data you don't want to do several and and take the best", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "that's that's that's not proper but if this is development data we could still look at a couple.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can yeah. Sure. But we have to decide I mean we have to fix the system on this d on this data, to choose the best", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and these", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But the question is when when do we fix the system,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But we could", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "do we fix the system uh tomorrow or do we fix the system on Tuesday?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it d", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I Yeah, OK except that we do have to write it up.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think we fixed on Tuesday, yeah. Yeah. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Also, so", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh yeah well. Well basically it's this with perhaps some kind of printing and some some other @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right so maybe what we do is we we we uh as soon as we get the data from them we start the training and so forth", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah but Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but we start the write - up right away because as you say there there's only minor differences between these.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think you we could we could start soon, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Write up something.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and I I would you know, I would I'd kind of like to see it", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "maybe I can I can edit it a bit uh sure. The my what in this si i in this situation is my forte which is English.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh so", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh H yeah. Have y have you seen alt d do they have a format for how they want the system descriptions or anything?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh not really.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um There is the format of the table which is quite impressive.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah? Uh I see. Yes, for those who are listening to this and not looking at it uh it's not really that impressive, it's just tiny. It's all these little categories set a, set b, set c, multi - condition, clean. Uh No mitigation. Wow. Do you know what no what no mitigation means here?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um it should be the the problem with the error channel error", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh that's probably the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "this is probably channel error stuff", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "well, you.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "huh? Oh this is i right, it says right above here channel channel error resilience,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "yeah. So recognition performance is just the top part, actually. Uh and they have yes, split between seen databases and non - seen so basically between development and and evaluation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so right, it's presumed there's all sorts of tuning that's gone on on the see what they call seen databases and there won't be tuning for the uh unseen. Multi - condition multi - condition. So they have looks like they have uh uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so they splitting up between the TI - digits and everything else, I see. So the everything else is the SpeechDat - Car, that's the multi multilingual", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's not divided between languages you mean or.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, it is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it just", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It is, but there's also there's these tables over here for the for the TI - digits and these tables over here for the car data which is which is I guess all the multilingual stuff", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and then uh there's they also split up between multi - condition and clean only.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. For TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually yeah. For the TI - digits they want to train on clean and on noisy", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So we're doing that also, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. But uh we actually do we have the features? Yeah. For the clean TI - digits but we did not test it yet. Uh the clean training stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well anyway, sounds like there'll be a lot to do just to work with our partners to fill out the tables over the next uh next few days", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I guess they have to send it out let's see the thirty - first is uh uh Wednesday and I think the it has to be there by some hour uh European time on Wednesday", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so I think basically", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We lost time uh Wednesday maybe because that the difference in the time may be is a long different of the time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "E excuse me?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe the Thursday the twelfth of the night of the Thurs - thirty - one is is not valid in Europe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "We don't know is happening.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes, so I mean I think we have to actually get it done Tuesday", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Tuesday.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "right because I I think", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh Uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Except if if it's the thirty - one at midnight or I don't know we can still do some work on Wednesday morning.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "yeah well. W i is but is is it midni I thought it was actually something like five PM on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "was like I thought it was five PM or something, I didn't think it was midnight. I thought they said they wanted everything by", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, five PM.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "well, so five PM their time is is if", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Not five PM, three PM.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "three PM.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Three PM.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Alright, that's six in the morning here.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's d no.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh no three three A - three PM?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, we are wondering about the the the hour that we have to eh I don't know if it's three PM it's", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Three PM here is in Europe midnight.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's midnight but", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes, yes, but I didn't think it was midnight that it was due, I thought it was due at some hour during the day like five PM or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh OK. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm,.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "In which case", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so I I uh well we should look but my assumption is that we basically have to be done Tuesday. Um so then next Thursday we can sort of have a little aftermath", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but then then we'll actually have the new data which is the German and the Danish", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but that really will be much less work because uh the system will be fixed", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so all we'll do is take whatever they have and and uh and run it through the process.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh we won't be changing the training on anything", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so there'll be no new training, there'll just be new HTK runs, so that's means in some sense we can kind of relax from this after after Tuesday and and uh maybe next meeting we can start talking a little bit about where we want to go from here uh in terms of uh the research.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um you know what things uh did you think of when you were uh doing this process that uh you just didn't really have time to adequately work on uh uh so", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, Stephane always has these great ideas and oh, but uh we don't have time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm not sure these are great ideas.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But they're ideas. Yeah? Oh, that was good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And and uh also it's still true that uh I think it's true that that we we at least got fairly consistent i improved results by running uh the uh neural net transformation in parallel with the features", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "rather than uh in sequence which was was your suggestion and that that that seems to have been borne out.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The fact that none of these are are you know, enormous is is is not too surprising most improvements aren't enormous and uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "some of them are but uh I mean you have something really really wrong and you fix it you can get big and really enormous improvements", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but uh um Cuz our best improvements over the years that we've gotten from finding bugs, but Anyway OK well I I think I see where we are and everybody knows what they're doing and is there is there anything else we should talk about or or are we done?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I think it's OK um. We so basically we will I think we'll try to to focus on these three architectures and and perhaps I was thinking also a fourth one with just just a single KLT because we did not really test that.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "removing all these KLT's and putting one single KLT at the end.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean that would be pretty low maintenance to try it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh if you can fit it in.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh I have yeah I do have one other piece of information which uh I should tell people outside of this group too uh I don't know if we're gonna need it uh but uh Jeff up at the uh University of Washington has uh gotten a hold of a uh uh some kind of server farm of uh of ten uh uh multiprocessor uh IBM machines RS six thousands", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and and uh so I think each one is four processors or something or I don't know, eight hundred megahertz or something and there's four processors in a box and there's ten boxes and there's some kind of ti so if you know he's got a lot of processing power and um we'd have to schedule it but if we have some big jobs and we wanna wanna wanna run them he's he's offering it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So. It's uh when he was here eh uh he he used i not only every machine here but every machine on campus as far as I could tell, so so in some ways he just got his payback, but uh again I I don't know if we'll end up with if we're gonna be CPU limited on anything that we're doing in this group", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but but if if we are that's an offer. OK well uh you guys doing great stuff so that's that that's really neat and uh we'll uh uh g don't think we need to uh um Oh well the other thing I guess that I will say is that uh the digits that we're gonna record momentarily is starting to get are starting to get into a pretty good size collection and um in addition to the SpeechDat stuff we will have those to work with really pretty soon now so that's that's another source of data. Um which is s under somewhat better control and that we can we can make measurements of the room the uh that you know if we feel there's other measurements we don't have that we'd like to have we can make them and uh Dave and I were just talking about that a little while ago so uh that's another another possibility for this this kind of work.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "K, uh if nobody has anything else maybe we should go around do do our digits do our digits duty. OK. OK I'll start. Uh, let me say that again. OK. I guess we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" } ] }

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Ah yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then press uh al", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just try.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On this normal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alt F_ five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good. Doesn't appear on the screen here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow. Amazing. It's working.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hold that. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes and you can put can clip it uh on your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Somewhere. So, good morning, everyone. Um Welcome at uh at the kick off meeting of our uh latest project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I hope you all have been uh updated about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So w we will try to structure this uh meeting with an a with an agenda uh as presented here. Um after the opening we will tr get acquainted to each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See what our roles are in this project. So, um We have been provided with uh some uh w technical tools to uh to communicate and to well, learn from each other's plans uh as I can say um so w we will also try to uh to get acquainted to this tools so they are also new to me I don't know whether you worked with them before. Um then we will come to the uh to the to the actual project plan. You all know I hope how it's about uh the uh new r remote control we are going going to design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Total.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh then we will uh discuss uh, well, how it should be and uh wh what uh what our new product should look lite like. And uh well then uh after some twenty five minutes I hope uh we can end this meeting. So. Um basically this is about a uh a new c remote control. Um We When you design a new product you of uh you of course want it to be original. Be uh we want to be distinguished, mm? People uh want to uh when they look at the shelf want to think, well that's the product I I need. So it needs to be trendy. I mean trendy is what people want, so then I w they will buy our product. But then, uh, it also should work uh user friendly and uh otherwise people uh uh well it will not be uh be rated very well in consumer uh articles and like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, the general outline of uh new project will be we first uh go through a functional design phase. Um You all get uh um certain task uh in this uh in this phase and uh then we will meet again and uh discuss this functional design. And the same holds for the uh ph two phases uh after this, the conceptual design and after that a a more detailed design in which the the final project should get its definite shape. Alright, but first we will do some uh tool training. In all in front of you uh you see uh the uh notebooks and w uh n note blocks and we have here a a a a white-board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whitebo", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And um well it should work uh I've read it from my uh from some colleague that it should work with some kind of toolbar. I didn't find out yet how it work, but maybe one of you did, so Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Under documents in the shared folder. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Do Do we have to say something about that? I I I'm not fully updated about this shared folder uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess we'll have a shared folder uh with documents that we can share. And uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes well we will then find out ho how it works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. Well, this seems to me, yes, some computer program but I didn't find it yet. So, we'll come to that later. So, uh now we will try out the white-board we have here. So, I would suggest uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Each of us is going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, yes, um we uh we should try to t to draw on it and then well it should be smart some way. I I'm not really sure how this works, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, shall I start?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "a good idea Mael.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you can start it you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think for us it's just like a normal whiteboard, but they'll be recording what we write down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No they will record through that. There's a sensor over there", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is going to record the strokes that you make.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But for us it's just like a normal whiteboard.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Actually, I think I cannot go with uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You you D doesn't it work? Maybe someo Maybe maybe Anna, maybe you can start.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then he can maybe find out to get his cord right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have to draw.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um L Why don't you draw uh your favourite animal on on th on the white-board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "M my my favourite animal. Sorry this is all tangled up here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, I see uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes. Mm. So draw it. We will try to guess what it is..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I'm a very bad drawer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Weird. Um. You're not gonna be able to guess from my drawing. I'm a bad drawer. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They're ears, by the way.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'s a cat.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Um close though. Okay so like a pet animal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's like a cat, so I guess it's a cat..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not a cat though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is this now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah you forget about it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're on the knife.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh I think it's fine. I just don't want to carry it off. Man, this wires, eh? We need a wireless microphone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know? Pro specially we should next project we should take l like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not a cat,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's the cat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's a dog.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mael.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a dog.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So but that's also kind of cat,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the dog doesn't have a tail?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's got a tail then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "B bo both predators.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I thought so. The dogs have a tail.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So do cats.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, thank you. Uh d did you uh work out cord?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you guessed cats without a tail..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think I will go without without it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll still not extend, right? It's not up to that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, there you go. So what favourite characteristics. Uh. Dogs are always friendly and loyal and fun. A horse?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a horse.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is why you're the designer. And I'm marketing..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes, yes this is Yes definitely a horse. Yes. Oh very good. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suppose it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah I think you can put that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. That's it. A blue and black zebra.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Can you can meet them in Africa, I think. Yes. Very good. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The very rare blue zebras. Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll tell to get it off my.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ma Matthew?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh? Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You got a lot of room here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can probably reach.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh y it's not for that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I hope you have some space in your uh the horse of uh Mael.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah. So what should I draw? Mm. He has already to do cat.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I took a dog..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. A mouse?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This looks likes a cat who has been driven over..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we should sum up its favourite charas characteristics, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, the moustache.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's that's definitely a cat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. And i Th They like to sleep, that's why you said you they are like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's quite, you know relaxed situation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "She has the small legs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Th thank you, Matthew.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thank you, Matthew.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a very big rat. Or a very small cat..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perfect. Oh a rat, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, this is certain uh some contribution to our project..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Your turn.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So. Let's see. Which animal has not been drawn yet. So you've all drawn land animals,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so why not draw an animal from the water.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A bird. Okay, in the water.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah I don't know what that is. It's a bit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a bit hard to guess..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Put it colours. Maybe it would help us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The cat is going to eat the fish or the rat?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With different pen widths.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.$", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, it's a shark now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah it's a shark, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yes, why not?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah it's a baby shark, it looks to me,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know it's going to eat the cat rather than the cat eating the fish, no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now it's a swordfish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why not. A swordfish.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have some in in Australia, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Swordfish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've never seen one, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh well. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I hope it still works. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect. So I dunno if we need to spend time on that, actually But uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You should go for the next one it seems to me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W Well, this uh this tool seemed to work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's continue to uh to the real stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um our project uh finance uh thing. Uh when we are and when w you are uh going to design w uh we must keep in mind that the selling price of the product uh will be about twenty five Euros, so when designing a project uh I also look at you uh Mael, keep in mind uh uh uh People uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twenty four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "want to get the feeling this is a twenty five Euro project uh pr um product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Per remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah? Per project.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "more interesting for our company of course, p uh profit aim, about fifty million Euro. So we have to sell uh quite a lot of this uh um things. Uh we will try to uh to get at a international market uh so um it will be I think mainly Europe and uh Northern America,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah, the sale man, four million.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe some uh Asian countries. Um also important for you all is um the the product uh production cost must be maximal uh twelve uh twelve Euro and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's half of the selling price, if I am good in mathematics.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, of course. Uh um I mean we still have to uh to make a profit, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They have to sell at least four million to make a profit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You all have to be paid.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Excuse me?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah we have to make we have to sell at least four million to make our own profit. Fifty mill", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh you're g very good in mathematics.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four million.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh well I think w when we are working on the international market, uh in principle it has enough customers", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh so when we have a good product we uh we could uh meet this this aim, I think. So, that about finance. And uh now just let have some discussion about what is a good remote control and uh well keep in mind this this first point, it has to be original, it has to be trendy, it has to be user friendly. Um, maybe someone can mention some additional uh prerequisites for a good remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course it should have a on off button..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, well i it should have the the the the expected functionality uh of a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, s and it depends what application you are using it for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You might need uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We wer we were thinking television. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We are targ targeting the television set. So,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you need to record the channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You need to browse the browse the channels in upward downward way,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes. Th th that's very handy I I always miss it and on some remote controls that you can go channel up or down ins instead of retyping the number, especially when you have a lot of channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh just before starting the detailed discussion, maybe we are the marketing guy? Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Marketing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "th So you are the marketing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you are in the u use user interface uh design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So just yeah I wanted to to be sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I I'm the the industrial designer", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I I don't know you very well, actually, but yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm Matthew. You know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Mael.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Matth s uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Happy to meet you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Anna.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anna.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. It's very uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A and I'm Nanne.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um uh Matthew, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thi think you know me,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh so yeah uh Just uh on your web page but uh yeah not uh not face to face.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah? right yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Um S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are there some other very important things to to do well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to specify in this first phase of of the project. So the browse function, as you m mentioned.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. Oth yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh, you'd need the usual ones, like the changing the volume, changing the the channel and then you uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Today we have uh um teletext and all those things. Tomorrow you might have a some more functions which might come through that, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like what? Like internet on the on T_V_?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I_P_O_ or. Now we are looking for television things or I_P_. For example personal video recorder and all those stuffs are coming up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. But we can't really design for something that hasn't been invented yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ah it's it's it's it's coming up, actually. The personal video recorder and all those things it is coming up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, well uh I I think Uh w y you two should should, I think, think this over uh w espec what, what functionality.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually, yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's Let's take.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "w Of course, and first before um designing the func well thinking about the functionalities, we need to know what are the user requirements.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um then if they need internet, then we would be able to to p to propose something with uh uh T_V_ over I_P_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm. Yeah. But Ninety percent of the time, ninety nine percent of the time, people will be using the main functions, the volume, the different channels, so we can have all the fancy things as well but the main controls need to be very obvious and very easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm. Keep k keep in mind i it's a it's a twenty five Euro unit, so uh uh the the very fancy stuff uh w we can leave that out, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So twenty five Euro you expect a quite, well normal but good functioning user friendly remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh in that case you can you always hook up with uh someone who is providing that and you know, you you sell their product as well as your product with them, you know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. So try and get T_V_ manufacturers to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but w w we want to design a new one. Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it's okay, yeah I understand. So we need some numbering buttons, some teletext things", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The Yeah, the main is browsing. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but but but ab about the spec the buttons, the buttons uh that will be on it. I I think we can discuss that in the in the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I would like to get this wrapped up and go to an end of this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, we are alread mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know now the basic the basic things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well just just for the next meeting, um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "L", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well, uh, you wor yes, work on a design, keep it general, I mean so w we will be still fle flexible with maybe adding some functions. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you will be working on on technical function design, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh you and you and uh uh uh well, think about requirements,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "eh? Does it need internet, or or do do we stay at basic basic television uh interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Stam.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, uh I think we should now all go work uh uh at this", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh you will be informed via email and other kind of communication.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So next meeting will be in uh in thirty minutes uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "K keep it in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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At the functional design meeting um the plan is uh that uh each one of you, so not me but only you uh will uh present uh the the things you worked on uh the last uh half hour. I will uh take minutes and will put uh the minutes that I have uh at the end of the session in the shared folder. Also the minutes of the previous session are also in the shared folder now, so you can read that uh now or afterwards. Um uh I had an email from the from the management board", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh, I don't know if you a al also uh received it, but there were four points uh which uh I think are very important. First one is uh they think that uh teletext teletext becomes outdated uh and internet will be the the main uh focus. Uh second one is also important uh, because it's one of the discussion points of the previous session. Uh the remote control shou should onl only be used for the television, so it uh not gonna it's not gonna be a multi-purpose remote control, so uh that's one thing to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh second, and I think that's important for the Marketing uh Expert, uh the current uh customers uh are in the age group group of uh forty years and older, but with this uh new remote uh they uh will uh would like to reach uh a group uh younger than uh forty. Uh and uh I think to keep in mind, but not really uh for now is that they uh want the the the slogan and the and the logo uh to uh to be recognised more in the remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, we have uh forty minutes, so I think uh not more than ten minutes uh uh per presentation uh each, and please uh use uh all the the the facilities so that you have either SMARTboards, the the Word files, what you uh whatever you want. So uh Tim, can you start? Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.'Kay, welcome. I have some uh new findings on uh Marketing Expert level,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which I will show you. The method I used was um giving orders to our usability lab uh to do a questionnaire. Um one hundred respondents were involved and my marketing uh department generated a report with a lot of results. Um, these were a couple of findings, first page of three. Um, we have three audiences of two audiences, I'm sorry. Uh the first one, this scale, from sixteen to forty five age. Uh the second one is from sixty four uh forty six to sixty five. Um, as you can see here, the market share for the first audience is about sixty percent um sixty five. Uh second audience audience is uh thirty five percent. Mm and some interests from the from the age groups, uh it seems like the young users of remote controls really like the fancy uh new technology stuff, like uh an L_C_D_ screen on the remote control, um speech recognition. I don't think that's uh really appropriate. Um, and when you see uh the audience, the age is going up uh Yeah, they don't really want it anymore, at least the new technologies. Second findings out of the questionnaire um are the opinion the opinions uh of the audience about current remote controls. First point is, seventy five percent of the users find the most repo remote controls very ugly, uh and eighty percent of the users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy. So that's maybe something for the User Interface uh Designer. Okay, third findings. According to the frequency of use versus importance investigation, um following buttons are most important. Um, I will tell something about the way this uh this test was, yeah, done. Um, persons were asked uh what the buttons were uh they use most, how much an hour,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh in the second table the importance of those buttons. Um, when you multiply them, you get the these three points. Switching channels, um yeah, that's pretty uh pretty normal, that's what you do with a remote control. Um the second, teletext, uh and the third, uh volume controls. Um, I think it's good uh that we know what the user want wants, uh at least the these three points have to be uh very clear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's strange that the the manage board the management board said that the teletext will be uh outdated by the internet. So that that's strange.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay, but uh at the moment uh teletext is Yeah, th the best thing you can get uh on T_V_, like getting information.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh, when you ask people, what do they use, they use teletext and not the internet on a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's ridiculous..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a ne i it It's a new technology,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's not incorporated right now. Okay, my personal preferences. Um, I think we should aim at the uh audience from sixteen to forty five. Mm, first of all um it's the biggest share, the biggest audience, sixty five percent. Uh second, I think you will get the most revenue from i from it. Um, yeah, people from sixteen to forty five watch a lot of T_V_, more than uh people who are el uh elder. Um second point, we have to impro improve the most used functions, as I said here, switching channels, teletext and volume controls. Third point um that came out of the uh of the questionnaire, uh people used to uh get lost off the remote controller, so maybe it's an idea for us uh to design ex kind of placeholder uh on side of the, yeah, of the T_V_", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a cool idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "where you can put the the remote control in. Um, that's about it, I think. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When you mentioned uh improving functions, what uh what do you mean by that what what are you think about?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh not not the r not the functions,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, the funtionability.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but uh it came out that a lot of buttons weren't even used uh on a remote control. So you can have a remote control full of buttons, a hundreds hundreds of buttons, but if you don't use them, yeah it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah okay, so focusing more on the used buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, they have to be on it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "j just to t to get it done if necessary,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um the most used buttons uh have to be bigger or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could you use perhaps uh one button for multiple functions, like example pressing it in longer makes it switch to an different function for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just for the minor functions perhaps.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, ma perhaps, just just an idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just to get less buttons on the remote control, to make it easier and quicker to learn.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?'Kay, that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you, Tim. Janus, can you uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah yeah, I'll go, sure. Right uh, I'll be uh explaining a bit about uh working design about uh the project. Well uh what I did was I dissected uh uh current remote controls and um I viewed how how they w looked, how they worked, uh what kind of components are involved, and how they are connected together. And uh after that I put up a scheme about how uh these things are organised and I'll show it to you in in a in a few seconds. And I'll explain a bit about uh how it works and how we could uh build one and why I think several possibilities uh that we discussed in the earlier meeting falls off. Um right. Uh well what I did was uh I I checked uh remote controls and the uh remote controls of today are all infrared, not like all probably know. And the thing about that is um the remote controls uh have to act as a T_V_ or uh a stereo or something, and those uh have a transmitter that's also focused on infrared, so if we want to uh build uh mm a remote control uh with Bluetooth for instance then uh the T_V_ should have Bluetooth too in order to communicate, so that would mean extra cost for the user and thus uh that's that wouldn't mean a a cheap uh remote control for us. So that's probably why most controls are still infrared. Furthermore they all have uh a a very simple structure, so that would probably uh mean lower costs and uh i that could mean for us a good thing uh'cause uh well we we should be able to build a relatively cheap uh a cheap uh remote. Well uh as I mentioned ready, we have some Bluetooth Well it may be possible, but uh I figured it wouldn't be possible in within our budget, but that's not for me to decide, but that's maybe something for marketing to look into. F because uh well my personal opinion is uh is not to do uh Bluetooth or or radio waves, although.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you think about uh incorporating Bluetooth or a radio uh receiver uh in the place-holder next to the T_V_, connected to the T_V_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually I have t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's in the wrong product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I actually I figured that would be that would be rather nice, but then you'd still have the uh the infrared function. So in in theory you'd actually just move the problem,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh what I did uh think about was when you mentioned about the uh the cup-holder, is why not uh introduce a speech function like where is the remote. If somebody says, where is the remote, then it goes uh beep uh beep beep beep or something,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno, maybe uh maybe something to look into, I dunno uh what the cost that something like that would be. But it may be uh may be something to explore. Uh I'll I'll just explain a bit of the components. Uh first you have the energy source. The energy source would be a battery, simple uh battery uh that you can find anywhere. I figured that would be best,'cause when the battery uh stops functioning uh we could just uh use you could just go out and buy a new one. So we didn't and we don't have to do all uh to be too complicated about that. Uh the energy source is connected to the infrared button, but uh the infrared button uh works only via the chip and the subcomponent to uh the switch there is a switch uh between these. When the switch is pressed in a w on this this case it switches a button, when a button is prush pushed in, uh a electric current goes through here, and in uh immediately, a l a bulb lights up uh displaying to the user that something has happened. That's uh that's so the h user won't be um thinking, well uh did the button be pressed, w what happened uh. Or I press button but nothing's happening on the T_V_, so is is something wrong or something. So that's just to uh to to explain the of to to uh make it clearer to the user. Uh w well the signal goes via chip that's translated into uh electric sig uh electronic signals and then it's processed and then it's sent to the infrared bulb where it will be uh uh received on the receiving end. And those uh interpreted by the device, well in this case the television. Uh well my personal preferences here, well we have to keep it simple. Not too many uh gadgets and functions, just like you said uh well the most users n uh you have a lot of buttons and you u u use you don't use them, so why why should we invent uh w spend more time on those. Uh I I think we should stick by with infrared transmitting and uh no receiving. So uh no input from the television. So I think we shouldn't be uh spending time on um teletext and st things like that, because when you uh want teletext on uh infrared you'd have to build in a receiver too, and so in order to receive the signals from uh what's on T_V_ and such. So I figure that would be uh spending too much money and time and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, maybe another problem uh, I think current T_V_s can even send infrared.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but what should we uh s I I I f I agree with you, but should we spend money or and time on building a receiver into the uh remote control?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause that would be I mean extra components, extra designs, um larger g uh remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "These all uh all stuff that we have to take in account.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I my personal opinion is no no no receiver at all. Um, well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we should uh look into the design and the functionability. Like I said, uh use one button for instance for m multiple functions, or well uh just hide the few buttons o of switching it open or something, the usual uh stuff. And uh don't overbuild, we shouldn't make a big uh remote control for simple functions, but we we should stick to the basics. So that was my uh my personal opinion. And that was my uh my presentation uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you Janus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can go ahead.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The last presentation. You have plenty of time,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Last presentation. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tim and uh Janus don't uh talk to ten minutes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so uh take your time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you take your time too long I will uh eventually uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "warn you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I'm going to give a presentation abut some of the technical functions of these design and uh usability functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um what's my opinion about what's most important to combine the design, technical possibilities and the user friendliness in one, so if you um going to design a remote that looks good, that shouldn't weigh over the uh if it's possible to make, of course, but also the user friendliness, so tha that's that's some of the main points. And another one is um the use um of many functions will will make it more difficult, so use as as little functions as possible or at least don't display them all at once on the same remote. If you have fifty functions you don't want fifty buttons uh t uh to be shown at the same time,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause when you visit an internet uh site you don't want fifty links uh to see, but maybe use a hierarch hierarchy uh structure..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh well one of the ideas was maybe uh use touch screen, but s I don't know in how far that is possible,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "since we are sticking to uh um infrared and and the remote cannot receive anything, but uh we might uh consider that. Um well, of course I I hope this is all clear to you. If you you can use remote like this with all the functions, many functions, but Well, your thumb is a little bigger than th it than this. You have to be very careful what you push,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um if you're looking for teletext you'll be uh searching for half an hour from uh um yeah well, where is it? Where the hell he here I guess and, yeah, when you have to uh use something else. So just keep it simple, make clear buttons, easy to use. For example if you want to use a play and back and stop, that's very important. Um well this was because of our last discussion, if multiple machines are used, create easy switch between the machines, but um it's no longer uh applying. Well yeah, I prefer to use it only for T_V_ and um n uh not to give too many options and and if possible, uh the buttons should give a dr direct action, not first select.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh you you just said um uh you wanted to to combine more functions in one, so uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you you want to keep it simple,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so that's where the difficulties lie.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I think that if you want to do that, then you can't escape the the fact that there will be buttons uh which give s uh more options than one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, this so that's the thing you have to weigh against each other.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we want to use a few options and might not be so or original, or uh multi-purpose as we thought,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or do we want to use um many buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um weighing those factors.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm it's maybe an option uh if you use an L_C_D_ or a touch screen um, that in the middle are the the main keys, like displayed on the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The doesn't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Yeah, this? No? Yeah. Something like that. Okay, just uh in the middle the general functions, like play, uh channel switching,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then uh at the top or at the bottom, some menus like uh settings or that you can drop down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but when all the questions I had Do we want to use uh a menu display on the T_V_? Or um does have to f everything uh be in remotes?'Cause if you use a memory display on the T_V_, you can simply push uh a more menu and then select the options you want to have and press okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh so that's my recommendation, if you use many options in one buttle button, um display the menu on the T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and don't um use combination of t of two buttons at the same time or pressing buttons three times for five seconds,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is too complicated for most users.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so too, but and that's partly because um uh a lot of T_V_s have different menus, and when you have a particular menu uh at your device, uh it could be that don't correspond to the menu what's actually on T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that will be a problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you d you have to keep in mind that uh several T_V_s uh don't even have a menu structure, or they have a very simple menu structure, so you have to keep in mind that not all uh d not our remote won't be able to work on all televisions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that would be uh a considerable problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if we have to stick with current technologies and uh um well yeah, the restrictions of what's uh is on the market today, um you should keep it s at this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Use big clear buttons. Not too many. So maybe we'll loose a few option uh options, but I think i this is more important. Um especially the important buttons, um if you want to switch channel, change your volume, uh use teletext, it uh it has to work at once and more advanced options may be put it s somewhere away on the remote, behind uh a little uh little thing or a touch screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not embed Yeah, but then with something like a touch screen could could make more menu up pop up or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And yeah, if you want to uh uh s put on stand-by or change the channel, that should always be possible to do. Not first change menu options or switch something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, well yeah, as you already told, give some feedback. If the user is pushing a button he should know if the television or n at least remote is reacting and not just that the batteries may be low.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um, well, my conclusion is uh is uh less is more, keep it simple. So uh maybe we should just ease down on the functionality to uh to keep it accessible on t because you all know, if there are a lot of function on the the television, some you you'll never know uh and never use, and therefore it's uh important", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if you want to change the volume or channel that is always accessible and easy and other functions um that are not so important um well you we should consider just not using them or at least putting them somewhere on the remote where they're not in the way for the for the most important functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, I think the idea uh about uh touch screen um is very good. Um, because recently uh I saw news item on T_V_ um about uh new telephones uh for elder people. Um, they have like a touch screen with uh really big pictures on it like uh uh call uh hang-up, um and that's a big ad advantage I think, because one the one hand uh you make the remote control compatible for elder users just by uh scaling up the pictures or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh very visual intended. What was I to say more?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe that's an option. Um keep the primary buttons visible. Uh make a remote that fits easily in the hands", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and for some design issues uh well, put a logo on it and maybe use it uh in some aesthetic uh aesthetic form.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh th the important buttons m make them always accessible and pushable and clear", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and maybe use a touch screen, or if that's uh will become too difficult just uh like televi some o older telephones use a l uh maybe it's possible to to flip them open and uh just expand the number of options that are normally visible. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, but but if you pick the the idea, the left idea", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then what's gonna be displayed on the touch screen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The extra functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The extra functions, you uh you just see a menu from system functions or teletext functions, and you just choose one,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but l like menu functions or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then all all the options will become available", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you just c s yeah t scroll through them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wouldn't it be better to make just one big touch screen, uh one one small uh touch screen uh applet", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh I'll just make um uh let's say fifteen buttons on it, and uh we have three of those, uh actually just uh menus with sub-menus, with or sub-items, sub-functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then I'd like to make a proposal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you make one big touch screen,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "use the same concept as here, keep the buttons always available", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and use the lower part of the touch screen for the rest.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like like the iPod idea that that we just saw.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You just have a f a few selected buttons and uh a few menus, and with this idea you could actually make uh several you can also improve uh later on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh uh I think that will be great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you think it's will be better to have a t kinda total touch screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wou I would actually go for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Jirun?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I agree, but I think it's very important that they always um make the same buttons accessible, so use just for special options a part of the touch screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so um an elder designer picks up th the of", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "an elder parents or grandparent picks up the remote from the little child and who's all in the systems functions, you'll have to have the possibility to turn off the T_V_ or to switch the channel without um well using all the menu structures to get back to the primary functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I had another uh idea about maybe parental control. Um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like building in uh some kind of PIN code uh which allows uh parents to switch to all channels, uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but children uh if children don't don't know the PIN code, they can't switch to uh violent uh channels or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah wh Is that possible to use or no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is possible, that well that actually depends on the television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Th there's just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, yeah well,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think I figure that would be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "does it have to depend on the television?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ju just a simple log-in, something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y you s you see the fi uh thing is when you buy a remote, you you set the uh channels, the the channels are different on each te television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they aren't set in a preset order,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh if you uh lock on a remote, uh let's say channel fifteen, well channel fifteen on this television is different than channel fifteen on the other television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that would be uh that would be actually the main concern.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I think that he means that um maybe by some option uh make sure that um remote control and the T_V_ match, and then after that you can um use some s insert some passwords as being apparent that the children cannot use this uh change the settings of the T_V_, like colour and then volume", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that kind of stuff, but maybe um if you log in first as a parent um, you address the the channels", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and like uh oh, that's channel fifteen, that's uh vi violent channel,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh m my ki my kids uh I don't want my kids to watch that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you set the priority to only parents,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well b but make it a separate option in the menu,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would b", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "for example. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that it's it's dif dis displayed from uh displayed here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, but but yeah, that's just", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh parents uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's an a an added feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. But let's not uh go too wide about the those things, that's that why we're here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, th th those things are nice..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's a nice idea, but I think that's we wel later in the stage. I've one little question about um a total touch screen or uh um a p", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Partial.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, a partial, uh because I think uh elderly people may be uh not used to uh a touch screen, so they want the the the normal functions like teletext, volume changing, um uh to be uh, yeah, kinda traditionals", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh and uh the the the the other functions, the more difficult functions uh to be uh maybe on the touch screen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but to keep this as uh normal as possible, to keep it accessible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but if you display it on L_C_D_ screen with r r really big numbers", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can de display it on the on the old style.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's just as e just as easy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. I I do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can display actual buttons on the touch screens.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's true, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I do agree,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because well, it's just not the same when you touch a touch screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or when you touch a button, but well we have to look at what's our target uh audience.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W we are aiming for younger people", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they they chose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, age b below forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that's probably uh a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And th those young people, yeah. Y you saw it in my marketing report, they like the new fancy stuff,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. They like the fancy stuff, yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so A touch screen, like Microsoft al already developed something like that for uh uh multi-media applications.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I th I think we can do that too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm Yeah. Okay, as you can see uh the minutes from the second meeting, this one, are uh are done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Done..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I've uh added the this uh four things from the management board just to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um each time I uh I had a sort of uh summary on what you told and uh what you personal think. Uh so that can be uh can be read out. Uh a f a few things I uh I noticed uh were um Moment. Ooh. Uh th the the main points in uh this uh uh in this uh meeting is I think uh how uh it's going to look uh with uh we must keep it simple, but have the opportunity to uh have more options and have them uh hidden or something, so they don't uh you don't have a big uh thing full of uh buttons or uh um and uh the point that uh you uh wanna use one uh controller uh for uh uh hypothetically each television, so you must uh the the the the functions, know, like the menus or the the parental control must be all uh by the done by the remote control and not by the television. I think that's the point what uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, some of them. The menus uh are not identical for all th for all T_V_s, so you have to display it on one uh T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you can use um when you uh how do you call it, s um synchronized, the um remote and the T_V_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's not possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then there's always, there are always uh possibilities to change the colour and the brightness and the volume", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and um well maybe we can look out if there's options that the remote um in its memory can see what kinda T_V_ it is, from ah, it's a Philips, this and this and that, and then give the options that are capable the capable from the t", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you have uh uh an.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Add th that that's an opportunity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, but you have an international market range, so you have I think a big range of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there are universal d um um remotes", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they all have a functionality for all the T_V_s, uh so this wouldn't be a extra feature to incorporate the men menus of these.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's not too complex to do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well they uh they all have to be programmed to fit your T_V_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that that is bit of a tricky job.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I actually use one of those when They are they are kinda kinda troublesome, but but the thing is whe when you uh start uh building something like this you have to build a receiver into the uh t into the remotes, because uh in order for the remote to process something from the T_V_, like uh to synchronise and you have to send and receive,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh um mo", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that's well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, you can just say uh the c", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "He he he he me he means just just one other thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just build it in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, with the current remote controls, the universal ones, um you have to press yeah, you have to press a code for T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In codes, y you you get a b a book with codes. You look up, I have a Philips H_ fifty five", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it says press code four five five", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay, yeah, sure, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you press code four five five on the uh in the remote", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it displays all your uh menu options.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah yeah, sure, that would be possible, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now we uh just connect uh the T_V_ type uh to a set of options, in just just in the memory,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Memory in the in the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Profiles.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that if you yeah, like profile, so that if you uh touch in like uh one four one zero kind of T_V_ uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the memory uh pops up the options.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that would be possible. Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I th don't think that's uh that takes a lot of storage space or some just varia variables.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, that wouldn't be uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, a few variables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if you look at the um manuals from universal uh remotes, there are maybe um three four hundreds T_V_s at maximum. If you have all of them, all the old and new T_V_s summed up,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh I think uh it is possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah it is. It is definitely po", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, on the other hand on the other hand, uh if you have a remote and buy a new T_V_ that isn't incorporated in the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have five minutes to go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well then you have to buy a new one, it's very good for marketing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "New remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe, or an update, software update.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A firmware upgrade or something,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Firmware update, you say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, firmware upgrade.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but from where? Ah. Maybe w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's maybe the cup holder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No m may no,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe we can incorporate some kind of uh U_S_B_ or a firewire connection, so that you can uh connect it to the P_C_ and download the newest firmware from uh from the internet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, not everybody has uh has uh a P_C_ at home. Well the most most people have,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, at.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but not not everybody", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh you can go back to the shop", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh they.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like a s kind of service centre.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, ser o", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe something like service cen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and they can download it for you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or you could well you could s actually look at the place-holder you talked about earlier,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you could probably uh make a connection to uh an telephone line or a internet connection.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well already digital information is sent t to the the standards, T_V_ uh connections,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you can see what's uh programme is on on the new uh channels, so maybe j they we can send that information along with standard T_V_ uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well then then it's be uh back to the building a receiving uh well uh if it's actually worth it to build it in,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Receiving. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we could actually look at into it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I dunno, it it would be uh bringing more costs uh with with it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Difficult. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think it's uh most cheap or cheapest to just do the updates uh at the service centre or at the shop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, uh s I think some I think it's good idea, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be probably best, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like when you when you buy a T_V_ you just ask well I'll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's it's not a lot of work, just one uh docking station where you put it in,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "press start, bling bling, updated.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be best, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You don't buy a T_V_ every week, new teev so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, let's uh save this in the meanwhile uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no. Exactly, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um m for which one are we going? My mistake.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's vote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That one or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, my vote goes out to the right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Your vote and your.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My vote too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And your vote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, I was uh doubting about which one to take, but uh you've convinced me that uh if you di display buttons about the same as they would look on a normal um remote all elderly people will know what to do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also like a clapping uh li like device that uh pops open.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Opens up is too difficult", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Flips open.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh too difficult, um maybe uh it's easier to break it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Break it, I don't get.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, th th th that i uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's very sensitive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh so Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like my telephone, it's uh it's sensitive too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay well uh it's almost at the end. So we have now a lunch break, finally,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Uh after the lunch break uh it's back to uh individual work, once again uh thirty minutes. Uh I will put my minutes uh I have updated them so uh s they're updated in the shared folder too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes, the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How minutes?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Failure. Uh uh the specifi uh specific instructions for the next uh meeting you will all will receive uh at the uh the the email. I don't think I can uh say much about it, so uh uh wait for your email and uh hopefully you get it done uh in the in the thirty minutes, and I w will see you after the lunch break and the thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One question,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh how late do we have to get back be back here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well uh thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A quarter to one maybe?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes lunch break?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes lunch break, yeah. Oh. Forty five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought forty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh then would it be uh one o'clock.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or we we ask our personal coach. Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you. Thank you, uh that was a very uh good session I think,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we uh we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, is it possible to store this on the share documents or what.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, me too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh ye well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Save as.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, because uh all uh things are uh stored in smart board dot uh X_D_K_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, v", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that's in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but you can open a from your pr from your laptop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, save it as an image on the res", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe. Save as.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Export. Maybe not export function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Export.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I can I can uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Export H_T_M_L_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, and use an image if possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh, image?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "J_ PEG.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "G_ yeah, J_ PEG.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "J_ PEG. Yeah, it's better", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Paper size A_ four. Uh screen size. In this directory.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, it's not connected to the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You all uh have the the questionnaire again about uh the after work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to our P_C_s.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Yeah, it is connected.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's connected?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Deskt Huh. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To room. I'll just uh saved in my documents.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah in my own uh in my own messenger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Project documents, yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It gives the na Oh. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, nice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The questionnaire, fill in uh we fill out d after lunch or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well, it's it's simply filling oh no, it's uh it's also filling out no, I'd do it after lunch I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aye, cheers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm hungry, so do it after lunch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're welcome.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can leave the P_C_ on I think, yeah and return to the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I bring it to my uh personal room.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, bring to I gotta bring it home.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To my exave executive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My executive uh big room with the with the panting..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A big office.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aye. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1005a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Now what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, hello everybody. Uh, I guess you all know what is it about, you all received the email, I guess. Uh, we are actually doing this meeting to start a new project which is about designing a remote control. So I'm going to be the project manager of this uh project. And uh so I'm present myself. I'm Fabien Cardinaux and uh I I guess you can present yourself. So I dunno, you can starts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so my name is Petre. You can call me Petre, or Peter if you like. I don't care.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh my name's Bob Mor.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you are? In the project?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, in the project I'm supposed to be the technic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. So my name's Bob Morris. I'm the Marketing Expert for this project.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bob,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bob yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My name is Hamed Getabdar, and uh I'm going to be Interface Designer in this project.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, uh, so today we are doing a short meeting to present the project, so um We are gooding we are going to present the tool we are we are going to use during all this project. We are talking about the project plan, and we are going to to discuss about st our first ideas and so on, and, yeah. So we have around twenty five minutes to do this meeting. Um. So what is the goal of this project? Is to design a new remote control. So it should be, of course, new and original, and um it should be trendy, and user friendly. That mean it's a very challenging project, and uh uh. So w it's we will try to do our best, and hopefully come with something very new and that people want to buy. So, um So what's uh what are we going to do during this all this project? So it's more like we are going to do inv individual work all in o in o our specialities and we are going to meet each other quite often to discuss and to find a good way. Um. Yeah and everything is will be like this. Um so now we are going to to get used t to to the tools we are going to use all during all this project. So we can try to use uh the whiteboard here. So uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For example we can try to write what is our our favourite animal and write the f our favourite characteristics about it. Mm. Uh. So uh So I will ask you all to do the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just to get used to the whiteboard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So probably I would try to try to draw the animal. Well sh should I draw the picture of the animal?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, you can draw the picture, of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I th I think I should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah go ahead.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so. Um. Okay, American, um. Um. I would use the bird. So I tried to sketch it out. I had to first uh write it down because I am not absolutely sure if I can draw it, but ah. Can you recognise it as a bird?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay it's your turn to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, okay. So I think my favourite animal would be a c a cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's its head.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I probably like cats the most because they're cuddly and furry and uh playful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno if I should go with this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh it's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thanks..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If it is enough line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe put it up", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sorry..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Put it a Maybe put it on the desk or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I should get used to the tool, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh just wait a little bit. C could we put it here, to make it as straight as possible?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah probably not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They should be remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, it it works like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, that's better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Your lapel microphone's fallen off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are you left-handed?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, pity.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Should I clean?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I think like horses uh because they are strong and beautiful, so if I want to write it here, I think I can. Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Never mind..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, it's maybe better if you leave it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we should just continue.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, don't worry about it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", no worry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You won't draw them, or?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can draw it, if you want..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno if I can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just try. I would like to see how it looks like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It may be like a cow or I dunno, whatever.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not good very good in drawing. Okay, so this is very It's a bird, I think. I dunno what is it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I think it's clear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four. Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm. Yeah. I'm shameful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's good, it's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's okay. It's in it's indeed beautiful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and strong..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bob. Have to remember it. Bob.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So good um So, let's talk about money. Uh we are going to to sell we want to sell uh this remote control for twenty five Euro Euro. And uh our expected profit will be around fifty million Euro. And uh we are trying to to have a market all around the world. So n not only for Switzerland, but for the world. Uh. So, um. The We expect a production cost of maximum uh twelve point fifty Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Per unit, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y oh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, so we can start today to have a first idea of what we want to do what are our experiments with remote control, and any idea? So, if you have some experience, good or bad, with remote controls you can share it and say what you f what is your idea. Anything.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, from experience, um I've had remote controls in the past that have had very they've had lots and lots of buttons and they've been very small, and it's been very hard to to to use, because there's so many buttons, and you know it's very hard to see which buttons do what, and the buttons are very small and very hard to press. Um and and normally you only every use, you know, on a T_V_ remote you only ever use, mostly, you know, f four or f six buttons. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's frustrated me in the past, th that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I have also some points uh. Maybe two points. Uh first would be that in current remote controls there is no back light, so if you are if you are uh playing with this in the dark room it's it's probably worth to to have something like uh back light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And maybe it could be also dependant on the the amount of of light in the room, so that if if it's in the day it doesn't need to be back lighted because it works on the battery, so. So something like this. And the second thing, f second point from me would be that in a normal remote control there is uh there are two buttons for volume control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I prefer like a potential-meter or something like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, some slider or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not just two discrete buttons for volume,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, n.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but something which.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that because the of the discrete volume levels, or is that", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I can reach In uh one second I can mute it down, or or make a high volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are you not afraid that if you take your remote control you can move the slide and it could the the volume can go up very quickly", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, n.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it drops to the floor then it starts to scream.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, also if y when you take the the remote control, for example on the table, you take it and you push the button and everything is very loud, and", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, f It depends what what you feel about that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you have a heart attack. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but we can we can think of these things afterwards, but if you have some more notes on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you have something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just a simple experience. I uh I prefer um remote control working with radio waves, because remote control working with infra-red rays you should you should you should keep it in a specific direction and then try it hard to tune.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. Yeah without obstacles and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Let's continue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I have a meeting in five minutes, so maybe we should hurry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So we will close uh this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, just a second..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we will have a next meeting in uh thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Uh. The So I will ask you to do some work. Uh the the interface interface developer will work on the on the design of the remote control, start to to have new idea and", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which i which is Hamed,?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "read about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "He's the Industrial Designer? No, you're the Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I am the Technical Designer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno which one, uh v.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Industry and Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's the first. I_D_. Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the second one is the User Interface Designer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "User Interf Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then last one's marketing, which is me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so I'm the first one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the User Interface Designer, which is Hamed um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh, you are going to work on the technical functions of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And for the Marketing uh Manager, I dunno, okay, which is Bob, uh you are going to try to to find the user requirements f uh for the remote control. Um, you will receive by email uh the specific instructions and uh by your personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sign.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep finished. So I see you in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks guys. Bye.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bye.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education19", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received apologies for absence from Janet Finch-Saunders. I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Suzy Davies to the committee, and to thank Mark Reckless and Darren Millar, who have left us, for their service and hard work as members of the committee. Can I ask whether there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay. We will move on then to our evidence session on our inquiry into the impact of Brexit on higher and further education. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams, Cabinet Secretary for Education, and Eluned Morgan AM, Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning. Can I just ask you to introduce your officials for the record, please?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Bore da, Lynne, and thank you for the invitation to join you. Eluned and I are joined this morning by Huw Morris, who's the group director at SHELL—skills, higher education and lifelong learning—and Marie Knox, who is deputy director, overseeing European transition.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you very much, and thank you for coming. We'll go straight into questions, then, and the first questions are from Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I'd like to ask you both, if that's okay, a little bit about preparedness. But if I could start with higher education, I understand that—I don't know, it must be about 18 months ago now—Ken Skates told another committee in this place that there had been nine sector analyses done. Presumably, one of those was HE, because of the—well, Welsh Government had a presence, and still does, in Brussels, related to higher education. Apparently, those have now been superseded by work that's been done by Cardiff University. I don't know if you've got any comments on that research, or whether it's been brought to your attention yet.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, Suzy, following the vote, I was very keen that we work very closely with colleagues in higher education and further education, to get an understanding from on the ground about the potential impact. So, in terms of preparedness, we started that group in the September, and that work from that group, which includes both HE and FE, has been instrumental in helping the Government form its views, which were articulated in the Government's White Paper,'Securing Wales' Future'. There has been ongoing work being done—as the debate in London and Europe becomes a little bit more clear, then it becomes a little less clear, and then a little bit more clear, but, bearing in mind the difficulties of working in an ever-changing field, we have been refining those approaches. Each institution has been looking at their own institution, because, as you can imagine, although we have an overview of the sector, the challenges are very different for individual institutions—so their exposure, for instance, to the number of European Union students that they have at their college, or the work that they might be doing with Horizon 2020, or their success—and there has been considerable success in the HE field in securing structural funds for various projects—the exposure and the potential impact of leaving the EU, in a'no deal' or in a'deal' scenario, is very, very different. But I don't know if, Huw, you want to talk any further.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Maybe just to use the'no deal' scenario is probably the easiest, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The'no deal'?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, yes, because that's the worst-case scenario, so let's look at that one.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "As the Cabinet Secretary mentioned, the higher education Brexit working group's been meeting since September 2016 and has been looking at that in general. More recently, when the prospect of no deal became talked about, officials have been visiting individual institutions to talk to them about their preparedness for that. As you'll be aware, the funding for much of the activity is secured, we believe, even under a'no deal' scenario, until December 2020; that's a letter we had from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. I think the research you're referring to may be research that Cardiff University has been doing with the Bevan Foundation and others. I know there's a report due to be launched later today. We have been doing our own research and looking at the impact on HE, FE and apprenticeship providers.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Well, that's really helpful because my understanding was that this Cardiff University research had superseded all those nine sector analyses.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "That may be true for the economy brief. Certainly, there are published papers by Max Munday and a team at Cardiff University on the impact of Brexit on the Welsh economy, but for HE and FE and apprenticeship provision, it's as the Cabinet Secretary outlined.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "So, are there any formal risk assessments that are available for us to scrutinise, for example? For HE and FE for that matter.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales have been doing some specific work; I can't comment on how wide they would want that to be shared. We have been doing some broad analysis, as I said, for the sector, looking at what we can do to mitigate the risk, bearing in mind that each institution is an autonomous institution, a principle that they guard really jealously, and rightly so. So, we have been, as Huw said, because the prospect of a'no deal' has become, perhaps, more to the forefront, officers have been visiting each institution to try and make sure and to satisfy us, as people who fund part of their activity, that they have their own plans in place to deal with these scenarios. We continue to work alongside them to push the issues that we can help them with. So, for instance, we continue to work with officials in Westminster around Erasmus+ provision in a'no deal' scenario, what a UK stand-alone project would look like, the impacts of a'no deal' on Horizon 2020. So, we look at the broader picture and we are encouraging continually individual institutions to make sure that they themselves are looking at their specific needs within that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, if there is something that's shareable, I'm sure we'd be very pleased to see it—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Anything that we've got—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—particularly with FE, actually, because, of course, we haven't got a HEFCW for FE; you're doing that regulation yourself. I'd expect to see that type of work evidenced somewhere from within Welsh Government, and we would be able to see that then.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, if I could just make some points on FE. We've been actively engaging with the FE sector. We've spoken to every one of the colleges about how they see things developing. I think it's quite a different response than what is going to be happening in HE.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, because the student thing isn't such an issue, is it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "You've got to remember that the FE colleges are much more anchored within their communities, they're much more localised, and so, for example, the number of EU students in these colleges is significantly lower. The number of staff in these colleges—I think they've analysed that there are only about 71 people. So, we're keeping in touch with them and we're letting them know what we are being told in terms of the Home Office settled status and what we can do to protect those 71. But that's a much bigger issue, I think, for higher education.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "What are they telling you about European social fund funding, though, because, as you say, they're locally anchored—the impact on FE of ESF funding is probably more significant than the issues we're talking about with higher education. How are you finding this out? Is this through one-to-one conversations?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We are engaging with them all, and, obviously, we're engaging with ColegauCymru, who've done their own analysis, and what we found, in particular, is that the real problems are probably in relation to ESF funding and apprenticeships. But what you've got to remember is that that link between apprenticeships and the local work community is absolutely crucial. So, if—", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that's why I asked.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "—the economy nosedives, or if there's an issue that we see—just the dislocation of companies in those areas as a result of Brexit—then that will inevitably have an impact on the number of apprenticeships that will be on offer. So, it's those kinds of things, but at the moment I think it's worth pointing out that about £15 million a year goes into the FE sector just in relation to apprenticeships.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Can I just come back finally on that, before handing over? In both your areas of responsibility, there's going to be an impact on Welsh Government in how it responds to that, as well. Can you tell me a little bit about the European transition team, which I think is about building resilience within the Welsh Government to deal with the impacts of Brexit? Is that a formal arrangement you have with officials? I don't really know much about this team, but it seems to meet fortnightly to get Welsh Government ready for Brexit, so could you just give us some clues on this?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, in terms of the European transition team, that's the central co-ordinating group that pulls together all the leads in each department who are pulling together the work on European transition. So, I attend that group in relation to higher education and further education, and, obviously, other representatives in terms of agriculture, transport, the economy, et cetera.", "speakerName": "Marie Knox" }, { "text": "It's great that you're on that group, but what does it actually do? That's the bit I wasn't sure about.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I guess it provides the governance structure for the Welsh Government as a whole in relation to European transition. So, individual departments do their own work, and the European transition team provides the governance structure, and, also, they lead on the discussions with the Department for Exiting the European Union, No. 10, the Joint Ministerial Committee—those kinds of ministerial arrangements.", "speakerName": "Marie Knox" }, { "text": "Thank you. I've had enough time, I think.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Llyr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'll ask my questions in Welsh, if I may. This discussion between HEFCW and higher education, these challenges in terms of how ready they are for the changes to come, and the work that the Government is doing with FE, I suspect, is happening at an organisational level. So, I just want to hear a little about where the student voice comes into that discussion and where the engagement happens in terms of the students.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "So, we have a close working relationship with the National Union of Students. I meet with them regularly, and officials are in constant touch with the student voice. They have been very clear, and I think there is a huge amount of consensus between the Welsh Government, what the universities are asking for and what the students are asking for. You'll have seen, only earlier this week, the very powerful campaign by NUS Wales about the importance of Erasmus+ arrangements. There is a huge amount to be gained for Welsh students and young people participating in the Erasmus programme. Many of us, I know, have had the opportunity to study abroad as part of our own studies, and there's a lot to be gained from it. We've been very clear from the outset, as have the sector and the student voice, about the importance of participation in that scheme. NUS are also very concerned that there should be no negative impact on the quality of faculty. Our HE institutions, to a greater extent than FE, have faculty staff from the EU—it runs at about 11 per cent. That adds great diversity and strength to the quality of teaching within our institutions. Clearly, that is a concern for students. They want to have the best teachers, they want access to the best learning opportunities, and we've been very clear about the importance of providing security and stability for those staff, making sure we send very clear messages that they're very welcome and we value their contribution. NUS, again, also value the diversity in the student population. Again, as far as we've been able to, we've been able to give messages about the security of funding for European students for the next academic year. I wish I could go further, but that's out of my hands. We're working to the limits of what I feel comfortable in being able to guarantee without further guarantees from Westminster. So, we've been working closely with the student voice, and I think, Llyr, what's very clear is there is a consensus about what is important across the Government, the institutions and student voice. So, that is making sure we send very clear messages about Wales's institutions being open for business and that we welcome both EU and international students, that we value the contribution of faculty, and that we want to be able to continue in Horizon 2020. That's especially important if we're looking at attracting postgraduate work and postgraduate students into our system, as well as Erasmus+. The issue of post-study work visas, again, is very important. As I said, there's a consensus, I think, between the Government, the institutions and the students about what we need the UK Government to achieve for us.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Before we move on to student recruitment, it's increasingly the view of many experts that we're heading for a'no deal' Brexit. Can I ask both of you what specific plans you've put in place in the event of such a'no deal' Brexit happening and us crashing out next spring?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's really difficult for us to prepare for a'no deal' Brexit, but obviously we need to think through very carefully what that might look like, and I think that scenario planning is starting to happen. I think it's very different, again, for FE compared to HE. So, in relation to FE, what we do have is funding—ESF funding—which the UK Government has said that they will underwrite until 2020. So, in March next year, if there is no deal, the immediate impact on FE is unlikely to hit in the way that we may have feared. The problem then becomes: what exactly is the deal with the EU in future, because we will have some kind of relationship, and what that impact will be on the broader economy and our ability to work with companies locally, and industries, to provide that link between training needs? So, the colleges, basically, are providing the training for lots of the apprenticeships, and so if the number of companies reduces, then that is likely to have an impact. So, there are specific sectors that we are more concerned about than others. Farming is obviously one that we are concerned about, because that could have a difference in terms of day one of no deal. If your markets are not there, that could be quite an immediate impact. Health and social care—obviously, we are concerned that there are a number of people who work in that sector who are EU citizens. What is the impact? Are they going to feel unwelcome? Are they likely, then, to return home? Where will that skills gap, therefore, be? So, that's a problem for us. Construction is already an issue for us in terms of skills shortages. So, one of the things we're doing is we've developed these regional skills partnerships where we ask local employers,'What is it that you need in terms of skills development?' and we are now asking further education colleges to respond to that need. So, rather than them just getting people through the college system, who are easy to get in because they're doing courses that they're excited about, let's try and encourage them to do courses where we know there are skills shortages. So, that is a new structure that we've developed that is already having an impact; there's a £10 million project there. So, we're already putting things in place for those situations. In manufacturing, obviously, if there's no deal, the rules of origin, that could have an immediate impact. Just-in-time—we could have real problems in terms of dislocation there; and hospitality and tourism. So, those are the sectors we have most concerns about, and all of them have very strong links to the FE sector.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "From the HE perspective, from a point of principle, we just have to keep working towards some kind of deal. Although the prospect of no deal, maybe, has risen up the agenda, we have got to be consistent in our messages to the Westminster Government: we need a deal. Wales cannot afford to crash out of the EU without a deal. If that worst-case scenario was to happen, because of the underwrite guarantee, actually, for European regional development fund and European social fund programmes in the HE sector, it would be business as usual. And because of the current underwrite guarantee, the forthcoming bids for Erasmus and Horizon 2020 would be covered, but they would be the last applications that could be made. You'll be aware that there are some proposals for an extension to that guarantee, but from my understanding and our understanding of it, that would only give us third-country status for Horizon 2020 and Erasmus. What that does mean is that we would have limited access to the Horizon 2020 programme, and if you look at the activity that is currently being undertaken by the Welsh HE sector under that programme, that would mean that we'd probably lose about 50 per cent of that work, because that's the split between the bits we would still be able to access and what we are currently accessing. As I've already said, we have made a guarantee for EU student support for the next academic year, but, without clarity from the Treasury, I don't think it would be prudent of me to commit Welsh Government to anything further than that. So, we continue to push the message that a'no deal' would be catastrophic. What can we do? You'll be aware that we have been working with Universities Wales to access resources under the European transition fund, under the Global Wales programme, to look to boost international marketing of the HE sector and to talk about the strengths that we have in the sector. And we continue to look at other opportunities within the EU transition pot of money to assist the universities and the FE sector in that regard. We also continue to look to respond to the Reid review proposals, about how we can beef up our own research and continue to engage with UK Research and Innovation to make sure that, with any research money that comes out of that negotiation, Wales is in a competitive position to be able to bid successfully for that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We're going to move on, then, to talk about student recruitment. I'm going to, because we've got a lot of questions, appeal for brief questions and answers that are as concise as possible, please. Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "How does the Welsh Government account for the fact that EU student applications in Wales this year—that Wales is the only country in the UK to have seen a significant drop?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay, well, I think the first thing to remember is that we will not get a full picture of student recruitment until, first of all, November and then the true picture, because some institutions, as you would know, have two admissions dates—we won't get the full picture until the spring. I think it was inevitable, given the change in Government policy with regard to student support, which had previously allowed European students to benefit from a tuition fee grant, and given the fact that that option is no longer available to them, that that has had an impact on EU recruitment, and there's no point trying to hide from that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, together with leaving the EU, that's a double-whammy effect that's hitting Wales harder than the rest of the UK.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "It just puts us in the same position as EU students applying to England, but it was inevitable. This was looked at by Diamond. It was anticipated that this could be a consequence of the change in policy, and I think we see that reflected in the initial figure, although, as I said, we won't get the true picture until the first census in November, and then, ultimately, the final picture in the spring.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "How concerned are you by that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Clearly, we want our universities to be able to attract students from both the EU and from around the world. The fact that the tuition fee grant arrangements may have had an impact on European Union students at this stage does not preclude the fact that Wales, up until now, has been successful in recruiting international students. So, the change in the fee regime should not be a barrier to the recruitment of international students, because, actually, international students outside of the EU make up a bigger proportion of students not from the UK who come to our institutions.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's a fair point, but it's unfortunate timing, though, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think, from a public policy point of view and moving towards a sustainable way of funding our HE sector, then both my priority and, I would say, the priority of the institutions was to see the implementation of Diamond, which is what we have done.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, that's fine. What about the fact that we've got a relatively imbalanced higher education profile compared to other countries of the UK with regard to high, medium and low-tariff universities? We've got one high-tariff university, and they're the ones that tend to show the growth in recruitment of EU students. Are you concerned about that balance of profile in the HE sector?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "As I said in answer to your question earlier, there is a difference reflected in the exposure of institutions to EU and international students. I would argue that it's not necessarily the case that institutions that are not high-tariff are not able to do very well in this sector. If you look, for instance, at Swansea University—if you look at the work Swansea University has done, that shows you what is possible.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "What is Swansea's success, then? What can we learn from Swansea?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "What I think is important—and this is not about any one institution—what I think is really important is that we look to—. And I can't force institutions to do this. It's a combination, I believe, for all universities, of getting their offer right—so, having a curriculum at their institution that is attractive and offers courses that people want to study. It's about that curriculum being delivered in an excellent fashion, so high quality ratings for teaching, as well as having an infrastructure that is attractive to students. So, it's all about getting the offer right and providing what students, both domestically and internationally, want.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But the evidence would therefore suggest that that model of success that you've just outlined is happening in Swansea but it isn't happening in other institutions, and they're seeing a drop.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, I think what we can see from Cardiff, Swansea and others is that it is possible to do very well in the sector.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor—but the others, not.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "As I said, what we can see is that, if you get the offer right, I think we have something very special that the HE sector can market itself on.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Llyr, you've got a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just coming back to the drop in EU students, you mentioned that one of the reasons probably is the change in the funding that's available to students coming here. So, does that suggest that, under the current regime, Wales was punching above its weight in terms of attracting students and we've lost that advantage? I know we're gaining in other ways in introducing the new system, but really we're not much different to England in terms of fees now, so why would they come to Wales as opposed to going anywhere else?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think you're right; there was an added incentive, potentially, to come to a Welsh institution because of the availability of the tuition fee grant. That advantage is no longer there, which is why we need to work alongside the sector, as we're doing with the Global Wales programme, to increase their ability to market HE in the round across the world. I think we've got a strong offer that we can speak to people about. I'm very proud of what our institutions can deliver for people. It's a fantastic, warm environment to come and study in, at great institutions. There's something for everybody, whether you want to be in a city like Cardiff or whether you want a coastal experience in a small town like Aber. So, we've got a lot to offer and that's why it's really important that, although we have seen a change in the tuition fees, which may have an impact, we are investing with universities, for instance, in the Global Wales programme.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "In terms of the drop that we've seen in Wales, which is differential amongst institutions, will you be taking any specific action to try and prevent Brexit exacerbating that?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We are working with HEFCW and individual institutions, as I said, to test their preparedness. We can't tell them what to do in that sense, but we can, because of our governance arrangements and HEFCW's monitoring arrangements, continue to test with them. I meet regularly with vice-chancellors and separately with the chairs of the institutions and separately again with HEFCW representatives, and the sustainability of the sector and recruitment issues is always something that is on the agenda.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Julie.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The additional £6.4 million that went to HEFCW in the 2017-18 year, which I think you say is partly because of Brexit and partly because of demographic and recruitment challenges, what do you expect to see as a result of that spending?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "That funding was allocated, as I said, to enable HEFCW to deal with any short-term implications arising out of demographic changes, because we've seen a drop in the number of 18-year-olds, and the initial implications of EU transition. It was allocated as part of HEFCW's overall grant in aid, and therefore the council was given discretion as to how it was to be apportioned to the sector. The money was brought forward a year, because, in conversations with HEFCW and the institutions, they felt that that money would be more useful earlier on. So, it was money that was brought forward into the allocation for 2017-18, as opposed to 2018-19, because they wanted to have that resource earlier rather than later. With regard to additional resources, you'll be aware that we have made an additional resource of £5 million available to mitigate the freeze in tuition fees, and £5 million has been made available to HEFCW to kick-start the work on postgraduate support until we're in a position to fully implement Diamond at the postgraduate level.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "You say that the money is used at the discretion of the universities. So, you don't have an analysis of how that was spent.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "The financial allocation, as I said, was agreed with the funding council and it was there to help universities with any cash flow issues, but if you'd like further details I can provide those as much as I'm able.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think it would be interesting if we know what the money was spent on and, of course, that money is now not available for the next financial year, so there's no way of carrying on what they were doing with it, presumably.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, it was part of the overall allocation to HEFCW. With specific regard to dealing with the impact of Brexit, you'll be aware that we have reached an agreement in principle on the funding of £3.5 million to the Global Wales initiative. This was an application that came in from Universities Wales looking at specifically targeting and beefing up international work and international recruitment work to support them at this time, and we're currently working with Universities Wales on the exact details and outcomes they would expect from that investment.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And do you have any estimate of how many students you hope to attract by that?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "That is subject to continuing negotiations with Universities Wales before we let any contracts with them. What's important is that that work is based on research that has been done by Universities Wales to look at the optimum markets that we should be targeting, specifically the United States of America and Vietnam.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And will this money be used equally between all the universities?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "We expect that all institutions—should they have a desire to participate—will be able to be assisted, as well as the overall global branding from Universities Wales and the new Study in Wales initiative.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I think we've covered the EU student fees, haven't we?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Do you want to ask question 12?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Has the Welsh Government explored the possibility of looking at different immigration rules for international and EU students who may wish to study here?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, with regard to immigration, clearly, this is something, at the moment, that is out of our hands, and I have to say, it hasn't got off to a great start when initially the post-study work visas were issued just for a number of institutions in the south-east of England, with no consultation with us and I don't believe with the Scottish Government either. So, we have campaigned, pushed, cajoled, lobbied, and I was very glad that in December last year, the Home Office did then make that scheme available to Cardiff and to Trinity Saint David. We continue to press the point that we do not believe that, first of all, international students should be included in any immigration targets. I think all the evidence suggests that the British public don't regard international students as immigrants, and therefore we do need to make sure that they are taken out of the targets and we can continue to press that message with the UK Government. At the moment, you'll be aware that Welsh Government has looked at a specific piece of work on whether there was any scope for specific immigration policy for Wales, although I must say that was mostly in the field of actually the workforce rather than students. You'll be aware that this week the Government's migration advisory committee—there are so many committees these days—have said that they don't believe that there is a case for a separate provision for EU students, as opposed to international students. But we want an immigration system that makes it as easy as possible for those students who want to benefit from education in Wales, and indeed the UK, to be able to do so.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Llyr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "So, what are we doing from now on in then? Are we just waiting to see or are we continuing to push?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "No—gosh—Llyr, we continue to push the case at the official level, and at the moment, I'm trying to convene a quadrilateral, if it can be quadrilateral in the sense that Northern Ireland aren't up and running—but certainly with officials from Northern Ireland. We're trying to arrange another quadrilateral between myself, the HE Minister for England and the new HE Minister for Scotland. If I can speak candidly, I don't believe that there's any difference between our view, with regard to the status of international students, and the views of English Ministers within the department in England. It is convincing the Home Office of that case. So, I don't think we need to persuade Sam Gyimah about the importance of this. Jo Johnson got, I think the current Minister gets it—it's a question of whether we can persuade the Home Office of that particular case.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. The next questions are from John Griffiths.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I have some questions on the sustainability of higher and further education. Firstly, with regard to higher education, we heard that, even without Brexit, higher education is in managed deficit, whilst the funding announcements from Diamond and Reid are awaited. So, is that a concern to Welsh Government, and could Welsh Government take away that uncertainty by outlining a clear funding commitment to the Diamond and Reid reviews?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Welsh Government is fully committed, John, to implementing the Diamond review proposals. It's a commitment that was an element of the agreement between myself and the First Minister that brought me into the administration, and we have been very clear with HEFCW about our expectations and what the implementation of Diamond will mean for grant going to HEFCW. And we've shared those figures with them. With regard to Reid, we continue within Government to discuss how we can implement the recommendations of Reid, but one of the whole principles behind Diamond was to move us to a more sustainable funding settlement for the HE sector in the round, that is fair to students, encourages those with the ability to partake in higher education to do so, especially from those from a poorer background, as well as being able to provide our institutions with the resources that they need.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, you don't accept, then, that there hasn't been a clear funding commitment from Welsh Government to those reviews—the Diamond and Reid reviews?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "With regard to Diamond, I would absolutely refute that. We have been very clear and we have shown HEFCW our analysis of the figures going forward in relation to what is sometimes called within the sector the'Diamond dividend', although the Diamond dividend is never as big as people imagine the Diamond dividend to be. But we've been absolutely clear with HEFCW and the sector on what that will mean. Now, with regard to Reid, those are ongoing discussions that form part of the normal budgetary process within the Government, but I think we have been as clear as we can be with regard to Diamond.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. The second question, really, is about HE and FE and it's about European funding, which, of course, has been and is on a multi-year basis, which gives, I think, a lot of security and comfort to the sectors, knowing what the budgets will be over a period of time. So, moving from that to a yearly budgeting situation would be worrying. So, would you commit to introducing multi-year funding settlements for HE, and indeed for FE, moving forward beyond Brexit?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Shall I take this and give you a little bit of a break? She's not very well. I think the multi-annual nature of the European funding programmes has been very, very useful. People can plan, you can get staffing in place, you can have really strategic aims and I think that's really useful for the institutions involved. Of course, what we don't have is multi-annual budgeting from the UK Government. So, whilst I think we would, in an ideal world, like to see a better view of what's coming our way, it's extremely difficult for us to be able to offer that without having that multi-annual funding commitment from the UK Government. So, I think that will be a major, major loss for the institutions concerned. Of course, it's not just about ESF and apprenticeships—it's also about ERDF funding. So, you mustn't forget that, actually, there's been a lot of ERDF funding that's gone into these institutions. Swansea University, you'll be aware, has been practically rebuilt with ERDF. Also, FE colleges—we've got Coleg y Cymoedd, the college in Blaenau Gwent. These have been built, largely, with European funding. It's because of the multi-annual nature of the fact that we've been able to prepare for them that they have been able to progress. So, that will be a huge loss, but I think it's really important that we don't forget the ERDF aspect in addition to the ESF impact that there will be on these institutions.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. As far as further education is concerned, in your paper you state that it's a priority to support the FE sector to maintain all the learning opportunities that currently take place under European Union funding. So, would you be able to give the committee an idea of the level of resource you would estimate that the sector requires to achieve that priority, and—? I'll stop there for the moment.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think it is important. What we've said is that we want to maintain that range of learning opportunities that is provided by EU funding. I think we've got to be clear that we are not working to this scenario. I think we've got to—. The UK Government have made us some promises and they've made some commitments, and we need to hold them to that, and so let's keep the pressure on. The moment we start saying,'No, it's all going to be okay, we'll sort ourselves out'—I think that would be a huge mistake. We have been promised that we will not lose a penny as a result of Brexit, and we need to make sure that we keep them to that commitment. I think it was quite interesting to hear what Philip Hammond said yesterday when he was in Wales, saying that the money that we will receive will depend on the future shape of the economy, which implies that he has no idea what's going to happen there, and that that shared prosperity fund will be designed around the deal. Well, that's really not what we're interested in. We were made some promises, and we need them to commit to those promises. I think we have some real concerns about the shared prosperity fund not really following through on the commitments that were made during the Brexit referendum. But, in terms of the replacements, we'd be looking at about £15 million a year, and that would be a huge impact for us, but we're not looking at that—I don't think we should be—because they made some promises.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, could you say that, if they keep their promises, then at least that level of funding would be maintained?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think that would be a minimum, but that's just one aspect of it. That's not including the whole workplace learning money on top of that.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy, you had a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just very quickly on the multi-annual point, obviously I recognise that we're talking about six or seven-year cycles with Europe, and I completely take the point that you don't really know from year to year what your budget's going to be, but Welsh Government does make multi-annual commitments. I think you did it yesterday, actually—the capital commitment is over more than one year. How are you able to do that and yet not quite feel confident that you can do that with—well, both your sectors, really?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think it's probably easier to do with capital than it is with revenue, so that's what would make the difference. But it's—. These institutions are interested in revenue, because that's what supports the staff. The one thing we all know is that employment opportunities today—the transitional nature of employment and the fact that people are not getting the kind of contracts that we'd like them to get—that makes their lives very precarious and they're less likely, then, to be committed to those institutions. I think it's a really, really concerning thing, because what makes these institutions work well is their staff, so that makes life very, very difficult without that multi-annual commitment.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "They also have to raise some of their own money as well—we mustn't forget that.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, I think that's right, and I think that there's more that these institutions can do in terms of their own funding and being more responsive to employers and the need for skills in their areas.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, given the precarious state of planning for the finances, are you considering letting universities charge EU students international fees?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We don't regulate the ability for universities to set fees for international students. They would be in a position to—[Inaudible.] They are in a position to set international fees at a rate that, I guess, they feel is appropriate for the provision that they give to those students.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, right. We'll move on, then, to questions from Llyr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I just wanted to pick up on the funding of apprenticeships and the long-term funding, because the ESF—the commitments take us to 2023, which takes us beyond any transition period. So, I just want to hear from you that there are assurances that the apprenticeship programme can be delivered as a whole, come what may.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we're fine until 2020, because we've had that guarantee from the Government. The issue for us is the n+2 that we would have if we do have some kind of transition deal or an agreement with the EU. So, there is a risk and there is concern, beyond 2020, that that would create problems if they don't agree to fund that, which is the expectation that we have.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "But it is a prospect that this wouldn't be achieved as you foresee.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we do hope, because we've had the pledges and commitments from the Government, that they will respect what we expected and what was expected by these institutions that have had the commitment of the funding.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, to what extent does that undermine the current work? Because institutions want to enter into agreements with providers and so on. Businesses want to know, if they're starting on some sort of journey, that they are going to get to the end of it some years down the line. That must be undermining a lot of the work that's going on now.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, because the guarantee is there until 2020, I think that, for now, people are willing to go into those agreements, and I hope that we'll have a better outlook by November of the direction we're moving in. But I don't think it's had an impact. You have to remember that the number of apprenticeships in Wales is rising, while they've collapsed entirely in England. So, it is important that we do continue, and it's important that we don't create an atmosphere here that's going to undermine the confidence of our employers in committing to training in the workplace.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Are you confident that the Government will achieve its targets in this context?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes. We're on target to reach 100,000 apprenticeships. I think we're slightly ahead of that target, I'm pleased to say. So, of course, our hope is to do that. But let's be clear: if there is a'no deal' scenario, that will have an impact on the economy, and who knows what will happen then to some of these companies that are reliant on the EU.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Talking about the impact on the wider economy, on the point you made earlier that it's not just the direct effect on these institutions, but also on the businesses that they engage with, that is a concern in this context, that means, of course, that there is a lot of pressure in this context on the work that other departments in the Government are doing, because perhaps they are the ones dealing with some of this. So, could you tell us a little bit about how you're working with Ministers and Cabinet Secretaries and other departments within the Government to safeguard these interests?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "So, as part of the employability programme, I have started going round every member of the Cabinet to ask what the impact will be on them—for example, in health, and, certainly, the economy, but here are many other areas. What's important for us is that we do collaborate and we do get this analysis, but we hope to do that on the ground through the regional skills partnerships. That's our way of ensuring that we can have an understanding, on the ground, of what's needed by employers. And so ensuring that people feed into that and that we respond to those requirements—that's where we're focusing our work. So, we're asking, for example, health boards to ensure that they feed into the regional skills partnerships.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Is there a danger that we're a little bit behind in this process? Because Brexit could be upon us in no time at all, and, of course, this work is still ongoing.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, I have been pushing and ensuring that in the direct areas facing the greatest risk, and agriculture's one of those, of course—. We have been pushing to see what we can do further, so, for example, I'm in the process of developing a policy on rural skills at present because I do think it's important that we do focus on those sectors that are likely to suffer the worst impact if the worst does happen. So, those preparations are in place as far as they can be, but, of course, it's very difficult without knowing to what extent it's going to impact on us.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And each sector's running on its own timescale, I would presume. But, as you've mentioned rural skills, when do you foresee that that work will appear, and when will plans or schemes or whatever you're intending to put in place see the light of day?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we hope during this term that that will be published or announced. So, certainly, it is something that we have been discussing with people in rural areas directly, with the colleges, to see what the provision is there and to what extent we need to expand that, and to what extent we will need to change and move really quickly if there is no deal. That's something that I think we have to learn and we need to convince the FE sector about in terms of moving more quickly and to be more responsive to the demand that there is in the workplace.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, because there is the dilemma you touched on earlier about providing the skills that are required for the economy and providing the courses that are easy to fill. That is a live discussion across FE and HE, but you're confident that that discussion is taking place in a constructive and positive way and moving in the right direction.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's helped that we've put £10 million on the table, because they do understand now that we are serious about our aim of ensuring that they do respond to what employers are asking for. So that has helped a lot in terms of focus and, of course, we're in the middle of a review now as well in terms of how we fund FE, and that will certainly be a part of that.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Can I just go back—?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Sorry, Chair, could I just clarify something? The last question you asked me about—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I was just going to go back to that, yes.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "—fees—. Sorry. Of course, that is in the context of a'no deal' scenario. There could be a scenario where there are reciprocal arrangements, so, if a deal was reached with the European Union that established the principle of reciprocal arrangements, then, obviously, the ability of the HE institutions to charge international fees would be curtailed. I just want to make that clear.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "If there's not that agreement—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "If there's no deal—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—then it will be open to universities to charge market-driven, international rates.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that's right. Sorry, I just wanted to clarify. I should have made it very clear that the answer I gave was in the context of no deal, which is what we seem to be talking about mostly this morning, but if there was a deal to have reciprocal arrangements, then that ability, obviously, would be curtailed.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Are there any other questions from Members? No. Okay, well, can I thank the Cabinet Secretary, the Minister and the officials for attending and for answering all our questions? We very much appreciate your time. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy after the meeting. Thank you very much. Okay. Item 5, then, is papers to note. Members will see that there are 18 papers to note, so I'd like to suggest that we note them as a block, please, and just to flag that I would like to return to paper to note 18 when we go into private. Is that okay with everyone? Everyone happy to note those? Thank you. Item 6, then, can I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting and the whole of the meeting next week? Are Members content? Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2014c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Right. Conceptual design meeting. Right. Okay, so Right well um from the last meeting I was trying to send you the minutes, but uh it didn't work out too well, so maybe in sort of um quick summary of the last uh meeting, I can quickly give you what we what we had.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh right, so Wishing I hadn't closed the damn Right so we had the fact that we're gonna have the the logo uh the company logo in its uh colour scheme incorporated onto the the device the remote device. We had uh made our decisions about uh made our decisions about uh the device itself, that it was gonna be simple to make it uh enable us to complete the project in time. We're gonna have uh effectively two pages, a front page which had the uh features that the uh the customers most wanted, and then the uh the backup features on the second page so that it could uh meet the technical requirements. And the customers wouldn't have to look at them too often, only as and when required. So. So basically what decisions uh have we uh made? Uh have there been any uh changes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we all have a presentation again,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so if we go through those and then um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three presentation, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". Shall I go first again?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So Yeah, fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I see this a little more smoothly than the last one..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay right, let's get started. Um basically the uh for the Um I'll back actually. For the components design, um next step is basically the the way the remote's gonna work is still the same idea as before. We still have the user interface which is all the buttons we're gonna incorporate. Then there is a chip and still the sender. So um yes including the power s supply as well. Um I'll go on to my findings in each of these areas. Uh first in the power supply, we have the option of just the standard battery, um. There's a dynamo. Any of you think of kind of like the the old torches which you wind up um. There's a kinetic option, which if any of you've seen those new watches which you kind of you power up by waving around, um it just requires a small amount of movement which would mean the batteries wouldn't have to be replaced. Um that's one option,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think that was gonna cost a little more. And then there's solar cells. Um as a final option. For the buttons, we have um an integrated push button, which is Oh just to say all all these are um supplied by Real Reaction. So I guess for the ease of for quickness and ease we should take them from at least like one of these options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so for the buttons there's an integrated push button, which I guess is just the same as the standard ones. This says it's uh similar to uh the button on the mouse for a normal for like uh like modern computer. Um there's a scroll wheel which is you know the new mouse has just got like the centre section which you can scroll up and down, which may be for the volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You could do do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um one issue for the buttons is, depending on which material we use, if we use rubber buttons then it requires a rubber case, so we have to take that into consideration. Um moving on to the printed s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What would be the cost do do we know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um that's on the next.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I th I think the there wasn't too much difference in the cost, that that related to the actual buttons, but it does affect the printed circuit board. Um which is the next section. Basically for the circuit board which is the middle, it's just see it down there the chips like the like the workings of the actual um of the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The firm supplies a simple, a regular and an advanced um circuit board. And there's different prices according to each. So if we've got the scroll wheel for one of the buttons, that would require a slightly more advanced circuit board than if we just had a standard um push button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um one final thing we came up with was some information on the speech recognition. There's a small unit available through the company um which obviously would be an extra cost, but it wouldn't affect the size of the remote too much. Um and I guess that would require a more advanced circuit board, so there is an extra price in that sense. There is th sorry an extra cost in that sense. Um going to my personal preferences, um I thought possibly for power we could use kinetic um which is the idea of the watches um that you move you move the remote around to power it up. And this would avoid batteries running out, having to replace batteries and such like. Um for the buttons, I thought we'd probably get away with just having the standard um push buttons rather than the scroll wheel. Um and for the circuit board, again depends on which features we want in the actual in the remote. So if we wanted the scroll wheel and wanted the voice recognition, um then we'd have to get a a more costly circuit board. And that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "with the printed circuit boards you were going for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um i it kind of depends um if we're gonna have the speech recognition, we'd have to probably get an advanced one. I'm guessing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh but I don't know, so that is something I'll have to look into.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But are we going f R right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um that's a that's a decision for all of us. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So are we able to make that decision now in a sense that this is the point at which we're discussing that issue,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. We decide. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so would it not be best to rather than I mean one way is to do each of the presentations and then make decisions going back to the various presentations as they were. The other way would be to do the presentation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then make the decision at that point in time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Maybe w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's probably a better one, to discuss it straight away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause at that point then you've got the details up there, so if we wanted to know for instance that the scroll wheel required the regular and what required advance. Then if we were able to see that down then we could make the decision at that point in time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then that would be the end of that issue. Does that make sense?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I have a lot of the information there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It might not be very clear.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Unless you want to plug it back in to yours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. We could do, yeah. Um yeah we should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "As I say it only specified that we need a more advanced circuit board for the scroll wheel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it didn't The voice recognition came as a separate piece of information. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No the scroll wheel required the regular, so the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah if if you down um. It's just this bit at the bottom which I've highlighted,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but the scroll wheel requires a mini m minimally a regular chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which is in the higher price range.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. The display requires an advanced chip", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the scroll wheel um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the display requires an advanced chip which in turn is more expense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also the display's for something else which we decided against. Um but that bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And note that the push button just requires a simple chip, so that would keep the price down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and if we're going for sleek and sexy, I think a scroll wheel is maybe a bit kinda bulky?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I've got um pictures well I've seen pictures with it kind of sticking off the side of it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they don't really look great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. So maybe just a simple push button, and that would cut costs on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So. So we're going for p Okay. So is um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So are we going for the w are we going for the simple one, are we?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, a simple pushbuttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Simple push button..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did everyone get this on the speech recognition? The um it was basically what we said before, the idea that you record in a set message, and then it picks up that message um and replies to you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it is basically the concept we discussed before. Um but then we don't know for sure whether it would require a more complicated circuit board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm guessing it would, but got like the definite information. Maybe we should go on what we're certain of rather than.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if we go for the simple push button, so effectively we're going for the simple printed circuit board are we? Or are we going for the regular?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um if it's just the push button then it just needs the simple circuit board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-mm. But is there any other I mean okay, that's true for the for for that element, but we have to take all el elements into consideration. And so if there is one element that requires the more expensive one, or say the regular one, or the more advanced, then that would have to be the same for all of them. S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I suppose we need we need to find out what circuit board that requires, maybe before we m make a decision.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the way that I interpret that um it doesn't seem to send out a signal to the telly, it just it's like a parrot just rep reply replying to your message.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, I suppose so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe that would be something separate, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I don't think it would effect our circuit board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we'd have a simple circuit board", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that would be an extra that would be in addition to it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I don't think you could really perform any of the remote functions with it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause the example that they've given there is good morning coffee machine, good morning Jo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It might be useful to say like where are you remote. Here I am, Jo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think that's maybe as far as that one could go?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that makes sense, so we'd stick with the simple circuit board and then think of the speech recognition as an extra an extra possibility.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, just as a fun way to find it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simple circuit board. Simple push button. Okay. W w kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it says that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You were you were wanting to go for the kinetic power supply.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it said the cost of that isn't too much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um yeah I I thought so just for just for ease of not having to replace the batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And how does it get uh charged up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's um I think it works on the basis they have some kind of ball bearings inside. It's um it's some on watches which you you kind of you shake to power it up. Somehow the mechanism inside powers up through movement.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you'd you'd move the remote around a little bit and then that powers it up to use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the speech recognition was Are we going for speech recognition? No?'Cause that required the advanced.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think it would be helpful to find it, but I don't think it'd um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah I think did we decide it didn't affect the circuit board, it just affected.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just just for the call and find thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It was just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I had speech recognition requires advanced req require", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no th that's what that's what I thought, but maybe maybe it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think I might have got that wrong.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it's s it's separate isn't it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition you reckon then is s simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not part of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's just an addition thing it's um yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so we would want it in as an extra because it doesn't appear to cost too much. Would that be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay shall I pass on to you now?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In fact, it wouldn't really cost anymore, would it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll just just check what it said. Actually I don't think it really says anything about the cost, but it says that it's already in the coffee machines, so like it's already kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I assume it would cost extra, but Maybe we maybe we'll find out how much that does cost and have to decide slightly later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then have to change all change everything at the last minute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Oh, that was quick. Um okay, so very brief presentation, um. From looking at the remotes that are out there at the minute, none of them are particularly um sleek and sexy. Um I haven't actually got the examples of the scroll button there, um but there's some curved cases that you can see, uh a range of sizes uh. All of them have a lot of buttons there um they seem to just have the rubber buttons. Does that move it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It just seems to be skipping on without us doing anything..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've found that try and get it back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you right click and then go onto a previous slide.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah it's alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. There wasn't much more to say about that, just rambling. Um some of the uh remotes that I looked at, one of the models da did actually have voice recognition where you could um where it was connected to the remote control functions. And uh it was quite uh a swish model, where it can control uh four devices, T_V_, cable, satellite, video, D_V_D_, audio. Um so that's a bit of competition there. So I mean maybe it's better not to try and compete with that sort of thing and just to market it as a completely different um like different viewpoint as a kind of finding your lost control", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "rather than trying to compete with the functions. Um the scroll buttons, as you've already mentioned, um there's examples of those, but they don't look as sleek as other models. And there's no real advantage and because it impacts on other on the materials and the price it's not great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the price, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you were saying the scroll buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Yeah. Th there was a specialist type of remote that we could think about, um. There was children's remote, where um they just had a very limited range of buttons and they were b uh bright and colourful and um you you could program them so that they could only look at certain channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um but I don't know if that's really in our field?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess I guess we're going for the biggest market, maybe not,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's something that's out there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but Was it was it specified that we went for the biggest?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we're to go for the international market rather than a local market but that that wouldn't necessarily preclude.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The one thing that you can often do with products is you can uh make small modifications. So you have your basic model which you would sell at whatever, and then you could have additional features in you know like a You'd have model one, model two and model three, and therefore you can sub-divide your market up. But that's really where your field is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe the children's remote should be like a a next step, but maybe I dunno for ours, maybe we should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Anyway you could add on for an extra package, but on this basic one I'm reckoning that we're going for the basic model to be discussed here and that uh you would have for future reference the possibility of adding in extra features at extra cost to take care of specialist market segments.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right well that's something that we can be aware of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so what are we deciding to do here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. I think because there's already um very good voice recognition technology out there, and because ours might not cover the same functions that the leading brands do, it might be a good idea to market it as a um finder function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Mm-hmm. Uh the fi Yeah, the finder function rather than as a speech function to find your remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you also said for going for the international market um that some some maybe older people might not like the speech recognition. S s so um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Different languages might not be compatible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. It w it would make it quite complicated,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "where um ours at least keeps it fairly simple and then the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause I think you program um this one yourself, like to say like whatever you want to your question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah and ours is quite a cheap device, so I don't know how much we'll be able to put into it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you'd have a finder feature rather than a voice recognition feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you were talking", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe unless something else comes up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. And you were talking about scroll buttons?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah I think um I think we've decided that it's gonna increase the cost", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and give no real kinda extra benefit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "b", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's gonna decrease from the sleekness of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, so we're just gonna have the the rubber buttons, was that right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm um and just to be aware that there are kind of specialist functions and specialist remotes but we probably don't want to focus on those like such as the children's remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So not to be focused on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um there was a mention just as kind of a warning about button design. Um just to avoid ambiguity. So it gave the example of say your volume buttons for up and down, they might both have a V_ on for volume, Um let's think how they did this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good in in Flip it round in ninety degree a hundred and eighty degrees and have it up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just gonna check so I do this right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An upside-down V_. So that would show that volume was going up, whereas the one underneath would see the volume going down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. What did they say? Um I think the thing was that if you decide to do this, to have triangular buttons, um somebody might look at this one and say oh well this triangular button is pointing up, and that's the first thing that they see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually that can't be right, can it? Oh well, no, they might see yeah, they might see this pointing down and think right that's gonna turn the volume down,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whereas the actual button's pointing up, so the function is to turn the button up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, be careful what you put on the buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we could have like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and be careful of the shape that you make them,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because they might be kind of two um contradicting kind of shapes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I I know what you mean. So maybe we could have volume written on the side and then up and down on the on the buttons themselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could have volume up and volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Volume up, down and Like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And'cause the idea was to have limited um it was to have sizable amount of information on it. Limited number of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause it was sixteen buttons, wasn't it that were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah we got it down to not too many.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and I think that's all I had to say for that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so what was the decision on the um design of the volume button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um Are we are we gonna go through the design of all the buttons at the moment, or are we gonna t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've I've got some things to say about possible design things from trend watching.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe we should see yours first.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool. Right, um I've been looking at some trends in in sort of basically fashion on top of doing the um research into the remote control market the the one that's the one I talked about last time, that we'd sort of asked people about remote controls and what what was good about them, what was bad, what they used. And we've also been looking at sort of fa sort of fashions and what people are wanting out of consumer goods at the moment. So we've had people in Paris and Milan watching the uh fashion trends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know yourself..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So just to summarise the most important things which came out of the remote control market investigation. The most important thing was that the thing sort of look and felt fancy rather than just functional.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And second, there should be some technological innovation. And then third and l less important than the other two, there should be an ease of use as well. And apparently, the fashion trends are that people want sort of clothes and shoes and things with a fruit and vegetables theme.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but um the feel of the material should be spongy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is contrary to last year, apparently. I presume it must have been not not spongy last year.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we need to emphasise the fancy design with on on our remote control above all else. And then also try and add in technological informat innovation which could be our sort of find the thing with a hand clap. And then we need to ma sort of make it easy to use that's as a third priority, so perhaps um fewer fewer buttons and functions as we've as we've discussed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then maybe find a way to incorporate these trends so that we sort of capture people's imaginations. So maybe we could make the buttons shaped like fruit and veg, or the the buttons could be spongy, uh somehow. Maybe we could make them out of rubber rather than sort of hard plastic. And then sort of even wackier than that, we could maybe have a fruit or vegetable shaped remote, say in the shape of a banana or something like that. Right, so that'll be it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe a banana or courgette or something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How how far we actually want to go along and sort of follow the trends, do we think the trends are particularly important for this type of gadget, or or you know, do they not matter that much?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think if you start making the buttons fruit shaped, it might make it more complicated to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you were just talking about you've got to be careful how you shape your buttons,'cause you're can mis-direct people. And I would've thought the functionality'cause the people get cheesed off by things by having to read instructions et cetera, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "...", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe just one button, say the standby button is quite kinda separate from all the other functions. Maybe that could be a little apple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Now? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then that wouldn't get in the way of like kinda one to nine,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it wouldn't confuse the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Stand-by button. No th that that incorporates the trend whilst at the same time not confusing people, if you're looking for functionality.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I dunno I I guess maybe fruit and vegetables may be popular at the moment, but as we know how fickle the fashion markets are,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But what are they gonna be next Yeah. What are they gonna be next year..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but th but okay but you you can incorporate the tr If y if you change all the buttons then you've got the problem that this year's fruit and veg, next year's uh I was gonna say animals or elephants or w whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That means you're constantly changing your production schedule,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you've gotta make different moulds and everything else,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that's not a good idea I would I would suggest.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not I'm not sure what what what the sort of timescale we're thinking of selling the product over is. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it just seems realistic that the remote control market isn't the kind of thing which takes in those kinds of fashion trends.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to something which is maybe more universal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I suppose as long as it's quite a subtle design,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um even if the design kind of changes,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We c maybe can imply a fruit shape possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah d d But if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe the spongy feel is something we could think about, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe still with a rubber design we could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Was that in the sort of fashion sense that this Or was the spongy feel was that uh sort of fashion? It was, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It seems like you're gonna have rubber cases, as well as buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that you can make them curved or double-curved and that would be the kind of sleek and sexy look.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah one of the things were if you had rubber buttons then you had to have a rubber case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um oh no no no", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right, that fits, doesn't it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sorry it's if you use the uh rubber double curved case then you must use rubber buttons. That's the way round. If you have the rubber case then you have to have the rubber buttons to go with it. Which makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Rubber buttons require rubber case..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would fit in with what we want, wouldn't it, for the spongy feel, to have everything rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh so, yeah. The m the main problem is how f how frequently do the fashions change?'Cause in essence in the production you want things to stay you want to basically mint them out", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause if you've got fashion changes and that you're incorporating, then it means that your stock is um is last year's stock", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and therefore you're selling it or having to sell it at a discounted rate which you wouldn't want to do. Whereas if you kept the product the same but you could have a difference from year to year, uh it seems to me that you could incorporate a fashion statement if you like, rather than changing the whole kit and caboodle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're just changing one aspect like like the standby button or something like that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and especially'cause then you could make it something that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose we maybe are limited in the fact that we still have to put the logo on the actual.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you might be limited in space, that yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "would or not. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you two are obviously gonna find that out fairly quickly when you move over to your kit modelling stage as to uh how much pl how much how much how pliable is Plasticine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we could think of the the cases like changing with the fashions", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like the Nokia phones where you could take the casing off the outside. But whether that would be too much to incorporate in production,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "whether that would just increase the costs,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "make it more complicated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you're talking there about uh changing changing the casing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's possibly it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the a the actual the sort of the look from the outside, so where the buttons would stay the same, and the general function of the remote would stay the same,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you could change the the way it looked.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah and then you could have Oh but you still would have to have the logo on every new case,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you could have like pink cases for girls and red ones and things like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you you could do a colour change, so therefore you would yeah yeah I mean that's effectively what they did with the with the mobile phones, was to have some in blue, some in red, some in rather than all in black", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or, you know, which four do you want, as long as it's black?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it is a possibility, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we are supposed to use the um company colour scheme, aren't we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes oh that's true", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We haven't really seen that yet", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh okay yes", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh that might no", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It might and we might be able to do both but it might clash with certain things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well not necessarily, because you could have your company uh We're we're meant to be finishing up. You could have your company badge and logo. I mean a lot of um computers for instance like like on the one you've got there, it actually has a sort of um stick on badge", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so what you would al all you would really need, whether it, you know, whether the casing be w any colour, could be any colour, but that badge would then have to stick out on top of it so that uh in a sense, with a with a logo like that, because it's on a white background, the only colour that it might not stick out so well on would be a white casing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause you you know you're sort of you're badging it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And in fact a lot of companies get somebody else to make them and literally just badge them themselves with their own uh badge over the top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And in fact the way they've got that there even if you had that on a white, which is the predominant colour of the uh the Windows badge, you'd still be able to see it clearly from you know a white casing uh product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And whether we'd have a big enough market to have this kind of like secondary market of selling the cases might be something to consider.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well if it's for young people, um like the phone generation, that sort of thing'd probably go down well,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the market research has been on that side of things, hasn't it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean it's people say that it's the look, they want the fancy looking thing but I'm Yeah. I'm not convinced on whether having changeable covers would be something that people would buy into. I think with the mobiles, it's the, you know it's a communication device, people see you with it all about and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I suppose,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "where you you keep the remote hidden under the sofa most of the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "i if it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's uh in in the house, isn't it, I suppose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so if we just went for one colour of a rubber case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So don't change case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Change case colour. And we're sort of saying no to that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did we decide on the rubber case? The spongy feel, or did we think that that might go as a trend?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it was different last year. The trend was different last year apparently. It was not not spongy feel. But I don't know whether the trend will change. I don't know whether it's one of those things that like sort of having all fruit shaped keys, that that probably would go out of fashion very quickly,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whereas just the fact that it was a rubber case is probably less less of something that y you're gonna end up hating in a year, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, less likely to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sounds reasonable. If you're going for fashion trends like that they'll need t you'd have to have interchangeable cases", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So then th th that would.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that you could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or'cause otherwise someone's gonna have to buy a complete new remote rather than just a case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it seems to make sense that we we'd just maybe stick with the standard rubber case,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then have the standard rubber buttons as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh we haven't really talked about uh the curvature of the case. There's flat,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there's single-curved and there's double-curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Mayb", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not exactly sure what these things look like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe curves give it like the slightly more aesthetic feel? But the double curve wouldn't require us to perform miracles with the Plasticine..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it says that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When you say d when you say double-curved, what what exactly does that mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not exactly sure. Um I'll show you the remotes that I've got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See how uh Let's just get that bigger. See how uh the one Oh I'm not plugged in, am I?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No you're not connected to me anymore..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That doesn't help..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One one thing to cons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall I just turn it round for time?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "one thing to consider is that in some ways you want um by having a fairly standard case it means they can all fit together on top of each other", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That should come up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "therefore for storage purposes in shops and the like and it makes it easier that you can if you can store them up on top of each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whereas if you do um fancy things with it, you then gotta put it in a ca a a packaging box that that does that. And the cost of packaging could be quite important vis-a-vis the total cost of the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So shall we go through quickly and just work out what we've decide on, if we have to kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um it's not very clear up there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but you can see some of them have got kind of bulges, like the second one and the end one uh where there's a curve there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not exactl I don't know if a double curve is maybe it comes up slightly, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what I was trying to work out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um it is a kinda sleeker look if you've got curves in there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right. S so do you wanna go for curves, more curves?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're meant to be f we're meant to be finishing this meeting in about a minute or so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Definitely a single, maybe a double.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay, so shall we quickly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall we go for single curve, just to compromise?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We'll go for single curve, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "curved or double curved? So it's single curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So did we did we decide on the kinetic power supply? The one you move around?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think that think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the rubber push buttons, rubber case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Rubber Rubber buttons and case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and we don't really know much about the colour scheme or logo yet do we,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh we ca", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but possibly a sticker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, we'll still have the Are we gonna go for the simple circuit board just to keep the cost down? I th I think we can by by not having anything too complicated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah and and the voice recognition, we can use that can't we, just to find it. Without affecting the circuit board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And see we could always decide against it if something comes up that's just something to that we seemed to leave out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. And then are we going for sort of one button shaped like a fruit. Or veg.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that sounds like it wouldn't do too much harm in a couple of years. Uh what sort of shape do we want?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we've got spongy feel buttons as well, have we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't know, maybe just", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As well as or w or was that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's ru rubber buttons, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's rubber buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's not really spongy feel buttons, it's just rubber buttons. With a rubber case right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's not too wacky.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Reasonably spongy I guess, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the standby button is gonna be different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think an apple would be a good recognisable shape. If you start getting into kinda aubergines and things, it gets a bit weird.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so what what shape are we making the standby button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Apple?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A apple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Vote?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh oh Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall we vote on it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We will go for the a a a apples apples.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyone got any suggestions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Apple apple a a qu Quite a big one, as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Ah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A big apple. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it could be red.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Could be a red apple, yeah. Either, don't mind.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A red apple? Is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause we wanna incorporate a bit of colour if we can, once we find out um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And then we're gonna are you gonna work on keeping the button design quite simple? Just like the Just working out what we're gonna do for the next time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah that seems pretty straight forward.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause most of them will just be kind of mainly circular or like very plain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry what was that last thing again there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh just to keep the shape of the buttons simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right much option on that. I thought you were going for a single curve and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah just the uh shape of the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And j yeah, just keeping the sort of the labelling them labelling of them fairly simple as well. Fairly sort of self explanatory.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, so shape of buttons simple. Okay. So that's that, I guess. We should now go away and get these things sorted out. I guess you two are on plasticine duty or whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that the end? Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Looks like it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education20", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, and welcome to today's meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. Unfortunately, the Chair is unable to attend today, so in accordance with Standing Order 17.22 I call for nominations for a temporary Chair for the duration of today's meeting.", "speakerName": "Gareth Rogers" }, { "text": "I nominate John Griffiths.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Gareth Rogers" }, { "text": "I'll second that nomination.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "As there's only one nomination, I declare that John Griffiths has been appointed as temporary Chair. Thank you, John.", "speakerName": "Gareth Rogers" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you all very much, and item 1 on our agenda today is introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest. We've received apologies from Hefin David and Lynne Neagle. There are no substitutions. Are there any declarations of interest? No. We will move on then to item 2, and our inquiry into the impact of Brexit on higher and further education, and our first evidence session. I'm very pleased to welcome the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales here today, and Dr David Blaney as chief executive, and Bethan Owen, director of institutional engagement. Welcome to you both. Thanks for coming along to give evidence today. If it's okay with you, we'll move straight to questions, and Julie Morgan.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Good morning. Bore da. I wondered if we could start off with you telling us what evidence you can see that the Brexit process has had any impact on Welsh higher education so far.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Can I preface the response by just reminding you that we are, by contract and by role, apolitical, and a lot of the judgments about the impact of Brexit essentially reflect where people sit politically in terms of whether they think it's a good thing or a bad thing? We're not going to go there, obviously, today, so we'll stick to the facts as we can see them, and hopefully we'll be able to help you, but there are areas where we are unable to help. That's part of the reason.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "We certainly do not expect you to enter the political fray in any way.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. But even in terms of your assessment of whether this is going to be a good thing or a bad thing, a good impact or a bad impact, some of that inevitably in the end becomes a matter of your politics on it, so we will be as careful as we can be on that. In terms of the impact of Brexit on higher education, clearly, the significance here is about the contribution that higher education can make to Wales. So, we fund provision; we don't fund providers, technically, although obviously there's not much provision without providers. So, we are interested in the sustainability of higher education providers, but fundamentally the issue is: what does the HE system in Wales do for Wales, and what impact might Brexit have on the capacity of the system to continue to deliver for Wales? So, we know that universities make annually about £5 billion of impact; 50,000 jobs. Of course, in Wales, all of that economic impact is really very significant, and uncertainty about the relationships and the arrangements with Europe is one of the most significant issues confronting university management at the moment. That has an impact in a number of ways. We can identify at the moment the extent to which the HE sector in Wales is exposed to sources of income that are located from the EU, so EU students, structural funds, and EU research funding, and so on, from the EU. We can identify some of that, but, actually, what happens in the future is much harder to be clear about. We are beginning to see some impact in terms of applications from EU students and I'll ask Bethan to share some details on that in a moment. We're also beginning to pick up, only anecdotally, some signs that there are increasing difficulties in the UK sector, and the Welsh sector as part of that, in playing in some of the EU collaborative research activities. And that, I think, just reflects the extent to which EU partners consider that British partners might be a stable partner as we go through this transition period. We don't have data on that—that's anecdotal—but there are signs that some of those relationships are beginning to become a little bit more difficult. In terms of the financial impact of that, clearly, if it is accepted that the UK is a net contributor to the EU then, presumably, some of the money—we're almost immediately straight into politics if you're not careful—but some of the money will be available back to the UK, and the extent to which Wales benefits or not from that returned money is a function of the political relationship between the Welsh Government and Her Majesty's Government. It's not necessarily the case that Wales will always lose out in that relationship, but that will become a matter of politics. There's a broader dimension, which is about the economic impact of Brexit on the UK economy and how much tax revenue there is and all of that. I think it's very hard for us to be definitive about how that's going to play out. I think that depends on the deal and how it all unfolds over the next several years. But we can certainly anticipate some turbulence and exactly how that plays for institutions remains to be seen. We can touch later on on the extent to which they are sighted on this and preparing for it. So, in terms of recruitment, Bethan.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "This is based on the UCAS applications and the report that was published at the end of June, 30 June. The European Union-domiciled applicants to Wales have decreased by 8 per cent, which contrasts with a 2 per cent increase for English institutions, and non-EU—so international students, not from Europe—have also decreased by 9 per cent to Welsh institutions, again contrasting with a 7 per cent increase in England. So, those are the signs of changes.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay. Could I then just ask you what you see as the main pressures on the Welsh higher education sector at the moment?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "The funding position would be the main pressure. The recommendations made by Sir Ian Diamond in his review of higher education funding and student finance are in the process of being implemented, and the changes to the student finance arrangements will take effect from this September. However, the recommendations for re-establishing funding at Welsh institutions are expected to take quite a bit longer. That funding, when it returns to institutions, is intended to re-establish funding for higher cost provision, both full time and part time; reinstate funding for innovation; and maintain, at the very least, the research funding in real terms. Universities, in the meantime, are trying to minimise the cost reductions that they're making in order to maintain the infrastructure, so that when the funding comes they can get the best value out of it. We have announced our funding allocations for 2018-19. For the research and teaching grant, though, we are still funding at a lower level—£12.5 million less—then the starting point for the Diamond report, the 2015-16 starting report. But we expect to be able to start introducing funding from 2019-20 to make a start on implementing Diamond. And it's probably important to note that the Diamond recommendations predated Brexit, therefore the challenges introduced by Brexit are in addition to those that the Diamond report was addressing. The other pressures relate to student recruitment. I mentioned the EU and international students. There is also the start of a reduction, both in Welsh-domiciled and English-domiciled applications to Wales. Enrolments are obviously the key important number, which we'll see later. And the other pressures include pay and pension costs, not least the issues around the universities superannuation scheme pension fund, where there's potentially a significant increase in cost. Increased student expectations for modern facilities and infrastructure bring a requirement for capital expenditure and borrowing, which bring their own pressures. And finally, the uncertainty about potential consequences that could arise from the review in England of fees and funding—the Augar review.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "In terms of European Union students and enrolment, is Wales forecast to do less well than England and, if so, why might that be?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "They are not forecasting it. It's very difficult until the enrolments are made, and it's also very hard to see—the data that we see is the UCAS data. Institutions also recruit directly, so until we see the actual recruitment—. I think the arrangements that have changed from 2018-19 also impact on EU students. So, now, they have to find the full fee, whereas previously they were getting the grant in the same way as Welsh students. So, I'm speculating that that might be having an impact as well on EU students' appetite to come.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay. First of all Llyr, then Mark.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Well, that's straight into what I was going to ask, really, about what you think the factors are that led to this 8 per cent or 9 per cent drop in EU students applying to study in Wales, where we see a 2 per cent increase in England. Is that it, or are there other things that you've taken into account? What's your assessment of the reasons behind this?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "It's very difficult to be definitive about the reasons, but I think there are probably two. The one that Bethan has already indicated, which is the change in student support arrangements for EU students, will have an effect of perturbation. That's probably relatively temporary—let's hope it is—as that settles down because, actually, the deal for EU students coming into Wales is no worse than that coming into England. Ours would be better because the fee level is slightly lower, but we do struggle in Wales in terms of the Anglocentric nature of the media and so on. So, getting the messages out is a challenge. The other dimension is that when you're in a highly competitive recruitment market, you have to do what you can to look attractive. Part of that is about being able to invest in facilities, and particularly buildings and kit, and the relative levels of investment between Wales and England over quite a long period of time now probably have an impact on that. Certainly, anecdotally I know, from my own family, that a lot of the choices have been made in terms of the state of repair of campuses and so on. There's something rational about that, isn't there? If you've got a system that is relatively better invested, then you're likely to have a better student experience because the resources are likely to be better. So, that's not irrational. We saw a sort of similar but opposite effect when the £9,000 fee maximum limit came in, and some institutions, mostly in England—there was one in Wales—chose to pitch their fee levels really quite low, relative to that £9,000, and caught a cold in the student recruitment market because fee levels denote quality in the student mind. So, the price sensitivities work quite differently. So, again, if you've got a relatively better invested part of the system, then that might well be one of the reasons why it looks more attractive.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "That latter factor would affect the whole of the cohort, not just the international recruitment, of course.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Indeed. Yes, indeed. The implementation of the Diamond recommendations is crucial to that because that's re-balancing where the policy of investment goes.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. And Mark.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "If I heard you correctly earlier, you said that the applications from non-EU students were also down by 8 per cent or 9 per cent. So, forgive me a certain scepticism about the explanation of the fall in the EU students being that they did get the fee grant and now they do not. If that's the explanation, why are we seeing the same fall in non-EU applications?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think the Welsh domiciled are also now having to face the prospect of finding a loan for the whole of the fee. So, that would potentially account for that. There's also a demographic dimension here with the downturn in the 18-year-old school-leaver profile, and that actually is happening in Wales at a slightly later point than in England.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But this is non-EU students, and I think you said, Bethan, an 8 per cent or 9 per cent fall in them as well.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "International non-EU. I beg your pardon. I misunderstood.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "There's also a mix effect. I gave a number that was for all English institutions that there will be differential impacts on.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "All English or all Welsh?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, I contrasted the Welsh position with the English position where they were seeing growth. If you look, then—and we don't have the detailed information, but, again, what UCAS publish is some analysis by tariff. They analyse by type of institution—in other words, the grades that you need to get into institutions—and there is a trend for growth being in the higher tariff institutions. So, there's a mix effect in there as well, and I think there's undoubtedly an element of perception of how welcome overseas and international students are, and that's something that we know the sector are working on with Government.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Why would that affect Wales more than England? Do you think there's been perhaps too great a negativity about Brexit in the sector?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think it's the mix of institutions that we have. So, we only have sector information published at the moment. When we look at the mix of institutions that we have, we will probably see a differential impact between Cardiff University and others.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay, Mark? Sorry, David, did you want to add anything?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I was just going to say that we would expect to see quite differential performance in the English sector, so the overall numbers are being brought up by substantial increased performance with some of that sector, and it's a question of how many of that type of institution you have in Wales.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "So, performance is increasing amongst the English universities, but not amongst the Welsh, you think.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think performance is increasing, but increasing substantially with some of the English sector, not all of it. So, you get an average for the sector that is increased performance, but actually the stronger players within that sector, with the stronger international profiles, are bringing that up, and we have fewer in Wales that have that sort of presence.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Darren.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Would it be fair to say, then, that the universities over the border in England are better at selling themselves internationally than our Welsh institutions? Or is it just this fact that we've got fewer very high tariff universities versus the English market?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I suspect, and this is speculation—I suspect that it's a bit of both. I think some of it is to do with the mix of different types of institution. I would then come back to the point I was making about the Anglocentric nature of the UK media. If you're looking overseas, I think Wales has to work harder to penetrate the consciousness.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But, forgive me, don't international students just look at the UK as a whole? How are we comparing to Scotland, for example, or Northern Ireland, in terms of their universities? Do you have a comparative figure for Scottish universities?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I haven't got that one with me for now, but there will be one in the data.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Yes, we could get that.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Again, it's a combination of being part of the UK but differentiating, and the ability to differentiate the strengths of Wales, so attracting those students to Wales specifically, on top of the UK draw.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, in terms of the efforts that have been made, there's a programme now that is being run by the sector in Wales—it's'Study in Wales'. It's relatively recent; you could argue that we could have got there earlier. But that is a determined collective effort to present Wales as a good place to study, with particular messages about what distinguishes studying in Wales from studying more broadly in the UK. In a sense, that is responding to the need to increase the presence of Wales in an international market. So, that sort of initiative I think is very good, very welcome. It will take a while to actually have an impact, but I think that's exactly the sort of work the sector need to be doing more of.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "What are those messages on why prospective students should study in Wales?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "One of them in particular is relative safety. We know that one of the considerations, particularly for parents of overseas students, is are they going to go to a safe environment, and we know that the perception of international students who study in Wales is that this is a comfortable and safe place to be. That's partly a function of the size of our larger cities—quite a lot smaller than many of the cities in England. So, that's a key message. Being part of a UK system is also an important message there as well. So, we've got a UK-quality system, a UK degree, and the strength of that brand is available in Wales, but it's available in a way that is safer and more supportive, I think is the messaging that's coming through.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. We'd better move on, I think, hadn't we? Darren, then.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I just wonder to what extent you have been able to plan in your financial forecasts for the next few years ahead for the potential impacts of Brexit. What have you built in, if anything?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "In terms of our funding, we receive our funding annually, but the sector provides us with financial forecasts, and we use those for monitoring sustainability. So, the last full forecasts that we had were in July 2017. We are due to receive a full forecast at the end of this month, and we obviously have updated information from institutions.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "And they're three-year forecasts that come through to you, aren't they?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "They are four plus the current year. So, we've got numbers to 2019-20 at the moment, and expect to go to 2020-21.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "And what are the universities expecting? What do they anticipate?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, for 2017-18, which is the year we're about to end now, they were expecting £38 million income from European students, and approximately £91 million from the various European programme funding sources, and that's about 8 per cent of the total income—£1.5 billion—of the sector. The forecasts are assuming that that continues, albeit that institutions have various scenarios that they have for all sorts of scenarios that we can all speculate on, and, as I mentioned earlier, the balancing act of maintaining infrastructure and resources and staff in the short term is where we are at the moment, or where the sector is at the moment. And there are also signs that the banks and lending institutions are becoming a bit more risk-averse in providing borrowing to institutions, and of more differentiation between individual institutions being made than has possibly been the case in the past. The sector made an operating deficit, again looking at all Welsh institutions collectively last year, 2016-17, of £17 million. That's before other gains and losses. And we're expecting a similar collective level of deficit for this financial year, if not slightly higher. Now, these are managed deficits and we are not currently seeing critical short-term cash availability issues in the sector. However, the increase in funding from Diamond is a key part of enabling the sector to return to longer-term financial sustainability. Short-term challenges can be met if there's a reasonable prospect of future funding. You can manage in the short-term, but there comes a point when the big cost reductions and infrastructure reductions have to be made. And, again, having mentioned the pressures on pay, pensions and other challenges, it is difficult to gauge whether, if those factors come into play as well, some of these cost reductions may have to be made before funding comes in to replace—either Diamond funding or the European replacement funding.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, would it be fair to say that, in terms of the funding arrangements, and, in terms of the student numbers, one reason why we've got this recruitment problem is this lack of investment in the capital infrastructure that we've seen in recent years because of the financing arrangements from the Welsh Government, and the fee regime that we had previously, and the student finance regime that we had previously, not getting more cash into our Welsh universities perhaps, and that, over the next few years, there's going to have to be much more significant investment in capital if we're to raise the game and be more competitive, yes?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that would be fair to say.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, to what extent are they planning for more capital investment in those financial strategies that they've been preparing and presenting to you?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "They are all planning for capital investment. They are in different positions in terms of capacity to borrow and the assumptions. This year, 2018-19, is the first time that we've had capital funding in our remit letter—so, we've got £10 million of capital funding, which is very welcome, with a prospect of a further £20 million. So, that we will be allocating shortly. That will make a difference, particularly to those institutions who are not finding it as easy to borrow from financial institutions. Some of our larger institutions have borrowed—Cardiff University issued a bond. However, there are internal governance processes that are putting tight restrictions and expectations of what that money will be invested in. But they all have plans to do it and they need the confidence that their forecasts and long-term future funding prospects are secure enough that they can get the confidence of borrowers then, and service the costs of those borrowers.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, the Diamond dividend you've mentioned a few times. What clarity is there from the Welsh Government at the moment in terms of how much they anticipate the Diamond dividend will be, and what proportion of that is going to be released to HEIs in the future?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I was very carefully not describing it as a dividend—a re-establishing of funding that we had in the past for higher cost and innovation and maintaining research funding. The timescales are difficult, because we have an annual remit letter, and we can work with Welsh Government officials, and they can only give us a sense of when they think the funding will be released. But 2018-19 is the start of the system, and because of cohort protection—so, protecting those students who came in on a different deal to the deal from 2018-19—in the early years there is an element of double cost; there's a cost of seeing out the old system and the different cost of implementing the new system. So, at the moment, we're certainly not in a position to tell the sector with any degree of certainty what funding would be beyond what we've allocated for 2018-19, with some sense of what 2019-20 numbers we're working with because we allocate our money over an academic year—so, by definition, we've already made assumptions of four months of the 2019-20 funding, albeit that's not approved yet in the budgetary process.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "But you're not being given a steer at all as to what you expect the additional resource that you might have to make available to Welsh universities might be as a result of Diamond. You must have some idea.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think it's fair to say that officials have been as helpful as they can be with us, in terms of the planning assumptions we make and indications about whether or not we are being too ambitious or not ambitious enough. So, I think they're being very helpful; as Bethan said, they're constrained by the process—they can't pre-empt a budget process. And you folks will be fully aware of that, of course. The other question I think you asked was how much of the money released by the new arrangements will come into higher education. At the moment, we are expecting all of it to come into higher education, as the product of the arrangement between the current Cabinet Secretary and the current First Minister. The extent to which any changes there cause that to come under threat is something I can't judge at the moment. But we have had in our remit letter from the Cabinet Secretary a clear indication that we can expect our resource to grow over the next few years, as the Diamond process unfolds.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm just going to bring in Llyr at this stage.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Bethan said in an earlier answer that, I think, the financial forecasting from universities forecast something pretty consistent in terms of what they're hoping to be receiving in income, for example. But we've already discussed the near 10 per cent drop, potentially, in international applications. So, does that tally, really, or are they going to be recruiting additional students from the UK market or—? What's the plan?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I was reflecting on the last point when we had consistent information across the sector.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay. So, they may need to revisit that in the light of this.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I'm expecting that the forecast that we get at the end of this month will reflect the reduced applications we've seen, and an element of that will be reflected in reduced improvements as well.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we don't really know, then, whether—it's unlikely that they are going to expect a consistent fee income, really.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think it's fair to say we would expect them to respond to what they're seeing in the UCAS process. Even if they didn't, they would all, in any case, have sensitivities for what they would do if things don't come out in the way they hope. And if they didn't have that then we would be on their case, of course, because we want them to be properly sighted.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "And we have to stick to the Brexit impact. Darren.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Can I just ask, in terms of the impact of Brexit, have you done any assessment of what you think might happen, or have any of the institutions made available to you any assessments of what they think is likely to happen to their individual institutions, going forward? You've mentioned scenarios earlier on, David, so what scenarios have you set out?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "There's a Welsh Government HE Brexit working group, which is chaired by one of the Government directors, and we sit on that. And we have provided that group with early summaries of the risks and the potential impact, in terms of the exposure of the sector to EU-sourced funding. We have, as part of that working group, explored those issues that it would be really very helpful for either the Welsh Government to try to put in place or for the Welsh Government to persuade UK Government to do. And I think, in our submission, we identified a number of areas of what we would consider to be a helpful action, and that has been worked through that working group. We know that it has informed Welsh Government's position, in terms of what it does and also in terms of the conversations that they have with Her Majesty's Government. Beyond that, what we haven't done in that working group is share the work that institutions are doing individually to look at how they would respond to different scenarios. We are not able to do that here either because, inevitably, they would have varying degrees of unpalatability and they would have to be managed very, very carefully. You take cost out, which is essentially the response, you actually take people's jobs out, and all of that has to be managed carefully. So, that's not really a matter for public consideration, but we do know that the institutions are looking at a range of scenarios on what they would do. Bethan mentioned earlier on that the current deficit for the sector is a managed deficit—it's not something that has taken them by surprise. They are responding to what they see as the dip between where Diamond was reporting and where the money starts flowing. Similarly, I think we're comfortable that there is a managed approach to the scenarios that they're testing within institutions. So, they will do what they need to do to sustain themselves. The bigger issue really, in a public policy context, is the potential damage for the sector to be able to deliver for Wales in terms of research and skills development and all the other contributions.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "So, you're confident that they're taking a robust approach to planning for various scenarios, going forward, are you, as individual HEIs?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and as the deal becomes more clear politically, then they will obviously have greater clarity in terms of which of these scenarios they need to work up more fully, but they are sighted on it.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Can I just ask about fee and access plans, and how Brexit might impact them? To what extent do you think that they could be impacted?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think there are two dimensions to maybe touch upon there. Fee and access plans are approved annually by us. They are approved in advance of the recruitment cycle for the year that they apply to. So, we're just in the process now of finalising our consideration of fee and access plans for the 2019-20 academic year. So, there's quite a long lead time. We, as part of that process, go through similar—we look at their financial sustainability, which is based on their forecasts—data to the stuff we've just been discussing. And also, of course, the fee plans themselves make assumptions about how many students of different types, from different domains, are going to be recruited. So, clearly, if there is a continuing downward pressure on EU student recruitment, then that will reduce the amount of fee income that's going to come in, unless they can find other students, and that will reduce the amount of investment in the various activities that are identified in the fee plans. In terms of process, we have two things that we can do. If institutions are becoming aware that the basis upon which they've submitted a fee plan is fundamentally different from the reality, then they can come into us for a change to their fee plan. So, we have a change process. If it's not fundamentally different, but there are always differences between what you plan and what happens three years later—. We also monitor after the event and, if there are differences, we would then obviously require institutions to explain those differences. If they've had fewer students and less investment, we would need to understand that. Conversely, if they'd had more students, and potentially more investment, we'd want to know what they'd spent it on, and if they've done different things, we'd want to understand that as well. So, we do challenge through a monitoring process. The only other thing that's perhaps worth saying is that, in the 2019-20 fee and access plans—they're not published yet, so I can't give you the full detail—five universities have made reference to Brexit and the Brexit impact, and things they want to do through their fee and access plan to try and address some of those issues, so they're in there as well.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But we've already said, haven't we, that it may be nothing to do with Brexit, this dip in EU recruitment, because there are other factors like the attractiveness of the estates and the environment that young people might be educated in? But they're making assumptions that it's linked to Brexit, are they?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Not really. I think they're making assumptions that it could be. There are things they want to do to enhance and to protect student mobility, and some of that will be funded through fee plan investment. So, the Brexit conversation between the EU and the UK Government might or might not sustain Erasmus engagement, and if it doesn't, then they need to find other ways of trying to support that sort of thing. So, that's what we're beginning to see in the fee plans. It's them thinking about how else we can do this stuff.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay, Darren? Mark.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "You mentioned the fee and access report. What else do you do to assure yourselves that Welsh higher education institutions are effectively planning for Brexit?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "We've touched on contingency plans, but, in an environment of uncertainty, I think it's difficult for any of us to know what the right scenario is. I think rather than looking at worst-case scenarios, what the sector is also focusing on is the promotion and looking for additional or increased sources of funding. So, we touched on strengthening the Global Wales engagement in order to sell Wales, so more focus on marketing Wales overseas, but also within the UK. The other area where the sector is working at a UK level very hard is making the arguments to UK Government for maintaining access to the successor to Horizon 2020, which is arguably a larger part of the whole funding infrastructure—students is one part, but the whole funding infrastructure for maintaining research capacity. So, working with UK universities to make arguments at UK Government level for maintaining access to those sources of funding is also a part of what the institutions are doing. We mentioned the Welsh Government's HE Brexit group. That group, which is the Welsh Government group, is being advised by members on it, and that's informing Welsh Government officials when they engage with UK Government as well.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Do universities seek your advice on what the risks and, indeed, opportunities of Brexit may be and what you think they should be doing to plan for them, or is your role more one of monitoring what they do as opposed to advising what they should do?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "They are autonomous institutions and ultimately their governing bodies are responsible for ensuring their sustainability. It's not a relationship where we would advise and direct, but it is a relationship where we would question the scenarios if we consider from our experience that we would have expected other scenarios to have been tested. It's that nature of conversation, rather than directing.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "I understand you don't direct, of course, but my question was about advising. You're overseeing, or monitoring—or whatever you like to describe the role as—quite a number of institutions, and presumably you therefore have particular expertise within your organisation, and I just wondered whether higher education institutions are doing enough to draw on that.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think we can advise—we can advise based on data and information that we can see. We can advise based on our judgment. The big thing in this whole Brexit scenario is the uncertainty and the extent to which our speculation is better informed than the governing bodies or the sector collectively is probably the issue.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "I think that's right. So, there's a relationship with the sector and there's a relationship with individual institutions, and they are different. So, we have engagement collectively with the sector. Bethan meets with the finance directors, and I meet with the vice-chancellors. We actually have the sector and the funding council together on the Welsh Government's group. So, some of these conversations are happening in various ways, where we're all gaining intelligence about what might be a sensible set of planning assumptions. Then, if we see an institution that is manifestly giving signs of not being sighted on some of these risks, either through their forecast or through other assurance activity, we will challenge. We have an annual cycle, with two points in the year where we reassess the overall risks of individual institutions, and that's based on a whole range of hard data but also a range of soft data. Our links into institutions are many and varied. We have lots of conversations and we take all of that in the round and form an assessment about the financial sustainability of the institutions but also the extent to which we think their governance and management arrangements are properly sighted and facing properly the challenges that they face. In some ways, we say it's not about the challenges they face; it's about how they face the challenges. Our alarm bells really ring when we get the sense that, actually, either an executive or a governing body hasn't really noticed. We're not in that place, I'm really pleased to say. I'm not worried about short-term crisis with any of the institutions. There are medium-term real challenges, both because of Brexit and because of other contextual factors, but at the moment the sector is a managed sector, which is good. It's not always like that, but we're in, I think, a good place at the moment. So, our role is definitely to challenge where we don't think they are making sensible assessments, but it's not to say that their assessment is wrong and ours is right; it's just to have a conversation about,'Why have you done this and what has informed your thinking?' It's slightly more one step back and slightly more subtle, but it is, as you imply, us using the intelligence we gain from all of those conversations when we talk to individual institutions as well.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Llyr.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you. We had evidence last week from some of the higher education institutions, including Cardiff University, and it's very interesting, in relation to Erasmus+ and the mobility funding for students that, I think, only 40 per cent of the mobility funding in Cardiff is paid for by Erasmus+. I note that you've been consulting on national measures for higher education performance and that one possibility is using international mobility as a performance indicator. I was just wondering whether you might go further and expect universities to actually make commitments to funding international mobility from their own fee incomes as part of that.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Again, reflecting on the latest fee and access plans, seven of the universities are referring to mobility—either they have targets in them or are explaining what their plans are—so they are including an element of it from their own income and fee and access income. However, Erasmus is such a well-established and long-term plan—if we were looking at a scenario where that infrastructure wasn't available, to implement anything similar to that would be much less efficient and much more costly. And to enable an infrastructure that allowed—. Ideally, you'd want something that all Welsh institutions could take part in, and that takes some investment and some co-ordinating. And, equally, you need to have the arrangements with your overseas and European institutions. I think it's easy to underestimate the accumulation of time that has gone into establishing Erasmus. So, I think replacing it would be a challenge.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "And the point was made clearly last week that the brand is internationally recognised. When you enter into Erasmus+, you know exactly what you're going to get, and all of that. But there have been criticisms as well about degrees of flexibility and this, that and the other, so I'm just wondering whether—and there is presumably going to be some change on that front although I'm hoping we can buy into it, as others have done who aren't in the EU—that emphasis on encouraging institutions to look more proactively at funding their own mobility efforts would be positive.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think the—", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Sorry—especially if it means that they do more of it.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Indeed. I think the Welsh sector is definitely committed to trying to find ways of promoting and resourcing that sort of mobility. There are signs that some of the restrictive elements of the Erasmus programme are going to change anyway, because that's under development and that's positive. There have been positive noises as part of the Brexit negotiations about wanting to carry on being able to access the Erasmus programme. Nothing is agreed until it's all agreed apparently, so we'll have to see on that one. That would be far better, I think, as Bethan indicates, than trying to replace it with a made-in-Wales only, but you could have a made-in-Wales on top. All of these challenges also create opportunities because they stimulate thinking, and so the fact that seven of the eight universities are already now using their fee plans as a vehicle for thinking about this is positive, and I think we can take that on from there.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Because that 40/60 split struck me as being the opposite to what I perceived the situation to be. A key part of your role is to work in partnership with students, so I'd just like to ask what work have you done with students, in terms of maybe protecting their interests as the Brexit scenario evolves?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, as you say, we do work with students. We were the first of the funding councils in the UK to have a memorandum of understanding with the National Union of Students in Wales. We work very closely with them and the president of NUS is an observer on our council. So, we have close links with NUS Wales and we're very proud of that, and it's very productive. They don't have a vote, but they do have a voice and it really matters. We we're, again, ahead of the rest of the UK in requiring all HE providers to have student charters and there are elements of student protection within the student charter. The UK-wide quality code also has elements in it where arrangements have to be specified about the protection of student interests. That is particularly, in essence, around circumstances where a provider gets into difficulties and they might wish to close a course or something more drastic and then what arrangements are in place to make sure that those students who are in train are protected. So, that is there and we've worked hard with the sector and with NUS Wales to get those measures in place. There's more development work in train at the moment, so we've asked Universities Wales to construct a protection that takes account of the approach to protecting the student interests in higher education. We're also requiring further education institutions who are regulated and deliver higher education to do similar or the same, and that's very important. The students who are HE students in FE are absolutely not second-best, and they should have the same protections.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But is all this a general piece of work? It's not Brexit-specific, although, no doubt, it may—.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think that's fair to say, yes. The other dimension around Brexit is the immigration status of EU students, and that's, kind of, beyond our pay scale—that's a UK Government issue.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Is that something that you have a view on?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "It's clearly in the interest of the enrichment of the curriculum and the student experience for students in Welsh institutions to be able to have students from other EU countries in the mix. So, it would be nice to find ways of continuing to facilitate that.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Now, of course, you have a statutory duty as well to assess the academic quality of the work in our higher education institutions, and I'm just wondering what potential impacts you think that Brexit might have on that particular aspect.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think there are possibly a couple of things to say, and one, in a sense, echoes what I was just saying in the final part of my previous response, which is that part of the quality of the student experience is the richness that you get from having students in your cohort who have different backgrounds and different perspectives. So, if there is a continuing reduction in the number of EU students coming into Welsh institutions, then that richness deteriorates. That doesn't mean to say that the base or the threshold standard of what's required for a degree will come under pressure, it's just about the richness on top of that, which will be, in a sense, a quality-enhancement issue. That would be something that we would wish to try to protect against, but in the end you can't force EU students to come—you have to try and look attractive, and we've touched on that. The baseline requirement assessment of quality will not be affected by Brexit, except in so far as the machinery we use to discharge our statutory responsibility, which is through the Quality Assurance Agency, which themselves are accredited with European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, the European machinery for higher education quality. And there's a set of standards around that, and we would obviously wish not to be in a position where our ability to use and adhere to those standards is adversely impacted upon. Those standards will still exist, and it will be possible for the British system to adhere to them, even if they're not actually able to play in the same way. Then the only other thing I would say is that one of the factors that can cause the quality of the learning and teaching experience to be likely to become inadequate is when institutions come under financial pressure, just because their capacity to maintain the same sort of student experience can get under pressure. So, clearly, we will be looking for and making sure that institutions manage the financial pressures, if there are any—and there are some at the moment, as we've described—and manage those carefully. And in all of that, we will expect institutions to do their duty to make sure that the commitments they've already made to students are carried through. So, where students have already started on the course, they need to be able to finish that course—you can't just pull the plug out. So, all of that comes into the arrangements for quality as well. So, we'll be keeping an eye on that.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. A lot of what you've told us in the last three quarters of an hour or so will have costs attached, depending on the impacts. Certainly, we're in choppy waters as a sector anyway, and the risk is that things will be even more choppy, if you'll excuse that level of political interpretation, over the years to come. I'm just wondering what advice you might have given the Welsh Government in terms of what level of transition funding, or Brexit transition funding, might be required by the sector, and if you have, what the Welsh Government might have told you.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I mentioned earlier that, obviously, we've provided information in terms of the assumptions that the sector are making on income. So, for the year 2017-18, that was £129 million. I think the extent to which that needs to be replaced or supported with transition funding depends absolutely on what the final arrangements for Brexit are, but it's an appropriate point to refer to the report that Professor Graeme Reid has produced, commissioned by Welsh Government. That was, and has, provided advice and recommendations for supporting research and innovation in the transition period. But, again, the Reid recommendations in that report build on the Diamond recommendations, and as soon as Diamond is in place—and Reid is providing recommendations in addition, to establish funding on the basis that the funding needs to be available in Wales to maintain and develop and strengthen the research and innovation infrastructure that we have.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Are you not worried, though, that the clock is ticking and that we really don't know what the situation is at this point?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Do you mean the Brexit situation?", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "The Brexit clock, yes.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Uncertainty is unhelpful, because as I've said several times, the sector is a managed sector at the moment. I don't think there's—. We're not seeing maverick stuff, but actually you can only manage, really, what you can see and what you can reasonably predict. So, the longer the uncertainty persists, the more difficult that is for institutional management and, indeed, for the rest of the machinery to support them. So, yes, the sooner we get clarity, the better for everybody, I imagine.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Chair, can I just ask a question?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, Darren.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "In terms of uncertainty, though, we've still got this uncertainty over whether the extra cash that the Government's going to have to spend as a result of Diamond being implemented is coming to the HE sector. They've given a political commitment, but you've got absolutely no other assurance of the sums of money that are coming in. We've got the reform of tertiary education arrangements in Wales, which are also under way, so it's a bit of a perfect storm for you, isn't it, really, with all of these three things happening at the same time?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We're certainly kept busy.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But two of those things are in the gift of the Welsh Government to sort out for you, aren't they?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, the policy on the reform of the post-compulsory sector absolutely is a Welsh Government policy. The extent to which they can pre-empt a budgetary process and give us clear sight of the amount of money in future years is—. Well, again, it's not for me to comment. My understanding is that that's difficult for them to do, and I would repeat what I said earlier: officials have been as helpful as I think they can be in respect of that. I mean, you're right, we've only got a political commitment between two people currently in post. It would be great to have that firmer. I'm not sure how that could be done.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "I mean, that statement about the savings accrued from Diamond being reinvested wholly into the HE sector has not been repeated, frankly, has it, since the coalition deal was struck?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "No, but it hasn't been rescinded either, so—.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "No, but there have been opportunities—repeated opportunities—in the Chamber, where the Cabinet Secretary's been asked to repeat that commitment, and the First Minister's been asked to repeat that commitment and has not given that commitment. That must concern you, and must concern your university sector even more than, perhaps, some of the elements of Brexit that we're discussing.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Bethan has outlined earlier on in this session the fact that institutions are currently running deficit budgets in order not to lose the infrastructure on the assumption that the Diamond money will come in. If anything were to cause significant perturbation, either to the timeline of that or to it coming in at all, then there would be much more of what Medwin Hughes calls'houskeeping' that would be required, and that would be significant. So, at the moment—I don't like the expression'valley of death', but there is a valley to cross, and I think the sector is reasonably confident about how wide and how deep that valley is. There's a demographic valley as well. So, there are several valleys that they're crossing—the metaphor fails, doesn't it, really, but I think you get the drift? So, there are a number of challenges and they can see their way out of some of those challenges, but if any one of these starts to get significantly disrupted, then that would be a real issue for them.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Could I go on to ask about other barriers to Welsh universities gaining more funding from UK research councils? What would you say those barriers are?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think there are a couple of things, really, to say. The first one—and we'll sound like a stuck record if we're not careful—is that there's an issue about investment and the Reid report makes this very clear. So, he has reaffirmed research that had been done previously that identifies that, actually, the quality of the research base in Welsh universities and the productivity of that Welsh research base are both good, there's just not enough of them, and that, in the end, is a product of investment decisions. They have particularly looked at the deficit in science, technology, engineering and mathematics areas, and I always say that research is not just STEM. I mean, STEM is important, and I'm not denying the deficit in that area, but we have to also remember that the research agenda for Wales is not just STEM—it's arts, humanities, it's social sciences. If you look at the impact on public policy that could come from social science research—tremendous. And we're very good at it in Wales. The Welsh impact in its research is better than anywhere else in the UK, so that's good. So, they do very well, and we just really need to invest a little bit further—so continue to do very well, but put it on a broader front. If you want to be able to play into the UK-wide research funding, then the investment has two dimensions to it. One is just having enough researchers to be able to play into those increasingly larger projects rather than small-scale projects. If you haven't got the critical mass, it's very hard to make the case that you can play. And the second thing is that UK-wide research pots nearly always fund at about 80 per cent of the total cost of the research, and the other 20 per cent is meant to be found from the core research funding for the university, and if you're in a situation where your core research funding is not competitive, then you're not going to be competitive at getting that money. So, that's, kind of, straightforward. There are other things. I think it's fair to say that the Welsh sector has not been sufficiently focused on getting in on the conversations with the research councils, making sure they're in the various committees and so on. We are intending to do a bit of work to see if we can systematise that a bit better—that engagement—because there's no doubt about it: it's not to say that this system is in any way inappropriate, but the more you're in the conversations, the more likely you are to be better placed to respond to the research challenges that come up.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. One final question: in terms of the researcher collaborations and networks that exist, do you see potential difficulties after Brexit for the continuation and enhancement of those, and are there any particular lessons to learn from Sêr Cymru II?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think that there are two things to say here as well. First of all, the Brexit deal might or might not impact adversely on the capacity of Welsh and, indeed, UK research infrastructure to play into broader collaborative activity across Europe, and, in a sense, that's a function of the deal whatever the deal looks like, and we'll have to wait and see. But we've mentioned playing into Horizon Europe, and being able to continue with that would be an important part of that capacity. It's not just the money, it's being in the club and it's the signalling that we're in the game. So, all of that would be important. And then the other part of my response to this would be that, actually, Wales will need to continue to be good at the research it does, so maintaining the quality, maintaining the impact, and hopefully growing the critical mass. The Sêr Cymru initiative has been quite important in doing that, because it's been very focused, capturing key research players, and the attractiveness that that has then to other researchers around them, and to industry collaboration, and they have been areas of real strength that we've invested in. And I think they are already showing dividends in terms of the capacity to win more research funding, and to establish an even stronger presence in the international research market.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Just one further point, from Darren.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Just very briefly, one of the pieces of feedback that the committee members received at a stakeholder engagement event, which took place prior to this inquiry starting, to receive oral evidence, was about the research funding that is available from the charitable sector, and how poorly Wales does in attracting some of that research. I think we had some figures from the British Heart Foundation, which said they have £100 million a year available for research grants, or something like that, and we're getting 1 per cent of that coming into Wales, which is obviously pretty low down. I appreciate that research into the type of activity that they want to put their money into, Wales may not be particularly good at, and there may be other opportunities with other charities and partnerships. What work are you doing in order to build the capacity that Wales has to attract more of that charitable sector research funding into Wales?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "One of the issues is the capacity to engage with that funding, because of the overhead issue that David mentioned. Charitable funding at the moment doesn't attract any overhead funding. Again, that could be built in to our funding, if we had the capacity to increase our quality-related research funding. There is an element in England.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "But that pressure's the same in other parts of the UK, is it not? So the overhead funding is still an issue in England, and in other places.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "There is an increased contribution, and I think it's an element that was increased this year to acknowledge that. But there will be differentiation between different charities. I'm fairly certain that some of our institutions will be very strong with the cancer charities, possibly not the heart foundation. And some of that will reflect on focusing on our strengths, but to have that fuller picture.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, this gearing issue that you mentioned earlier on, for every £1 that somebody else puts on the table, they can draw in another £4 on top, because that £1 will cover the overheads, whereas the rest of the research cash—.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "That's exactly it. So, the more you're able to invest—. You know, we sometimes get into a conversation about the unhypothecated nature of our research funding, but actually that creates a flexibility and the infrastructure investment that allows institutions to be able to respond to these other opportunities. Without that, they can't do it, because if you're not careful, you've got institutions engaging in UK-wide or charity-based research activities where they're actually having to pay for it themselves—they're running at a loss.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "So that's the main problem; it's not that Welsh universities aren't doing their best to get this cash in. Or is it a bit of both?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think, in the main, universities and researchers will get their cash from wherever they can, so I don't think it's a lack of appetite.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, thank you, both, for coming in to give evidence to the committee this morning. You will be sent a draft of the transcript, to check for accuracy. Diolch yn fawr. Okay then, the next item is item 3, papers to note, the first of which is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education on the school organisation code. The second is a letter from the Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care on the Childcare Funding (Wales) Bill. Paper to note 3 is a letter from the Chair of the Finance Committee regarding scrutiny of the Welsh Government's draft budget for the forthcoming financial year, which we will be discussing under item 6 on the agenda. Paper to note 4 is a letter from the Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care on parental attitudes towards managing young children's behaviour. And the final paper to note, paper to note 5, is a letter from the Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care on the children and family delivery grant, which we will discuss later on in private session, if Members are content. Okay. Are you content to note those papers on that basis? Okay. Thanks very much. Item 4, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting, and also for items 1 and 2 of the 20 September meeting. Is the committee content? Yes. Thank you very much. We will move then into private session.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" } ] }

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Um and our Marketing Expert uh gave us some i uh information from interviews with a hundred different remote users. Um with some statistics that backed basically what we were thinking before. People thought their remotes were ugly, um um that remotes zap a lot. Um they only use uh a finite amount of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and that they often lose the it's easy to lose a remote. Um which were all things we were thinking we would wanna make it simple. Um And uh some sort of locator. Either a button or tracking device. Um And that it should look different than what's out there. Um Kind of mixed mixed response on the speech recognition. The younger people said they wanted it, older people did not. Um uh I think we decided that um the expense was not necessarily worth it, and that it was probably a gimmick, that um would increasingly wear on the consumers' nerves. Um Then the User Interface Designer um explored some of the technical functions of the remote. Um the simple versus the um the complex. The simple one being better for a user, the complex better for an engineer. Um Um and some personal preferences that were found in that would be that it should be a user-oriented remote, something simple. Um and that we didn't wanna go with a universal remote, because uh increasing cost and increasing complexity. Um we would just have a T_V_ remote. Um and that we should also focus on the appearance of the remote. Have it s be something that looks different. And finally our um Industrial Designer uh gave us a rundown of how the remote will work. Um from energy source, um uh what we would use. Batteries because we don't wanna have a a cable. Um How that would power the remote and the lamp. If we were to to have one. Uh um the user interface then would connect to a chip, which would work with the infrared controls uh to send the signal to the T_V_. Um I believe then we came up with a couple of ideas for what we think the design of the remote will be. Um Um something that will fit into uh easily into someone's hand. And with a, just a few buttons. Just the basics. And with a scrolling um function also. Okay and I will leave that, leave it at that. So Marketing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're watching trends.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Can I have your cable please?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suppose that you can have this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks. Okay so I was looking at trend-watching. Um unfortunately I wasn't given too much information. I was given a brief executive summary, and then an update on some recent fashion trends that we might like to look at. And then I'll just tell you some personal preferences that I got from that. Um okay the most important finding was that the fancy look-and-feel seems to be twice as important to the users as the current functional look-and-feel design, which I think we've kind of already discussed before. Um the second most important finding was that the remote should be technologically innovative. And again these are all things we've kind of already come up with on our own, but this just backs it up. And thirdly the remote would be easy to use. As far as fashion update, we've learned that fruits and vegetables will be the most important theme for cloths, shoes and furniture.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that might be a bit of a challenge to incorporate this into our remote, but we can try. Um and also, as opposed to last year, this year the material is expected to be spongy in feel. Okay so from that um, as we've already said, we need to focus on a fancy look-and-feel. Um I think we've already discovered that it's kind of hard to go away from the traditional rectangular design. But I think that, even if it's very subtle, we need to kind of trick our consumers, so they at least get the idea that they're getting something that's new and modern and sleek and Whether it's through the shape or the colours or all of that. Um for technologically innovative, we've talked about the tracking device. We brought up the idea of having two pieces, which we could discuss further. And Manuel had suggested um the energy source and the user interface, discussing some of those, um that we could change a little bit. We need to keep it simple, have limited buttons, which I think the two piece idea might be really beneficial for. Um we need to incorporate this fashion trend of fruits and vegetables. I don't know, I mean I guess the two options are if we had our remote in the shape of a fruit or vegetable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A banana shape?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh it was sort of banana shaped..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Right. Or with exterior designs. But my question is, I mean the stereotypically speaking, you kind of picture males with their remote controls, and I'm not sure how they'd feel about having fruity logos on the outside.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe we could have something that's somewhat removable, or I don't know, different options for female, male target groups. And then the spongy feel. I guess we could look at mobile phones and other technology that's out there. C and look at different types of material that might please our users who want spongy-feeling remote controls. So that's that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So possibly like a uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry, just to butt in for a second. Possibly uh like a cover like they have for mobile phones?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I was thinking yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Those like, yeah, sort of spongy ones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have one with a flag, and one with a banana and one that's a spongy", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So when you buy your remote you can buy", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "feel to it. You can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "various coverings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm various covers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's it called? Cust you personalised, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Personalise your remote..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We could leave that to the cover department..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We all know they've got nothing to do all day.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Why can't I see the crazy. Um yeah I talking about the interface concept and how the customer relates to, will use the, consumer will use the actual device. Um so I've looked at some of the stuff I was sent, um, try and get some inspiration. But keep in mind that our own ideas that we had. Um I was sent some information from the company saying that they, the technology department have devised a new speech recognition technology, where you can program questions into such devices. They gave an example of a coffee machine where you program a question, you program the answer, and the machine responds accordingly. Um okay. There's different ways of a user can use products l like a remote. Um there's a graphical use, where you you look at pictures and well on a screen. A command line where you obviously type things in, and you get a response. Um and then it ju that's just to point out the sort of inconsistent u sort of use of interface in remotes. You can't really see that picture well, but there's various different remotes, once again with lots of different buttons on, making it more complicated.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, then I had a look at new products that are on the market. Not necessarily remote controls but ones that you'll recognise. Um this is the voice, there is a voice recognition remote control, which can control mus multiple devices. I have a there is a picture. You surf your favourite channels uh with your voice. Store up to eighty speech samples, controls four devices, T_V_, cable, satellite, V_C_R_, D_V_D_ and audio. And you can record your own v verbal labels, that are connected to remote control functions. So the technology is there. Um the one on the left is very similar to what we drew up on the board in the previous meeting, where there has scroll down functions on the side. You can sort of just make those out. And then on the right is obviously an iPod, which is you know possibly one of the simplest things to use out there, and really is, and all that is is just a a nice big scroll menu that y you sort of go through. That is a possibility. And nothing's simpler really. Um then there's things like this, which is a a a kid's remote, where the the parents have the facility to control and program what children can watch before. So the remote control it o only allows them to access the channels that their parents want them to watch. And um it means that th children have a novelty of having their own remote control. So I don't know if there's a possibility of having one remote contr you know like we just had two components, maybe it can have more components you know, different remotes. Um the point made at the end there here is that you have to be sort of be need to be clear on your um devices, as to what, you know, things you use. Sometimes an arrow pointing down, which may suggest volume down, could become confused just as a V_ for volume. Just little things like that, which would need to be made clear in the design. Um I think, d carrying on from what I've already said, a user friendly remote with minimum buttons. Maybe we've so suggested this two-part thing, where if it was to have a speech recognition thing, you could maybe control that on the do it or program all that on the control bit. And then just have the simple sort of hand-held thing that we sort of devised earlier, as the actual remote. Um I don't it could be a graphical display, the actual remote contr the actual control port maybe could have like an iPod where you just sort of control through the menus. Stuff like gets more and more compli complicated. And then the the hand-held bit should be ergonomically designed. And that is it. Why am I Oh yeah. Just. Where are we? Uh. Just to sort of show you. M they've even got things like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huge things. Which is just for your gr ninety year old grandma yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's industrial design for cranes, stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Notice the giant dog bone shape?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Makes sense, makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Also good for animals.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. See. things.. Why's my screen crazy?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh Well let's see. I'm going to bore you with a couple of descriptions of the interior.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just to to make it more obvious what we have to fit in there, and that we do have to fit the stuff in there. I've more information on possible materials um as well. What we can and cannot do. Um but let's just wait for this to load up and I'll show you what we're talking about here. Okay. The details of the components' design, as you can see there, what we have is the board, main board of the remote control. The underside, that's pretty cheap piece of of technology really top left side you can see the chip, which is the, what we were talking about, this was is the device to recognise the signals the input, and it passes it on to a row of um further transistors and stuff like that on the right side that actually amplify the signal, which later on is being, is being transferred to a infrared lamp which then um of course shines infrared light onto the television which then will recognise what signal um it's getting and will do what you tell it. Um So much for the the workings of the of the uh remote control itself. Its job is to wait for you to press a key, then to translate that key press into infrared light signals, um that are received by the television. When you press a key um you complete a specific connection. The chip senses the connection and knows what button you pressed. It produces a morse code line signal specific to that button. Right. Pretty clear. Transistor amplifies the signal and then sends the m sends the signal to the L_E_D_ which translates the signal into infrared light. The sensor in the T_V_ can see the infrared light, and seeing the signal reacts appropriately. This is the circuit board from the other side. Um the lower part of it, I don't know if you can see that properly, with the green greenish board is is what we what we saw in the first the first slide just flipped over. Um you can see the circuit board itself. That's the cheapest uh way to make electronic connections basically on the market. Um what you do is you have, don't have cables, but you have the connections actually in these in these lines on the on the board. These are the actual keys that are being pressed. They close the electric circuit. That then sends the signal to the chip on the other side. That would be behind here. Um which uh sends it over to the transistors and all that stuff that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "amplify the signal and all that is being sent to the infrared lamp up there. Now as you can see this is the the rubber button version of it. Um the way it works is that you have the keys here. The rubber button has a little metal uh plate on the other side, which closes the circuit here. And thus gives on the signal. Now this is the simple version. Um we are talking um this this the simple and cheapest version at the same time. We are talking something more complicated of course, it's going to be more expensive as well. And not only that. Um we are also restricted in the use of our outer shell, or in the material that we could use for our outer shell. Um I've gotten some information that we could use for the case material plastic, rubber, as well. Um rubber that is used in these anti-stress balls. So it's pretty squishy. That would that would serve that purpose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we could also use wood, or titanium.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's the approximate per hundred thousand for the titanium?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh fya", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't have an information on that. However our company obviously can provide us with uh with the titanium, so I assume, I'm, I was given an okay to use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It certainly is an expensive material,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm aware of that, but I was given an okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But there are certain restrictions to certain materials. Now let's first go through the list with the materials. So we what we can use is plastic, rubber, wood and titanium. Can also mix these. Um as for the energy source, um we were talking about that shortly in the other meeting. Um what we could use is, or what I was offered, or what we could use, is a basic bateer battery. Right? Uh a dynamo. Interestingly enough.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we could use solar cells. Or a device that was not n not further specified that provides kinetic energy. Such as like watches you know. Where you just move them m move the the actual device and this pr uh provides it with with uh some energy. So um obviously I personally have to say that dynamo is out of the question really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't wanna wind up your remote control before you can use it right? Um solar cell is interesting. May fail though, every here and there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would you have to leave it by the window?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Or you know you lose it, it lies behind the couch for a week", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Works well in Arizona but in Edinburgh not so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Always the you But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y probably not yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um the kinetic energy thing um might work, um but the same problem. You leave it lying around and you first have to shake it before it it starts to work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I'd say what we're stuck with really is um the basic battery. Which also makes a base station basically obsolete. We don't need that then. Um However our interface options are push-buttons. In which uh in the production of which or in manufacture of which um our company is expert. Um However we've discussed that scroll wheels are a better option. And they are possible. We have an okay for scroll wheels. Okay. Um however when it comes to the scroll wheel of the iPod I've one big objection and that is that we have to fit an L_C_D_ into the remote control as well. This however may exclude certain um materials. If you have a squishy uh kind of remote control, then an L_C_D_ screen may be affected by the movement. Hence we might not be able to put it in there. So um There's also restrictions to, when it comes to the chip. If we have a more sophistic uh sophisticated scroll wheel rather than this very basic uh set-up that we that I've just presented, um the chip has to be more s more sophisticated and thus more expensive as well. I don't have any details to, when it comes to the cost but um it will be a significant difference. I'd rather say drop the titanium and therefore let's have a more sophisticated chip, but that's not up to me to decide really. So that's for the for the scroll wheel. Um it limits our choice and squishy is hip, so I'd say rather not go for for that. Let's see now. Um um solar cells cannot be used on a curved or latex um surface or um remote control. But obviously that's not our problem um since we have decided or against solar cells, I assume right? Or is anybody still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I think I think batteries are probably the way to go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh which makes it very conventional but therefore traditional I assume. Um Um With the titanium um we cannot make it a curved design. We would just be able to make it flat and and um yeah a straight design pretty much. Which I assume would exclude uh some of the more sophisticated versions..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would the sort of spongy and the the plasticky thing y you can get those mobile phones that initially have a it is plastic but then they have sort of a a s a cover on it which is just sort of soft and stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Like a covering. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I don't know if that would still be possible to have you know in plastic. But then where do people hold it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just all be sort of spongy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The we can have the fruits and vegetables on the spongy parts, so they can remove it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you as the the possibility of having a a graphical display on it, like a screen? Like the iPod?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can have an L_C_D_ screen. Um but therefore no rubber will be used.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright? So plastic yes, titanium yes, but this will of course influence the form. With plastic, as I understand it, you can use any form. Um latex is tricky. Or rubber and um and titanium also seems to be tricky when it comes to the form. So the way to go is if you want a scroll wheel you either make it flat and angular, uh add an L_C_D_ screen, and um then you can basically choose either plastic or titanium. Or wood even.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um if you wanna make it a particular shape, use plastic. Add an L_C_D_ screen, add a scroll wheel, that'll be fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or make it just push-buttons. Basically plastic gives you the b biggest variety of of options. Maybe not the nicest feel. Or not much originality really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the ru wait the rubbery we can shape it however we want? Or the rubbery we cannot?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With rubber we could uh sh pretty much shape it the way we wanted it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we cannot add scroll wheels, and we cannot add an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the tricky thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could we not you know have a shape with a scroll and the screen, and then j just sort of that initial shape we had, just which is uh sort of banana-esque. So that's thing if we did it yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um you know you just p stick on just sort of rubber things that that sort of grip the thumb bit. They wouldn't have any they're just on the exterior. They wouldn't be necessary to the actual shape of the thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that an option, a plastic shell with a rubbery coating on at certain spots?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S Certainly can be done yes. Um yeah. if that doesn't affect the functional side of it all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like say just the underside or so then it can be done. I assume. Yeah. So The fruit design um How about um affecting the surface of the actual um remote control? Say we don't make it p a particular fruit shape obviously,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh give it like the surface of an orange, banana, whatever. You name it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about a smell?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just design-wise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T to the remote?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Nice one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You could just sell it in different colours as well I suppose. In different ye yellows.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bright citrus colours yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't suppose we have to stick to co", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we we're supposed to stick to the company colours though,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Stick to the colours yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's yellow and grey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yellow and grey.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yellow and grey.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what have we, lemon, banana, is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm grapefruit..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Grapefruit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Grapefruit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is what we'd go for, when it comes to the outer appearance perhaps. But mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say, if I were to make a decision, I would probably put the fruit aspect at the lower lower end of the spectrum of of importance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think having a shape could be a little ridiculous,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we have it banana-shaped already, kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we kinda do yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well perhaps the implied shape will be enough to lure that fruit-minded remote buyer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. and if it if it was done yellow, which is a company colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if it's yellow?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's yellow. It's curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I it's yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Grey buttons yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's sort of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well so why not add a couple of grey stripes and make it look like a banana?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "couple of couple of grey stripes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could put the grey stripes on the bottom so that that person could turn it over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the the gr the rubbery grips could be grey.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It would look like a banana just sitting on their table.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rather than rather th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could and then you could actually h put the banana-shaped thing on the fruit bowl, on the coffee table,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then people would always know where it was.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe the holder, if we were to have a holder, it could be shaped like a fruit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nice. Could look like a fruit bowl.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could be an ape..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could be,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it could be an ape or a fruit bowl. we could have a variety of options here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you have more to your presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's pretty much it. I informed you about the materials, what the interior has to look like, and what the limitations to certain materials are on", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "there you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm gonna plug in here real quick. If I could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Hang on. There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like I said we have to make a decision on a couple of these items here. Um ow. Ow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So is the two piece idea out? Or have we not decided?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we sort of rid of that because gonna use a battery. And the base station might not be necessary.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we can still design a two-piece uh remote um without having a base, having one of them be a base station,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but just have it be an optional either big remote with lots of functions, or you take out the smaller piece.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can still do that. However of course this would be like designing two remotes pretty much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um which then, as I understand it, would probably limit the, limit again the the the use of certain materials, because they would be too expensive. Say like have a scroll wheel and uh on both of them, or have an L_C_D_ screen and so on so on. You'd probably have to stick rather with a just traditional rubber button", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "design which we saw there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But could be done, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh so these are the decisions that we do need to make by the end of this meeting. Um for our components concept we need to come up with the energy source, um the chip-on-print, and the case. Probably case um material. And probably a shape also. Um and then for the user interface concept we need to decide what the tape, what, what the type is. And what kind of supplements we'll have. Um Energy source I think we've, I think we've decided batteries, although not exciting, are probably our best bet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we have five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay when it comes to the chip-on-print, as I said, the the more advanced features you want, um the fancier the chip has to be and the more expensive. Uh if you want just a normal button version, the chip-on-print is gonna be", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "a cheap one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So Um I guess we should pick the case then. If we go with the plasticky case, or the the plastic case, um then the chip-on-print is still kind of, we could have either or. We could have a complex one or a a non-complex. But did we decide that the rubbery feel was important enough to us?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well what about what you said, like putting the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "finger grips just on top of the plastic?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Just a little bit of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we would, we would have the L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as long as the pla uh the rubber is nowhere near the controls, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. So I guess the case would be plastic, with Perhaps that's not even enough rubber to qualify as being part of it. It's more of a su it's more of a supplement maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M more of a l lamination perhaps..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So then for the scroll, are we going for the iPod type?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think so. I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which will require a more expensive chip-on-print right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. It does.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. So I guess that, is that, is that about it? So we have a good idea of what we're gonna need to to do on this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um okay so we will have another meeting in thirty minutes. Um Here's what's gonna be going on. Um Um Ryan you'll be working on the user interface design. Um Manuel you'll be working on the look-and-feel design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Corrine we'll want a product evaluation. And the two of you get to play with the uh modelling components and uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe and and get us a prototype. Which should go along well with your look-and-feel design and your interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that basically just be working on the prototype, uh we'll accomplish your other two actions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Okay. 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Maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "First time first time in the day, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or maybe it's once you've done enough meetings it won't crash on you anymore.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's a matter of experience.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Self - learning, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's that's great.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do we have an agenda? Liz Liz and Andreas can't sh can't uh, can't come.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, they won't be here.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have agenda and it's all me.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Did.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Cuz no one sent me anything else.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Did they send, uh, the messages to you about the meeting today?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I have no idea but I just got it a few minutes ago.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right when you were in my office it arrived.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh. OK, cuz I checked my mail. I didn't have anything.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, does anyone have any a agenda items other than me? I actually have one more also which is to talk about the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, right, so so I I was just gonna talk briefly about the NSF ITR.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, great.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, and then, you have.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Can w", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, I won't say much, but uh, but then, uh, you said wanna talk about digits?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have a short thing about digits and then uh I wanna talk a little bit about naming conventions, although it's unclear whether this is the right place to talk about it. So maybe just talk about it very briefly and take the details to the people who for whom it's relevant.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I could always say something about transcription. I've been but but uh, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well if we Yeah, we shouldn't add things in just to add things in. I'm actually pretty busy today,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so if we can we.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "a short meeting would be fine.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "This does sound like we're doing fine, yeah. That won't do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So the only thing I wanna say about digits is, we are pretty much done with the first test set. There are probably forms here and there that are marked as having been read that weren't really read. So I won't really know until I go through all the transcriber forms and extract out pieces that are in error. So I wa Uh. Two things. The first is what should we do about digits that were misread? My opinion is, um, we should just throw them out completely, and have them read again by someone else. You know, the grouping is completely random,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so it it's perfectly fine to put a a group together again of errors and have them re - read, just to finish out the test set.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh! By throw them out completely?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um, the other thing you could do is change the transcript to match what they really said. So those are those are the two options.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But there's often things where people do false starts. I know I've done it, where I say say a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What the transcribers did with that is if they did a correction, and they eventually did read the right string, you extract the right string.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, you're talking about where they completely read the wrong string and didn't correct it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. And didn't notice. Which happens in a few places.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, and s and you're talking string - wise, you're not talking about the entire page?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Correct.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I get it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And so the the two options are change the transcript to match what they really said, but then but then the transcript isn't the Aurora test set anymore. I don't think that really matters because the conditions are so different. And that would be a little easier.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well how many are how how often does that happen?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm, five or six times.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, so it's not very much.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, it's not much at all.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Seems like we should just change the transcripts", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "to match.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's five or six times out of thousands?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Four thousand.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Four thousand?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Four thous Ah! Four thousand.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would, uh, tak do the easy way,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It it's kinda nice I mean, wh who knows what studies people will be doing on on speaker - dependent things", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and so I think having having it all.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "the speakers who we had is is at least interesting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So you um, how many digits have been transcribed now?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Four thousand lines. And each line is between one and about ten digits.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Four thousand lines?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I didn't I didn't compute the average. I think the average was around four or five.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So that's a couple hours of of, uh, speech, probably.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which is a yeah reasonable reasonable test set.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And, Jane, I do have a set of forms which I think you have copies of somewhere.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh you do? Oh OK, good, good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just wond I thought I had had all of them back from you. And then the other thing is that, uh, the forms in front of us here that we're gonna read later, were suggested by Liz", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, not yet.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "because she wanted to elicit some different prosodics from digits. And so, uh, I just wanted people to, take a quick look at the instructions", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Eight eight two two two nine.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and the way it wa worked and see if it makes sense and if anyone has any comments on it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I see. And the decision here, uh, was to continue with uh the words rather than the the numerics.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, yes, although we could switch it back. The problem was O and zero. Although we could switch it back and tell them always to say \" zero \" or always to say \" O \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Or neither.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But it's just two thing ways that you can say it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "that's the only thought I have because if you t start talking about these, you know u tr She's trying to get at natural groupings, but it there's there's nothing natural about reading numbers this way.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean if you saw a telephone number you would never see it this way.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the problem also is she did want to stick with digits. I mean I'm speaking for her since she's not here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, um, the other problem we were thinking about is if you just put the numerals, they might say forty - three instead of four three.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, if there's space, though, between them. I mean, you can With when you space them out they don't look like, uh, forty - three anymore.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, she and I were talking about it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and she felt that it's very, very natural to do that sort of chunking.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "She's right. It's it it's a different problem. I mean it's a it's a it's an interesting problem I mean, we've done stuff with numbers before, and yeah sometimes people If you say s \" three nine eight one \" sometimes people will say \" thirty - nine eighty - one \" or \" three hundred three hundred eighty - nine one \", or I don't think they'd say that,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but but th", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not very frequently", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but, they certainly could.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But Yeah. Uh, th thirty - eight ninety - one is probably how they'd do it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. I mean, this is something that Liz and I spoke about", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and, since this was something that Liz asked for specifically, I think we need to defer to her.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Well, we're probably gonna be collecting meetings for a while and if we decide we still wanna do some digits later we might be able to do some different ver different versions,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Do something different,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but this is the next suggestion,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so. OK. OK, so uh e l I guess, let me, uh, get my my short thing out about the NSF. I sent this actually this is maybe a little side thing. Um, I I sent to what I thought we had, uh, in some previous mail, as the right joint thing to send to, which was \" M MTG RCDR hyphen joint \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It was. Joint. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But then I got some sort of funny mail saying that the moderator was going to.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's That's because they set the one up at UW.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "that's not on our side, that's on the U - dub side.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so U - UW set it up as a moderated list.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, I have no idea whether it actually ever goes to anyone so you might just wanna mail to Mari", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No no, th I got I got, uh, little excited notes from Mari and Jeff and so on,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So the moderator actually did repost it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Cuz I had sent one earlier Actually the same thing happened to me I had sent one earlier. The message says, \" You'll be informed \" and then I was never informed but I got replies from people indicating that they had gotten it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's just to prevent spam.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I see. Yeah so O OK. Well, anyway, I guess everybody here Are y are you are on that list, right? So you got the note?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, so this was, uh, a, uh, proposal that we put in before on on more more higher level, uh, issues in meetings, from I guess higher level from my point of view. Uh, and, uh, meeting mappings, and, uh so is i for it was a proposal for the ITR program, uh, Information Technology Research program's part of National Science Foundation. It's the second year of their doing, uh, these grants. They're they're a lot of them are some of them anyway, are larger larger grants than the usual, small NSF grants, and. So, they're very competitive, and they have a first phase where you put in pre - proposals, and we we, uh, got through that. And so th the the next phase will be we'll actually be doing a larger proposal. And I'm I I hope to be doing very little of it. And uh, which was also true for the pre - proposal, so. Uh, there'll be bunch of people working on it. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "When's when's the full proposal due?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, I think April ninth, or something. So it's about a month.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "p s", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. And they said end of business day you could check on the reviewer forms,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "u", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "is that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Tomorrow.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Tomorrow. March second, I said.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Tomorrow?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I've been a day off all week.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Tomorrow.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I guess that's a good thing cuz that way I got my papers done early.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It would be interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that's amazing you showed up at this meeting!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It is. It is actually quite amazing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It'll be interesting to see the reviewer's comments.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. My favorite is was when when when one reviewer says, uh, \" you know, this should be far more detailed \", and the nex the next reviewer says, \" you know, there's way too much detail \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. Or \" this is way too general \", and the other reviewer says, \" this is way too specific \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "\" This is way too hard \", \" way too easy \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We'll see. Maybe there'll be something useful. And and, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well it sounded like they they the first gate was pretty easy. Is that right? That they didn't reject a lot of the pre - proposals?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Do you know anything about the numbers?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No. Just just th", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's just from his message it sounded like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I said something, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Gary Strong's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "there was a sentence at the end of one of his paragraphs", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I should go back and look. I didn't I don't think that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm. He said the next phase'll be very, competitive", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Very very,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because we didn't want to weed out much in the first phase.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well we'll have to see what the numbers are.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or something like that,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But they they have to weed out enough so that they have enough reviewers.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, uh, you know, maybe they didn't r weed out as much as usual, but it's it's usually a pretty But it Yeah. It's it's certainly not I'm sure that it's not down to one in two or something of what's left.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I'm sure it's, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "How how many awards are there, do you know?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well there's different numbers of w awards for different size They have three size grants. This one there's, um See the small ones are less than five hundred thousand total over three years and that they have a fair number of them. Um, and the large ones are, uh, boy, I forget, I think, more than, uh, more than a million and a half, more than two million or something like that. And and we're in the middle middle category.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think we're, uh, uh, I forget what it was. But, um Uh, I don't remember, but it's pr probably along the li I I could be wrong on this yeah, but probably along the lines of fifteen or that they'll fund, or twenty. I mean when they Do you do you know how many they funded when they f in in Chuck's, that he got last year?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I thought it was smaller, that it was like four or five, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well they fund.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I'm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "they.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah. I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh it doesn't matter, we'll find out one way or another.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean last time I think they just had two categories, small and big,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and this time they came up with a middle one, so it'll there'll be more of them that they fund than of the big.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "If we end up getting this, um, what will it mean to ICSI in terms of, w wh where will the money go to, what would we be doing with it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Exactly what we say in the proposal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I mean uh which part is ICSI though.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You know, it i None of it will go for those yachts that we've talking about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean Dang!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, well, no, I mean it's u It.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's just for the research to continue the research on the Meeting Recorder stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's extending the research, right? Because the other.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah it's go higher level stuff than we've been talking about for Meeting Recorder.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah the other things that we have, uh, been working on with, uh, the c with Communicator uh, especially with the newer things with the more acoustically - oriented things are are are are lower level. And, this is dealing with, uh, mapping on the level of of, um, the conversation of mapping the conversations", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "to different kind of planes. So. Um. But, um. So it's all it's all stuff that none none of us are doing right now, or none of us are funded for, so it's so it's it would be new.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So assuming everybody's completely busy now, it means we're gonna hafta, hire more students, or, something?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well there's evenings, and there's weekends, and Uh. Yeah, there there would be there would be new hires, and and there there would be expansion, but, also, there's always for everybody there's there's always things that are dropping off, grants that are ending, or other things that are ending, so,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "there's there's a continual need to to bring in new things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But but there definitely would be new new new, uh, students,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and so forth, both at at UW and here.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Are there any students in your class who are expressing interest?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, not clear yet. Not clear yet.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Other than the one who's already here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean we got we have yeah, two of them are two in the c There're two in the class already here, and then and and, uh uh, then there's a third who's doing a project here, who, uh But he he he won't be in the country that long,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and, maybe another will end up.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Actually there is one other guy who's looking that that's that guy, uh, Jeremy? I think.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Anyway, yeah that's that's all I was gonna say is that that that's you know, that's nice and we're sorta preceding to the next step, and, it'll mean some more work, uh, you know, in in March in getting the proposal out, and then, it's, uh, you know We'll see what happens. Uh, the last one was that you had there, was about naming?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. It just, uh we've been cutting up sound files, in for ba both digits and for, uh, doing recognition. And Liz had some suggestions on naming and it just brought up the whole issue that hasn't really been resolved about naming. So, uh, one thing she would like to have is for all the names to be the same length so that sorting is easier. Um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "same number of characters so that when you're sorting filenames you can easily extract out bits and pieces that you want. And that's easy enough to do. And I don't think we have so many meetings that that's a big deal just to change the names. So that means, uh, instead of calling it \" MR one \", \" MR two \", you'd call it \" MRM zero zero one \", \" MRM zero zero two \", things like that. Just so that they're they're all the same length.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But, you know, when you, do things like that you can always as long as you have uh, you can always search from the beginning or the end of the string.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The problem is that they're a lot of fields.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You know, so \" zero zero two \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Alright,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so we we have th we're gonna have the speaker ID, the session, uh uh, information on the microphones,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, your example was really.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "information on the speak on the channels and all that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And so if each one of those is a fixed length, the sorting becomes a lot easier.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "She wanted to keep them the same lengths across different meetings also. So like, the NSA meeting lengths, all filenames are gonna be the same length as the Meeting Recorder meeting names?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. And as I said, the it's we just don't have that many that that's a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cuz of digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, uh, um, at some point we have to sort of take a few days off, let the transcribers have a few days off, make sure no one's touching the data and reorganize the file structures. And when we do that we can also rationalize some of the naming.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I would think though that the transcribe the transcripts themselves wouldn't need to have such lengthy names.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, I mean, you're dealing with a different domain there, and with start and end times and all that, and channels and stuff,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. So the only thing that would change with that is just the directory names,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so, it's a different set.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I would change them to match. So instead of being MR one it would be MRM zero zero one. But I don't think that's a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Fine. Fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So for for m the meetings we were thinking about three letters and three numbers for meeting I Ds. Uh, for speakers, M or F and then three numbers, For, uh and, uh, that also brings up the point that we have to start assembling a speaker database so that we get those links back and forth and keep it consistent. Um, and then, uh, the microphone issues. We want some way of specifying, more than looking in the \" key \" file, what channel and what mike. What channel, what mike, and what broadcaster. Or I don't know how to s say it. So I mean with this one it's this particular headset with this particular transmitter w as a wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And you know that one is a different headset and different channel. And so we just need some naming conventions on that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, uh,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "that's gonna become especially important once we start changing the microphone set - up. We have some new microphones that I'd like to start trying out, um, once I test them. And then we'll we'll need to specify that somewhere. So I was just gonna do a fixed list of, uh, microphones and types.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, as I said.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, since we have such a short agenda list I guess I wi I will ask how how are the transcriptions going? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the news is that I've I uh s So in s um So I've switched to Start my new sentence. I I switched to doing the channel - by - channel transcriptions to provide, uh, the uh, tighter time bins for partly for use in Thilo's work and also it's of relevance to other people in the project. And, um, I discovered in the process a couple of of interesting things, which, um, one of them is that, um, it seems that there are time lags involved in doing this, uh, uh, using an interface that has so much more complexity to it. And I and I wanted to maybe ask, uh, Chuck to help me with some of the questions of efficiency. Maybe I was thinking maybe the best way to do this in the long run may be to give them single channel parts and then piece them together later. And I I have a script, I can piece them together. I mean, so it's like, I I know that I can take them apart and put them together and I'll end up with the representation which is where the real power of that interface is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And it may be that it's faster to transcribe a channel at a time with only one, uh, sound file and one, uh, set of of, uh, utterances to check through.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I'm a little confused. I thought that that one of the reason we thought we were so much faster than than, uh, the the other transcription, uh, thing was that that we were using the mixed file.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yes. OK. But, um, with the mixed, when you have an overlap, you only have a a choice of one start and end time for that entire overlap, which means that you're not tightly, uh, tuning the individual parts th of that overlap by different speakers.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So someone may have only said two words in that entire big chunk of overlap.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And for purposes of of, uh, things like well, so things like training the speech - nonspeech segmentation thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Th - it's necessary to have it more tightly tuned than that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And w and w and, you know, is a It would be wonderful if, uh, it's possible then to use that algorithm to more tightly tie in all the channels after that but, um, you know, I've th the So, I I don't know exactly where that's going at this point. But m I was experimenting with doing this by hand and I really do think that it's wise that we've had them start the way we have with, uh, m y working off the mixed signal, um, having the interface that doesn't require them to do the ti uh, the time bins for every single channel at a t uh, through the entire interaction.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I did discover a couple other things by doing this though, and one of them is that, um, um, once in a while a backchannel will be overlooked by the transcriber.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "As you might expect,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because when it's a b backchannel could well happen in a very densely populated overlap. And if we're gonna study types of overlaps, which is what I wanna do, an analysis of that, then that really does require listening to every single channel all the way through the entire length for all the different speakers. Now, for only four speakers, that's not gonna be too much time, but if it's nine speakers, then that i that is more time. So it's li you know, kind of wondering And I think again it's like this it's really valuable that Thilo's working on the speech - nonspeech segmentation because maybe, um, we can close in on that wi without having to actually go to the time that it would take to listen to every single channel from start to finish through every single meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those backchannels will always be a problem I think. Uh especially if they're really short and they're not very loud and so it it can it it will always happen that also the automatic s detection system will miss some of them, so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Well so then then, maybe the answer is to, uh, listen especially densely in places of overlap,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just so that they're they're not being overlooked because of that, and count on accuracy during the sparser phases.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz there are large s spaces of the That's a good point. There are large spaces where there's no overlap at all. Someone's giving a presentation,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or whatever. That's that's a good that's a good thought. And, um, let's see, there was one other thing I was gonna say. I I think it's really interesting data to work with, I have to say, it's very enjoyable. I really, not not a problem spending time with these data. Really interesting. And not just because I'm in there. No, it's real interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh, well I think it's a short meeting. Uh, you're you're you're still in the midst of what you're doing from what you described last time, I assume,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is true.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I haven't results, eh, yet", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but, eh, I I'm continue working with the mixed signal now, after the the last experience.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And and I'm tried to to, uh, adjust the to to improve, eh, an harmonicity, eh, detector that, eh, I I implement.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But I have problem because, eh, I get, eh, eh, very much harmonics now.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, harmonic possi possible harmonics, uh, eh, and now I'm I'm I'm trying to to find, eh, some kind of a, um of h of help, eh, using the energy to to distinguish between possible harmonics, and and other fre frequency peaks, that, eh, corres not harmonics. And, eh, I have to to talk with y with you, with the group, eh, about the instantaneous frequency, because I have, eh, an algorithm, and, I get, mmm, eh, t t results similar results, like, eh, the paper, eh, that I I am following. But, eh, the the rules, eh, that, eh, people used in the paper to to distinguish the harmonics, is doesn't work well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And I I I I not sure that i eh, the the way o to ob the way to obtain the the instantaneous frequency is right, or it's it's not right. Eh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I haven't enough file feeling to to to distinguish what happened.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd like to talk with you about it. If if if, uh If I don't have enough time and y you wanna discuss with someone else some someone else besides us that you might want to talk to, uh, might be Stephane.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I talked with Stephane and and Thilo", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah and and Thilo, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "they nnn they they they didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I'm not too experienced with harmonics", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "they think that the experience is not enough to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is is this the algorithm where you hypothesize a fundamental, and then get the energy for all the harmonics of that fundamental?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, no it's No No. No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then hypothesize a new fundamental and get the energy.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's wh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No. I I I I don't proth process the the fundamental. I I, ehm I calculate the the phase derivate using the FFT.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And The algorithm said that, eh, if you if you change the the the, eh, nnn the X - the frequency \" X \", eh, using the in the instantaneous frequency, you can find, eh, how, eh, in several frequencies that proba probably the the harmonics, eh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "the errors of peaks the frequency peaks, eh, eh, move around these, eh eh frequency harmonic the frequency of the harmonic. And, eh, if you if you compare the the instantaneous frequency, eh, of the of the, eh, continuous, eh, eh, filters, that, eh that, eh, they used eh, to to to get, eh, the the instantaneous frequency,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "it probably too, you can find, eh, that the instantaneous frequency for the continuous, eh, eh the output of the continuous filters are very near. And in my case i in equal with our signal, it doesn't happened.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd hafta look at that and think about it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's it's it's I haven't worked with that either so I'm not sure The way the simple - minded way I suggested was what Chuck was just saying, is that you could make a a sieve. You know, y you actually say that here is.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Let's let's hypothesize that it's this frequency or that frequency, and and, uh, maybe you maybe you could use some other cute methods to, uh, short cut it by by uh, making some guesses,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but but uh uh uh, I would, uh I mean you could make some guesses from, uh from the auto - correlation or something but but then, given those guesses, try, um, uh, only looking at the energy at multiples of the of that frequency, and and see how much of the take the one that's maximum. Call that the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Using the energy of the of the multiple of the frequency.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Of all the harmonics of that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do you hafta do some kind of, uh, low - pass filter before you do that?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I don't use.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But, I I know many people use, eh, low - pass filter to to to get, eh, the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No. To get the pitch, yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't use. To get the pitch, yes.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "To get the pitch, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But the harmonic, no.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But i But the harmonics are gonna be, uh, uh, I don't know what the right word is. Um, they're gonna be dampened by the uh, vocal tract, right? The response of the vocal tract.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so just looking at the energy on those at the harmonics, is that gonna?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well so the thing is that the This is for, uh, a, um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I m what you'd like to do is get rid of the effect of the vocal tract. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And just look at the at at the signal coming out of the glottis.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, well, yeah that'd be good.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But, uh but I but but I don't know that you need to.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Open wide!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but I don't need you know if you need to get rid of it. I mean that'd that'd be nice but I don't know if it's ess if it's essential. Um, I mean cuz I think the main thing is that, uh, you're trying.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "wha what are you doing this for? You're trying distinguish between the case where there is, uh where where there are more than uh, where there's more than one speaker and the case where there's only one speaker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So if there's more than one speaker, um yeah I guess you could I guess yeah you're so you're not distinguished between voiced and unvoiced, so so, i if you don't if you don't care about that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "See, if you also wanna just determine if you also wanna determine whether it's unvoiced, then I think you want to look look at high frequencies also, because the f the fact that there's more energy in the high frequencies is gonna be an ob sort of obvious cue that it's unvoiced.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But, i i uh I mean i i but, um, other than that I guess as far as the one person versus two persons, it would be primarily a low frequency phenomenon. And if you looked at the low frequencies, yes the higher frequencies are gonna there's gonna be a spectral slope. The higher frequencies will be lower energy. But so what. I mean that's that's w", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I will prepare for the next week eh, all my results about the harmonicity and will will try to come in and to discuss here, because, eh, I haven't enough feeling to to u many time to to understand what happened with the with, eh, so many peaks, eh, eh, and I I see the harmonics there many time but, eh, there are a lot of peaks, eh, that, eh, they are not harmonics.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I have to discover what what is the the w the best way to to to c to use them", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, but yeah I don't think you can I mean you're not gonna be able to look at every frame, so I mean I I mean I I really I I really thought that the best way to do it, and I'm speaking with no experience on this particular point, but, my impression was that the best way to do it was however you You've used instantaneous frequency, whatever. However you've come up you with your candidates, you wanna see how much of the energy is in that", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "as coppo as opposed to all of the all the total energy. And, um, if it's voiced, I guess so so y I think maybe you do need a voiced - unvoiced determination too. But if it's voiced,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "um, and the, uh e the fraction of the energy that's in the harmonic sequence that you're looking at is relatively low, then it should be then it's more likely to be an overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is height. Yeah. This this is the idea the idea I I I had to to compare the the ratio of the the energy of the harmonics with the eh, with the, eh, total energy in the spectrum and try to get a ratio to to distinguish between overlapping and speech. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But you're looking a y you're looking at Let's take a second with this. Uh, uh, you're looking at f at the phase derivative, um, in in, uh, what domain? I mean this is this is in in in in bands? Or or.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Just just overall.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's a it's a o i w the band the band is, eh, from zero to to four kilohertz. And I I ot I.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And you just take the instantaneous frequency?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I u m t I I used two m two method two methods. Eh, one, eh, based on the F eh, FTT. to FFT to to obtain the or to study the harmonics from from the spectrum directly,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and to study the energy and the multiples of", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "frequency. And another another algorithm I have is the in the instantaneous frequency, based on on on the FFT to to to calculate the the phase derivate in the time. Eh, uh n the d I mean I I have two two algorithms.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, eh, in m i in my opinion the the the instantaneous frequency, the the the behavior, eh, was th it was very interesting. Because I I saw eh, how the spectrum concentrate, eh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "around the the harmonic. But then when I apply the the rule, eh, of the in the the instantaneous frequency of the ne of the continuous filter in the the near filter, the the rule that, eh, people propose in the paper doesn't work. And I don't know why.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But the instantaneous frequency, wouldn't that give you something more like the central frequency of the you know, of the where most of the energy is? I mean, I think if you Does i does it Why would it correspond to pitch?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I not sure. I I I try to to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "When first I I calculate, eh, using the FFT,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Di - digital camera.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "the the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Keep forgetting.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I get the the spectrum,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and I represent all the frequency.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And when ou I obtained the instantaneous frequency. And I change the the the @ @, using the instantaneous frequency, here.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, so you scale you s you do a a scaling along that axis according to instantaneous.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I use Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's a kinda normalization.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Because when when.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "eh, when i I I use these these frequency, eh, the range is different, and the resolution is different.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And I observe more more or less, thing like this. And the paper said that, eh, these frequencies are probably, eh, harmonics.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, eh, they used, eh, a rule, eh, based in the in the because to to calculate the instantaneous frequency, they use a Hanning window.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, they said that, eh, if these peak are, eh, harmonics, the f instantaneous frequency, of the contiguous, eh w eh eh, filters are very near, or have to be very near. But, eh, phh! I don't I I I I don I I and I don't know what is the what is the distance. And I tried to to put different distance, eh, to put difference, eh eh, length of the window, eh, different front sieve, Pfff! and I I not sure what happened.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK, yeah well I I guess I'm not following it enough. I'll probably gonna hafta look at the paper, but which I'm not gonna have time to do in the next few days, but but I'm I'm curious about it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, uh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I did i it did occur to me that this is uh, the return to the transcription, that there's one third thing I wanted to to ex raise as a to as an issue which is, um, how to handle breaths. So, I wanted to raise the question of whether people in speech recognition want to know where the breaths are. And the reason I ask the question is, um, aside from the fact that they're obviously very time - consuming to encode, uh, the fact that there was some I had the indication from Dan Ellis in the email that I sent to you,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you know about, that in principle we might be able to, um, handle breaths by accessi by using cross - talk from the other things, be able that in principle, maybe we could get rid of them, so maybe And I was I I don't know, I mean we had this an and I didn't couldn't get back to you,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but the question of whether it'd be possible to eliminate them from the audio signal, which would be the ideal situation,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I don't know think it'd be ideal.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "cuz.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We - See, we're we're dealing with real speech and we're trying to have it be as real as possible", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and breaths are part of real speech.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, except that these are really truly I mean, ther there's a segment in o the one I did n the first one that I did for i for this,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "where truly w we're hearing you breathing like as if we're you're in our ear, you know, and it's like it's like.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I y i I mean, breath is natural, but not", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It is but it is if you record it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Except that we're we're trying to mimic Oh, I see what you're saying. You're saying that the PDA application would have uh, have to cope with breath.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "An - any application may have to.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The P D A might not have to,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but more people than just PDA users are interested in this corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so mean you're right", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, then the then I have two questions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "we could remove it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but I I think we don't wanna w remove it from the corpus, in terms of delivering it because the people will want it in there.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. If it gets.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, so maybe the question is notating it. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah i Right. If if it gets in the way of what somebody is doing with it then you might wanna have some method which will allow you to block it, but you it's real data. You don't wanna b but you don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "If s you know, if there's a little bit of noise out there, and somebody is is talking about something they're doing, that's part of what we accept as part of a real meeting, even And we have the f uh the uh the the fan and the in the projector up there, and, uh, this is it's this is actual stuff that we we wanna work with.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well this is in very interesting", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because i it basically has a i it shows very clearly the contrast between, uh, speech recognition research and discourse research because in in discourse and linguistic research, what counts is what's communit communicative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And breath, you know, everyone breathes, they breathe all the time. And once in a while breath is communicative, but r very rarely. OK, so now, I had a discussion with Chuck about the data structure", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and the idea is that the transcripts will that get stored as a master there'll be a master transcript which has in it everything that's needed for both of these uses.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And the one that's used for speech recognition will be processed via scripts. You know, like, Don's been writing scripts", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and and, uh, to process it for the speech recognition side. Discourse side will have this this side over he the we we'll have a s ch Sorry, not being very fluent here. But, um, this the discourse side will have a script which will stri strip away the things which are non - communicative. OK. So then the then let's let's think about the practicalities of how we get to that master copy with reference to breaths. So what I would r r what I would wonder is would it be possible to encode those automatically? Could we get a breath detector?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, just to save the transcribers time.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, you just have no idea. I mean, if you're getting a breath several times every minute,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and just simply the keystrokes it takes to negotiate, to put the boundaries in, to to type it in, i it's just a huge amount of time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wh - what.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And you wanna be sure it's used, and you wanna be sure it's done as efficiently as possible, and if it can be done automatically, that would be ideal.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "what if you put it in but didn't put the boundaries?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So you just know it's between these other things,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, OK. So now there's there's another another possibility", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "which is, um, the time boundaries could mark off words from nonwords. And that would be extremely time - effective, if that's sufficient.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean I'm think if it's too if it's too hard for us to annotate the breaths per se, we are gonna be building up models for these things and these things are somewhat self - aligning, so if so, we i i if we say there is some kind of a thing which we call a \" breath \" or a \" breath - in \" or \" breath - out \", the models will learn that sort of thing. Uh, so but you but you do want them to point them at some region where where the breaths really are. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. But that would maybe include a pause as well,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, there's a there's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and that wouldn't be a problem to have it, uh, pause plus breath plus laugh plus sneeze?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, i You know there is there's this dynamic tension between between marking absolutely everything, as you know, and and and marking just a little bit and counting on the statistical methods. Basically the more we can mark the better. But if there seems to be a lot of effort for a small amount of reward in some area, and this might be one like this Although I I I'd be interested to h get get input from Liz and Andreas on this to see if they Cuz they've - they've got lots of experience with the breaths in in, uh, uh, their transcripts.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They have lots of experience with breathing?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Actually Well, yes they do, but we we can handle that without them here. But but but, uh, you were gonna say something about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think, um, one possible way that we could handle it is that, um, you know, as the transcribers are going through, and if they get a hunk of speech that they're gonna transcribe, u th they're gonna transcribe it because there's words in there or whatnot. If there's a breath in there, they could transcribe that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's what they've been doing. So, within an overlap segment, they they do this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. But Right. But if there's a big hunk of speech, let's say on Morgan's mike where he's not talking at all, um, don't don't worry about that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what we're saying is, there's no guarantee that, um So for the chunks that are transcribed, everything's transcribed. But outside of those boundaries, there could have been stuff that wasn't transcribed. So you just somebody can't rely on that data and say \" that's perfectly clean data \". Uh do you see what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, you're saying it's uncharted territory.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So I would say don't tell them to transcribe anything that's outside of a grouping of words.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That sounds like a reasonable reasonable compromise.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's that that quite co corresponds to the way I I try to train the speech - nonspeech detector, as I really try to not to detect those breaths which are not within a speech chunk but with which are just in in a silence region.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And they so they hopefully won't be marked in in those channel - specific files.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u I I wanted to comment a little more just for clarification about this business about the different purposes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "See, in a in a way this is a really key point, that for speech recognition, uh, research, uh, um, e a it's not just a minor part. In fact, the I think I would say the core thing that we're trying to do is to recognize the actual, meaningful components in the midst of other things that are not meaningful. So it's critical it's not just incidental it's critical for us to get these other components that are not meaningful. Because that's what we're trying to pull the other out of. That's our problem. If we had nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "if we had only linguistically - relevant things if if we only had changes in the spectrum that were associated with words, with different spectral components, and, uh, we we didn't have noise, we didn't have convolutional errors, we didn't have extraneous, uh, behaviors, and so forth, and moving your head and all these sorts of things, then, actually speech recognition i i isn't that bad right now. I mean you can you know it's it's the technology's come along pretty well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The the the reason we still complain about it is because is when when you have more realistic conditions then then things fall apart.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, fair enough. I guess, um, I uh, what I was wondering is what what at what level does the breathing aspect enter into the problem? Because if it were likely that a PDA would be able to be built which would get rid of the breathing, so it wouldn't even have to be processed at thi at this computational le well, let me see, it'd have to be computationally processed to get rid of it, but if there were, uh, like likely on the frontier, a good breath extractor then, um, and then you'd have to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But that's a research question, you know? And so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, see and that's what I wouldn't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "that And we don't either. I mean so so the thing is it's it right now it's just raw d it's just data that we're collecting, and so we don't wanna presuppose that people will be able to get rid of particular degradations because that's actually the research that we're trying to feed. So, you know, an and maybe maybe in five years it'll work really well,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and and it'll only mess - up ten percent of the time, but then we would still want to account for that ten percent, so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess there's another aspect which is that as we've improved our microphone technique, we have a lot less breath in the in the more recent, uh, recordings, so it's in a way it's an artifact that there's so much on the on the earlier ones.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "One of the um, just to add to this one of the ways that we will be able to get rid of breath is by having models for them. I mean, that's what a lot of people do nowadays.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so in order to build the model you need to have some amount of it marked, so that you know where the boundaries are.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So I mean, I don't think we need to worry a lot about breaths that are happening outside of a, you know, conversation. We don't have to go and search for them to to mark them at all, but, I mean, if they're there while they're transcribing some hunk of words, I'd say put them in if possible.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, and it's also the fact that they differ a lot from one channel to the other because of the way the microphone's adjusted.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Should we do the digits?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad D" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1007b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "So we come again for the the second meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh for the aim of this meeting now is to to make presentation about uh the work for each one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And take the the decision about the the design and the functionality of the the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we have think I got a new project requirement.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think uh teletext becomes outdated. So the popularity of the since the popularity of the internet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I think we don't need lighting adaptive, so the remote control should be only used for the the television. And of course we should have our image in the in the design. So, let's start with the the industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or y you can use the whiteboard if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh Well I have a PowerPoint pr presentation stored in my in my personal folder", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I I I think you can reach it from here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just go to explorer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or open. Participant two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Open uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh open..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you want to open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because it's open you mean..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, so um I will talk about the the w working design and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Slide show, view slide show,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um well I I will present my my first idea on how to build the our new remote control for television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh can you go one page down, please. So I think the first things to do is to define the hardware components neededs to achieve uh what we want to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh mm I'm thin uh I think uh I I'll do a survey about what is uh what is available on the market and what what is the the cheapest possible things we hav we can use. Then uh I will try with the technical team to to build a prototype and to see uh with uh h how this little box would uh look look like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And how an and we can uh start troubleshooting first uh com communication problems or things like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And when we are ready with this first prototype I I think we can add some software functionalities on a programmable chip like browsing by content or um things like that. Okay so can you go down uh So, wha what I think for now is we don't want to have a remote control w which is wired", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh I think we u we can use a battery for the. Then two programmable chips for both software functionalities and communication. And the communication with the T_V_ set is uh made through uh infrared communication So uh this is the the schema of the o of the future uh remote controls", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did you draw it?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so uh you can you can see the components, uh battery and uh the two chips goes to the infrared uh connection to the T_V_ set.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is the other chip for? The one on top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The one on top is for the um well the functionali the functionalities", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One is a communication.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the the th red um sorry the green one is is to well, putting things together, um f transform the data into uh qu into the format to to uh to communicate with the T_V_ set.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For men. To the in Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And, that's it. I think we should use a F_P_G_A_ for for the functionalities which is easy to to t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. What is F_P_G_A_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's field programmable uh something array.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Gateway arrays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a field programmable gateway arrays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So why's it how is it different from the Bluetooth?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, uh a F_P_G_A_ is just a chip you can uh you can pr programme it uh wi with wh whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Programme it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh well the Bluetooth chip is just responsible to uh make the communication uh between uh the two devices.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh So this are the they have to work together? Or? Do they have to work together or two separate choice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Well, th the F_P_G_A_ will produce the the data to send.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or it's something like isn't hardware the first one? And the second one is for the software.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is the is the software par alri okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah to run th to make it run.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can control if you want, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright and that's it for the working design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if you have any questions?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, and how about the battery power? Uh you mean that battery would be somewhere there and the remote contro the power to the battery comes through infrared?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no no no no, I think uh we have uh to to uh have uh embedded uh b batteries in in the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Into the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah into the t.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "more compact and uh okay,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I I don't think it will need um very uh much power to make it run, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. You can put it on the charger when uh you when you don't need to use it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Having a charger rather than putting the battery cells always.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "People don't like it to have to buy the batteries when they run out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm. Uh mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We just make a small charger", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and put it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can i yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because you are using because you are using Bluetooth, if some people have P_D_A_ they can use their P_D_A_ to control the T_V_ if they want to, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ma", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also, but but I I I think uh the the goal is to sell our remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we can change the b.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Our remote,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we do not want to make it P_D_A_..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S okay, so charger for is the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So is mine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's mine. Participant one, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah, this your.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Oh we have so let's move to to user interface design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you can open uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Participant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "three. Yeah. So So I'm working on the technical functions design. can you show the next slide. So the the purpose is to to find uh the important questions to ask is what effect should the apparatus have. So so I found on a webs on the internet", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "During the weekend.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. I spent a lot of time searching.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's good..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh and I found that uh the function of remote control is to send messages to television set.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For example switch on, switch off, switch the next channel and so on and so on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "G", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I found two very good prototypes for for this interface from our competitors", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so can you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This are usual functionality.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ours is a bit uh different. So these are two example. One is from the other one is from, yeah, uh engineering centr yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tasks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is the most competing prototypes I've found.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then uh loo but then I found if you look at you see on the left one there are too many buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And they are small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. O on the right I tried to play with the problem is that uh if I have hundred channels I have uh I have to choo press the other button to choose the hundred channels and I have to compose the number", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's very lousy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you so you move to the next the next one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I talk about the problem. And then I I look at the user manual they are a hundred pages thick, so we don't want that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I propose the easy to use uh prototype. You can navigate on T_V_ screen and we can the user's preference and we need to have the T_V_ connected to internet so we end in order to access the T_V_ programmes by X_M_L_ and we need some to do some preprocessing. From the technical aspect, the processing should be done on the T_V_ set than on the on the remote controller, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then we the speech recognition as uh Harry says we may just put in we may K_I_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean by the pa pa processing will be done on the T_V_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, all the processing is done the T_V_ is a compu has some processing power the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "than the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we should have specific T_V_? Or? We can use this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to sell a T_V_ with the remote control too..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah because are you just wondering what controller okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. J j just the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, not the T_V_s.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think there there is there is al there there is a a technology like show view who is already available on most of the T_V_ set on recorders or thing like that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we can try t to get this information on to the remote control to to do the processing on the remote control because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So i the processing on on the remote controller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it can u be used in any T_V_, any conventional T_V_ sets?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N yeah, that's all. The next one? So I come up with a simple design, just keep the v navigation buttons..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, that's a good idea, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Keep the navigation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We d we don't we we don't need really much buttons to i if we have a screen to navigate on on the T_V_ so uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, f four five buttons, it's sufficient.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's easy to build,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it does not consume much power..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, that's all..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, but you have a catch there, um assume that um if you want to go to if you are watching channel two and if you want to go to channel ninety nine, then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then y you you go to the main menu and uh you have uh go to channel", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then uh you can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. No, because you choose by channel, so you choose by T_V_ program", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh huh huh huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you don't have hundred channels to choose from. If you go by channel, you don't have to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh I I think i i if you if you want to to make uh well a a big jump but uh well you you have to to have a a a device when you could you could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah. Ah, a big jump.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah then yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A mouse or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, not a mouse but uh something that that says more clearly that uh right, left, up, down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well, the to have the ability to to to write something to the navigator, maybe directly, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm hmm hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can think of buttons like in the telephone to send messages or things like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How the this remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we'll see..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh it's gonna be small.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it'll beep if you wanna find it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "too small that it goes under the sofa and we can't find it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you just uh shout y h just it just has to re respond to you when you look for the device.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno how bu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just give it a name and we call him.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And responds to you, and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh next presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Participant four. So Harry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, after having the inputs from industrial design and user interface, I think most of the points which I want to are already covered here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And to find the most interesting features what the users would be interested, then what we have done is we have put a feedback forms in all the magazines, and the users send the feedbacks, and based on that These are the findings which we got and yeah adding of a speech interface is always good for a T_V_ remote but the technology We already know that as discussed earlier.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I I think it will be a, yes, a bit complicated to um make a speech recognisers runs on the small uh ts", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "An it does how feasible it is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I- mm. But I think if you to recognise numbers it's a well-studied problem. I if you just recognise uh numbers is a limited you have limited vocabulary.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh we can put an limited vocabulary as in the mobile phones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We just have the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And this can allow to choose the the program, for instance without uh adding uh buttons", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's not going to take much space also. It's going to be very slim.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And next one was the size of the remote control. It has to be of course a very slim and small one. And of course most of the people are interested in if it's less expensive,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so this is an important criteria here is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But do you think what they sug suggested s possibility.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean we have to look for a trade-off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The features and the cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I no I I think that uh i if we go for quality people may tolerate for high quality and of course comes with uh reasonable cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe not less, but they may be willing to pay little bit more for comfort,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Little bit more if it's with extra features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, extra features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, s s speech is a important extra feature I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But is it useful or not u I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There is in the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, for a lazy guys they could say nine and the nine channel comes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or they say movie name or I don't go for movie names but only for the numbers on the channel, or volume up, volume down, brightness, contrast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, I think this should be a good idea, to put this features. And the fourth one was the teletext in various languages.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we we just have to find a mean how to to add a m a a a microphone or uh well yes a microphone into the the remote control, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think i.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it will be alright..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's necessary can you can do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is the teletext? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can integrate small microphone in the remote", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's not really a problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about lighting adaptive options?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah as discussed in the earlier meeting, but I think uh not much people are really interested in this point if it's not really required.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "According to the re to the new requirements I think we don't need that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is interesting but we are only concerned with the remote controller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you need s special T_V_ sets to do that? Or it's it's done via this remote controller? It's very complex.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's a bit complex too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean yeah, it's for the um industrial design and users interface designers to decide if it's going to be working or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For our next product, our new T_V_ set with uh automatical uh sound adjustment light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then we can conclude that. Yeah. Yeah, but it's quite possible but maybe not in this project.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have I think we have s still we have couple of minutes. Mm-mm. So any things to to discuss? Or any suggestions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think as I discussed th that four points would be good for um marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The speech interface and uh less uh reasonable uh cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Expensive. Price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the lighting adaptation", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the teletext. And regarding the teletext uh these are the subtitl these are the text information which you got on the televisions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you are watching an foreign movie, you get subtitles sometimes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh if you are a French guy watching an English movie you would like to have it in French.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And if I am a German then I would like to have the my options in German.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, the remote it should have some it should give me some flexibility of choosing the ch languages.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That should be a good uh point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but well what about the the new project's requirement? I I I think we should give up with teletext, no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we we can we is the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Well, so maybe we we can j we can already think uh about a way to to access the internet via the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because if.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Using the T_V_ to access the internet? Or what? I didn't quite understand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh we can think that in a few years there will be T_V_ set that can access the internet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's a good idea if i i if we i if if we uh think about how to to to build up our remote uh control w with this functionality in a w which will c which will come in a few years.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We already have some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if we already have it in our remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have to anticipate the the future?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. The future demand, market demand..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, to desi", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well, not not to implement it, but to well, to find a way to to add to add this functionality in a yeah, in an in an easy manner, if is possible..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The functionality in the future.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In future.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Yeah. Because all the T_V_ sets will be digital, right. All the programmes, everything will be in digital than analog. Th the system will change and we have to anticipate for those change.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So let's go for the the lunch break, and we will meet after.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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That's nice.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just for a visit?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and, uh Uh, we'll see.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We might might end up with some longer collaboration or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So he's gonna look in on everything we're doing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and give us his his thoughts. And so it'll be another another good person looking at things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Th - that's his spectral subtraction group?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is that right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So I guess I should probably talk to him a bit too?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, he'll be around for three weeks. He's, uh, um, very, very, easygoing, easy to talk to, and, uh, very interested in everything.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Really nice guy.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, we met him in Amsterdam.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, he's been here before.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, he's he's he's he's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Wh - Back when I was a grad student he was here for a, uh, uh a year or n six months.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I haven't noticed him.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "N nine months.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. 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So, I did a test, um, where I used twelve seconds from the past and the present frame to, um, calculate the mean. And.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Twelve seconds Twelve twelve seconds back from the current frame, is that what you mean?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh Twelve seconds, um, counting back from the end of the current frame,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah. So it was, um, twen I think it was twenty - one frames and that worked out to about twelve seconds.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And compared to, um, do using a twelve second centered window, I think there was a drop in performance but it was just a slight drop.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is is that right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, I mean, it was pretty it was pretty tiny. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. So that was encouraging. And, um, that that um, that's encouraging for for the idea of using it in an interactive system like And, um, another issue I'm I'm thinking about is in the SmartKom system. So say twe twelve seconds in the earlier test seemed like a good length of time, but what happens if you have less than twelve seconds? And, um So I w bef before, um Back in May, I did some experiments using, say, two seconds, or four seconds, or six seconds. In those I trained the models using mean subtraction with the means calculated over two seconds, or four seconds, or six seconds. And, um, here, I was curious, what if I trained the models using twelve seconds but I f I gave it a situation where the test set I was subtracted using two seconds, or four seconds, or six seconds. And, um So I did that for about three different conditions. And, um I mean, I th I think it was, um, four se I think I think it was, um, something like four seconds and, um, six seconds, and eight seconds. Something like that. And it seems like it it it hurts compared to if you actually train the models using th that same length of time but it it doesn't hurt that much. Um, u usually less than point five percent, although I think I did see one where it was a point eight percent or so rise in word error rate. But this is, um, w where, um, even if I train on the, uh, model, and mean subtracted it with the same length of time as in the test, it the word error rate is around, um, ten percent or nine percent. So it doesn't seem like that big a d a difference.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But it but looking at it the other way, isn't it what you're saying that it didn't help you to have the longer time for training, if you were going to have a short time for.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That that's true. Um,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean, why would you do it, if you knew that you were going to have short windows in testing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Wa", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it seems like for your I mean, in normal situations you would never get twelve seconds of speech, right? I'm not e u", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You need twelve seconds in the past to estimate, right? Or l or you're looking at six sec seconds in future and six in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, t twelve s", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, total.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "N n uh For the test it's just twelve seconds in the past.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, it's all Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Is this twelve seconds of uh, regardless of speech or silence? Or twelve seconds of speech?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Of of speech.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The other thing, um, which maybe relates a little bit to something else we've talked about in terms of windowing and so on is, that, um, I wonder if you trained with twelve seconds, and then when you were two seconds in you used two seconds, and when you were four seconds in, you used four seconds, and when you were six and you basically build up to the twelve seconds. So that if you have very long utterances you have the best,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but if you have shorter utterances you use what you can.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. And that's actually what we're planning to do in", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But s so I g So I guess the que the question I was trying to get at with those experiments is, \" does it matter what models you use? Does it matter how much time y you use to calculate the mean when you were, um, tra doing the training data? \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. But I mean the other thing is that that's I mean, the other way of looking at this, going back to, uh, mean cepstral subtraction versus RASTA kind of things, is that you could look at mean cepstral subtraction, especially the way you're doing it, uh, as being a kind of filter. And so, the other thing is just to design a filter. You know, basically you're you're you're doing a high - pass filter or a band - pass filter of some sort and and just design a filter. And then, you know, a filter will have a certain behavior and you loo can look at the start up behavior when you start up with nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and, you know, it will, uh, if you have an IIR filter for instance, it will, um, uh, not behave in the steady - state way that you would like it to behave until you get a long enough period, but, um, uh, by just constraining yourself to have your filter be only a subtraction of the mean, you're kind of, you know, tying your hands behind your back because there's filters have all sorts of be temporal and spectral behaviors.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And the only thing, you know, consistent that we know about is that you want to get rid of the very low frequency component.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But do you really want to calculate the mean? And you neglect all the silence regions or you just use everything that's twelve seconds, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, you do you mean in my tests so far?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ye - yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Most of the silence has been cut out.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just There's just inter - word silences.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And they are, like, pretty short. Shor", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Pretty short.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm. So you really need a lot of speech to estimate the mean of it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, if I only use six seconds, it still works pretty well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I saw in my test before. I was trying twelve seconds cuz that was the best in my test before", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and that increasing past twelve seconds didn't seem to help.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm. Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "th um, yeah, I guess it's something I need to play with more to decide how to set that up for the SmartKom system. Like, may maybe if I trained on six seconds it would work better when I only had two seconds or four seconds, and.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And, um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and again, if you take this filtering perspective and if you essentially have it build up over time. I mean, if you computed means over two and then over four, and over six, essentially what you're getting at is a kind of, uh, ramp up of a filter anyway. And so you may may just want to think of it as a filter. But, uh, if you do that, then, um, in practice somebody using the SmartKom system, one would think if they're using it for a while, it means that their first utterance, instead of, you know, getting, uh, a forty percent error rate reduction, they'll get a uh, over what, uh, you'd get without this, uh, um, policy, uh, you get thirty percent. And then the second utterance that you give, they get the full you know, uh, full benefit of it if it's this ongoing thing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, so you you cache the utterances? That's how you get your, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I'm saying in practice, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "M", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that's If somebody's using a system to ask for directions or something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you know, they'll say something first. And and to begin with if it doesn't get them quite right, ma m maybe they'll come back and say, \" excuse me? \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, or some I mean it should have some policy like that anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and, uh, uh, in any event they might ask a second question. And it's not like what he's doing doesn't, uh, improve things. It does improve things, just not as much as he would like. And so, uh, there's a higher probability of it making an error, uh, in the first utterance.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What would be really cool is if you could have uh, this probably users would never like this but if you had could have a system where, before they began to use it they had to introduce themselves, verbally.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You know. \" Hi, my name is so - and - so,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm from blah - blah - blah. \" And you could use that initial speech to do all these adaptations and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, the other thing I guess which which, uh, I don't know much about as much as I should about the rest of the system but but, um, couldn't you, uh, if you if you sort of did a first pass I don't know what kind of, uh, uh, capability we have at the moment for for doing second passes on on, uh, uh, some kind of little small lattice, or a graph, or confusion network, or something. But if you did first pass with, um, the with either without the mean sub subtraction or with a a very short time one, and then, um, once you, uh, actually had the whole utterance in, if you did, um, the, uh, uh, longer time version then, based on everything that you had, um, and then at that point only used it to distinguish between, you know, top N, um, possible utterances or something, you you might it might not take very much time. I mean, I know in the large vocabulary stu uh, uh, systems, people were evaluating on in the past, some people really pushed everything in to make it in one pass but other people didn't and had multiple passes. And, um, the argument, um, against multiple passes was u u has often been \" but we want to this to be r you know have a nice interactive response \". And the counterargument to that which, say, uh, BBN I think had, was \" yeah, but our second responses are second, uh, passes and third passes are really, really fast \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um, if if your second pass takes a millisecond who cares? Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "S so, um, the the idea of the second pass would be waiting till you have more recorded speech? Or?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so if it turned out to be a problem, that you didn't have enough speech because you need a longer longer window to do this processing, then, uh, one tactic is you know, looking at the larger system and not just at the front - end stuff is to take in, um, the speech with some simpler mechanism or shorter time mechanism,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, do the best you can, and come up with some al possible alternates of what might have been said. And, uh, either in the form of an N - best list or in the form of a lattice, or or confusion network, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And then the decoding of that is much, much faster or can be much, much faster if it isn't a big bushy network. And you can decode that now with speech that you've actually processed using this longer time, uh, subtraction.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So I mean, it's it's common that people do this sort of thing where they do more things that are more complex or require looking over more time, whatever, in some kind of second pass.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, and again, if the second pass is really, really fast Uh, another one I've heard of is is in in connected digit stuff, um, going back and l and through backtrace and finding regions that are considered to be a d a digit, but, uh, which have very low energy.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, uh I mean, there's lots of things you can do in second passes, at all sorts of levels. Anyway, I'm throwing too many things out. But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So is that, uh that it?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I guess that's it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, uh, do you wanna go, Sunil?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep. Um, so, the last two weeks was, like So I've been working on that Wiener filtering. And, uh, found that, uh, s single like, I just do a s normal Wiener filtering, like the standard method of Wiener filtering. And that doesn't actually give me any improvement over like I mean, uh, b it actually improves over the baseline but it's not like it doesn't meet something like fifty percent or something. So, I've been playing with the v", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Improves over the base line MFCC system? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um So that's The improvement is somewhere around, like, thirty percent over the baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Is that using in combination with something else?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, just just one stage Wiener filter", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "With with a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "which is a standard Wiener filter.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, no, but I mean in combination with our on - line normalization or with the LDA?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I just plug in the Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, in the s in our system, where.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, I di i di", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, does it g does that mean it gets worse? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No. It actually improves over the baseline of not having a Wiener filter in the whole system. Like I have an LDA f LDA plus on - line normalization, and then I plug in the Wiener filter in that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so it improves over not having the Wiener filter. So it improves but it it doesn't take it like be beyond like thirty percent over the baseline. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But that's what I'm confused about, cuz I think I thought that our system was more like forty percent without the Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, it's like, uh,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is this with the v new VAD?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "well, these are not No, it's the old VAD. So my baseline was, uh, nine This is like w the baseline is ninety - five point six eight, and eighty - nine, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So I mean, if you can do all these in word errors it's a lot a lot easier actually.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What was that? Sorry?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If you do all these in word error rates it's a lot easier, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK, OK, OK. Errors, right, I don't have.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, cuz then you can figure out the percentages.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's all accuracies.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The baseline is something similar to a w I mean, the t the the baseline that you are talking about is the MFCC baseline, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The t yeah, there are two baselines.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. So the baseline One baseline is MFCC baseline that When I said thirty percent improvement it's like MFCC baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so so what's it start on? The MFCC baseline is is what? Is at what level?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's the it's just the mel frequency and that's it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, what's what's the number?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, so I I don't have that number here. OK, OK, OK, I have it here. Uh, it's the VAD plus the baseline actually. I'm talking about the the MFCC plus I do a frame dropping on it. So that's like the word error rate is like four point three. Like Ten point seven.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Four point three. What's ten point seven?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's a medium misma OK, sorry. There's a well ma well matched, medium mismatched, and a high matched.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I don't have the like the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, four point three, ten point seven,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And forty forty.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Forty percent is the high mismatch.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And that becomes like four point three.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Not changed.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's like ten point one. Still the same. And the high mismatch is like eighteen point five.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Eighteen point five.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And what were you just describing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, the one is this one is just the baseline plus the, uh, Wiener filter plugged into it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But where's the, uh, on - line normalization and so on?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So Sorry. So, with the with the on - line normalization, the performance was, um, ten OK, so it's like four point three. Uh, and again, that's the ba the ten point, uh, four and twenty point one. That was with on - line normalization and LDA. So the h well matched has like literally not changed by adding on - line or LDA on it. But the I mean, even the medium mismatch is pretty much the same. And the high mismatch was improved by twenty percent absolute.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, and what kind of number an and what are we talking about here?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's the It - it's Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Is this TI - digits", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm talking about Italian,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or Italian?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And what did So, what was the, um, uh, corresponding number, say, for, um, uh, the Alcatel system for instance?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm..", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do you know?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it looks to be, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You have it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep, it's three point four, uh, eight point, uh, seven, and, uh, thirteen point seven.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, uh, this is the single stage Wiener filter, with The noise estimation was based on first ten frames.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually I started with using the VAD to estimate the noise and then I found that it works it doesn't work for Finnish and Spanish because the VAD endpoints are not good to estimate the noise because it cuts into the speech sometimes, so I end up overestimating the noise and getting a worse result. So it works only for Italian by u for using a VAD to estimate noise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It works for Italian because the VAD was trained on Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, uh so this was, uh And so this was giving um, this this was like not improving a lot on this baseline of not having the Wiener filter on it. And, so, uh, I ran this stuff with one more stage of Wiener filtering on it but the second time, what I did was I estimated the new Wiener filter based on the cleaned up speech, and did, uh, smoothing in the frequency to to reduce the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, I have I've I've observed there are, like, a lot of bumps in the frequency when I do this Wiener filtering which is more like a musical noise or something. And so by adding another stage of Wiener filtering, the results on the SpeechDat - Car was like, um So, I still don't have the word error rate. I'm sorry about it. But the overall improvement was like fifty - six point four six. This was again using ten frames of noise estimate and two stage of Wiener filtering. And the rest is like the LDA plu and the on - line normalization all remaining the same. Uh, so this was, like, compared to, uh, uh Fifty - seven is what you got by using the French Telecom system, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, I don't think so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Y i", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Is it on Italian?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, this is over the whole SpeechDat - Car. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, fifty - seven.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "point.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the new the new Wiener filtering schema is like some fifty - six point four six which is like one percent still less than what you got using the French Telecom system.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But it's a pretty similar number in any event.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's very similar.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But again, you're you're more or less doing what they were doing, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's it's different in a sense like I'm actually cleaning up the cleaned up spectrum which they're not doing. They're d what they're doing is, they have two stage stages of estimating the Wiener filter, but the final filter, what they do is they they take it to their time domain by doing an inverse Fourier transform.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And they filter the original signal using that fil filter,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "which is like final filter is acting on the input noisy speech rather than on the cleaned up. So this is more like I'm doing Wiener filter twice, but the only thing is that the second time I'm actually smoothing the filter and then cleaning up the cleaned up spectrum first level. And so that that's that's what the difference is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And actually I tried it on s the original clean I mean, the original spectrum where, like, I the second time I estimate the filter but actually clean up the noisy speech rather the c s first output of the first stage and that doesn't seems to be a giving, I mean, that much improvement. I I didn didn't run it for the whole case. And and what I t what I tried was, by using the same thing but Uh, so we actually found that the VAD is very, like, crucial. I mean, just by changing the VAD itself gives you the a lot of improvement", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "by instead of using the current VAD, if you just take up the VAD output from the channel zero, when instead of using channel zero and channel one, because that was the p that was the reason why I was not getting a lot of improvement for estimating the noise. So I just used the channel zero VAD to estimate the noise so that it gives me some reliable mar markers for this noise estimation.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What's a channel zero VAD?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm I'm confused about that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so, it's like.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it's the close - talking microphone.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, the close - talking without.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, oh, oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So because the channel zero and channel one are like the same speech, but only w I mean, the same endpoints.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the only thing is that the speech is very noisy for channel one, so you can actually use the output of the channel zero for channel one for the VAD. I mean, that's like a cheating method.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, so a are they going to pro What are they doing to do, do we know yet? about as far as what they're what the rules are going to be and what we can use?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so actually I received a a new document, describing this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And what they did finally is to, mmm, uh, not to align the utterances but to perform recognition, um, only on the close - talking microphone,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Which is the channel zero.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and to take the result of the recognition to get the boundaries uh, of speech.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it's not like that's being done in one place or one time.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's that's just a rule and we'd you you were permitted to do that. Is is that it?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, I think they will send, um, files but we we don't Well, apparently.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, so they will send files so everybody will have the same boundaries to work with?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But actually their alignment actually is not seems to be improving in like on all cases.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, i Yeah, so what happened here is that, um, the overall improvement that they have with this method So Well, to be more precise, what they have is, they have these alignments and then they drop the beginning silence and and the end silence but they keep, uh, two hundred milliseconds before speech and two hundred after speech. And they keep the speech pauses also. Um, and the overall improvement over the MFCC baseline So, when they just, uh, add this frame dropping in addition it's r uh, forty percent, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Fourteen percent, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, which is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, which is, um, t which is the overall improvement. But in some cases it doesn't improve at all. Like, uh, y do you remember which case?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It gives like negative Well, in in like some Italian and TI - digits,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, some @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So by using the endpointed speech, actually it's worse than the baseline in some instances, which could be due to the word pattern.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And Yeah, the other thing also is that fourteen percent is less than what you obtain using a real VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, our neural net.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So with without cheating like this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So Uh So I think this shows that there is still work Uh, well, working on the VAD is still still important I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, c", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Can I ask just a a high level question? Can you just say like one or two sentences about Wiener filtering and why why are people doing that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What's what's the deal with that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, so the Wiener filter, it's it's like it's like you try to minimize I mean, so the basic principle of Wiener filter is like you try to minimize the, uh, d uh, difference between the noisy signal and the clean signal if you have two channels. Like let's say you have a clean t signal and you have an additional channel where you know what is the noisy signal.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then you try to minimize the error between these two.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that's the basic principle. And you get you can do that I mean, if if you have only a c noisy signal, at a level which you, you w try to estimate the noise from the w assuming that the first few frames are noise or if you have a w voice activity detector, uh, you estimate the noise spectrum.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do you assume the noise is the same?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. in yeah, after the speech starts.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So but that's not the case in, uh, many many of our cases but it works reasonably well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and then you What you do is you, uh b fff. So again, I can write down some of these eq Oh, OK. Yeah. And then you do this uh, this is the transfer function of the Wiener filter, so \" SF \" is a clean speech spectrum, power spectrum", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And \" N \" is the noisy power spectrum. And so this is the transfer function.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "actually, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And then you multiply your noisy power spectrum with this. You get an estimate of the clean power spectrum.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I see. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So but the thing is that you have to estimate the SF from the noisy spectrum, what you have. So you estimate the NF from the initial noise portions and then you subtract that from the current noisy spectrum to get an estimate of the SF. So sometimes that becomes zero because you do you don't have a true estimate of the noise. So the f filter will have like sometimes zeros in it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because some frequency values will be zeroed out because of that. And that creates a lot of discontinuities across the spectrum because @ @ the filter. So, uh, so that's what that was just the first stage of Wiener filtering that I tried.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So is this, um, basically s uh, similar to just regular spectral subtraction?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's all pretty related,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. It's it's there's a di there's a whole class of techniques where you try in some sense to minimize the noise.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And it's typically a mean square sense, uh uh uh, i in in in some way. And, uh uh, spectral subtraction is is, uh uh, one approach to it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do people use the Wiener filtering in combination with the spectral subtraction typically, or is i are they sort of competing techniques?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Not seen. They are very s similar techniques.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. O oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's like I haven't seen anybody using s Wiener filter with spectral subtraction.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see, I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, in the long run you're doing the same thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but y but there you make different approximations, and in spectral subtraction, for instance, there's a a an estimation factor.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You sometimes will figure out what the noise is and you'll multiply that noise spectrum times some constant and subtract that rather than and sometimes people even though this really should be in the power domain, sometimes people s work in the magnitude domain because it it it works better.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, uh, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So why did you choose, uh, Wiener filtering over some other one of these other techniques?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, the reason was, like, we had this choice of using spectral subtraction, Wiener filtering, and there was one more thing which I which I'm trying, is this sub space approach. So, Stephane is working on spectral subtraction.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So I picked up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So you're sort of trying @ @ them all.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Y Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Ah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "we just wanted to have a few noise production compensation techniques", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I see. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and then pick some from that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "pick one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I m I mean yeah, I mean, there's Car - Carmen's working on another, on the vector Taylor series.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "VA Yeah, VAD. w Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So they were just kind of trying to cover a bunch of different things with this task and see, you know, what are what are the issues for each of them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah, OK. That makes sense.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cool, thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So so one of one of the things that I tried, like I said, was to remove those zeros in the fri filter by doing some smoothing of the filter.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Like, you estimate the edge of square and then you do a f smoothing across the frequency so that those zeros get, like, flattened out.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that doesn't seems to be improving by trying it on the first time. So what I did was like I p did this and then you I plugged in the one more the same thing but with the smoothed filter the second time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that seems to be working.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that's where I got like fifty - six point five percent improvement on SpeechDat - Car with that. And So the other thing what I tried was I used still the ten frames of noise estimate but I used this channel zero VAD to drop the frames. So I'm not still not estimating. And that has taken the performance to like sixty - seven percent in SpeechDat - Car, which is which which like sort of shows that by using a proper VAD you can just take it to further, better levels. And So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So that's sort of like, you know, best - case performance?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so far I've seen sixty - seven I mean, no, I haven't seen s like sixty - seven percent. And, uh, using the channel zero VAD to estimate the noise also seems to be improving but I don't have the results for all the cases with that. So I used channel zero VAD to estimate noise as a lesser 2 x frame, which is like, everywhere I use the channel zero VAD. And that seems to be the best combination, uh, rather than using a few frames to estimate and then drop a channel.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So I'm I'm still a little confused. Is that channel zero information going to be accessible during this test.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Nnn, no. This is just to test whether we can really improve by using a better VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean So this is like the noise compensation f is fixed", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but you make a better decision on the endpoints. That's, like seems to be.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so we c so I mean, which which means, like, by using this technique what we improve just the VAD", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "we can just take the performance by another ten percent or better.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, that that was just the, uh, reason for doing that experiment. And, w um Yeah, but this all these things, I have to still try it on the TI - digits, which is like I'm just running. And there seems to be not improving a a lot on the TI - digits, so I'm like investigating that, why it's not. And, um, um Well after that. So, uh so the other the other thing is like I've been I'm doing all this stuff on the power spectrum. So Tried this stuff on the mel as well mel and the magnitude, and mel magnitude, and all those things. But it seems to be the power spectrum seems to be getting the best result. So, one of one of reasons I thought like doing the averaging, after the filtering using the mel filter bank, that seems to be maybe helping rather than trying it on the mel filter ba filtered outputs.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So just th", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Ma Makes sense.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that's that's the only thing that I could think of why why it's giving improvement on the mel. And, yep. So that's it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, how about the subspace stuff?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Subspace, I'm I'm like that's still in a little bit in the back burner because I've been p putting a lot effort on this to make it work, on tuning things and other stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I was like going parallely but not much of improvement. I'm just have some skeletons ready, need some more time for it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Tha - that it?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cool. Do you wanna go, Stephane?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. So, I've been, uh, working still on the spectral subtraction. Um, So to r to remind you a little bit of of what I did before, is just to apply some spectral subtraction with an overestimation factor also to get, um, an estimate of the noise, uh, spectrum, and subtract this estimation of the noise spectrum from the, uh, signal spectrum, but subtracting more when the SNR is is, uh, low, which is a technique that it's often used.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" Subtracting more \", meaning?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So you overestimate the noise spectrum. You multiply the noise spectrum by a factor, uh, which depends on the SNR.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, above twenty DB, it's one, so you just subtract the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then it's b Generally Well, I use, actually, a linear, uh, function of the SNR,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which is bounded to, like, two or three, when the SNR is below zero DB.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, doing just this, uh, either on the FFT bins or on the mel bands, um, t doesn't yield any improvement", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh! Um, uh, what are you doing with negative, uh, powers?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "o Yeah. So there is also a threshold, of course, because after subtraction you can have negative energies,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and So what I I just do is to put, uh to to add to put the threshold first and then to add a small amount of noise, which right now is speech - shaped. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Speech - shaped?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's a it has the overall overall energy, uh pow it has the overall power spectrum of speech. So with a bump around one kilohertz.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So when y when you talk about there being something less than zero after subtracting the noise, is that at a particular frequency bin?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "i Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There can be frequency bins with negative values.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so when you say you're adding something that has the overall shape of speech, is that in a in a particular frequency bin? Or you're adding something across all the frequencies when you get these negatives?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "For each frequencies I a I'm adding some, uh, noise, but the a the amount of the amount of noise I add is not the same for all the frequency bins.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ah! OK. I gotcha. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh. Right now I don't think if it makes sense to add something that's speech - shaped, because then you have silence portion that have some spectra similar to the sp the overall speech spectra.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But Yeah. So this is something I can still work on,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So what does that mean?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm trying to understand what it means when you do the spectral subtraction and you get a negative. It means that at that particular frequency range you subtracted more energy than there was actually.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That means that Mm - hmm. Yeah. So so yeah, you have an an estimation of the noise spectrum, but sometimes, of course, it's as the noise is not perfectly stationary, sometimes this estimation can be, uh, too small, so you don't subtract enough. But sometimes it can be too large also. If if the noise, uh, energy in this particular frequency band drops for some reason.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So in in an ideal word i world if the noise were always the same, then, when you subtracted it the worst that i you would get would be a zero. I mean, the lowest you would get would be a zero, cuz i if there was no other energy there you're just subtracting exactly the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep, there's all there's all sorts of, uh, deviations from the ideal here.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, for instance, you're you're talking about the signal and noise, um, at a particular point. And even if something is sort of stationary in ster terms of statistics, there's no guarantee that any particular instantiation or piece of it is exactly a particular number or bounded by a particular range.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, you're figuring out from some chunk of of of the signal what you think the noise is. Then you're subtracting that from another chunk,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and there's absolutely no reason to think that you'd know that it wouldn't, uh, be negative in some places.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, on the other hand that just means that in some sense you've made a mistake because you certainly have stra subtracted a bigger number than is due to the noise.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um Also, we speak the whole where all this stuff comes from is from an assumption that signal and noise are uncorrelated. And that certainly makes sense in s in in a statistical interpretation, that, you know, over, um, all possible realizations that they're uncorrelated", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or assuming, uh, ergodicity that i that i um, across time, uh, it's uncorrelated. But if you just look at a quarter second, uh, and you cross - multiply the two things, uh, you could very well, uh, end up with something that sums to something that's not zero. So in fact, the two signals could have some relation to one another. And so there's all sorts of deviations from ideal in this. And and given all that, you could definitely end up with something that's negative. But if down the road you're making use of something as if it is a power spectrum, um, then it can be bad to have something negative. Now, the other thing I wonder about actually is, what if you left it negative? What happens?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is that the log?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, because Um, are you taking the log before you add them up to the mel?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "After that. No, after.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. So the thing is, I wonder how if you put your thresholds after that, I wonder how often you would end up with, uh with negative values.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But you will But you end up reducing some neighboring frequency bins @ @ in the average, right? When you add the negative to the positive value which is the true estimate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But nonetheless, uh, you know, these are it's another f kind of smoothing, right? that you're doing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. So, you've done your best shot at figuring out what the noise should be, and now i then you've subtracted it off. And then after that, instead of instead of, uh, uh, leaving it as is and adding things adding up some neighbors, you artificially push it up.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Which is, you know, it's there's no particular reason that that's the right thing to do either, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, um, uh, i in fact, what you'd be doing is saying, \" well, we're d we're we're going to definitely diminish the effect of this frequency in this little frequency bin in the in the overall mel summation \". It's just a thought. I d I don't know if it would be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sort of the opposite of that would be if if you find out you're going to get a negative number, you don't do the subtraction for that bin.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh. That is true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Nnn, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "although.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That would be almost the opposite, right? Instead of leaving it negative, you don't do it. If your if your subtraction's going to result in a negative number, you you don't do subtraction in that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that means that in a situation where you thought that that the bin was almost entirely noise, you left it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I'm just saying that's like the opposite.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, yeah that's that's the opposite,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And, yeah, some people also if it's a negative value they, uh, re - compute it using inter interpolation from the edges and bins.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "For frames, frequency bins.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, there are different things that you can do.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "People can also, uh, reflect it back up and essentially do a full wave rectification instead of a instead of half wave.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But it was just a thought that that it might be something to try.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yep. Well, actually I tried, something else based on this, um, is to to put some smoothing, um, because it seems to to help or it seems to help the Wiener filtering", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and, mmm So what I did is, uh, some kind of nonlinear smoothing. Actually I have a recursion that computes Yeah, let me go back a little bit. Actually, when you do spectral subtraction you can, uh, find this this equivalent in the s in the spectral domain. You can uh compute, y you can say that d your spectral subtraction is a filter, um, and the gain of this filter is the, um, signal energy minus what you subtract, divided by the signal energy. And this is a gain that varies over time, and, you know, of course, uh, depending on the s on the noise spectrum and on the speech spectrum. And what happen actually is that during low SNR values, the gain is close to zero but it varies a lot. Mmm, and this this is the cause of musical noise and all these the the fact you we go below zero one frame and then you can have an energy that's above zero.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And Mmm. So the smoothing is I did a smoothing actually on this gain, uh, trajectory. But it's the smoothing is nonlinear in the sense that I tried to not smooth if the gain is high, because in this case we know that, uh, the estimate of the gain is correct because we we are not close to to to zero, um, and to do more smoothing if the gain is low. Mmm. Um. Yeah. So, well, basically that's this idea, and it seems to give pretty good results, uh, although I've just just tested on Italian and Finnish. And on Italian it seems my result seems to be a little bit better than the Wiener filtering,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, the one you showed yesterday.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't know if you have these improvement the detailed improvements for Italian, Finnish, and Spanish there", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fff. No, I don't have, for each,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or you have just have your own.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I just just have the final number here.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So these numbers he was giving before with the four point three, and the ten point one, and so forth, those were Italian, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. So so, no,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I actually didn't give you the number which is the final one,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, no, we've.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which is, after two stages of Wiener filtering. I mean, that was I just well, like the overall improvement is like fifty - six point five. So,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, his number is still better than what I got in the two stages of Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "On Italian. But on Finnish it's a little bit worse, apparently.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But do you have numbers in terms of word error rates on on Italian? So just so you have some sense of reference?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, so, it's, uh, three point, uh, eight.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Am I right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Yeah, right, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then, uh, d uh, nine point, uh, one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And finally, uh, sixteen point five.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And this is, um, spectral subtraction plus what?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Plus plus nonlinear smoothing. Well, it's the system it's exactly the sys the same system as Sunil tried,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "On - line normalization and LDA?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But instead of double stage Wiener filtering, it's it's this smoothed spectral subtraction. Um, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What is it the, um, France Telecom system uses", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "for Do they use spectral subtraction, or Wiener filtering, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They use spectral subtraction, right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "For what?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "French Telecom.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It it's Wiener filtering,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, it's it's Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "am I right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, it's some kind of Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, filtering. Yeah, it's not exactly Wiener filtering but some variant of Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, plus, uh, I guess they have some sort of cepstral normalization, as well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "s They have like yeah, th the just noise compensation technique is a variant of Wiener filtering,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "plus they do some some smoothing techniques on the final filter. The th they actually do the filtering in the time domain.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So they would take this HF squared back, taking inverse Fourier transform. And they convolve the time domain signal with that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And they do some smoothing on that final filter, impulse response.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But they also have two two different smoothing @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, I'm I'm @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "One in the time domain and one in the frequency domain by just taking the first, um, coefficients of the impulse response.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, basically it's similar. I mean, what you did, it's similar", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's similar in the smoothing and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because you have also two two kind of smoothing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "One in the time domain, and one in the frequency domain,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. The frequency domain.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Does the smoothing in the time domain help.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, do you get this musical noise stuff with Wiener filtering or is that only with, uh, spectral subtraction?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, you get it with Wiener filtering also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Does the smoothing in the time domain help with that? Or some other smoothing?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, no, you still end up with zeros in the s spectrum. Sometimes.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, it's not clear that these musical noises hurt us in recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We don't know if they do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, they they sound bad.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But we're not listening to it, usually.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, actually the the smoothing that I did do here reduced the musical noise. Well, it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I cannot you cannot hear beca well, actually what I d did not say is that this is not in the FFT bins. This is in the mel frequency bands. Um So, it could be seen as a f a a smoothing in the frequency domain because I used, in ad mel bands in addition and then the other phase of smoothing in the time domain. Mmm. But, when you look at the spectrogram, if you don't have an any smoothing, you clearly see, like in silence portions, and at the beginning and end of speech, you see spots of high energy randomly distributed over the the spectrogram.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's the musical noise?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Which is musical noise,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, if if it If you listen to it uh, if you do this in the FFT bins, then you have spots of energy randomly distributing. And if you f if you re - synthesize these spot sounds as, like, sounds,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, none of these systems, by the way, have I mean, y you both are are working with, um, our system that does not have the neural net,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. So one would hope, presumably, that the neural net part of it would would improve things further as as they did before.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Um Yeah, although if if we, um, look at the result from the proposals, one of the reason, uh, the n system with the neural net was, um, more than well, around five percent better, is that it was much better on highly mismatched condition. I'm thinking, for instance, on the TI - digits trained on clean speech and tested on noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, for this case, the system with the neural net was much better.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But not much on the in the other cases.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And if we have no, uh, spectral subtraction or Wiener filtering, um, i the system is Uh, we thought the neural neural network is much better than before, even in these cases of high mismatch. So, maybe the neural net will help less but, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Could you train a neural net to do spectral subtraction?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it could do a nonlinear spectral subtraction", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but I don't know if it I mean, you have to figure out what your targets are.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was thinking if you had a clean version of the signal and and a noisy version, and your targets were the M F - uh, you know, whatever, frequency bins.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, that's not so much spectral subtraction then,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but but but it's but at any rate, yeah, people, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "People do that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "y yeah, in fact, we had visitors here who did that I think when you were here ba way back when.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, people d done lots of experimentation over the years with training neural nets. And it's not a bad thing to do. It's another approach.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "M I mean, it's it, um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The objection everyone always raises, which has some truth to it is that, um, it's good for mapping from a particular noise to clean but then you get a different noise.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the experiments we saw that visitors did here showed that it there was at least some, um, gentleness to the degradation when you switched to different noises. It did seem to help. So that you're right, that's another another way to go.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How did it compare on I mean, for for good cases where it it uh, stuff that it was trained on? Did it do pretty well?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, it did very well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but to some extent that's kind of what we're doing. I mean, we're not doing exactly that, we're not trying to generate good examples but by trying to do the best classifier you possibly can, for these little phonetic categories,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. You could say it's sort of built in.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's Yeah, it's kind of built into that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and that's why we have found that it it does help.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um so, um, yeah, I mean, we'll just have to try it. But I I would I would I would imagine that it will help some. I mean, it we'll just have to see whether it helps more or less the same, but I would imagine it would help some.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So in any event, all of this I was just confirming that all of this was with a simpler system.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah. Um, Yeah, so this is th the, um Well, actually, this was kind of the first try with this spectral subtraction plus smoothing,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and I was kind of excited by the result.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, then I started to optimize the different parameters. And, uh, the first thing I tried to optimize is the, um, time constant of the smoothing. And it seems that the one that I chose for the first experiment was the optimal one, so uh,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's amazing how often that happens.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, so this is the first thing. Um Yeah, another thing that I it's important to mention is, um, that this has a this has some additional latency. Um. Because when I do the smoothing, uh, it's a recursion that estimated the means, so of the g of the gain curve. And this is a filter that has some latency. And I noticed that it's better if we take into account this latency. So, instead o of using the current estimated mean to, uh, subtract the current frame, it's better to use an estimate that's some somewhere in the future. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And that's what causes the latency? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You mean, the m the mean is computed o based on some frames in the future also?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or or no?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's the recursion, so it's it's the center recursion, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um and the latency of this recursion is around fifty milliseconds.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "One five?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "One five? Five zero?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Five zero,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Five zero.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "why why is that delay coming? Like, you estimate the mean?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, the mean estimation has some delay, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, the the filter that that estimates the mean has a time constant.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It isn't OK, so it's like it looks into the future also. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What if you just look into the past?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's, uh, not as good. It's not bad.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "How m by how much?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, it helps a lot over the ba the baseline but, mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "By how much?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "it It's around three percent, um, relative.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Worse.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "mmm So, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's depending on how all this stuff comes out we may or may not be able to add any latency.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Yeah. So, yeah, it depends. Uh, y actually, it's it's l it's three percent. Right. Mmm. Yeah, b but I don't think we have to worry too much on that right now while you kno. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, s Yeah, I mean, I think the only thing is that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I would worry about it a little.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Because if we completely ignore latency, and then we discover that we really have to do something about it, we're going to be find ourselves in a bind.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, um, you know, maybe you could make it twenty - five. You know what I mean?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, just, you know, just be be a little conservative", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because we may end up with this crunch where all of a sudden we have to cut the latency in half or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "s Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um. So, yeah, there are other things in the, um, algorithm that I didn't, uh, @ @ a lot yet,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Sorry. A quick question just about the latency thing. If if there's another part of the system that causes a latency of a hundred milliseconds, is this an additive thing? Or c or is yours hidden in that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, it's it's added.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's additive. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We can OK. We can do something in parallel also, in some like some cases like, if you wanted to do voice activity detection.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And we can do that in parallel with some other filtering you can do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you can make a decision on that voice activity detection and then you decide whether you want to filter or not.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But by then you already have the sufficient samples to do the filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So So, sometimes you can do it anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, couldn't, uh I Couldn't you just also I mean, i if you know that the l the largest latency in the system is two hundred milliseconds, don't you couldn't you just buffer up that number of frames and then everything uses that buffer?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And that way it's not additive?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, in fact, everything is sent over in buffers cuz of isn't it the TCP buffer some?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You mean, the the data, the super frame or something?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that has a variable latency because the last frame doesn't have any latency", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and first frame has a twenty framed latency. So you can't r rely on that latency all the time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Because I mean the transmission over over the air interface is like a buffer.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Twenty frame.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "twenty four frames.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So But the only thing is that the first frame in that twenty - four frame buffer has a twenty - four frame latency. And the last frame doesn't have any latency.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Because it just goes as.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wasn't thinking of that one in particular", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but more of, you know, if if there is some part of your system that has to buffer twenty frames, uh, can't the other parts of the system draw out of that buffer and therefore not add to the latency?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And and that's sort of one of the all of that sort of stuff is things that they're debating in their standards committee.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh! Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. So, um, there is uh, these parameters that I still have to to look at. Like, I played a little bit with this overestimation factor, uh, but I still have to to look more at this, um, at the level of noise I add after. Uh, I know that adding noise helped, um, the system just using spectral subtraction without smoothing, but I don't know right now if it's still important or not, and if the level I choose before is still the right one. Same thing for the shape of the the noise. Maybe it would be better to add just white noise instead of speech shaped noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That'd be more like the JRASTA thing in a sense. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um, yep. Uh, and another thing is to Yeah, for this I just use as noise estimate the mean, uh, spectrum of the first twenty frames of each utterance. I don't remember for this experiment what did you use for these two stage.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I used ten just ten frames. Yeah, because.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The ten frames?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, the reason was like in TI - digits I don't have a lot. I had twenty frames most of the time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um. But, so what's this result you told me about, the fact that if you use more than ten frames you can improve by t", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, that's that's using the channel zero. If I use a channel zero VAD to estimate the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Which.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But this is ten frames plus plus", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Channel zero dropping.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "channel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, no, these results with two stage Wiener filtering is ten frames", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "t Oh, this.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but possibly more. I mean, if channel one VAD gives you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "f Yeah. Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Yeah, but in this experiment I did I didn't use any VAD. I just used the twenty first frame to estimate the noise. And So I expected it to be a little bit better, if, uh, I use more more frames. Um. OK, that's it for spectral subtraction. The second thing I was working on is to, um, try to look at noise estimation, mmm, and using some technique that doesn't need voice activity detection. Um, and for this I u simply used some code that, uh, I had from from Belgium, which is technique that, um, takes a bunch of frame, um, and for each frequency bands of this frame, takes a look at the minima of the energy. And then average these minima and take this as an an energy estimate of the noise for this particular frequency band. And there is something more to this actually. What is done is that, uh, these minima are computed, um, based on, um, high resolution spectra. So, I compute an FFT based on the long, uh, signal frame which is sixty - four millisecond.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you have one minimum for each frequency?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What what I what I d uh, I do actually, is to take a bunch of to take a tile on the spectrogram and this tile is five hundred milliseconds long and two hundred hertz wide.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And this tile Uh, in this tile appears, like, the harmonics if you have a voiced sound, because it's it's the FTT bins. And when you take the m the minima of of these this tile, when you don't have speech, these minima will give you some noise level estimate, If you have voiced speech, these minima will still give you some noise estimate because the minima are between the harmonics. And If you have other other kind of speech sounds then it's not the case, but if the time frame is long enough, uh, like s five hundred milliseconds seems to be long enough, you still have portions which, uh, are very close whi which minima are very close to the noise energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm confused. You said five hundred milliseconds", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but you said sixty - four milliseconds. Which is which? What?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sixty - four milliseconds is to compute the FFT, uh, bins.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The the FFT.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, actually it's better to use sixty - four milliseconds because, um, if you use thirty milliseconds, then, uh, because of the this short windowing and at low pitch, uh, sounds, the harmonics are not, wha uh, correctly separated.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So if you take these minima, it b they will overestimate the noise a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you take sixty - four millisecond F F Ts and then you average them over five hundred? Or? Uh, what do you do over five hundred?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I take to I take a bunch of these sixty - four millisecond frame to cover five hundred milliseconds,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and then I look for the minima,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "on the on on the bunch of uh fifty frames, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm. So the interest of this is that, as y with this technique you can estimate u some reasonable noise spectra with only five hundred milliseconds of of signal, so if the the n the noise varies a lot, uh, you can track better track the noise,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "which is not the case if you rely on the voice activity detector. So even if there are no no speech pauses, you can track the noise level. The only requirement is that you must have, in these five hundred milliseconds segment, you must have voiced sound at least. Cuz this these will help you to to track the the noise level. Um. So what I did is just to simply replace the VAD - based, uh, noise estimate by this estimate, first on SpeechDat - Car Well, only on SpeechDat - Car actually. And it's, uh, slightly worse, like one percent relative compared to the VAD - based estimates. Um, I think the reason why it's not better, is that the SpeechDat - Car noises are all stationary. Um. So, u y y there really is no need to have something that's adaptive", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and Uh, well, they are mainly stationary. Um. But, I expect s maybe some improvement on TI - digits because, nnn, in this case the noises are all sometimes very variable. Uh, so I have to test it. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But are you comparing with something e I'm I'm p s a little confused again, i it Uh, when you compare it with the V A D - based,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "VAD - Is this is this the?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's It's the France - Telecom - based spectra, s uh, Wiener filtering and VAD. So it's their system but just I replace their noise estimate by this one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, you're not doing this with our system?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "In i I'm not No, no. Yeah, it's our system but with just the Wiener filtering from their system. Right? Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Actually, th the best system that we still have is, uh, our system but with their noise compensation scheme, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I'm trying to improve on this, and by by replacing their noise estimate by, uh, something that might be better.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. But the spectral subtraction scheme that you reported on also re requires a a noise estimate.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Couldn't you try this for that?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I di", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Do you think it might help?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Not yet, because I did this in parallel,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and I was working on one and the other.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, for for sure I will. I can try also, mmm, the spectral subtraction.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So I'm also using that n new noise estimate technique on this Wiener filtering what I'm trying.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I I have, like, some experiments running, I don't have the results.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't estimate the f noise on the ten frames but use his estimate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um. Yeah. I, um, also implemented a sp um spectral whitening idea which is in the, um, Ericsson proposal. Uh, the idea is just to um, flatten the log, uh, spectrum, um, and to flatten it more if the the probability of silence is higher. So in this way, you can also reduce somewhat reduce the musical noise and you reduce the variability if you have different noise shapes, because the the spectrum becomes more flat in the silence portions. Um. Yeah. With this, no improvement, uh, but there are a lot of parameters that we can play with and, um Actually, this this could be seen as a soft version of the frame dropping because, um, you could just put the threshold and say that \" below the threshold, I will flatten comp completely flatten the the spectrum \". And above this threshold, uh, keep the same spectrum. So it would be like frame dropping, because during the silence portions which are below the threshold of voice activity probability, uh, w you would have some kind of dummy frame which is a perfectly flat spectrum. And this, uh, whitening is something that's more soft because, um, you whiten you just, uh, have a function the whitening is a function of the speech probability, so it's not a hard decision.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, so I think maybe it can be used together with frame dropping and when we are not sure about if it's speech or silence, well, maybe it has something do with this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's interesting. I mean, um, you know, in in JRASTA we were essentially adding in, uh, white uh, white noise dependent on our estimate of the noise.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "On the overall estimate of the noise. Uh, I think it never occurred to us to use a probability in there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You could imagine one that that that made use of where where the amount that you added in was, uh, a function of the probability of it being s speech or noise.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yeah, w Yeah, right now it's a constant that just depending on the the noise spectrum.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Cuz that that brings in sort of powers of classifiers that we don't really have in, uh, this other estimate. So it could be it could be interesting.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What what what point does the, uh, system stop recording? How much.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It'll keep going till I guess when they run out of disk space,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It went a little long? I mean, disk.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but I think we're OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh Yeah, so there are with this technique there are some I just did something exactly the same as as the Ericsson proposal but, um, the probability of speech is not computed the same way. And I think, i for yeah, for a lot of things, actually a g a good speech probability is important. Like for frame dropping you improve, like you can improve from ten percent as Sunil showed, if you use the channel zero speech probabilities.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "For this it might help, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "S so, yeah. Uh, so yeah, the next thing I started to do is to, uh, try to develop a better voice activity detector. And, um I d um yeah, for this I think we can maybe try to train the neural network for voice activity detection on all the data that we have, including all the SpeechDat - Car data. Um And so I'm starting to obtain alignments on these databases. Um, and the way I mi I do that is that I just use the HTK system but I train it only on the close - talking microphone. And then I aligned I obtained the Viterbi alignment of the training utterances. Um It seems to be, uh i Actually what I observed is that for Italian it doesn't seem Th - there seems to be a problem.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No. So, it doesn't seems to help by their use of channel zero or channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. Because What?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, you mean their d the frame dropping, right? Yeah, it doesn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So, u but actually the VAD was trained on Italian also,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so Um, the c the current VAD that we have was trained on, uh, t SPINE, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Italian, and TI - digits with noise and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. And it seems to work on Italian but not on the Finnish and Spanish data. So, maybe one reason is that s s Finnish and Spanish noise are different. And actually we observed we listened to some of the utterances and sometimes for Finnish there is music in the recordings and strange things, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um Yeah, so the idea was to train all the databases and obtain an alignment to train on these databases, and, um, also to, um, try different kind of features, uh, as input to the VAD network. And we came up with a bunch of features that we want to try like, um, the spectral slope, the, um, the degree o degree of voicing with the features that, uh, we started to develop with Carmen, um, e with, uh, the correlation between bands and different kind of features,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The energy also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of course. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Well, Hans - Guenter will be here next week so I think he'll be interested in all all of these things. And, so.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, shall we, uh, do digits?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Want to go ahead, Morgan?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1008c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Uh welcome back after lunch, I hope uh you had a good lunch together. For uh this meeting the main agenda okay uh to discuss about the conceptual design meeting. Okay and the agenda will be the opening and uh that's uh the product manager or secretary that's me and uh the presentations from the Christine and uh Agnes and from Mister Ed. And finally in this meeting we have to decide", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we are to take a decision on the remote control concept and uh the functional design So we have forty minutes, I think it's uh little bit uh low, but I I hope we can finish it up so I'll handle to the the functional team, to the Christine, okay, to discuss about uh the components concept.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So uh, if you could open the PowerPoint presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm number two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're number two.'Kay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Components design, there we go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh can we put it in slide show mode? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The next one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right here, is that little that one, yes please.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll take the mouse. So uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we were looking he specifically at the components uh the following components, uh the case, the power supply, uh the means of communications with the television set. In instance we had talked about using some sort of speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you have to have microphone well no you don't actually I haven't have to have microphone in the device, but um maybe you do have it a a way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it has to it has to hear the speaker", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um, so it could be in the television set, could be in the device, but somewhere you have to put the microphone, um and a w a way of making beeps or sounds so you can find it when it's gets lost. Um so the other w thing that we So. Our method for going about this is we've looked at uh the histo hi historical record, what's worked, what hasn't and then we also um we wanted to evaluate some new materials", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we contacted manufacturing for their input because, course, we m might come up and choose the material that then manufacturing didn't have the technologies or capabilities to offer us, so uh this is the approach that we took during our um our research.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um for the case, um we told we were making a specifica specific assumption that it would be curved in design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Course, you know, I wanted it to be expandable and shrinkable, but um that uh doesn't seem to b be one of the choic non-option we can uh we can really seriously explore,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so then we were thinking about um rubber, but um unfortunately that's been eliminated because of the heat uh factor", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and th um there might be some problems with the m uh how it's uh goes with the board. Uh and uh then th plastic also has this problem of melting and it's brittle it gets brittle after a while,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so um we still had titanium and and wood available, but um unfortunately uh uh titanium's also been eliminated uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the m people in manufacturing said that you couldn't make d curved cases out of titanium, although how Apple did it with th PowerBook I'm not su quite sure but uh nevertheless um they've eliminated all of our options except wood.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At least it's environmentally friendly..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, this is our finding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a as she said, it's an environmentally friendly uh material, so we're we're currently uh proposing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh we'll get to all my personal preferences in just a second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So then there's this other matter of the chips and um well we could use a simple design on the board,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh these simple chips, but that's only works for the bu you don't get very much um intelligence with this simple one. And um then there was the regular which I regret that I've forgotten exactly why I'm eliminating that one. Uh the other option was this advanced chip on print, and uh we liked th we we found that it it includes this infrared sender,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which w'member the beam was that was an important component of finding the right chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh manufacturing has told us that they've um uh recently developed a uh a sensor and a speaker that would uh be integrated into this advanced chip on print, so uh we we uh now jumping right to our personal preferences um I I'd really think we should, you know, use some of uh some really exotic woods, like um,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know uh, well you guys come from tropical countries so you can kinda think of some trees and some nice woods. I think that people will might really want to design their own cases, you see, they could do sort of a this um three-dimensional design on the internet, and then they could submit their orders, kinda like you submit a custom car order, you know, and you can choose the colour and the size of the wheels and the colours of the leather and things like that, and then I uh think we should go with the solar cells as well as the um microphone and speaker on the advanced chip. So this is the findings of our research", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and my recommendations um for the new remote control w um would be to have um have it be made out of wood. Do you have any problems with that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can you go back uh one slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not sure, how do I Oh, I know, let's see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's go back up here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, uh question, uh, what's mean exactly, advanced chip on print? What's the meaning of that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's um um a multiple uh chip design um and it's uh maybe printed on to the circuit board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I could find out more about that uh before the next fi next meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, is it means it's on the yeah is it on a micro-proc micro-processor based or uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know, but I'll find out more at our next meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, tha that would be great, so if you find out from the technology background, okay, so that would be good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why was the plastic eliminated as a possible material?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because um it gets brittle, cracks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um We want we expect these um uh these remote controls to be around for several hundred years. So. Good ex Good expression..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whic", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "good expression. Well after us..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, speak for yourself, I'm planning to be around for a while..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think with wood though you'd run into the same types of problems, wouldn't you, I mean it chips, it if you drop it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh it's I'm not su.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so you're not convinced about the the wood, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Actually, I'm ready to sell it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think if you re if you use really good quality wood, then it might work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm ready to sell it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You think? And you could you could sell oils with it, to take care of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you can't just use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No y no no no, the o the only w the only wood you can use are the ones that are hard, extremely hard wood,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but there are some very pretty woods out there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I'm glad you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's actually very innovative idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorr having a hard time keeping wi control over my face..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, it's actually a very innovative n different idea that uh you know you can choose your colour of wood, your type of wood.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The stain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it's each person is gonna have their own personalised, individualised speech recognition remote control in wood, that's not on the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it it's looks good the the design the functional design uh, what about yo you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, in terms of comments on this or in terms of my own.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, in t yes, in term in terms of comments first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In turns of wow..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She works in the cubicle next to me so she's uh she was already a little bit prepared for this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Luckily Ed was not..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wood?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we can get the quality materials then it shouldn't influence the design principles too much, which you'll see with my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One thing we'd have to check though is what the users whether how quickly the novelty wears off of having uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, you wouldn't wanna have to have splinters in your hand while you're using your.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, for example. So, have to see how kid-friendly it is and and all that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's really good if your dog gets ahold of it, they can use it for teething.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They do that anyway with the rubber and plastic,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, they do it with other materials as well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so, and chew'em up. And chew'em up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay then, uh, let's move to Agnes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S you're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You are in participant three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One point three, yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so, yeah. Yeah, that's the one. So, it's a very short presentation,'cause I'm actually gonna draw you the layout on the board so if you want to just go straight to the second slide, um, which basically shows, sort of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I took the ideas that we were talking about last time um and tried to put that into the remote control so the things that y you can actually see on it are the on off switch, volume and channel control, the menu access button, ergonomic shape, which I completely agree with Christine's idea to have it sort of molded, so it's slightly more ergonomic and comfortable to hold than the r standard very straight remote controls. And actually the other thing with the wood if we take your customising idea, is that people can actually do sort of quasi-measurements on their hand size, so if someone has larger hands, you have a wider remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, my hand is uh different size than yours for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, that's actually a really good idea for customi customisability. Um, one thing I thought might be kind of interesting is to put a flip screen on it, just like you have on flip phones,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that you don't have this case where someone sits on the remote control or accidentally puts their hand on it, especially if you have little kids around, they're not pressing the buttons while you're trying to watch a T_V_ show and accidentally change the channel or turn it off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And also um you had issues with the batteries running out,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I thought maybe we could put a little battery life-light on it that kind of goes dimmer and dimmer and dimmer as your battery is starts to die. And in terms of invisible features, audio and um tactile feedback on button presses and, like you said, speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, in terms of what this thing would actually look like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Despite working in interface design, I'm not the greatest artist in the world, so you'll have to forgive me. You'd have something like this with an on-off switch fairly big, sort of in the corner and by itself, so you don't accidentally turn your T_V_ off while you're trying to manoeuvre other buttons. And then you have sort of one of those toggle displays for, oops, channels and volume, sort of for surfing channels and then volume, so the volume would be the up and down,'cause volume goes up and down and then channels left to right. And then here you'd have your sort of standard, telephonish number pad. And then on one side you would have an access to the menu on your T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and on the other side a way to turn off the voice control. So that if the user doesn't want to use their voice, they can just turn it off and you don't have the remote control accidentally changing things on you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, so again you can have a little L_C_D_ light somewhere, the flip thing and Have I forgotten anything? I don't think so. So, as you can see, it's a very very simple design,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is one of the things I really wanted to keep, is keep it simple, not have too many buttons, not have too many functionalities thrown into it. Think the design can pretty much carry over to everything, although with the wood the flip screen might have to do something slightly different.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A hinge. Be like a copper hinge or you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But you also have to d start watching out for the weight,'cause depending on how much the the flip screen will add to the weight of the remote control, you don't want it to start getting too heavy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's the general layout with the general functionalities, if we come up with something else. As you can see, there's still lots of space on the actual remote control and if you do it customisably, you can make this thing fairly small or fairly o large, depending on personal preferences.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, that's pretty much all I had to say, I mean, everything else in terms of design issues. Um the centering of the key pad and the channel is just depending on where your thumb is and you tend to use the the volume control and uh the browsing more than the actual number pad, so that would be sort of in direct line of where your thumb goes when you are holding the remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the number pad a little bit lower'cause it's used less frequently.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So once we decide exactly what we want, then we can figure out the exact positioning, but more or less I think it should go along those lines.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what's your, uh, the comments or uh s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Simple design. It's what consumers want.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's almost like, Houston, we have a product here..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Problem is obviously gonna be cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I also have a f very simple presentation,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because for the marketing point you have to see what the consumers want.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I also have uh copied a different type of remote. If you can find me, where I'm at. There should only be one in here. trend watch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's being modified.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They're stealing our product. We've been giving simple questionnaires in different areas because th obviously we have to see what the com consumers are looking for today,'cause uh trends change very very quickly. In six months maybe this idea is already gone out the window, so it's gonna be a question how fast we can act. Uh they already erased the rest of mine, huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "f go to findings.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no, no no.'Cause I had another comment there. Uh the market trend. This is what we know from the last uh from the questionnaires from the the all the p surveys we've done, fancy and feel-good, that's what we've been looking for, something that feels good in the hand, that's easy to use. Looking for next generation of innovation, because all the remotes out there now, they're all very similar, they all do the same thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have to have something completely different. Okay? Easy to use, has always has become has become another major interest that uh, with the whiteboard we can see that it's a remote that's easy to use. And I think this is another thing that's interesting is the consumers actually willing to pay the price for exciting tel technology. So even if we have a product that may be more expensive, if it comes out right, if they look it looks and feels good and has technology. The second two, you can see the last one is a very easy simple design. The second one, there is about uh forty-five thousand different buttons on it, which makes it fairly hard to read, uh very hard to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The first one, I see that they put in a display. Now there's something else uh with the little flip-up, now we're adding all kinds of things in,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but with the little flip-up, if you have a little display on the flip-up that when you close it everything is locked.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe the display also makes it easier to use, because sometimes when you're looking for buttons, maybe if you see a display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Context-sensitive instructions, depending on what the tel what mode the T_V_ or the D_V_D_ or something else is in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay Because I've seen mostly the standard ones,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Especially you might need something like that for training the speech recognition and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Now you have it now you have one with the very simple also. The idea is simple, but with a display, so you can see what you're doing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe if we can incorporate the easiness of use, trendy, fancy, feels good, uh with a display, wood, designer wood, designer colours", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, maybe what you could do is when somebody orders the device id you could send them like um a uh uh b some sort of a foam rubber um ball,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ", we might've.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then they would squeeze it, and it would take the shape of their hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's really molded to to your specific.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To t an and then you would know like um what the geometry of their hands would be and uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How hard they squeeze?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes you'd know what kind of wood to get.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Resistance resistance, right..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But th for that you'd also have to do sort of an average across families and things like that if unless everyone has their own personal remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right, that's right, you wouldn't wanna go too far down that. Oh that that actually would uh increase the um the revenues we could expect, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The sales, yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The Yeah. I hope so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but incorporating the three uh obviously it'd be something totally new on the market, totally different", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and from.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, already the customisability is a really good sort of new gimmick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Although, what it was it uh it was uh Nokia that came out with this changeable colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, you take it apart, and put on another face, take it off and put on another face", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that took off, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then they sold millions, millions. So. So say with the f with the findings, with the research, easy to use something totally new.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to come up with something totally new that is not on the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'd also have to wor um consider that uh who we were gonna get to make these custom cases in terms of manufacturing processes, we might wanna um learn about um labour laws.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know in different countries and stuff wher so we can do it cheap, but you don't wanna exploit uh labour in um third world countries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So actually you could turn it y turn around and say that you're uh par the reason the cost is high for the device is because um you're paying a a working wage to the person who made the device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we can get a production in, uh, countries like, uh, India", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost of living is low.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yes, yes, countries like India or China or Malaysia, so you can go a better features and better price and you can sell more. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good, well th that'd be something that manufacturing would have to um explore more", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, so Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and to where.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where w Where it would be manufactured is is another step.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're here to design, come up with a nice product..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes uh, but uh that that we can that we can talk about the production later, okay, depends on the the quantity, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we don't need to have our own uh fabric factory or something,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we can have a tie-up with who the do the fabric, okay, for the different uh electronics items, then we can have a business tie-up and to get to cut the cost, okay, to sell more. So, but uh le let's decide first about the components concept and uh interface concept, okay, if is acceptable for both of you, what uh Ed was talking. And your design whether you want with the display or without display or just a simple, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I think it depends, I mean I think it's a good idea, but we need to really think about how useful it's gonna be because theoretically with the T_V_ you already have a big display right in front of you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, if we're trying to keep costs down, then maybe sacrificing the display is a way to go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean it depends on how much putting a display costs and what it would be used for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "very specifically what it would be used for,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause if it's only used for one little thing, then putting in a big display case or a big display that's probably expensive just to do the training on the chip for the speech recognition or whatever, may not be the most cost-efficient way to go,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's just sort of speculation, I mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you think Ed? Do you he liked the display in one of the concepts that you showed, um, do you know how much it costs, um, to to add a little display like this uh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. No", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you wanna take an action item to go find out?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no p spec It's'cause we have to find out cost on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry about that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, no that's no problem. I'm here for the pushing it after it's made..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will market it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Once we get a price on it then we can market it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the the advanced chip on print is what um what we've we've deci we've determined", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the uh engineering industrial design is the recommendation, and um I think we've kinda come to some agreement regarding um this concept of a wooden case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A customisable and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nice beautiful mahogany red wooden case..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about the buttons, would Would the buttons be wood too, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I don't think so, no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think they could be rubber like they are now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you have that tactile experience of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't looks nice uh. Yeah, so uh what we'll do is, uh, we will stick with the the simple design for time being until uh th Ed find outs about the how much it's cost to the extra, in case we go for the display. Okay. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe what you can do is uh, both of you, you can come up with the the prototype, okay, the model.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um are we done with this meeting?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I hope, if is it okay if uh they will come up with the prototype design, okay. Then they can show you how it looks like, and then we can uh submit to the I will submit to the management. Okay? Then meantime you can come up with the price, how much it's cost as extra for uh the display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An and the marketing strategy, that's very important, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And a marketing strategy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And marketing strategy, thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. How much you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fired..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "how mu how much how much you can sell extra.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course you'll make money too,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it it's not only pay-out, you make money too, your commission.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, any questions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, by next meeting, so, please come up with the the prototype, okay, then uh, then we can proceed from there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So thanks for all your uh efforts and coming for the meeting again, and see you soon then. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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But we don't all read them but a couple people read them.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, wanna give them all with German accents today or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK and the way you do it is you just read the numbers not as uh each single, so just like I do it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. First you read the transcript number. Turn.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, uh What's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Let's be done with this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. this is Ami, who And this is Tilman and Ralf.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hi. Uh - huh. Nice to meet you.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hi. OK. So we're gonna try to finish by five so people who want to can go hear Nancy Chang's talk, uh downstairs.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And you guys are g giving talks on tomorrow and Wednesday lunch times,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right? That's great. OK so, do y do you know what we're gonna do?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I thought two things uh we'll introduce ourselves and what we do. And um we already talked with Andreas, Thilo and David and some lines of code were already written today and almost tested and just gonna say we have um again the recognizer to parser thing where we're working on and that should be no problem and then that can be sort of developed uh as needed when we get enter the tourism domain. em we have talked this morning with the with Tilman about the generator.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and um There one of our diligent workers has to sort of volunteer to look over Tilman's shoulder while he is changing the grammars to English", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because w we have we face two ways. Either we do a syllable concatenating um grammar for the English generation which is sort of starting from scratch and doing it the easy way, or we simply adopt the ah um more in - depth um style that is implemented in the German system and um are then able not only to produce strings but also the syntactic parse uh not parse not the syntactic tree that is underneath in the syntactic structure which is the way we decided we were gonna go because A, it's easier in the beginning", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and um it does require some some knowledge of of those grammars and and and some ling linguistic background. But um it shouldn't be a problem for anyone.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK So That sounds good. Johno, are you gonna have some time t to do that uh w with these guys?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "cuz y you're the grammar maven.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean it makes sense,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "doesn't it? Yeah Good. OK. So, I think that's probably the the right way to do that. And an Yeah, so I I actually wanna f to find out about it too, but I may not have time to get in.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "the the ultimate goal is that before they leave we we can run through the entire system input through output on at least one or two sample things. And um and by virtue of doing that then in this case Johno will have acquired the knowledge of how to extend it. Ad infinitum. When needed, if needed, when wanted and so forth.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK that sounds great.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And um also um Ralf has hooked up with David and you're gonna continue either all through tonight or tomorrow on whatever to get the er parser interface working.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "They are thinning out and thickening out lattices and doing this kind of stuff to see what works best.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm, yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great. So, you guys enjoy your weekend?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, very much so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, very much", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, before before you got put to work?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great. OK, so that's Sort of one branch is to get us caught up on what's going on. Also of course it would be really nice to know what the plans are, in addition to what's sort of already in code.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and we can d I dunno w w was there uh a time when we were set up to do that? It probably will work better if we do it later in the week, after we actually understand uh better what's going on.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So when do you guys leave?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um we're here through Sunday,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so All through Friday would be fine.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK, so OK, So so anyt we'll find a time later in the week to uh get together and talk about your understanding of what SmartKom plans are.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and how we can change them.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Should we already set a date for that? Might be beneficial while we're all here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK? um What what does not work for me is Thursday afternoon. I can do earlier in the day on Thursday, or um most of the time on Friday, not all.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Thursday morning sounds fine?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wha - but, Johno,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "what are your constraints?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um Thursday afternoon doesn't work for me, but.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Neither does Thursday morning, no?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh Thursday morning should be fine.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Eleven? Eleven on Thursday?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was just thinking I w I will have leavened by eleven.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. Right. This is then out of deference to our non - morning people.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK. So at eleven?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Thursday around eleven? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. And actually we can invite um Andreas as well.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh he will be in Washington, though.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh that's true. He's off off on his trip already.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but um David is here and he's actually knows everything about the SmartKom recognizer.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Thilo. OK well yeah maybe we'll see if David could make it. That would be good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK so facing to to what we've sort of been doing here um well for one thing we're also using this room to collect data.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah obviously.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um um Not this type of data,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "no not meeting data but sort of sort ah our version of a wizard experiment such not like the ones in Munich but pretty close to it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The major difference to the Munich ones is that we do it via the telephone", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "even though all the recording is done here and so it's a sort of a computer call system that gives you tourist information", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "tells you how to get places. And it breaks halfway through the experiment and a human operator comes on. and part of that is sort of trying to find out whether people change their linguistic verbal behavior when first thinking they speak to a machine and then to a human.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and we're setting it up so that we can we hope to implant certain intentions in people. For example um we have first looked at a simple sentence that \" How do I get to the Powder - Tower? \" OK so you have the castle of Heidelberg", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and there is a tower and it's called Powder - Tower.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and um so What will you parse out of that sentence? Probably something that we specified in M - three - L, that is @ @ \" action go to whatever domain, object whatever Powder - Tower \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And maybe some model will tell us, some GPS module, in the mobile scenario where the person is at the moment. And um we've sort of gone through that once before in the Deep Mail project and we noticed that first of all what are I should've brought some slides, but what our So here's the tower. Think of this as a two - dimensional representation of the tower. And our system led people here, to a point where they were facing a wall in front of the tower. There is no entrance there, but it just happens to be the closest point of the road network to the geometric center Because that's how the algorithm works. So we took out that part of the road network as a hack and then it found actually the way to the entrance. which was now the closest point of the road network to", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, geometric center. But what we actually observed in Heidelberg is that most people when they want to go there they actually don't want to enter, because it's not really interesting. They wanna go to a completely different point where they can look at it and take a picture.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so what uh uh a s you s let's say a simple parse from a s from an utterance won't really give us is what the person actually wants. Does he wanna go there to see it? Does he wanna go there now? Later? How does the person wanna go there? Is that person more likely to want to walk there? Walk a scenic route? and so forth. There are all kinds of decisions that we have identified in terms of getting to places and in terms of finding information about things. And we are constructing and then we've identified more or less the extra - linguistic parameters that may f play a role. Information related to the user and information related to the situation. And we also want to look closely on the linguistic information that what we can get from the utterance. That's part of why we implant these intentions in the data collection to see whether people actually phrase things differently whether they want to enter in order to buy something or whether they just wanna go there to look at it. And um so the idea is to construct uh um suitable interfaces and a belief - net for a module that actually tries to guess what the underlying intention was. And then enrich or augment the M - three - L structures with what it thought what more it sort of got out of that utterance. So if it can make a good suggestion, \" Hey! \" you know, \" that person doesn't wanna enter. That person just wants to take a picture, \" cuz he just bought film, or \" that person wants to enter because he discussed the admission fee before \". Or \" that person wants to enter because he wants to buy something and that you usually do inside of buildings \" and so forth. These ah these types of uh these bits of additional information are going to be embedded into the M - three - L structure in an sort of subfield that we have reserved. And if the action planner does something with it, great. If not you know, then that's also something um that we can't really at least we want to offer the extra information. We don't really um we're not too worried.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean t s Ultimately if you have if you can offer that information, somebody's gonna s do something with it sooner or later. That's sort of part of our belief.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What was he saying?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, for example, right now I know the GIS from email is not able to calculate these viewpoints. So that's a functionality that doesn't exist yet to do that dynamically,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but if we can offer it that distinction, maybe somebody will go ahead and implement it. Surely nobody's gonna go ahead and implement it if it's never gonna be used, so. What have I forgotten about? Oh yeah, how we do it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well th uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah that's the", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No no. It's a good time to pause. I s I see questions on peoples' faces, so why don't.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "let's let's Let's hear.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well the obvious one would be if if you envision this as a module within SmartKom, where exactly would that Sit? That's the d", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um so far I've thought of it as sort of adding it onto the modeler knowledge module.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So this is one that already adds additional information to the", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Makes perfect sense. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm, ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but it could sit anywhere in the attention - recognition I mean basically this is what attention - recognition literally sort of can.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well it's supposed to do. Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's what it should do.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well f from my understanding of what the people at Phillips were originally trying to do doesn't seem to quite fit into SmartKom currently so what they're really doing right now is only selecting among the alternatives, the hypotheses that they're given enriched by the domain knowledge and the um discourse modeler and so on.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So if if this is additional information that could be merged in by them.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And then it would be available to action planning and and others.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "let's let's That w OK that was one question. Is there other other things that cuz we wanna not Pa - pass over any you know, questions or concerns that you have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well there're there're two levels of of giving an answer and I guess on both levels I don't have any um further questions.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh the the two levels will be as far as I'm concerned as uh standing here for the generation module", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and the other is is my understanding of what SmartKom uh is supposed to be", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and I I think that fits in perfectly", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So well, let me Let me s expand on that a little bit from the point of view of the generation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the idea is that we've actually got this all laid out an and we could show it to you ig um Robert didn't bring it today but there's a a belief - net which is There's a first cut at a belief - net that that doesn't it isn't fully uh instantiated, and in particular some of the the combination rules and ways of getting the the conditional probabilities aren't there. But we believe that we have laid out the fundamental decisions in this little space", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and the things that influence them. So one of the decisions is what we call this AVE thing. Do you want to um access, view or enter a thing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that's a a discrete decision.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There are only three possibilities and the uh what one would like is for this uh, knowledge modeling module to add which of those it is and give it to the planner.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, uh th the current design suggests that if it seems to be an important decision and if the belief - net is equivocal so that it doesn't say that one of these is much more probable than the other, then an option is to go back and ask for the information you want.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Alright? Now there are two ways one can go a imagine doing that. For the debugging we'll probably just have a a drop - down menu and the while you're debugging you will just OK. But for a full system, then one might very well formulate a query,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "give it to the dialogue planner and say this, you know ar are you know you are you planning to enter? Or whatever it whatever that might be. So that's under that model then, There would be a uh um a loop in which this thing would formulate a query,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "presumably give it to you. That would get expressed and then hopefully you know, you'd get an answer back.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that would of course the answer would have to be parsed.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right and.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK so, th that uh, We probably won't do this early on, because the current focus is more on the decision making and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But While we're on the subject I just wanted to give you a sort of head's up that it could be that some months from now we said \" OK we're now ready to try to close that loop \" in terms of querying about some of these decisions.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. So my suggestion then is that you um look into the currently ongoing discussion about how the action plans are supposed to look like. And they're currently um Agreeing or or in the process of agreeing on an X M L - ification of um something like a state - transition network of how dialogues would proceed. and The these um transition networks uh will be what the action planner interprets in a sense.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm. D did you know this Robert?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "uh Michael is doing that, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well uh Marcus Lerkult is actually implementing that stuff and Marcus and Michael together are um leading the discussion there, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So we ha we have to get in on that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "because um partly those are like X - schemas.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the transition diagrams.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And it may be that that um we should early on make sure that they have the flexibility that we need.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm. But they uh Have I understood this right? They they govern more or less the the dialogue behavior or the action.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's not really what you do with the content of the dialogue but it's So, I mean there is this this this nice interf", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "uh, No, it's it's also a quantrant uh uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "i Is it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So there's ac so there th the word \" action \", OK, is is what's ambiguous here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um one thing is there's an actual planner that tells the person in the tourist domain now,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "per tells the person how to go, \" First go here,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "first go there uh, you know, take a bus \", whatever it is. So that's that form of planning, and action, and a route planner and GIS, all sort of stuff. uh But I think that isn't what you mean.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No. No, in SmartKom terminology that's um called a function that's modeled by a function modeler. And it's th that's completely um encapsulated from th the dialogue system. That's simply a functionality that you give data as in a query and then you get back from that mmm, a functioning model um which might be a planner or a VCR or whatever. um some result and that's then then used.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, OK, so that's what I thought. So action he action here means dia uh speech ac uh you know dialogue act.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, in that in that sense", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "yes, dialogue act,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, I think tha I think it's not going to I think that's not going to be good enough. I I don what uh what I meant by that. So I think the idea of having a, you know, transition diagram for the grammar of conversations is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK? And I think that we do hav definitely have to get in on it and find out OK. But I think that um when so, when you get to the tourist domain it's not just an information retrieval system.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Clearly. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? So this i this is where I think this people are gonna have to think this through a bit more carefully.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, if it's only like in in the in the film and T V thing, OK, you can do this. And you just get information and give it to people. But what happens when you actually get them moving and so forth and so on", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, y y your I d I think the notion of this as a self contained uh module you know th the functional module that that interacts with with where the tourism g stuff is going probably is too restrictive.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Now I dunno how much people have thought ahead to the tourist domain in this", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Probably not enough, I mean an another uh more basic point there is that the current um tasks and therefore th the concepts in this ac what's called the action plan and what's really the dialogue manager.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um is based on slots that have to be filled and the um kind of values in these slots would be fixed things like the a time or a movie title or something like this", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "whereas in the a um tourist domain it might be an entire route. Set - based, or even very complex structured information in these slots", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Indeed. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and I'm not sure if if complex slots of that type are really um being taken into consideration.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So that's that's really something we", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Could you could you put a message into the right place to see if we can at least ask that question?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean nothing's being completely settled there", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "rea yep", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so this is really an ongoing discussion", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and that's", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah and um it might actually OK ah also because um again in in Deep Map we have faced and implemented those problems once already", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "maybe we can even shuffle some know how from there to to Markus and Michael.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And um mmm You don't know OK th I'll I'll talk to Michael it's what I do anyway. Who How far is the uh the the M - three - L specification for for the la natural language input gone on the the uh I haven't seen anything for the uh tourist path domain.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's not defined yet.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And um you are probably also involved in that,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right? uh together with the usual gang, um Petra and Jan", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah, there's a meeting next next week I think", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK because That's Those are the I think the the true key issues is how does the whatever comes out of the language input pipeline look like and then what the action planner does with it and how that is uh specified. I didn't think of the internal working of the uh the action planner and the language uh the function model as sort of relevant. Because what what they take is sort of this this fixed representation of a of an intention.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that can be as detailed or as crude as you want it to be. But um the internal workings of of the whether you know there're dialogue action planners that work with belief - nets that are action planners that work with you know state automata. So that shouldn't really matter too much. I mean it does matter because it does have to keep track of you we are on part six of r a route that consists of eight steps and so forth", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, th there there I think there are a lot of reasons why it matters. OK, so that uh, for example, the i it's the action planner is going to take some spec and s make some suggestions about what the user should do. What the user says after that is going to be very much caught up with what the action planner told it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "If the If the parser and the language end doesn't know what the person's been told OK th it's you're making your life much more difficult than it has to be.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right? So if someone says the best t to uh go there is by taxi, let's say. Now the planner comes out and says you wanna get there fast, take a taxi. OK. And the language end doesn't know that. OK, there's all sorts of dialogues that won't make any sense which would be just fine.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That would b but that I think that that uh point has been realized and it's it's not really um been defined yet but there's gonna be some kind of feedback and input from uh the action planner into all the analysis modules, telling them what to expect and what the current state of the discourse is.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Beyond what's currently being implemented which is just word lists.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but this is not the st this is not just the state of the discourse.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Of of special interest.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is actually the state of the plan. That's why", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, Yes, Mm - hmm yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK so it z and s uh, It's great if people are already taking that into account. But One would have t have to see see the details.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The specifics aren't really there yet. Yes. So, there's work to do there.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So anyway, Robert, that's why I was thinking that", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "um I think you're gonna need We talked about this several times that that the the input end is gonna need a fair amount of feedback from the planning end.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In in one of these things which are are much more continuous than the just the dialogue over movies and stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And even on on a more basic level the the action planner actually needs to be able to have um an expressive power that can deal with these structures. And not just um say um um the dialogue um will consist of ten possible states and th these states really are fixed in in a certain sense.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You have to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Would there be any chance of getting the terminology changed so that the dialogue planner was called a \" dialogue planner \"? Because there's this other thing The o There's this other thing in in the tourist domain which is gonna be a route planner", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That'd be nice.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or It's really gonna be an action planner. And i it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It oughta be called a a dialogue manager. cuz that's what everybody else calls it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I would think,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Huh? So, s So what would happen if we sent a note saying \" Gee we've talked about this and couldn't we change this uh th the whole word? \" I have no idea how complicated these things are.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Probably close to impossible.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Depends on who you talk to how. We'll see. I'll go check, cause I completely agree. Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and I think this is just for historical reasons within uh, the preparation phase of the project and not because somebody actually believes it ought to be action planner. So if there is resistance against changing it, that's just because \" Oh, We don't want to change things. \" That that not deep reason", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, anyway. I if if that c in persists then we're gonna need another term. for the thing that actually does the planning of the uh routes and whatever we are doing for the tourist.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's external services.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's not g eh tha That ha has all the wrong connotations. it's it sounds like it's you know stand alone. It doesn't interact, it doesn't That's why I'm saying. I think you can't it's fine for looking up when T you know when the show's on TV. You go to th but I I I I think it's really really wrong headed for something that you that has a lot of state, it's gonna interact co in a complicated way with the uh understanding parts.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I think just the the spatial planner and the route planner I showed you once the interac action between them among them in the deep map system", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so a printout of the communication between those two fills up I don't know how many pages", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and that's just part of how do I get to one place. It's really insane. and uh but um so this is um definitely a good point to get uh Michael into the discussion. Or to enter his discussion, actually.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, Marcus.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's the way around. Markus", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wh - where's?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is he new in the in the?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, he's he started um I think January.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And he's gonna be responsible for the implementation of this action planner. Dialogue manager.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is he gonna continue with the old uh thing?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, no he's completely gonna rewrite everything. In Java.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK so that's interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes I was just that's my next question", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "whether we're we're gonna stick to Prolog or not.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No. No, that's gonna be phased out.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK But I do think the the function modeling concept has a certain makes sense in a in a certain light", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because the action planner should not be or the dialogue manager in that case should not um w have to worry about whether it's interfacing with um something that does route planning in this way or that way", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I totally agree.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "huh,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it j", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah I I agree. There is there's a logic to dialogue which which is is separable. I Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and it cant sort of formulate its what it wants in a in a rather a abstract uh way, you know f \" Find me a good route for this. \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It doesn't really have to worry ab how route planner A or how route planner B actually wants it. So this is seemed like a good idea. In the beginning.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's tricky. It's tricky because one could well imagine I think it will turn out to be the case that uh, this thing we're talking about, th the extended n uh knowledge modeler will fill in some parameters about what the person wants. One could well imagine that the next thing that's trying to fill out the detailed uh, route planning, let's say, will also have questions that it would like to ask the user. You could well imagine you get to a point where it's got a a choice to make and it just doesn't know something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so y you would like it t also be able to uh formulate a query. And to run that back through uh. the dialogue manager and to the output module and back around.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And a I a a good design would would allow that to happen.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "a lot of, yeah", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "If if you know if if you can't make it happen then you you do your best.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah but that doesn't necessarily contradict um an architecture where there really is a pers a def well - defined interface. and and", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I totally agree. But but what it nee but th what the point is the in that case the dialogue manager is sort of event driven. So the dialogue manager may think it's in a dialogue state of one sort,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and this one of these planning modules comes along and says \" hey, right now we need to ask a question \". So that forces the dialogue manager to change state.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It could be y", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "ye yeah I I think that's that's the um concept that people have,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah it it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And and the the underlying idea of course is that there is something like kernel modules with kernel functionality that you can plug uh certain applications like tourist information or um the home scenario with uh controlling a VCR and so on. And then extend it to an arbitrary number of applications eventually. So wouldn't That's an additional reason to have this well - defined interface and keep these things like uh tourist information external.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then call it external services.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But of course the the more complex.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, there is another philosophical issue that I think you know you can evade", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but, at at least it makes sense to me that sooner or later uh a service is gonna come and describe itself to you. and that's sort of what Srini is working on in in in the DAML uh project where um you you find a GIS about that gives you information on Berkeley,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and it's it's gonna be there and tell you what it can do and how it wants to do things. and so you can actually interface to such a system without ever having met it before and the function modeler and a self - description of the um external service haggle it out", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and you can use the same language core, understanding core to interface with planner - A, planner - B, planner - C and so forth.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Which is, you know, uh uh utopian completely utopian at the moment, but slowly, you know, getting into the realm of the uh contingent.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But we are facing of course much more um realistic problems. And language input for example, is of course uh crucial you know also when you do the sort of deep understanding analysis that we envision. um Then of course, the uh um, you know what is it poverty of the stimulus, yet the m uh the less we get of that the better. and um so we we're thinking, for example how much syntactic analysis actually happens already in the parser. and whether one could interface to that potentially", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, are there currently is uh no syntactic analysis but in the next release there will be some.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "unless", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "How's it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and it's um uh you can access this", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "S so uh y we we looked at the e current pattern matching thing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And as you say it's just a surface pattern matcher. Uh, So what are what are the plans roughly?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um it's to to integrate and syntactic analysis. and um add some more features like segmentation. So then an utter more than one utterance is There um there's often uh pause between it and a segmentation occurs. um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, the um So the idea is to uh have a pa y y a particular.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Do you have a particular parser in mind? Is it uh partic d I mean have you thought through? Is it an HPSG parser? Is it a whatever?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No no it's uh I think it's it's totally complicated for it's just one one person", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and so I have to keep the.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, you have to do it. You have to do it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "ah and so things must be simpler", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I see,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but uh, Miel syntactic analysis with um finite state transducers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so But the people at D F Yeah. People at DFKI have written a fair number of parsers. Other you know, people over the years. uh have written various parsers at DFKI. None of them are suitable? I I I d I'm asking. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh the problem is th that it has to be very fast because um if you want to for more than one path anywhere", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "what's in the latches from the speech recognizer", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so it's speed is crucial. uh And they are not fast enough.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And they also have to be very robust. cuz of um speech recognition errors and", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So, um So there was a chunk parser in Verbmobil, that was one of the uh branchers. You know they d th I c There were these various uh, competing uh syntax modules. And I know one of them was a chunk parser and I don't remember who did that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "A Alan?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think it's that might, at Tuebingen I thought.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah I d I don't remember.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "was Do you know something about that?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Tubingen was at least involved in putting the chunks together", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In Tub - at.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I can't quite recall whether they actually produced the chunks in the first place.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "oh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh. I see. Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Or wh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh from from Stuttgart,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There w That's right. They w They had There were This was done with a two phase thing, where the chunk parser itself was pretty stupid", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, also", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and then there was a kind of trying to fit them together that h used more context.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well you s and and especially you did some some um, l um was a learning - based approach which learned from a big corpus of of trees.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And yes the it the chunk parser was a finite - state machine that um Mark Light originally w worked on in while he was in Tuebingen", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and then somebody else in Tuebingen picked that up. So it was done in Tuebingen, yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But is that the kind of thing y It sounds like the kind of thing that you were thinking of.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah I guess it's similar.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah. yeah that's In this direction, yes", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's in in this direction.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "From Michael Strube, I've heard very good stuff about the chunk parser that is done by FORWISS, uh, which is in embassy doing the parsing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So this is sort of came as a surprise to me that you know, embassy s is featuring a nice parser but it's what I hear. One could also look at that and see whether there is some synergy possible.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, yeah, it would be very interesting, Mm - hmm. Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And they're doing chunk parsing and it's uh I I can give you the names of the people who do it there. But um. Then there is of course more ways of parsing things.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Of course. But But uh given th the constraints, that you want it to be small and fast and so forth, my guess is you're probably into some kind of chunk parsing. And uh I'm not a big believer in this um statistical you know, cleaning up uh It That seems to me kind of a last resort if uh you can't do it any other way. uh but I dunno.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It may i i may be that's what you guys finally decide do. Uh. And have you looked uh just again for context.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There is this this one that they did at SRI some years ago Fastus?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, I've I've looked at it but but it's no not much uh information available. I found,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "ah!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but it's also finite - state transducers, I thought.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It is. Yeah. I mean it's it was pretty ambitious.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And of course it was English oriented,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and Purely finite - state transducers are not so good for German since there's um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um w Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The word order is is uh not fixed", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess that's the point is is all the morphology and stuff. And English is all th all word order. And it makes a lot more sense.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And e Yeah, OK. Good point. So in in in German you've got uh most of this done with", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Also it's uh it's um Yes, uh the um choice between uh this processing and that processing and my template matcher.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So what about Um Did y like Morfix? a a e y you've got stemmers? Or is that something that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, yeah but it's all in the in the lexicon. So it's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But did you have that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah th the information is available.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. I see. So, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So y you just connect to the lexicon", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and uh at least for German you have all all of the uh the stemming information.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can, oh yeah. We have knowledge bases from from Verbmobil system we can use", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. But it it it doesn't look like i you're using it. I didn't n see it being used in the current template uh parser. I I didn't see any Uh of course we l actually only looked at the English.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Did we look at the German? I don't remember.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but it's used for for stem forms.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So w wha", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "n Well I think I think there's some misunderstanding here", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it's Morphix is not used on - line.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "s so the lexicon might be derived by Morphix", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but What what's happening on - line is just um um a a retrieval from the lexicon which would give all the stemming information", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so it would be a full foreign lexicon.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's what you have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We threw out all the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What uh I didn't reme", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We threw out all the forms", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "because, you know, English, well.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh OK, so it yeah, s s I thought I'd.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So in German then you actually do case matching and things like in the in the pattern matcher or not?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um Not yet but it's planned to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Cuz I r I didn't reme I didn't think I saw it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Have we looked at the German? Oh, I haven yeah that's getting it from the lexicon is just fine.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem with that. um Yeah and here's the case where the English and the German might really be significantly different. In terms of if you're trying to build some fast parser and so forth and You really might wanna do it in a significantly different way. I don't know. So you've you guys have looked at this? also? in terms of You know, w if you're doing this for English as well as German Um Do you think now that it would be this doing it similarly?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um Yeah, it's um I think it's um yes, it's it's um possible to to do list processing. and Maybe this is um more adequate for English and in German um set processing is used.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Set.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah. Some extensions uh have to be made. For for a English version", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm. OK. Interesting. Not easy.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well there's m I'm sure there's gonna be more discussion on that after your talk.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We're just gonna foreshadow what we saw that", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and um", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Now actually, um Are you guys free at five? Or Do you have to go somewhere at five o' clock tonight? W in ten minutes?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh uh I think we're expect.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "mmm. No. Oder there was an talk?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, there there's the um practice talk.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great. So you're going to that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that's what we were planning to do.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's good, because that will uh tell you a fair amount about The form of semantic construction grammar that we're using.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so So I th I think that probably as good an introduction as you'll get.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh to the form of of uh conceptual grammar that that w we have in mind for this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm, ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It won't talk particularly about how that relates to what uh Robert was saying at the beginning. But let me give you a very short version of this. So we talked about the fact that There're going to be a certain number of decisions That you want the knowledge modeler to make, that will be then fed to the function module, that does uh, route planning. It's called the \" route planner \" or something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So there are these decisions. And then one half of this we talked about at little bit is how if you had the right information, if you knew something about what was said and about th the something about was the agent a tourist or a native or a business person or uh young or old, whatever. That information, and also about the Uh, what we're calling \" the entity \", Is it a castle, is it a bank? Is it a s town square, is it a statue? Whatever. So all that kind of information could be combined into decision networks and give you decisions. But the other half of the problem is How would you get that kind of information from the parsed input? So, um So what you might try to do is just build more templates, saying uh we're trying to build a templ you know build a template that w uh somehow would capture the fact that he wants to take a picture.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK? And and we could you could do this. And it's a small enough domain that probably you, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. You could do this. But uh from our point of view this is also a research project and there are a couple of people not here for various reasons who are doing doctoral dissertations on this,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and the idea that we're really after is a very deep semantics based on cognitive linguistics and the notion that there are a relatively small number of primitive conceptual schemas that characterize a lot of activity. So a typical one in this formulation is a container. So this is a static thing. And the notion is that all sorts of physical situations are characterized in terms of containers. Going in and out the portals and con", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. But also, importantly for Lakoff and these guys is all sorts of metaphorical things are also characterized this way. You get in trouble and you know et cetera", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and so s So, what we're really trying to do is to map from the discourse to the conceptual semantics level. And from there to the appropriate decisions.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So another one of these primitive, what are called \" image schemas \", is uh goal seeking. So this a notion of a source, path, goal, trajector, possibly obstacles.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the idea is this is another conceptual primitive.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that all sorts of things, particularly in the tourist domain, can be represented in terms of uh source, path and goal. So the idea would be could we build an analyser that would take an utterance and say \" Aha! th this utterance is talking about an attempt to reach a goal. The goal is this, the pers the, uh traveller is that, uh the sor w where we are at now is is this, they've mentioned possible obstacles, et cetera. \" So th the and this is an again attempt to get very wide coverage. So if you can do this, then the notion would be that across a very large range of domains, you could use this deep conceptual basis as the interface.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then, uh The processing of that, both on the input end, recognizing that certain words in a language talk about containers or goals, et cetera, and on the output end, given this kind of information, you can then uh make decisions about what actions to take. Provides, they claim, a very powerful, general notion of deep semantics. So that's what we're really doing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And Nancy is going to Her talk is going to be not about using this in applications, but about modeling how children might learn this kind of uh deep semantic grammar.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yep, yep. And how do you envision um the the um this deep semantic to be worked with. Would it be highly ambiguous if and then there would be another module that takes that um highly underspecified deep semantic construction and map it onto the current context to find out what the person really was talking about in that context. or or a.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well that's that's that's where the belief - net comes in. So th the idea is, let's take this business about going to the Powder - Tower.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So part of what you'll get out of this will be the fact tha w if it works right, OK, that this is an agent that wants to go to this place and that's their goal", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and there will be additional situational information.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, OK,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "part of it comes from the ontology. The tower is this kind of object.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Part of it comes from the user model.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the idea of the belief - net is it combines the information from the dialogue which comes across in this general way,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you know this is a this is a goal seeking behavior, along with specific information from the ontology about the kinds of objects involved", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah OK, Yeah, yep yep yep yep", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and about the situation about \" Is it raining? \" I don't know. Whatever it is. And so that's the belief - net that we've laid out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so th the coupling to the situation comes in this model from, at th at th at the belief - net, combining evidence from the dialogue with the ontology with the situation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But Nancy isn't gonna talk about that,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, oh yeah, I see,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "just about the um", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "First steps.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. The the construction grammar.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And she's gonna start in a minute.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "In a minute.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is it i in, then, your place, in five five - A?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD A" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1001a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "How do you wear this thing?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm mm mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not too many cables and stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Original..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is recorded? Okay? Okay so welcome everyone. So we are here for the kickoff meeting of uh the process of designing a new remote control. So I will first start with a warm welcome opening stuff,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then uh we will uh see what will be uh our product and what will be the different step we will have to design it. And uh then we will uh discuss if we have few ideas and we will uh end uh by uh dispatching the different task you will be you will have to fulfil to complete this process. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Just one thing. Uh, you said twenty-five minutes, but I have something else to do uh, so gotta have another meeting uh soon,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so maybe you could hurry up a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's true. I have another meeting so if you could uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have another meeting soon?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have to be quick.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, for the lawnmower project.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the the goal is to have a remote control so to have an advantage over our competitors we have to be original, we have to be trendy and we have to also try to be user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh the design step will be divided in three uh main points. First it will be the functional design. Third is the conceptual design and then is the desired design. So the functional design is to identify the main user needs, the technical function the remote control should fulfil. And then we will move to f conceptual design where we'll specify the different component involved, what kind of user interf interface we want and what are the different uh trend in user interface and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then the desired devi design will consist in uh specifically implementing and detailing the choice we've uh made in the second point. So I will now ask you which is very important for the design of a new remote control for to uh each of us to to draw uh your favourite animal on the white board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What an original idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you have any idea of which animal you want to show us?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Orangutan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "n n.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can I give you the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no? But I don't have to say anything. When I'm drawing the orangutan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you want to react uh about this wonderful drawing uh I'll let you uh comment.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's an abstract drawing of an orangutan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay it's an abstract drawing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's nice and original..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You should write y the name I think..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't have a red colour. Usually orangutans have red hair so this is a very important but I don't have red pen, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You want to draw something Christine?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay uh sorry. You have to imagine a little bit um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course your animal is recorded so it's not lost..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry too uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is this uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wha what is this strange beast?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it beautiful?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it a monster?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you know? It's a cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a cat?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Isn't it?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I thought these things did not exist.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is it like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it better?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah okay it's pretty..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay it's your cat..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's my cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does have a name?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The name is Caramel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Caramel. Ah-ha.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Caramel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Olivier, do you want to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you I think I'm too short for the cables..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay I go, but next time you'll do something I'm sure. I'm a bit short on cable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Next time I concentrate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So what could I draw? Maybe I can draw like a very simplified cow. I don't know if it looks like a cow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He looks like a bong.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like a what?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Quite squarey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Scary?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "He also..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno it it looks more like a donkey in fact I would say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I think we will be finished this uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so I hope that it helps you uh in the process of designing a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it for uh for putting a for logos, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's move on. So Here the uh financial objective of our project. That is to say to to have a production cost lower than twelve point five Euros and have a selling price of twice that price t in order to target a profe profit of uh fifty uh million Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I is there a matter for a new remote control?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah if it's trendy, original I d fulfil the user needs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it uh a single device remote control or is it a multi-device remote control?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to discuss that point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "this is not defined at all?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah you you can suggest points like this. So what what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so we have to decide for example if it can control one device or multiple. So what's what are your ideas about that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe I can have the your opinion from the marketing side?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh do we sell other stuff? Uh if if we bundle the remote control with something uh to sell then it could be a single device, otherwise it could be programmable one otherwise who would buy a remote control from us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so if it selled uh by its own i it it would rather be for multiple device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So maybe it should be for multiple devices. And uh do you have any ideas um of uh design ideas or any uh uh technical requirement we we should uh fulfil?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we shouldn't have too many b for my part. I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I couldn I cannot fi think of any requirements right now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If we don't have so many buttons could be nice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Few buttons. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And do you have it also to be to be lighted in order to be used in the dark? Might be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. And do you have any um any uh idea of the trend the trend in domain, what it shouldn't it should look like, or things like that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something which is not squarey maybe uh, not a box.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With rou okay. Like for okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that, least fits in your hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The basic requirement.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Fit in your hand, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only a buck.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also it have, i it may be it may be important for the remote control to be uh To, to resist to various shocks that can happen if it fall.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Waterproof..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Water-proof as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I think we should have a device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe it is original because you can uh use it in your uh in your bath whereas the others can't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe water-proof would be very original.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Havin having a water-proof remote control so that the people can uh use it in their bath.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That could be uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B it seems uh so, but uh if you don't have an waterproof remote control it means you can just cover it with some plastic and you can sort of f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but, it is still something uh you have to buy and that is um not maybe very.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, and that's one of the that's one of the shock I mean there are people that have a remote control and they are worried that it's going to break and they put some extra plastic around it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mayb B", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's people they actually do it themselves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe we can bulk it with uh already this plastic thing and uh the waterproof uh stuff as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. directly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I it will look a bulky in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe we can sell uh all that together, so so plastic protection and uh and a waterproof box as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That might be good uh track to follow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like as an optional thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Optional or selled with it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I I think we should have something, most of the time I I lose my remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should have s uh special bu button on the T_V_ to make the remote control beeping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have uh But we don't design the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have uh something you whistle and uh the remote control uh beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Barks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, barks, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Barks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can uh have a whistle uh remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah whistle.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know, whistle-able? Th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whistle tracking..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whistle tracking yeah. Whistle tracking remote control. That's a good idea, that's very original and that's can uh improve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's quite cool, but uh of course we you don't normally need uh any audio uh recording stuff on your remote control right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah d d uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So i it's just going to add t to the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but s still we have to mm we have to have an advantage over our competitors. I think this is a good advantage.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's cool. I think I like the idea, but I'm not sure about the what you,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. We have to ask.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "who is giving who's giving who's giving our budget. Who's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. We have to ask the quest of that's uh design to the uh Industrial um Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which is you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so try to find that for next meeting..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So next meeting is in thirty minutes or so uh. Don't pani.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't panic..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so I will ask the Industrial Designer to find out more about this industrial design so any working any working function we have discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So then I will ask the User Interf Interface Designer to to think about the point we discussed like the number of buttons, the the fact that is lighted or not, things like that, and what would be convenient for the user.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also um I will ask the Market Expert to uh try to find out what are the absolute requirements, what is absolutely needed in a remote control uh for the user. So. And then uh I will uh just ask you to think about that and uh look at your mail because you will receive uh some good advice soon..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Thank you I think that's all for this point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, so we come back in five minutes? Half an hour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anyway you will receive some messages. Be careful. You eat it? Does it move uh? Okay, but I don't know if it uh is still correctly uh We'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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It's just one question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we have a problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you look closely, you can see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It wants.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I already took the liberty to make some suggestions... At the moment we have fifteen buttons, one L_C_D_ screen, one advanced chip-on-print. We use a uh sensor, that's for the speech. Uh we use kinetic energy. And we wanted uh the buttons in a special colour. Okay. What's the first thing we should drop? The special colour of the buttons?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's that's for the trendy uh feel and look. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but everything is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should we switch to a hand dynamo?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that's the still the same idea as the kinetic energy because you have to use it and do things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, b but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but young people like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Batteries?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So just do normal battery.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the battery option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just a normal battery then, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has to be twelve and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or not?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh my goodness.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're going to redesign something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we're at twenty five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um Do we keep the shape doubly curved or g do we go for single curved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I guess i we'll have to go for single curve then. I mean we have to drop on everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we can keep it single curved with uh top view still curved, but from the side it's it's flat,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the screen screen is just Well you just have to hold it like this then. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How about Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh another option I saw was to drop the buttons one through nine, so you can't directly access a channel, but instead use only the up and down arrows. That would skip nine buttons and four and a half Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I was thinking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A a", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's do it then. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh then we have left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't have any basic options any more.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. We do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh'cause then they don't have to n They don't need special colour as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They don't need special colours. Fine. That's more like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You were saying something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was exactly my point. Like let's drop all the buttons, and just make one", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean we're gonna use the L_C_D_ screen anyway. So we'll just have to use it for everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then you can make an overview of channels in the screen, and select a channel, click.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, some more menu options. Yeah. Okay so maybe we can drop few more buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um Now let's look.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we c could We only need the the the the the menu arrow arrow button uh thing. Everything you can do with with the menu. So With the display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we need one integrated button for everything then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The joystick.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Kind of. I was Because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, scroll-wheel, push-button uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you if you go to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Integrated scroll-wheel push-button, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you go to our uh view, like you if you are in the sound system there, uh and you wanna adjust the treble for instance,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "this is just uh an example,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y y you wanna see a bar on which you can adjust it from zero to ten for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you want a sound preview of how it's gonna sound,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right? So you wanna click on it, activate it, whe and when you move it, hear the difference of the treble coming out or going into the sound.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you'll you'll need a a kind of a joystick uh button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah or or the integrated scroll-wheel push-button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's kind of on your mouse and then you can click it, adjust it, click again and then you're out of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you still But you then still need to have Well you can use the scroll-wheel as well for um maybe for the channels. But you still um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's r Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You still have to have some some button in the menu to go back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you do one inte You can do one integrated scroll-wheel push-button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then just drop all the other buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well not all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But but th the cost of one integrated button is far more than a few extra push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not s not sound I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's uh One integrated button is five times the cost of a normal button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to to make it s uh more uh It has to be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could also drop j three more of these, without losing much functionality. You just drop the Okay and the Back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Wh wh what what what is the what is the uh sample sensor sample speaker?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's for the speech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could drop the speech recognition..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S s Drop speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's possible..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We we d", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's it's expensive, but uh we never considered the possibilities of uh speech recognition.'Cause it can take the function of a lot of uh uh buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's not very easy to use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it can be disturbed by by noise and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but lets just say that the speech recognition works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "stuff like that. Let let let me see what's more what's more popular. I guess the the screen was more popular than um than the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have to look on that. Let me see. Uh well no I was wrong.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There are more people who like speech recognition than an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay. Because if you d lose the L_C_D_ screen, we need a lot of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if it But it it it's a it's a both a hypers", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We lose our whole concept.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so No we just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We need a lot of extra buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We keep the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we Yeah we keep the screen. I mean it's it's about the same. Eight one to ninety one percent, uh sixty six to seventy six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We uh we we haven't really integrated this the speech into the system,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we drop the speech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we can might as well s drop that..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And drop it yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's drop the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. S Fo Four less Euros. So we still have three and a half Euro to lose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We need to lose some buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But y y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah if you lose the the Back, the Okay button Uh v let's say we only have the four arrows, and the Menu button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then and then use um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh and the power button we have also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the Okay. And the menu button does also does the okay function then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then when you in the menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's one Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S so so you activate the menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we do uh two integrated scroll-wheel push-buttons, we can drop all the the push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah? And.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With with one uh integrated button we can uh do the whole menu thing. With the other, we can do the the channel, the volume, et cetera.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would save zero point two Euros compared to No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's three Euros. No? Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. To This together is more expensive than Oof, it's almost the same as t keeping this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's it's n Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we can drop these two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For example if you have f f four buttons, channel up and down, uh volume left right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I've I think we have to keep that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the power button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then and the power button. So that's five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the basic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's basic. That that's what you need anyway. And then for the menu, um you can have a button that activates menu. Or d or do we just integrate an an an scroll-wheel with a push-button. And then if the moment you use the scroll-wheel, the the the menu gets activated, and then you can scroll, choose an option, click on it, it goes into an feature. Click on it again, selects features, scroll, adjust it. Click again, it's okay. Then you only need one button to move back. Or or under each option, you set a you set an a screen thing what says back, and you select that one, click again, and you go one step back. And in that menu, scroll, click, one step back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that then you need five buttons, and one integrated scroll-wheel push-button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay th that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we can't drop three buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which That's even.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I see that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's one Euro more expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's not a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's not an option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because which buttons do we have now? Those five which I mentioned, and then menu, and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Menu, power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. F of the four things?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four arrows?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, th power.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Power. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you if you go to eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which more?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know how to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. So four arrows?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh power I believe?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Power. Th Yeah that's five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh We have a Back and a Okay button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay that's seven,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the Menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and one to activate the menu, yeah. So okay that's eight. Well we can't reduce that. We we keep the display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and even if we drop three buttons from here, we still have to make some adjustments around here. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, well okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we need the chip for the for the L_C_ display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's make the Let's make the case plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well we need the advanced.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then I rather make it wood.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of r", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because then also it's good in the market with the forty five plus uh people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but but that's not our market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No that maybe not. But maybe it's better than plastic anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah no, hard plastic..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Plastic with a with a special colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A woo wood uh wood uh wood colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, plastic with special colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No but I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's an option..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we have to use the special colour anyway. You forgot that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we do one one s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So let's go for the plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Plastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And since it's not kinetic, it doesn't have to flip around that much?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh that's easy because plastic is free..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We still have problem of two Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Uh if we dropped uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No the buttons, those are really needed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah th th it's it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we can't drop them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "An advanced chip-on-print..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You still need that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we really need that advanced chip for an L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You uh uh Yeah. So the other option would be to go for the the sample speaker, and Which can use a regular chip, wh which is six Euros in total.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. I rather keep I rather keep the display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I keep the re Yeah. Yeah. Because we already designed for it. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the only option is an hand dynamo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and something else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh no tha Oh that's one Euro, right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh can't we f uh fit all the buttons in an intreg integrated scroll push-button?'Cause that will save us one and a half Euro already. And then if w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then integrated s Yeah but that would make it not so easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No y you would rec", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it's not that important, easy to use, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th then we have to scroll through a lot of menus to be able to get where you want, huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then you still need two additional buttons I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah d at l Yeah. At least one for power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can use those Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah and power. That's three buttons and this would cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah it's just as expensive as what we have now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the integrated uh button? How many func functions can it uh have?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Three. Up, down, Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah endlessly. I mean it can be a power button as soon as it powered on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can go into you in you main menu,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You you press it for like three seconds.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can choose uh flip channel, uh you can choose sound options, any options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then then then you should do everything in the menu. On the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. It would save enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should.'Cause we don't have money and w we want the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can choose this, drop these, then we have a half Euro left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we can maybe still use power button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we'd Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess we have to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It s it saves us four Euros and it costs us two and a half. So let's see, we we drop the price by one and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You see?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll we'll be on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we still have thirteen left.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh still Yeah? Oh then I miscalculated. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirteen. So still half..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shit. Drop the special colour..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There goes the special co.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well That would make it less appealing. So that's no option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. What else? Uncurved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no, it has to be um curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We sure about the advanced chip we need for the display?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it says right here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They made it very easy for us..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well yeah. yeah. We made it hard for ourselves with the display, but it's a cool feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, I don't think I can s uh persuade the management to say, this is better for the market so you sell more than.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Wh what we could do is um drop the the special colour, and uh do the special colour for the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Buttons. That's Oh yeah since we only have one button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but I mean what is meant by special colour?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just m I don't I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just something else than than black or white I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah it's I think it's grey, regular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Grey and rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we definitely want the thing to be a special colour though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of plastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Damn.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I rather have an hand dynamo than than drop the colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can still play with it then I guess. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a hand dynamo costs a lot of energy to keep the screen working. So I guess that isn't an option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, you only have to power it up when you wanna use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The But if you have to power the for ten minutes, then the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No I don't think the current status of uh chips are pretty uh energy conserving, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's let's go for the hand dynamo then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah hand dynamo? Do you want an extra button?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or or do we Or do we do uncurved and flat? Instead of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no it has to be curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it has to be curved and has to have that colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just put a special special colour of the buttons, or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's the most import", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep? Instead of an additional power button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah or spe special form?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. S what what is special f Oh yeah, special form.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe that's nicer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's for scroll.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Without.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't have any buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We only have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's it's for the integrated button, I think also. Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "d Uh make it a special colour then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah ma make it a special colour then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but it's just a scroll-wheel which you can push down. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Make it a special colour and then it look fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Woah we're within budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a miracle..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's let's save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh ma make it two special colours, but we only have one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's do it like this, I mean, because it does not lose our identity of the product as we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay. Um, well.'Kay, this was old.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we come back to the drawing board then, huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah all your designs are uh pretty much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah back to work. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did I save it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's silly'cause we we should have had this meeting before we start drawing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but that but that's the fun part of it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I wanted to go, but I wasn't allowed. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah? okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I just forgot to save this. Just a minute..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah what's the next uh phase?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, this the last phase of course, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the agenda. By your humble P_M_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh f Frustrated. Alright..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we first should have had a uh prototype presentation. But well as you saw that hadn't made no sense, because we had to drop it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Drop everything. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Drop, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We went straight into finance?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it was more important, so I just", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "pushed up the agenda.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, evaluation criteria. You have t produced something about that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that that's Yeah. I uh I sure did. And it combines with product evaluation. Uh so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh you put it in the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We all have to keep in mind what has changed now. So what we have left on the Because evaluation is based on the initial uh user requirements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's make it big. Um Well we evaluate uh the design with a seven point scale, as following. Well the remote controls according criteria blah blah blah. True or false, and then on a scale of seven points, a scale, as we all know it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Well the criteria are based on the user requirements, uh the trends from the marketing research, and the marketing strategy of the company itself. Um well they are in a Word document, which I will open now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alt up", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know it's open yet. No. And we all have to uh agree on a certain level. What's this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Freaky..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. I don't know. Um Well the first point is the remote control matches the operating behaviour of the young user. So that means the operating behaviour was using quite a lot of functions. How do you think about that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it does. Because the operating behaviour of the young user was also defined in colour and shape and the use of L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, of course we dropped a little bit of those uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the us u It it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's it's mainly con mainly concentrating on a lot of functions, in this question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So do you think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we have extended menus, on the on the L_C_D_ screen. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. You can you can ma", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can make a lot of extended menus. That's true. I mean the the possibilities are almost unlimited, to to build in menus in the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So on a scale from one to seven, what do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two or three. Two or three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh? Two or three? Something like that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we have to choose one. So uh what do you say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh y we should fill this in now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I agree on two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I uh I say two, personally. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah in the new design I s would say it's three. But now, in original design I say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well we have to evaluate I guess what we have now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay then I say three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? You say three,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you you said al also three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three? Okay well I say still two, but it has to be three then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey, you're marketing, eh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I know. So it's made bold. But it's nah, it's not very clear on the sc", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. M maybe underline.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or give it a colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe other colour, yeah. That's better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah. Alright. Oh, it doesn't have to be bold anymore.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah very true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah true one..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um well the remote control has Wha.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He types everything..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Definitely one. It has to be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The remote control has irrelevant or less used functions. For example audio settings and screen settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It hides uh basic functions..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everything. You don't use anything else..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, yeah. So it it's a very true point. I mean it hides all those function.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're not gonna find them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, I mean uh they're hidden in the screen. If you don't want to use them, you don't s you s just scroll over them. And you place them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F I don't know where. So that's very true, I guess, for our case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the next Not so much so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh the second point. It shows the relevant and most used functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Power button. Do we ha still have a power button?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh check with the Excel sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah the button's integrated, huh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we are.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah it's uh it's integrated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah we dropped it. You j you just push it in for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's in Oh yeah it was integrateds. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah integrate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah just just push it in for th for three seconds or something, and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E exactly just like a m mobile.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just go scrolling and it will activate..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um it shows the relevant and most used functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah uh on the other uh on one side I would say yes, and the other side I would say no. So it's I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It shows the most used functions and they are relevant, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can you uh change channels directly with with just one button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, you have to scroll through the menu, before", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the scroll butt Yeah and then say channel. And then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's it's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh we should b build it so that if you don't kind of push into the menu or something, if When it's on, yeah, it's turned on,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You say you double click on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It automatically has the the programme and the volume function,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but as soon as you click it you go into the menu or some Of you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or you double click it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But but how do you change from volume to channel?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No because it has four arrows, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, not anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because he's now have a scroll-wheel that you can push in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like on the the mouse.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I was thinking still about our uh integrated joystick.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No we have n we have no buttons left. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the joystick was not an option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that is a bummer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so you hav.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you you have to double-click, I mean, for, I mean, uh volume,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To get into menu. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and three double click for the menu, or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or hold it ten seconds..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll make it a Morse code.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But but ease of use was not very important, may I remind you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no. Uh it should be trendy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but that that's not a question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the remote control shows the relevant and most used functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think it's pretty much in the middle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have to search for them in in the in the s in the screen, in the menu. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, im in the menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe it's more like a f a five. Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I would go for five or six, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Five or six?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five. Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five? Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's not diss our remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's the weirdest remote control I've ever seen. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Just one button..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's different..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright. Uh the the remote control makes use of technolog technological innovation like L_C_D_ screen and speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But Uh yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah but we dropped the speech recognition. But it has at least one innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's still Yeah, I say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We still have the fruit and vegetable print.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I say two then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's the next..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but that that's not that's not this question. Uh thi uh that's the other question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fr Oh I mean the Oh never mind. I'm a bit lost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think a two. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think L_C_D_'s more useful than speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What? Oh not the bold one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's way more practical, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Okay, it has a fancy look and feel by using fruit and vegetable prints, primary colours and sponge-like material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should have been two questions. I realise now, because sponge-like material is dropped.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the look and feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You still have rubber d Or no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we still uh we still have the primary colours. But only on the on the outside, not on the button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No you got a plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The button has also colour. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The one button we have..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. The one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah still we we dropped also on the the double uh curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you could check with the Excel sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You only have one Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we have single curve now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and no and no material", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". So maybe in the middle or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean it's", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah or three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "worth the Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually we d we didn't do so well on this one. Because it's basically an old one, uh with little curve on the side, and in a different colour. Still, it's still hard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean the sponge-like and the three D_ shape, that would give it something young and fresh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "New. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then we would have to drop the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh red. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You like both..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I like bold.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the remote control displays the corporate logo..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just couldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You just have to draw it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, just one minute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's the white part uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it be because uh we couldn't hardly draw on the b s on the lower half of the screen, we could not make it big enough to actually draw in the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have a we have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I mean I wanted to put digits on the buttons as well. But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But there's uh enough space for the corporate logo. I mean, if there's only one thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hell yeah. If we have only one button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I will say that is very true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And even the shape we have now uh simulates kind of an R_ and the reversed R_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "doesn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The remote control is easy to use. Well I would say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Skill, uh I would say six, or something. I don't think it's easy to use, or not so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The only e the only thing easy about it is that you don't have to move your fingers.'Cause it has only one button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that you only have to control one button..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It it it has a nice screen. But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It gives visual feedback. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I I would say a five or a six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think a five. Five..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you say? Easy to use? Five or a six?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's really not easy to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No not anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause you're putting everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So a six, more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh I would go for the six too. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Most votes count. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um well, another question,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that looks uh great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh the remote control is durable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know if that's the correct word.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Nah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely in casing,'cause we have a hard plastic", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh In use, both battery as casing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah because the the batteries, those thingies last forever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? True, true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the the casing, hard plastic also lasts forever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the casing is plastic,?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you don't drop it too much, it's uh should last pretty long.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I would go for one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? But uh I think rubber compared is better. So I think a two is more appropriate", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "than.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Logo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay I will go go for two. Uh the last one? The remote control's a good example for company's motto, we put the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. No m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No we put the electronics into the fashion..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would g", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh turn around. Yeah. But um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would go for four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we kind of tried to but we kind of failed with the budget that we have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not Yeah, true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So a four. It's it g it g goes, it's not the best we could do, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it all has to do with the budget, because it's it's not the bad idea we had, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, four is okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if I understood it right, we have to count these numbers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh. And Yeah? What?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh Alright. Word document, the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we have to count them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Count them. Add them? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah just add them and then uh divide them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could somebody start calculator?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah we can do the math. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I all made it po I I all made it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I all made it possible uh for a positive questions, so we can count it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean if you have reversed question, you have to reverse the scale,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. You have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. So four and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Did you make this questionnaire or what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thanks..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nice work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three plus?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wouldn't be able to do it that fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "O one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Plus five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus five?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh Easy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Question number four, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Wait a second. Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's gone wrong.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How hard is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. It's your turn.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pretty difficult.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah just use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Start over?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's if you press twice on the plus button, then you get s s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh there tho uh there's no n There's no num pads.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can Oh yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. That's why it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a it's a bit uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just type in the digits. They're all one digit numbers right? And then you can count them together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think you can just count them by a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just count it to Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um let's move over.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Three, four, nine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three, plus one, four. Nine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. Are you here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eleven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eleven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eleven,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifteen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fifteen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "fifteen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sixteen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sixteen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sixteen, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seventeen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seventeen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No sixteen. Uh sixteen plus six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twenty two..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How hard is this?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twenty two. Twenty two, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twenty four. Twenty six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Never mind. Twenty four. Twenty eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tw", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty Twenty eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was the last one. That was that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh my.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Twenty eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So divided by nine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twen Uh okay. By nine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's uh three uh Or le less than a three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the lower the The lower the score the better, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Twenty eight", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Divided by nine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "di divided by nine", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So thr t two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "makes three point one one one one one one one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're better than average.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I Are you sure we this number actually tells us somethings?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think so because some questions are related to positive issues and some to negative.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Some questions are Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if you give a true to a positive, it actually means that the low the lower the better. But if you give true to a negative question.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but there are no negative questions I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good example. Durable use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Durable, that's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Easy to use. This is good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Easy to use..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fancy look and feel, that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Technology innovation was good, because of a marketing uh requirement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also good. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Re relevant most used function.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess you did do it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And hides these functions. That was also a good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then matches the opera of the user was also a good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it were all positive questions, by uh by purpose. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, so the It tells us something, yes. Becau But the picture would be a lot different if we didn't have to drop those uh those things, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Things, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because now it's just an average It's remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Nah it it's it's better than average, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay because of the L_C_D_ screen. But uh it looks and stuff, it still uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So th", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's still yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Has some shortcomings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not, it's not really eye-catching, except for the colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The colour and the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so Um this we had, this we had. We have to do a product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh prototype presentation we dropped. So Uh the finance we looked. We have redesigned. Uh not on that, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we we have to maybe if we have to redesign it on this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can just make one big L_C_D_ screen..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay it's your turn now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Shall we try?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With some casing around it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Black. Okay uh we're still gonna go for the fancy colours?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But are we gonna stick with the green or are we gonna do blue?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we we can just uh use this one. And then uh over-paint it with uh uh the green uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the button has a special colour, the frame has a special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "he only needs one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One scroll button and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's plastic. And single curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or we have to delete this one or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh and you might want to add a uh infrared LED.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh oh no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Otherwise it uh doesn't function uh so well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we have to do other things?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I have to um um make an uh report of every decision we made so far.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or just redesign? Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I try to get chip just before uh I uh receive the Excel sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you made a start, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm I'm somewhere, but maybe you can help me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should give it some time?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, but how do we make the the scroll uh button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was here. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Have to take this away also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh that's the infrared uh thing..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The the target group has a weak spot for fruit and vegetables, like primary colours, spongy shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um pen yeah? Format. Current colour red.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The playfulness, we decided to use kinetic energy as a power sour", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh Yeah we did our special colour for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Line widths, now that's a ten.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's conceptual, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's enough to get started with, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, uh it's just a scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's gonna be one str scroll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, is it's horizontal or vertical?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How many pages?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I just took one for every step and then a conclusion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Y you have you have done the first two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Horizontal's easier too,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause you can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, and and the look and feel is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it more natural than this?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think I have to make a p an issue called finance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So let's say Whoops.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Basically..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It doesn't look like uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The items we had to drop..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it it's it's not Yeah. It's not very fashionable anymore. But uh it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's really ugly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where did we start with price?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe m make it bigger? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty six and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or not? Or twenty six? Something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That looks little bit more uh Maybe that's a s a special colour for it. So we can make it uh special?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do you mean? Like a other colour than this one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or or speckles in it? I dunno. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Speckles?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah can we do it uh uh can we do a print?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "..$ I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".... I don't think so, if you see the options. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we have to choose, yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay special colour. We do have special colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah red is already a special colour, I think. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Does it mean uh that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not very special, but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall we just give it some dots to make it look pretty?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just uh put the purple uh purple on it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Purdy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Some some big dots.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Purple?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's trendy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no my remote has acne.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".... We have the original balance sheet, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Woah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. That's why we have that button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's so cute.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Oh what?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Woah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just cut. Control Z_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How the We did we do that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh it's it's just one computer? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just dual screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. But can we delete it, just with delete? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can try.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That doesn't respond also to the undo. It looks like it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Crashed. Oh, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where do you want some more dots?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, over here..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can't even draw anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Y y you you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What's this?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Even children can draw..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you push the button or something. Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you just push pen and then keep on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Oh that's the select button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, it's not the prettiest, I know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it looks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not so random huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lot of options.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's okay. Specially the the R_..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the R_ and another R_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's called the Real Remote, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe it c it can say that. The Real Remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah just on the the m um the L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Welcome..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is your Real Remote..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can make a l a logo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like uh put it like the shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D designed by.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it's not too uh That's not their logo, is it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Do they have a lo Oh, the here. This i this is the logo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two R_s and a one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. You can just reuse that, because the name is the same. Initials.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can copy and paste the picture if you want.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How Shall we do the logo in black or not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. What is that? Look more Looks more like a campfire.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are you dissing my drawing? This one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks like a ribbon..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So who wants to draw? This is actually quite fun. Do we need to do anything?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are we uh ready? Uh Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I hear you people are typing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Type in your report.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't see any new messages. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Luckily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm? Luckily, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this uh the last assignment? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Final.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's almost four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What time do we have to deliver the report? Four o'clock or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "At four, yeah,?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or before that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And copy this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just compare uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just a minute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is really bizarre.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It looks like there's a It looks like a butterfly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um bug. Bug.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's somewhere I d It isn't inside.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's in inside the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and don't know how it's or eject it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's on the on the beamer I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "From up there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but it i It's not a bu a beamer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B It's a normal T_V_ screen, kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it's somewhere in here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey, you've got it uh read only. So you have to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Save copy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Strange. This something what's projection from behind, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah there is some kind of projection I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it it's a beamer, but then with a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With a with a mirror, huh? Or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "within a mirror, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it looks like a big screen, but in fact it isn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So are we gonna change anything to this?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean is it gonna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's it's single single curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's now single curved. So It's flat. Oh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is gonna be flat. Yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Th this is flat. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. It doesn't matter. It's it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's it's better to have in the front, this kind of shape, because it looks nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean you see more of this than of that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, more like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And this is also gonna be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not very uh ideal..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But sometimes then uh all of a sudden it does work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. What's this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the detector uh for the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't see a detector over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's I think you only need two points. Or not. No, you sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought it was a kind of thing to put it on, and then draw right lines or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe that's why it's it's not working, because it's more.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Slanted yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or just messed it up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it it matters for the aim of this thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it wasn't good..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You've to make it s uh ninety degrees.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it it has to touch the corners, I guess. But th this one wasn't good, because if I was drawing here, I drew a line and then it came over here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um now you probably have to recalibrate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, five minutes to the end of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh we're always long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the recalibration is done using this icon here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, can we t can we get to that @ i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh it's not working anymore..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well I just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, it's it's okay. It's working again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, it's it's working, it's working.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's better than before.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're improving uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's improved uh pretty much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's only a bit like to that side, but that is that one by the way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah but it's better, it's better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause this one makes the angle either like this. So i if I change this, it will go there, if I change that, will go there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. No. It's better than it was I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I will take this away'cause it looks messy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Silly. Yeah. Works pretty well. Five minutes before the meeting's over.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then I have to uh uh write this,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have to present.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I don't know if you have to present, because I didn't receive any information about that so far.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we will.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we get a a final mail.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it after the after after these five minutes, you have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I have still ten minutes to finish the report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's this anyway?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So cake..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. After after that five minutes, you have ten minutes to finish it, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks like candle wax.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. And we uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you can uh just uh relax and uh have cup of coffee or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Chill..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh no, they don't have beer here so you can't celebrate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can just if you ma finish my presentation please. Uh over there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The presentation is still open. So if you finish that then you'll see uh Yeah next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Next slide.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, we have to do the project uh evaluation. Just uh do that quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do you do it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well basically what that says, we discuss it and um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So how were did the project process uh go? Did you, were you all pleased with the process as it was? Or are there uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh th uh do you mean the the interaction between us? Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah the interaction and the steps we followed, and and so forth.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well at first I was really stressed. Because it went a bit fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then as I knew the tempo that I had to be on, the second time I think I did a bit better.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the third time yeah, I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we move more to to working together as team,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because at first you you make your individual contribution, and then come here, and you have no idea what the others have to make.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then finally you have some idea, okay this is gonna w this is what we gonna make together and okay I will arrange this and you will arrange that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you have a k a kind of idea what you can expect on the next half hour when you have to work on your own. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The process, I mean, the interaction between us became better and better I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Especially after the first meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, especially if f f if you see uh you se you saw the largest difference from the first to the second meeting I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay and was that due to my leadership?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you did become more assertive the the second time round, so that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You were more in charge kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um was there uh enough room for creativity?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but only the the financial parts uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Li Limiteded afterwards,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but If if you don't take that into account, there's plenty of room for creativ creativity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also not only the drawing and the the making of the thing itself, but also in explaining it to the other people, by means of uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We were pretty democratic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the board and uh PowerPoint and Word and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and the uh about the board digital pen? Uh was that helpful or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm uh I think in in essence", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the digital pen is better than the SMARTboard. Because it it it just works better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it works..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean uh uh I've made yeah, uh I've made several notes just to test it, and and just put the pen in into it, and then it came onto my screen and it looked perfectly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it it's better a better device than uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "than the screen. But the screen is useful, in essence, but it doesn't work that well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's uh it's The the pen is more intuitive,'cause we're all used to writing with pen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Use the pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh as I said, uh I uh have no idea how PowerPoint works, so will take me half a day to be able to make a normal PowerPoint presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But once I get to know the program probably, I mean, it looks better, you know. Or uh something like that. You can give it a kind of a home style, like we have i the the logo and everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Blink. Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Warning. Finish meeting now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Finish meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, are are there any new ideas about this? All I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't really receive, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's use especially useful, I guess, to to evaluate designs and graph graphical stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh uh w uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S sorry uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the screen and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the PowerPoint is is too limited. You can't uh draw easy in in PowerPoint. It has to be uh yeah. The drawing board has to be integrated into PowerPoint, so that you can just easily.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the the the problem with PowerPoint for me is that you have to i put in the pre-made chunks c as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, you can draw something on the sketch-board and then take it there, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. But it it's useful to to show something to to an a small audience, and then to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah just for text, for text it's uh it's okay. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. These these kind of screens this size are useful to discuss things. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Check your email.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh we should uh enter our questionnaire..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You also..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah. Woah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes boss.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, s see you in a second huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the management..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well see you soon.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hope so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we have to pull it this way, huh? Wait.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education1", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the first virtual meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. In accordance with Standing Order 34.19, I determine that the public are excluded from the committee's meeting, in order to protect public health. In accordance with Standing Order 34.21, notice of this decision was included in the agenda for this meeting, which was published last Friday. This meeting is, however, being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, with all participants joining via video conference. A record of the proceedings will be published as usual. Aside from the procedural adaptation relating to conducting proceedings remotely, all other Standing Order requirements for committees remain in place. The meeting is bilingual, and simultaneous translation from Welsh to English is available. Can I remind all participants that the microphones will be controlled centrally, so there's no need to turn them on and off individually? Can I ask whether there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay. Thank you. Can I just then, again, note for the record that, if, for any reason, I drop out of the meeting, the committee has agreed that Dawn Bowden AM will temporarily chair while I try to rejoin? Item 2, then, this afternoon is an evidence session with the Welsh Government on the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on education in Wales. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams AM, Minister for Education, Steve Davies, director of the education directorate, and Huw Morris, who is group director, skills, higher education and lifelong learning. Can I welcome you all and thank you for attending? Minister, I understand you'd like to make a short opening statement.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Lynne. And indeed, if I could just begin by, once again, putting on the record my gratitude to everyone who is helping us get through this pandemic. There are a vast number of people who are keeping our school hubs open, looking after vulnerable children, and the children of key workers. Because of them, and their efforts, those key workers are able to carry on their critical roles in responding to COVID-19. I am extremely proud of the way that members of the school community have gone above and beyond. They have kept their schools open out of hours, over the weekends, on bank holidays, and Easter. And it is really heartening and humbling to see the way that they have responded to this crisis. And there are teachers, teaching assistants, and many others, who are helping our children and their parents to keep learning at home. I know that home schooling isn't easy, so I want to say also thank you to parents and carers for their efforts at this time. By keeping their children at home, they are helping us to keep people safe, and reducing pressure on our education system, and on our NHS. Be in no doubt, we are facing many challenges because of this pandemic. My primary concern is, and always will be, the health and well-being of our children, of our young people, and of all the staff in our education settings. And I am very grateful to everyone who is supporting us in these endeavours. Thank you very much—diolch yn fawr. And I'm now happy to answer questions that members of the committee may have this afternoon.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Minister. I'm sure that the committee echoes the heartfelt thanks you have just given then. The first questions we've got this afternoon are from Hefin David.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Good afternoon, Minister. With regard to your five principles, which you've set out today, regarding when schools will reopen, they're very clear that they require a judgment from you. So could you outline when you think that schools might reopen?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Hefin. I am very clear that schools will move to a new phase—because, already, schools are open in many settings; we will move to a new phase when it is safe to do so and when I have advice from the chief medical officer and the chief scientific officer that it is safe to do so. I have made very clear in my statement that that is not imminent. I know that in some cases there has been speculation that a return to normal could be with us quite shortly. I'm clear that a return to normal is not imminent, and therefore I'm not in a position to give a date as to when we will see more schools opening up to more children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Have you been given any indication at all by the chief medical officer as to when, in the longer term, it might be?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, I have not been given a date. What I have done today is publish the principles that will aid me in, as you said, me making a decision. So, clearly, we will be relying on the advice of our medical and scientific advisers, but the principles are very clear. Firstly, we will need to consider any decision to have more children returning to school in the context of the safety and the physical and the emotional well-being of children and young people and the staff. Obviously, I can't make a decision regarding education in isolation. It will have to be taken in the context of the wider Welsh Government response to dealing with this pandemic. Thirdly, it is absolutely crucial in making any decisions that we have clearly communicated that to parents and to staff, on the information that we have used to reach any decisions, to build confidence for parents and professionals, but also to give them time to plan. It will be impossible to move quickly to new ways of working. And we also have to look at—and it's been paraphrased quite a lot today—if we are looking at certain groups of children accessing more education within a school setting, which groups they should be. And, finally, how do we operationalise that? How do we make those settings as safe as they possibly can be, and how do we tackle some of the difficult challenges of everything from ensuring that we have adequate numbers of workforce available, to the very real questions about how you would do social distancing in the context of education, school transport issues, how you would avoid people gathering at the school gate, for instance? So, there are very practical issues that would need to be considered and thought through very, very carefully before we could return, before what we could see is a move from where we are now to the next phase of education, and new approaches to what schooling may look like. But, again, I must be absolutely clear to you, members of the committee, and to people watching: it is not feasible, in this sense, that we would move from where we are now to what all of us would regard as normal education and what the operation of schools looked like before the start of this pandemic.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, what is clear from what you've said is that it's going to be phased return. I would assume that would be the most vulnerable—perhaps additional learning needs pupils would return first. Just reading some of the things that you've said today, can you answer that question? And can I also ask: you said that guiding principle No. 3 will be having the confidence of parents, staff and students, based on evidence and information, so they can plan ahead. What will that evidence and information be, and how will you know that you've got the confidence of parents to return?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, primarily, we will need to take a lead from our scientific and medical advisers. I want to also say that we are obviously working on a four-nation basis and keeping in very close contact with my counterparts in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England. But we're also looking beyond the United Kingdom to approaches to education in the face of this pandemic. Members are aware that we as a nation are a member of the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory. So, recently I was able to talk to educationalists and Ministers in Iceland, other parts of Europe, North America, South America and Australia. So, we're also looking at best international evidence in this regard. And, clearly, we will need to be very clear, as today is an attempt to be very clear with parents and our teaching professionals, and the unions that represent them, about the basis of that evidence.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And could I just ask, with regard to the principles, do they then apply to further education and universities?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, of course, when we are discussing these challenges, we are doing that with our colleagues in both the school sector but also our colleagues in the FE sector, and we're in close contact with colleagues in higher education to share thinking on these matters.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But these principles don't apply in those circumstances; these are principles for schools only.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "These principles are applying to both, and our work in this area is applying to both schools and FE colleges. Clearly, universities, as independent institutions, we wouldn't be able to dictate to. But I want to be absolutely clear: we are working with representatives of the HE sector to include them in this work. And I have received, not assurances, but from discussions that I've had with Universities Wales and vice-chancellors, they are very keen to be kept apprised of these approaches, because they may well wish to implement something similar within their own institutions.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I've got a couple of supplementaries now; firstly, from Suzy Davies, and then I'm going to go to Siân Gwenllian. Suzy. No, we can't hear Suzy. Suzy? No. I'll go to Siân, then, and then I'll come back to Suzy. Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Chair, I don't think my microphone is muted.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I'll move on to my question to Kirsty Williams. Now, it is clear that any decisions that need to be taken on reopening schools would have to be made in the context of all of the other issues that the Welsh Government has to take into account. And it is entirely clear that the approach of Government towards testing hasn't been sufficiently developed for us to even start to think about removing restrictions. So, wouldn't it be dangerous, if truth be told, to start to discuss reopening schools when we haven't had the necessary testing in place for the majority of the population? And doesn't it convey a mixed message that we're starting to relax some of these restrictions when, in reality, the restrictions are still in place and still need to be in place robustly?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "First of all, thank you very much, Siân, for that important question. Can I be absolutely clear, and I thought I had been pretty clear in answering Hefin David, that we are not relaxing any of the restrictions with regard to education? As I said to Hefin, it is not imminent that we would see a further phase in the next stage of education here in Wales. What I have done today is to provide clarity on the nature of the principles that I would use when coming to any discussion. It is the responsibility of me, as the Minister, and indeed of the wider Government, to begin to think about planning for the future. But I have been absolutely clear: we are not moving to an imminent change in how education is operating at the moment. And I'm also very, very clear that should we be given the opportunity to see more children in our schools, I will only do that when it is safe for me to do so, when I've been advised by the CMO that I am able to do that, and we have given sufficient time and planning to the sector to respond. It is not going to be easy, and we will need to give them, as a sector, time to be able to address. But if I have not been clear enough, let me say it again: we are not relaxing any issues around schools at present, nor is that imminent.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy, I think we can try going to you again now.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Minister, in your consideration of introducing a phased return to school, in due course, have you taken into consideration how things like school absences are going to be managed? Because, regardless of the amount of good work you do on messaging, there will still be some families that don't realise that going back to school is for their particular family. Will there be a relaxation of, effectively, what we would call truancy rules? Or is that something that schools will be getting guidance on much up-front?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Suzy. As I said in my statement earlier today, returning to school will not be a return to normal, and in recognition of this, I've already made it clear that I will seek, in all opportunities, to reduce the burdens on school. That includes various data collection, the suspension of performance measures and removing the requirement to undertake literacy and numeracy testing, and, clearly, school attendance will want to be an important factor of that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. I'm keen to go on now to talk about the current situation as being faced by our children and young people in schools with some questions from Siân Gwenllian. Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Since yesterday, the Welsh Government has started publishing data on the number of schools that are open, the number of children attending those schools, and the number of staff involved, and they have been making this information available as per capita of the population. On average, I think it's 1 per cent of the children of Wales that actually attend these locations, and some 5 per cent of the staff. So, can you analyse those figures a little further? Can you tell us how many children, according to this data, are children of key workers, and how many are vulnerable children?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Siân. As you quite rightly say, on average, we have 518 school hubs open each day, with up to 4,200 children attending. We have seen an increase in the number of attendances since the start of what would have been the traditional summer term. We have approximately 5.6 per cent of the teaching population working in those hubs, and at present, 85 per cent of the children who are attending are the children of key workers, the remainder being vulnerable children. So, we are now averaging 600 vulnerable children per day. These are small numbers, but we have seen an increase in those numbers since the start of what would have been the traditional summer term.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm sure we'll return to that point a little later on. How much confidence do you therefore have that the arrangements are effective in terms of the safety of staff and children at these locations?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Thank you once again for that. The smooth operation of the hubs, with regard to health and safety, is, of course, of paramount importance. What we have seen since schools closed for traditional statutory purposes and moving to their repurposed function—we have seen a change of pattern over time. So, following my announcement on, I believe, 18 March, the week after, we saw a large number of settings open and operating. As local authorities have been able to understand the demand for those places—from critical workers and vulnerable children—we have seen more local authorities move to a hub model, and we have been able to publish guidance to local authorities on how issues around safe working in those hubs should be followed, and we've been able to give guidance in that regard. Local authorities are asked by us to report any incidents where they are concerned about operation issues on the ground.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "As I mentioned earlier, testing is crucially important in dealing with this crisis. So, how many school staff have been tested for COVID because they may have experienced symptoms and so on? And how many of those have tested positive?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "My understanding from Public Health Wales is that 15 teachers have been tested for COVID-19, and I believe two of those results have come back as positive. Can I make it absolutely clear, the week before last, Welsh Government issued new guidance around who should be tested? I want to make it absolutely clear to those professionals working in our hubs, if they or a member of their family are exhibiting any of the symptoms, however mild, of COVID-19, they can and they should be tested.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And the final question from me on this: how important is testing going to be in this next phase, as you start to think about relaxing restrictions?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Obviously, the ability to be able to test, to trace and to quarantine will be critical to the next phase and will be a very, very important and significant building block in all aspects of the Government's work to respond to this pandemic.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you, Minister, and thank you, Siân. We've got some questions now on the impact on particular groups of children, from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Just following on from your answer to Siân Gwenllian earlier about the number of vulnerable children in school, what's being done specifically to facilitate more of those children coming into a school setting or hub at the moment? I'm thinking about the 600 you've talked about, and I know, in one of my local authority areas of Merthyr, which is a very small authority, we're talking about the number of children identified as vulnerable running into thousands, not hundreds, and that's just in one authority. So, this is a particularly difficult issue to address, I appreciate, but how are we going to get more of these children into the hubs?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Okay, Dawn. The first thing to say is that the issue of vulnerable children attending settings is one that is a challenge to not just Wales, but also to my colleagues in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England. I'm pleased to say that we are working across Government departments—myself, obviously, and colleagues in education—with colleagues in social services to have a cross-Government approach to these issues. I think the first thing to say is that these are complex messages, because the overriding public health message from our Government has been to stay at home and children should be kept at home as much as possible, and to make sure that our hubs run smoothly, safely and effectively, we do need to limit the number of children who are attending those hubs. So, firstly, the fact that numbers are small is in some ways a success of our public health messages, because parents have been heeding those messages, but, of course, all of us will have concerns for some children who remain at home. So, I'm pleased to say that we have seen a doubling in the last week of the number of children. So, although numbers are small, they have doubled over the course of the last week. We're working with local authorities and they have assured us that children and young people with a social worker have been risk assessed on a multi-agency basis and are receiving support in a number of ways, and that includes having conversations about some of those children attending the hubs. They're also looking to support in other ways. Of course, some of our children who would be classed as vulnerable—and our definition of'vulnerable' is one that is shared between the systems in England and Wales—could be children with a statement of special educational needs. For some of those children who, perhaps, have very intense health needs, actually, staying at home is the appropriate thing for that child and that family to do, and we're looking to support families, and local authorities and local education systems are looking to support families, in a number of ways. We also know that just because you don't have a social worker or a statement of special educational needs does not mean that a child may not be vulnerable, and schools are very aware of the needs of those children and have been carrying out regular telephone check-ins where they can—if the age of the child is appropriate—just to keep in touch with those families and those individual children. But we will continue to work across Government to encourage, where it is appropriate, children to attend settings, and, if it is not appropriate for children to be in a setting, that there is contact with those children and young people to ensure that they remain, and their families remain, supported.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Minister. It's encouraging to hear you talk about the ongoing safeguarding of children that are at home and I assume, within that, appropriate referral mechanisms are still in place if teachers or anybody has any particular concern about a child. Similarly, with special educational needs, whereas some of those children benefit clearly from a one-to-one provision in a school, and they may not respond as well to remote working, or remote contact, with an SEN advisor, are you considering in any way any relaxation of the lockdown rule in particular for those children in terms of them being able to access the support that they need for their particular educational needs?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, first of all, Dawn, you're absolutely right: my expectation is that schools should remain in contact with children and continue to identify vulnerable children, and schools should continue to refer children to children's services if they have any concerns, and that would also, of course, be the case for youth workers who may be keeping in contact with children. So, there is a professional expectation on all those that are working with our children and young people that, despite the circumstances they find themselves in, they should continue to report and refer cases if they see anything or hear or are told anything that makes them concerned about a child's welfare and safety. With regard to children with additional learning needs, I am aware that that can present a number of challenges to families and children, and perhaps Steve Davies could give some further details. We have been keen to work with local authorities to ensure specialist provision, where that is appropriate—so, if I could give you an example of my own local authority in Powys, they have two specialist centres available for children with more profound additional learning needs, and those centres are available—recognising, however, that, even with the provision of specialist hubs, it can be a challenge for some children with additional learning needs to find themselves outside of a routine. Hubs are often staffed on a rota basis and therefore children could be faced with staff that they are unfamiliar with. So, even when local authorities—and the vast, vast majority of them do—have specialist services in place, sometimes that might not be the best thing for a child's health and well-being. But perhaps Steve can give us further details of the conversations that have been taking place with directors of education to ensure that children with additional learning needs have access to the hubs and specialist support. Steve.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, myself and colleague Albert Heaney—colleague-director—have been in regular touch with directors of education and directors of social services to make sure that these children and young people's needs are catered for. We are very aware of all of the special schools—profound and multiple learning difficulties, EBD schools and pupil referral units—that have been kept open in their own way, but also, in some cases, as hubs, to deliver those services for those children's needs, and we're pleased that the directors and the local authorities have responded so constructively. So, we have the details of every school that's open, the pupils who are attending, and we are clear that the risk assessments that the Minister referred to for children with special needs, as well as wider vulnerable groups—they are having risk assessments to make sure that, where there is a need identified for a pupil that is not currently attending a hub, then the local authority can be working with that child and with the parents.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Thank you, Steve. Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Just two more questions. One is around emotional and mental health difficulties being experienced by children and young people at the moment. Now, there was a very welcome announcement of £1.25 million pounds for school counselling. How is that, in practical terms, being applied if those children are not actually in school?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "You're right, Dawn: we have to consider how we can support children not only in their learning during this time, but also to recognise the very real impact that the pandemic will have on all of our mental health and well-being—recognising, of course, it is absolutely natural for all of us, including children and young people, to have fears and anxieties at this time. That's a natural reaction to the situation that we find ourselves in. But, of course, there are issues around those children that would have currently been receiving school counselling, and also being able to be in a position to respond to a potential growth in the number of children that are receiving support. So, the additional money will be made available to local authorities to be able to increase and ramp up services to support children and families. In the immediacy, of course, that will have to be done in different ways than perhaps we've traditionally delivered services in the past, because of social distancing and lockdown rules, but we want to get some of these systems in place now, rather than waiting for everything to go back to normal. We need to be able to plan to offer services in the here and now, but also be able to plan for what potentially could be an increase in the demand of those services. So, we've been in close touch with local authorities, asking them what they believe that they will need and how they can use additional financial resources, and we've been very pleased to be able to secure that for them.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, that would include things like telephone and video support as well, I guess, then.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. So, that would include remote counselling as in a fashion that we're doing now, but also, as and when some of the restrictions are perhaps removed, looking at an enhanced family therapy, or a therapy approach. So, when we talk about counselling, I think it's important to recognise that there will be some flexibility around this money and it does not necessarily mean that local authorities have to use it on a one-to-one basis. That might not be appropriate for some children, especially our younger children and their families, and they can use that money to provide counselling or therapy—in the widest possible terms—that is the best method to support individual children and their families. But, clearly, we're having to do that in the confines of lockdown and social distancing at the moment. Some of that money can also be used to support the professional learning and the professional development of counsellors, because, of course, they may be being asked to work in a different way and we need to make sure that they have the appropriate skills and abilities to do that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Thank you, Minister.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Dawn, before you ask your final question, I've got a couple of supplementaries—firstly from Suzy, and then from Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Oh, thank you. My question goes back to the comment you made earlier, Minister, about the number of children doubling—sorry, vulnerable children doubling—after the Easter break, if we can call it that. So, what I'm after is a sense of churn in these establishments. So, was that figure a recovery of a number of children that had been there before the Easter break, and are the people who are there still the same people as were there right at the beginning of the crisis and the lockdown?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Suzy, what I believe that we're seeing in our schools is new pupils coming into school. So, there has been, I know, a real effort on behalf of educationalists and social services staff to really reach out to families and to make sure that they're aware of the support that is available out there for them and their children, and to be able to give them the confidence that there are—that the hubs are available for them. So, we have seen an increase in children. Those numbers are still small and, I believe, potentially, there is an opportunity to build on that and to have further conversations with families about the support that is available for vulnerable children, whether that—. That vulnerability, of course, can cover a whole range of issues. As I said when we last met, this is a constantly evolving situation. The initial response—local authorities and schools worked incredibly fast and incredibly quickly to set up these hubs. We've seen an evolution in the weeks since that time and I am sure that we will continue to see some evolution in approaches.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Hefin, you had a supplementary—briefly, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, very quickly. I've been listening to the answers with regard to vulnerable children, following on from that answer. I'm at home with a vulnerable child—a child who has got additional learning needs. She's got autism; she's four. I imagine there are many, many parents in exactly the same position—I've heard from them. I haven't heard anything from the school or from the local authority. Should I have heard something or should I be proactive in pursuing it?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't want to comment on personal cases—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But there are many others in this position.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "—but what I would say is that if parents have concerns and want to have a conversation about what support is available to them and their children, they should contact their local education authority to have a conversation as to what support is available.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Dawn, final question, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, my last question is really about the potential for the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers. Is that a concern for you? I'm thinking particularly in relation to those less affluent families in having access to technology and so on. What kind of concerns do you have about that and what are we looking to do to try to ensure that that doesn't actually play out?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Dawn. All of the statistics would tell us that learning loss and the gap, potentially, will affect those more vulnerable children the most. Clearly, we will want to consider that as we think about what the new normal for education may look like, or as we develop into future phases. Depending on where that child is in their educational journey, of course, the needs and the potential for loss are slightly different. So, for instance, when we're thinking about very young children, we could be thinking about a lack of social interaction and the development of oracy skills. Of course, that, potentially, then will have a knock-on to their ability to learn to read and then to write, for instance. For other children who are, perhaps, older and heading towards formal examinations, the challenge when they return to school will be a slightly different one. I'm not sure, Chair, whether you want me to give some further details about our continuity-of-learning plan and how we are looking to address digital disadvantage now, or whether there are questions later.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, I've got a question on that coming up, so, if it's okay, Dawn, we'll go on to that now. Before we do that, I was just going to ask how the Welsh Government is paying due regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and, obviously, the right children and young people have to an education. I was going to ask you about the risk of inequality due to varying access to digital resources, which are so important in ensuring continuity of learning.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "You're absolutely correct, Chair. Officials are very aware of our responsibilities towards children's rights in this regard and we are doing whatever we can to ensure that children have an equal opportunity and have equal access to learning at this time. We are fortunate in the regard that, because of previous decisions and investments, we have a strong base on which to build because we have our Hwb digital learning platform and because we have invested heavily in the national purchasing of Microsoft Office and Google for Education tools, which are available to all families. We have become the first, I think—we're certainly the first in the UK, and I'm not sure whether we're the first across the world, but I think we probably are—to deploy, for instance, Adobe Spark nationally. But, obviously, access to hardware and connectivity is crucial at this time. Officials are working with local authorities to ensure that all children have access to both the hardware and the connectivity they need to be able to participate in digital learning at this particular time.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Just a final question from me: how exactly are we communicating to parents what the expectations are of them in terms of delivering this education at home now? Are there, for example, guidelines on recommended hours of home learning per day of the week or volume of work to be completed? How are we ensuring that parents know how best to lead their children through this at the moment?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Firstly, can I recognise what a challenge this is? We've just heard from Hefin who is carrying on his day job as the Assembly Member, but is obviously trying to do that as well as care for and provide learning for his children, and I know, Chair, that you're doing the same, and I'm certainly trying to do the same, and it's a real challenge, it's not easy. As part of our'Stay Safe. Stay Learning' policy statement, advice is available to parents and carers on the Hwb platform as to what they best can do to support their children. I think the really important message that I've been trying to give to parents is not to be too hard on ourselves. I know that everybody is doing the best that they can in really challenging circumstances. And if they have concerns, they should be in contact with their child's school, but we do have specific advice and guidance to parents on the Hwb platform.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. We're going to move on now to some questions on examinations from Janet Finch-Saunders. Janet, we can't hear you. I tell you what, we'll—. Janet, do you want to try again? No. Okay, we'll go on then to questions on higher education and post 16, and we'll come back to examinations, if that's okay. Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you, Chair. Before we leave continuity of learning, do you mind if I just ask this one question?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, that's fine. Yes, go on.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Your comment, Minister, on working with local authorities to make sure that individuals have hardware: can you just give us a bit of detail on what working with local authorities actually means? In the process of that, is there any data gathering going on for those pupils who are being educated at home and the levels at which they're engaging? You know, are they sticking with it, or how many are dropping out? Because I think the two of those perhaps go together.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. So, I'm hoping to make an announcement tomorrow, if not later on this week, about some specific details around support for hardware and connectivity. We're working closely with local authorities to understand just that: to understand from the schools the number of schools that—and a number of them have already done this—have been lending Chromebooks, iPads and laptops to children, and also identifying children who are not perhaps engaging in the activities that have been made available. And we'll be doing two things to support local authorities. The first is to use the stock of equipment that they already have to be able to provide hardware to students. So, we have purchased on a national basis software that, when applied to an old piece of kit, essentially turns it into an out-of-the-box Chromebook. Because, as you can imagine, just like other things during a pandemic, there has been a rush to buy new stuff on the market and then there is a scramble and nobody can get what they need. So, we're utilisng kit that is already available in schools and local authorities, and we will look to backfill that to schools at a later point out of our EdTech investment programme. The other issue is, once a child has a Chromebook or a laptop or a device, issues around connectivity. So, we're also looking to purchase on a national level and distribute Mi-Fi connectivity, so students will be able to have access to Wi-Fi where they don't have that already. That's why we need to work closely with local authorities and schools to identify the level of that need and to make sure the stuff gets to the right children. One of the ways in which we are able to do that is to look at engagement in education. So, if a child hasn't been engaging, is that because they just don't want to and they're voting with their feet—but clearly teachers need to have a conversation about that—or is that because the child simply does not have the ability to do that, and therefore we need to get that stuff out to those children? So, rather than just simply leaving it to local authorities to scramble around in a very crowded market to get the stuff that they will need, we're trying to do that on a national basis and deploy that to local authorities. So, our officials have been having conversations with each of our local authorities to ascertain what's already happened, and there is very good practice out there—schools have been proactive—but where there are gaps, what can we do as a national Government to be able to assist them to do that? We are repurposing some of the resources that we had previously identified for our EdTech investment, using those resources to fill this particular gap.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. We're going to go back to Janet now. I believe we've got sound again, so Janet can ask her questions on examinations. Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I thought it was something at this end; I'm glad to hear it wasn't. When will vocational learners know what is happening with their assessments, and how will those who have no choice but to wait for a vocational assessment be supported?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Okay. That's a very good question, Janet, because I know that there has been some concern and anxiety around vocational qualification students and how quickly we've been able to provide certainty for them. You'll be aware that Qualifications Wales have been able, in the last week, to be able to give that greater clarity. So, they have announced that learners due to complete their Essential Skills Wales qualifications will receive results. They have also published their approach to how health and social care qualifications will be managed, because, of course, those are part of the first set of reformed quals that we have done on a Wales basis. You are right, there are a group of students who fall into the category where there are technical qualifications that require a certificate of competency to be industry ready—I hope I've explained that correctly—and, therefore, we are working to understand how we can accommodate those students in these particular circumstances. But, at this stage, there may be some delay for that element of their qualification being delayed to a further date.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. What are your expectations for how A-level and GCSE qualifications will be awarded this summer, following the ministerial direction that you have issued to Qualifications Wales? For example, how is an appropriate balance being taken between recognising the progress of pupils in their coursework, mock examinations, and other work to date, and also, the potential of pupils who might have performed particularly well in their examinations this summer?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, Janet, I understand—and today is a day where some students would have been undertaking practical examinations—I understand how devastating it has been to both students and teachers alike for the decision I had to take to cancel this summer's exam series. But I'm absolutely clear that was the only decision that could have been reached. Qualifications Wales has made it very clear—and for people who would like more information, I would urge them to look at Qualifications Wales's website—how they will go about giving, allocating, and awarding a grade to our A-level and GCSE students. Firstly, teachers will be asked to submit a grade they believe that student would have obtained, should they have taken an exam. And, of course, teachers will have a range of data and their own professional judgment that they will use in awarding that grade. Teachers will also be asked to rank students in order. Once that information has been submitted to Qualifications Wales, there will be a process by which that data will be moderated; moderated from centre to centre and across the nation, thus giving us the chance to award a student a fair grade whilst being, and remaining, true to ensuring that we have a robust qualifications system, and allowing those students who find themselves at a critical stage of their education, where they are looking to move on to the next stages—that they will have the grades that will allow them to make decisions about their future.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Janet. We're going to go on now, then, to the questions on higher and further education from Suzy Davies. Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I suppose my first question just goes back to the 16-year-olds at the moment and those who are looking forward to either going to college, the older ones going to university, there'll be apprenticeships, all kinds of future pathways for post 16. What's happening at school level, or even at college level, to get those students ready for the next steps, because, obviously, they're not in their usual environments and getting their usual programme of teaching?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, that's quite right, Suzy, and I should have said in answer to Janet's question, as well—I'm sure people already know, but just to get the point across—that A-level results day and GCSE day will run as normal across not just Wales, but England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which is really important. You're right, Suzy—for those people that are coming to the end of one part of their education this is a particularly challenging time. You'll be aware that, last week, on Hwb, we were able to launch a programme for year 13 students to help them get ready for university. I'm very grateful to the HE sector in Wales, who've worked really hard with us on that. So, for instance, if you were a year 13 student or even a year 12 student that was thinking about or interested in areas around social policy, you could have tuned into a social policy lecturer at Swansea University. If you go to the Hwb website, you will be able to see that there are subject listings, everything from animal science through to law, politics, history and science, with links through to higher education and further education courses that students can avail themselves of. There's also a section on preparation for essential study skills, whether that is report writing or academic writing. So, there is a range of activities and courses available for year 13, so that children—'children'; they're all children to me—young people can get themselves—. They don't have to stop learning, and they can get themselves ready for the next stage of their education. Again, for those children, perhaps, who are coming to the end of their GCSEs, there is a range of information, either within their own schools or within their local colleges about things that can keep them learning. So, for instance, I'm aware of one school where you can go onto the website and there are recommendations of, for instance, what you could be reading over the summer if you're interested in doing this particular A-level in September. I know that there are also moves in schools and in colleges to be able to make sure that those children don't miss out on really important careers advice at this time, as well, and information, so they can make informed decisions. I know that people are working hard to link up children to advice services that are available so that they can make those really important future decisions with the advice of either a teacher or other professional so that they've got those options. So, there is material out there and it's growing all the time. This week, we were able to launch our virtual Seren network. You'll be aware that, for the last couple of years, we've been able to send Welsh children to the Yale global summer school. Clearly, that can't happen this year. That's devastating for those year 12s who had worked so hard and had won a place on that programme. They will now be able to attend the Yale global scholars programme virtually and remotely, because Yale have moved that programme online. So, we're developing materials and resources all of the time.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that answer. Before I move on to my next question, can you give me some sort of sense of how that Hwb domain is being populated? Where is all this information being sourced from? Presumably, they'll be working with partners, but what does that look like?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Oh, my goodness. Yes, absolutely—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "[Inaudible.]", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we're working very hard. So, everything from our work with the BBC, for instance, and BBC Bitesize through to our FE colleges and our HE institutions, as well as other organisations in the third sector who are looking to provide those opportunities. Can I just say that, last week, we were looking at, every day, in the region of well over 150,000 logins a day into Hwb?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, that's great. So there's proactive populating of Hwb. That's what I was after. That's great. Just going back to some of Janet's questions and the assessed grades, I want to talk to you about the unconditional offers and where we are with that at the moment for entry to universities, because there's going to be a scramble now of the available students for further education, but primarily higher education institutions, across the UK. Is the moratorium on unconditional offers still standing? Are there conversations going on to extend that moratorium? Otherwise, this scramble is going to potentially negatively affect our universities quite considerably.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, you'll be aware that a moratorium does exist. It exists in this current context to 1 May. We continue to keep in close touch with colleagues in Northern Ireland, Scotland and in the Westminster Government around these issues. Officials are also in touch with UCAS, and in the last couple of days I've had at least three meetings with representatives of the Welsh higher education sector to discuss these matters.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I just want to ask you now about students and their maintenance loan grants. I think they're getting, around now, the money going into their bank account that they would normally have expected at this time of year. That's right, yes?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "That's correct, yes.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "What's happening to those students who would normally be living in digs somewhere but are now living at home? Are they likely to be asked to reimburse part of the cost, because obviously it's not as expensive to live at home as away, and what's likely to be happening with the maintenance loans over the summer holiday period, potentially? Because we've had a period now where students can't top up their maintenance loans by going out and working on weekends or working in the evenings, or whatever, so their income has been impacted. Just in the round, what kind of conversations are happening around that? Again, it's probably a four-nation approach, I would imagine.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Suzy. You are correct to say that our student support regime does allow for a lower payment to be made to those students that stay at home during their studies, but I want to reassure students that there will be no change to their student support payments just because they have left their universities and have decided to go home. There should be no change. Also, we are continuing, it should be important to say, to pay education maintenance allowance at this time for our FE students that are eligible for that, even though, obviously, for EMA there is an attendance requirement, but clearly that is not appropriate to enforce at the moment. You are correct—this is a worrying time for many students in higher education, especially for those who are looking to graduate at this time and are going out into an economy that has been tremendously badly hit by the pandemic. At this time, we continue to have conversations with NUS Wales about what can be done within a Welsh context, but, as you quite rightly say, also within a UK context, to support students who may have been affected. We are continuing—on our webpage we have a frequently asked questions section that advises students in the first instance, especially when it comes, for instance, to the cost of accommodation—to have those discussions, and I'm very grateful that, in some cases, some of our institutions have been able to waive or partially waive accommodation fees where students have vacated their accommodation and have returned to their usual home address. But we will continue to have dialogue with NUS Wales and with our counterparts across the country to look to see what more we can do to support students at this time.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that answer, and, yes, I was pleased to see that announcement through the NUS as well, so well done to those accommodation providers who have a heart. I think we'll all have seen the Universities UK document that explains some of the difficulties that they're going to be running into if this proceeds much further. My understanding is that the main emphasis at the moment is to try and get all the universities across the UK through this initial period of difficulty by releasing as much money as possible. I can see that your figure to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales was a little bit down on last year's letter—not that there's been a remit letter yet, but an indication. Are you releasing that money earlier so that they can use it more swiftly, or does that not matter?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Before you come in, Minister, that is going to have to be the last question, just to make you aware of that, because we are coming up to the end of our time.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay. That's fine.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Of course, Suzy, we are working closely with Universities Wales and have a lot of sympathy for the proposals that have come forward from Universities UK, which Wales's universities have been a part of forming. Stability in the first instance is really important to us, which is why we've been able to give an indication to HEFCW about resources that are available, and we've been very clear to HEFCW that we want to be as flexible as possible in how they use those resources to support institutions. That potentially would mean reprofiling the way in which money gets out to institutions, but clearly we will need to have an ongoing discussion about how we respond to the immediacy of the issues facing HE, how we can get stability for the next academic year, and how we then can support the sector through what is a really challenging time for them. We will do that in a Welsh context and we will continue to do that also in a UK context, because you will have seen the scale of some of the figures that have been talked about in terms of the impact on the HE sector at this time. Clearly, a four-nation approach to that will be crucial.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Well, we have come to the end of our time, and, as to anything that we didn't ask, we will have to write to the Minister. Can I just thank the Minister and her officials for your attendance today? We know how busy you are dealing with the pandemic and we very much welcome this opportunity to have this discussion with you. So, thank you, Minister and officials for your time. As usual, you will be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting. Diolch yn fawr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Diolch yn fawr, Chair.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Item 3, then. Can I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting? Are Members content? Okay. I see that Members are content, so we will now proceed to meet in private.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1004b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay everybody is ready? Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're late. You have a good reason for that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very good. Okay, let's have a look to the agenda today. So, we are going to have a meeting about the functional design. Um so first before starting I w just going to uh to go quickly to through the minutes of previous meeting. So uh basically we we are not decided if w we should go for a universal or specific uh uh remote control, but I have new um new i inputs for about that topics. I goin I'm going to share with you. And uh basically we decided to um to uh go to individual actions for each of you uh so um Industrial Designer should wor was supposed to work on th on th on the working design. You showed us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you ar you you prepare something for us?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The U_I_ guy also uh work on that, yeah, and for the mar our Marketing Expert should deliver some specs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright so so we are going to go through three of your individual presentations. But first I would like quickly to uh to decide of to give a name to the project. So, I just put d quickly Remo, but if you have any o other names that we co could decide for just to to keep something fun for our project we we should we could discuss quickly. Any ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the Powerstick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Powerstick, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What else? What else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe a Spanish name would work well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm I was thinking of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Especially if we're selling into the U_S_ market becasue there's a lot of Spanish speakers there. Maybe something that sounds cool in English but sounds funny in Spanish.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mando.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mango? Mango?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mando.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mando. M_A_? M_A_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A*_N_ yeah D_O.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M_ D_O_. Mm, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't it doesn't sound cool for me,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does it mean? Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but maybe for a Spanish for I for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does it mean in Spanish?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.'Cause it also like in English it sounds like you know the man's tool you know because you know men like to have control of the remote", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it might.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mando sounds Latino..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The Mando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, let's go for Mando? Yeah? No objection?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we could have some like you d you could have the fonts you know special, so you have man in like in in uh in one o in one font and then the O_ as like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I think this is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although you don't wanna cut uh cut women out of the uh potential buyers though,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "do you? So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah they are the most T_V_ watcher. So we should be careful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I think this is more a question of of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think this is more a question of of look and feel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something that should be addressed later We should we should go to other for the other topics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah because if the product will be international.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's the thing. We need to know who we're selling it to before we can really decide on a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, so let's stick f to Man Mando for the name", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we'll see for the for the look and feel later. So let's go for the three presentations right now. So, who want to start?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we could start with the market, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe I should uh start. Yeah. Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so I have your slides somewhere?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Should be in participant four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Participant four. This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S that's coming. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so yeah I will I will give a brief outline about what I what I prepared for this meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the functional requirements and especially for the for the user requirements. I prepare a marketing report and we have to find the weaknesses and and the the improvements we could do to the current remote controls. And also I di I did a study with for the incorporation of new technologies it seems that the remote controls have been have remained the same for the last five, ten years. There is no no significant difference between the the b the first new controls and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Sh next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well more most of the people think that remote controls are ugly, thoroughly. So and they they admit that the the they should uh s they would uh spend more money in a fancier remote control, which is which is good and it's interesting point. Also the people are worried about about the R*_S_I_ disease, which is if you repeat the sa the same movement, which is not a with a not very appropriate device, you you will have problems whe when you will get old. So s people are uh are worried about the the shape of the of the remote control. They are also they get angry very often because they lost the remote control very often, so I think it would be a good point to to l to to find a a solution to any beep any alarm or something incorporated to with the remote control every time it it get lost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also I found that young people the the younger people are the more interested they are in incorporating new technologies in the in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So in my opinion the Mando this Mando shouldn't be very small because the smaller it is, the more like the the liklier it is to get lost. Liklier or more likely?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More likely..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "likely. Okay. Uh people also complain because they they they all have the same size of the buttons for buttons who w which are not very use like f uh memorising channels or or this kind of actions which are not very often but they they shouldn't they shouldn't have the same importance in the in the uh in the remote cont in the remote control. Also the z the design should fit the hand shape. So it may be interesting to to think in a in both prototypes, for right and left handed people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well th the on the thing is though, most remote controls are used by more than one person. So unless you're kind of targeting single people you know you're gonna maybe", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "cut out some a lot of your market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno I th Anyway I think it could be int interesting to to release some a a small fraction of of this remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe it could be a universal design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A universal design, which is which is good for both the hands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Still shaped for yeah for your hand but not for a particular hand, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? That's right, whether it's left hand or right hand,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but but don't you think that the two points are clashing, one thing you are saying design should fit the hand shape and it should not be very small?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The first and the third point, they are clashing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it can still be a, you can still extend past the hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So fitting the hand doesn't mean much then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it means like, this remote here is kind of is very thin and long so instead of having you know you might have it kind of a bit bigger", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or, you know, with maybe some some finger molds or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it means design should be similar to the traditional ones?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Little sleek, longer?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it should fit the hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no I was thinking of so like something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something with the shape of the palm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Some finger grips maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could even have some buttons like you know on the sides and everything,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the sides.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. It sh it shouldn't it shouldn't be symmetric symmetrical.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hm mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not anymore. That's what yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then finally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And finally, the incorporation of a L_C_D_ or a speech recognition system in the remote control could also be interesting, but I don't know if the budget would be large enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. First I'm just wondering about the L_C_D_ stuff because uh because.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But most of yeah most of the young people to thirty to thirty years old were really interested in this kind of technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so maybe it's a good time for me to uh to bring you to some new uh new informations. We had the new requirements from the so uh from the head offices of the company, and so they wanted so they want to um they would like to be restricted to T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I dunno if you had this information already. No,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so they want us to restrict the remote control to T_V_ only because of time limitations. Um they want also uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually this marketing report is restricted to T_V_ remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Excellent. So we have also to focus more on the internet aspects because well well te teletext is outdated now and uh finally, it should be clear that the corporate image, that means colours and logos of the co our company should be clearly inde identified in the product. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was still uh I was still working on this uh twenty five Euro price point because I think actually having looked at some of the remotes out there, this is quite a low uh price if if we're maybe I can get to this in my presentation though,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Sure sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we can jump to your presentations, right now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so let's keep in mind about tha that that this last point about L_C_D_ and speech uh reco", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think even even if it was within budget do a speech reco rec system it might be a bit difficult because if you think if you're watching T_V_ you're gonna have a lot of this uh background noise from the T_V_ which might interfere with the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry, what is your?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh participant three. You might have some background noise from the T_V_ which will make the speech recognition much uh harder, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but you should be able to activate or disactivate, so yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh you press a press a button to talk, and the the T_V_ the T_V_ sound turns off..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah uh channel fifty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it could be command control kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It requir recognises particular sequence and then it gets activated. Means you say you should say like does that, remote control being on or be on kind of thing, and then remote control comes in the picture for the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because this kind of thing means speech is there from the T_V_ also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there should be something command controlled, you start and then you stop.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's like V_I_ editor, you are having two modes similarly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise it's just lying idle.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay Michael.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, could I describe the mouse maybe be easier to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "could I use the mouse, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Thanks. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The wheel doesn't work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so um while uh researching this this topic I first of all just thought of a couple of things that I would like to see in a remote, and just uh looked to see if they're actually available in any current remotes, and then also searched for which are the top-rated uh remote controls on Epinions dot com, which is a a you know a a customer um written basically review site. So um there's a pretty wide range of uh remote controls these days and and uh this remote control on the right here is is one of the more extravagant, but it's not really it's by no means uh mm you know on it's own in being so expensive. There are a lot of expensive remote controls out there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks like a P_D_A_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So yeah it doe it's well basically all the functions uh are controlled through through the L_C_D_ screen except for the really really kind of main functions, which have a couple of of their own buttons. Um and if you look at a lot of the universal remotes out um on the market, I know we're working on television remote, but a lot of the universal remotes out there have uh have these L_C_D_ screens which kind of helps when you're using multiple uh devices I suppose because you can have multiple kind of functions d different functions on the screen at different times. But um the thing that I find most interesting about this remote control, and it's kind of difficult to uh to see in the slide, but it has a scroll wheel on it, which is kind of like uh a mouse scroll wheel, which I think is it's a really kind of important design aspect um is it's'Cause the thing is what a what we the presen this presentation we had is what we want the remote control to actually do. And obviously the the simplest thing that a remote control does is it just change the change the channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Change the channels.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh the I think that a scroll wheel is actually pretty a pretty handy way of of changing the channel.'Cause I know when I um when I use the remote to change the channel I very rarely use the numbers on the on the pad. I usually use the up and down", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mmm-hmm mm-hmm. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because most channels are you know two digit numbers and you have to press you know a special button to enter a two-digit number, and then two numbers, so that's just uh it's annoying. So I think a scroll wheel is is quite handy. Now um the the scroll wheel is is much more useful if you have an L_C_D_ screen, and this brings us to the the point you were mentioning before about the internet uh capability.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One possibility, if we now we need to still talk about the price point because obviously a lot of this stuff can't be done for twenty five Eu uh Euro, but one possibility is to download program information into the L_C_D_ screen so that instead of actually saying I want to I want to go to channel thirty seven because I know this programme's on, you know, often you don't know what ch what channel it's on, or you don't know what's on. If you have a list of of programs on your L_C_D_ screen you just scroll to that program rather than to a channel. So if you think about it's kind of like a you know in mobile phones now you don't use you don't remember people's phone number, you remember their name and you go find that name and ring it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this would be pretty kind of a handy thing to have, but um we we really need t to discuss the price. So, I mean there are there are uh cheaper this is another multi kinda purpose remote control where it's it's it's very simple, there's only a few buttons, but al each of those buttons does something different in a different context. So this is something else we might wanna consider, is really kind of limiting the number of buttons, because this is the top rating uh universal remote control on on Epinions. It it's really uh maybe worth thinking about limiting the number of buttons as much as as possible um because really I think people want to be able to find the button they're looking for without even looking at the remote control. And was saying before about having different size buttons for different you know frequently used uh tasks, but I think also you know the location and and shape of the buttons is important, but also the number of buttons. So if you have too many buttons it it it increases the the difficulty of finding the one you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But there is one problem then the user has to understand each of that functionality.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well we w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because the same button is doing too many things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well we will have a bit of a simpler uh task in that we're only doing uh a television remote control. Um I think maybe one option is to have you know a little flip-open um door that uh that you have hidden most of the time, but contains the extra buttons like, say, the number buttons for instance. Um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I would if I had my perfect remote control, I'd probably just have no numbers at all on it because they're just in the way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They don't really do anything. Maybe you know I although I do also find flip-open doors a bit of a pain because sometimes they can break off or or whatever, but maybe a door that you can you can permanantly remove or permanantly have on would be good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um but I think definitely you need to to keep the buttons down to a minimum, but not not let that kind of interfere with the functionality of of the device. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "H I think I think that the tr the transition to this to this new remote control shouldn't be very very abrupt very hard because w if people see a remo see the see a remote control without numbers mm they will think it's very difficult to learn very difficult to very different build very different to the traditional.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It does sampling out of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I guess that depends on how you market it. If you if you have the right advertisement showing how how how easy it is and how you can, you know, navigate to a program without the numbers, then people might say that looks pretty easy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, can you continue, please Mi?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yep. Um okay, so, I think um one of the really kind of useful things you can do with with internet connectivity would be to have this a programme driven interface rather than the channel number. So if we can have a higher priced uh remote control I think that would really be worth uh something that would be worth implementing. Um mm there's the L_C_D_ screen, um which maybe maybe is too expensive, um but I think also at the scroll wheel, I haven't mentioned it here, the scroll wheel could be used without an L_C_D_ screen, just for changing channel numbers easily. I think even that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean, that would be a fairly cheap thing, compared to an L_C_D_ screen, to implement,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um but I think that would be quite useful as well. And the other thing, you say we need to we need to keep it just television, but I think one maybe one option, since this is supposed to be a kind of a fashionable device, is you know there's a certain kind of cool or wow factor that you can kind of you can have with technology, and maybe we wanna make it something that's extensible to do other tasks. Say you have like um a little another little kind of base unit that can also receive signals as well as the television where you can, say uh, change the lighting in the room. You know that would be something maybe you could sell as an extra, so that it doesn't have to be part of the initial development, but, you know, later on you could you can you know you also, selling the potential of the device. Then you say potentially you can then do other cool stuff like change the lights, I dunno, close the windows, whatever, turn the heating on, and um, I think that's something we may need to have as as at least as an optional extra to to kinda make our product cool, since we say we're putting the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay, thanks. you want to go?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. So yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So most of the things which we are discussing about is speech recognition uh, that means on my own I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, it should be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. No, not that one. you are two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so the working design is uh user i interface could be of two types, one is the usual press buttons which are there so that the user feels that he is knoing doing some he is knowing about that technology. So he is pretty comfortable if he wants to get this, and on top of that there there could be a speech recognition technology also being sitting on the on the remote. So the old kind of users who don't want to have any changes, it can it can be useful for them, and the new users, as uh our Marketing Expert was saying, they can use the new gizmo which is speech recognition kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, sorry to interrupt you, but we have seen before that there is a new way of interacting that use wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. So anyway, that didn't come into my mind,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so th that is a possibility. These could be other kind of interfaces.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Means we can have, depending on the cost, how much we can afford, we can have different kind of interfaces. So spe buttons are something which is very everybody is familiar with. So if you go to the market and you say that buttons are there the people know what it is,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and on top of that if we are having extra functionality people are willing to shell that twenty-five Euros money which we are thinking. Otherwise we are just like others in the market. So anyway that is the first, user interface could be of more than one type, and uh yeah that means we can do the on-line changes which which cannot be done now actually. So apart from the speech, we can have the scroll kind of thing with the buttons. Now for buttons, normal requirements like bit coding and all those things are required. And for voice, limited vocabulary automatic speech recognition system is required and we require a microphone also to be sitting there on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That increases the the cost also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that's right. But uh means we have to see how much what kind of microphones and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think that performance of such systems are enough to to target well of such technologies is enough?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yes, if it is limited vocabulary usually it's enough.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we we can uh target, means we can target ninety five percent accuracy or somewhere ninety seven perc", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well wh uh I imagine also that the microphone will be an ambiance um a um an ambience microphones", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you are not going to speak into into th into the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. No it it could be little d yeah it could be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it could be s a few centimetres.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well one one other thing that that speech recognition could really blow out the price for is uh when you want to sell into other markets, though,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because, I'm not sure exactly where we're gonna sell this, but I presume it's not gonna just be English speaking countries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So then you have to s you know, you have to train models for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm. Uh it's more like, means there are different speech technologies which are existing so D_T_W_ could be kind of which is the easiest. So you have to store some templates on the on the on the chip itself, and it's just dynamic time warping where you try to find out what it is, instead of having a model which has to be trained and being a micro-controller.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay we shou we should discuss this la later after after after this this uh slide.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is a this is a this is a a very important uh issue in discussion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can That's right. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, next. Uh that finished?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. Components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Components?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, will you go to the next slide?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so this is the design which we are thinking so. We are having a power button and the switch, which is not much,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then we are having the which is to indicate whether the power is on or not. And then there are two kind of things which can be so one is the button interface which has not been shown because because of lack of time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we could not put that. So now where the A_S_R_ decoder is sitting, similarly there are different kind of interfaces which could be there. So there is A_S_R_ decoder which could be there, and then there could be another scroll button scroll scroller, and then there could be buttons, and all of them they will just do the decoding and put it in the math put it in the proper message format. And then there is there is the chip which is sitting, the green one, and it converts it into bit codes, and that bit codes are sent by the infrared device to the receiver.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is the easiest design the there could be. So th an A_S_R_ decoder we can have things in. To have different technologies. So this was the my personal preference was that we can have A_S_R_ sitting there on the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know I guess you could actually train the remote control as you're using it by saying you know turn volume up, and you press the uh press the button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like uh s people teach sign language to kids f well, by speaking and doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh as soon as you try to put the microchip kind of thing or something the price will go up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So these are the slight problems.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So your your opinion is that we should go for special condition technologies?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because yeah the reason is that if we go into the market means though I don't have much idea, but as he the uh Marketing Expert presentation was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sure if you can sell a a speech recognition remote control for twenty five Euros everyo everyone will s will buy it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actually I'm not so sure", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if we go with just the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because I'm the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know if I was using a remote control to, say, turn the volume up because I can't hear it very well, I don't really want to you know drown out what people are saying by talking you know when I'm when I'm instead of pressing up on on a remote control. You know if there's some there's some dialogue all of a sudden that I can't hear, I'm trying to actually find out what's being said,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so maybe speech recognition gets in the way more than it helps.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but you know the the average frequency of pushing buttons, it's about.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it depends if it's a remote control th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's about eighty eighty eighty pushes per hour, or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if the remote control is something that y you don't actually have to pick up anymore, that would be a a useful feature of the speech recogntion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you can leave it sitting on the table and you don't actually have to find it, then that could be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay gentlemens, we have to take some deci decisions right now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so if I if I kind of summarise everything we've de we we said. We are targeting T_V_. We need we need to have um um remote control which is fanc fancy, which is uh which is easy to to hand not too small, not too big. Um we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With a good shape for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or good shape, yes. We should bring new technologies for young peoples, and uh as we have uh also requirements to to use uh to to push thr toward the internet. Maybe this is something we can stick to it. And um also, a very interesting things I I I've seen on on on the one of the comp o our competitor is this wheel that we can use to navigate. So so my feeling is that re regarding costs budget we have an an an target price, it's not possible to go s to go to L_C_D_ and also to go to automatic speech recognition technologies. Uh first m m why not to go to L_C_D_. Because um in fact as we are targeting uh T_V_ in fact we can use T_V_ screen as a screen to feedback to to give some feedback informations about what we could have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it depends though well it depends. If we we don't unless we have some input some video input to the T_V_ or we have control over the T_V_ then we can't actually display that. Like if we if we produce the T_V_s then then yeah we can put you know menus up up there, but otherwise we need to actually have some kind of something sitting in between the video signal and the and the T_V_ to superimpose those those menus. So that's an extra", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. Don don't you ha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "don't we have contacts with uh people on T_V_ or or well systems that exist that we can use?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well this is this is another que we still haven't really defined the remote. Are we still you say we're focusing on T_V_, but is it still a kind of like a universal remote in that it's a replacement remote control, or is this something for our own line of of televisions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause that really makes a big difference.'Cause even if we have contacts we can't really produce a remote control that can bring up menus on other other companies' T_V_s. It's just there are too many T_V_s out there. It's it's not really gonna.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's good point. What's what cou what could be the cost of uh well, could we fit the the targets uh in terms of cost uh if we go s to L_C_D_ on the remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For twenty five Euro? I think it's impossible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not possible. It's impossible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But but I dunno,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think um it would be good to know if there is any leverage in that any leeway in that um that twenty five Euro because for twenty five Euro I think all we can really do is provide a very basic remote control, and that seems to be kind of against the philosophy of our company which is you know putting the fashion into electronics. So I would I would like to know if there's any chance of of increasing the uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of increasing the unit price.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you mean yo you mean we we should target something maybe which is which would be more expensive but re really fancy in terms to um in terms to had to have really an added value?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What would be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so regarding the automatic speech recognition, I think this is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wha but what would be one question, what would be the goal of putting an L_C_D_ in a remote control?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What what kind of information?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause you can have things like the programme name instead of the channel numbers, like an interactive programme guide.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but mo most of the T_V_s nowadays show the show the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They have tele teletext. Well, because they have teletext on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the n", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th th you have a teletext sin signal that you can that you can uh that you can get thr through the channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but yeah most of the T_V_s have teletext nowadays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They have t most of them have teletext, but we want to get rid well one of our requirements is to uh to move to teletext to uh to the use of internet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So to to uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can get a lot more information on it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to browse more easily the teletext. For instance through uh through your remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what would what would appear in the in the L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you could have the name of the programme, you could have um the start time you know where it's up to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The ti the start time, all the p all the programmes you could have uh o", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You could have a l even a little image of you know the c you know the the m the main actors or something", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can quickly just kind of even without reading.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I don't know if this information is available from teletext, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well no, but there are the electronic programme guides out there. They may not have pictures, but maybe they do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's dependi it also depends on the country.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well because for the same reason that we cannot uh informations on the T_V_. We c we couldn't grab information information which is not there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No but I mean with the internet you have flexibility of where you get your information from. So it may be possible that there are people out there providing that. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so that mean w w we need an in an extra internet connection to use the remote control, if you want to browse, in addition to the T_V_, or uh or it should be a special T_V_ connected to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I I think if we're gonna I think we would definitely need the internet connection because even with y I don't think you could even get teletext information from the T_V_ onto the remote control, especially if we don't control the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. We need to find that out.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. We need to close the meeting. Um so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But just a small thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what kind of market we are targeting? Is it that we are targeting the replacement remote market, or what? So the remote has gone bad and the person wants to buy a new remote or because the cost of L_C_D_ thing could be as high as the T_V_ itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That is very important.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well people go to buy another remote control when they broke n broke their,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it's a really small T_V_ maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Broke. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and they want to go t for universal one, and they take the fanciest they can have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this is that we z that that we should target. So the com the um the uh the committment is the following, we don't go for speech recognition technology. The L_C_D_ is still on disc is still open to discussion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is up to you to go through this um uh this way and to to report report me back next meeting. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that the speech recognition technology would be cheaper the than the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's cheaper as compared to the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but not sure. Maybe it's cheaper, but we have no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because with the L_C_D_ you need more requirements. You need a internet connection. You need m more things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well the thing is I think I think the type of peop", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for the speech recognition you you don't need anything. You just say channel fifty, and that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the type of people that are gonna want to buy a very stylish rem r remote control with lots of new technologies are the kinda people that are gonna have you know a wireless internet connection maybe, or a you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then we should move to another target b because at twenty five Dollars,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Means th yeah twenty five Euros is yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well this is what we need to find out.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can we can we increase the the price point of this remote control?'Cause otherwise we need.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay this is this is an open question for you. Yeah. This is uh up to you to tell us. But I'm definitely not keen on to to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To move to another target?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no no no, I'm no I'm definit definitely not keen on going to speech recognition technologies. I'm not confident enough. I'm not sure that that we'll have a product really that work. I uh that work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's kind of hard to guarantee that you're gonna.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's real yeah. How to guarantee such performances is really hard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the expert uh said ninety five percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well this is still is is very bad.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ninety five percent is not good enough though..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, this is the end of this discussion. Next meeting uh here are the task you have to work on. Um so you have to work on the component uh concept.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh you have to work on user interface, and you have to go through a trend watching. Okay. So the question is still open about the L_C_D_ thing. Um uh we I hope that next meeting we will uh we'll take some um decision that direction. Thanks. Bye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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The project manager acknowledged that the technology would be cost-prohibitive, but the user interface expert brought up the possibility of introducing a program driven interface instead of a traditional channel number interface if the L_C.D. screen were available.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 178, "endIndex": 178 }, { "startIndex": 198, "endIndex": 198 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you give me the main objective of the meeting?", "response": "The main objective of the meeting was to discuss the functional design of the new remote control, known as \"Mando\", and to gather individual presentations from the project team members regarding their areas of expertise. 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{ "meetingId": "TS3007a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Morning.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh before I start with the with the meeting I have a few things to tell you about the the setting we're in, uh because we're uh being watched by uh Big Brother. So um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "By Big Brother?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This uh These are cameras, so are these. This thing uh that looks like a pie,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are actually all microphones.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you must be careful with uh with uh all this. And uh as I can see you uh you have placed your laptops uh exactly on the place where it must be. And that has to do with the camera settings, so we don't have our uh laptops in front of the cameras.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of our faces.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And Indeed. So they can see our faces.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Welcome at the kick-off meeting. My name is uh Danny Wolfs. Uh this is the agenda for today. Uh first a little opening. Uh I will introduce myself, uh and uh I think it's very uh good to introduce uh yourself. Uh then uh a little bit of acquaintance, acquaintance to uh to to ourselves. So uh we get to know each other. Uh that will be done uh with a tool training from the he these two uh smart boards. Then the project plan. What we're going to do, and how we're going to do it. Uh and discussion about that and a little closing at the end. Okay uh, my name is uh Danny Wolfs. I'm the Project Manager. What's your name?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm Juergen Toffs. I'm the User Interface Designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "User interface, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hi, my name's uh. I'm the Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm uh Tim. Um my function is the Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. First a little about the project aim. Uh the the the aim is to make a new remote control. Uh maybe you have read uh read the website. It's a very uh, yeah, very uh ambitious uh company. They uh they wanna do something else. I w Uh there must be a new remote control. Uh first of all uh it must be original, uh and trendy. That's two things really uh close to each other. But at the same time uh user-friendly. And they have uh Yeah, that's uh very important uh for them. Uh there are three stages. There is a functional design. So uh what are we going uh to uh to do? What are we going to uh uh make f uh kind of functions in the remote? And why are we going to do it? Then the conceptual design. How are going to do it? And that's uh really global. Uh because at the detailed design, how, part two, uh we go uh to dig in uh really about how the the te the technical of If it's uh it's possible technical-wise.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh each stage is uh uh is broken up in two uh two stages, individual work and a meeting. So it's uh it's very straightforward. Okay, the tool training. We have two smart boards. This one is for the presentations, the PowerPoint presentations or the Word presentation of whatever you uh you had. Uh and this is uh only for uh drawing. So uh we uh must let it uh stand on this uh this programme. This is called a smart board", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speaks for itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "thing uh Yeah, it speaks for itself. Um and as you uh may have heard, the documents in the shared folder uh can be uh showed on this screen. Not in y the the My Documents. So if you wanna show something, put it in the shared folder. Uh This uh is very straightforward, with the save, the print, the undo, the blank, the select, the pen. Well, I don't uh gonna explain it all,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think you know uh how it works. Um we must not forget uh everything we draw on here, uh all must be saved. We we may not delete anything. So uh if you have uh drawn something, save it. Never delete it. That's a very important uh thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh little uh little kinda exercise to uh know each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At uh the white board on the left. Every uh every one of us uh must draw our favourite animal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh tell uh tell us why we uh had uh chosen that animal. Uh important is that we use different colours, and uh different pen widths. Widths. Widths.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have a question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um this exercise, um did the company board tell you to do it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or uh did you just make it up yourself?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no. It's uh it's uh I I I must do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's part of the introduction,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.'Cause we uh really don't know each other,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh it's kinda new. So getting used to each other, we can uh have a little fun then, before we uh dig in really to the hard stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That kind of thing. Would you start with drawing your uh favourite animal?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. I don't know really how it works. But maybe you can show us first?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, okay. Yeah, okay. Drawing goes with uh this thing. Do not touch your hand on uh this little uh thingy here. That's uh important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So hold it uh like this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You g you get electrocuted or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, kinda..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, um You must p p uh push a little uh Good. Because And uh wait uh wait a few seconds. It's not uh fully real-time, so uh watch it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ach..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Well I'm gonna paint in the red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooph.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the background colour..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, undo. Um The pen? No. One minute please..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the one. Well, five. Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My favourite animal huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's like Pictionary?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can guess what it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the one who says it first gets a raise.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "May uh paint uh next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a pork?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it's not an orc..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You don't see it uh at the ears?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah, I have it at home..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have an orc at home?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very artistic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's a cat..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's it called?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Simba.'Cause uh we have a cat at home", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and he's called Simba.'Cause he looks like the uh the the lion from The Lion King.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Miniature size?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we uh found it kinda cool to uh name it after a lion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He's happy with us, so uh he's smiling.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow. He does have body uh Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, only the face. Because we have we have twen twenty five minutes. So we uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. We have to speed up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remember you use uh different colours, and different pen widths.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, who wants to go next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So choose a colour, choose a pen width and draw a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You don't have to change the colour and the pen width during uh the drawing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have to save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Save it, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've done it. New?'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have to draw uh push hard on the pen or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm uh Not really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kind of firm touch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay. Open. Which one is it? Smart board?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And now? Okay. Okay, thanks.'Kay, I've speed up.'Kay, that's fine. Line width.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "By the way, why was your cat uh red?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because uh my cat is red uh at home.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I have red hair, so uh must be red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a very bloody cat.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a frog..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's a turtle..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh it's an apple..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not an apple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Must be a dog..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A dog?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Colour. Something like this. Smaller.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, it is a turtle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It is a turtle. Why a turtle? Why? Tim?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um'Cause I liked Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You watched it a lot?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You watched it a lot?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh inside its shell. You'll be uh finished sooner.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a scared turtle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. It's coming up. Mm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, Tim. Thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like this. Okay, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very artistic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Jurgen, you want to go next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay. Wha Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Here you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How did it work?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Format? And then you have the the current colour,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Performance?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can change. So no red or green.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And a pen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh line uh width. I had five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tim had Uh Tim, what kinda line width did you have?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the big lines were like nine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. It's a dog.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, very good. I just uh thought I'd pick the easiest one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Why a dog? You have a dog at home?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we had a dog, a few years ago.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Had a dog?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, it's p", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and it, yeah, when it died we didn't get a new one or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's pretty good uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have an artistic uh inner middle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An artist.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh a Graphical User Designer, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think you uh picked the wrong uh function. Wrong job.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Can work together. Ah colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think you can see it's real uh really a easy programme to use. Not difficult at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's enough,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "thanks..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Janus? The last one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I wonder.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. After a cat, a turtle and a dog.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think he's gonna draw an elephant..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I figure I should do something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I'm gonna do something much more difficult.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-oh. Oh, he is the artistic design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm gonna design a remote uh remote control animal..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remote control animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well with the interface, it might be easier to ha to draw here and display there uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That that might be easier. But at the other hand, uh a pen like that is easy to hold in your hand, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's easier to draw.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Better to draw with a with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. With a pen than with a mouse mouse.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Than on the, with.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I m I mean like uh like on here, drawing drawing uh. And then displaying on screen, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mouth. Oh, okay. Yeah. W with this paper it's too mu too expensive..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But what is he uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Too expensive, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it a rabbit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you have a rabbit at home?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a rabbit with uh broken legs?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A green rabbit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it a white rabbit f It's the white rabbit from The Matrix.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, then yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There, the g white green rabbit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He's a little bit stoned there..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I figured this is a pretty b good impression of a rabbit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It will do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh uh Uh well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Finishing touch and then we're going further.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Project Manager? Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where does the pen go? Just uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Have you been uh counting the time?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, a little..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Let's go on then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, I think the dog is the the most uh artistic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I figured the rabbit was actually the most uh impressive..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't choose for youself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's selfish. Okay, now we're gonna dig into the to the serious stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's pretty abstract.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the selling price for the remote will be uh twenty five Euro, and the production cost uh may not be more than uh twenty and a half Euro. So uh from my point of view, I don't think it's uh gonna be very uh very high tech, high definition, uh ultra modern uh kinda remote, for twelve uh fift uh twelve and a half Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the profit we must make with uh the new remote is uh fifty million Euro. So that's a lot. We have to sell uh a lot of uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, how much is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like how much?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hundred million uh remotes or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I think uh w when the selling price is twenty five, uh uh you got two million, two million remotes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty million. Two million, oh yeah, two million. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But our marketing range is uh, market range is international. So we have uh virtually the whole world we can sell uh we can sell our r remotes to. At least that uh countries which have uh a television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um So now it's time uh for us to uh going uh to discuss a little uh things. You can think about uh experience with a remote control uh yourself, at home. What you think might be uh a useful uh new feature. What uh what can distinguish our new trendy remote control from all the others. Um so uh let's uh let's uh discuss a little. I'm gonna join you at the table. Well what what's the most uh important thing at a remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well I think the most important thing of a remote control is that you can switch channels. And my opinion is you should keep it as basic as possible. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So not a not a remote control who uh uh which can uh can be used for television and a D_V_D_ and radio and Or just only.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so. Uh but I have some points. Can I show them on the on the big screen? Maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you have them on uh I can uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I can find Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh, in case you want it This is a dead kind of fly. Between the the the, yeah, the the uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Screen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, be The screens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it possible to open pen drawings in this uh on this screen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no. Only All the drawings go there, at the left uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh but um which The ones we made on the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, that pen drawings. Uh no, I think uh when it is uh in Word and you have saved it in the Shared Documents folder, you can show it there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, only in Word,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I have some uh points from marketing point of view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um just the standard thing li things like uh intuitive, uh small, fairly cheap. Uh it's pretty cheap, twenty five Euros. Uh brand independent. Um I think, it doesn't have to matter uh which brand your T_V_ or other thing is. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll wrap it up quickly. Um I personally think it has to be multi-purpose.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh most of the remote c uh remote controls are uh just for one purpose.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh by making it multi-purpose, it uh has a new feature, adds a new feature to the market, and distinguish from uh from current products.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um maybe some other technology than infrared. Uh I rather find it very annoying um, like when someone is standing in front of the T_V_ then you can't switch it. Um think about um sending it over radio waves or bluetooth.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That might be a little bit uh expensive. Um And something like an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For what purpose?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um uh like I said here um Maybe it's easy. It's nice as an added feature feature, that um, when you're on a certain channel, you can see on the L_C_D_ screen uh what programmes are coming up or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So it be uh a multi-purpose uh very technically uh high uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "From my point of view, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "remote? Yeah, it must be really uh innovative, technical-wise?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it has to be uh Yeah, our company is very uh good in making new innovative uh things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So yeah, I I agree with you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So i i i i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we must focus on things who are really uh really add something to uh to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To the current market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look, you got some cheap uh remote controls there. They just uh Yeah, you got a dozen of'em.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But when you enter a new market with a remote control and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh wanna gain market share", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you have to do something special, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But we have to keep an eye that it's Uh at the beginning of such a project, it's it's it's very uh cool to talk about, well, this would be cool, that would be cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but we must not uh lose uh sight of the the user uh uh friendly uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the price..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's But but this is just from marketing uh aspect.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know anything about user interface or design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's because we have him..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and him..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And him..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, uh next meeting will start in thirty minutes. So uh you uh will have uh individual actions where I presume uh will be some feedback, uh via the m the mail. Um the the the Industrial uh Designer has to uh look at the working design. Uh the User Interface Designer has to look at the technical functions. So that's the thing we uh discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um one thing uh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we must first agree on uh what we're going to m going to make. Do we Are we going to use um it it for multiple systems? Or uh We should have some agreement on that before we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um wha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm uh I I don't think we have to be, we have to agree on that. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I figure we could get back to it on the next meeting actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think th that's a pha Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a phase further.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ju just uh make some mock-ups, some some general ideas.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and then we can plan Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can plan further, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But maybe, because uh you are working on the user requirements, you are working on the technical functions, we uh must uh have a little or kinda uh uh uh How do you call it? Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Consensus on the, what we're gonna do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh a little plan on on what we're going to do. So you don't uh uh come up with the user requirements who don't fit the the the the technical functions at all. Some basic things we co we want to going to do. Uh I think that's well uh Yeah. Will come in handy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. You decide..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're the Project Manager.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W He says.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if the technical functions have to be designed, I I've gotta know for what kind of machines they will be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or do we use it a text screen? Or uh will it be with uh with bluetooth or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, th that's that's really a step further. But if you say uh is it uh uh one way or multi-purpose, that's a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh tha that's a same step further.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then looking at individual components,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that's actually a f step further.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like we all have a list of uh things that has to b that have to be in it, or how it has to be like. And then in the next meeting we decide", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can take it from there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "w what it's gonna be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I agree uh, we can take it from there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A And then you s then you can delete uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or edit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the o the obsolete uh details.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "each individually i individually uh must think on what's uh at uh his point of view is the most important. And uh then we're going to fit uh all the pieces together the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I must finish off now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's over. You uh will receive specific specific instructions uh by your personal coach. And I see you in uh thirty minutes. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, cheers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be careful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Damn.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Success?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. Come up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2013b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Uh it fell off. One, two, three, four, yeah, we're ready. Okay. Welcome to this second meeting. Um it's now quarter after twelve and we're given forty minutes um for this meeting. This is a meeting on functional design. Um and I wanna welcome you all and thank you all for doing some research in between. Um I did took the minutes from the first meeting and I'll show them to you in a moment. Um I know each of you have a presentation and um in thinking about the forty minutes, I thought it would take only like three minutes for the previous minutes, um each of you having about seven minutes or maybe a little more, maybe a little less for your pre presentations and a little discussion, because there's I happen to have been told there were some new project requirements and we have to make some uh decision on what functions it will have. Okay? Is this ap everybody agree with this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um and after the meeting there'll be things to be done and as you can see it says we get to get lunch, um and then some more individual work and then putting minutes away and individual actions. Um but uh now for the minutes of the first meeting. And go to that one. Um as you can see it was this earlier today. Um Kate, Steph, Sarah and myself in our four capacities were present. I opened the meeting, the product was developed uh and reviewed, and we talked about the financial end of it. Um and it had some implications, um the four million sales target and new ideas of not too many buttons, bright colours and some of the influence of the Japanese. And we closed early so you could then proceed with your research and getting your reports together for tod this meeting Anybody have any questions on those minutes? Are they complete, did they discuss everything that we covered last time?'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I think so,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did I miss something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we we we talked about the the individual roles that we each had as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm afraid I incorporated that when I said who was present, but yes, we did,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we did a little bit of uh team building of uh of making the pictures,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I accept the minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I didn't think those were appropriate to the minutes necessarily. So um as a group I think we've are they're accepting the minutes. And uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that what we're supposed to say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good. Um, then we'll move to the three presentations. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm we need to move this. Who wants to go f first? That's as far as it goes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not really meant to touch those microphones. Oh it doesn't have any on, does it? That's fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent, thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oy, big loop under the table.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "She said we didn't need to screw it in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, that looks good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's doing its thing. There we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Thank you very much. Um. One of the the biggest issues I found about um from last meeting was the fact that we need to sell four million of these um remote controls and I think that this is an opportunity to really take Real Reaction in the direction of of similar of handheld tools that have been used and are used by many of us and to kind of bring the remote control into the si same realm as an accessible um useful electronic device, as opposed to something that is lost in the couch and what have you. So um my main goal here is to re-envision the remote control in in this context and to think about menu functionality and current technology and the fact that it could be interactive with other tools. Um some of the research uh in the market has shown that people really are not happy with remote controls as they are now, and um that means we do need to make some decisions about what what keys or or buttons on the on the remote control to perhaps keep and and what ones to discard. And if we devote some energy into this, I think the um recent productions of Real Reaction, the I go everywhere power and the high definition D_V_D_ players although it makes immediate sense to have our remote control interact with these, I think we can also use this as a platform to make it interact with other tools. And um in fact I think the high definition D_V_D_ players and all of this will come along in the uh will only benefit from the positive feedback from our well designed tool. So again, most uh users really dislike the current look and feel of remote controls. Um fifty percent I think of all these uh numbers the most important is fifty percent of user say they only use ten percent of the buttons. And eighty percent of users, and if we think about this there are a lot of uh television, D_V_D_, stereo remote control users out there, eighty percent would spend more money on a remote control that looks fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could can I ask where these figures come from, is this market research we've.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um it was market research and there were a hundred people in the room, so eighty out of a hundred said they would spend more money.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now in between, as the Project Manager, they sent me an email from the powers that be", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um that teletext is outdated um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the internet is coming in as important, but that they want this remote control to only be for T_V_ um with incorporating the corporate image, colour and slogan.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well I think we can I I think we can really focus on this remote and and again bring the Real Reaction um brand in in and and get some positive marketing for our other tools, even if we directly don't um advertise for the I go everywhere line.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So an interesting um element was the would you pay more for speech recognition question. So these market research uh uh questionnaires looked into your your uh concern about technology", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and s specifically wanted to find out information about speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now the early adopters, those of us who grew up with technology and uh luck lucky for us have the uh cash to to pay for it, the young age group without the mortgages and responsibilities, ninety one percent of them would pay more for speech recognition in a remote control. Very interesting, I I leave this up to the group to decide if we wanna use this uh if and you know, the the designers,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but ninety one percent, fifteen to twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that a large enough target market to target it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I I I think especially in terms of growth, I think this would be a very smart group to target. I mean s three quarters of the next age group, twenty five to thirty five are interested, and uh with the technologies improving, if we can get these uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In real numbers, does the ninety one percent and the seventy six percent translate to ex in excess of the four million?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. To Um yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or eight million.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. But would you pay more and does it work and is it approachable and and did I know that it was it was an.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's a that's a very good question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if speech recognition should be um should be included,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think it's an interesting I think that maybe shows more about uh being open to technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it definitely needs uh a lot more research", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Shall I go back?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on like how much more it would be and any, you know, existing examples,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and what reactions to them have been, and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How d I'm wondering how how ou how our target price compares with the the typical price of these things. I expect an Industrial Designer should know that, but if we're aiming to to build this thing for twelve Euros fifty, um is that a lot or a little?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly. I mean I I I uh did not receive any information on that, but I think the competition, sussing out what other people are doing and what's in the pipeline is very very important, because um there is a question about do you want an L_C_D_ screen and and that wasn't responded to, but uh some of the larger remotes do have screens where you can navigate, you know, so it turns into something uh perhaps you all have seen uh the Osbournes where Ozzy Osbourne is is attempting to manage his super entertainment system with something that looks like a uh a small tray.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh surely he's in the wrong age group.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's I a and I think, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He must be w one of a s small population..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, no,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you Kate, you're exactly right there. But I think the key is to get the early adopters, people who are familiar with technology and and uh they'll be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we're not looking at whether they're early adopters on that screen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's looking at age groups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly. I yes, and I'm making and I'm making the the uh uh leap that people who are familiar younger people are l are more familiar with technology than than older people. Or comfortable,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Leap. Hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, um so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, you had the other power channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the most important thing is an attractive streamlined remote control and to be extraordinarily reductionist, power, channel, volume and everything else is is uh up to the designers. And this is this is also supported by the market research.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you. That's my contribution.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. And we'll turn to the next presentation. I think she said we don't need to screw it in, just stick it in. And then press, what? F F_N_ and F_ eight. Next to the control button on the bottom, and then F_ eight at the top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, press them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then w be patient..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, here we go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tada.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if you want it to go into slide show mode, it's that little button there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can I not just uh do each one in order?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I you can if you like, it it that that just sets it up to do a p a p", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There we are. Yay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no that one, that one there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Left, left a bit, left a bit, that one, yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That? Right, technical functions design. Uh well I think first off, basically I do agree with what Sarah has defined as as uh your personal preferences,yeah. I think we need uh a more streamlined volume with no extraneous functions. So my method was to look at the existing remotes and what functions they have. And what we all need to discuss is whether we want these functions uh pretty much the same as what existing remotes have. If we can build on this with the speech recognition, that's not something I'd thought about at all, but it's also something we can discuss.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and and I presume we can miss out the functions really to to a video or D_V_D_ remote control, if this is only gonna be a, you know, satellite, cable, T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T_V_ only.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So these are two models of existing remote controls. Uh the one on the left seems to be a fairly uh standard universal remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ugh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has fast-forward, stop, play, all relating to movies. It also has seems to have channel up and channel down, which is which is more what you'd expect from a, you know, like a Sky or cable remote control", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "where you've got hundreds of channels instead of a merely terrestrial one. Uh but I think we should be looking more along the lines of the one on the right, which has it also has play, stop and pause and everything, I don't think we need them at all. I think we just need channel selection, volume up, volume down and I think an an enter function where you can access it's not like teletext, but along the same lines, access things on the screen. Uh not related to the internet one that you mentioned, because that'd be far outside our budget and what we want this to do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. And exceed the requirements they're expecting of us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it really exceed the requirements,'cause the requirements really are just want to be able to change channels and functions, which is more a text on the screen thing than uh than actual buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "o I was thinking something some smooth, sleek, little remote control with big user-friendly buttons and uh a menu that you can access.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh but then I do think we need to discuss the speech um recognition possibility.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Any uh thing else you wanna add?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we could go back to the pictures of the uh, what're they called? The pictures of the remote controls and possibly discuss what we think about them,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or if.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but maybe should hear what Kate has to say first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's hear what Kate has to say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe afterwards we could do a uh whiteboard with that your the one on the right as a as a basis.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whiteboard session.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the white that one on the right is, as well as less cluttered,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Definitely less cluttered and I mean but still it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's there", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was just I'll just uh resume something else I was gonna say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the style of these is terrible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I I really think we need to uh not only possibly even materials, like the type of plastic used, but everything including size and shape of buttons, positioning of buttons, the actual shape of the hand-held device, colours, just every e yeah, everything to do with this has to be revolutionised..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The ergonomics, the way it fits in your.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's that for now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cheers. Mm, I haven't actually got a display on my screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Still, I'll do without that. Okay um, now I wanna bring us down to earth again I'm afraid and talk about the actual practicalities of how the thing needs to work. Um oh and this is the methodology I used in preparing for this meeting. Um basically I've been doing a little bit of web-based research, and if I had a design team, I would've been discussing my ideas with'em. But the the net result is that I've come up with a first cut for the working design that I'd like to discuss with you. So, let's go back to what the basic function of a remote control is. It's for sending a message, um typically um via infrared. And the the basic components we've got to build in for our twelve Euros fifty are um an energy source, the user interface and which will um in incorporate um an integrated circuit that actually composes the message um based on what the which buttons the user presses, we turn that into a message, um and then we need a sending mechanism to send it to the receiver. Now I would have hoped I think that's my only slide actually, yeah. I would have have hoped to um do you a pretty PowerPoint slide of um my first cut design, but unfortunately the technology defeated me, so if you'll bear with me I'll do it on the whiteboard. So we want an energy source which is there. And we've got to think about what that might be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we obviously don't want wires on this thing. Uh typically it would be a battery, but I'm open to suggestions. Um and then we have the the user interface. Oops. And the main components in there are the the th the chip that actually has the intelligence of the machine that translates button presses into a message, which it then transfers to some sending mechanism, which encodes it and sends the message to the receiver. So those are the basic things that we've got to get in for our twelve Euros fifty. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Okay. Right. But those things as long as we can get those components, the block, that that rectangle for the user interface, is where the user comes in of what what does it look like? What do the buttons look like? Uh what does it feel like? That's where the user interface is really coming into its own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The technical end is what's actually gonna be in there, but also it has to be easy enough to change or repair if something goes wrong. For example the battery energy source or um what if the chip, for whatever reason, breaks down after a certain amount of time, do you just replace it? Um is there any um because it may be in the same area with several other user interfaces, like for D_V_D_s, movies, whatever. Um does it have to have a a way of being segregated from the others, in a different frequency or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I may be wrong here, but I'd been thinking of this device as being a a cheap mass-produced device. We're trying to sell four million of'em,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um that's that's, you know, that's almost one in every tenth household or whatever it is. Um and I hadn't thought of it as being a reparable thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you just if it goes wrong you chuck it out, and that's why I'm a bit concerned. I like the idea of speech recognition, that's a great idea, but I'm not convinced we can put it into this box for the price that we need gonna need to hit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we have um ki some idea of how much it would cost to create a device that has these basic elements?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Isn't that your job?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the chip composer marketing. Oh no, the chip composer sender.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. What they cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I'm I'm I'm hoping that my personal coach is gonna give me some advice on that, if you're asking me,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I don't believe I know, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Be because then we would ha ha figure out how much we had to play with in terms of user interface and this look and feel idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It does it does seem as if we're just to do something really simple and mass-produced, the which is pretty much the same as these existing models,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just maybe a little bit more inspired,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Inspired?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but basically just the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although what what uh suddenly came into my head is, you know how they always take two A_A_ batteries which which is really not very efficient at all. Could it be possible to have uh, you know, like a rechargeable internal battery, like, well, like an M_P_ three player does? With that you could jus or a mobile phone or whatever.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could you know, you just plug into a power source for a couple of hours, and then it's recharged for ages and ages and ages, and you don't have to worry with replacing A_A_ batteries,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which are.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that has another element, which is if every time you're done using the remote you put it on a charger, then you then it has a place.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You'd never need uh batteries would y uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it also has a place,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's not stuck down the back of the sofa.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then again I d I don't know if this is within our price range or not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a really good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I uh think that's a very interesting idea, but um I'm not a very good industrial designer and I don't know much about what these things cost. I'll do some research for the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it's better than my idea about solar, probably..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well solar may not be so good when you're watching T_V_ in the night,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it is just so annoying how.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Depen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would have to sor store up the energy", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then use it. Solar can do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We may be talking quite heavy then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "M yeah, that would be too heavy", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it'd cost too much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but just a rechargeable internal battery would probably I mean it might cost more to at first to develop and to install,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but for long-term use it'll be so much more convenient and economic than fiddling around trying to replace chunky A_A_ batteries and not having any in your kitchen drawer", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So do you think we might make that a selling point if it was something that we found we could afford to develop?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause I'm thinking in terms of um uh the loss and breakage of um remotes, how much of that is is to do with it not really having a uh a home, a um a nest, a place to live,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sort of have its little dock that you could put it in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if you can dock it, um you know, you could s argue that this is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the dock could look very fancy and that could be your inspiration of having it looking decent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Still I don't know if it's quite within our price range.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.'Cause you are talking about another component, like another piece of hardware.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we agreed as to what our target group is though? Pretty much, so that we'd be looking for the younger end.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I I brought up some exactly, but I think you raised some good questions about are there enough of these people out there, or are they making purchasing decisions?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was wondering that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "these are the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because I ag I agree that there there're people with uh how can I put it, more money than sense and who are liable to buy something new,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I s usually put more money than brains.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but Bu but what I was gonna say was, although they they may be buying um, you know, personal music devices and all that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh oh oh I'll make a note of that, Kate. Good, good comment.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are they necessarily buying T_V_ remote controls? Because they probably live in a household that has a T_V_ if they're at the lower end of the age range,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It might be good to know um uh who, you know, who's actually buying televisions and are we in a uh uh s region where people have more than one television in a home?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I think we've got a big hill to climb here, haven't we? I mean we've gotta persuade people who've got a remote control'cause it came with the telly that they should buy our product instead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or do we s make sure that it goes to the man through the manufacturer? We sell to the manufacturer as the remote that goes with it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, good point. Yeah, yeah okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's probably more what it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What would be a more efficient way of doing it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and some of our D_V_D_ players incidentally have them, because we have the relationship with our own department, but moreover we need to to go for the the manufacturers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're not gonna get any resolutions by the end of the day,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Probably not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "are we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the other thing that we're supposed to do is make decision on our functions. Our functions, we've so far decided, I think, that power, channel, volume make it attractive. Um it has to have an enter key and of course the number keys. It has to have big user-friendly buttons and sh n definitely we wanna be inspired that the current styles are just plain awful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we need um let me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that agreeable to everyone?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Br actually, um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the enter key I have a chart here that I didn't include. Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want the gizmo?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, which might.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Throw some light on that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th yeah, th those are felt like had a lot of charts..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um actually we're, you know, we are almost a half hour out of the forty minutes, so we have to get close to finishing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I I my only comment is I think maybe um we could somehow include an enter key in like a power key if power power was enter and pow that was my only just really in terms of streamlining.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Enter, power as a s oh um a sum simultaneous key.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Exactly. Again, you know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that okay with you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thinking of menus or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "H how does that work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I was miles away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How so so how does that work,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I was re I was reading the chart to be honest.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "how do you avoid switching the thing off when you actually wanna press enter?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if you're pressing enter, the the thing would already be on, and so maybe um when you press power, initially it turns it on, press power again and use that as an enter um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you'd have to have an off te off key.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you press power after you've um well I was thinking maybe you to turn it off you'd have to press power twice in succession,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yep, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and maybe power follows something like a channel up channel down power, and then that would make that choice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not getting a bit complicated? Could granny do this,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or are we just not aiming at granny?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or y yeah. Or something that has a a turning dial, where at the far end is on or off..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Who's got an iPod then?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't um I wish. Anyway, uh that was the only comment about um some of the the decisions people have made, what's most important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's definitely channel, volume, power.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, things like screen settings and audio settings, I would generally do them on the actual television itself,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like here you have a you know, a little flap th with a little control panel on the actual box itself.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I wouldn't know how to do it using a remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so um I would say that they are definitely less relevant.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well. Thanks for looking at that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess easy to use is the other thing that we want'em to be able to do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As you said, you know, don't make it too hard for the granny..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't wanna outsmart.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just joined that set last week.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um first grandchild arrived.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Congratulations..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so are we agreed then of those things? And let's go back to agenda", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and hook me up. Mm. This oughta be fun. It probably won't go the first time, it'll probably be like a g mess. Come on. Uh it lost it off here. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh you're fine. It's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it was up there, but I couldn't see it down here. Mm. This time it should be both. There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do you do that? How do you make it do both?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you have to keep doing the financi the the F_N_ and F_ eight to five minutes to finish,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah okay, it toggles through,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thank you a lot for telling me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you have to cycle through.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we're ready to close. Um will be completed q questionnaire, um then we'll have some time for individual work to continue our research um and I'll put some minutes of this meeting together. Um your individual assignments are for um Kate to do the components, for you, Steph, to do the user interface and for you the trend-watching. Um and each of us will get help from our coach. Are we agreed to get ourselves together and then have lunch?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then that's the end of this meeting. And I hope that's good enough for her to tell her that's the end. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We didn't come to any sort of decision on the functions though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I think I went over the functions and wrote them down and marked them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, well that's fine then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um that's what I went over and nobody was objecting to them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um and you'd mentioned I I was just gonna say, could you reiterate the new project requirements,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it they were it has to be for a T_V_, just to keep myself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the teletext is outdated,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're still in meeting, aren't we?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the internet is important,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think I've.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's only to be for a T_V_ and it must include the corporate image, colour and slogan um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which I think is more in the user uh range, with Steph.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Sorry, what what actually are these is that the yellow and black?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It doesn't tell me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "From their I'll just use it from their website.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1007d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "So in last meeting we have discussed the conceptual design and we asked you to prepare a prototype for the for the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. So let's see the what did you prepare.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so can you go out to the shared folder? Mm the shared folder.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sh share folder for th your presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. We have a presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I have here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh So I got the participant uh three. W uh. Three. It's the final design, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay just one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S so so I discussed with Guillaume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. And uh so we have and we we are both agreed on some two versions of the prototypes, because we were no not decided whether we wanted to have an L_C_D_ or not because it's too expensive. So we come up with two versions. One with and one without L_C_D_s. Um but both comes with a charger and then detachable and uh or control module. And detachable big buttons for all people um. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S okay so I'll show you the the two prototypes. Here we have the first one with the beautiful uh L_C_D_ um display. You you can s here. And you can uh just um browse into the the navigation menu by uh joystick joystick-like uh button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can uh choose the direction and if you just push on it it's considered like a enter function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have on the mm on the side here the microphone for the for the speech recognition system here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And here the the switch that control if you want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why you why you you put it in the the side?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I I I think uh it's the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not a good place maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No i i it's the all around camer uh microphone isn't it. The the microphone picks up the speeches from anywhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it an only a single mic or a microphone array?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well so it's a microphone array.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh it's very costly, microphone array.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's just a single microphone, and you I I think uh we we put it here because I think when you when you are browsing your L_C_D_ you will be close to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well it's better to to to place it here th than here, for instance.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And here is a little switch that control if you want the the speaker uh recognition system to um to be on or off. And uh so this remote control comes up with its charger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How much does it cost this one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well this this prototype is um made for about uh well fi fi fifteen fifteen dollars", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fifteen dollars?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "fifteen dollars,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah it's above it's above the budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh well it's not it's not uh yeah, but uh it's just a prototype and if we uh if we optimises the um the uh voila.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The cost would be le reduced.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the and the the production costs we we can achieve uh about ten dollars..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How many b battery is there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How many, excuse me?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh f battery, we use uh about uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it n the two A_A_s batteries in it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A_A_ rechargeable batteries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Rechargeable of course,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah rechargeable batteries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because we have the charger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have the charger so it's no problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and you just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So one one battery?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On uh yeah one battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that two or one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's kinetic reserve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually uh it's a flexible thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You just n uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now what is the whole day rating for that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The excuse me?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whole day's rating.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What type of battery?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah it's just a r uh simple battery a rechargeable uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if you uh like it's exist.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Something like a two A_, A_ three size batteries?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and if you want to charge the battery you just put the remote control like that to plug in the the charger", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh leave it uh alone, it's alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. At uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then the next time you pick it, oh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I forgot to tell you there is only a single button there, b this button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah just explain the button uh Norman.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah alright. This button is like the mouse is like a joystick,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can move in three hundred and sixty degrees of direction so you can make a turn and it the additi functions associated to all the actions you ma you have a click you have a double click all in a single button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can move up, down, left, right, or you can do a swing. So a swing to the left, a swing to the right defines other functions. So even though it's a single button, but it is pretty s flexible because of the three hundred and sixty degree movement.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the L_C_D_ is this one, on the remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is the version y that comes with L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here I present another version without the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's not a good idea because after maybe one or two months of function is getting destroyed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh okay this is new prototype uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have the the second version also with the different uh button configuration. The second version is also simpler, we d uh we had just uh I have to put the microphone also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So basically th it's the same uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh and also the switch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Basically it's the same uh things uh uh as uh I presented before. But here we have uh we have uh four buttons for navigation. Press one button uh acting as a a enter button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um yeah according to what you said it's more robust to the user.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh it's also cheaper to produce. We can produce uh such remote control for about uh four dollars..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No four dollars, it's good..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I think you forgot a point here to have an button to find the charger,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because that's a major that's a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "th actually th we'll come to that point in our.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's it's it's embed in the uh speech recognition system.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and if you disable speech recognition system then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W w I'll I'll come to that point later on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so Norman will explain to you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we will we will serve the charger with this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah of course mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Th they either these with the uh the the charger any", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in either versions you they they ha they use the same charger yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so the price of the charger included in the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's a standard module so you should get it for a cheap price uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's that same charger that you can use for the hand-phone but uh again depends on the types. I think we have to investigate more on that, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The price should be below twelve and a half Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that's so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but as the Marketing Manager says, people is willing to people are willing to pay more for good design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have we have just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah people are willing to pay more,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but the company is not willing to invest more at the moment.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The price of selling is twenty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the price of production.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright please uh go on Norman with the special features.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we'll we'll come up to that, the the the thing that makes this the controller cheap is that it is modular so you want more function you pay more. If you want less function i i if you want a reasonable price you pay for the functions that you add on to the system,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so is uh modular.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's for this basis function and if you want more you pay more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for example the L_C_D_, you can take it you can put it put it back in, or you can use the other one,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something like customised. Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or the speech recogniser with the microphone yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You want a microphone to put in the speech recogniser you don't wan you pay less for the system you see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm hmm hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's pretty flexible in the yeah price.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You also have the the the two other modules for the parental control", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah yeah you should present that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that that you ca you can add up to the to your remote control", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And this is other one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "i i if you uh if you want to to have more more power on what you do, and uh which channel you want to choose and so on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "H here is just the the the module for the kids and th if the parents want to watch T_V_, up they come up with their modules,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm hmm hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they just plug in it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they can have all the control they want here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We also have this module for uh old people with big buttons, clearly labelled,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it acts like the previous one,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you just plug in and it works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the i the idea the the conceptual idea is that simplicity and powerful. Simplicity meaning that we have few buttons, powerful is that all the controls with the one you saw we saw earlier in the meetings with lots of buttons n but here you only have few buttons but you retain the mm the same powerful functionalities. But in addition with simplicity. So that's the best idea, the cond that that's our uh an innovation um uh i in this uh design here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay now we come to other important features that I did not tell you. The first one is the speech recogniser, again it's detachable or add-on. And then we also have security feature for example this here oop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's very robust, it doesn't break and the material, what's the material again?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The titanium", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so it's very uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Again uh and the battery life is uh is an is an endurable one, again because this is A_A_ batteries you can choose the types of battery you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lithium-ion may be a good one, but you can replace it with cheaper one, again you pay for what you get, and then um y the other p points are robust and misplacement reminder. So when you finish watching your T_V_ and you the you t you turn off the T_V_, uh and then there's this message coming out that uh please put that back to the charger, so so that's the or is it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's the reminder part. Yeah and um And it also use a programmable channel and vocabulary, so we didn't define the vocabulary so it's up to the user to define", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm hmm hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so sorry?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then uh because of the chil because children are using the device so we have also a a of T_V_ programmes by genre, and this can be used by the adult or by the children. So instead of choosing the channel you are choosing the T_V_ contents of the night. So it's pretty powerful, and that's that's why the num buttons are reduced, because of this feature. Yeah. And and for the materials that is cheap to produce I think uh it's quite clear from yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also like the and the fancy designs yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What what's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we can improve more on the design but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's the price to p to produce?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh this is the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well so the price to produce For uh the simplest one, say we start from four dollars to produce such a device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With with with the charge?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's about it The without without the charger", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With the charger?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's about uh well two dollars to produce uh the microphone and speech recognition systems.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two dollars for the uh for the add-on modules, and finally three dollars for the charger. So if you uh sum up uh everything wi with the L_C_D_, which costs two dollar, you have two plus four plus four plus two plus two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We don't have charger..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we can use Excel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We don't have all the options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so the total cost if you if you want all the fuct functionalities will be about uh fifteen dollars.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Charger we don't have charger here either.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's just if you want all functionalities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's below the the the budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excuse me?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's below the bu the budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's a nice input", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we have an other inputs from the l public demands.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we will just have a rough look and then we can make our statements, and we can finalise the product based on this discu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we can just go to my presentation then. We can wind up. Or we could uh come to some f uh final conclusions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the marketing made an evaluation criteria and these were some of the findings, and uh in the market the people are not really interested with L_C_D_, without L_C_D_, with speech recognition interface, or without speech recognition interface, but most of the people what they are interested is first thing is, they want to have an fancy look and feel, it should be very fancy with colourful and uh very handy to hold.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the second thing is it should be much more technologically innovative.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course in that we could put L_C_D_ or recognition to be more technologically innovative. And the third one is easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I think that the technical in innovation is is in the product itself since we haven't yet a remote who are allowing to to choose interactively with the T_V_ screen uh uh with just four buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay and if we go to the next slide, here you can find these are the latest fashion updates, and so this in Paris and Milan they have detected this trends that the this year it's going to be an year of fruit and vegetable, so people are really interested to see if they have an remote in the shape of the fruit or a vegetable, or whatever they like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Spongy spongy. Mm mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think it should be much more customised to make a different uh shapes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the second thing is, and if the material, they really do not want it to be very hard, as in the case of very pl plastic or titanium, it should be somewhat spongy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the the problem is that uh is it robust to mishandling?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have you should find a material that is robust at the same time spongy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A sponge..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so uh so finally we have these three criterias.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Spongy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One is fancy look, second is innovative, and third is easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are the f uh three criteria on which we are going to build our remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So and we have an evaluation criteria for each one of these,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "say that we have a seven point scale, from one to seven,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and for each of the product you could just give me the scale according to this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So now you have with L_C_D_ and without L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so on this scale, if it is true, if it is if it has a fancy look you could just tell me one, or if it is false, it doesn't it looks uh it doesn't look much fancy, then you could just tell me seven. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can make our study on this and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so is the e evaluation depending on us or other users?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no we have you have designed two products now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "one is with L_C_D_ and without L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But who will give the scoring uh we ourself or or a third party?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "According to you, no according to you designers, how will feel does it uh with L_C_D_ and without L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay let us make this L_ and without L_C_D_. On on this scale the L_C_D_ remote control. How do you look how does it look?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D is it very fancy or doesn't look much fancy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it doesn't look much fancy I'll I'll say three or four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And you both agree for that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we can improve on the design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Som someone um commented this is like a the stone age uh design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we have been focused all all this time on the on the technical aspect, functional aspect, but also the simplicity.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Technical aspects.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As for the design maybe we c should hire a designer to help.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I take three on with L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah a three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So without L_C_D_ how would you rate it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh four. I think it's it's uh more easy to make f fancy things when it's not complicated", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so removing the L_C_D_ um gives us a li more liberty to to have a fancy look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And in the sense of innovativeness, with L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's it's the same for both so I will give a five, six..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Five with L_C_D_ and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well five also uh Norman please..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "from the innovation aspect I feel that uh what is most innovative of our prototype compared to the existing prototypes that we saw l in the last meeting is that um the retrieval of T_V_ programmes by content, because uh that is really innovative, and for now and another innovation we have is simplicity and simplicity, few buttons, we've uh A lot of functionalities.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With lot of functionalities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that is uh that is uh for both th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So without L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Our gi I think that the our our product is uh has the best in all well this is a biased judgement.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because we designed them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no according to design aspect we want to know how would you feel the innovativeness?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh the innovation is v is very high I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Both.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And without L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm for both it's the the same innovations.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For both. It's the same innovation. So maybe I can put six to seven.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six, let's go for six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Without L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Both.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No actually uh to make it with L_C_D_ you make more efforts. So I there is high innovativeness included if you make it with L_C_D_ y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then when it is without L_C_D_ there is not much innovativeness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh no innovative yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh uh there w there was a there was a issue here is that what are what is the display on the L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we can't go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Talk about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We haven't really uh determined what are actually actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean that what you are sayin that's what the design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's good to have a L_C_D_ but what are we gonna display on a L_C_D_?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's like this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean on the L_C_D_, according to what I understand from your model is, you have a joystick here, and you have L_C_D_, you just press your joystick, you get here a programme.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So let's remove it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Yeah. Yeah but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but you have the same programme on the T_V_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is the problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No on the T_V_ you don't it doesn't display on the T_V_ now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you have the L_C_D_, but if n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "L_C_D_? Then uh there is no meaning in having it on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or then again you have a channels, volume and all the stuff and what a", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you cannot display all on a L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean that depends upon your design, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyway for for the users who who who opt for L_C_D_ we'll give them the give them the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we give what the customer uh wants, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So without L_C_D_ you want to put it fi the same level of innovativeness? And which do you recommend e easy to use, with L_C_D_ or without L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think both are really easy to use because there are few button buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh well t p the menu are clear, well-organised, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well with little knowing of the technology you can you can easily use the product", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I will give a six for the easy to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's just if I I see the the f the rate I think it's better to do it without L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sorry..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because that's with L_C_D_ just will increase the price,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I thi i they have the same rate so without L_C_D_ it will be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we can just go back to the previous slide uh where we ha we have a few updates. So I mean in the product design you could just amend it to make some few changes", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "according to fruit and vegetable or a spongy touch", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "without L_C_D_ and without speech recognition. Even then our product is going to be very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's cheaper to produce.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. S.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh if the the well if we have less technology we have more liberty to uh for the shape and uh things like that so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I have another thing to say about the easy to use aspect. I think the easy to use uh aspect is different for different people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the young generation easy to use may be very complicated", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because uh they w they wants lot of controls with lots of buttons. For kids they want simply the s similarit for the old people they want simplicity,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that's why we have the parental module. Uh we can ha have build a more complex design if if they want it, but but uh what I'm trying to say here is that the um we have different sets of buttons for different kinds of people. So in terms of easy to use I think it's very user customisable. User customisation is very important yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So without L_C_D_ I just take it five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or you want it to be six?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes as you say, with better uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Without L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S s oh I think it's better to have this without L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. And to improve the the look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "As our Programme Manager s Pro Project Manager says that without L_C_D_ it is going to reduce the cost also,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's going to be much simpler to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes and to give us more liberty to have a fancy look so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so let's go back to our laboratory and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To improve on the design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What a what what about the sys speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what about the integration of speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh? The speech recogniser is a add-on module. Right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's going to be an optional.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If somebody wants to buy it they can have it, otherwise no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah so it's optional with the okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's an optional.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's optional yeah, since well according to this study uh people more likes more to have a spongy uh remote control than.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it will be I think i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it will be better if we have all these modules in the same remote control, because maybe parents will lose these uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I mean if you have an add-ons, the kids may just uh hide the parental module", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or ma yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so that their parents can't use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe parents they can for forget where they put it or,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so mayb better if you have all this in the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In the same set, yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and and individual buttons to make them work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The problem is if i we are bla if a customer wants a certain component, and doesn't want the parental control because it's a couple who do not have children when you sell the product in the market you could meet any kind of people, and not all people will need all the functionalities we propose to them. So we might lose the customer because of this. I don't know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you mean that even if these modules will be will be functional uh will be optional.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what do you think uh? Yes exa what do you think, I don't know. You are Marketing Manag.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean how to how to how to make a marketing survey that uh how many married couple or how many couples have a T_V_", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or to the number or singles who have a television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So based on that I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But the the question is n does those modularity increase the production cost or decrease the production cost?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it inc increase..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you can if you had uh something li", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it i increases.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because if you if you add uh something well yeah maybe because it's three different pieces uh to to to build but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you can make it on a single P_C_ with three different options.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's I think it's cheaper if you if you already built the all the functionalities um on the same module, but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the same P_C_B_", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well well the other aspect is that if in the when they have the ar existing product you you gonna maintain the the you're gonna keep the same customer,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because the same customer will come back to buy other add-ons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean you could just provide with an optional.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah i i so if don't don't buy now they can buy i in the future. So in in that way you're actually keeping the cus the same customer, attracting them to come back in again and again.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's something like a Microsoft product update.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and we we we we we we don't want that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're not trying to follow the Microsoft and we don't want to the m.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Updates and we sell it. We make updates and sell it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well if the buyers can be up the th would be can be upgraded, it would be a good thing right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it depends on the v production..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh what's the idea about uh the shape of the remote controls?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh can they be made into a fruit and vegetable types?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you require different types of P_C_B_s and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we are yeah but we are also the um well the components will have to change because uh we have to deal with the shape and um but I don't think it will uh increase the cost too much so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or uh it could be like this the P_C_B_ would be the same for all, but only the exterior uh shape is different o for all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well but it's a bit complicated to if if if you need machines to different machines to um ah well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. What we can change is to propose the customers with skins. For example the i the mobile phones nowaday, they sell different kinds of skin", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then people just feel that oh I have a new skin and looks better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah we can have the same global shape", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then uh add on skins and with with this uh tex spongy texture uh things like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah you can pl in what material would that be in uh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sponge..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you need to look into the material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah or furry like a pet dog kind of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we finished the prototype uh presentation if you have uh something else to say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think the Project Manager would be interested to look about the financial issues in making these models.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Project evaluation project satisfaction, for example. I don't know, we have to ask these question. We have to give answers so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose that you this criteria, is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Project evaluation..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Room for creativity. This room is a bit small, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think it's okay for us to work with..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I feel it's fine, we know we don't need uh I think it's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is fine for making a presentat for project presentations.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah anyway we have the laboratory nearby to build our modules so it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the leadership was excellent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good job good job.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fine yes uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He gave you the liberty to talk as you wants.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. Yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the teamwork was very very good. I was really I am very satisfying to work with with you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very democratic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And new ideas found. Any new ideas to make these presentations more interactive and more interesting?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Come up with new product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Less fancy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean uh what type of product would you think could we make this more interesting?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm we I I know something, we need more cakes, more biscuits on the table while we have meetings..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and also more well uh more seriously I think it's it's a good idea to have uh clear clear points whenever we do a meeting", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh prior to the meeting to have uh well a list with the points who will be discussed or things like that, but I think it's alright. We achieved uh project goal I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "De", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that is within the budget.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's w yes, more or less.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the evaluation was.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Without without L_C_D_, without speech recognition, it will be simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the next is celebration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh coffee machine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah free free coffee", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright then, we finished?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah thank you for your work and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah thank you, thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, no, it doesn't it doesn't clear those necessarily,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh wait It it doesn't clear them, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm, no connection.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's i they're called temp files, but they're not actually in the temp directory they're in the scratch, so. They're not backed up, but they're not erased either on power failure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But that's usually the meeting that I recorded, and it neve it doesn't crash on me.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well this wasn't Actually, this wasn't a before your meeting, this was, um, Tuesday afternoon when, um, uh, Robert just wanted to do a little recording,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh Oh, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and the power had gone out earlier in the day.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Huh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I don't know when would be a good excuse for it, but I just can't wait to be giving a talk t and and and use the example from last week with everybody t doing the digits at once.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was fun.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I'd love to play somebody that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That was fun.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It was quick.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It was. It was really efficient.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Talk about a good noise shield. You know? You wanted to pe keep people from listening in, you could like have that playing outside the room. Nobody could listen in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I had this idea we could make our whole meeting faster that way.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Everybody give the reports about what they were doing at exactly the same time,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And we'll just all leave,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then we'll we'll go back later and review the individual channels,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep, and then everyone can listen to it later.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If you wanna know what.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually isn't that what we have been doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's what it sounds like.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Practically, huh. With all the overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What are we doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I Since I've been gone all week, I didn't send out a reminder for an agenda, so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I'm just.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do we have anything to talk about or should we just read digits and go?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I wouldn't mind hearing how the conference was.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What conference?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, I had one question about.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, really. 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The next weekend.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sorry, not not not the days coming up, but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's like the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "A week from Saturday.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's when they're coming.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "within ten days.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's correct.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, are we do we have like an agenda or anything that we should be.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, but that would be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Why don't we w", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So so the deal is that I can, um, uh, I can be available after, uh, like ten thirty or something. I don't know how s how early you wanted to.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They're not even gonna be here until eleven or so.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cuz they're flying up that day.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Wait, this is on on Sunday?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or Saturday?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Saturday.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "S Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, y", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Eurospeech is due on Friday and then I'm going down to San uh, San Jose Friday night, so, if you know, if we start nice and late Saturday that's a good thing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I mean, they're flying up from from.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Seattle.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "down from Seattle.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "They're flying from somewhere to somewhere,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and they'll end up here. So b and also Brian Kingsbury is actually flying from, uh, the east coast on that that morning.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So, i I I will be I mean, he's taking a very early flight", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and we do have the time work difference running the right way, but I still think that there's no way we could start before eleven. It might end up really being twelve. So when we get closer we'll find people's plane schedules, and let everybody know. Uh, So. That's good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, uh, yeah maybe an agenda, or at least some things to talk about would be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well we can start gathering those those ideas, but then we we should firm it up by next next Thursday's meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Will we have time to, um, to prepare something that we in the format we were planning for the IBM transcribers by then, or?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So have you heard back from Brian about that, Chuck?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes, um, he's I I'm sorry, I should have forwarded that along. Uh, oh I I think I mentioned at the last meeting, he said that, um, he talked to them and it was fine with the beeps they would be That's easy for them to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Great. OK. So, uh, oh, though Thi - Thilo isn't here, um, but, uh, I I have the program to insert the beeps. What I don't have is something to parse the output of the channelized transcripts to find out where to put the beeps, but that should be really easy to do. So do we have a meeting that that's been done with,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "He's he's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "that we've tightened it up to the point where we can actually give it to IBM and have them try it out?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "He generated, um, a channel - wise presegmented version of a meeting, but it was Robustness rather than EDU so I guess depends on whether we're willing to use Robustness?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well for this experiment I think we can use pre pretty much anything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "This experiment of just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well we had we had talked about doing maybe EDU as a good choice, though. Well, whatever we have.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well we've talked about that as being the next ones we wanted to transcribe.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But for the purpose of sending him a sample one to f", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I I don't think it matte", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'll I'll I'll, um, get make that available.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK, and has it been corrected?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, well, wait. Um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hand - checked? Cuz that was one of the processes we were talking about as well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right, so we need to run Thilo's thing on it,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then we go in and adjust the boundaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. Yeah, we haven't done that. I I could set someone on that tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And time how long it takes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think they're coming.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And we probably don't have to do necessarily a whole meeting for that if we just wanna send them a sample to try.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. What would be a good number of minutes?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't know, maybe we can figure out how long it'll take @ @ to to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know, it seems to me w we probably should go ahead and do a whole meeting because we'll have to transcribe the whole meeting anyway sometime.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes except that if they had if there was a choice between having fifteen minutes that was fully the way you wanted it, and having a whole meeting that didn't get at what you wanted for them It's just dependent of how much.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Like I I mean I guess if we have to do it again anyway, but, uh", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I guess, the only thing I'm not sure about is, um, how quickly can the transcribers scan over and fix the boundaries,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and I mean, is it pretty easy?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think it's gonna be one or two times real time at Wow, excuse me, two or more times real time, right? Cuz they have to at least listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Can we pipeline it so that say there's, uh, the transcriber gets done with a quarter of the meeting and then we you run it through this other other stuff? Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well the other stuff is I B I'm just thinking that from a data keeping - track - of - the - data point of view, it may be best to send them whole meetings at a time and not try to send them bits and pieces.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so. Oh, that's right. So the first thing is the automatic thing, and then it's then it's then it's the transcribers tightening stuff up,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then it's IBM.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so you might as well ha run the automatic thing over the entire meeting, and then and then, uh, you would give IBM whatever was fixed.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And have them fix it over the entire meeting too?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, but start from the beginning and go to the end, right? So if they were only half way through then that's what you'd give IBM.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "As of what point? I mean. The I guess the question on my mind is do we wait for the transcribers to adjust the marks for the whole meeting before we give anything to IBM, or do we go ahead and send them a sample? Let their.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Why wouldn't we s @ @ w i if they were going sequentially through it, why wouldn't we give them I mean i are we trying to get something done by the time Brian comes?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well I I I mean, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That was the question. Though.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So if we if we were, then it seems like giving them something, whatever they had gotten up to, would be better than nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh. That I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I don't think I mean, h they they typically work for what, four hours, something like that?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm, I gue hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think the they should be able to get through a whole meeting in one sitting. I would think, unless it's a lot harder than we think it is, which it could be, certainly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If it's got like for speakers then I guess I mean if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We're just doing the individual channels,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or seven or eight.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Individual channels. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So it's gonna be, depending on the number of people in the meeting, um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I guess there is this issue of, you know, if if the segmenter thought there was no speech on on a particular stretch, on a particular channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and there really was, then, if it didn't show up in a mixed signal to verify, then it might be overlooked, so, I mean, the question is \" should should a transcriber listen to the entire thing or can it g can it be based on the mixed signal? \" And I th eh so far as I'm concerned it's fine to base it on the mixed signal at this point, and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's what it seems to me too, in that if they need to, just like in the other cases, they can listen to the individual, if they need to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And that cuts down the time. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But they don't have to for most of it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good. So. Yeah. Good, good, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't see how that will work, though.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What what aspect?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So you're talking about tightening up time boundaries?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So how do you.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, they have the normal channeltrans interface where they have each individual speaker has their own line,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but you're listening to the mixed signal and you're tightening the boundaries, correcting the boundaries. You shouldn't have to tighten them too much because Thilo's program does that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Should be pretty good, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Except for it doesn't do well on short things, remember.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right, so so you'll have to I.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It will miss them. It will miss most of the really short things.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Like that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But those would be those would be.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. It will it will miss.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, you have to say \" uh - huh \" more slowly to to get c", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I'm s I'm actually serious.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'll work on that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it will miss stuff like that which.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, so so that's something that the transcribers will have to have to do.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but presumably, most of those they should be able to hear from the mixed signal unless they're embedded in the heavil heavy overlap section when in which case they'd be listening to the channels anyway.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's that's what I'm I'm concerned about the part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, and that's what I'm not sure about.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I am too. And I think it's an empirical question.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Can't we uh couldn't we just have, um, I don't know, maybe this just doesn't fit with the software, but I guess if I didn't know anything about Transcriber and I was gonna make something to let them adjust boundaries, I would just show them one channel at a time, with the marks, and let them adju", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh they can.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, but then they have to do but then they for this meeting they would have to do seven times real time, and it would probably be more than that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right? Because they'd have to at least listen to each channel all the way through.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But i but it's very quick,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "right? I mean, you scan I mean, if you have a display of the waveform.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, you're talking about visually.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "w Well, the other problem is the breaths", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I just don't think.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "cuz you also see the breaths on the waveform. I've I've looked at the int uh, s I've tried to do that with a single channel, and and you do see all sorts of other stuff besides just the voice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I I think that they're going much more on acoustics than they are on visuals.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well that that I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What you the digital what the digital task that you had your interface? Um, I know for a fact that one of those sh she could really well she could judge what th what the number was based on the on the waveform.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's actually true. Yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right. Yeah, I found the same thing that when I was scanning through the wave form I could see when someone started to read digits just by the shapes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, she could tell which one was seven.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Um, maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I don't I'm I'm now entirely confused about what they do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, they're they're looking at a mixed signal, or they're looking what what are they looking at visually?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, they have a choice. They could choose any signal to look at. I've tried lookin but usually they look at the mixed. But I've I've tried looking at the single signal and and in order to judge when it when it was speech and when it wasn't,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but the problem is then you have breaths which which show up on the signal.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But the procedure that you're imagining, I mean, people vary from this, is that they have the mixed signal wave form in front of them,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and they have multiple, uh, well, let's see, there isn't we don't have transcription yet. So but there's markers of some sort that have been happening automatically,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and those show up on the mixed signal?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "There's a @ @ clicks?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "N the t", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they show up on the separate ribbons. So you have a separate ribbon for each channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "There're separate ribbons.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and i i it'll be because it's being segmented as channel at a time with his with Thilo's new procedure, then you don't have the correspondence of the times across the bins uh across the ribbons uh you could have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And is there a line moving across the waveform as it goes?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK, so The way you're imaging is they kind of play it, and they see oh this happened, then this happened, then and if it's about right, they just sort of let it slide,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and if it if it there's a question on something, they stop and maybe look at the individual wave form.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, well not not \" look \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. Well, they wouldn't look at it at this point. They would just listen.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "They they might look at it, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, the problem is that the the interface doesn't really allow you to switch visuals.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Not very quickly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "The problem is that that the Tcl - TK interface with the visuals, it's very slow to load waveforms.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You can but it takes time. That's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And so when I tried that that was the first thing I tried when I first started it,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. Visually. You can you can switch quickly between the audio,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but you just can't get the visual display to show quickly. So you have to It takes, I don't know, three, four minutes to Well, I mean, it takes it takes long enough.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's very slow to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It takes long enough cuz it has to reload the I I don't know exactly what it's doing frankly cuz but it t it takes long enough that it's just not a practical alternative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well it it does some sort of shape pre - computation so that it can then scroll it quickly,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But you can cancel that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yeah. But then you can't change the resolution or scroll quickly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Now you could set up multiple windows, each one with a different signal showing, and then look between the windows.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Huh!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Maybe that's the solution.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, we we could do different interfaces,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What if you preload them all?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "right? I mean, so so we could use like X Waves instead of Transcriber,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and it loads faster, certainly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What if you were to preload all the channels or or initially.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well that's what I tried originally.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "like doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So I I actually before, uh, Dave Gelbart did this, I did an interface which showed each waveform and ea a ribbon for each waveform,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but the problem with it is even with just three waveforms it was just painfully slow to scroll. So you just scroll a screen and it would, you know go \" kur - chunk! \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And so it just was not doable with the current interface.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, I am thinking if we have a meeting with only four speakers and, you know, you could fire up a Transcriber interface for, y you know, in different windows, multiple ones, one for each channel. And it's sort of a a hack but I mean it would be one way of seeing the visual form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think that if we decide that we need that they need to see the visuals, we need to change the interface so that they can do that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's actually what I thought of, loading the chopped up waveforms, I mean, you know, that that would make it faster.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "An But isn't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The chopped up waveforms.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The problem is if if anything's cut off, you can't expand it from the chopped up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Isn't that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right, but if you a at some point.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And wouldn't that be the same as the mixed signal?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I mean the individual channels that were chopped up that it'd be nice to be able to go back and forth between those short segments.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz you don't really nee like nine tenths of the time you're throwing most of them out, but what you need are tho that particular channel, or that particular location,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "um, might be nice, cuz we save those out already, um, to be able to do that. But it won't work for IBM of course, it only works here cuz they're not saving out the individual channels.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I I do think that this this will be a doable procedure,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and have them starting with mixed", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and, um, then when they get into overlaps, just have them systematically check all the channels to be sure that there isn't something hidden from from audio view.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, hopefully, I mean The mixed signal, the overlaps are pretty audible because it is volume equalized. So I think they should be able to hear. The only problem is is, you know, counting how many and if they're really correct or not. So, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I don't know that you can locate them very well from the mixed signal,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right but but once once you know that they happen, you can at least listen to the close talking,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but you would know that they were there, and then you would switch. Right. And then you would switch into the other.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But right now, to do this limitation, the switching is going to be switching of the audio? Is what she's saying.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, so so", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so they're using their ears to do these markings anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "did Dave Did Dave do that change where you can actually just click rather than having to go up to the menu to listen to the individual channels?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Click Um,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I had suggested it before. I just don't know whether he did it or not.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I'm not sure what click what click on the ribbon? Yeah, you can get that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "oh, oh, get you can get the, uh you can get it to switch audio? Uh, not last I tried,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but, um, maybe he's changed it again.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We should get him to do that because, uh, I think that would be much, much faster than going to the menu.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I disagree. There's a reason I disagree, and that is that, uh, you it's very good to have a dissociation between the visual and the audio. There're times when I wanna hear the mixed signal, bu but I want to transcribe on the single channel. So right now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Then maybe just buttons down at the bottom next to it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe, I just don't I don't see that it's a.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Just something so that it's not in the menu option so that you can do it much faster.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, that's the i I I think that might be a personal style thing. I find it really convenient the way the way it's set up right now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well it just seems to me that if you wanna quickly \" well was that Jane, no, was that Chuck, no, was that Morgan \", right now, you have to go up to the menu, and each time, go up to the menu, select it, listen to that channel then click below, and then go back to the menu, select the next one, and then click below.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's fine. Yeah, it's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So you can definitely streamline that with the i with the interface.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it could be faster, but, you know, I mean, th in the ideal world Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No I I agree that'd be nice. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, um, Done with that? Does any I forget, does anybody, uh, working on any any Eurospeech submission related to this?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I would like to try to do something on digits but I just don't know if we have time. I mean, it's due next Friday so we have to do the experiments and write the paper. So, I'm gonna try, but, uh, we'll just have to see. So actually I wanna get together with both Andreas and, uh, uh, Stephane with their respective systems.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah there was that we that's right, we had that one conversation about, uh, what what what did it mean for, uh, one of those speakers to be pathological, was it a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, and I haven't had s chance to sit down and listen.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, I haven't I haven't listened to them either,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I was going to do that this afternoon.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but there must be something wrong, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, Morgan and I were were having a debate about that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "unless our.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Whereas I think it it's probably something pathologic and actually Stephane's results, I think confirm that. He s he did the Aurora system also got very lousy average error, like fifteen or or, uh, fifteen to twenty percent average? But then he ran it just on the lapel, and got about five or six percent word error? So that that means to me that somewhere in the other recordings there are some pathological cases. But, you know, we th that may not be true. It may be just some of the segments they're just doing a lousy job on. So I'll I'll listen to it and find out since you'd actually split it up by segment.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I can actually listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Did you run the Andreas the r SRI recognizer on the digits?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought he had sent that around to everyone,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "did you just sent that to me?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I d I didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Since I considered those preliminary, I didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I it wasn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But, yeah, if you take.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It was bimodal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So if you Yeah, it's actually, um, it uh it was trimodal, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, was it trimodal, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "trimodal, so", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's zero, a little bit, and a lot.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "there were t there was there was one h one bump at ze around zero, which were the native speakers,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Zero percent error?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the non - pathological native speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Then there was another bump at, um, oh, like fifteen or something.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is error you're talking about?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh was it fifteen?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "whe", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Those were the non - natives. And then there was another distinct bump at, like, a hundred, which must have been some problem.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, wow! Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I can't imagine that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What is patho what do you mean by pathological?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Just just something really wrong with.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, I don't.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "A bug is what I mean,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "In the recording", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so that it's like.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And there was this one meeting, I forget which one it was, where like, uh, six out of the eight channels were all, like had a hundred percent error.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Which probably means like there was a th the recording interface crashed,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "or there was a short you know, someone was jiggling with a cord", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or, uh, I extracted it incorrectly,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "it was labeled.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "it was transcribed incorrectly, something really bad happened, and I just haven't listened to it yet to find out what it was.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So, if I excluded the pathological ones, by definition, those that had like over ninety - five percent error rate, and the non - natives, then the average error rate was like one point four or something,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What we're calling.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "which which seemed reasonable given that, you know, the models weren't tuned for for it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And the grammar wasn't tuned either.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And it didn't matter whether it was the lapel or whether it was the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It was just a @ @. I haven't split it up that way,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But there's no overlap during the digit readings, so it shouldn't really matter.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but it would be.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, but there's a little difference,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it should.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we haven't looked at it for digits,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I was curious about that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so, cuz because what he was what I was saying when I looked at those things is it it I was almost gonna call it quadrimodal because because there was a whole lot of cases where it was zero percent.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They just plain got it all right. And then there and then there was another bunch that were couple percent or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But if you p if you actually histogrammed it, and it was a nice uh, you know, it it was zero was the most of them,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "A normal. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but then there were the others were sort of decaying from there.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And then there was the bump for the non - natives and then the pathological ones,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, cuz some of our non - natives are pretty non - native. So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You did you have, uh, something in the report about, uh, about, uh, for f uh, forced alignment?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Have you have you started on that?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, well, yeah, so I've been struggling with the forced alignments. Um. So the scheme that I drew on the board last time where we tried to, um allow reject models for the s speech from other speakers, um, most of the time it doesn't work very well. So, um, and the I haven't done I mean, the only way to check this right now was for me to actually load these into X Waves and, you know, plus the alignments, and s play them and see where the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it looks And so I looked at all of the utterances from you, Chuck, in that one conversation, I don't know which You probably know which one I mean, it's where you were on the lapel and Morgan was sitting next to you and we can hear everything Morgan says.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But and and some of what you I mean, you also appear quite a bit in that cross - talk. So, I actually went through all of those, there were I think fifty - five segments, um, in in X Waves, and and sort of did a crude check, and more often than not, it it gets it wrong. So there's either the beginning, mostly the beginning word, where th you, um, you know, Chuck talks somewhere into the segment, but the first, um, word of what he says, often \" I \" but it's very reduced \" I, \" that's just aligned to the beginning of someone else's speech, uh in that segment, which is cross - talk. So, um, I'm still tinkering with it, but it might well be that we can't get clean alignments out of this out of those, uh, channels, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Unless maybe we do this, uh, um, cancellation business.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, but that's I mean, that was our plan,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but it's clear from Dan that this is not something you can do in a short amount of time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, the short amount of time thing, right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So so we you know, we had spent a lot of time, um, writing up the HLT paper and we wanted to use that, uh, kind of analysis,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but the HLT paper has, you know, it's a very crude measure of overlap. It's not really something you could scientifically say is overlap, it's just whether or not the, um, the segments that were all synchronized, whether there was some overlap somewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "c High correlation.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, you know, that pointed out some differences, so he thought well if we can do something quick and dirty because Dan said the cross - cancellation, it's not straight - forward. If it were straight - forward then we would try it, but so, it's sort of good to hear that it was not straight - forward, thinking if we can get decent forced alignments, then at least we can do sort of a overall report of what happens with actual overlap in time, but, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I didn't think that his message said it wasn't straight - forward.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well if we'd just.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I thought he's just saying you have to look over a longer time window when you do it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and the but there are some issues of this timing, um, in the recordings", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you just have to look over longer time when you're trying to align the things, you can't you can't just look.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. are you talking about the fact that the recording software doesn't do time - synchronous? Is that what you're referring to?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That seems to me you can do that over the entire file and get a very accurate.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I don't thi I d I don't think that was the issue.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I yeah, that was sort of a side issue.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I didn't think so either.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The issue was that you have to you have have you first have to have a pretty good speech detection on the individual channels.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And it's dynamic, so I guess it was more dynamic than some simple models would be able t to so so there are some things available, and I don't know too much about this area where if people aren't moving around much than you could apply them, and it should work pretty well if you took care of this recording time difference.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right, which should be pretty straight forward.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Which a at least is well defined, and", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, but then if you add the dynamic aspect of adapting distances, then it wasn't I guess it just wasn't something that he could do quickly and not in time for us to be able to do something by two weeks from now, so. Well less than a week. So um, so I don't know what we can do if anything, that's sort of worth, you know, a Eurospeech paper at this point.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, Andreas, how well did it work on the non - lapel stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I was gonna say.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I haven't checked those yet.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "C", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's very tedious to check these.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, we would really need, ideally, a transcriber to time mark the you know, the be at least the beginning and s ends of contiguous speech. Um, and, you know, then with the time marks, you can do an automatic comparison of your of your forced alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Because really the the at least in terms of how we were gonna use this in our system was to get an ideal an idea, uh, for each channel about the start and end boundaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, MNCM..", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We don't really care about like intermediate word boundaries, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, that's how I've been looking at it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't care that the individual words are aligned correctly,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but you don't wanna, uh, infer from the alignment that someone spoke who didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right, exactly. So that's why I was wondering if it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, maybe if it doesn't work for lapel stuff, we can just not use that", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I haven't I ha just haven't had the time to, um, do the same procedure on one of the so I would need a k I would need a channel that has a speaker whose who has a lot of overlap but s you know, is a non - lapel mike. And, um, where preferably, also there's someone sitting next to them who talks a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, I.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So a meeting with me in it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "maybe someone can help me find a good candidate and then I would be willing to", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We c you know what? Maybe the best way to find that would be to look through these.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know, hand", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cuz you can see the seat numbers, and then you can see what type of mike they were using. And so we just look for, you know, somebody sitting next to Adam at one of the meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually y we can tell from the data that we have,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "From the insertions, maybe?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "um, yeah, there's a way to tell.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "fr fr from the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It might not be a single person who's always overlapping that person but any number of people,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and, um, if you align the two hypothesis files across the channels, you know, just word alignment, you'd be able to find that. So so I guess that's sort of a last ther there're sort of a few things we could do. One is just do like non - lapels if we can get good enough alignments. Another one was to try to get somehow align Thilo's energy segmentations with what we have. But then you have the problem of not knowing where the words are because these meetings were done before that segmentation. But maybe there's something that could be done.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What what is why do you need the, um, the forced alignment for the HLT I mean for the Eurospeech paper?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I guess I I wanted to just do something not on recognition experiments because that's ju way too early, but to be able to report, you know, actual numbers. Like if we if we had hand - transcribed pe good alignments or hand - checked alignments, then we could do this paper. It's not that we need it to be automatic. But without knowing where the real words are, in time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it was to get it was to get more data and better to to squeeze the boundaries in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To to know what an overlap really if it's really an overlap, or if it's just a a a segment correlated with an overlap,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ah, OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and I guess that's the difference to me between like a real paper and a sort of, promissory paper. So, um, if we d it might be possible to take Thilo's output and like if you have, um, like right now these meetings are all,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ugh! I forgot the digital camera again.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Every meeting!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, they're time - aligned, so if these are two different channels and somebody's talking here and somebody else is talking here, just that word, if Thilo can tell us that there're boundaries here, we should be able to figure that out", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "because the only thing transcribed in this channel is this word. But, um, you know, if there are things.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Two words.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you have two and they're at the edges, it's like here and here, and there's speech here, then it doesn't really help you, so, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thilo's won't put down two separate marks in that case.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well it w it would, but, um, we don't know exactly where the words are because the transcriber gave us two words in this time bin", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thilo's will. But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we don't really know, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well it's a merging problem. If you had a if you had a s if you had a script which would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "yeah it's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I've thought about this, um, and I've discussed I've discussed it with Thilo,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, if you have any ideas. I would.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um, the, I mean, I I in principle I could imagine writing a script which would approximate it to some degree, but there is this problem of slippage,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well maybe Maybe that will get enough of the cases to be useful.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, that that would be really helpful. That was sort of another possibility.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know s cuz it seemed like most of the cases are in fact the single word sorts, or at least a single phrase", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well they they can be stretched.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "in most of the bins.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I wouldn't make that generalization cuz sometimes people will say, \" And then I \" and there's a long pause", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and finish the sentence and and sometimes it looks coherent and and the I mean it's it's not a simple problem. But it's really And then it's coupled with the problem that sometimes, you know, with with a fricative you might get the beginning of the word cut off and so it's coupled with the problem that Thilo's isn't perfect either. I mean, we've i th it's like you have a merging problem plus so merging plus this problem of, uh, not.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "y i i if the speech - nonspeech were perfect to begin with, the detector, that would already be an improvement, but that's impossible, you know, i that's too much to ask.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And so i and may you know, I mean, it's I think that there always th there would have to be some hand - tweaking, but it's possible that a script could be written to merge those two types of things. I've I've discussed it with Thilo and I mean in terms of not him doing it, but we we discussed some of the parameters of that and how hard it would be to in principle to write something that would do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, I guess in the future it won't be as much as an issue if transcribers are using the tightened boundaries to start with, then we have a good idea of where the forced alignment is constrained to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it's just, you know, a matter of we had the revolution we had the revolution of improved, uh, interface, um, one month too late,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I'm no I don't know if this", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. Tools.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but it's like, you know, it's wonderful to have the revolution,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh it's it's a.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so it's just a matter of of, you know, from now on we'll be able to have things channelized to begin with.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. And we'll just have to see how hard that is.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So so whether the corrections take too much time.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I was just thinking about the fact that if Thilo's missed these short segments, that might be quite time - consuming for them to insert them.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But he he also can adjust this minimum time duration constraint and then what you get is noises mostly,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Spurious.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but that might be OK, an", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It might be easier to delete something that's wrong than to insert something that's missing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. And you can also see in the waveform exac", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What do you think, Jane?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If you can feel confident that what the yeah, that there's actually something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that you're not gonna miss something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz then then you just delete it, and you don't have to pick a time.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think it's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well the problem is I you know I I it's a it's a really good question, and I really find it a pain in the neck to delete things because you have to get the mouse up there on the t on the text line and i and otherwise you just use an arrow to get down I mean, i it depends on how lar th there's so many extra things that would make it one of them harder than the other, or or vice versa. It's not a simple question. But, you know, I mean, in principle, like, you know, if one of them is easier then to bias it towards whichever one's easier.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess the semantics aren't clear when you delete a segment, right? Because you would say You would have to determine what the surroundings were.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You could just say it's a noise, though, and write, you know, a post - processor will just all you have to do is just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If it's really a noise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or just say it's just put \" X, \" you know, like \" not speech \" or something,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it's easier to add than delete, frankly,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then you can get Yeah, or", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because you have to, uh, maneuver around on the on both windows then.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "To add or to delete?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "To delete.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Anyways, so I I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. That Maybe that's an interface issue that might be addressable.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's possible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But I think it's the semantics that are that are questionable to me, that you delete something So let's say someone is talking to here, and then you have a little segment here. Well, is that part of the speech? Is it part of the nonspeech? I mean, w what do you embed it in?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "There's something nice, though, about keeping, and this is probably another discussion, keeping the stuff that Thilo's detector detected as possible speech and just marking it as not speech than deleting it. Because then when you align it, then the alignment can you can put a reject model or whatever,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. So then they could just like put Oh that's what you meant by just put an \" X \" there.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and you're consistent with th the automatic system,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, that's an interesting idea.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "whereas if you delete it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so all they So that all they would have to do is put like an \" X \" there.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or some, you know, dummy reject mod", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So blank for blank for silence, \" S \" \" S \" for speech, \" X \" \" X \" for something else.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "whatever, yeah. That's actually a better way to do it cuz the a the forced alignment will probably be more consistent than.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, like, I think there's a complication which is that that you can have speech and noise in s", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean if it's just as easy, but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, you know, on the same channel, the same speaker, so now sometimes you get a ni microphone pop and, uh, I mean, there're these fuzzy hybrid cases, and then the problem with the boundaries that have to be shifted around. It's not a simple not a simple problem.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Anyway, quick question, though, at a high level do people think, let's just say that we're moving to this new era of like using the, um, pre - segmented t you know, non - synchronous conversations, does it make sense to try to take what we have now, which are the ones that, you know, we have recognition on which are synchronous and not time - tightened, and try to get something out of those for sort of purposes of illustrating the structure and the nature of the meetings, or is it better to just, you know, forget that and tr I mean, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think we'll have to, eventually. And my hope was that we would be able to use the forced alignment to get it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. That was everybody's hope.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if we can't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And maybe we can for the non - lapel, but", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if we can't, then maybe we just have to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "is it worth if we can't then we can fake it even if we're we report, you know, we're wrong twenty percent of the time or ten percent of the time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm thinking are you talking about for a paper, or are talking about for the corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh uh, that's a good question actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean cuz for the corpus it would be nice if everything were.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Actually that's a good question because we'd have to completely redo those meetings, and we have like ten of them now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We wouldn't have to re - do them, we would just have to edit them.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, and also, I mean, I still haven't I still haven't given up on forced alignment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, you're right, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think that when Brian comes, this'll be uh an interesting aspect to ask him as well b", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "When.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "when Brian Kingsbury comes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, Brian. You s I thought you said Ryan. And it's like, \" Who's Ryan? \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, good question.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, Ryan could come.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh, no, that's a good point, though, because for feature extraction like for prosody or something, I mean, the meetings we have now, it's a good chunk of data.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "we need to get a decent f OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what my hope has been,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So we should at least try it even if we can't,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and that's what that's what you know, ever since the the February meeting that I transcribed from last year, forced alignment has been on the on the table as a way of cleaning them up later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "On the table, right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and so I'm hopeful that that's possible. I know that there's complication in the overlap sections and with the lapel mikes,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "There's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, we might be able, at the very worst, we can get transcribers to correct the cases where I mean, you sort of have a good estimate where these places are because the recognition's so poor. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, we were never just gonna go with these as the final alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so you're.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We were always gonna run them past somebody.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So we need some way to push these first chunk of meetings into a state where we get good alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm probably going to spend another day or so trying to improve things by, um, by using, um, acoustic adaptation. Um, the Right now I'm using the unadapted models for the forced alignments, and it's possible that you get considerably better results if you, uh, manage to adapt the, uh, phone models to the speaker and the reject model to the to to all the other speech. Um, so", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Could you could you at the same time adapt the reject model to the speech from all the other channels?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's what he just said.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's what he was saying.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what I just said.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, not just the speech from that of the other people from that channel,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but the speech from the a actual other channels.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, I see. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I don't think that would work,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right? Because you'd A lot of it's dominated by channel properties.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "th Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But what you do wanna do is take the, even if it's klugey, take the segments the synchronous segments, the ones from the HLT paper, where only that speaker was talking.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you want to u", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Use those for adaptation, cuz if you if you use everything, then you get all the cross - talk in the adaptation, and it's just sort of blurred.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "If you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And that we know, I mean, we have that. And it's about roughly two - thirds, I mean, very roughly averaged.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's not completely negligible. Like a third of it is bad for adaptation or so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cool. I thought it was higher than that, that's pr", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It really it depends a lot. This is just sort of an overall.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well I know what we're not turning in to Eurospeech, a redo of the HLT paper.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That I don't wanna do that,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm doing that for AVIOS.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I think we're oh, Morgan's talk went very well, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Bleep.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, \" bleep \". Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think Morgan's talk went very well it woke.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "you know, it was really a well presented and got people laughing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Some good jokes in it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Especially the batteried meter popping up,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that was hilarious. Right when you were talking about that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, that wa that was the battery meter saying that it was fully charged,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's full. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You said, \" Speaking about energy \", or something.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But that was funny.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was very nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "He he he was onto the bullet points about talking about the you know the little hand - held, and trying to get lower power and so on,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Po - low power", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and Microsoft pops up a little window saying \" Your batteries are now fully charged. \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm thinking about scripting that for my talk, you know, put put a little script in there to say \" Your batteries are low \" right when I'm saying that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. No I mean, i in in your case, I mean, you were joking about it, but, I mean, your case the fact that your talking about similar things at a couple of conferences, it's not these are conferences that have d really different emphases. Whereas HLT and and Eurospeech, pretty pretty pretty similar, so I I I can't see really just putting in the same thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Are too close, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I d I don't think that paper is really.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the HLT paper is really more of a introduction - to - the - project paper, and, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, for Eurospeech we want some results if we can get them.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, it it's probably wouldn't make sense,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or some or some I mean, I would see Eurospeech if we have some Eurospeech papers, these will be paper p p uh, submissions.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "These will be things that are particular things, aspects of it that we're looking at, rather than, you know, attempt at a global paper about it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Detail, yeah. Overall.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I did go through one of these meetings. I had, uh, one of the transcribers go through and tighten up the bins on one of the, uh, NSA meetings, and then I went through afterwards and double - checked it so that one is really very very accurate.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I men I mentioned the link. I sent You know that one?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The which one? I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, I'm trying to remember I don't remember the number off hand.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Those are all.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's one of the NSA's. I sent email before the conference, before last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Bef - What I mean is Wednesday, Thursday.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That might might have been the one one of the ones that we did.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm sure that that one's accurate, I've been through it myself.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So that might actually be useful but they're all non - native speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So we could compare before and after", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. The problem with those, they're all German.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "oh, Darn!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the problem with the NSA speakers.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And e and e and extremely hard to follow, like word - wise,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I bet the transcri I mean, I have no idea what they're talking about,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I corrected it for a number of the words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "so,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm sure that, um, they're they're accurate now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, actually I have to to go.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, this is tough for a language model probably.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but but that might be useful just for speech.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, Andreas is leaving leaving the building. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "See ya.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "See ya. I don't think we'll go much longer.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, oh, before you l go I guess it's alright for you to talk a little without the mike I noticed you adjusting the mike a lot, did it not fit you well? Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well I won I noticed when you turned your head, it would it would tilt.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Maybe it wasn't just tightened enough, or.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe the yeah, the s thing that you have tightened @ @,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Actually if if you have a larger head, that mike's gotta go farther away which means the the balance is gonna make it wanna tip down.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, see ya.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz, I'm just thinking, you know, we were we're we've been talking about changing the mikes, uh, for a while,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and if these aren't acoustically they seem really good, but if they're not comfortable, we have the same problems we have with these stupid things.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think it's com This is the first time I've worn this, I find it very comfortable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I find it very comfortable too, but, uh, it looked like Andreas was having problems, and I think Morgan was saying it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, but I had it on I had it on this morning and it was fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Can I see that?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh you did wear it this morning?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, it's off, so you can put it on.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I yeah, I don't want it on, I just I just want to, um, say what I think is a problem with this. If you are wearing this over your ears and you've got it all the way out here, then the balance is gonna want to pull it this way.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Where as if somebody with a smaller head has it back here,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's more balanced.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Then it then it falls back this way so it's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we have to", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well wh what it's supposed to do is the backstrap is supposed to be under your crown, and so that should be should be.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "if it's right against your head there, which is what it's supposed to be, that balances it so it doesn't slide up.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So this is supposed to be under that little protuberance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep, right right below if you feel the back of your head, you feel a little lump,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um, and so it's supposed to be right under that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it's really supposed to go more like this than like this.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But then isn't that going to Well, I guess you can control that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that that tilts, right? In lots and lots of different ways.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So I'm not saying anything about bias towards small headsize,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "About heads?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but does seem, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It would be an advantage.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, wonder if it's if if he was wearing it over his hair instead of under his hair.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, we should We shou we should work on compressing the heads, and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think probably it was Yeah. It probably just wasn't tight enough to the back of his head. I mean, so the directions do talk about bending it to your size, which is not really what we want.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The other thing that would do it would be to hang a five pound weight off the back.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that's good!", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What did you say?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "A little,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "wh", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hang a five pound weight off the off the back.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hang a five pound weight off the back.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We did that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Weight.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We at Boeing I used I was doing augmented reality so they had head - mounts on, and we we had a little jury - rigged one with a welder's helmet,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Counter - balance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and we had just a bag with a bunch of marbles in it as a counter - balance.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Or maybe this could be helpful just for evening the conversation between people. If people those who talk a lot have to wear heavier weights or something, and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, so, uh, what was I gonna say? Oh, yeah, I was gonna say, uh, I had these, uh, conversations with NIST folks also while I was there and and, uh, um, so they they have their their plan for a room, uh, with, um, mikes in the middle of the table, and, uh, close - mounted mikes,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and they're talking about close - mounted and lapels, just cuz", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And arrays,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "sort of and the array.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And arrays,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so they were.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "which is the i interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yep. And cameras.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And yeah, like multiple multiple video cameras coverin covering every everybody every place in the room,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and video, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, the yeah the the mikes in the middle, the head - mounted mikes, the lapel mikes, the array, uh, with well, there's some discussion of fifty - nine,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Fifty - nine elements.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they might go down to fifty - seven Because, uh, there is, uh, some pressure from a couple people at the meeting for them to use a KEMAR head. I forget what KEMAR, uh, stands for,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but what it is is it's dummy head that is very specially designed,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and and, so what they're actually doing is they're really there's really two recording systems.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's a great idea.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So they may not be precisely synchronous, but the but there's two two recording systems, one with, I think, twenty - four channels, and one with sixty - four channels. And the sixty - four channel one is for the array, but they've got some empty channels there, and anyway they like they're saying they may give up a couple or something if for for the KEMAR head if they go go with that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, it is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, h uh, J Jonathan Fiscus did say that, uh, they have lots of software for doing calibration for skew and offset between channels", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and that they've found that's just not a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm not too worried about that. I was thinking.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But they're still planning to do like fake.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Scenario - based.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they have to do something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Y right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Their their legal issues won't allow them to do otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But it sounded like they were pretty well thought out", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and they're they're gonna be real meetings,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "it's just that they're with str with people who would not be meeting otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Did did they give a talk on this or was this informal?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, we just had some discussions, various discussions with them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's just informal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I also sat and chatted with several of the NIST folks. They seemed like a good group.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What was the, um the paper by, um, Lori Lamel that you mentioned?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, we sh we should just have you have you read it, but, I mea ba i i uh, we've all got these little proceedings,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but, um, basically, it was about, um, uh, going to a new task where you have insufficient data and using using data from something else, and adapting, and how well that works. Uh, so in in fact it was pretty related to what Liz and Andreas did, uh, except that this was not with meeting stuff, it was with", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, like I think they s didn't they start off with Broadcast News system? And then they went to.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The - their Broadcast News was their acoustic models and then all the other tasks were much simpler.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So they were command and control and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "TI - digits was one of them, and, uh, Wall Street Journal.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What was their rough what was their conclusion?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, read Wall Street Journal. It works.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, it's it's a good paper, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that was one of the ones that I liked.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Bring the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That It not only works, in some cases it was better, which I thought was pretty interesting, but that's cuz they didn't control for parameters. So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Probably.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You know, the Broadcast News nets were not nets,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Did they ever try going going the other direction from simpler task to more complicated tasks,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "acoustic models were a lot more complex.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "n Not in that paper.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That might be hard.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, one of the big problems with that is is often the simpler task isn't fully doesn't have all the phones in it,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and that that makes it very hard.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I've done the same thing. I've been using Broadcast News nets for digits,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "like for the spr speech proxy thing that I did? That's what I did.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. It works.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, and they have I mean they have better adaptation than we had than that that system,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so they um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You mean they have some.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah, we should probably what would actually what we should do, uh, I haven't said anything about this, but probably the five of us should pick out a paper or two that that, uh, you know, got our interest, and we should go around the room at one of the Tuesday lunch meetings and say, you know, what what was good about the conference,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Present. Yep. Do a trip report.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, the summarization stuff was interesting, I mean, I don't know anything about that field, but for this proposal on meeting summarization, um, I mean, it's sort of a far cry because they weren't working with meeting type data, but he got sort of an overview on some of the different approaches,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Do you remember who the groups were that we're doing?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so. Well there're this was the last day,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A lot of different ones.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "R I think Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but, I mean, there's that's a huge field and probably the groups there may not be representative of the field, I I don't know exactly that everyone submits to this particular conference,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Was were there folks from BBN presenting?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but yet there was, let's see, this was on the last day, Mitre, BBN, and, um, Prager.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mitre, BBN, IBM. Uh,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maryland.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "um, I wo it was.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Columbia have anything? No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "no it was.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Wasn't Who who who did the order one?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "this was Wednesday morning. The sentence ordering one, was that Barselou, and these guys?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ugh! I'm just so bad at that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Anyway, I I it's in the program, I should have read it to remind myself, but that's sort of useful and I think like when Mari and Katrin and Jeff are here it'd be good to figure out some kinds of things that we can start doing maybe just on the transcripts cuz we already have.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, we do have word transcripts.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I like the idea that Adam had of of, um, z maybe generating minutes based on some of these things that we have because it would be easy to to to do that just, you know, and and", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it has to be, though, someone from this group because of the technical nature of the thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Someone who actually does take notes, um, I'm very bad at note - taking.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But I think what's interesting is there's all these different evaluations, like just, you know, how do you evaluate whether the summary is good or not,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I always write down the wrong things.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I do take notes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and that's what's was sort of interesting to me is that there's different ways to do it,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A judge.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Was SRA one of the groups talking about summarization, no?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hm - umm. No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It was an interesting session. One of those w", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And as I said, I like the Microsoft talk on scaling issues in, uh, word sense disambiguation,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that was interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was an interesting discussion,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, I", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It it it was the only one It was the only one that had any sort of real disagreement about.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The data issue comes up all the ti", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I didn't have as much disagreement as I would have liked,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but I didn't wanna I wouldn I didn't wanna get into it because, uh, you know, it was the application was one I didn't know anything about,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, it just would have been, you know, me getting up to be argumentative, but but, uh, I mean, the missing thi so so what they were saying it's one of these things is you know, all you need is more data, sort of But I mea i wh it @ @ that's that's dissing it, uh, improperly, I mean, it was a nice study. Uh, they were doing this it wasn't word - sense disambiguation, it was.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it sort of was.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "was it w was it word - sense? Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But it was it was a very simple case of \" to \" versus \" too \" versus \" two \" and \" there \", \" their \", \" they're \".", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And there and their and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and that you could do better with more data, I mean, that's clearly statistically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And so, what they did was they had these different kinds of learning machines, and they had different amounts of data, and so they did like, you know, eight different methods that everybody, you know, uh, argues about about, \" Oh my my kind of learning machine is better than your kind of learning machine. \" And, uh, they were started off with a million words that they used, which was evidently a number that a lot of people doing that particular kind of task had been using. So they went up, being Microsoft, they went up to a billion. And then they had this log scale showing a you know, and and naturally everything gets.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Them being beep, they went off to a billion.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they well, it's a big company, I didn't I didn't mean it as a ne anything negative,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but i i i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You mean the bigger the company the more words they use for training?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think the reason they can do that, is that they assumed that text that they get off the web, like from Wall Street Journal, is correct, and edit it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So that's what they used as training data. It's just saying if it's in this corpus it's correct.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. But, I mean, yes. Of course there was the kind of effect that, you know, one would expect that uh that you got better and better performance with more and more data. Um, but the the real point was that the the different learning machines are sort of all over the place, and and by by going up significantly in data you can have much bigger effect then by switching learning machines and furthermore which learning machine was on top kind of depended on where you were in this picture, so,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This was my concern about the recognizer in Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, That.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That the differences we're seeing in the front - end is b", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Are irrelevant.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "are irrelevant once you get a real recognizer at the back - end.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "If you add more data? Or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, could well be. So so, I mean, that was that was kind of, you know, it's a good point, but the problem I had with it was that the implications out of this was that, uh, the kind of choices you make about learning machines were therefore irrelevant which is not at n t as for as I know in in tasks I'm more familiar with @ @ is not at all true. What i what is is true is that different learning machines have different properties, and you wanna know what those properties are. And someone else sort of implied that well we s you know, a all the study of learning machine we still don't know what those properties are. We don't know them perfectly, but we know that some kinds use more memory and and some other kinds use more computation and some are are hav have limited kind of discrimination, but are just easy to use, and others are.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But doesn't their conclusion just sort of you could have guessed that before they even started? Because if you assume that these learning things get better and better and better,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You would guess.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "then as you approach there's a point where you can't get any better, right? You get everything right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's just no.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So they're all approaching.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, but there was still a spread. They weren't all up They weren't converging.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But what I'm saying is that th they have to, as they all get better, they have to get closer together.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It w", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "They were all still spread. But they Right, right. Sure. But they hadn't even come close to that point. All the tasks were still improving when they hit a billion.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But they're all going the same way, right? So you have to get closer.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Eventually. O one would", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But they didn't get closer.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh they didn't?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "They just switched position.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "well that's getting cl I mean, yeah, the spread was still pretty wide that's th that's true,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but but, uh, I think it would be irntu intu intuition that this would be the case, but, uh, to really see it and to have the intuition is quite different, I mean, I think somebody w w let's see who was talking about earlier that the effect of having a lot more data is quite different in Switchboard than it is in in Broadcast News,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it's different for different tasks.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It was Liz. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it depends a lot on whether, you know, it disambiguation is exactly the case where more data is better, right? You're you're you can assume similar distributions,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but if you wanted to do disambiguation on a different type of, uh, test data then your training data, then that extra data wouldn't generalize,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, I think one of their p They they had a couple points. w Uh, I think one of them was that \" Well, maybe simpler algorithms and more data are is better \". Less memory, faster operation, simpler. Right? Because their simplest, most brain - dead algorithm did pretty darn well", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "when you got gave it a lot more data. And then also they were saying, \" Well, m You have access to a lot more data. Why are you sticking with a million words? \" I mean, their point was that this million - word corpus that everyone uses is apparently ten or fifteen years old. And everyone is still using it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But anyway, I I I think it's it's just the the i it's it's it's not really the conclusion they came to so much, as the conclusion that some of the, uh, uh, commenters in the crowd came up with", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But we could talk about this stuff, I think this would be fun to do. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "that, uh, you know, this therefore is further evidence that, you know, more data is really all you should care about, and that I thought was just kind of going too far the other way,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Machine - learning.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and the the, uh, one one person ga g g got up and made a a brief defense, uh, but it was a different kind of grounds, it was that that, uh, i w the reason people were not using so much data before was not because they were stupid or didn't realize data was important, but in fact th they didn't have it available. Um, but the other point to make a again is that, uh, machine learning still does matter, but it it matters more in some situations than in others, and it and also there's there's not just mattering or not mattering, but there's mattering in different ways. I mean, you might be in some situation where you care how much memory you're using, or you care, you know, what recall time is,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or you care, you know, and and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or you only have a million words for your some new task.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or or, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or done another language, or I mean, you so there's papers on portability and rapid prototyping and blah - blah - blah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and then there's people saying, \" Oh, just add more data. \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And there's cost!", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, these are like two different religions, basically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Cost.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "There's just plain cost,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a big one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, so so these, I mean th the in the in the speech side, the thing that @ @ always occurs to me is that if you if you uh one person has a system that requires ten thousand hours to train on, and the other only requires a hundred, and they both do about the same because the hundred hour one was smarter, that's that's gonna be better. because people, I mean, there isn't gonna be just one system that people train on", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and then that's it for the r for all of time. I mean, people are gonna be doing other different things, and so it these these things matters matter.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that's one of the slides they put up.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, I mean, this was a very provocative slide. She put this up, and it was like this is this p people kept saying, \" Can I see that slide again? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then they'd make a comment, and one person said, well - known person said, um, you know, \" Before you dismiss forty - five years including my work \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Forty - five years of research.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But th you know, the same thing has happened in computational linguistics, right? You look at the ACL papers coming out, and now there's sort of a turn back towards, OK we've learned statistic you know, we're basically getting what we expect out of some statistical methods, and, you know, the there's arguments on both sides,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think the matters is the thing that that was misleading.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was very offending, very offending.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that all all of them are based on all the others, right? Just, you you can't say.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe they should have said \" focus \" or something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, so. And I'm saying the same thing happened with speech recognition, right? For a long time people were hand - c coding linguistic rules and then they discovered machine - learning worked better. And now they're throwing more and more data and worrying perhaps worrying less and less about, uh, the exact details of the algorithms.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and then you hit this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Except when they have a Eurospeech paper.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Anyway, tea is tea is, uh, starting.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Shall we read some digits? Are we gonna do one at a time? Or should we read them all agai at once again.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Let's do it all at once.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We @ @ let's try that again.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes! So, and maybe we won't laugh this time also.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. So remember to read the transcript number so that, uh, everyone knows that what it is. And ready?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Three, two, one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Boy, is that ever efficient.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep. That's really fast.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" } ] }

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It's it's it's it was updated yesterday,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You probably received the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, right, I saw I saw the note.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What was the update?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What was the update? So there is th then the all the new features that go in.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The, um, noise suppression, the re - synthesis of speech after suppression. These are the.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is the, um the CVS mechanism working well?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Are are people, uh, up at OGI grabbing code uh, via that?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't think I don't think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know if they use it, but.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I don't think anybody up there is like working on it right now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think it more likely that what it means is that when Sunil is up there he will grab it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So right now nobody's working on Aurora there.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They're Yeah. They're working on a different task.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But what'll happen is is he'll go back up there and, uh, Pratibha will come back from from, uh, the east coast. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh and and I guess actually, uh, after Eurospeech for a little bit, uh, he'll go up there too. So, actually everybody who's working on it will be up there for at least a little while. So they'll remotely access it from there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So has Has anybody tried remotely accessing the CVS using, uh, uh, SSH?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know if Hari did that or You d", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I can actually do it today. I mean, I can just log into.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Have you tried it yet?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, I didn't. So I I'll try it today.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Actually I I tried wh while when I installed the repository, I tried from Belgium.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I logged in there and I tried to import.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah? It worked good?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it works.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, good!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But it's So, right now it's the mechanism with SSH.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Great!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't s I didn't set up You can also set up a CVS server on a new port. It's like well uh, a main server, or d You can do a CVS server.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Then that's using the CVS password mechanism and all that,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But. Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I didn't do that because I was not sure about security problems. I I would have to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So w when you came in from Belgian Belgium, using SSH, uh, was it asking you for your own password into ICSI? So if yo you can only do that if you have an account at ICSI?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Cuz there is an a way to set up anonymous CVS right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, you ha in this way you ca you have to set up a CVS server but then, yeah, you can access it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you you can set up priorities.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the anonymous mechanism.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can access them and mostly if you if y the set the server is set up like this.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Because a lot of the open source stuff works with anonymous CVS and I'm just wondering Uh, I mean, for our transcripts we may want to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, for this stuff I don't think we're quite up to that. I mean, we're still so much in development.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We want to have just the insiders.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah, yeah. Oh, I wasn't suggesting for this. I'm thinking of the Meeting Recorder stuff", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but. Yeah. OK. Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What's new?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, I think maybe the thing to me might be I me I'm sure you've just been working on on, uh, details of that since the meeting, right? And so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm, since the meeting, well, I I've been I've been train training a new VAD and a new feature net.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That was that was Tuesday. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So they should be ready. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But I guess maybe the thing since you weren't yo you guys weren't at that that meeting, might be just just to, um, sort of recap, uh, the the conclusions of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You're talking about the meeting with Hynek?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz that was sort of, uh we we'd sort of been working up to that, that that, uh, he would come here this week and and we would sort of.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Since he's going out of town like now, and I'm going out town in a couple weeks, uh, and time is marching, sort of, given all the mu many wonderful things we could be working on, what what will we actually focus on?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh and what do we freeze? And, you know, what do we? So, um. I mean, this software that these guys created was certainly a a key part. So then there's something central and there aren't at least a bunch of different versions going off in in ways that differ trivially. Uh, um, and, um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's that's nice.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then within that, I guess the idea was to freeze a certain set of options for now, to run it, uh, a particular way, and decide on what things are gonna be experimented with, as opposed to just experimenting with everything. So keep a certain set of things constant. So, um. Uh, maybe describe roughly what what we are keeping constant for now, or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well. So we've been working like six weeks on on the noise compensation and we end up with something that seems reasonable. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Are you gonna use which of the two techniques?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So finally it's it's, um, Wiener filtering on FFT bins. And it uses, uh, two steps, smoothing of the transfer function, the first step, that's along time, which use recursion. And after this step there is a further smoothing along frequency, which use a sliding window of twenty FFT bins. Mmm. And, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So this is on the uh, before any mel scaling has been done?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It was.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This this smoothing is done on the estimate, um, of what you're going to subtract? Or on the thing that has already had something subtracted?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, it's on the transfer function. So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, it's on the transfer function for the Wiener filter.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, so basically we tried different configuration within this idea. We tried u u applying this on mel bands, having spectral subtraction instead of wiener filtering. Um. Well, finally we end up with this configuration that works, uh, quite well. So we are going to fix this for the moment and work on the other aspects of the whole system.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Actually, let me int eh, Dave isn't here to talk about it, but let me just interject. This module, in principle, i I mean, you would know whether it's true in fact, is somewhat independent from the rest of it. I mean, because you you re - synthesize speech, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um. Uh, well you don't I guess you don't re - synthesize speech, but you could.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We we do not fo", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, but you could.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well well, we do, but we don't don't re - synthesize. In in the program we don't re - synthesize and then re - analyze once again. We just use the clean FFT bins.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But you have a re - synthesized thing that you that's an an option here.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is an option that then you can Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I gu I guess my point is that, um, i in some of the work he's doing in reverberation, one of the things that we're finding is that, uh, it's it's for the for an artificial situation, we can just deal with the reverberation and his techniques work really well. But for the real situation uh, problem is, is that you don't just have reverberation, you have reverberation in noise. And if you don't include that in the model, it doesn't work very well. So in fact it might be a very nice thing to do, to just take the noise removal part of it and put that in front of what he's looking at. And, uh, generate new files or whatever, and and, uh, uh and then do the reverberation part.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So Dave hasn't tried that yet?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. He's I mean, e", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I guess he's busy with.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, prelims, right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Pre - prelim hell.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, but but, you know, that'll uh, it's clear that we, uh we are not with the real case that we're looking at, we can't just look at reverberation in isolation because the interaction between that and noise is is considerable. And that's I mean, in the past we've looked at, uh, and this is hard enough, the interaction between channel effects and and, uh and additive noise, uh, so convolutional effects and and additive effects. And that's hard enough. I mean, I don't think we really I mean, we're trying to deal with that. In a sense that's what we're trying to deal with in this Aurora task. And we have, uh, the, uh, uh, LDA stuff that in principle is doing something about convolutional effects. And we have the noise suppression that's doing something about noise. Uh, even that's hard enough. And and the on - line normalization as well, in that s category. i i There's all these interactions between these two and that's part of why these guys had to work so hard on on juggling everything around. But now when you throw in the reverberation, it's even worse, because not only do you have these effects, but you also have some long time effects. And, um, so Dave has something which, uh, is doing some nice things under some conditions with with long time effects but when it's when there's noise there too, it's it's it's pretty hard. So we have to start Since any almost any real situation is gonna have uh, where you have the microphone distant, is going to have both things, we we actually have to think about both at the same time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, um So there's this noise suppression thing, which is sort of worked out and then, uh, maybe you should just continue telling what what else is in the the form we have.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, the, um, the other parts of the system are the the blocks that were already present before and that we did not modify a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that's again, that that's the Wiener filtering, followed by, uh uh, that's done at the FFT level. Then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, th then the mel filter bank,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "then the log operation,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The the the filtering is done in the frequency domain?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. And then the mel and then the log, and then the", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Then the LDA filter,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "LDA filter.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "mmm, then the downsampling,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then uh downsample,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "DCT,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "DCT,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "then, um, on - line normalization,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "on - line norm,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "followed by upsampling. Then finally, we compute delta and we put the neural network also.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right, and then in parallel with an a neural net. And then following neural net, some probably some orthogonalization.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And finally frame dropping, which um, would be a neural network also, used for estimated silence probabilities. And the input of this neural network would be somewhere between log mel bands or one of the earlier stages of the processing.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So that's sort of most of this stuff is yeah, is operating parallel with this other stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the things that we, um, uh, I guess we sort of uh, There's there's some, uh, neat ideas for V A So, I mean, in I think there's sort of like There's a bunch of tuning things to improve stuff. There's questions about various places where there's an exponent, if it's the right exponent, or ways that we're estimating noise, that we can improve estimating noise. And there's gonna be a host of those. But structurally it seemed like the things the main things that that we brought up that, uh, are are gonna need to get worked on seriously are, uh, uh, a a significantly better VAD, uh, putting the neural net on, um, which, you know, we haven't been doing anything with, the, uh, neural net at the end there, and, uh, the, uh, opening up the second front. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The other half of the channel?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, I mean, cuz we we have we have, uh, uh, half the the, uh, data rate that they allow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That what you mean?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, so the initial thing which came from, uh, the meeting that we had down south was, uh, that, um, we'll initially just put in a mel spectrum as the second one. It's, you know, cheap, easy. Uh. There's a question about exactly how we do it. We probably will go to something better later, but the initial thing is that cepstra and spectra behave differently,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so. Um, I think Tony Robinson used to do I was saying this before. I think he used to do mel, uh, spectra and mel cepstra. He used them as alternate features. Put them together.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So if you took the system the way it is now, the way it's fro you're gonna freeze it, and it ran it on the last evaluation, where it would it be?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. It, uh,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In terms of ranking?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ri - right now it's second.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Second..", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Although you you know, you haven't tested it actually on the German and Danish, have you?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, we didn't. No, um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So on the ones that you did test it on it would have been second?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Would it I mean But When you're saying second, you're comparing to the numbers that the, uh that the best system before got on, uh also without German and Danish?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And th the ranking actually didn't change after the German and Danish. So, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well ranking didn't before, but I'm just asking where this is to where theirs was without the German and Danish,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Where where where were we actually on the last test?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, we were also esp essentially second, although there were there were I mean, we had a couple systems and they had a couple systems. And so, I guess by that we were third, but I mean, there were two systems that were pretty close, that came from the same place.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. I see. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, so institutionally we were we were second, with, uh, the third third system.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We're so this second that you're saying now is system - wide second?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "See Uh, no I think it's also institutional, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Still institutionally second?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, I think both of their systems probably.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, we are between their two systems. So", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, are we?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I It is a triumph.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Their their first system is fifty - four point something. And, uh, we are fifty - three point something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But everything is within the range of one one percent.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And their second system is also fifty - three point something. Yeah, one percent.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so so basically they're all they're all pretty close.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's very close.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and, um, you know, in some sense we're all doing fairly similar things. Uh, I mean, one could argue about the LDA and so forth but I I think, you know, in a lot of ways we're doing very similar things. But what what.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So how did they fill up this all these these bits? I mean, if we're u", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, why are we using half? Well, so you could you c", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or how are they using more than half, I guess maybe is what I.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I I think uh, you guys are closer to it than me, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I I think that what's going on is that in in both cases, some kind of normalization is done to deal with convola convolutional effects. Uh, they have some cepstral modification,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? In our case we have a couple things. We have the on - line normalization and then we have the LDA RASTA. And they seem to comple complement each other enough and be different enough that they both seem to help help us. But in any event, they're both doing the same sort of thing. But there's one difference. The LDA RASTA, uh, throws away high modulation frequencies. And they're not doing that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So th So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that if you throw away high modulation frequencies, then you can downsample.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Get down.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I see. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what if you didn't So do you explicitly downsample then? Do we explicitly downsample?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And what if we didn't do that? Would we get worse performance?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um Yeah, not better, not worse.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think it doesn't affect it, does it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think the thing is, since we're not evidently throwing away useful information, let's try to put in some useful information.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, so I you know, we we've found in a lot of ways for quite a while that having a second stream uh, helps a lot. So that's that's put in, and you know, it may even end up with mel spectrum even though I'm saying I think we could do much better, just because it's simple.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. And you know, in the long run having something everybody will look at and say, \" oh, yeah, I understand \", is is very helpful.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So you would you're You're thinking to put the, uh, mel spectrum in before any of the noise removal stuff? or after?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, that's a question. I mean, we were talking about that. It looks like it'd be straightforward to to, uh, remove the noise, um, and, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cuz that happens before the mel conversion, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean, to do it after the mel conversion uh, after the noise removal, after the mel conversion. There's even a question in my mind anyhow of whether th you should take the log or not. Uh. I sort of think you should, but I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What about norm normalizing also?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. Uh. Well, but normalizing spectra instead of cepstra?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably. Some kind would be good. You know? I would think.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, it it it it so it actually makes it dependent on the overall energy of the uh, the frame.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If you do or don't normalize?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If yo if you don't normalize and if if you don't normalize.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. Yes, so I mean, one would think that you would want to normalize. But I I w w My thought is, uh, particularly if you take the log, try it. And then if if normalization helps, then y you have something to compare against, and say, \" OK, this much effect \" I mean, you don't want to change six things and then see what happens. You want to change them one at a time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So adding this other stream in, that's simple in some way. And then saying, oh uh particularly because we've found in the past there's all these these these different results you get with slight modifications of how you do normalization. Normalization's a very tricky, sensitive thing and you learn a lot. So, I would think you would wanna have some baseline that says, \" OK, we don't normalize, this is what we get \", when we do this normalization, when we do that normalization. But but the other question is So I think ultimately we'll wind up doing some normalization. I agree.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So this second stream, will it add latency to the system", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, it's in parallel.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Para", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We're not talking about computation time here.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We're ta I think we're pretty far out.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's just in terms of what data it's depending on. It's depending on the same data as the other.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Same data.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's in parallel.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So with this, uh, new stream would you train up a VAD on both both features, somehow?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, I guess the VAD has its own set of features.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. that's.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, which could be this one of these streams, or it can be something derived from these streams.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And there is also the idea of using TRAPS, maybe, for the VAD, which, um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's also.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, Pratibha apparently showed, when, she was at IBM, that it's a good idea. So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Would would that fit on the handset, or? Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I have no idea.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, it has t I mean the th", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It would have to fit but Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, if it has to fit the delays and all this stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, there's the delays and the storage,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah. But I don't think the storage is so big for that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think th the biggest we've run into for storage is the neural net. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. And so I guess the issue there is, are we are we using neural - net - based TRAPS, and and how big are they? So that'll that'll be, you know, an issue.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Maybe they can be little ones.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz sh Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mini - TRAPS.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cuz she also does the, uh the correlation - based, uh, TRAPS, with without the neural net, just looking at the correlation between.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. And maybe for VAD they would be OK. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or a simple neural net, right? I mean, the thing is, if you're doing correlation, you're just doing a simple uh, uh uh, dot product, you know, with some weights which you happened to learn from this learn from the data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And so, uh, putting a nonlinearity on it is, you know, not that big a deal. It certainly doesn't take much space.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, uh, the question is, how complex a function do you need? Do you need to have an added layer or something? In which case, uh, potentially, you know, it could be big. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, uh, uh So what's next? Maybe s s remind us.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So the meeting with Hynek that you guys just had was to decide exactly what you were gonna freeze in this system? Is that? Or was there? Were you talking about what t new stuff, or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What to freeze and then what to do after we froze.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. And like I was saying, I think the you know, the basic directions are, uh, uh I mean, there's lots of little things, such as improve the noise estimator but the bigger things are adding on the neural net and, uh, the second stream. And then, uh, improving the VAD. Uh. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, I'll, um I'll actually after the meeting I'll add the second stream to the VAD and maybe I'll start with the feature net in that case. It's like, you're looking at the VAD, right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. I I've a new feature net ready also.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I'll For the VAD?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, uh. Well p two network, one VAD and one feature net.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, you already have it?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, so just figure how to take the features from the final.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um. But, yeah, I think there are plenty of issues to work on for the feature net @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Feature net.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What about the, um uh, the new part of the evaluation, the, uh, Wall Street Journal part?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Um. Have you ever? Very good question. Have you ever worked with the Mississippi State h uh, software?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No. Not yet.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Well you you may be called upon to help, uh, uh, on account of, uh, all the work in this stuff here has been, uh, with small vocabulary.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm. So what how is the, uh, interaction supposed to happen? Uh, I remember the last time we talked about this, it was sort of up in the air whether they were going to be taking, uh, people's features and then running them or they were gonna give the system out or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, so they're gonna just deliver a system basically.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Do we already have it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, th I I guess it's almost ready.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So That's what So they have released their, uh, document, describing the system.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Maybe you could, uh, point it at Chuck,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because, I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So we'll have to grab this over CVS or something?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It - no, it's just downloadable from their from their web site.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that how they do it? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz one of the things that might be helpful, if you've if you've got time in all of this is, is if if these guys are really focusing on improving, uh, all the digit stuff, uh, maybe and you got the front - end from them, maybe you could do the runs for the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and, you know, iron out hassles that that you have to, uh, tweak Joe about or whatever,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because you're more experienced with running the large vocabulary stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So I'll point you to the web site and the mails corresponding. So I", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And it but it's not ready yet, the system?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, I I think they are still, uh, tuning something on that. So they're like, d they're varying different parameters like the insertion penalty and other stuff, and then seeing what's the performance.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Are those going to be parameters that are frozen, nobody can change? Or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, w I guess there is, uh, time during which people are gonna make suggestions.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, but everybody's gonna have to use the same values.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "After that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh! Interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So these sugges these this, uh, period during which people are gonna make suggestions is to know whether it is actually biased towards any set of features or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I th th certainly the thing that I would want to know about is whether we get really hurt, uh, on in insertion penalty, language model, scaling, sorts of things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Using our features.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, in which case, um, H Hari or Hynek will need to, you know, push the case more about about this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we may be able to revisit this idea about, you know, somehow modifying our features to work with.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes. In this case, that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's right. Um, some of that may be, uh, a last minute rush thing because if the if our features are changing Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. But, um. Yeah, the other thing is that even though it's months away, uh, it's starting to seem to me now like November fifteenth is right around the corner. And, um, if they haven't decided things like this, like what the parameters are gonna be for this, uh, when \" deciding \" is not just somebody deciding. I mean, in fact there should be some understanding behind the, uh, deciding, which means some experiments and and so forth. It it it seems pretty tight to me.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So wha what's the significance of November fifteenth?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's when the evaluation is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, yeah, so after But, you know, they may even decide in the end to push it off. It wouldn't, you know, entirely surprise me. But, uh, due to other reasons, like some people are going away, I'm I'm hoping it's not pushed off for a l a long while. That would be, uh put us in an awkward position. But Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Great. Yeah, I think that'll be helpful. There's there's not anybody OGI currently who's who's, uh, working with this and and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is is this part of the evaluation just a small part, or ho how important is this to the overall?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I think it's it's, um it depends how badly you do. I mean, I think that it it is Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "b", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is one of those things that will be debated afterwards?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I mean, it's it's Conceptually, it my impression, again, you guys correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that, um, they want it as a double check. That you haven't come across you haven't invented features which are actually gonna do badly for a a significantly different task, particularly one with larger vocabulary. And, um, but it's not the main emphasis.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, the truth is, most of the applications they're looking at are pretty small vocabulary.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's it's a double check. So they'll probably assign it some sort of low weight.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Seems to me that if it's a double check, they should give you a one or a zero. Y you passed the threshold or you didn't pass the threshold, and they shouldn't even care about what the score is.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, I mean, we'll we'll we'll see what they come up with. Uh, but in in the current thing, for instance, where you have this well - matched, moderately - matched, and and mis highly - mismatched, uh, the emphasis is somewhat on the on the well - matched, but it's only a a marginal,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? It's like forty, thirty - five, twenty - five, or something like that. So you still if you were way, way off on the highly - mismatched, it would have a big effect.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, um, it wouldn't surprise me if they did something like that with this. So again, if you're if you get If it doesn't help you much, uh, for noisy versions of this of large vocabulary data, then, uh, you know, it may not hurt you that much.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if it if you don't if it doesn't help you much at all, um, or to put it another way, if it helps some people a lot more than it helps other people, uh, if their strategies do, then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So is this, uh? Uh, Guenter was putting a bunch of Wall Street Journal data on our disks.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So that's the data that we'll be running on?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we have the data, just not the recognizer. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So this test may take quite a while to run, then. May - judging by the amount of data that he was putting on.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, well there's training and test, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I I guess, I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, I mean, if it's like the other things, there's there's data for training the H M Ms and and data for testing it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I wouldn't So it it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So there's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, training the recognizer, but, um Um. But I think it's trained on clean and Is it trained on clean and and test on?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The Wall Street?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Apparently, no. It's training on a range between ten and twenty DB, I think, and testing between five and fifteen.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what I got on.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's, uh It's like a medium medium - mismatch condition, sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and So the noise is There is a range of different noises also um which are selected randomly and added randomly, uh, to the files. And there are noises that are different from the noises used on TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't imagine that the amount of testing data was that huge. They probably put training uh, almost certain they put training data there too. Maybe not. So. That's that. Anybody have anything else?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, one one last question on that. When did they estimate that they would have that system available for download?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, I guess I guess one some preliminary version is already there.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, so there's w something you can download to just learn?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's already there. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But they're actually parallel - y doing some modifications also, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "good.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I guess the f final system will be frozen by middle of, like, one more week maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, well that's pretty soon.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's just one more.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is this their, um, SVM recognizer?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, it's just a straightforward HMM.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know, their their They have a lot of options in their recognizer and and the SVM is one of the things they've done with it, but it's not their more standard thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "For the most part it's it's Gaussian mixtures.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's just a HMM, Gaussian mixture model.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Gaussian mixture HMM.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, the SVM thing was an HMM also. It was just a it it it was like a hybrid, like.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is a g yeah, this i", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "what?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, just so that I understand, they're providing scripts and everything so that basically, uh, you you push a button and it does training, and then it does test, and everything? Is that the idea?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I I think yeah, I I guess something like that. It's like as painless as possible,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "is what Do they provide all the scripts, everything, and then Just,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see. Hmm. Somehow yo there's hooks to put your features in and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "ju Yeah, I th I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, um. In fact, I mean, if you look into it a little bit, it might be reasonable You know Joe, right? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just to sort of ask him about the issue of, um, different features having different kinds of, uh, scaling characteristics and so on. So that, you know, w w possibly having entirely different optimal values for for the usual twiddle factors and what's what's the plan about that?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So sh shall we, like, add Chuck also to the mailing lists? It may be better, I mean, in that case if he's going to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because there's a mailing list for this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that OK?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess maybe Hari or Hynek, one of them, has to send a mail to Joe. Or maybe if you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I could send him an email.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, to add or maybe wh", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I know him really well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that's just fine.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I was just talking with him on email the other day actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, and just, um, se maybe see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "About other things, but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Do you have Hari's, uh?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I have Hari's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so maybe just CC Hari and say that you've just been asked to handle the large vocabulary part here, and, uh, you know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Would it be better if I asked Hari to ask Joe?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. Why don't you just ask Joe but CC Hari, and then in the note say, \" Hari, hopefully this is OK with you \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then if Joe feels like he needs a confirmation, Hari can answer it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That way you can get started asking Joe quickly while he's while he's maybe still, you know, putting in nails and screws and Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And there is an, uh, archive of all the mails that has been gon that has gone, uh, between these people among these people. So just you can see all this mails in the ISIP web site.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mississippi web site.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Is that a password controlled?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's password protected.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, like like, it's, like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Have you thought about how long would be uh, most useful for you to go up to OGI?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know, uh. We can For September, we can set up a work schedule and we can maybe work independently. And then at some point it maybe be better to work together again.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, so you're you're imagining more that you would come back here first for a while and then and then go up there?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, it's to you.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I ju you guys are Well, y anyway, you don't have to decide this second but thi think about it about what what you would think would be the the best way to work it. I'll", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But, uh Huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "support it either way, so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Uh. Got anything to tell us?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Well, I've been reading some literature about clustering of data. Just, um, I guess, let me put it in context. OK, so we're talking about discovering intermediate categories to, um to classify. And, uh, I was looking at some of the work that, uh, Sangita was doing on these TRAPS things. So she has, um she has temporal patterns for, um, a certain set of phonemes, from from TIMIT, right? the most common phonemes. And each one of them has has a a nice pattern over time, a one one second window. And it has has these patterns. Um, so she has, um a TRAP for each one of the phonemes, um, times fifteen, for each of the fifteen critical bands. And, um, she does this agglomerative hierarchical clustering which which basically, um, is a clustering algorithm that, uh, starts with many, many, many different points many different clusters uh, corresponding to the number of data, uh, patterns that you have in the data. And then you have this distance mej metric which, uh, measures how how closely related they are. And you start, um by merging the patterns that are most closely related.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And you create a tree.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And y yeah, yeah, a dendrogram tree.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then you can pick, uh, values anywhere along that tree to fix your set of clusters.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right, usually it's when, um when the sol similarity measures, um, don't go down as much.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so, uh so you stop at that point. And what she found was, sh um, was there were five broad, um broad categories, uh, corresponding to, uh, things like, uh, fricatives and, uh, vocalic, um, and, uh, stops.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, uh, one for silence and and another one for schwa schwa sounds. Um, and, um, I was thinking about ways to to generalize this because w you're it's sort of like a it's not a completely automatic way of clustering, because yo beforehand you have these these TRAPS and you're saying that that these frames correspond to this particular phoneme. Um, and that's that's constraining your your clustering to to the set of phonemes that you already have. Um, whereas maybe we want to just take take a look at, um, arbitrary windows in time, um, of varying length, um, and cluster those.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I'm thinking if we if we do that, then we would probably, um, at some point in the clustering algorithm find that we've clustered things like, OK, thi this is a transition, um, this is a relatively stable stable point.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, and I'm hoping to find other things of of similarity and maybe use these things as the intermediate, um intermediate categories that, uh, um, I'll later classify.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Are you looking at these in narrow bands?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, right. F um, I'm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Cuz that's what you're gonna be using, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. I I haven't exactly figured out, um, the exact details for that but, uh, the the representation of the data that I was thinking of, was using, um, critical band, um, energies, um, over different lengths of time. So Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it seems somehow that needs th uh, there's a couple things that I wonder about with this. I mean, so one is is, again, looking at the same representation,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, if you're going for this sort of thing where you have uh, little detectors that are looking at narrow bands, then what you're going to be looking for should be some category that you can find with the narrow bands.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That that seems to be kind of fundamental to it. Um, and then the other thing, uh, is that I wonder about with it, and and don't take this in the wrong way, like I I know what I'm doing or anything,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but, I mean. Um, just wondering really.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, the sort of standard answer about this sort of thing is that if you're trying to find the right system in some sense, whether you're trying by categories or or parameters um, and your goal is discrimination, then having choices based on discrimination as opposed to, um, unsupervised nearness of things, um, is actually better.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, and I don't know if that I mean, since you're dealing with issues of robustness, you know, maybe maybe this isn't right, but it'd be something I'd be concerned about. Because, for instance, you can imagine, uh, uh, i i if you remember from from, uh from your your quals, John Ohala saying that, uh, \" buh \" and \" puh \" differed, uh, not really cuz of voicing but because of aspiration. I mean, in as far as wha what's really there in the acoustics.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, um, if you looked if you were doing some coarse clustering, you probably would put those two sounds together. And yet, I would gue I would guess that many of your recognition errors were coming from, uh, um, pfft, screwing up on this distinction.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, in fact, it's a little hard because recognizers, to first order, sort of work. And the reasons we're doing the things we're doing is because they don't work as well as we'd like. And since they sort of work, uh, it means that they are already doing if you go and take any recognizer that's already out there and you say, \" how well is it distinguishing between schwas and stops? \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Boy, I bet they're all doing nearly perfectly on this, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So these these big categories that differ in huge obvious ways, we already know how to do. So, what are we bringing to the party? I mean, in fact what we wanna do is have something that, particularly in the presence of noise, uh, is better at distinguishing between, uh, categories that are actually close to one another, and hence, would probably be clustered together.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that's th that's the hard thing. I mean, I understand that there's this other constraint that you're considering, is that you wanna have categories that, uh that would be straightforward for, say, a human being to mark if you had manual annotation. And it's something that you really think you can pick up. But I think it's also essential that you wanna look at what are the confusions that you're making and how can you come up with, uh, categories that, uh, can clarify these confusions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, I mean, the standard sort of way of doing that is take a look at the algorithms you're looking at, but then throw in some discriminative aspect to it. Y y this is more like, you know, how does LDA differ from PCA? I mean, they're the same sort of thing. They're both orthogonalizing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But, you know and and, um, this is a little harder because you're not just trying to find parameters. You're actually trying to find the the the the categories themselves. Uh, so a little more like brain surgery, I think on yourself. Uh. So, uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, anyway. That's my thought.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You've been thinking about this problem for a long time actually. I mean, well W actually, you stopped thinking about it for a long time, but you used to think about it a lot.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And you've been thinking about it more now,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "these categories.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I guess I don't I don't um, it's not clear to me how to reconcile, you know, what you're saying, which I think is right, with the way I've been looking at it. That it's it's it's all not very clear to me. But it seems to me that the desire the desirable feature to have is something that, um, is bottom - up. You know, however we do that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And and so I guess what I don't understand is how to do that and still be discriminative, because to be discriminative you have to have categories and the only categories that we know of to use are sort of these human human sig significant categories that are significant to humans, like phonemes, things like that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But that's sort of what you want to avoid. And so that feels I don't know how to get out of this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, here's a here's a, uh, uh Here's a generic and possibly useless thought, which is, um, what do you really I mean, in a sense the only s s systems that make sense, uh, are ones that that have something from top - down in th in them. Right? Because if e even the smallest organism that's trying to learn to do anything, if it doesn't have any kind of reward for doing or penal penalty for doing anything, then it's just going to behave randomly.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So whether you're talking about something being learned through evolution or being learned through experience, it's gotta have something come down to it that gives its reward or, you know, at least some reinforcement learning,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So the question is, how far down?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We could stop at words, but we don't, right? We go all the way down to phonemes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right, but I me I I think that maybe in some ways part of the difficulty is is trying to deal with the with these phonemes. You know, and and and i it's almost like you want categories if if our if our, uh, um, metric of of goodness, uh, i if our.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "correction if our metric of badness is word error rate then, um, maybe we should be looking at words.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, for for for very nice, uh, reasons we've looked for a while at syllables, and they have a lot of good properties, but i i i if you go all the way to words, I mean, that's really I mean, d w In many applications you wanna go further. You wanna go to concepts or something, or have have have concepts, actions, this sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But words would be a nice.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, words aren't bad, yeah. And and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the common right, the common wisdom is you can't do words because there's too many of them, right? So you have to have some smaller set that you can use, uh, and and so everybody goes to phonemes. But the problem is that we we build models of words in terms of phonemes and these models are are really cartoon - ish, right? So when you look at conversational speech, for example, you don't see the phonemes that you that you have in your word models.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But but but we're not trying for models of words here. See, so her here's maybe where If the issue is that we're trying to come up with, um, some sort of intermediate categories which will then be useful for later stuff, uh, then maybe it doesn't matter that we can't have enough.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, what you wanna do is is build up these categories that are that are best for word recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and somehow if that's built into the loop of what the categories I mean, we do this every day in this very gross way of of running o a thousand experiments", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because we have fast computers and picking the thing that has the best word error rate.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In some way I mean, we derive that all the time. In some ways it's really not a bad bad thing to do because it tells you in fact how your adjustments at the very low level affect the the final goal.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, so maybe there's a way to even put that in in a much more automatic way,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "where you take, you know, something about the error at the level of the word or some other it could be syllable but in some large unit,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, and uh yeah, you may not have word models, you have phone models, whatever, but you sort of don't worry about that, and just somehow feed it back through.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, so that's, uh, wh what I called a useless comments because I'm not really telling you how to do it. But I mean, it's a it's it's, you know it", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, but I think the important part in there is that, you know, if you want to be discriminative, you have to have uh, you know, categories.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And I think this the important categories are the words, and not the phones.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe. And so Right. If you can put the words in to the loop somehow for determining goodness of your sets of clusters Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Now, that being said, I think that that if you have something that is, um i Once you start dealing with spontaneous speech, all the things you're saying are are really true.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you have read speech that's been manually annotated, like TIMIT, then, you know, i i you the phones are gonna be right, actually, for the most part.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so, uh, it doesn't really hurt them to to do that, to put in discrimination at that level.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, if you go to spontaneous speech then it's it's trickier and and and, uh, the phones are uh, you know, it's gonna be based on bad pronunciation models that you have of.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and, um And it won't allow for the overlapping phenomenon", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. So it's almost like there's this mechanism that we have that, you know, when when we're hearing read speech and all the phonemes are there you know, we we deal with that, but but when we go to conversational, and then all of a sudden not all the phonemes are there, it doesn't really matter that much to us as humans because we have some kind of mechanism that allows for these word models, whatever those models are, to be munged, you know, and and it doesn't really hurt, and I'm not sure how how to build that in. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, I guess the other thing i is is to think of a little bit I mean, we when y when you start looking at these kind of results I think it usually is is pretty intuitive, but start looking at um, what are the kinds of confusions that you do make, uh, you know, between words if you want or or or, uh, even phones in in in in read speech, say, uh, when there is noise. You know, so is it more across place or more across manner? Or is it cor you know, is it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, I know one thing that happens is that you you you, uh, you lose the, um, uh, low energy phones. I mean, if there's added noise then low energy phones sometimes don't get heard. And if that if that is if it uh, if that turns it into another word or or different you know, or another pair of words or something, then it's more likely to happen. But, um, I don't know, I w I would I would guess that you'd.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "W I don't know. Anyway, that's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think part of the difficulty is that a l a lot of the robustness that we have is probably coming from a much higher level.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know, we understand the context of the situation when we're having a conversation. And so if there's noise in there, you know, our brain fills in and imagines what what should be there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. We're we're doing some sort of prediction of what.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, sure, that's really big.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, but I mean, even if you do um, uh, diagnostic rhyme test kind of things, you know, where there really isn't an any information like that, uh, people are still better in noise than they than they are in in, uh uh, than the machines are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I mean, that's i Right. We can't we can't get it at all without any language models. Language models are there and important but but, uh Uh. If we're not working on that then we should work on something else and improve it, but especially if it looks like the potential is there. So Should we do some digits?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Since we're here?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Go ahead, Morgan.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's all folks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" } ] }

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Um, our interface elements, there are shown in the in the drawing. Maybe you can uh point them uh The functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, well the uh all the functions are discussed uh I think the most of the functions are uh uh obvious. Uh, it's a little bit. Uh, power button. Uh then the the the nine uh channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the volume uh uh at the side, and the other side is the programmes. And then we had uh just uh two buttons, we place them in the middle, uh the menu, and for the teletext", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh no, the the the mute button misses now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought that was th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do y do you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, the mute button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "did we want to have a m mute button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's uh here then, in the middle.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, and uh you gotta point out which is the volume um uh button and which is the programme button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, yeah mo uh mo", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we've disc", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well most of them are right-handed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Most of the users", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you you gotta make it clear on the on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well, I don't have time in uh anymore on the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, y there there will be a p a little a little P_ on that and a little uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and a and a triangle on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, just progr programme above, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Next to that I kinda miss a zero actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait, there's was one thing I wanted to ask.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, there are different ways for remote controls to uh do uh like", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh d I call it teens and twenties. Uh, y th th th the two numbers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "All n no, that's um kinda dependent on the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, true, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a television. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but do we have do we need extra buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for example some uh some have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes, you have you have a lot of standard buttons that has to be uh on it, uh th with the one and a double uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think you should add.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Zero?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A cross, or whatever. Yeah, line.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you don't you don't actually need them,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "May maybe here?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "becau b l a lot of remote controls work that y when y that you when you fir you push the one first, then you have a couple of seconds.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then a second.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, that's dependent on the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, you have televisions, then you have to, you know, you have to uh press.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do know so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it depending on television?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, I don't think so really,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because you have a I know some remote controls that don't have these buttons, but you still can, know, obviously you can still select the twenty uh a number in the twenty or in the ten.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but but a lot uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but uh uh no uh remote control nowadays are um they come with the television. Or actually, the other way around.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I think uh I really think it's n", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because you can when when you put a button on it with like one and uh then a dash, it's the same thing as when you just push the one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it i it first gives you the functionality of that that uh separate button you also had to uh apply.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well but su If.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "some televisions don't accept uh that that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, because that's i it's for television. It's exact the same thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no, but s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. So some television respond differently. Look, if uh i i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, listen listen. When you push the button, the remote control gives a signal. I in th in the first place it gives a signal which it would also send when you put a separate button on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The one with dash, that signal gi and when y whe when you don't push another button on the remote control within five seconds, then the remote control gives a signal for channel one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it works that way, really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it it it works uh if you haven't got uh a special button for it, uh if you push a one, then on your television there will appear a one and a a line, which is an empty space.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's exact the same that w would appear when you put a separate button push a separate button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but some some old televisions uh you have to uh click on uh a special button, uh then you go to a a next level, you can push two buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you don't underst uh you don't understand my point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's exact the same thing when y", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want Yes, but some television don't support it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but then they would a would also support that button, because it's the same thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the ex", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Listen, with that that's that special but button you're talking about, eh? That's just a signal to recei ju they send a t signal to the v tv T_V_ that they have to put a one in on your screen and a dash, which you can pu so you can uh still put another number on it. When you don't have that separate button, and you push y one, it's exactly the same thing. Do y you the remote control gives that same signal as it would give when you only had.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, s some some televisions need the input first uh and and you c", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "a remote can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you give the input.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so they need no, they need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You push the one. That's the same thing as the button with the one and it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's not true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes it it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's simply not true. It's simply not true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Think about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You uh you can wai when you push the one you can show on the telly a one and just a dash, and then wait uh two uh seconds or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's the same thing what happens and a g remote control gives another signal after five seconds that is just one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, remote control doesn't give signal after five seconds. Remote control is a stupid thing. If you push a button, it sends it immediately to to the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but I m uh but it's I I know for sure that some televisions that w th th the remote control supplied, only ha has the c these buttons with a one and a dash and a two and a dash, but when you use a bu a n remote control that doesn't sport these buttons, it still works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But okay, we we'll impl", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, definitely not. Definitely not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll discuss them in the usability lab.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, we'll apply them then for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh eva evaluation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know uh I don't know if if it's it's necessary.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, app just apply them next to the zero, the one and the two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. Yeah, for now, if we don't know for sure whether.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the button for the SCART uh audio video uh external input.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ach.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, you can access that uh via zero, and then minus, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. What I said about uh the remote control sending another signal, that that might not be true,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I still think i it it all T_V_s in some ways support it, I don't know. I think it's more c is m maybe we don't uh we both don't really understand how it i how it really works,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I think there's more to in than wha than what you just said.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, remote control sends one signal at one button uh press.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do think that uh m T_V_s support mur multiple kind of remote controls. M", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, some N some televisions when when you want to go further than uh ten.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Th won't work wi with uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, you have to you have to uh give the television uh two or more signals.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to have that special button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When you uh press one button, you give one signal. And the older televisions need more signals to go a level higher. But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well we'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When you make the technology that that it will uh give more signals, it could work, but Just a basic idea of of of the most uh most y most common uh and simple uh operations on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I kinda miss the docking station.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. It's here on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, uh there's nothing I think it's pretty basic,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We came uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the there's no fu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there's one there's one button,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No nothing really trendy about it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's wha there's there's there's one function and that's n the one button when you want to find it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe we can maybe we can make the docking station uh uh a bit standard for for uh the other products we sell,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because Real Real Reaction sells more products than only remote controls. So maybe we can uh use the docking station, for example, uh M_P_ three players or or uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh hearing devices.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that's very difficult, because of different shapes of uh uh devices.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but when you put that same volt voltages on it, you can put uh when the when the when uh o the the the lowest part of it, when it's o the same as the other products, you can put it all on the same uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. Mm-hmm. Well it it got it it has got to fit into the shape, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but we can make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The technology and the voltage can be the same. That's uh that's true. But uh i if you all make the m having a bottom like this, then they all fit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we can make uh make the most lowest part all the same.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true, but uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When when the the recharger has a has a bit what points out, we can place all on top of it. Just have to be big enough for the biggest.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but uh I I g Shouldn't it fall then? It isn't going to fall down? That's a bit uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, when you make it large enough no it it will not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then it's a little bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but if if like this, I'll I'll point it out, if you got uh a a a base a base like this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's just an idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I won't draw it really. If you got a base which is uh as big as this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's flat it's flat as as this, so we can p make all the products as flat as this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can. But i i i it's backwards.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, but if you got if you got a tiny player, it can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but when you make uh uh a bit of big.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it's it's backwards. It's leaning. It's leaning backwards, I think, in the in the docking station.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, wha what you could do if you uh from the bottom.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's text..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh, right, help.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, you could make like a hole in it, you know, of uh in in the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, little holer littler Uh, little products go deeper in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That i that is possible, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well let's ha let's talk about the docking station later, because uh maybe we have we have to uh consider the docking station anyway, because we have some uh cost issues still to come.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure, you're right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. And uh uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we have to look n I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the f the look and feel would be great on this uh remote control, because uh you always uh will uh pick up the remote control in the in the smallest uh area.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't like the colours. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then your uh left thumb of uh your right thumb is uh near the programme uh button, which is the most common used uh function, and all the other buttons are available for your uh thumb.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's it's it's really good design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. That's it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, uh on the side uh there will be a strip of rubber, and in the middle uh there is uh a hard uh a hard material, a bit hard plastic with a light uh behind it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The light. Okay. And other lights?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think added lights are gonna be a problem too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, we can make also n neon lights on it, or or the buttons that can make uh light on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, o on the on the front. Yeah, okay. Maybe the uh the logo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "lights?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, it will also uh uh use batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, why not?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and do we want to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. For now, uh this is uh is good enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, what was uh on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The all the aspects of the interface buttons were uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but in the oh yeah, the colour, because we're gonna use uh one colour for the the plastic enclosure and one colour for the rubber, isn't it? Then we're gonna do the buttons in the i are we're gonna have rubber buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And they're be a they'll be in the same colour as the rubber on the side.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, in the same colour as the side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think I think that'll be good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And I think we should use a a darker colour for the um plastic, and maybe some more m brighter and flashy stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, maybe we can use on the on the lights on the side we can use uh uh multiple uh lights,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it will uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll talk about the lights later.'Cause I also don yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's depends on the costs and such. But uh, and we have to agree uh upon the exact colours,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but may I dunno if that's important, but we'll talk about that later. Okay, for now this is this is okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We will.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, the next p y you gonna give a presentation too? Uh, I have to see the agenda.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, uh yeah, I I'm gonna do something right there, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Detail design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We gotta do that on the right the most right-most screen, because the leftmost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Evaluation criteria.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep, that's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. I will be needing that image, so leave it please. Um Go away. Right, we're gonna evaluate that design according to a few points. Um, we g the four of us are going to do that um together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I wanna have a colour over here, come on. Right, the remote is not ugly, a bit weird sentence, but the positive things has to be on the left, so I said not ugly instead of ugly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, what would you say, we we gotta give points to uh to all of these to evaluate uh that design, and please forget the drawing skills of these guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The remote control is not ugly. How do you feel?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think four maybe would be appropriate, because it's Yeah, maybe it really depends on taste. Uh, I mean it's kind of, our design. It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so if maybe a lot of people find it really ugly, you know, o other people find it really cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Background colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know or uh I don't know how you Casting. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think the the fronts will give it a more uh uh uh less uglier uh side, because you can uh make it in your own.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How do you guys feel? The different designs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes, you can make it in your own uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "more to your own personality or or house style.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we d we didn't we're we're not planning to use fronts, I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not not fronts, but different designs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With a colour a co a colours. Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not fronts. Different designs. Different colours maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's still uh uh, yeah, is is uh is a little personal touch, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but Oh, maybe we should do three or something that w you know, our.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What? Yeah, wha wha what would you uh guys uh think? Personally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or forty..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can make it a one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Personally. Yes, but what is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think two or three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Guido?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two or three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I uh I go for the positive. So I go for two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was I was thinking about three, so I guess", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I was thinking about four, so I think three is uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "three is uh a bit uh oh, what am I doing? I'll mark it. The remote control's uh uh that n makes uh zapping easy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well, let that let's make that a one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two. One. One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Antek, you agree?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay yeah, I'll I'll agree.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's one thing for sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. You're not Antek.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm the I'm the usability, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I totally agree. The remote control the remote control's relevant buttons are prominently visible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or a one, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's something we really put work into.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's all about the buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say a one because uh every button is uh uh relevant. And our oh yeah, it's a b yeah. Yeah? Alright. That's a one? You agree?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The remote control hasn't got too much redundant or unneeded buttons. I think we totally succeeded there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well maybe a two, because of the menu button or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well menu Yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And telete", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also, the the the buttons of the one, the two, the the digits,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we don't know if the uh they're necessary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "o they're used uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the yeah, m well, you d you've got a point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, true. Yeah, I agree.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can yes, three, two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Came a long way, but not we didn't not uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you can't make a remote control without them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two? Antek.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nay that that that's true, that's true. They're definitely needed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, w w it can also always be more simplistic, but two is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we put it on a two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The remote control has got a really trendy look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. A one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh a t I think a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maarten.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, y i it's hard to say from this picture.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we've tried to make it uh the the best trendy look uh ever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ever, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Guido.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I do think it's more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I will I will make it a three, because uh yeah. I I th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I do think that it's more trendy than beautiful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So so I think maybe it has to score higher uh on this than on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was planning to give it a two, uh where I give the not ugly uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A th a three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh, yeah, that's true. You agree on the two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I i uh when you compare to the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. Remote control hasn't got too much redundant or unneeded buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh uh what's the difference with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I copied that one. Well, uh forget that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Go away. Remote control has got innovative technology implanted.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. We're not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well, maybe the the the on the side.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, not L_C_D_, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we uh you mean the rubber stuff?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the light.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we have t we have to talk about the lights uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the light maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that that's not innovative.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I don't u also it's also really not innovative,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lights lights are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I g", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, six. Or seven maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, six. No, six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why uh why not a seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mine is seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because we've tried to make it a little bit innovative,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it but it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh it's uh depends on the on the maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With the lights it it's it's kind of future.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I think I think actually it's a seven maybe, but there's nothing innovative about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you think the lights are innovative? Well, it's n true. Uh, I agree,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But still you can retrieve it when it's when it's gone, with the with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "m but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Innovative in generally or just f original for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll Yeah, you you didn't draw the docking station..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. The docking station is a is a little bit innovative.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "N no no,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it's I think I think with its.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "t.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A docking station is innova", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean the dock station, but but uh, I think the the docking station, it's gonna be a kind of a problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a part of the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think more m", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And with the speaker on the there's also a speaker.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that that's n", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, let's leave it open for uh for us later to see what, because we have to reevaluate anyway. Well I i yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No uh, well, the agenda says evaluate now, so I think we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, for now it's a six or a seven uh, sev", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's a six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six maybe,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the retrieval or the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That m f", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I don't I don't know if it's very inno yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, for the retrieval function. Yeah. I think that's very innovative for a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, v", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, how would you innovate a remote control more?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, more through uh like function T_V_ functionalities and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To put it on your head.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no no, you know what I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have must be innovative technology for remote controls, but more in how you control stuff, not in how you find your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I d I definitely don't think it's a five,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's that's think about it la later on", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remote control is easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, as a a one or a two ma uh at least.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Come on. The remote control hasn't got uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I would have seen that one before. Oh, you skipped one uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've just filled uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You like the buttons..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I found twelve questions so much, but it still is ten.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remote control will be bought by.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It will be bought by people under the age of forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In in and comparing with uh people of th of the age above?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. No, just if they if they buy it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, just in general. Yeah, a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't know. But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think I think two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, what do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think two, yeah. I agree. Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Antek?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, two, but only in c when you compare it with with elderly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, that is not the question. It's just w it will be bought by people under forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's no comparison.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can yeah, you can be very picky about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I don't mean two people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is just guessing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah, just make it we'll make it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Make it a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When it succeeds, uh it can get a two, mu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, the rem The remote control has recognisable corporate image, colour, logo or slogan.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no. Yeah. Yeah, you have make an", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't have the slogan though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "slogan is quite obvious.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, the slogan.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh the oh sorry, no, not not the slogan.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we see the slogan?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can put that on the side if if we would like to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The logo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A logo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Underneath it or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, uh encrypted uh with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I will I th still think it's gonna be a two or a three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we gonna do that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A three. Three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe a three this time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three? I agree. Because of the slogan.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remote control's got a basic design intended uh for novice users.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, it's a one or a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, make it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two? Two. Alright. We gotta add up the scores now to see our total average. Four, five, seven, nine. Forget that. Fifteen, seventeen, twenty one, twenty four, twenty six. Twenty six. It's a two point six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not that bad.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's mostly the inno", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when we uh score higher on innovative technology, we would score two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is uh quite a great score. Okay. Uh, this is was uh the evaluation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This was my evaluation. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because I I still think that the most important part of this meeting still has.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We did a pretty nice job until now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, is this your.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there something after this uh meeting? Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whatever. Well, I think we gotta fill out another questionnaire.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Still opened or uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, finance. Because um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shoot.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I received uh a spreadsheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A five. A five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I uh actually don't need this presentation, I guess. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm gonna open the spreadsheet and we're gonna work this out together, because I didn't really fin uh I have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't really finish it. Well, we uh We'll see. We'll stumble upon some problems.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We probably will.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I probably have already opened it here. try it again. First of all, the mm all the docking station and costs and such are not included in this list. But let's let's st start with beginning. We include one battery. I i uh I'll explain its Uh, the the components are listed over here. Uh, price is given. We um yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The amount, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we we uh indicate the amount of components of the specif specific component, how much we need of them. And then uh, we'll uh calcula Don't watch the number yet. I don't know if it's filled in properly. Okay, we need one battery. One battery. I think one battery is enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We don't need kinetic, solar cells, hand dynamo. A s okay, this this is a p first problem. Uh, I think we should know how many simple chips, regular chips.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's it's one one chip, but but you have to choose one from it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The simple chip is e enough I I think, but with the lights with the lights and the retrieval, it can be uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where did we find this information? Was it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I haven't got an idea on on which we need to use, really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it was uh your job in the first uh meet Uh, f your first presentation to make this clear, but then you had some t time problems.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, uh I Yes, my my my uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the email I got said uh simple chip, but when we put in the speaker and the retriever uh device, it will uh cost a a bit more, like I think the advanced chip maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And how do you know? I mean, you got that email. Did it point out what to use them for?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bec No, the they didn't know about a retriever or a speaker uh in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you can uh look it up right now. Okay, but okay. When we don't when we leave the uh retriever and such aside, what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then it's a simple chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then it would be a simple chip. And with the retriever, it would be an advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, I I I s I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, well, point out the advanced chip for now, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That will be enough for future uh recommendations.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it will it will it will be cause a lot of problems. The sample sensor sample speaker. What is it m is that the speaker we were t I don't know what it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know it uh either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we went for the double-curved case", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "made out of plastic and rubber. And with a special colour. I guess that's what we were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, special colour..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know about the special colour, but I think w uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Otherwise, you get uh a standard uh plastic colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know if it's very special.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we uh we have special colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Standard rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, that's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, then the push-button, I was just counting them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "St.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, I think you have to indicate the amount of push-buttons we want to use, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoa, it's a little.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that's bit of a problem,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because I re but I really don't understand that, because I can imagine a remote control with far more push-buttons, and it wouldn't be possible according to this uh sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's huge. No. We have the simplest buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's only uh when you use push-buttons, it will cost that much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so, because it says amount.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you use a scroll-wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah. Yeah, it wouldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the the yellow row is the amount of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fill in the number of components you plan to use in the and the total cost I don't know. I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it's the kind of push-buttons. You can have f four kind of push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, one til nine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that one or is that nine buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can have uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I count them like this. One two three uh four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve and thirteen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because Oh, this is oh, this is one, okay. Twelve, okay, then it would be eighteen, because uh, I uh rated them as uh um as uh uh uh separate buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To n", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Different,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's total of four buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And plus these two, f uh plus the mute button, and it's will be uh eighteen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that Eighteen. One two three four five, si", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why is that so uh expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't understand. Y I do I don't get the point, because it's would be s relatively so expensive, just these m small buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it cents, the the the fifty cents a button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fifty cents for one single stupid button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, whe when you so then it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, okay, well well let's make it just one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's eighty percent of the price of the of the amount of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here, now it's now it's already s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "shall we just give our own interpretation to,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because else we would really have a problem. It would be impossible to make it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I I couldn't understand it if it was fifty cents per uh uh per button. Really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When you have the same amount of button, you have to put in wi in your carton. Board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and less buttons than this isn't possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then throw it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is the most simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, it is possible, but I've never seen one before.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But whe", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've seen one uh one remote control with only the pu yeah, only with uh page up, page down and volume,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, without the numbers. That's possible. Yeah, we could skip the numbers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I d I wouldn't want to own that. Really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's still four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, it's it's still for little children. They can handle that remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then uh, teletext would also be im impossible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but but it isn't fo Yes, it's for it's li uh it's just for a little.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's no option, that's no option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, we'll we'll just okay. But then still, when we there's no room for a docking station or something. Tha w Le let's see th we have uh oh yeah, button supplements. We'll give the buttons special colour. We'll give them a special form. Uh, I think we should mark the special form thing, because it this will be some special forms incorporated in these big buttons, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A special colour, why a special colour?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because the buttons will be uh d will be matching colour between the buttons and the rubber surroundings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But wha what s what special?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that's the what they mean by a special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise, it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise it would be the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think the special form is really true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think all the special colour things have to be marked over here, because that's what we were planning to do, making it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Special form also, it says.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, special material r also,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because i has rubber. And the buttons have to be rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is the normal material?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Classic?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, but the problem now is that the There's no such thing as a docking station in this list, but we can all imagine that it would be impossible to make a docking station for thirty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we can uh sell the remote control and uh sell the docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Separately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Se no no no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes. And and but we don't have to tell it, but what we can say of can um almost make it impossible to buy a remote control without the docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I do like the idea, but we yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It uh but it then the docking station isn't relevant for this project anymore, but we can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, but you otherwise you can't retrieve it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but then you still have to use we have to find out what chip we u need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I really don't get it. I mean if it's a simple chip, then we suddenly got two Euros and thirty cents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we can agree on this. I I think the special colour thing has to be uh marked.'Cause I think we uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's what what what they uh mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But for two Euros and thirty cents, we uh we don't get a docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so, too. Oh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But can we find out uh about uh this chips? Because when we don't need a d a docking station, then probably we also have only we also need a simple chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we can get a docking station..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And maybe then we can do something extra. Oh, n uh oh, still.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oh, it's gonna get more expensive with. Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then we have some money left. We can put then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For two Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can put a scroll-wheel on it or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh why?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well who knows. Or a little bit of tin titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean i i if you if it would cost two Euros, that had a total a total thing, it would be nice too, I mean uh we're not gonna add uh a trip to Hawaii to it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But what what can we do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, or we can ki do the kinetic cells. That's also maybe an idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh what can we do with the simple chip and what's difference with a regular chip and a advanced chip?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's what then what he has to find out. Maybe you can uh find it in your email right now, then we know then we exactly know what it will cost us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If if i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe is that that's nice to know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Regular chip and because we don't have uh special functions to use uh in advanced chip, for example.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, bu bu but when we yeah, but when we skip when we um when we don't use the do we're not gonna make the docking station, then we still yeah, we need something else maybe to make it kind of special,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like the hand dynamo part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because that was our our special feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can make a plain docking station for two Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. We'll go back uh tomorrow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, you can also do that, but maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wi wi without recharge.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It still is a special remote control cons uh you know, wi its form is special and material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but we can make a docking station for two Euros uh if you don't put the recharge function in it. I mean, it has a shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but for two Euros, then we have still maybe we have to use the advanced chip,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course it has a shape, but i i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then two Euros isn't even possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why should that not be possible?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then because then we'd thirty cents left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, for for the uh for the docking station if you do if you choose the simple chip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but yeah, I don't know, because maybe d uh yeah, we have to find out with the simple chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the question. If we do i do we need an advanced chip, or is it okay f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and w and and we uh need f", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It isn't in my information, so I don't know it uh either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and what is this? Sample sensor sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It isn't in my information, I uh I I've got a schematic view of the remote control, but nothing about uh advanced chips or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can look at it for s presentation. S technical functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I've got here in uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no, they were uh mine, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will put a I will put a page on it. When my mouse works again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, oh oh. Hey. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My mouse is uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Dead.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Reanimate it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Died.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. Ah, I've got it. I will put uh my email on the the network.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What the hell are these?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's open.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. I don't think here it's in here already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's circuit board. It's only just basics for for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's nothing about s yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At the end circuit there is an infrared LED.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This isn't helpful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. But i in the presentation of yours, there was also something about different components. Which one was it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Components design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Functional requirements?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, that was my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Components design maybe. N on top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, that was mine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah. Ah yes, it was the second one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that was my second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was your second.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's already open.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "your first presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Working design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's uh at your task bar.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's the the other one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, this is n this is not this n", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Was it working design or components design?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's not the right one. I don't oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, this is the other one. Or maybe something is uh maybe there's something abo in in these.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Chip set.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But this is the same uh This is o only the possibilities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can use a simple, a regular, or advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, nice. I it doesn't say anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The display requires an advanced chip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know that a push-button requires a simple chip, but a scroll-wheel, it it me requires.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we only need a simple chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Requires.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Little lights. Yeah, but that that's just the same as the the LED.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no, that's just a simple chip. A scroll-wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's not needed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it s uh only states that a scroll-wheel requires a regular chip, and that a display requires an advanced chip. So, we don't need any of them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A display uh is, of course, uh for showing letters. For showing text.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think that uh just a l a little light.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. I think uh the uh normal uh simple chip will be okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And what's the sample sensor slash sample speaker?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe you can say against the remote uh page uh f uh page up, page down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess so too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, true. Well, that's not too what we want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Next channel. No. Well, we might want it, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "All in twelve Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Back to the costs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twelve Euros and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're gonna use the simple chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, simple chip is okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. Delete.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the lights. Where uh are the lights?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, lights, yeah, there's no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, there're three, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "category..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, there is some money left to be spent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we do it wi within two two Euro?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we can make a docking station. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but what we have to think about now is that is is it still a special remote control? But I mean it isn't it hasn't got any innovative technology, we aren't gonna apply any uh innovated innovative te technology anyway, I think. I don't I don't see any possibility to do so, because it would wouldn't fit our defi design philosophy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. But it's original.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But what w is there some extra.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe I think maybe the kinetic thing is something. Instead of the rechargeable the rechargeable thing was something to um know, so y so people wouldn't have to worry about their batteries anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "M bu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we if we put the kinetic thing in it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but sometimes you put a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you leave the p yeah, I know, but still I they will think about that. I mean if you u", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kinetics aren't uh nowadays only used in watches and that's because you're always walking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The uh it's made for s people well, the they don't if it was uh uh r useless technology, they wouldn't put it uh as a possibility.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh solar cells are useless.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And i it it th th the the target", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or the hand dynamo dynamo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the target uh group are people who zap regularly and throw with their remote control as a matter of speaking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because I think it when when there w was a remote control where it was useful to have a kinetic uh uh power source, then it would be this one. Because it's one it gets thrown around thrown around a lot and it gets used a lot Hey that maybe that's cool that's a cool thing about it, you know. You don't use batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but if we ca", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've never seen it before in a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then we could make a docking station.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know if Five minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we we we can't make a docking station anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's not true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can als or uh also m we we can make one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow, w why no li", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can make a docking station for two thirty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can still make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look at now, we got two", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fo for a docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two thirty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "two thirty left. Ca can't we make a docking station of that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can make a docking station. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With a cable, with uh buttons on it, with retrieval uh device in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The power device is is i i is very cheap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's just a regular uh power cable and whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but be serious, then uh the docking station will be a fifth of the price of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wi with a button to", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we we uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "wi with a button to retrieve it, so it will beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, so it's uh wireless technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we uh we don't inc we haven't looked at the these costs of the speaker and other stuff. I don't think it's realistic for you to do so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well then it's a useless project.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Look at the case,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, because we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the case the case of of uh of uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, then we don't have any innovation things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We well look at all the special stuff we have. Colour a the colours are special, the form is special. It th this is whole concept. Uh maybe it with the kinetic thing, I think we could do uh do a compromise uh with the kim kinetic thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can't we uh Can't we say fifteen Euros?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, sta yeah I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, then we have to sell it for thirty Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we only make less profit of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can sell for twenty seven and a half. Then you make as much profit as you would with twelve and a half production costs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don my suggestion is to just forget about the whole docking station thing and make it uh like a Uh uh I I I I still fee I also feel this concept of making it kinetic, because of the you know, it g it gives something dynamic to the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we can uh can do it both. Maybe we can do it both uh in the in the in the remote. Battery and kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, that wouldn't n no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirteen twenty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it is also not a good it's not you have to really do it only kinetic, you don't want it to think about batteries anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I think only.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but when it's then when it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but only kinetic, then you gotta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then you have to shake it uh and all when it's when it's empty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you gotta throw uh throw it through the room like twenty times an hour, really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no. No no, this is very sophisticated technology technology.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When you use it your remote like once a day, or maybe even less i i it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You asked for three d No, that's n that's not true. Uh, a watch is uh kinetic because you walk all the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It We can make it yeah no. Becau be but a remote control gets why do they state that this technology can be used if it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, solar cells are also stated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, m but a w uh uh n uh a calculator also works on r on solar cells.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why don't we use solar cells then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because I think the d whole dynamic part, do you know, appeals to me qui uh thinking of our design philosophy, you know, with the rubber parts and uh sturdiness of the thing, and y when you move it around a lot, then people find the idea funny that when I move my remote control around and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's funny for a week. I guess something like that, where you have to move it around very frequently, is demotivating.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you don't have to. Trust me. The idea of this technology is that you don't think about it, it just happens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I I don't move my uh my remote control very much, seriously.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, then we d Okay, well y we don't have to do it, but what that would just have a lack of key features, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oui.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You m have to put something on your box. You have to make people buy it and uh We can really can do the docking thing, uh it's not yeah, uh we can do it, but it's would be a easy way out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can do it for fifty cents..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we've got more than fifty Cents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but we have to grou to agree upon something,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The c The case the case alone is is is uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because uh we only have a minute left or so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the case alone for uh remote control is at least one Euro. Then we have one Euro thirty for the whole docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no, it's not possible. Okay, w b we can s we can leave it on be well then then th it's this is then then our concept is ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cheap remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we make some extra profit of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, we won't, but that's um something else.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It w it won't tell, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, this not gonna sell. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Huh, any ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, uh, n no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. It's great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we just have to go all what we did today again. You have to do it over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Our remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We come back tomorrow, okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no uh there's still there's still someth concept and something special left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seventy Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean we're gonna it's gonna excel in in on in the the range in the field of design and and uh looks and feel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what it's makes it special. Yeah, and I would li I would have liked a kinetic part as well, to give it some just to give it some extra special feature, and uh I know it will work, but uh it's it's an They're they're not putting technologies on this, but if it if it was impossible to to make it happen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not a hand dynamo then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well we leave it like this. Then it's c then we're yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can't do anything else. Warning, finish meeting now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, project e uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well, we were gonna what look take a look at the last sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, we can't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have to Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, yes. Celebration. I don't see why, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where's the champagne?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we gotta fill out another questionnaire, to be honest.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't uh hear a bell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, not yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can do it here then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, I'll see you guys in a minute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bye.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can we can't we do it here?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I don't know. I don't I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Just fill that one in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're doing now. But it's. Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK, agenda item one,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We went.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "introduce Don. OK, we did that. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I had a just a quick question but I know there was discussion of it at a previous meeting that I missed, but just about the the wish list item of getting good quality close - talking mikes on every speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, so let's let's So let's just do agenda building right now. OK, so let's talk about that a bit.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, that was.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, @ @ tuss close talking mikes, better quality. OK, uh, we can talk about that. You were gonna starting to say something?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, you you, um, already know about the meeting that's coming up and I don't know if if this is appropriate for this. I don't know. I mean, maybe maybe it's something we should handle outside of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "No, no, that's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We can so we can ta so n NIST is NIST folks are coming by next week", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "and so we can talk about that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I think", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Who's coming?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, uh, John Fiscus", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "and, uh, I think George Doddington will be around as well. Uh, OK, so we can talk about that. Uh, I guess just hear about how things are going with, uh, uh, the transcriptions. That's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sure. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "That would sorta be an obvious thing to discuss. Um, An - anything else, uh, strike anybody?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, we started running recognition on one conversation but it's the r isn't working yet. So, But if anyone has.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wha", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, the main thing would be if anyone has, um, knowledge about ways to, uh, post - process the wave forms that would give us better recognition, that would be helpful to know about.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Dome yeah, it sounds like a topic of conversation.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What about, uh, is there anything new with the speech, nonspeech stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're working more on it but, it's not finished.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Alright, that seems like a a good collection of things. And we'll undoubtedly think of other things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I had thought under my topic that I would mention the, uh, four items that I I, uh, put out for being on the agenda f on that meeting, which includes like the pre - segmentation and the and the developments in multitrans.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, under the NIST meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, under the NIST thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Alright, why don't we start off with this, u u I guess the order we brought them up seems fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um, so, better quality close talking mikes. So the one issue was that the the, uh, lapel mike, uh, isn't as good as you would like. And so, uh, it it'd be better if we had close talking mikes for everybody. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ri - um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is that is that basically the point?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah, the And actually in addition to that, that the the close talking mikes are worn in such a way as to best capture the signal. And the reason here is just that for the people doing work not on microphones but on sort of like dialogue and so forth, uh or and even on prosody, which Don is gonna be working on soon, it adds this extra, you know, vari variable for each speaker to to deal with when the microphones aren't similar.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So And I also talked to Mari this morning and she also had a strong preference for doing that. And in fact she said that that's useful for them to know in starting to collect their data too.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right, so one th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, so.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "uh, well one thing I was gonna say was that, um, i we could get more, uh, of the head mounted microphones even beyond the number of radio channels we have because I think whether it's radio or wire is probably second - order. And the main thing is having the microphone close to you,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "u although, not too close.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right, so, uh, actually the way Jose is wearing his is is c correct.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Is.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The good way. So you want to.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I it's not cor it's correct?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that's good.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it's towards the corner of your mouth so that breath sounds don't get on it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then just sort of about, uh, a thumb or a thumb and a half away from your from your mouth.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But we have more than one type of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "How am I d", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, for instance, you're.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And this one isn't very adjustable,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so this about as good as I can get", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "cuz it's a fixed boom.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is fixed. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if we could actually standardize, you know, the the microphones, uh, as much as possible that would be really helpful.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean it doesn't hurt to have a few extra microphones around,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so why don't we just go out and and get an order of of if this microphone seems OK to people, uh, I'd just get a half dozen of these things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well the onl the only problem with that is right now, um, some of the Jimlets aren't working. The little the boxes under the table.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so, w Uh, I've only been able to find three jacks that are working.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Can we get these, wireless?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "No, but my point is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But y we could just record these signals separately and time align them with the start of the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "R r right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I I'm not sure I'm follow. Say that again?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right now, we've got, uh, two microphones in the room, that are not quote - unquote standard. So why don't we replace those.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK, just two.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, however many we can plug in. You know, if we can plug in three, let's plug in three.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Also what we've talked before about getting another, uh, radio,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and so then that would be, you know, three more.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, uh so we should go out to our full complement of whatever we can do, but have them all be the same mike. I think the original reason that it was done the other way was because, it w it was sort of an experimental thing and I don't think anybody knew whether people would rather have more variety or or, uh, more uniformity,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but @ @ but uh, sounds sounds fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sounds like uniformity wins.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, for short term research it's just there's just so much effort that would have to be done up front n uh,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "so yeah, uniformity would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is it because You you're saying the for dialogue purposes, so that means that the transcribers are having trouble with those mikes? Is that what you mean?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well Jane would know more about the transcribers.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that's true. I mean, I we did discuss this. Uh, and and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep. Couple times.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "a couple times, so, um, yeah, the transcribers notice And in fact there're some where, um ugh well, I mean there's it's the double thing. It's the equipment and also how it's worn.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And he's always they always they just rave about how wonderful Adam's Adam's channel is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "What can I say.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And then,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So does the recognizer.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, really? Yeah, I'm not surprised. I mean, \" Baaah! \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Even if if you're talking on someone else's mike it's still you w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I mean it's not just that, it's also you know you", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's also like n no breathing, no You know, it's like it's it's um,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it's really it makes a big difference from the transcribers' point of view", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's an advantage when you don't breath.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and also from the research s point of view.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "When we're doing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that the point of doing the close talking mike is to get a good quality signal. We're not doing research on close talking mikes.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we might as well get it as uniform as we can.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Now, this is locking the barn door after the horse was stolen. We do have thirty hours, of of speech, which is done this way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but, uh, yeah, for future ones we can get it a bit more uniform.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Great, great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So I think just do a field trip at some point.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably yeah, to the store we talked about and that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And there was some talk about, uh, maybe the h headphones that are uncomfortable for people, to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep. So, as as I said, we'll do a field trip and see if we can get all of the same mike that's more comfortable than than these things, which I think are horrible.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Great, thank you very much.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Especially for people with big heads.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's makes our job a lot easier.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, you know, we're researchers, so we all have big heads.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, OK, second item was the, uh, NIST visit, and what's going on there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, so, um, uh, Jonathan Fiscus is coming on the second of February and I've spoken with, uh, u u a lot of people here, not everyone. Um, and, um, he expressed an interest in seeing the room and in, um, seeing a demonstration of the modified multitrans, which I'll mention in a second, and also, um, he was interested in the pre - segmentation and then he's also interested in the transcription conventions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And, um So, um, it seems to me in terms of like, um, i i it wou You know, OK. So the room, it's things like the audio and c and audi audio and acoustic acoustic properties of the room and how it how the recordings are done, and that kind of thing. And, um. OK, in terms of the multi - trans, well that that's being modified by Dave Gelbart to, uh, handle multi - channel recording.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, I should've I was just thinking I should have invited him to this meeting. I forgot to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well that's OK, I mean we'll.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it's t and it looks really great. He he has a prototype. I I, uh, @ @ didn't didn't see it, uh, yesterday but I'm going to see it today. And, uh, that's that will enable us to do nice um, tight time marking of the beginning and ending of overlapping segments. At present it's not possible with limitations of of the, uh, original design of the software. And um. So, I don't know. In terms of, like, pre - segmentation, that that continues to be, um, a terrific asset to the to the transcribers. Do you I know that you're al also supplementing it further. Do you want to mention something about that c Thilo, or?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. What what I'm doing right now is I'm trying to include some information about which channel, uh, there's some speech in. But that's not working at the moment. I'm just trying to do this by comparing energies, uh normalizing energies and comparing energies of the different channels.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And so to to give the transcribers some information in which channel there's there's speech in addition to to the thing we we did now which is just, uh, speech - nonspeech detection on the mixed file. So I'm I'm relying on on the segmentation of the mixed file", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "This is good. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "but I'm I'm trying to subdivide the speech portions into different portions if there is some activity in in different channels.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Excellent, so this'd be like w e providing also speaker ID potentially.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "But Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Wonderful. Wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um, something I guess I didn't put in the list but, uh, on that, uh, same day later on in or maybe it's No, actually it's this week, uh, Dave Gelbart and I will be, uh, visiting with John Canny who i you know, is a CS professor,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "who's interested in ar in array microphones.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "HCC. Oh, he's doing array mikes.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. And so we wanna see what commonality there is here. You know, maybe they'd wanna stick an array mike here when we're doing things", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be cool.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be neat.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "or or maybe it's it's not a specific array microphone they want", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That would be really neat.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but they might wanna just, uh, you know, you could imagine them taking the four signals from these these table mikes and trying to do something with them Um, I also had a discussion So, w uh, we'll be over over there talking with him, um, after class on Friday. Um, we'll let you know what what goes with that. Also had a completely unrelated thing. I had a, uh, discussion today with, uh, Birger Kollmeier who's a, uh, a German, uh, scientist who's got a fair sized group doing a range of things. It's sort of auditory related, largely for hearing aids and so on. But but, uh, he does stuff with auditory models and he's very interested in directionality, and location, and and, uh, head models and microphone things. And so, uh, he's he and possibly a student, there w there's, uh, a student of his who gave a talk here last year, uh, may come here, uh, in the fall for, uh, sort of a five month, uh, sabbatical. So he might be around. Get him to give some talks and so on. But anyway, he might be interested in this stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That that reminds me, I had a a thought of an interesting project that somebody could try to do with the data from here, either using, you know, the the mikes on the table or using signal energies from the head worn mikes,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and that is to try to construct a map of where people were sitting,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, based on.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well Dan Dan had worked on that. Dan Ellis,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, did he? Oh, that's interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah. So that that's the cross - correlation stuff, was was doing b beam - forming.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so you could plot out who was sitting next to who", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "A little bit,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, he didn't do a very extreme thing but just it was just sort of", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, he did start on it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "e e given that, the the the block of wood with the the the two mikes on either side,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "if I'm speaking, or if you're speaking, or someone over there is speaking, it if you look at cross - correlation functions, you end up with a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if if someone who was on the axis between the two is talking, then you you get a big peak there. And if if someone's talking on on on, uh, one side or the other, it goes the other way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then, uh, it it it even looks different if th t if the two two people on either side are talking than if one in the middle. It it actually looks somewhat different, so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Well I was just thinking, you know, as I was sitting here next to Thilo that um, when he's talking, my mike probably picks it up better than your guys's mikes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So if you just looked at.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, that's another cl cue,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yeah, looked at the energy on my mike and you could get an idea about who's closest to who.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or who talks the loudest.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, well you have to the appropriate normalizations are tricky, and and and are probably the key.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You just search for Adam's voice on each individual microphone, you pretty much know where everybody's sitting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. We've switched positions recently so you can't Anyway. OK. So those are just a little couple of news items.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Can I ask one thing? Uh, so, um, Jonathan Fiscus expressed an interest in, uh, microphone arrays.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, is there I mean b And I also want to say, his he can't stay all day. He needs to uh, leave for uh, from here to make a two forty - five flight", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, so just morning.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "from from Oakland.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it makes the scheduling a little bit tight but do you think that, um that, uh, i John Canny should be involved in this somehow or not. I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Probably not but I I'll I'll I'll know better after I see him this Friday what what kind of level he wants to get involved.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's premature. Fine. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Uh, he might be excited to and it might be very appropriate for him to, uh, or he might have no interest whatsoever. I I just really don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Is he involved in Ach! I'm blanking on the name of the project. NIST has has done a big meeting room instrumented meeting room with video and microphone arrays, and very elaborate software. Is is he the one working on that?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well that's what they're starting up.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I mean, that's what all this is about. They they haven't done it yet. They wanted to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. I had read some papers that looked like they had already done some work.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, well I think they've instrumented a room but I don't think they they haven't started recordings yet. They don't have the t the transcription standards. They don't have the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Are they going to do video as well?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think they are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, cuz what what I had read was, uh, they had a uh very large amount of software infrastructure for coordinating all this, both in terms of recording and also live room where you're interacting the participants are interacting with the computer, and with the video, and lots of other stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, I'm I'm I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "All all I know is that they've been talking to me about a project that they're going to start up recording people meet in meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And, uh, it is related to ours. They were interested in ours. They wanted to get some uniformity with us, uh, about the transcriptions and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And one one notable difference u u actually I can't remember whether they were going to routinely collect video or not, but one one, uh, difference from the audio side was that they are interested in using array mikes. So, um, I mean, I'll just tell you the party line on that. The reason I didn't go for that here was because, uh, the focus, uh, both of my interest and of Adam's interest was uh, in impromptu situations. And we're not recording a bunch of impromptu situations but that's because it's different to get data for research than to actually apply it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so, uh, for scientific reasons we thought it was good to instrument this room as we wanted it. But the thing we ultimately wanted to aim at was a situation where you were talking with, uh, one or more other people i uh, in in an p impromptu way, where you didn't didn't actually know what the situation was going to be. And therefore it would not it'd be highly unlikely that room would be outfitted with with some very carefully designed array of microphones. Um, so it was only for that reason. It was just, you know, yet another piece of research and it seemed like we had enough troubles just.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So there's no like portable array of mikes?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. So there's there's uh, there's a whole range of things there's a whole array of things, that people do on this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, um, the, uh the big arrays, uh, places, uh, like uh, Rutgers, and Brown, and other other places, uh, they have, uh, big arrays with, I don't know, a hundred hundred mikes or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Xerox.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And so there's a wall of mikes. And you get really, really good beam - forming with that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it's and, um, in fact at one point we had a a proposal in with Rutgers where we were gonna do some of the sort of per channel signal - processing and they were gonna do the multi - channel stuff, but it d it d we ended up not doing it. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I've seen demonstrations of the microphone arrays. It's amazing how how they can cut out noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's r It's really neat stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then they have little ones too", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And then they had the little ones, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but I mean but they don't have our block of wood, right?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, our block of wood is unique.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But the But the No, there are these commercial things now you can buy that have four mikes or something", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and and, uh, um So, yeah, there's there's there's a range of things that people do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, so if we connected up with somebody who was interested in doing that sort of thing that's that's a good thing to do. I mean, whenever I've described this to other people who are interested on the with the acoustic side that's invariably the question they ask. Just like someone who is interested in the general dialogue thing will always ask \" um, are you recording video? \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and the acoustic people will always say, \" well are you doing, uh, uh, array microphones? \" So it's it's a good thing to do, but it doesn't solve the problem of how do you solve things when there's one mike or at best two mikes in in this imagined PDA that we have. So maybe maybe we'll do some more of it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well one thing I I mean, I don't know. I mean, I know that having an array of I mean, I would imagine it would be more expensive to have a an array of microphones. But couldn't you kind of approximate the natural sis situation by just shutting off uh, channels when you're later on? I mean, it seems like if the microphones don't effect each other then couldn't you just, you know, record them with an array and then just not use all the data?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "It's it's just a lot of infrastructure that for our particular purpose we felt we didn't need to set up.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, if ninety - nine percent of what you're doing is c is shutting off most of the mikes, then going through the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "But if you get somebody who's who who has that as a primary interest then that put then that drives it in that direction.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's right, I mean if someone if someone came in and said we really want to do it,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, we don't care. That would be fine,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So to save that data you You have to have one channel recording per mike in the array?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Buy more disk space.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, uh, at some level at some level.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I usually do a mix.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But then, you know, there's it there's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What you save, I mean, if you're going to do research with it. yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There's I I don't know what they're going to do and I don't know how big their array is. Obviously if you were gonna save all of those channels for later research you'd use up a lot of space.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well their software infrastructure had a very elaborate design for plugging in filters, and mixers, and all sorts of processing. So that they can do stuff in real time and not save out each channel individually.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it was, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But I mean, uh, for optimum flexibility later you'd want to save each channel. But I think in practical situations you would have some engine of some sort doing some processing to reduce this to some to the equivalent of a single microphone that was very directional.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, oh, OK, I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, it seems.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sort of saving the result of the beam - forming.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it seems to me that there's you know, there are good political reasons for for doing this, just getting the data, because there's a number of sites like right now SRI is probably gonna invest a lot of internal funding into recording meetings also, which is good, um, but they'll be recording with video and they'll be You know, it'd be nice if we can have at least, uh, make use of the data that we're recording as we go since it's sort of this is the first site that has really collected these really impromptu meetings, um, and just have this other information available. So, if we can get the investment in just for the infra infrastructure and then, I don't know, save it out or have whoever's interested save that data out, transfer it there, it'd be g it'd be good to have have the recording. I think.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You mean to to actually get a microphone array and do that?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, if Even if we're not.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And video and.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I'm not sure about video. That's sort of an video has a little different nature since right n right now we're all being recorded but we're not being taped. Um, but it definitely in the case of microphone arrays, since if there was a community interested in this, then.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, but I think we need a researcher here who's interested in it. To push it along.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "See the problem is it it took, uh, uh, it took at least six months for Dan to get together the hardware and the software, and debug stuff in in the microphones, and in the boxes. And it was a really big deal. And so I think we could get a microphone array in here pretty easily and, uh, have it mixed to to one channel of some sort.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, e I think for I mean, how we're gonna decide For for maximum flexibility later you really don't want to end up with just one channel that's pointed in the direction of the the the p the person with the maximum energy or something like that. I mean, you you want actually to you want actually to have multiple channels being recorded so that you can And to do that, it we're going to end up greatly increasing the disk space that we use up, we also only have boards that will take up to sixteen channels and in this meeting, we've got eight people and and six mikes. And there we're already using fourteen.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we actually only have fifteen.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "E", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One of them's.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Details.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But fifteen, not sixteen.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well if there's a way to say time to sort of solve each of these f those.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So suppose you can get an array in because there's some person at Berkeley who's interested and has some equipment, uh, and suppose we can as we save it we can, you know, transfer it off to some other place that that holds this this data, who's interested, and even if ICSI it itself isn't. Um, and it it seems like as long as we can time align the beginning, do we need to mix it with the rest? I don't know. You know? The", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think you'd need a separate a separate set up", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and the assumption that you could time align the two.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean it's just it's worth considering as sort of", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And y it'd certainly gets skew.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "once you make the up front investment and can sort of save it out each time, and and not have to worry about the disk space factor, then it mi it might be worth having the data.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I'm not so much worried about disk space actually. I mentioned that, b as a practical matter,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "but the real issue is that, uh, there is no way to do a recording extended to what we have now with low skew. So you would have a t completely separate set up,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which would mean that the sampling times and so forth would be all over the place compared to this. So it would depend on the level of pr processing you were doing later, but if you're d i the kind of person who's doing array processing you actually care about funny little times. And and so you actually wou would want to have a completely different set up than we have,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "one that would go up to thirty - two channels or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So basically.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or a hundred thirty - two.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "or a hun Yeah. So, I'm kinda skeptical, but um I think that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, uh, I don't think we can share the resource in that way. But what we could do is if there was someone else who's interested they could have a separate set up which they wouldn't be trying to synch with ours which might be useful for for them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right, I mean at least they'd have the data and the transcripts,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then we can offer up the room,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can o offer the meetings, and the physical space, and and yeah, the transcripts, and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Right, I mean, just it'd be nice if we have more information on the same data. You know, and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But it's if it's impossible or if it's a lot of effort then you have to just balance the two,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well I thi", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, the thing will be, u u in in again, in talking to these other people to see what you know, what what we can do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, we'll see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is there an interest in getting video recordings for these meetings?.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right, so we have we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. But it's exactly the same problem, that you have an infrastructure problem, you have a problem with people not wanting to be video taped, and you have the problem that no one who's currently involved in the project is really hot to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm. So there's not enough interest to overcome all of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right. Internally, but I know there is interest from other places that are interested in looking at meeting data and having the video. So it's just.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, w although I m I I have to u u mention the human subjects problems, that i increase with video.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right, that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's, uh, people people getting shy about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "There's this human subjects problem. There's the fact that then um, if i I I've heard comments about this before, \" why don't you just put on a video camera? \" But you know, it's sort of like saying, \" uh, well we're primarily interested in in some dialogue things, uh, but, uh, why don't we just throw a microphone out there. \" I mean, the thing is, once you actually have serious interest in any of these things then you actually have to put a lot of effort in.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, you really want to do it right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I know. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So I think NIST or LDC, or somebody like that I think is much better shape to do all that. We there will be other meeting recordings. We won't be the only place doing meeting recordings. We are doing what we're doing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And, uh, hopefully it'll be useful.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I it it occurred to me, has Don signed a human subject's form?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh! Probably not.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "A permission form?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Has Don have you s did you si I thought you did actually.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I was Yeah, I was I was here I was here before once.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Didn't you read a digit string?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "You were here at a meeting before.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You were here at a meeting before.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and you and you signed a form.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, I think so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Did you sign a form?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Did I? I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I'm pretty sure. Well I'll I'll get another one before the end of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You don't you don't have to leave for it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But I just.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Can I verbally consent?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well I can't, I'm wired in.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "We we we we don't, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. You're on recor you're being recorded", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "o", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "we don't we don't perform electro - shock during these meetings,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't care. You can do whatever you want with it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Usually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Uh, transcriptions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Transcriptions, OK. Um, I thought about there are maybe three aspects of this. So first of all, um, I've got eight transcribers. Uh, seven of them are linguists. One of them is a graduate student in psychology. Um, Each I gave each of them, uh, their own data set. Two of them have already finished the data sets. And the meetings run, you know, let's say an hour. Sometimes as man much as an hour and a half.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "How big is the data set?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, it's what I mean is one meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Each each person got their own meeting. I didn't want to have any conflicts of, you know, of of when to stop transcribing this one or So I wanted to keep it clear whose data were whose, and and and so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, meetings, you know, I think that they're they go as long as a almost two hours in some in some cases. So, you know, that means you know, if we've got two already finished and they're working on Uh, right now all eight of them have differe uh, uh, additional data sets. That means potentially as many as ten might be finished by the end of the month.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hope so. But the pre - segmentation really helps a huge amount.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, uh, also Dan Ellis's innovation of the, uh the multi - channel to here really helped a r a lot in terms of clearing clearing up h hearings that involve overlaps. But, um, just out of curiosity I asked one of them how long it was taking her, one of these two who has already finished her data set. She said it takes about, uh, sixty minutes transcription for every five minutes of real time. So it's about twelve to one, which is what we were thinking.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "or Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's well in the range.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "It's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK. Uh, these still, when they're finished, um, that means that they're finished with their pass through. They still need to be edited and all but But it's word level, speaker change, the things that were mentioned. OK, now I wanted to mention the, um, teleconference I had with, uh, Jonathan Fiscus. We spoke for an hour and a half and, um, had an awful lot of things in common.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "He, um, um, he in indicated to me that they've that he's been, uh, looking, uh, uh, spending a lot of time with I'm not quite sure the connection, but spending a lot of time with the ATLAS system. And I guess that I mean, I I need to read up on that. And there's a web site that has lots of papers. But it looks to me like that's the name that has developed for the system that Bird and Liberman developed for the annotated graphs approach.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So what he wants me to do and what we what we will do and uh, is to provide them with the u already transcribed meeting for him to be able to experiment with in this ATLAS System. And they do have some sort of software, at least that's my impression, related to ATLAS and that he wants to experiment with taking our data and putting them in that format, and see how that works out. I I I explained to him in in detail the, uh, conventions that we're using here in this in this word level transcript. And, um, you know, I I explained, you know, the reasons that that we were not coding more elaborately and and the focus on reliability. He expressed a lot of interest in reliability. It's like he's he's really up on these things. He's he's very Um, independently he asked, \" well what about reliability? \" So, he's interested in the consistency of the encoding and that sort of thing. OK, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Sorry, can you explain what the ATLAS I'm not familiar with this ATLAS system.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, you know, at this point I think Uh, well Adam's read more in more detail than I have on this. I need to acquaint myself more with it. But, um, there there is a way of viewing Uh, whenever you have coding categories, um, and you're dealing with uh, a taxonomy, then you can have branches that that have alternative, uh, choices that you could use for each each of them. And it just ends up looking like a graphical representation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Is is Is ATLAS the his annotated transcription graph stuff? I don't remember the acronym. The the one the what I think you're referring to, they they have this concept of an an annotated transcription graph representation.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And that's basically what I based the format that I did I based it on their work almost directly, in combination with the TEI stuff. And so it's very, very similar. And so it's it's a data representation and a set of tools for manipulating transcription graphs of various types.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is this the project that's sort of, uh, between, uh, NIST and and, uh, a couple of other places?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Including LDC.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "y right, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Then there's their web site that has lots of papers. And I looked through them and they mainly had to do with this, um, this, uh, tree structure, uh, annotated tree diagram thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um, um and, you know, in terms of like the conventions that I'm a that I've adopted, it there there's no conflict at all.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And he was, you know, very interested. And, \" oh, and how'd you handle this? \" And I said, \" well, you know, this way \" and And and we had a really nice conversation. Um, OK, now I also wanted to say in a different a different direction is, Brian Kingsbury. So, um, I corresponded briefly with him. I, uh, c I He still has an account here. I told him he could SSH on and use multi - trans, and have a look at the already done, uh, transcription. And he and he did. And what he said was that, um, what they'll be providing is will not be as fine grained in terms of the time information. And, um, that's, uh You know, I need to get back to him and and, uh, you know, explore that a little bit more and see what they'll be giving us in specific,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The p the people.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but I just haven't had time yet.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The the folks that they're, uh, subcontracting out the transcription to, are they like court reporters", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry, what? Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Apparently Well, I get the sense they're kind of like that. Like it's like a pool of of somewhat uh, secretarial I don't think that they're court reporters. I don't think they have the special keyboards and that and that type of training.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I get the sense they're more secretarial. And that, um, uh, what they're doing is giving them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Hmm. Like medical transcriptionist type people.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Nu - it's mostly it's for their speech recognition products,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But aren't they're.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "that they've hired these people to do.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, so they're hiring them, they're coming. It's not a service they send the tapes out to.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well they they do send it out but my understanding is that that's all this company does is transcriptions for IBM for their speech product.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Ah! Oh. OK. I gotcha.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So most of it's ViaVoice, people reading their training material for that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Up to now it's been monologues, uh, as far my understood.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep, exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And and what they're doing is", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Brian himself downloaded So So, um, Adam sent them a CD and Brian himself downloaded uh, cuz, you know, I mean, we wanted to have it so that they were in familiar f terms with what they wanted to do. He downloaded from the CD onto audio tapes. And apparently he did it one channel per audio tape. So each of these people is transcribing from one channel.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then what he's going to do is check it, a before they go be beyond the first one. Check it and, you know, adjust it, and all that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So each person gets one of these channels.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So if they hear something off in the distance they don't they just go.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well, but that's OK, because, you know, you'll do all them and then combine them.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But there could be problems, right? with that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I have t I, you know I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think it would be difficult to do it that way. I really", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well if you're tran if you got that channel right there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "d uh, in my case.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, no. We're talking about close talking, not the not the desktop.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "No, close talk.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Are you?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes. Well I th I think so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I sure hope so. It'd be really foolish to do otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I would think that it would be kind of hard to come out with Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I I think it's sort of hard just playing the you know, just having played the individual files. And I I mean, I know you. I know what your voice sounds like. I'm sort of familiar with.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, it's pretty hard to follow, especially", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "One side.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "there are a lot of words that are so reduced phonetically that make sense when you know what the person was saying before.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, it sort of depends where you are in.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And especially since a lot of these.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But I mean we had this we've had this discussion many times.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And the answer is we don't actually know the answer because we haven't tried both ways.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, except I can say that my transcribers use the mixed signal mostly", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "unless there's a huge disparity in terms of the volume on on the mix. In which case, you know, they they wouldn't be able to catch anything except the prominent channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "then they'll switch between.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well I think that that might change if you wanted really fine time markings.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But but really Well, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But they're not giving f really fine time markings.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Actually, are th so are they giving any time markings?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "In other words, if.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I have to ask him.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's that's my email to him. That needs to be forthcoming.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Cuz OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but the, uh I did want to say that it's hard to follow one channel of a conversation even if you know the people, and if you're dealing furthermore with highly abstract network concepts you've never heard of So, you know, one of these people was was transcribing the, uh, networks group talk and she said, \" I don't really know what a lot of these abbreviations are, \" \" but I just put them in parentheses cuz that's the that's the convention and I just \" Cuz you know, if you don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, I'd be curious to to look at that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Just out of curiosity, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They also all have h heavy accents.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The networks group meetings are all.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Given all of the effort that is going on here in transcribing why do we have I B M doing it? Why not just do it all ourselves?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, it's historical. I mean, uh, some point ago we thought that uh, it \" boy, we'd really have to ramp up to do that \",", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "you know, like we just did, and, um, here's, uh, a a, uh, collaborating institution that's volunteered to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, that was a contribution they could make. Uh in terms of time, money, you know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it still might be a good thing", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm just wondering now.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actu yeah, Mar - Mari asked me the same question as sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I'm I'm wondering now if it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well we can talk about more details later.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "um, you know, yeah, whether to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We'll see. I mean, I think, th you know, they they they've proceeded along a bit. Let's see what comes out of it, and and, uh, you know, have some more discussions with them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. It's very a real benefit having Brian involved because of his knowledge of what the how the data need to be used and so what's useful to have in the format.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, um, Liz, with with the SRI recognizer, can it make use of some time marks?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK, so this is a, um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I guess I don't know what that means.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and actually I should say this is what Don has b uh, he's already been really helpful in, uh, chopping up these So so first of all you um, I mean, for the SRI front - end, we really need to chop things up into pieces that are f not too huge. Um, but second of all, uh in general because some of these channels, I'd say, like, I don't know, at least half of them probably on average are g are ha are have a lot of cross - ta sorry, some of the segments have a lot of cross - talk. Um, it's good to get sort of short segments if you're gonna do recognition, especially forced alignment. So, uh, Don has been taking a first stab actually using Jane's first the fir the meeting that Jane transcribed which we did have some problems with, and Thilo, uh, I think told me why this was, but that people were switching microphones around in the very beginning, so the SRI re", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, th Yeah. No. They they were not switching them but what they were they were adjusting them,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and they They were not.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Adjusting. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And aft after a minute or so it's it's way better.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So we have to sort of normalize the front - end and so forth, and have these small segments.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So we've taken that and chopped it into pieces based always on your your, um, cuts that you made on the mixed signal. And so that every every speaker has the same cuts. And if they have speech in it we run it through. And if they don't have speech in it we don't run it through. And we base that knowledge on the transcription.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "On Just on the marks. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um, the problem is if we have no time marks, then for forced alignment we actually don't know where you know, in the signal the transcriber heard that word. And so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean, if if it's a whole conversation and we get a long, uh, you know, par paragraph of of talk,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "it's for the length. I see.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "uh, I don't know how they do this. Um, we actually don't know which piece goes where.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I understand.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And, um, I think with.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well you would need to like a forced alignment before you did the chopping, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, we used the fact that So when Jane transcribes them the way she has transcribers doing this, whether it's with the pre - segmentation or not,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's already chunked.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "they have a chunk and then they transcribes the words in the chunk. And maybe they choose the chunk or now they use a pre - segmentation and then correct it if necessary. But there's first a chunk and then a transcription.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Then a chunk, then a transcription. That's great, cuz the recognizer can.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, it's all pretty good sized for the recognizer also.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right, and it it helps that it's made based on sort of heuristics and human ear I think.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Good. Oh good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Th - but there's going to be a real problem, uh, even if we chop up based on speech silence these, uh, the transcripts from I B M, we don't actually know where the words were, which segment they belonged to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So that's sort of what I'm worried about right now.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Why not do a a a forced alignment?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's what she's saying, is that you can't.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "If you do a forced alignment on something really.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Got uh six sixty minutes of.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "well even if you do it on something really long you need to know you can always chop it up but you need to have a reference of which words went with which, uh, chop.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Now wasn't I thought that one of the proposals was that IBM was going to do an initial forced alignment,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "after they.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I I think that they are,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We'll have to talk to Brian.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "um, yeah, I'm sure they will and so we we have to have a dialogue with them about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, it sounds like Liz has some concerns", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe they have some you know, maybe actually there is some, even if they're not fine grained, maybe the transcribers.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh, I don't know, maybe it's saved out in pieces or or something. That would help.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "But, uh, it's just an unknown right now.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I need to to write to him.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I just you know, it's like I got over - taxed with the timing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right. But the it is true that the segments I haven't tried the segments that Thilo gave you but the segments that in your first meeting are great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I mean, that's that's a good length.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "A good size. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right, cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I I was thinking it would be fun to to uh, uh, if if you wouldn't mind, to give us a pre - segmentation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "y yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, maybe you have one already of that first m of the meeting that uh, the first transcribed meeting, the one that I transcribed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um, I'm sure I have some", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do you have a could you generate a pre - segmentation?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "February sixteenth I think.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "but but that's the one where we're, um, trai training on, so that's a little bit.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "It's a little bit at odd to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, darn. Of course, of course, of course. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And actually as you get transcripts just, um, for new meetings, um, we can try.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I mean, the the more data we have to try the the alignments on, um, the better. So it'd be good for just to know as transcriptions are coming through the pipeline from the transcribers, just to sort of we're playing around with sort of uh, parameters f on the recognizer,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "cuz that would be helpful. Especially as you get, en more voices.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Excellent, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The first meeting had I think just four people,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Four speakers, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, Liz and I spoke d w at some length on Tuesday and and I and I was planning to do just a a preliminary look over of the two that are finished and then give them to you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Oh, great, great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's great. I guess the other thing, I I can't remember if we discussed this in the meeting but, uh, I know you and I talked about this a little bit, there was an issue of, uh, suppose we get in the, uh, I guess it's enviable position although maybe it's just saying where the weak link is in the chain, uh, where we we, uh uh, we have all the data transcribed and we have these transcribers and we were we're the we're still a bit slow on feeding at that point we've caught up and the the the, uh, the weak link is is recording meetings. OK, um, two questions come, is you know what how how do we uh, it's not really a problem at the moment cuz we haven't reached that point but how do we step out the recorded meetings? And the other one is, um, uh, is there some good use that we can make of the transcribers to do other things? So, um, I I can't remember how much we talked about this in this meeting but there was.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We had spoken with them about it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And there is one use that that also we discussed which was when, uh, Dave finishes the and maybe it's already finished the the modification to multi - trans which will allow fine grained encoding of overlaps. Uh, then it would be very these people would be very good to shift over to finer grain encoding of overlaps. It's just a matter of, you know, providing So if right now you have two overlapping segments in the same time bin, well with with the improvement in the database in in the, uh, sorry, in the interface, it'd be possible to, um, you know, just do a click and drag thing, and get the uh, the specific place of each of those, the time tag associated with the beginning and end of of each segment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right, so I think we talking about three level three things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "One one was uh, we had s had some discussion in the past about some very high level labelings,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The types of overlaps.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "types of overlaps, and so forth that that someone could do. Second was, uh, somewhat lower level", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "just doing these more precise timings. And the third one is is, uh, just a completely wild hair brained idea that I have which is that, um, if, uh if we have time and people are able to do it, to take some subset of the data and do some very fine grained analysis of the speech. For instance, uh, marking in some overlapping potentially overlapping fashion, uh, the value of, uh, ar articulatory features.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "You know, just sort of say, OK, it's voiced from here to here, there's it's nasal from here to here, and so forth. Um, as opposed to doing phonetic uh, you know, phonemic and the phonetic analysis,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and, uh, assuming, uh, articulatory feature values for those those things. Um, obviously that's extremely time - consuming. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be really valuable I think.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but, uh, we could do it on some small subset.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Also if you're dealing with consonants that would be easier than vowels, wouldn't it? I mean, I would think that that, uh, being able to code that there's a a fricative extending from here to here would be a lot easier than classifying precisely which vowel that was.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Which one.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think vowels vowels are I think harder.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but I think also it's just the issue that that when you look at the u w u u when you look at Switchboard for instance very close up there are places where whether it's a consonant or a vowel you still have trouble calling it a particular phone", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "at that point", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but just saying what the.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "because it's you know, there's this movement from here to here", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm sure. Uh, yeah, I I know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and and and it's so I", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You're saying r sort of remove the high level constraints and go bottom - up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, describe describe it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Then just say.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep, just features.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Now I'm suggesting articulatory features. Maybe there's there's even a better way to do it but it but but that's, you know, sort of a traditional way of describing these things,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um, and uh, I mean, actually this might be a g neat thing to talk to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Acoustic features versus psychological categories.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sort of. I mean, it's still.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "some sort of categories but but something that allows for overlapping change of these things and then this would give some more ground work for people who were building statistical models that allowed for overlapping changes, different timing changes as opposed to just \" click, you're now in this state, which corresponds to this speech sound \" and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is like gestural uh, these g", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, actually if we get into that it might be good to, uh, uh, haul John Ohala into this", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and ask his his views on it I think.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But is is the goal there to have this on meeting data,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "like so that you can do far field studies of those gestures or um, or is it because you think there's a different kind of actual production in meetings that people use? Or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, I think I think it's for for for that purpose I'm just viewing meetings as being a a neat way to get people talking naturally. And then you have i and then and then it's natural in all senses,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Just a source of data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "in the sense that you have microphones that are at a distance that you know, one might have, and you have the close mikes, and you have people talking naturally. And the overlap is just indicative of the fact that people are talking naturally,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? So so I think that given that it's that kind of corpus,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if it's gonna be a very useful corpus um, if you say w OK, we've limited the use by some of our, uh, uh, censored choices, we don't have the video, we don't and so forth, but there's a lot of use that we could make of it by expanding the annotation choices.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, most of the things we've talked about have been fairly high level, and being kind of a bottom - up person I thought maybe we'd, do some of the others.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, that would be good.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's a nice balance.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be really nice to offer those things with that wide range.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah and hopefully someone would make use of it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Really nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I mean, people didn't.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "uh, I mean, people have made a lot of use of of TIMIT and, uh w due to its markings, and then the Switchboard transcription thing, well I think has been very useful for a lot of people.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I guess I wanted to, um, sort of make a pitch for trying to collect more meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I actually I talked to Chuck Fillmore and I think they've what, vehemently said no before but this time he wasn't vehement and he said you know, \" well, Liz, come to the meeting tomorrow", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and try to convince people \". So I'm gonna try. Go to their meeting tomorrow and see if we can try, uh, to convince them", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Cuz they have something like three or four different meetings,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because they have And they have very interesting meetings from the point of view of a very different type of of talk than we have here", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Talk.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and definitely than the front end meeting, probably. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You mean in terms of the topic topics?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, yes and in terms of the the fact that they're describing abstract things and, uh, just dialogue - wise,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, so I'll try. And then the other thing is, I don't know if this is at all useful, but I asked Lila if I can maybe go around and talk to the different departments in this building to see if there's any groups that, for a free lunch,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "if we can still offer that, might be willing.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You mean non - ICSI?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "non - ICSI, non - academic,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess you you can try", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "you know, like government people,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The problem is so much of their stuff is confidential.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "It would be very hard for them.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is is it in these departments?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Also it does seem like it takes us way out of the demographic. I mean, it seems like we we had this idea before of having like linguistics students brought down for free lunches", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well, tha I think that's her point.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and that's a nice idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Right, and then we could also we might try advertising again because I think it'd be good if if we can get a few different sort of non - internal types of meetings", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and just also more data. So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Does does John Ohala have weekly phonetics lab meetings?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And I think, uh, if we could get.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So I actually wrote to him and he answered, \" great, that sounds really interesting \". But I never heard back because we didn't actually advertise openly. We a I mean w I told I d asked him privately. Um, and it is a little bit of a trek for campus folks.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah. You might give them a free lunch.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um, so it's still worthwhile.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, um, it would be nice if we got someone other than me who knew how to set it up and could do the recording", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so u I didn't have to do it each time.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Exactly, and and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "and I was thinking.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He - he's supposed he's supposed to be trained to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Plus we could also get you know, a s a student.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, next week you're going to do it all.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And I'm willing to try to learn. I mean, I'm I would do my best. Um, the other thing is that there was a number of things at the transcription side that, um, transcribers can do, like dialogue act tagging,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's not that hard.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "disfluency tagging, um, things that are in the speech that are actually something we're y working on for language modeling. And Mari's also interested in it, Andreas as well. So if you wanna process a utterance and the first thing they say is, \" well \", and that \" well \" is coded as some kind of interrupt u tag. Uh, and things like that, um, th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Of course some of that can be li done lexically.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "A lot of it can be done.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And I also they are doing disfluency tagging to some degree already.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Great. So a a lot of this kind of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I think there's a second pass and I don't really know what would exist in it. But there's definitely a second pass worth doing to maybe encode some kinds of, you know, is it a question or not,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "or um, that maybe these transcribers could do. So Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They'd be really good. They're they're very they're very consistent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, I wanted to whi while we're Uh, so, to return just briefly to this question of more meeting data, um I have two questions. One of them is, um, Jerry Feldman's group, they they, uh, are they I know that they recorded one meeting. Are they willing?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I think they're open to it. I think, you know, all these things are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think there's we should go beyond, uh, ICSI but, I mean, there's a lot of stuff happening at ICSI that we're not getting now that we could.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, that we could.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's just.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "OK. I thought that all these people had sort of said \" no \" twice already.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If that's not the case then.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, no. No. So th there was the thing in Fillmore's group but even there he hadn't What he'd said \" no \" to was for the main meeting. But they have several smaller meetings a week,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and, uh, the notion was raised before that that could happen. And it just, you know it just didn't come together", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Just OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, and and the other thing too is when they originally said \" no \" they didn't know about this post - editing capability thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. That was a big fear.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's important.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I mean there's possibilities there. I think Jerry's group, yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, there's there's, uh, the networks group, uh, I don't Do they still meeting regularly or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know if they meet regularly or not but they are no longer recording.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But I mean, ha ha have they said they don't want to anymore or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, ugh, what was his name?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, i i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Joe Sokol?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "When with him gone, it sorta trickled off.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK, so they're down to three or four people", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They and they stopped Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but the thing is three or four people is OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "We might be able to get the administration.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well he was sort of my contact, so I just need to find out who's running it now.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I see that Lila has a luncheon meeting in here periodically.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it One thing that would be nice", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "and this it sounds bizarre but, I'd really like to look at to get some meetings where there's a little bit of heated discussion, like ar arguments and or emotion, and things like that. And so I was thinking if there's any like Berkeley political groups or something. I mean, that'd be perfect. Some group, \" yes, we must \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Who's willing to get recorded and distributed?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, you know, something.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't think the more political argumentative ones would be willing to.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, with with with potential use from the defense department.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, but maybe stu student, uh, groups or, um, film - makers, or som Something a little bit colorful.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, th there's a problem there in terms of, uh, the um commercial value of of st uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course there is this problem though, that if we give them the chance to excise later we e might end up with like five minutes out of a f of m one hour", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Film - maker.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Of beeps,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And I don't mean that they're angry", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "of Yes. Really.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "but just something with some more variation in prosodic contours and so forth would be neat. So if anyone has ideas, I'm willing to do the leg work to go try to talk to people but I don't really know which groups are worth pursuing.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well there was this K P F A", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "No that's.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "but OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Legal.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "it it it it turned out to be a bit of a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And I had one other one other aspect of this which is, um, uh, uh, Jonathan Fiscus expressed primar uh y a major interest in having meetings which were all English speakers. Now he wasn't trying to shape us in terms of what we gather", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but that's what he wanted me to show him. So I'm giving him our, um our initial meeting because he asked for all English. And I think we don't have a lot of all English meetings right now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Of all all nat all native speakers.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Did he mean, uh did he mean and non - British?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The all native.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's what I mean, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well if he meant and non - British I think we have zero.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "He doesn't care. No. Eh, well, British is OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "He said British was OK?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but Sure, sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "British is English?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Different varieties of English.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Ooo, ooo.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, I don't I don't I don't think if he didn't say that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Native speaking. Native speaking English.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I bet he meant native speaking American.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I bet he did.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "American English?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, really.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So, why would he care?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Knowing the application.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I remember wh I I remember a study.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I was thinking, knowing the, uh, n National Institute of Standards, it is all.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I remember a study that BBN did where they trained on this was in Wall Street Journal days or something, they trained on American English and then they tested on, uh, different native speakers from different areas. And, uh, uh, the worst match was people whose native tongue was Mandarin Chinese. The second worst was British English.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's funny.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "So h it's, you know, t", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Alright. And so that would make sense.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "the the the German was much better,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ooo, ooo.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I didn't have the context of that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "it was Swiss w Yeah, so it's so I think, you know, if he's if he's thinking in terms of recognition kind of technology I I I think he would probably want, uh American English,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "All America, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I wonder if we have any.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "yeah. It it yeah, unless we're gonna train with a whole bunch of.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think that the Feldman's meetings tend to be more that way, aren't they? I mean, I sort of feel like they have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I think so,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And maybe there are a few of with us where it was.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you know, Dan wasn't there and before Jose started coming,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's pretty tough, uh, this group. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, uh, what about what about people who involved in some artistic endeavor?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, film - making or something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly, that's what I was.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You'd think like they would be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "A film - maker.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "something where there there is actually discussion where there's no right or wrong answer but but it's a matter of opinion kind of thing. Uh, anyway, if you if you have ideas.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's be fun.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "RASTA. PLP. RASTA. PLP.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We can just discu we can just have a political discussion one day.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, we could.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "A any department that calls itself science", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Department.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, I could make that pretty.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, like computer science.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Computer sci", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "We could get Julia Child. I know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I'm I'm actually serious", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "because, uh, you know, we have the set up here", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Got a ticket.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know you are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and and that that has a chance to give us some very interesting fun data. So if anyone has ideas,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if you know any groups that are m you know,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well I had asked some some of the students at the business school.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "student groups c like clubs, things like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I could.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Not not.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Put a little ad up saying, \" come here and argue \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. \" If you're really angry at someone use our conference room. \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The Business school. Uh, the business school might be good. I actually spoke with some students up there", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and they they they expressed willingness back when they thought they would be doing more stuff with speech.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Really.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But when they lost interest in speech they also stopped answering my email about other stuff, so.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or people who are really h", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They could have a discussion about te", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We should probably bleep that out.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "about about tax cuts or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I heard that at Cal Tech they have a special room someone said that they had a special room to get all your frustrations out that you can go to and like throw things and break things.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, now that is not actually what we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we can like post a.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Th - that's not what we want.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "No, not to that extent", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, far field mikes can pick up where they threw stuff on the wall.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but, um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we don't want them to throw the far field mikes is the thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The fa", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" Please throw everything in that direction. \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Padded cell.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It'd be fun to get like a a p visit from the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "There was a dorm room at Tech that, uh, someone had coated the walls and the ceiling, and, uh, the floor with mattresses.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The entire room.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I had as my fourth thing here processing of wave forms.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "What did we mean by that? Remember @ @?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, Liz wanted to talk about methods of improving accuracy by doing pre - processing.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Pre - processing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well I think that that was just sort of I I already asked Thilo", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, you already did that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but that, um, it would be helpful if I can stay in the loop somehow with, um, people who are doing any kind of post - processing, whether it's to separate speakers or to improve the signal - to - noise ratio, or both, um, that we can sort of try out as we're running recognition. Um, so, i is that Who else is work I guess Dan Ellis and you", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Dan, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, and Dave uh Gel - Gelbart again,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and Dave.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "he's he's interested in in fact we're look starting to look at some echo cancellation kind of things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Which uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I am not sure how much that's an issue with the close talking mikes,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but who knows?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, let's w i isn't that what what you want.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I'm bad.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "t No, so No, i w wha what you what you want when you're saying improving the wave form you want the close talking microphone to be better.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's like like.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And the question is to w to what extent is it getting hurt by, uh by any room acoustics or is it just uh, given that it's close it's not a problem?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It doesn't seem like big room acoustics problems to my ear", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but I'm not an expert. It seems like a problem with cross - talk.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "e I bet with the lapel mike there's plenty, uh, room acoustic", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That that may be true.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but I I think the rest is cross - talk.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But I don't know how good it can get either by those the those methods.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So I I think it's just,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, what you said, cross - talk.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "All I meant is just that as sort of as this pipeline of research is going on we're also experimenting with different ASR, uh, techniques.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And so it'd be w good to know about it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the problem is like, uh, on the microphone of somebody who's not talking they're picking up signals from other people and that's causing problems?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "R right, although if they're not talking, using the the inhouse transcriptions, were sort of O K because the t no one transcribed any words there and we throw it out.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if they're talking at all and they're not talking the whole time, so you get some speech and then a \" mm - hmm \", and some more speech, so that whole thing is one chunk. And the person in the middle who said only a little bit is picking up the speech around it, that's where it's a big problem.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, this does like seem like it would relate to some of what Jose's been working on as well, the encoding of the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And and he also, he was.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "The energy,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "right. Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I was t I was trying to remember, you have this interface where you i you ha you showed us one time on your laptop that you you had different visual displays as speech and nonspeech events.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah, c Yeah. May I I only display the different colors for the different situation. But, eh, for me and for my problems, is uh is enough. Because, eh, it's possible, eh, eh, in a simp sample view, uh, to, nnn, to compare with c with the segment, the the kind of assessment what happened with the the different parameters. And only with a different bands of color for the, uh, few situation, eh, I consider for acoustic event is enough to @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "I I I see that, eh, you are considering now, eh, a very sophisticated, eh, ehm, eh, @ @ set of, eh, graphic s eh, eh, ehm, si symbols to to transcribe. No? Because, uh, before, you you are talking about the the possibility to include in the Transcriber program eh, um, a set of symbols, of graphic symbol to t to mark the different situations during the transcription", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I w Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "during the transcription. No?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, you're saying So, uh, symbols for differences between laugh, and sigh, and and and slam the door and stuff?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The s the symbols, you you talk of before.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or some other kind of thing?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "No? To to mark.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I wouldn't say symbols so much. The the main change that I that I see in the interface is is just that we'll be able to more finely c uh, time things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But I I also st there was another aspect of your work that I was thinking about when I was talking to you", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which is that it sounded to me, Liz, as though you and, uh, maybe I didn't q understand this, but it sounded to me as though part of the analysis that you're doing involves taking segments which are of a particular type and putting them together.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And th so if you have like a p a s you know, speech from one speaker, then you cut out the part that's not that speaker,", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and you combine segments from that same speaker to and run them through the recognizer. Is that right?", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Well we try to find as close of start and end time of as we can to the speech from an individual speaker,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "because then we we're more guaranteed that the recognizer will for the forced alignment which is just to give us the time boundaries, because from those time boundaries then the plan is to compute prosodic features.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "And the sort of more space you have that isn't the thing you're trying to align the more errors we have. Um, so, you know, that that it would help to have either pre - processing of a signal that creates very good signal - to - noise ratio,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Cuz i OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "which I don't know how possible this is for the lapel, um, or to have very to have closer, um, time you know, synch times, basically, around the speech that gets transcribed in it, or both. And it's just sort of a open world right now of exploring that. So I just wanted to see, you know, on the transcribing end from here things look good. Uh, the IBM one is more it's an open question right now. And then the issue of like global processing of some signal and then, you know, before we chop it up is is yet another way we can improve things in that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What about increasing the flexibility of the alignment?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Do you remember that thing that Michael Finka did?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that experiment he did a while back?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. You can, um The problem is just that the acoustic when the signal - to - noise ratio is too low, um, you you'll get, a uh an alignment with the wrong duration pattern or it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, so that's the problem, is the the signal - to - noise ratio.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not the fact that you have like I mean, what he did is allow you to have, uh, words that were in another segment move over to the at the edges of of segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Or even words inserted that weren't weren't there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right, things things near the boundaries where if you got your alignment wrong.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "cuz what they had done there is align and then chop.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, and this problem is a little bit j more global. It's that there are problems even in inside the alignments, uh, because of the fact that there's enough acoustic signal there t for the recognizer to to eat, as part of a word. And it tends to do that. S So, uh,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but we probably will have to do something like that in addition. Anyway. So, yeah, bottom bottom line is just I wanted to make sure I can be aware of whoever's working on these signal - processing techniques for, uh, detecting energies,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because that that'll really help us.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "O K, uh tea has started out there I suggest we c run through our digits and,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc G" }, { "text": "Uh, So, OK, we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" } ] }

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T_A_R_I_K_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T_ R_ I_ K_. And your role in this is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer. And, lastly we have?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, Dave Cochrane.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you're going to be the User Interface,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "User Interface Defin Designer, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it? Designer. Okay. Right. This is the agenda for today's meeting. As you can see, w opening, acquaintance, tool training, project plan discussion, and closing. Um, we already got n through opening, and partially through acquaintance. So, the reason we're here, we're gonna design a new remote control, as you probably all know. The very broad overview is original, trendy, and user-friendly. Course, we'll have to go into a bit more um detail than that, but uh personally I think that the original is gonna be a very key aspect to this design. Um, there's a lot of remote controls out there anyway, so we're gonna need something that's really gonna set it apart. This is how today seems to be going to work. We're gonna have the three kay phases, as you've probably already been told, the functional, architectural, and the detailed design. Um First one's gonna be covering the user requirement spec, technical functions, working design. Second seems to be conceptual components, properties, materials, and the last one is a detailed analysis of our design so far. Of course, you've all got the similar emails, I believe, right. What can I say? Ebenezer, you wanna have a you wanna draw your favourite animal?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Whiteboard.'Kay. S okay. I will make this quick, since we don't have much time. Um.'Kay, so it's not the best picture in the world.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here we have an elephant. First point, begins with an E_, same like Ebenezer. Also, elephants have a very good memory, much like myself,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I can't remember back when I used to live back in Nigeria, but I think I used to have a pet elephant. So elephants are big, strong and gentle, and they have great memories, and they begin with the letter E_, just like Ebenezer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Brilliantly done. Thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tarik, would you like to have a shot at a bit of artistry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh oh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can clip them to your belt.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we take them off?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you ga", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You should also l um have your the lapel mic on as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The little The the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah-ha.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's good, we can clip them on. Okay. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now where do I put the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just um somewhere.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, the, it's just across there, that's it. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this supposed to be clipped as well?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It'll follow you if you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. There you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can probably just stick it in your pocket for now, I wouldn't worry too much. Should have good range.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, destroying your elephant here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, here we have a tiger. Uh I've always loved tigers. They're just they're big, they're biggest cats, uh I did a project on cats in the wild when I was a kid and uh it was my favourite cat, just'cause it was looks the best, the stripes, orange. My dad used to talk about he's from Bangladesh so he used to tell me all about them when he was when I was a kid. And uh they're just the most feared of of uh animals in the wild. So uh that's why I like them. Didn't say an anything about me really but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent, thank you very much. Dave, if you'd like to uh have a dash.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Um, the monkey, um. The one f uh in fact this is a somewhat oblique reference in fact to uh well my I have a three uh three y year old daughter who h who who who is affectionately known as Miss Monkey. Um, monkeys have attitude. Which I think is a good thing. And I mean fr and from uh from the point of view of sort of the study of human evolution they and other primates are terribly interesting. Um, so I like monkeys. And and th th th th thi thi this one seems to have perhaps more attitude than most.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cheers. Hardly what I'd call the best drawing in the world but it'll do for now. Also not quite as feared as your average tiger, but uh cats are one of my favourite animals, they're very independent, they're snotty as hell at the best of times, and uh, what can you say, you got to love those qualities in an animal. Right. I think we've all managed to master the whiteboard there by looks of it, so, on to it. Project finance. As you can see, twelve point five Euros per unit. That's not a terrible lot as far as I'm aware, and we're hoping to sell them for twenty five. If we're aiming for fifty million Euros we're gonna have to be selling an awful lot of them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, that was profiting, that was an amount, so that's the amount made,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, fifty million, and if you're making twelve point five Euros on each one, then, awful lot need to be sold.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Now we better actually just get on with the uh the meat of the project. So I'm gonna guess that we've all used remote controls. Any ideas of where you think a new remote control could go into this market?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, one thing I'm aware of is, th there uh um at the sort of v very high price end of the market there's there's a em emerging market for sort of touch screen L_C_D_ remotes that can be uh programmed in m much more sophisticated ways than sort of conventional models, so you get the sort of you get um you you can redesign the interface to your own needs, you can programme in macros, and you get a much greater degree um um I mean you get in these sort of three in one, five in one, whatevers, but you can get integration between the different uh the the the diff the different things that it's designed to control, to a much greater extent, and you can have one uh you know one macro to turn the uh you know turn the T_V_ to the right channel, get the uh re uh rewind the tape in the V_C_R_ and get it to play once it's rewound, for instance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um b it occurs to me there might be a niche for uh for a remote that aimed towards some of that sort of functionality but using a just conventional push button design. And therefore putting it into a um well much lower price bracket.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah, tha that's true, with the price range we're looking at, going for a touch screen would probably be possibly out of our.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Absolutely prohibitive,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you think uh again something to control multiple units in uh a simple fashion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean I wouldn't like to say you g I mean you get ones that you can switch between multiple units, but something that could um operate between multiple units in a more integrated fashion. Some and ideally something into which it would have some at least limited facility for um running macros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would the the idea something along the lines of, one on button would turn on say the video recorder, the T_V_, maybe the sound system as well, all in one go, is that kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For instance, um let's say oh oh um, or um you know you pr uh you press uh say the play button for the D_V_D_ player and it turns the T_V_ on and onto the right channel as well, um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, that sounds like a a good strong idea. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Any takes on this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well um I've noticed that uh gaming c is becoming quite popular with television, um when I was younger we used to e play games using our cable, using the cable subscribed the cable providers,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but our remote controls would get worn out really easily, and the remote control was not a great kind of keyboar, um keypad, for playing games.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So perhaps one that was more um specialised for game playing or interactive television. They they've recently brought out this new remote control, for people to set their favourite channels, or um to record things. Instead of people entering in what time things start, you simply stri slide a bar to say what time it begins,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and slide another bar to say what time it ends, you know that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I've heard I've seen the bar-code design before,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's taken out the Y you don't have to be uh really clever to use a remote control. I think for gaming, you know you want you want some big buttons for up, down, left and right, shoot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, you wanna be able to change angles in interactive television, so you need buttons to change the television angle, the camera angles and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we're beginning to run out of time now, so, we've got a couple of ideas,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can we'll have to work fast, um, alright as you can see we've got thirty minutes until the next meeting, so we'll have to try and decide on some of the basic functionality, um, how the user interface might work, that'll be a key aspect especially if the idea of um some kind of macros facility because you have to program it, you have to have a lot of response back, or at least some kind. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we're gonna maybe n try and have to figure out", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What the user wants uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what the user wants, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, right. Has anybody got anything they'd like to add at this stage, anything they think that might have been missed so far?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well when you're talking about gaming and stuff, do you think they should have some sort of stick on it, rather than buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Okay,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like uh control pads, you know of games, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or is that a bit ridiculous?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I don't see why not, almost everybody is probably used to a console by now, and all of them incorporate small keypads on them, in fact even the mobile phones these days are beginning to use them as well, so it's probably an interface that most people are used to. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that could allow n easy navigation, used as a joystick as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. The other key feature that uh that would be a good idea built into it is t is is to make something you know fairly sort of ergonomic, something that just fits fits as comfortably as possible into the hand. But of course, uh al al also allows for the possibility of a more sort of slightly unconventional or attractive uh sha shape for it overall,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A curve,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "small, stylish, and something that's just a little different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm-hmm. Something sort of sort of sl slightly sort of biomorphic in form, uh which it would need to be to sort of conform to the shape of the hand more efficiently anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's definitely something that we should be able to do quite easily. I would I would have hoped so anyway. Um, right. I'd say we finish this one up, we get started, I'll get in, I'll write up what we've um kind of quickly done, and I'll get that out to everybody. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, as far as I'm aware we leave the microphones here, um unless we get told otherwise, and just take the laptops with us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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Let's do image processing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes, again.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We did it again, Morgan.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Alright!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Doo - doop, doo - doo.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What's wrong with?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. It's April fifth. Actually, Hynek should be getting back in town shortly if he isn't already.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is he gonna come here?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, we'll drag him here. I know where he is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So when you said \" in town \", you mean Oregon.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "U u u u uh, I meant, you know, this end of the world, yeah, is really what I meant,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Doo, doo - doo.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, cuz he's been in Europe.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Doo - doo.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I have something just fairly brief to report on.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, I did some experim uh, uh, just a few more experiments before I had to, uh, go away for the w well, that week.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Great!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Was it last week or whenever? Um, so what I was started playing with was the th again, this is the HTK back - end. And, um, I was curious because the way that they train up the models, they go through about four sort of rounds of of training. And in the first round they do uh, I think it's three iterations, and for the last three rounds e e they do seven iterations of re - estimation in each of those three. And so, you know, that's part of what takes so long to train the the the back - end for this.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that. There's there's four and there's seven and I I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, maybe I should write it on the board. So, there's four rounds of training. Um, I g I g I guess you could say iterations. The first one is three, then seven, seven, and seven. And what these numbers refer to is the number of times that the, uh, HMM re - estimation is run. It's this program called H E", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But in HTK, what's the difference between, uh, a an inner loop and an outer loop in these iterations?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So what happens is, um, at each one of these points, you increase the number of Gaussians in the model.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, right! This was the mix up stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The mix up.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I remember now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so, in the final one here, you end up with, uh for all of the the digit words, you end up with, uh, three mixtures per state,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "eh, in the final thing. 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So, um, I I think m it only took something like, uh, three or four hours to do the full training,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "As opposed to?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "as opposed to wh what, sixteen hours or something like that? I mean, it takes you have to do an overnight basically, the way it is set up now.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. 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Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so I can't remember exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "um, but it's so much faster. I it makes a big difference.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So we could do a lot more experiments and throw a lot more stuff in there.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Oh, the other thing that I did was, um, I compiled the HTK stuff for the Linux boxes. So we have this big thing that we got from IBM, which is a five - processor machine. Really fast, but it's running Linux. 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In fact, you could do something like keep exactly the same procedure and then add a fifth thing onto it", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "that had more.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So at at the middle o where the arrows are showing, that's you're adding one more mixture per state,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Uh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "let's see, uh. It goes from this uh, try to go it backwards this at this point it's two mixtures per state. So this just adds one. Except that, uh, actually for the silence model, it's six mixtures per state.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, so it goes to two.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um. And I think what happens here is.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Might be between, uh, shared, uh shared variances or something,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that's what it is.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. It's, uh Shoot. I I I can't remember now what happens at that first one. Uh, I have to look it up and see.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, there because they start off with, uh, an initial model which is just this global model, and then they split it to the individuals. And so, it may be that that's what's happening here. I I I have to look it up and see. I I don't exactly remember.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. That's it.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Alright. So what else?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. There was a conference call this Tuesday. Um. I don't know yet the what happened Tuesday, but the points that they were supposed to discuss is still, uh, things like the weights, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, this is a conference call for, uh, uh, Aurora participant sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "For.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Do you know who was who was since we weren't in on it, uh, do you know who was in from OGI? Was was was Hynek involved or was it Sunil", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I have no idea.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm, I just.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, you don't know. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. So the points were the the weights how to weight the different error rates that are obtained from different language and and conditions. Um, it's not clear that they will keep the same kind of weighting. Right now it's a weighting on on improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Some people are arguing that it would be better to have weights on uh well, to to combine error rates before computing improvement. Uh, and the fact is that for right now for the English, they have weights they they combine error rates, but for the other languages they combine improvement. So it's not very consistent. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The, um Yeah. And so Well, this is a point. And right now actually there is a thing also, uh, that happens with the current weight is that a very non - significant improvement on the well - matched case result in huge differences in in the final number.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so, perhaps they will change the weights to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "How should that be done? I mean, it it seems like there's a simple way.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, this seems like an obvious mistake or something.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, the fact that it's inconsistent is an obvious mistake.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Th - they're.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But the but, um, the other thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "In", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know I haven't thought it through, but one one would think that each It it's like if you say what's the what's the best way to do an average, an arithmetic average or a geometric average?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It depends what you wanna show.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Each each one is gonna have a different characteristic.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, it seems like they should do, like, the percentage improvement or something, rather than the absolute improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Tha - that's what they do.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, they are doing that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, that is relative. But the question is, do you average the relative improvements or do you average the error rates and take the relative improvement maybe of that?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the thing is it's not just a pure average because there are these weightings.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's a weighted average. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And so when you average the the relative improvement it tends to to give a lot of of, um, importance to the well - matched case because the baseline is already very good and, um, i it's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Why don't they not look at improvements but just look at your av your scores? You know, figure out how to combine the scores", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "with a weight or whatever, and then give you a score here's your score. And then they can do the same thing for the baseline system and here's its score. And then you can look at.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, that's what he's seeing as one of the things they could do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's just when you when you get all done, I think that they pro I m I I wasn't there but I think they started off this process with the notion that you should be significantly better than the previous standard.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, um, so they said \" how much is significantly better? what do you? \" And and so they said \" well, you know, you should have half the errors, \" or something, \" that you had before \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's, uh, But it does seem like", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "i i it does seem like it's more logical to combine them first and then do the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Combine error rates and then.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But there is this this is this still this problem of weights. When when you combine error rate it tends to give more importance to the difficult cases, and some people think that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "well, they have different, um, opinions about this. Some people think that it's more important to look at to have ten percent imp relative improvement on well - matched case than to have fifty percent on the m mismatched, and other people think that it's more important to improve a lot on the mismatch and So, bu", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It sounds like they don't really have a good idea about what the final application is gonna be.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "l de fff! Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, you know, the the thing is that if you look at the numbers on the on the more difficult cases, um, if you really believe that was gonna be the predominant use, none of this would be good enough.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Nothing anybody's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "whereas you sort of with some reasonable error recovery could imagine in the better cases that these these systems working. So, um, I think the hope would be that it would uh, it would work well for the good cases and, uh, it would have reasonable reas soft degradation as you got to worse and worse conditions. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I guess what I'm I mean, I I was thinking about it in terms of, if I were building the final product and I was gonna test to see which front - end I'd I wanted to use, I would try to weight things depending on the exact environment that I was gonna be using the system in.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But but No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If I.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, no well, no. I mean, it isn't the operating theater. I mean, they don they they don't they don't really know, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, I th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So if if they don't know, doesn't that suggest the way for them to go? Uh, you assume everything's equal. I mean, y y I mean, you.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, I I think one thing to do is to just not rely on a single number to maybe have two or three numbers,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "you know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and and and say here's how much you, uh you improve the, uh the the relatively clean case and here's or or well - matched case, and here's how here's how much you,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So not.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So not try to combine them.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, actually it's true.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, I had forgotten this, uh, but, uh, well - matched is not actually clean. What it is is just that, u uh, the training and testing are similar.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The training and testing.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, I guess what you would do in practice is you'd try to get as many, uh, examples of similar sort of stuff as you could, and then,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh So the argument for that being the the the more important thing, is that you're gonna try and do that, but you wanna see how badly it deviates from that when when when the, uh it's a little different.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so you should weight those other conditions v very you know, really small.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But No. That's a that's a that's an arg", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, that's more of an information kind of thing.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "that's an ar Well, that's an argument for it, but let me give you the opposite argument. The opposite argument is you're never really gonna have a good sample of all these different things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, are you gonna have w uh, uh, examples with the windows open, half open, full open? Going seventy, sixty, fifty, forty miles an hour? On what kind of roads?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "With what passing you? With uh, I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I I I think that you could make the opposite argument that the well - matched case is a fantasy.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You know, so,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think the thing is is that if you look at the well - matched case versus the po you know, the the medium and the and the fo and then the mismatched case, um, we're seeing really, really big differences in performance. Right? And and y you wouldn't like that to be the case. You wouldn't like that as soon as you step outside You know, a lot of the the cases it's is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, that'll teach them to roll their window up.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, in these cases, if you go from the the, uh I mean, I don't remember the numbers right off, but if you if you go from the well - matched case to the medium, it's not an enormous difference in the in the the training - testing situation, and and and it's a really big performance drop.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You know, so, um Yeah, I mean the reference one, for instance this is back old on, uh on Italian uh, was like six percent error for the well - matched and eighteen for the medium - matched and sixty for the for highly - mismatched. Uh, and, you know, with these other systems we we helped it out quite a bit, but still there's there's something like a factor of two or something between well - matched and medium - matched. And so I think that if what you're if the goal of this is to come up with robust features, it does mean So you could argue, in fact, that the well - matched is something you shouldn't be looking at at all, that that the goal is to come up with features that will still give you reasonable performance, you know, with again gentle degregra degradation, um, even though the the testing condition is not the same as the training.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, you know, I I could argue strongly that something like the medium mismatch, which is you know not compl pathological but I mean, what was the the medium - mismatch condition again?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, it's Yeah. Medium mismatch is everything with the far microphone, but trained on, like, low noisy condition, like low speed and or stopped car and tested on high - speed conditions, I think, like on a highway and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's still the same same microphone in both cases,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Same microphone but Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but, uh, it's there's a mismatch between the car conditions. And that's uh, you could argue that's a pretty realistic situation", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and, uh, I'd almost argue for weighting that highest. But the way they have it now, it's I guess it's it's They they compute the relative improvement first and then average that with a weighting?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so then the that that makes the highly - matched the really big thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, so, u i since they have these three categories, it seems like the reasonable thing to do is to go across the languages and to come up with an improvement for each of those.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Just say \" OK, in the in the highly - matched case this is what happens, in the m the, uh this other m medium if this happens, in the highly - mismatched that happens \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, you should see, uh, a gentle degradation through that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. But I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think that that I I I gather that in these meetings it's it's really tricky to make anything ac make any policy change because everybody has has, uh, their own opinion", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, so Yeah. Yeah, but there is probably a a big change that will be made is that the the baseline th they want to have a new baseline, perhaps, which is, um, MFCC but with a voice activity detector. And apparently, uh, some people are pushing to still keep this fifty percent number. So they want to have at least fifty percent improvement on the baseline, but w which would be a much better baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And if we look at the result that Sunil sent, just putting the VAD in the baseline improved, like, more than twenty percent,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "which would mean then then mean that fifty percent on this new baseline is like, well, more than sixty percent improvement on on o e e uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So nobody would be there, probably. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right now, nobody would be there, but Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Good. Work to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So whose VAD is Is is this a?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, they didn't decide yet. I guess i this was one point of the conference call also, but mmm, so I don't know. Um, but Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, I I think th that would be good. I mean, it's not that the design of the VAD isn't important, but it's just that it it it does seem to be i uh, a lot of work to do a good job on on that and as well as being a lot of work to do a good job on the feature design,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "if we can cut down on that maybe we can make some progress.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "M Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But I guess perhaps I don't know w Yeah. Uh, yeah. Per - e s s someone told that perhaps it's not fair to do that because the, um to make a good VAD you don't have enough to with the the features that are the baseline features. So mmm, you need more features. So you really need to put more more in the in in the front - end.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So i", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "sure. But i bu", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. I I'm confused.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Wha - what do you mean?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, if i", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So y so you m s Yeah, but Well, let's say for ins see, MFCC for instance doesn't have anything in it, uh, related to the pitch. So just just for example. So suppose you've that what you really wanna do is put a good pitch detector on there and if it gets an unambiguous.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "if it gets an unambiguous result then you're definitely in a in a in a voice in a, uh, s region with speech. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So there's this assumption that the v the voice activity detector can only use the MFCC?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's not clear, but this e", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, for the baseline.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so if you use other features then y But it's just a question of what is your baseline. Right? What is it that you're supposed to do better than?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I g Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so having the baseline be the MFCC's means that people could choose to pour their ener their effort into trying to do a really good VAD", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't s But they seem like two separate issues.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or tryi They're sort of separate.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right? I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Unfortunately there's coupling between them, which is part of what I think Stephane is getting to, is that you can choose your features in such a way as to improve the VAD.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And you also can choose your features in such a way as to prove improve recognition. They may not be the same thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But it seems like you should do both.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You should do both", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and and I I think that this still makes I still think this makes sense as a baseline. It's just saying, as a baseline, we know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you know, we had the MFCC's before, lots of people have done voice activity detectors,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you might as well pick some voice activity detector and make that the baseline, just like you picked some version of HTK and made that the baseline.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then let's try and make everything better. Um, and if one of the ways you make it better is by having your features be better features for the VAD then that's so be it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, uh, uh, uh, at least you have a starting point that's um, cuz i i some of the some of the people didn't have a VAD at all, I guess. Right? And and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "then they they looked pretty bad and and in fact what they were doing wasn't so bad at all.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It seems like you should try to make your baseline as good as possible. And if it turns out that you can't improve on that, well, I mean, then, you know, nobody wins and you just use MFCC. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, it seems like, uh, it should include sort of the current state of the art that you want are trying to improve, and MFCC's, you know, or PLP or something it seems like reasonable baseline for the features, and anybody doing this task, uh, is gonna have some sort of voice activity detection at some level, in some way. They might use the whole recognizer to do it but rather than a separate thing, but but they'll have it on some level. So, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It seems like whatever they choose they shouldn't, you know, purposefully brain - damage a part of the system to make a worse baseline, or.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, I think people just had", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "it wasn't that they purposely brain - damaged it. I think people hadn't really thought through about the, uh the VAD issue.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and then when the the the proposals actually came in and half of them had V A Ds and half of them didn't, and the half that did did well and the half that didn't did poorly.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we'll see what happen with this. And Yeah. So what happened since, um, last week is well, from OGI, these experiments on putting VAD on the baseline. And these experiments also are using, uh, some kind of noise compensation, so spectral subtraction, and putting on - line normalization, um, just after this. So I think spectral subtraction, LDA filtering, and on - line normalization, so which is similar to the pro proposal - one, but with spectral subtraction in addition, and it seems that on - line normalization doesn't help further when you have spectral subtraction.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is this related to the issue that you brought up a couple of meetings ago with the the musical tones", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I have no idea, because the issue I brought up was with a very simple spectral subtraction approach,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and the one that they use at OGI is one from from the proposed the the the Aurora prop uh, proposals, which might be much better. So, yeah. I asked Sunil for more information about that, but, uh, I don't know yet. Um. And what's happened here is that we so we have this kind of new, um, reference system which use a nice a a clean downsampling - upsampling, which use a new filter that's much shorter and which also cuts the frequency below sixty - four hertz,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "which was not done on our first proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "When you say \" we have that \", does Sunil have it now, too,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I No.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because we're still testing. So we have the result for, uh, just the features", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we are currently testing with putting the neural network in the KLT. Um, it seems to improve on the well - matched case, um, but it's a little bit worse on the mismatch and highly - mismatched I mean when we put the neural network. And with the current weighting I think it's sh it will be better because the well - matched case is better. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But how much worse since the weighting might change how how much worse is it on the other conditions, when you say it's a little worse?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's like, uh, fff, fff um, ten percent relative. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But it has the, uh the latencies are much shorter. That's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - y w when I say it's worse, it's not it's when I I uh, compare proposal - two to proposal - one, so, r uh, y putting neural network compared to n not having any neural network. I mean, this new system is is is better,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because it has um, this sixty - four hertz cut - off, uh, clean downsampling, and, um what else? Uh, yeah, a good VAD. We put the good VAD. So. Yeah, I don't know. I I j uh, uh pr", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But the latencies but you've got the latency shorter now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Latency is short is Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Isn't it", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's better than the system that we had before.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mainly because of the sixty - four hertz and the good VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then I took this system and, mmm, w uh, I p we put the old filters also. So we have this good system, with good VAD, with the short filter and with the long filter, and, um, with the short filter it's not worse. So well, is it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it's in.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that's that's all fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But what you're saying is that when you do these So let me try to understand. When when you do these same improvements to proposal - one,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that, uh, on the i things are somewhat better, uh, in proposal - two for the well - matched case and somewhat worse for the other two cases.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So does, uh when you say, uh So The th now that these other things are in there, is it the case maybe that the additions of proposal - two over proposal - one are less im important?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Probably, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I get it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um So, yeah. Uh. Yeah, but it's a good thing anyway to have shorter delay. Then we tried, um, to do something like proposal - two but having, um, e using also MSG features. So there is this KLT part, which use just the standard features,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then two neura two neural networks.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm, and it doesn't seem to help. Um, however, we just have one result, which is the Italian mismatch, so. Uh. We have to wait for that to fill the whole table, but.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. There was a start of some effort on something related to voicing or something. Is that?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, yeah. So basically we try to, uh, find good features that could be used for voicing detection, uh, but it's still, uh on the, um t", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, well, I have the picture.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "we w basically we are still playing with Matlab to to look at at what happened,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What sorts of.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "what sorts of features are you looking at?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "We have some.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So we would be looking at, um, the variance of the spectrum of the excitation,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, um, this, this, and this.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "something like this, which is should be high for voiced sounds. Uh, we.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. I what does that mean? The variance of the spectrum of excitation.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the So basically the spectrum of the excitation for a purely periodic sig signal shou sh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah, w what yo what you're calling the excitation, as I recall, is you're subtracting the the, um the mel mel mel filter, uh, spectrum from the FFT spectrum.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "e That's right. Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So we have the mel f filter bank, we have the FFT, so we just.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's it's not really an excitation,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but it's something that hopefully tells you something about the excitation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We have here some histogram,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "E yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but they have a lot of overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but it's it's still Yeah. So, well, for unvoiced portion we have something tha that has a mean around O point three, and for voiced portion the mean is O point fifty - nine. But the variance seem quite high.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "How do you know?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "How did you get your voiced and unvoiced truth data?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "We used, uh, TIMIT and we used canonical mappings between the phones", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. We, uh, use TIMIT on this,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "for.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "th Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But if we look at it in one sentence, it apparently it's good, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Yeah. Uh, so it's noisy TIMIT. That's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's noisy TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It seems quite robust to noise, so when we take we draw its parameters across time for a clean sentence and then nois the same noisy sentence, it's very close.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there are there is this. There could be also the, um something like the maximum of the auto - correlation function or which.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is this a a s a trained system? Or is it a system where you just pick some thresholds? Ho - how does it work?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right now we just are trying to find some features. And,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh Yeah. Hopefully, I think what we want to have is to put these features in s some kind of, um well, to to obtain a statistical model on these features and to or just to use a neural network and hopefully these features w would help.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Because it seems like what you said about the mean of the the voiced and the unvoiced that seemed pretty encouraging.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, except the variance was big.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Except the variance is quite high.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, y", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, y I I don't know that I would trust that so much because you're doing these canonical mappings from TIMIT labellings.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? So, really that's sort of a cartoon picture about what's voiced and unvoiced. So that could be giving you a lot of variance.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, i it it may be that that you're finding something good and that the variance is sort of artificial because of how you're getting your truth.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But another way of looking at it might be that I mean, what w we we are coming up with feature sets after all. So another way of looking at it is that um, the mel cepstru mel spectrum, mel cepstrum, any of these variants, um, give you the smooth spectrum. It's the spectral envelope. By going back to the FFT, you're getting something that is more like the raw data. So the question is, what characterization and you're playing around with this another way of looking at it is what characterization of the difference between the raw data and this smooth version is something that you're missing that could help? So, I mean, looking at different statistical measures of that difference, coming up with some things and just trying them out and seeing if you add them onto the feature vector does that make things better or worse in noise, where you're really just i i the way I'm looking at it is not so much you're trying to f find the best the world's best voiced - unvoiced, uh, uh, classifier,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but it's more that, you know, uh, uh, try some different statistical characterizations of that difference back to the raw data", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and and m maybe there's something there that the system can use.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, but ther more obvious is that Yeah. The the more obvious is that that well, using the th the FFT, um, you just it gives you just information about if it's voiced or not voiced, ma mainly, I mean. But So,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "this is why we we started to look by having sort of voiced phonemes", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, that's the rea w w what I'm arguing is that's Yeah. I mean, uh, what I'm arguing is that that that's givi you gives you your intuition.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But in in reality, it's you know, there's all of this this overlap and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and But what I'm saying is that may be OK, because what you're really getting is not actually voiced versus unvoiced, both for the fac the reason of the overlap and and then, uh, th you know, structural reasons, uh, uh, like the one that Chuck said, that that in fact, well, the data itself is that you're working with is not perfect.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, what I'm saying is maybe that's not a killer because you're just getting some characterization, one that's driven by your intuition about voiced - unvoiced certainly,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but it's just some characterization of something back in the in the in the almost raw data, rather than the smooth version.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And your intuition is driving you towards particular kinds of, uh, statistical characterizations of, um, what's missing from the spectral envelope.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, obviously you have something about the excitation, um, and what is it about the excitation, and, you know and you're not getting the excitation anyway, you know. So so I I would almost take a uh, especially if if these trainings and so forth are faster, I would almost just take a uh, a scattershot at a few different ways of look of characterizing that difference and, uh, you could have one of them but and and see, you know, which of them helps.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So i is the idea that you're going to take whatever features you develop and and just add them onto the future vector? Or, what's the use of the the voiced - unvoiced detector?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, I guess we don't know exactly yet. But, um Yeah. Th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's not part of a VAD system that you're doing?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, no. No.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, the idea was, I guess, to to use them as as features.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Features. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah, it could be, uh it could be a neural network that does voiced and unvoiced detection,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but it could be in the also the big neural network that does phoneme classification.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But each one of the mixture components I mean, you have, uh, uh, variance only, so it's kind of like you're just multiplying together these, um, probabilities from the individual features within each mixture. So it's so, uh, it seems l you know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think it's a neat thing. Uh, it seems like a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. Yeah. I mean, I know that, um, people doing some robustness things a ways back were were just doing just being gross and just throwing in the FFT and actually it wasn't wasn't wasn't so bad. Uh, so it would s and and you know that i it's gotta hurt you a little bit to not have a a spectral, uh a s a smooth spectral envelope, so there must be something else that you get in return for that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that, uh uh So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So how does uh, maybe I'm going in too much detail, but how exactly do you make the difference between the FFT and the smoothed spectral envelope? Wha - wh i i uh, how is that, uh?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, we just How did we do it up again?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, we distend the we have the twenty - three coefficient af after the mel f filter,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and we extend these coefficient between the all the frequency range.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And i the interpolation i between the point is give for the triang triangular filter, the value of the triangular filter and of this way we obtained this mode this model speech.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So you essentially take the values that th that you get from the triangular filter and extend them to sor sort of like a rectangle, that's at that m value.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think we have linear interpolation.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So we have we have one point for one energy for each filter bank,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "mmm Yeah, it's linear.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "which is the energy that's centered on on on the triangle.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. At the n at the center of the filter.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So you you end up with a vector that's the same length as the FFT vector?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And then you just, uh, compute differences", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I have here one example if you if you want see something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Then we compute the difference.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh, sum the differences?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So. And I think the variance is computed only from, like, two hundred hertz to one to fifteen hundred.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Two thou two fifteen hundred?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Two hundred and fifty thousand.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Fifteen hundred. Because Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Two thousand and fifteen hundred.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Above, um it seems that Well, some voiced sound can have also, like, a noisy part on high frequencies, and But.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, it's just.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, it's makes sense to look at low frequencies.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So this is uh, basically this is comparing an original version of the signal to a smoothed version of the same signal?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. So i so i i this is I mean, i you could argue about whether it should be linear interpolation or or or or zeroeth order, but but", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "at any rate something like this is what you're feeding your recognizer, typically.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Like which of the?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No. Uh, so the mel cepstrum is the is the is the cepstrum of this this, uh, spectrum or log spectrum,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So this is Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "whatever it You - you're subtracting in in in power domain or log domain?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "In log domain. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Log domain.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. So it's sort of like division, when you do the yeah, the spectra.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's the ratio.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. But, anyway, um and that's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what's th uh, what's the intuition behind this kind of a thing? I I don't know really know the signal - processing well enough to understand what what is that doing.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So. Yeah. What happen if what we have have what we would like to have is some spectrum of the excitation signal,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess that makes sense. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "which is for voiced sound ideally a a pulse train", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and for unvoiced it's something that's more flat.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And the way to do this is that well, we have the we have the FFT because it's computed in in the in the system, and we have the mel filter banks,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and so if we if we, like, remove the mel filter bank from the FFT, we have something that's close to the excitation signal.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's something that's like a a a train of p a pulse train for voiced sound", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh! OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and that's that should be flat for.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see. So do you have a picture that sh?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So - It's Y", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is this for a voiced segment,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "this picture? What does it look like for unvoiced?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You have several some unvoiced?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The dif No. Unvoiced, I don't have", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "for unvoiced.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, you know, all.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is the between.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is another voiced example. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No. But it's this,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. This is.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but between the frequency that we are considered for the excitation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "for the difference and this is the difference.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is the difference. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, of course, it's around zero,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sure looks.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, no.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It is.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because we begin, uh, in fifteen point the fifteen point.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, does does the periodicity of this signal say something about the the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Fifteen p", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Pitch.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the pitch?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's like fundamental frequency.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, I mean, i t t", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, to first order what you'd what you're doing I mean, ignore all the details and all the ways which is that these are complete lies. Uh, the the you know, what you're doing in feature extraction for speech recognition is you have, uh, in your head a a a a simplified production model for speech,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "in which you have a periodic or aperiodic source that's driving some filters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is the the auto - correlation the R - zero energy.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Do you have the mean do you have the mean for the auto - correlation?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, first order for speech recognition, you say \" I don't care about the source \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "For Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, I mean for the the energy.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I have the mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so you just want to find out what the filters are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The filters roughly act like a, um a, uh a an overall resonant you know, f some resonances and so forth that th that's processing excitation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They should be more close.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Ah, no. This is this? More close. Is this? And this.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So they are this is there is less difference.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So if you look at the spectral envelope, just the very smooth properties of it, you get something closer to that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is less it's less robust.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Less robust. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the notion is if you have the full spectrum, with all the little nitty - gritty details, that that has the effect of both,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and it would be a multiplication in in frequency domain", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so that would be like an addition in log power spectrum domain.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so this is saying, well, if you really do have that sort of vocal tract envelope, and you subtract that off, what you get is the excitation. And I call that lies because you don't really have that, you just have some kind of signal - processing trickery to get something that's kind of smooth. It's not really what's happening in the vocal tract", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so you're not really getting the vocal excitation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's why I was going to the why I was referring to it in a more a more, uh, uh, conservative way, when I was saying \" well, it's yeah, it's the excitation \". But it's not really the excitation. It's whatever it is that's different between.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. This moved in the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so, stand standing back from that, you sort of say there's this very detailed representation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You go to a smooth representation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You go to a smooth representation cuz this typically generalizes better.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, but whenever you smooth you lose something, so the question is have you lost something you can you use?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, probably you wouldn't want to go to the extreme of just ta saying \" OK, our feature set will be the FFT \", cuz we really think we do gain something in robustness from going to something smoother, but maybe there's something that we missed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So what is it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then you go back to the intuition that, well, you don't really get the excitation, but you get something related to it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And it and as you can see from those pictures, you do get something that shows some periodicity, uh, in frequency,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "you know, and and and also in time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's that's really neat.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So you don't have one for unvoiced picture?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, not here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, I have s", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But not here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But presumably you'll see something that won't have this kind of, uh, uh, uh, regularity in frequency, uh, in the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But Yeah. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Not here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I would li I would like to see those pictures.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I can't see you now.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't have.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so you said this is pretty doing this kind of thing is pretty robust to noise?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It seems, yeah. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Pfft. Oops. The mean is different with it, because the the histogram for the the classifica", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No, no, no. But th the kind of robustness to noise.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So if if you take this frame, uh, from the noisy utterance and the same frame from the clean utterance.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You end up with a similar difference", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Y y y yeah. We end up with.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "over here?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Cool!", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I have here the same frame for the clean speech.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, that's clean.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "the same cle", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But they are a difference.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Because here the FFT is only with two hundred fifty - six point", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and this is with five hundred twelve.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is kind of inter interesting also", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "because if we use the standard, uh, frame length of of, like, twenty - five milliseconds, um, what happens is that for low - pitched voiced, because of the frame length, y you don't really have you don't clearly see this periodic structure,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because of the first lobe of of each each of the harmonics.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So this one inclu is a longer Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, this is like yeah, fifty milliseconds or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Fifty millis Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's the same frame and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, it's that time - frequency trade - off thing.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? I see. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh, so this i is this the difference here, for that?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No. This is the signal. This is the signal.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see that. Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The frame.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, that's the f the original.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is the fra the original frame.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So with a short frame basically you have only two periods", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and it's not not enough to to have this kind of neat things.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And here No, well.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So probably we'll have to use, like, long f long frames. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe. Well, I mean it looks better, but, I mean, the thing is if if, uh if you're actually asking you know, if you actually j uh, need to do place along an FFT, it may be it may be pushing things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Would you would you wanna do this kind of, uh, difference thing after you do spectral subtraction?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No. Maybe we can do that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm. The spectral subtraction is being done at what level? Is it being done at the level of FFT bins or at the level of, uh, mel spectrum or something?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, I guess it depends.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, how are they doing it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "How they're doing it? Yeah. Um, I guess Ericsson is on the, um, filter bank,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "FFT. Filter bank,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "no? It's on the filter bank,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so. So, yeah, probably I i it Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So in that case, it might not make much difference at all.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Seems like you'd wanna do it on the FFT bins.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Maybe. I mean, certainly it'd be better.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I I mean, if you were gonna uh, for for this purpose, that is.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What else?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah, that's all. So we'll perhaps try to convince OGI people to use the new the new filters and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Uh, has has anything happened yet on this business of having some sort of standard, uh, source,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, not yet", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but I wi I will call them and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "now they are I think they have more time because they have this well, Eurospeech deadline is over", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "When is the next, um, Aurora deadline?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and It's, um, in June. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "June.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Early June, late June, middle June?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. Um, and he's been doing all the talking but but these he's he's, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is this by the way a bad thing. We're trying to get, um, m more female voices in this record as well. So. Make sur make sure Carmen talks as well. Uh, but has he pretty much been talking about what you're doing also, and?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, I I am doing this.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I'm sorry, but I think that for the recognizer for the meeting recorder that it's better that I don't speak.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You know, uh, we'll get we'll get to, uh, Spanish voices sometime, and we do we want to recognize, uh, you too.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "After the after, uh, the result for the TI - digits on the meeting record there will be foreigns people.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, no.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Y", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "We like we we're we're w we are we're in the, uh, Bourlard - Hermansky - Morgan, uh, frame of mind. Yeah, we like high error rates. It's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That way there's lots of work to do. So it's Uh, anything to talk about?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "N um, not not not much is new. So when I talked about what I'm planning to do last time, I said I was, um, going to use Avendano's method of, um, using a transformation, um, to map from long analysis frames which are used for removing reverberation to short analysis frames for feature calculation. He has a trick for doing that involving viewing the DFT as a matrix. Um, but, uh, um, I decided not to do that after all because I I realized to use it I'd need to have these short analysis frames get plugged directly into the feature computation somehow", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and right now I think our feature computation is set to up to, um, take, um, audio as input, in general. So I decided that I I'll do the reverberation removal on the long analysis windows and then just re - synthesize audio and then send that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "This is in order to use the SRI system or something. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, or or even if I'm using our system, I was thinking it might be easier to just re - synthesize the audio,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because then I could just feacalc as is and I wouldn't have to change the code.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Yeah. I mean, it's um, certainly in a short short - term this just sounds easier.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, longer - term if it's if it turns out to be useful, one one might want to do something else,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. That's true.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but Uh, uh, I mean, in in other words, you you may be putting other kinds of errors in from the re - synthesis process.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But e u From the re - synthesis? Um,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "O - OK. I don't know anything about re - synthesis. Uh, how likely do you think that is?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, it depends what you what you do. I mean, it's it's it's, uh, um Don't know. But anyway it sounds like a reasonable way to go for a for an initial thing, and we can look at at exactly what you end up doing and and then figure out if there's some something that could be be hurt by the end part of the process.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So that's That was it, huh?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That Yeah, e That's it, that's it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, anything to add?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Well, I've been continuing reading. I went off on a little tangent this past week, um, looking at, uh, uh, modulation s spectrum stuff, um, and and learning a bit about what what, um what it is, and, uh, the importance of it in speech recognition. And I found some some, uh, neat papers, um, historical papers from, um, Kanedera, Hermansky, and Arai.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And they they did a lot of experiments where th where, um, they take speech and, um, e they modify the, uh they they they measure the relative importance of having different, um, portions of the modulation spectrum intact.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And they find that the the spectrum between one and sixteen hertz in the modulation is, uh is im important for speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Sure. I mean, this sort of goes back to earlier stuff by Drullman.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and, uh, the the MSG features were sort of built up with this notion.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But, I guess, I thought you had brought this up in the context of, um, targets somehow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But i m", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "i it's not I mean, they're sort of not in the same kind of category as, say, a phonetic target or a syllabic target", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, I was thinking more like using them as as the inputs to to the detectors.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or a feature or something. Oh, I see. Well, that's sort of what MSG does.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right? So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But but, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Anyway, we'll talk more about it later.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We can talk more about it later.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So maybe, le", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Should we do digits?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "let's do digits. Let you you start.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "L fifty.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bro012", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK. We're on.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hello?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so uh had some interesting mail from uh Dan Ellis. Actually, I think he he redirected it to everybody also so uh the PDA mikes uh have a big bunch of energy at at uh five hertz uh where this came up was that uh I was showing off these wave forms that we have on the web and and uh I just sort of hadn't noticed this, but that the major, major component in the wave in the second wave form in that pair of wave forms is actually the air conditioner.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. So. I I have to be more careful about using that as a as a as a good illustration, uh, in fact it's not, of uh of the effects of room reverberation. It is isn't a bad illustration of the effects of uh room noise. on on uh some mikes uh but So. And then we had this other discussion about um whether this affects the dynamic range, cuz I know, although we start off with thirty two bits, you end up with uh sixteen bits and you know, are we getting hurt there? But uh Dan is pretty confident that we're not, that that quantization error is not is still not a significant factor there. So. So there was a question of whether we should change things here, whether we should change a capacitor on the input box for that or whether we should", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, he suggested a smaller capacitor, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. But then I had some other uh thing discussions with him", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "For the P D", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and the feeling was once we start monk monkeying with that, uh, many other problems could ha happen. And additionally we we already have a lot of data that's been collected with that, so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "A simple thing to do is he he he has a I forget if it this was in that mail or in the following mail, but he has a a simple filter, a digital filter that he suggested. We just run over the data before we deal with it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um The other thing that I don't know the answer to, but when people are using Feacalc here, uh whether they're using it with the high - pass filter option or not. And I don't know if anybody knows.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. I could go check.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But. Yeah. So when we're doing all these things using our software there is um if it's if it's based on the RASTA - PLP program, which does both PLP and RASTA - PLP um then uh there is an option there which then comes up through to Feacalc which um allows you to do high - pass filtering and in general we like to do that, because of things like this and it's it's pretty it's not a very severe filter. Doesn't affect speech frequencies, even pretty low speech frequencies, at all, but it's", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What's the cut - off frequency it used?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. I don't know I wrote this a while ago", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is it like twenty?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean I think there's some effect above twenty but it's it's it's it's mild. So, I mean it probably there's probably some effect up to a hundred hertz or something but it's it's pretty mild. I don't know in the in the STRUT implementation of the stuff is there a high - pass filter or a pre pre - emphasis or something in the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh. I think we use a pre - emphasis. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. We we we want to go and check that in i for anything that we're going to use the P D A mike for. uh He says that there's a pretty good roll off in the PZM mikes so we don't need need to worry about them one way or the other but if we do make use of the cheap mikes, uh we want to be sure to do that that filtering before we process it. And then again if it's uh depending on the option that the our our software is being run with, it's it's quite possible that's already being taken care of. uh But I also have to pick a different picture to show the effects of reverberation. uh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Did somebody notice it during your talk?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh No.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. uh Well. If they made output they were they were, you know they were nice.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Didn't say anything?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But. I mean the thing is it was since I was talking about reverberation and showing this thing that was noise, it wasn't a good match, but it certainly was still uh an indication of the fact that you get noise with distant mikes. uh It's just not a great example because not only isn't it reverberation but it's a noise that we definitely know what to do.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, I mean, it doesn't take deep a new bold new methods to get rid of uh five hertz noise, so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um uh But. So it was it was a bad example in that way, but it's it still is it's the real thing that we did get out of the microphone at distance, so it wasn't it w it w wasn't wrong it was inappropriate. So. So uh, but uh, Yeah, someone noticed it later pointed it out to me, and I went \" oh, man. Why didn't I notice that? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um. So. um So I think we'll change our our picture on the web, when we're @ @. One of the things I was I mean, I was trying to think about what what's the best way to show the difference an and I had a couple of thoughts one was, that spectrogram that we show is O K, but the thing is the eyes uh and the the brain behind them are so good at picking out patterns from from noise that in first glance you look at them it doesn't seem like it's that bad uh because there's many features that are still preserved. So one thing to do might be to just take a piece of the spec uh of the spectrogram where you can see that something looks different, an and blow it up, and have that be the part that's just to show as well. You know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "i i Some things are going to be hurt. um Another, I was thinking of was um taking some spectral slices, like uh like we look at with the recognizer, and look at the spectrum or cepstrum that you get out of there, and the the uh, um, the reverberation uh does make it does change that. And so maybe maybe that would be more obvious.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Spectral slices?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "W w what d what do you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, I mean um all the recognizers look at frames. So they they look at.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So like one instant in time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, look at a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's, yeah, at one point in time or uh twenty over twenty milliseconds or something, you have a spectrum or a cepstrum.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's what I meant by a slice.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. And if you look at.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You could just you could just throw up, you know, uh the uh some MFCC feature vectors. You know, one from one, one from the other, and then, you know, you can look and see how different the numbers are.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Well, that's why I saying either Well, either spectrum or cepstrum", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm just kidding.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but but I think the thing is you wanna.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't mean a graph. I mean the actual numbers.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. I see. Oh. That would be lovely, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. \" See how different these sequences of numbers are? \"", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or I could just add them up and get a different total.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not the square.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Uh. What else wh what's what else is going on?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. Yeah, at first I had a remark why I am wondering why the PDA is always so far. I mean we are always meeting at the beginning of the table and the PDA's there.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. I guess cuz we haven't wanted to move it. We we could we could move us,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, anyway. Um. Yeah, so. Uh. Since the last meeting we've we've tried to put together um the clean low - pass um downsampling, upsampling, I mean, Uh the new filter that's replacing the LDA filters, and also the um delay issue so that We considered th the the delay issue on the for the on - line normalization. Mmm. So we've put together all this and then we have results that are not um very impressive. Well, there is no real improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But it's not wer worse and it's better better latency,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Well. Actually it's better. It seems better when we look at the mismatched case but I think we are like like cheated here by the th this problem that uh in some cases when you modify slight slightly modify the initial condition you end up completely somewhere air somewhere else in the in the space, the parameters.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Well. The other system are for instance. For Italian is at seventy - eight percent recognition rate on the mismatch, and this new system has eighty - nine. But I don't think it indicates something, really. I don't I don't think it means that the new system is more robust", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "or It's simply the fact that Well.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, the test would be if you then tried it on one of the other test sets, if if it was.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Y", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. So this was Italian, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So then if you take your changes", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's similar for other test sets", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but I mean from this se seventy - eight um percent recognition rate system, I could change the transition probabilities for the the first HMM and it will end up to eighty - nine also.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "By using point five instead of point six, point four as in the the HTK script.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Well. That's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I looked at um looked at the results when Stephane did that", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. Eh uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and it's it's really wo really happens.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This really happens.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean th the only difference is you change the self - loop transition probability by a tenth of a percent", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and it causes ten percent difference in the word error rate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "A tenth of a per cent.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. From point.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Even tenth of a percent?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I'm sorry", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we tried we tried point one,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "f for point from You change at point one", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and n not tenth of a percent, one tenth,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "alright? Um so from point five so from point six to point five and you get ten percent better.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And it's I think it's what you basically hypothesized in the last meeting about uh it just being very.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and I think you mentioned this in your email too it's just very um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "you know get stuck in some local minimum and this thing throws you out of it I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, what's what are according to the rules what what are we supposed to do about the transition probabilities? Are they supposed to be point five or point six?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think you're not allowed to Yeah. That's supposed to be point six, for the self - loop.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Point It's supposed to be point six.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But changing it to point five I think is which gives you much better results, but that's not allowed.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But not allowed? Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but even if you use point five, I'm not sure it will always give you the better results", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "on other test set or it", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. We only tested it on the the medium mismatch,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "on the other training set, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right? You said on the other cases you didn't notice.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But. I think, yeah. I think the reason is, yeah, I not I it was in my mail I think also, is the fact that the mismatch is trained only on the far microphone. Well, in for the mismatched case everything is um using the far microphone training and testing, whereas for the highly mismatched, training is done on the close microphone so it's it's clean speech basically so you don't have this problem of local minima probably and for the well - match, it's a mix of close microphone and distant microphone and Well.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I did notice uh something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So th I think the mismatch is the more difficult for the training part.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Somebody, I think it was Morgan, suggested at the last meeting that I actually count to see how many parameters and how many frames.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And there are uh almost one point eight million frames of training data and less than forty thousand parameters in the baseline system.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it's very, very few parameters compared to how much training data.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. And that that says that we could have lots more parameters actually.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I did one quick experiment just to make sure I had everything worked out and I just uh f for most of the um For for all of the digit models, they end up at three mixtures per state. And so I just did a quick experiment, where I changed it so it went to four and um it it it didn't have a r any significant effect at the uh medium mismatch and high mismatch cases and it had it was just barely significant for the well - matched better. Uh so I'm r gonna run that again but um with many more uh mixtures per state.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz at forty thou I mean you could you could have uh Yeah, easily four times as many parameters.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And I think also just seeing what we saw uh in terms of the expected duration of the silence model? when we did this tweaking of the self - loop? The silence model expected duration was really different.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so in the case where um it had a better score, the silence model expected duration was much longer.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it was like it was a better match. I think you know if we make a better silence model I think that will help a lot too um for a lot of these cases so but one one thing I I wanted to check out before I increased the um number of mixtures per state was uh in their default training script they do an initial set of three re - estimations and then they built the silence model and then they do seven iterations then the add mixtures and they do another seven then they add mixtures then they do a final set of seven and they quit. Seven seems like a lot to me and it also makes the experiments go take a really long time I mean to do one turn - around of the well matched case takes like a day.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so you know in trying to run these experiments I notice, you know, it's difficult to find machines, you know, compute the run on. And so one of the things I did was I compiled HTK for the Linux machines", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "cuz we have this one from IBM that's got like five processors in it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and so now I'm you can run stuff on that and that really helps a lot because now we've got you know, extra machines that we can use for compute. And if I'm do running an experiment right now where I'm changing the number of iterations? from seven to three?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "just to see how it affects the baseline system. And so if we can get away with just doing three, we can do many more experiments more quickly. And if it's not a a huge difference from running with seven iterations, um, you know, we should be able to get a lot more experiments done.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so. I'll let you know what what happens with that. But if we can you know, run all of these back - ends f with many fewer iterations and on Linux boxes we should be able to get a lot more experimenting done.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. So I wanted to experiment with cutting down the number of iterations before I increased the number of Gaussians.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Sorry. So um, how's it going on the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. You you did some things. They didn't improve things in a way that convinced you you'd substantially improved anything.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But they're not making things worse and we have reduced latency, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But actually um actually it seems to do a little bit worse for the well - matched case and we just noticed that Yeah, actually the way the final score is computed is quite funny. It's not a mean of word error rate. It's not a weighted mean of word error rate, it's a weighted mean of improvements.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Which means that actually the weight on the well - matched is Well I well what what What happened is that if you have a small improvement or a small if on the well - matched case it will have uh huge influence on the improvement compared to the reference because the reference system is is is quite good for for the well - ma well - matched case also.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it it weights the improvement on the well - matched case really heavily compared to the improvement on the other cases?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, but it's the weighting of the of the improvement not of the error rate.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, and it's hard to improve on the on the best case, cuz it's already so good, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah but what I mean is that you can have a huge improvement on the H HMK's, uh like five percent uh absolute, and this will not affect the final score almost Uh this will almost not affect the final score because this improvement because the improvement uh relative to the the baseline is small.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So they do improvement in terms of uh accuracy? rather than word error rate?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh. Uh improvement?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, it's compared to the word er it's improvement on the word error rate,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah. Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So if you have uh ten percent error and you get five percent absolute uh improvement then that's fifty percent.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. So what you're saying then is that if it's something that has a small word error rate, then uh a even a relatively small improvement on it, in absolute terms, will show up as quite quite large in this.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Is that what you're saying?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. But yeah that's that's it's the notion of relative improvement. Word error rate.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, but when we think about the weighting, which is point five, point three, point two, it's on absolute on on relative figures,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So when we look at this error rate", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. That's why I've been saying we should be looking at word error rate uh and and not not at at accuracies.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh Mmm, yeah. Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean uh we probably should have standardized on that all the way through. It's just.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, it's not it's not that different, right? I mean, just subtract the accuracy.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah but you're but when you look at the numbers, your sense of the relative size of things is quite different.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean Oh. Oh, I see. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If you had ninety percent uh correct and five percent, five over ninety doesn't look like it's a big difference, but five over ten is is big.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So just when we were looking at a lot of numbers and getting sense of what was important.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see. I see. Yeah. That makes sense.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well anyway uh. So. Yeah. So it hurts a little bit on the well - match and yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What's a little bit? Like.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Like, it's difficult to say because again um I'm not sure I have the um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hey Morgan? Do you remember that Signif program that we used to use for testing signi? Is that still valid? I I've been using that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it was actually updated.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh. Jeff updated it some years ago", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, it was. Oh, I shoul", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and and uh cleaned it up made some things better in it. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. I should find that new one. I just use my old one from ninety - two or whatever", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm sure it's not that different but but he he uh he was a little more rigorous, as I recall.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. So it's around, like, point five. No, point six uh percent absolute on Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Worse.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Worse, yep.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Out of what? I mean. s", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh well we start from ninety - four point sixty - four, and we go to ninety - four point O four.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. So that's six six point th", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ninety - three point six four, right? is the baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, no, I've ninety - four. Oh, the baseline, you mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well I don't I'm not talking about the baseline here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh. I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I uh My baseline is the submitted system.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah! OK. Ah, ah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. For Finnish, we start to ninety - three point eight - four and we go to ninety - three point seventy - four. And for Spanish we are we were at ninety - five point O five and we go to ninety - three - s point sixty one.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK, so we are getting hurt somewhat.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And is that wh what do you know what piece you've done several changes here. Uh, do you know what pie", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess I guess it's it's the filter. Because nnn, well uh we don't have complete result, but the filter So the filter with the shorter delay hurts on Italian well - matched, which And, yeah. And the other things, like um downsampling, upsampling, don't seem to hurt and the new on - line normalization, neither.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I'm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I'm really confused about something. If we saw that making a small change like, you know, a tenth, to the self - loop had a huge effect, can we really make any conclusions about differences in this stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah that's th Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, especially when they're this small. I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think we can be completely fooled by this thing, but I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. There is first this thing, and then the yeah, I computed the um like, the confidence level on the different test sets. And for the well - matched they are around um point six uh percent. For the mismatched they are around like let's say one point five percent. And for the well - m uh HM they are also around one point five.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But OK, so you these these degradations you were talking about were on the well - matched case", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. Do the does the new filter make things uh better or worse for the other cases?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But. Uh. About the same. It doesn't hurt. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Doesn't hurt, but doesn't get a little better, or something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. OK, so um I guess the argument one might make is that, \" Yeah, if you looked at one of these cases and you jiggle something and it changes then uh you're not quite sure what to make of it. But when you look across a bunch of these and there's some some pattern, um I mean, so eh h here's all the if if in all these different cases it never gets better, and there's significant number of cases where it gets worse, then you're probably hurting things, I would say. So um I mean at the very least that would be a reasonably prediction of what would happen with with a different test set, that you're not jiggling things with. So I guess the question is if you can do better than this. If you can if we can approximate the old numbers while still keeping the latency down.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, so. Um. What I was asking, though, is uh are what's what's the level of communication with uh the O G I gang now, about this and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, we are exchanging mail as soon as we we have significant results.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. For the moment, they are working on integrating the um spectral subtraction apparently from Ericsson.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. And so. Yeah. We are working on our side on other things like uh also trying a sup spectral subtraction but of of our own, I mean, another spectral substraction.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. So I think it's it's OK. It's going.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Is there any further discussion about this this idea of of having some sort of source code control?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well. For the moment they're uh everybody's quite um There is this Eurospeech deadline, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. And. Yeah. But yeah. As soon as we have something that's significant and that's better than than what was submitted, we will fix fix the system and But we've not discussed it it it this yet, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sounds like a great idea but but I think that that um he's saying people are sort of scrambling for a Eurospeech deadline.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But that'll be uh, uh done in a week. So, maybe after this next one.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Wow! Already a week! Man!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You're right. That's amazing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anybo - anybody in the in this group do doing anything for Eurospeech?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Or, is that what is that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah we are We are trying to to do something with the Meeting Recorder digits,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and But yeah. Yeah. And the good thing is that there is this first deadline,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and, well, some people from OGI are working on a paper for this, but there is also the um special session about th Aurora which is uh which has an extended deadline. So. The deadline is in May.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "For uh Oh, for Eurospeech?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "For th Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So f only for the experiments on Aurora. So it it's good,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, a special dispensation.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Where is Eurospeech this year?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's in Denmark.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Aalborg Aalborg uh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So the deadline When's the deadline? When's the deadline?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm? I think it's the thirteenth of May.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's great! It's great. So we should definitely get something in for that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But on meeting digits, maybe there's Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it would be for the first deadline.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean, I I think that you could certainly start looking at at the issue uh but but uh I think it's probably, on s from what Stephane is saying, it's it's unlikely to get sort of active participation from the two sides until after they've.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well I could at least Well, I'm going to be out next week but I could try to look into like this uh CVS over the web. That seems to be a very popular way of people distributing changes and over, you know, multiple sites and things", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "so maybe if I can figure out how do that easily and then pass the information on to everybody so that it's you know, as easy to do as possible and and people don't it won't interfere with their regular work, then maybe that would be good. And I think we could use it for other things around here too. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's cool. And if you're interested in using CVS, I've set it up here,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um j", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I used it a long time ago but it's been a while so maybe I can ask you some questions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. So. I'll be away tomorrow and Monday but I'll be back on Tuesday or Wednesday.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Dave, the other thing, actually, is is this business about this wave form. Maybe you and I can talk a little bit at some point about coming up with a better uh demonstration of the effects of reverberation for our web page, cuz uh the uh um I mean, actually the the uh It made a good good audio demonstration because when we could play that clip the the the really obvious difference is that you can hear two voices and in the second one and only hear.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Maybe we could just like, talk into a cup.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Some good reverb.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, I mean, it sound it sounds pretty reverberant, but I mean you can't when you play it back in a room with a you know a big room, nobody can hear that difference really.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "They hear that it's lower amplitude and they hear there's a second voice,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um but uh that actually that makes for a perfectly good demo because that's a real obvious thing, that you hear two voices.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But not of reverberation.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "A boom.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well that that that's OK. But for the the visual, just, you know, I'd like to have uh uh, you know, the spectrogram again,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "because you're you're you're visual uh abilities as a human being are so good you can pick out you know, you you look at the good one, you look at the cru the screwed up one, and and you can see the features in it without trying to @ @.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I noticed that in the pictures.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I thought \" hey, you know th \" I My initial thought was \" this is not too bad! \"", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. But you have to you know, if you look at it closely, you see \" well, here's a place where this one has a big formant uh uh formant maj major formants here are are moving quite a bit. \" And then you look in the other one and they look practically flat.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So I mean you could that's why I was thinking, in a section like that, you could take a look look at just that part of the spectrogram and you could say \" Oh yeah. This this really distorted it quite a bit. \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. The main thing that struck me in looking at those two spectrograms was the difference in the high frequencies. It looked like for the one that was farther away, you know, it really everything was attenuated", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and I mean that was the main visual thing that I noticed.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. But it's it's uh So. Yeah. So there are clearly are spectral effects. Since you're getting all this indirect energy, then a lot of it does have have uh reduced high frequencies. But um the other thing is the temporal courses of things really are changed, and and uh we want to show that, in some obvious way. The reason I put the wave forms in there was because uh they they do look quite different. Uh. And so I thought \" Oh, this is good. \" but I I just uh After after uh they were put in there I didn't really look at them anymore, cuz I just they were different. So I want something that has a is a more interesting explanation for why they're different. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh. So maybe we can just substitute one of these wave forms and um then do some kind of zoom in on the spectrogram on an interesting area.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Something like that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The other thing that we had in there that I didn't like was that um the most obvious characteristic of the difference uh when you listen to it is that there's a second voice, and the the the the the uh cuts that we have there actually don't correspond to the full wave form. It's just the first I think there was something where he was having some trouble getting so much in, or. I I forget the reason behind it. But it it's um it's the first six seconds or something of it and it's in the seventh or eighth second or something where @ @ the second voice comes in. So we we would like to actually see the voice coming in, too, I think, since that's the most obvious thing when you listen to it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. Yeah. I brought some I don't know if some figures here. Well. I start we started to work on spectral subtraction. And um the preliminary results were very bad.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So the thing that we did is just to add spectral subtraction before this, the Wall uh process, which contains LDA on - line normalization. And it hurts uh a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so we started to look at at um things like this, which is, well, it's Yeah. So you have the C - zero parameters for one uh Italian utterance.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You can @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And I plotted this for two channels. Channel zero is the close mic microphone, and channel one is the distant microphone. And it's perfectly synchronized, so. And the sentence contain only one word, which is \" Due \" And it can't clearly be seen. Where where is it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Where is the word?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is this is,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "oh, a plot of C - zero,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "the energy.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This is a plot of C - zero, uh when we don't use spectral substraction, and when there is no on - line normalization.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. There is just some filtering with the LDA and and some downsampling, upsampling.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "C - zero is the close talking?.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh the close channel?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and s channel one is the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So C - zero is very clean, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh then when we apply mean normalization it looks like the second figure, though it is not. Which is good. Well, the noise part is around zero", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and And then the third figure is what happens when we apply mean normalization and variance normalization. So. What we can clearly see is that on the speech portion the two channel come becomes very close, but also what happens on the noisy portion is that the variance of the noise is.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "This is still being a plot of C - zero? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is still C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can I ask um what does variance normalization do? w What is the effect of that?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Normalizes the variance.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it it Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It normalized th the standard deviation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "y Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No, I understand that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You you get an estimate of the standard deviation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No, I understand what it is, but I mean, what does it what's what is", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What's the rationale?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We Yeah. Yeah. Why why do it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, because everything uh If you have a system based on Gaussians, everything is based on means and variances.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So if there's an overall reason You know, it's like uh if you were doing uh image processing and in some of the pictures you were looking at, uh there was a lot of light uh and and in some, there was low light,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know, you would want to adjust for that in order to compare things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And the variance is just sort of like the next moment, you know? So uh what if um one set of pictures was taken uh so that throughout the course it was went through daylight and night uh um um ten times, another time it went thr I mean i is, you know, how how much how much vari", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or no. I guess a better example would be how much of the light was coming in from outside rather than artificial light. So if it was a lot if more was coming from outside, then there'd be the bigger effect of the of the of the change in the So every mean every all all of the the parameters that you have, especially the variances, are going to be affected by the overall variance.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so, in principle, you if you remove that source, then, you know, you can.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see. OK. So would the major effect is that you're gonna get is by normalizing the means,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's the first order but thing,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but it may help First - order effects.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but then the second order is is the variances", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And it may help to do the variance. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because, again, if you if you're trying to distinguish between E and B", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "if it just so happens that the E's were a more you know, were recorded when when the energy was was was larger or something,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or the variation in it was larger, uh than with the B's, then this will be give you some some bias.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So the it's removing these sources of variability in the data that have nothing to do with the linguistic component.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Gotcha. OK. Sorry to interrupt.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the the uh but let me as ask ask you something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. And it and this.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "i is if If you have a good voice activity detector, isn't isn't it gonna pull that out?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure. If they are good. Yeah. Well what it it shows is that, yeah, perhaps a good voice activity detector is is good before on - line normalization and that's what uh we've already observed. But uh, yeah, voice activity detection is not an easy thing neither.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But after you do this, after you do the variance normalization I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't know, it seems like this would be a lot easier than this signal to work with.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. What I notice is that, while I prefer to look at the second figure than at the third one, well, because you clearly see where speech is.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the problem is that on the speech portion, channel zero and channel one are more different than when you use variance normalization where channel zero and channel one become closer.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But for the purposes of finding the speech.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And Yeah, but here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You're more interested in the difference between the speech and the nonspeech,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think, yeah. For I th I think that it perhaps it shows that uh the parameters that the voice activity detector should use uh have to use should be different than the parameter that have to be used for speech recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So basically you want to reduce this effect.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, y", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So you can do that by doing the voi voice activity detection. You also could do it by spect uh spectral subtraction before the variance normalization, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's not clear, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We So. Well. It's just to", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "the the number that at that are here are recognition experiments on Italian HM and MM with these two kinds of parameters. And, well, it's better with variance normalization.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So it does get better even though it looks ugly.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. but does this have the voice activity detection in it?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Where's th", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the fact is that the voice activity detector doesn't work on channel one. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Where at what stage is the voice activity detector applied? Is it applied here or a after the variance normalization?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Spectral subtraction, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's applied before variance normalization. So it's a good thing,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because I guess voice activity detection on this should could be worse.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Is it applied all the way back here?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's applied the um on, yeah, something like this,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe that's why it doesn't work for channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. Perhaps, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can I.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So we could perhaps do just mean normalization before VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Can I ask a, I mean a sort of top - level question, which is um \" if if most of what the OGI folk are working with is trying to integrate this other other uh spectral subtraction, why are we worrying about it? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. About? Spectral subtraction?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's just uh Well it's another They are trying to u to use the um the Ericsson and we're trying to use something something else. And. Yeah, and also to understand what happens because", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh fff Well. When we do spectral subtraction, actually, I think that this is the the two last figures.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. It seems that after spectral subtraction, speech is more emerging now uh than than before.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Speech is more what?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, the difference between the energy of the speech and the energy of the n spectral subtrac subtracted noise portion is is larger.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, if you compare the first figure to this one Actually the scale is not the same, but if you look at the the numbers um you clearly see that the difference between the C - zero of the speech and C - zero of the noise portion is larger. Uh but what happens is that after spectral subtraction, you also increase the variance of this of C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so if you apply variance normalization on this, it completely sc screw everything. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. Uh. Yeah. So yeah. And what they did at OGI is just uh they don't use on - line normalization, for the moment, on spectral subtraction and I think Yeah. I think as soon as they will try on - line normalization there will be a problem. So yeah, we're working on the same thing but I think uh with different different system and.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, i the Intellectually it's interesting to work on things th uh one way or the other", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but I'm I'm just wondering if um on the list of things that there are to do, if there are things that we won't do because we've got two groups doing the same thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. That's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. Just just asking. Uh. I mean, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, well,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There also could be I mean. I can maybe see a reason f for both working on it too", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "if um you know, if if if you work on something else and and you're waiting for them to give you spectral subtraction I mean it's hard to know whether the effects that you get from the other experiments you do will carry over once you then bring in their spectral subtraction module. So it's it's almost like everything's held up waiting for this one thing. I don't know if that's true or not, but I could see how.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Maybe that's what you were thinking.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I mean, we still evidently have a latency reduction plan which which isn't quite what you'd like it to be. That that seems like one prominent thing. And then uh weren't issues of of having a a second stream or something? That was Was it There was this business that, you know, we we could use up the full forty - eight hundred bits, and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I think they' I think we want to work on this. They also want to work on this, so. Uh. yeah. We we will try MSG, but um, yeah. And they are t I think they want to work on the second stream also, but more with some kind of multi - band or, well, what they call TRAP or generalized TRAP.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Do you remember when the next meeting is supposed to be? the next uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's uh in June.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "In June. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. Yeah, the other thing is that you saw that that mail about uh the VAD V A Ds performing quite differently? That that uh So um. This there was this experiment of uh \" what if we just take the baseline? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "set uh of features, just mel cepstra, and you inc incorporate the different V A And it looks like the the French VAD is actually uh better significantly better.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Improves the baseline?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah but I don't know which VAD they use. Uh. If the use the small VAD I th I think it's on I think it's easy to do better because it doesn't work at all. So. I I don't know which which one. It's Pratibha that that did this experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um. We should ask which VAD she used.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't @ @. He Actually, I think that he say with the good VAD of from OGI and with the Alcatel VAD. And the experiment was sometime better, sometime worse.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah but I it's uh I think you were talking about the other mail that used VAD on the reference features.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And on that one, uh the French one is was better.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It was just better.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean it was enough better that that it would uh account for a fair amount of the difference between our performance, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. Uh. So if they have a better one, we should use it. I mean. You know? it's you can't work on everything.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we should find out if it's really better. I mean if it the compared to the small or the big network.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And perhaps we can easily improve if if we put like mean normalization before the before the VAD. Because as as you've mentioned.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "H Hynek will be back in town uh the week after next, back back in the country. So. And start start organizing uh more visits and connections and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and uh working towards June.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Also is Stephane was thinking that maybe it was useful to f to think about uh voiced - unvoiced.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "to work uh here in voiced - unvoiced detection.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And we are looking in the uh signal.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, my feeling is that um actually when we look at all the proposals, ev everybody is still using some kind of spectral envelope", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and um it's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No use of pitch uh basically. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, not pitch, but to look at the um fine at the at the high re high resolution spectrum.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. We don't necessarily want to find the the pitch of the of the sound but uh Cuz I have a feeling that when we look when we look at the just at the envelope there is no way you can tell if it's voiced and unvoiced, if there is some It's it's easy in clean speech because voiced sound are more low frequency and. So there would be more,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh there is the first formant, which is the larger and then voiced sound are more high frequencies cuz it's frication and.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, yeah. When you have noise there is no um if if you have a low frequency noise it could be taken for for voiced speech and.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can make these mistakes,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Isn't there some other", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh d", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So I think that it it would be good Yeah, yeah, well, go go on.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, I was just gonna say isn't there aren't aren't there lots of ideas for doing voice activity, or speech - nonspeech rather, um by looking at um, you know, uh I guess harmonics or looking across time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I think he was talking about the voiced - unvoiced, though,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right? So, not the speech - nonspeech.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well even with e", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh w ah you know, uh even with the voiced - non voiced - unvoiced", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "um I thought that you or somebody was talking about.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. Uh yeah. B We should let him finish what he w he was gonna say,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So go ahead.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um yeah, so yeah, I think if we try to develop a second stream well, there would be one stream that is the envelope and the second, it could be interesting to have that's something that's more related to the fine structure of the spectrum. And. Yeah, so I don't know. We were thinking about like using ideas from from Larry Saul, have a good voice detector, have a good, well, voiced - speech detector, that's working on on the FFT and uh", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "U", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Larry Saul could be an idea. We were are thinking about just kind of uh taking the spectrum and computing the variance of of the high resolution spectrum and things like this.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So u s u OK. So So many tell you something about that. Uh we had a guy here some years ago who did some work on um making use of voicing information uh to help in reducing the noise.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So what he was doing is basically y you you do estimate the pitch.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And um you from that you you estimate or you estimate fine harmonic structure, whichev ei either way, it's more or less the same. But uh the thing is that um you then can get rid of things that are not i if there is strong harmonic structure, you can throw away stuff that's that's non - harmonic.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And that that is another way of getting rid of part of the noise", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So um that's something that is sort of finer,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "brings in a little more information than just spectral subtraction. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And he had some I mean, he did that sort of in combination with RASTA. It was kind of like RASTA was taking care of convolutional stuff", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and he was.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and got some some decent results doing that. So that that's another another way. But yeah, there's there's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. There's all these cues. We've actually back when Chuck was here we did some voiced - unvoiced uh classification using a bunch of these,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and uh works OK. Obviously it's not perfect but um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But the thing is that you can't given the constraints of this task, we can't, in a very nice way, feed forward to the recognizer the information the probabilistic information that you might get about whether it's voiced or unvoiced, where w we can't you know affect the the uh distributions or anything.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But we what we uh I guess we could Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Didn't the head dude send around that message? Yeah, I think you sent us all a copy of the message, where he was saying that I I'm not sure, exactly, what the gist of what he was saying, but something having to do with the voice activity detector and that it will that people shouldn't put their own in or something. It was gonna be a.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That But OK. So that's voice activity detector as opposed to voicing detector.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So we're talking about something a little different.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I missed that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I guess what you could do, maybe this would be w useful, if if you have if you view the second stream, yeah, before you before you do KLT's and so forth, if you do view it as probabilities, and if it's an independent So, if it's if it's uh not so much envelope - based by fine - structure - based, uh looking at harmonicity or something like that, um if you get a probability from that information and then multiply it by you know, multiply by all the voiced outputs and all the unvoiced outputs, you know, then use that as the", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh take the log of that or uh pre pre uh pre - nonlinearity,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. i if.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh and do the KLT on the on on that,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "then that would that would I guess be uh a reasonable use of independent information. So maybe that's what you meant. And then that would be.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, I was not thinking this yeah, this could be an yeah So you mean have some kind of probability for the v the voicing", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "R Right. So you have a second neural net.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and then use a tandem system", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It could be pretty small. Yeah. If you have a tandem system and then you have some kind of it can be pretty small net.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "we used we d did some of this stuff. Uh I I did, some years ago,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and the and and you use the thing is to use information primarily that's different as you say, it's more fine - structure - based than than envelope - based", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh so then it you you you can pretty much guarantee it's stuff that you're not looking at very well with the other one, and uh then you only use for this one distinction.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And and so now you've got a probability of the cases, and you've got uh the probability of the finer uh categories on the other side. You multiply them where appropriate and uh um", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see, yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "if they really are from independent information sources then they should have different kinds of errors", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and roughly independent errors, and it's a good choice for.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because, yeah, well, spectral subtraction is good and we could u we could use the fine structure to to have a better estimate of the noise but still there is this issue with spectral subtraction that it seems to increase the variance of of of", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "um Well it's this musical noise which is annoying if you d you do some kind of on - line normalization after.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Um. Yeah. Well. Spectral subtraction and on - line normalization don't seem to to go together very well. I", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Or if you do a spectral subtraction do some spectral subtraction first and then do some on - line normalization then do some more spectral subtraction I mean, maybe maybe you can do it layers or something so it doesn't doesn't hurt too much or something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But it but uh, anyway I think I was sort of arguing against myself there by giving that example", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh I mean cuz I was already sort of suggesting that we should be careful about not spending too much time on exactly what they're doing In fact if you get if you go into uh a uh harmonics - related thing it's definitely going to be different than what they're doing and uh uh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "should have some interesting properties in noise. Um. I know that when have people have done um sort of the obvious thing of taking uh your feature vector and adding in some variables which are pitch related or uh that it hasn't my impression it hasn't particularly helped. Uh. Has not.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It it i has not,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But I think uh that's that's a question for this uh you know extending the feature vector versus having different streams.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh. Was it nois noisy condition? the example that you you just", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And and it may not have been noisy conditions.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I don't remember the example but it was it was on some DARPA data and some years ago and so it probably wasn't, actually", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yeah. But we were thinking, we discussed with Barry about this, and perhaps thinking we were thinking about some kind of sheet cheating experiment where we would use TIMIT", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and see if giving the d uh, this voicing bit would help in in terms of uh frame classification.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Why don't you why don't you just do it with Aurora?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Just any i in in each in each frame", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but B but we cannot do the cheating, this cheating thing.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We're.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We need labels.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well. Cuz we don't have Well, for Italian perhaps we have, but we don't have this labeling for Aurora. We just have a labeling with word models", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but not for phonemes.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Not for foreigners.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "we don't have frame frame level transcriptions.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But you could I mean you can you can align so that It's not perfect, but if you if you know what was said and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But the problem is that their models are all word level models. So there's no phone models that you get alignments for.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You So you could find out where the word boundaries are but that's about it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "S But we could use uh the the noisy version that TIMIT, which you know, is similar to the the noises found in the TI - digits um portion of Aurora.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. noise, yeah. Yeah, that's right, yep. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, I guess I guess we can we can say that it will help, but I don't know. If this voicing bit doesn't help, uh, I think we don't have to to work more about this because.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh. It's just to know if it how much i it will help", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and to have an idea of how much we can gain.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. I mean in experiments that we did a long time ago", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and different ta it was probably Resource Management or something, um, I think you were getting something like still eight or nine percent error on the voicing, as I recall. And um, so um", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Another person's voice.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "what that said is that, sort of, left to its own devices, like without the a strong language model and so forth, that you would you would make significant number of errors just with your uh probabilistic machinery in deciding", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "one oh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, the though I think uh there was one problem with that in that, you know, we used canonical mapping so our truth may not have really been true to the acoustics.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well back twenty years ago when I did this voiced - unvoiced stuff, we were getting more like ninety - seven or ninety - eight percent correct in voicing. But that was speaker - dependent actually. We were doing training on a particular announcer", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and getting a very good handle on the features.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And we did this complex feature selection thing where we looked at all the different possible features one could have for voicing and and and uh and exhaustively searched all size subsets and and uh for for that particular speaker and you'd find you know the five or six features which really did well on them.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And then doing doing all of that we could get down to two or three percent error. But that, again, was speaker - dependent with lots of feature selection", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and a very complex sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So I would I would believe that uh it was quite likely that um looking at envelope only, that we'd be significantly worse than that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And the all the the SpeechCorders? what's the idea behind? Cuz they they have to Oh, they don't even have to detect voiced spe speech?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The modern ones don't do a a simple switch.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They just work on the code book", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They work on the code book excitation.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and find out the best excitation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah they do analysis - by - synthesis. They try they they try every every possible excitation they have in their code book and find the one that matches best.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mmm. Alright. Yeah. So it would not help.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh. O K.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Can I just mention one other interesting thing?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. One of the ideas that we had come up with last week for things to try to improve the system Um. Actually I I s we didn't I guess I wrote this in after the meeting b but the thought I had was um looking at the language model that's used in the HTK recognizer, which is basically just a big loop,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right? So you it goes \" digit \"", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then that can be either go to silence or go to another digit, which That model would allow for the production of infinitely long sequences of digits, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. I thought \" well I'm gonna just look at the what actual digit strings do occur in the training data. \"", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And the interesting thing was it turns out that there are no sequences of two - long or three - long digit strings in any of the Aurora training data. So it's either one, four, five, six, uh up to eleven, and then it skips and then there's some at sixteen.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But what about the testing data?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. I don't know. I didn't look at the test data yet.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean if there's some testing data that has has has two or three.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Yeah. But I just thought that was a little odd, that there were no two or three long Sorry. So I I just for the heck of it, I made a little grammar which um, you know, had it's separate path for each length digit string you could get. So there was a one - long path and there was a four - long and a five - long", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and I tried that and it got way worse. There were lots of deletions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it was you know, I I didn't have any weights of these paths or I didn't have anything like that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And I played with tweaking the word transition penalties a bunch, but I couldn't go anywhere.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But um. I thought \" well if I only allow \" Yeah, I guess I should have looked at to see how often there was a mistake where a two - long or a three - long path was actually put out as a hypothesis. Um. But.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So to do that right you'd probably want to have allow for them all but then have weightings and things. So. I just thought that was a interesting thing about the data.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. So we're gonna read some more digit strings I guess?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. You want to go ahead, Morgan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor A" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education12", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I have received apologies for absence from Jack Sargeant, and I'm very pleased to welcome Vikki Howells, who is substituting for Jack this morning. Can I ask whether there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay. Thank you. Item 2 this morning is our last evidence session on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill, and I'm really pleased to welcome back Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, who is deputy director of the children and families division; and Emma Gammon, who is the lawyer working on the Bill. So, thank you all for coming. If you're happy, we'll go straight into questions because we've got lots of ground that we want to cover, and the first questions are from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Good morning. Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Deputy Minister. Of those individuals who responded to our written consultation in a personal capacity, nearly 70 per cent do not support this Bill. We also heard a clear message from the parents we met last week who oppose this Bill that, as parents, they understand clearly the difference between child abuse and a light smack from a loving parent. How would you like to respond to that?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Janet, for that question. I think I'd like to start by saying that child abuse is not the issue that the Bill is trying to address. What the Bill is trying to do is prohibit all forms of physical punishment, and that is in order to protect children's rights and to ensure that children have the same protection from physical punishment as adults. But I do understand that people have different views, and that's why this process has been so important—for us to hear what your views are and what parents' views are. I know that, often, people use different euphemisms really to make light of physical punishment. I've heard expressions used such as a'light smack' or a'loving smack' or a'tap', and really there can be different interpretations of what is a'light smack', what is a'loving smack', and that doesn't really cover the issue of the frequency of such actions being taken. But I would say that, however mild it seems to be, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child recognises that any physical punishment of children, however minor, is incompatible with their human rights, and why should a big person hit a little person? That's been the sort of mantra, really, that has taken me through supporting this legislation—that it just seems wrong to me that there is something in the law that could mean that there could be an excuse for that happening. I believe we shouldn't have anything in the law that defends the physical punishment of children, and I don't think we should be defining acceptable ways of hitting or punishing children, because I think it does send a confused message to children. It says,'It's okay for me to hit you, but don't you hit anybody else.' I think it causes confusion. So, I'm confident that updating the law will make it much clearer for parents and people working with children—and, of course, I'm sure, as you'll have heard from the evidence you've taken, that people who work with children are overwhelmingly in support of this legislation, and the representative surveys that we've carried out show support for the Bill's principles.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Deputy Minister. Last week, during the workshop, a few parents—predominantly all of them, actually—said that they use a gentle tap or smacking as part of a toolkit of ways to deal with challenging behaviour or, sometimes, for the safety of the child or, indeed, to carry out the parenting of a child. How do you intend to work with parents going forward, given the finite resources that social care and social services have? I know from the responses we've received to the consultation that parents themselves who have to parent 24 hours a day, seven days a week, they are really, on the scale of things, very upset about this. How do you intend to try and get your message across to those parents on removing what they consider to be part of their toolkit when raising children? How do you intend to deal with that aspect?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, first of all, I want to say, as I've said in most evidence sessions, that I completely accept that bringing up children is hard. It's very difficult; many of us have done it and we know how tough it can be. But we don't think that there is any place for physical punishment in bringing up children. There's a whole range of other ways that you can help parents bring up children, and advice you can give them of different methods to use. But, the clear message of this Bill is that we don't want any physical punishment; we don't think it's the right thing to do, and we believe that we are supported by many people in that view.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "You've got other questions, Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh, yes. Several consultation responses refer to statistics from Sweden, which they say show that child-on-child violence actually increased by 1,791 per cent between 1984 and 2010, following the ban on physical punishment in 1979. What is your view on these figures and how can we be certain that this Bill won't lead to other long-term negative outcomes in Wales?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, I'm aware of the debate surrounding the interpretation of the different statistics from Sweden. What's happened, really, in the academic research is that different academics are focused on different figures to support their views, and the methodological ways of doing it makes it quite difficult to have causation. I was very encouraged that a recent study of 88 countries concluded that if a country prohibits corporal punishment, the result is association with less youth violence, and this is one of the largest cross-national analyses of youth violence, with more than 400,000 participants. So, there is other evidence, very widespread evidence, which looks at a whole range of people, that is in contrast to the Swedish evidence. But, evidence in this field is mixed and we have considered a wide range of research and reviews, but ultimately the decision is one that is based on our commitment to children's rights.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Do you want question 3?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I can do it, yes. The Bill's explanatory memorandum says that'there is no definitive evidence that \"reasonable\" physical punishment causes negative outcomes for children'. However, we have heard from Equal Protection Network Cymru that international evidence could not be clearer and that they found the Wales Centre for Public Policy's report, on which the explanatory memorandum is based, very confusing and very frustrating, and that it didn't tie in with what they knew. How would you respond to those viewpoints?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We were very keen to get as balanced research as we possibly could, and we didn't want to just put forward views that we thought agreed with our point of view. So, we were trying to give a balanced point of view, but we did commission the Wales Centre for Public Policy to do an independent literature review and we're honestly reporting to you what they said. But they did make it clear, again, which I think I've said in previous evidence sessions, that all physical punishment, under all conditions, is potentially harmful to children. And certainly, there is no peer-reviewed research that says that physically punishing a child is going to improve things, has favourable outcomes. So, I understand what Equal Protection Network Cymru are saying, because there is a lot of very strong evidence, but we're giving you the evidence that we had from the research that we commissioned.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. We've got some questions now from Suzy on implementation.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I've just got a couple of questions on this balance between the steps that will be needed to implement this Bill and the impact that it'll actually have. You've probably heard in evidence that we've received that there are still some concerns out there about how agencies might address malicious reporting; some detail about how the public interest test might be applied further along the line; what's going to happen with out-of-hours provision from social services, and so on. There are still, from our perspective, quite a few things that are unknown about the effect on our public services in particular of the implementation of this Bill. Would you agree that perhaps we should know a little bit more about that before we proceed with supporting the Bill?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's very difficult, bringing in this legislation that hasn't been done before. It's very difficult to gauge the impact, and we've covered that, I know, in previous discussions. But I think it's very important to say that we are not creating a new offence. The Bill is removing a defence to an offence of common assault. And I think it's an interesting point to make that, in Ireland, they introduced similar legislation through an amendment to a Bill, and had no detailed preparation for bringing in the Bill, and in fact there's no evidence that this has caused any difficulties, and no significant negative impacts or increase in workload. But in any case, we have our implementation group, which is going to address many of these issues. This met on 14 May. That was the first meeting. You see, I think we do have to take a balance between assuming this Bill is going to go through and what we can actually do. We can't presume that the Assembly will accept this Bill, so we have to be staged in what we do. But we had the first strategic implementation group on 14 May, and we had representatives from the police, the police and crime commissioners, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Association of Directors of Social Services Cymru, the Association of Directors of Education in Wales, the Welsh Local Government Association, the legal profession and the third sector. They're all there, and they're all very keen to make this legislation work and to look at the implications of it. I'd just like to say how grateful I am for all those organisations giving their time and commitment. They've set up four work streams, looking at parenting advice and support; data collection, evaluation and monitoring; operations, procedures and processes; and out-of-court disposals and diversions. These groups will be taking forward this work and will be looking at many of those issues that you've mentioned, and will also be updated on the progress of the awareness strategy that we will be bringing in. I'm really confident that the legislation will be implemented in a very practical and workable way, because we do have the commitment of all these agencies, and there's been a huge amount of preparation done in the Welsh Government to prepare for this in a way that, I have to say, hasn't been done in some of the other countries—as I mentioned, in Ireland. So, as much preparation as could be done is being done and has been done, but we really now see that the implementation group is taking forward all these issues, and obviously those agencies that are taking part in the implementation group are, on the whole, in support of the principles of this Bill.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, thank you for that, Minister, but the way I look at this is that you've already said that, if this Bill passes—and it will pass; it's in enough manifestos to pass, so the question is what type of Bill is going to pass—and if there is a gap of, let's say, two years before anything is implemented, and the implementation group is doing the work that you've described—and we're very relieved to hear that—why is this Bill being introduced now when that implementation group hasn't really come up with a strategy that could help persuade people about what implementing this Bill would look like in real life? You're asking the Welsh public to take a bit of a chance on this.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think we have, as far as possible, looked at international evidence where this legislation has been introduced. It's different for different countries, so I know it's difficult to get anything that's absolutely linked. But I don't agree that it's a bit of a chance, really. I think we are preparing very well and very carefully. As the team who have been working on this have worked through the preparation for the Bill, lots of issues have arisen as they've done that, and so you have to do that, I think, alongside the actual practical implications with the groups that are coming together, and I think the point at which we've done that is probably just about right, really.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I hope this isn't going on to somebody else's questions, but accepting what you say, would you then be open to accepting amendments to the face of the Bill that would clarify the position for the Welsh public on certain things that may be of concern to them, which have been fed through to us? I'm not suggesting anything specific, but—.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, no. I mean, the position is that it is a very simple, one-clause Bill. We want to keep it as simple as possible, but I'm certainly prepared to consider any issues that come up, and I think that's been the case all along. Although our preference is to keep it simple.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I understand that. It's just what's going to work as a bit of law here, isn't it? And then just finally from me, and you've made the point to a degree, that, of course, not all countries are like Wales. If we look at Ireland, and New Zealand's the one we've been looking at an awful lot, which are the most similar, their work hasn't really been in place for that long, and one of the things that, I think, you're going to need to be able persuade us of is that if the culture change to which we've already referred is going in one way anyway, and if it continues to go in that direction, that this Bill will have had a causal effect. I'm trying to establish whether the culture change is going to happen anyway, whether or not we pass this legislation.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, it does look as if a culture change is happening in any case, but the culture change will never really move, I think, as most of us want it, if there is legislation that does appear to condone the use of physical punishment, and having this reasonable punishment in law means that happens. So, I think, passing the legislation by itself will certainly not do everything—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "No. And you'll be aware that this is to go with it. I get that, but—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "You've got to have—. And I think the research has all shown you've got to have an awareness campaign running along with it. That is shown. And in the other countries we've looked at, I don't think an awareness campaign was actually carried out because we are planning a really big awareness campaign because we think it's absolutely fair to the Welsh public, as you said, that they absolutely know what we're doing and everybody's aware of it. So, I think it is—.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, can I just finish—?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I know the point you're making. You're saying that this would happen in any case, maybe.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I'm suggesting it.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "But if you've got a bit of legislation there on the Bill, it will always mean that for a very minority group of parents, they will feel that they have got the right to use physical punishment against their child, and I just think it's something we should get rid of. I think it's an anachronism and it's something we should—. And I think Wales has been very strong on children's rights. We've got rid of physical punishment in schools, child minders, regulated care settings. And, of course, the other point that I don't think we say enough about is that it's not just parents; it's people in loco parentis who are working in leisure centres or religious establishments or any of those unregulated settings who also have this defence. So, it's last bit in the jigsaw, really, to have it quite clear that we want to treat our children with respect and dignity and I think this will move us towards that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, it's the argument you've made before. I think what I was trying to get to is: how are we going to prove that this piece of legislation has worked effectively? It's about the data capture, I guess.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "What are you going to do to make sure that you acquire evidence in the future to show that this has worked, or potentially not worked? I'd be surprised if that was the case, but—. Because, of course, that has an implication then on the resources for the various people you'll be asking to collect the data.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think that's very important because we need to know what is the effect of the legislation we'll be bringing in. So, we will be having ongoing evaluation, we will be bringing in an independent body to evaluate. We have got ongoing monitoring and we've got ongoing monitoring surveys looking at what are the views of the public. So, yes—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "It'll be directly linked to the Bill, then, rather than that broad culture change.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The monitoring, asking the views of the public, is generally about issues related to the Bill. The views of parents about whether this legislation—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Sorry, I don't want to labour this point.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "And awareness. How aware they are.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Basically, we need a question,'Has this Bill stopped you smacking your child?' That's the core question. So, phrase it differently, yes?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Well, we are in the surveys asking how many people feel that they do smack their child, but this is any physical punishment, actually, not just smacking—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And it's for the future, not for now.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "—and how many, actually, are doing that. And it is consistently going down, as you said.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I don't want to take it any further.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. We're going to move on to explore some of the issues around social services now with questions from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Morning, Minister. When the Association of Directors of Social Services Cymru came in, they were saying to us that they would encourage people to report any instances, anything that they see around somebody smacking a child. That leads on to the question about whether in fact social services, then, would change their thresholds for intervention if there were more cases being referred to them. Are you fairly confident, are you certain, that that wouldn't happen, or do you think there is a danger that social services might actually say,'Well, actually, if we're getting all these referrals, we need to think again about when and if we intervene', and the thresholds could become a bit lower?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, as you know, social services already receive and investigate reports of children being physically punished—any sort of range of physical punishment—and they use standard procedures to determine how to proceed, but that's done on a case-by-case basis; it's made on the individual case element. And, of course, there is a distinction between reasonable punishment and child neglect or abuse. And if this legislation is enacted, a significant proportion of the incidents of physical punishment will not require any response under the child protection procedures, and we do not expect the threshold of significant harm to change. And I know you took evidence from the ADSS, and I know Sally Jenkins gave evidence, who is one of the lead practitioners, and I understood she said:'In terms of thresholds for children's services, we would not be anticipating a huge number of referrals to us. There may be a small number of referrals that come through. What we know from other nations is that it will peak and then settle. We recognise that's likely to happen.' So, I think—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, it's the threshold for intervention that's the key, really, isn't it, rather than—?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, they don't see that changing.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, they don't see that changing.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "No, no. And we don't see that changing.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, that's fine. The police, when they came in to give evidence, talked about the need for the multi-agency safeguarding hubs. And what we also heard is that it's a bit inconsistent across the country. And I think you acknowledged that as well. Do you think the implementation of the Bill, and its effectiveness, is going to be dependent on us having consistently effective multi-agency safeguarding hubs right the way across the country?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "No. The effective implementation of the Bill does not depend on MASHs, as we call them for short, because bodies, social services, already work closely with the police on a day-to-day basis, really, and they have indicated their willingness to do so, and there are already well-established mechanisms in place that enable this joint working to take place. I know that the MASHs are only in certain areas, and I know that it's—. I think they're probably very good to have, actually, and very good to help the work, but it's certainly not dependent on them.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, but it would be something that you would be wanting to see developed, that eventually we would have these MASHs right across the country?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "At the moment, there are three MASHs in the south Wales police force, and one pilot MASH in the Gwent police force, but they don't operate in exactly the same way. And I know that other areas have considered having MASHs, but haven't actually brought any in. And a multi-agency strategic group, which is led by South Wales Police, has been set up, and it will consider the effectiveness of MASH arrangements in Wales, so it's very possible there will be more MASHs, but I want to reiterate that we're not dependent on MASHs in order to have the close working. But they're welcome—very welcome.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, because the key point from the police's point of view, I think, was that they provide a single point of contact, so it's very simple, isn't it? It's a single point of contact, and I think they were quite concerned that having that single point of contact might actually reduce the level of unnecessary police prosecutions—well, the police don't prosecute, but charges and so on. So, it was just a point that they were raising.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think they are very effective and very much to be welcomed, but it's certainly not essential.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Sorry, Karen.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I was just going to say that it's probably worth saying that looking at how agencies work together will be one of the things, again, that will be looked at very carefully on the task and finish group, looking at processes and procedures. We're very alert to the fact that there are different organisations, different services, and that bringing them together, working in as consistent a way as possible, is really, really important. As the Minister has said, social services, the police and others are already committed to working together, and, actually, we just want to make sure that we develop those working practices in the best way possible, recognising that not every area will have a MASH, and reiterating, again, what the Deputy Minister has said—that the effectiveness of the Bill is not predicated on a MASH in every area, but it is important that all those organisations do work together in a consistent and appropriate way.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Okay, that's fine. Thank you very much. The other response that we've received is from social workers. And they've talked about the fact that the social worker's workload is already very stretched, and you'll be aware of that, Minister. And I think they were getting a little bit concerned about whether a whole raft of new cases are going to land on what is an already extremely heavy workload, and how effectively they could deal with that. Would you say that those concerns, in terms of the impact of this Bill, are unfounded, or are we just saying that this is an unknown quantity at this stage, and we're going to have to wait and see?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, first of all, if I can just pay tribute to the work that social workers do.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Because, obviously, they’re going to be essential to the successful implementation of this Bill. I was a social worker myself, so I’m very happy to pay tribute to them. [Laughter.] But they do do a hard job, which isn’t always recognised, I think, by the public. So, I do take this point very seriously, but, obviously, the professionals who have given evidence—many of them have said they don’t see there being a big rise of referrals. Jane Randall, National Independent Safeguarding Board—I think she came to you—said:'there's no expectation that there's going to be a huge increase in the number of referrals…I think it would be dealt with within their existing resources.' I mean, there may be an increase in reporting of incidents, initially, maybe from individuals in the community and organisations such as schools. And I think it could have an impact on the initial stages of social services activity, which I think others—I think Sally Jenkins said that maybe there’d be an increase, a small increase, at the beginning. But as we expect the awareness raising and the ongoing support that we’ll be giving to parents—we do feel that the incidents of physical punishment will be falling over time. And we don’t really see that there will be an increase. But I know that social workers are stretched, and are hard-pressed—and I think that was some of the evidence given to you by the British Association of Social Workers. But I think it’s important to remember that they are also very strongly in support of us carrying out this legislation. But it is important to look at the realities and the practicalities. So, we’re going to work very closely with social services—obviously, key members of our implementation group—and we will collect relevant data for a period before the actual implementation, in order to get a baseline. We want a baseline, and we are working with a small number of social services to try to get the baseline of where it is, and to see what happens when the Bill is implemented. The evidence from other countries is that they certainly have not been overwhelmed. There have been reports in New Zealand that they have not been overwhelmed, and I mentioned Ireland earlier. So, I don’t think, really, we have to fear that social services would be overwhelmed, but we must be prepared, and we must get this data and monitor it closely.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Keep it monitored.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And I guess things will level out in due course. And social services clearly having to make judgments every day—they will be making those judgments quite quickly and turning them around.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, when they spoke to us, also had—there was a similar kind of concern raised. They did say that they felt that they probably did have adequate resources to support the Bill. But do you think there is any danger at all that it could divert CAFCASS staff, if we have a high volume of reporting, particularly given that we’ve got a 26-week limit in which to deal with those cases? Is that something that causes you any concern at this stage?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, CAFCASS are confident that they can deal with the cases that they have. As you know, there's been a big increase in the numbers that CAFCASS is dealing with already, and they have managed to very successfully cope with the demand. So, I've got every confidence that they will be able to cope with it.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Because they were basically just saying that it's unpredictable at this stage, weren't they, so—?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes. It is unpredictable. Our best views are that it will not—.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, because they were talking about the fact that no assessment had been made about the risk of malicious reporting. We talked about that in a number of sessions with the police and so on. So, I think their biggest concern was more about the rise in looked-after children and the impact on that in terms of their workload, and it was just a question of whether this would potentially divert any resources, I guess.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think, in terms of the malicious reporting, obviously that is something that happens a lot now and it is is likely that, perhaps—. I think they felt that, in existing cases, this might be another element that should be brought in, but they seemed, in my discussions, fairly confident. I know they appeared before the committee, and they are coping very well. But, obviously, another area we are very concerned about is the rise in the number of looked-after children, and that's somewhere we want to try to do what we can to bring that down.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Just before Suzy comes in with a supplementary—CAFCASS didn't come to the committee, they've submitted—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "They sent a letter—that's right. Yes, sorry about that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just very quickly, because I don't want to spend a lot of time on this: isn't it going to be true that any increase in workload for social services or schools or whoever is going to depend on reporting rising? Where do you see the likely rise in reporting taking place? Will it be members of the public or is it going to be professionals who feel that this is something that they can't ignore from now on?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "well, I think it would be mixed. I don't have any view or where it particularly would come from, because if there are any reports that go into agencies now about children being physically punished in any way—I think they investigate those already now. But I suppose members of the public might report if they see any physical punishment going on. They would be made much more aware, we hope, by the legislation—so, that may happen. But I think, in schools, if there is physical punishment reported by a child, the schools would report it in any case. But I think it's likely that there will be a small rise.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I was just curious about where you thought the main source would be—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I can't really be definitive about that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. The next questions are from Siân Gwenllian.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The Bill, in essence, is a simple one, of course, is it not? But what it does is  provide a useful discussion on what good parenting is and what discipline methods are the most effective—that is, discipline methods that parents can use rather than physical punishment. Do you think, therefore, that there's a need to invest much more in programmes to do with parenting and in support services for families in terms of parenting, and that as part of an early intervention strategy that's more co-ordinated and robust than what we have at present?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, we are developing the Bill as part of a much wider package of support for children and their parents, which, of course, is already in place. This obviously includes the'Parenting. Give it time' campaign, which aims to help parents do the best job that they can by providing positive tips on parenting and information. And we're already preparing now to update that, because, of course, that only goes up to age 7 and deals with issues about how you cope with your kids if they're difficult at meal times and if they have tantrums. It is very well used by parents. But, of course, this legislation will go up to 18 years old, and so the issues may be very different. So, we're already starting to prepare to update that'Parenting. Give it time' campaign. And then, obviously, there's the universal services that give access to help and to promote positive parenting, delivered by local government, health, education, social services, social justice and the third sector. We will be encouraging all those agencies that provide that universal service to help support parents and to pass on this information. Then, there will be the more targeted supports, such as Flying Start and Families First, which offer help and advice. But what I've done is I've asked the officials to carry out a mapping exercise to see where the support is and where the gaps are or opportunities to do more, particularly around information and advice on positive alternatives to physical punishment, but also more widely. So, we are looking to see where the gaps are. I think parents do tend to use information and try to get help in many different ways. A very large number, actually, do use the internet. I was surprised, actually, that so many used the internet to get information. Others ask their mothers, their families, their friends, and go to agencies. It's such a wide range that we need that mapping exercise and we need to see where we need to put in more support.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I'm pleased that you're going to conduct that exercise, because the evidence that we've received from a number of different directions is that there isn't enough investment in reality in the support services in the early years, and that there is a real need for the focus within Government go back to early intervention and to have a much more co-ordinated strategy. You've mentioned a number of agencies working on different elements, perhaps, but perhaps there's a need to bring them all together. You talk about the'Parenting. Give it time' campaign, but I think it's an online campaign effectively, and Flying Start—yes, people who attend those courses find them useful, but, of course, it's not available across Wales and it's not available to every parent. There is a scheme that is available through schools in Gwynedd—perhaps you are aware of it—Incredible Years, with Professor Judy Hutchings, who has been working on this for a number of years now, very successfully, where schools, parents and the children work together on parenting methods that are positive. I wonder if it's time to think about expanding that as part of an early intervention strategy across Wales. Perhaps you can't give a specific answer today, but may I ask you to take a look at that? What concerns me is that the Bill is going through but there's not enough work relating to education and having people's support for different methods, more positive methods, in my opinion, of parenting. There's a real need to move and to invest in that area and perhaps move money towards that work.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, certainly, I think that is the purpose of the mapping exercise, to see what is successful, where things need to be expanded, and that's what we're going to consider. Incredible Years—I know it's very successful; I am aware of that programme. I think there are patches all over Wales of really good progress, but, certainly, I'm sure we need to give more support to parents in the early years, and I think they're only too glad to have it as well. Children are very receptive at that age and early intervention is the key to many of the issues that we have to deal with later on.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. We're going to return to some of the parenting issues later, but in the meantime we've got questions from Hefin David.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just to take it on the next step from what Siân Gwenllian was asking about—in schools, are teachers ready for this legislation?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "On our implementation group, the education sector is represented. They've come to the first meeting of the implementation group. So, they're going to be fully involved in the preparation. Obviously, corporal punishment was banned in schools a long time ago, and I think the education sector is very supportive of this move. But in terms of the awareness for teachers to be ready for it—obviously, the awareness campaign has got to be aimed at professionals in every field and certainly aimed at teachers.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, if I was a teacher in an individual school, what kind of preparation do you think I should expect?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "You know this better than me, having been more in the education field than me, but I think teachers are updated on different parts of childcare legislation now, and have in-service training days and training courses. And, certainly, perhaps this would be part of that—part of the training that teachers get. This would have to be incorporated into that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "One of the things that the National Association of Head Teachers told us was that they wouldn't want the cost of that kind of training to come from core budgets. Would you agree with that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, I would have thought this sort of measure would be incorporated into the training they were using already, actually. I wouldn't have seen it would need something completely separate.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, you think it should come from the core budget that they use for training?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think it could be incorporated in what they're already doing.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And do you think that would be a significant additional cost or do you think that that would be minimal?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I would have thought it would be minimal. They already have training courses about childcare issues, and this would be something that would be absorbed into that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "You mentioned the implementation group and the fact that educators are represented on it. Can you just be a bit clearer about how they are represented again? I'm not sure I caught that.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Do you want to, Karen, because you were at the group?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, education are represented on it through the Association of Directors of Education in Wales, and they have a representative on the strategic implementation group, and we are working with them to understand who else will be on the task and finish groups that we're setting up that the Minister's already talked about. And we've also had conversations with all of the trade unions. I personally went and spoke to them earlier in the year when the Bill was being introduced, received their feedback and have said that I will go back and speak with them.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Okay. The things that are being raised so far—would you say they're reflective of the concerns that the NAHT rose about, for example, funding of training? Are those kinds of issues raised? The practical implications of introducing this Bill—are they raised? If not, what other issues might be raised?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "So, I think that the main concerns that you've already heard as a committee are similar concerns to those that have been raised previously. So, there's not anything in addition to the things that we have discussed, either with the trade unions or through the implementation group, or during the consultation period. And, as the Minister said, for the majority of these sort of things, teachers, education and other workforces already have procedures in place, because this comes under a safeguarding issue at one level. There are procedures and processes that are already there that they all follow. The ask will be based around those safeguarding procedures and, therefore, education and other services update their processes and procedures on a regular basis as a matter of course when any issues like this are addressed. There's a wider context here. Minister, I don't know whether you wanted to say anything about the well-being and the—", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Yes. One of the things that I think this committee has been involved in is we want to have a whole-school approach. We want mental health and well-being to be part of the way that the whole school operates, and the culture and how schools engage with pupils and parents. And we want to create that atmosphere where there's no wrong door, where children can bring up any of the concerns that they have with any member of the school staff that they trust. And, obviously, the school staff is wider than the teachers. And so, I think the creation of that sort of atmosphere is very important in taking forward this issue.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I appreciate that. I think the Bill, though, introduces a very specific set of changes that—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "It removes the defence; that's all the Bill does.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "But should a parent witness, now, smacking, then it will require a different kind of approach—sorry, if a teacher were to witness smacking, it would require a different kind of approach, perhaps, to existing approaches. There shouldn't, therefore, be any surprise amongst teachers in how to deal with these things when the Bill comes in. I suppose the question I'm asking is: can we be assured that nothing you've said today in this meeting, in this committee, should be a surprise to teachers and trade unions, because that would already have been communicated through the Bill implementation group?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, well, Karen has already said about the meetings that she's had with the unions and they are present on the implementation group, but a lot of these things happen already. They already have to make decisions about physical punishment they may be told about by children, for example—probably more likely than actually witnessing anything. And they already have to make decisions on those sorts of issues, so I see this as being incorporated in with that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. With regard to health and the communication of this to parents, we've heard about the Healthy Child Wales programme, and the fact that it has the opportunity to play a role in raising parents' awareness. Do you think that's the case?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think the Healthy Child Wales programme and the role of the health visitor is absolutely crucial, because, obviously, the health visitor is there right at the beginning. It's a universal service, and so there will be great opportunity for them to promote positive parenting in a much stronger way than they're able to do at the moment, because the fact that you have this defence does mean that the professionals aren't able to make it as clear as they want to make it that positive parenting is the way that they'd like families to go. So, I think this will be a great advantage to health visitors, and, obviously, they support it strongly, because they're trying to encourage parents not to use physical punishment now, but with their hands slightly tied behind their back, because the defence does exist.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "That's great, that's a good thing, but the concern we've got is that half the parents across Wales are not accessing the Healthy Child Wales programme, and in my community, within the Aneurin Bevan health board area, 80 per cent of parents aren't accessing the Healthy Child Wales programme. So, are there concerns that, if you rely too much on that process for communication, then parents, particularly in the early years, will be left out?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "We've got to rely on a range of ways of reaching parents, and I think that there are other times when there is a much higher ratio of children and families seen. But I think we've had that discussion with the mapping exercise that we've already mentioned, that we're going to identify where there are gaps or where we can do more, and that's where we will identify this.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I think as well that that figure relates to one contact point across the whole of the Healthy Child Wales programme, not the Healthy Child Wales programme as a whole. Maybe we could come back with some further information about the contacts, because I'm—. That figure—", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "The percentage relates to the contact at age three and a half, but that is exactly the kind of age when you'd expect more children to—. If they were going to be smacked, it would be at that sort of age, wouldn't it, really? So, that is a concern for the committee, really, in terms of coverage.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I can appreciate that, although I would—. Midwives, health visitors and others working with families would actually be giving those messages, core messages, about setting boundaries, managing behaviour, discipline, positive parenting, right from the very beginning. So, reliance on that single point of contact at that one age point is not necessarily the most appropriate, because I think there's a period from birth through to, actually, later as well, when those key health messages, those key messages around positive parenting, are and can be given. As the Minister said, we will be mapping a lot of this, but we can give you some more advice on that, if that would be helpful, about the types of messages that are given during that period of time.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Yes, I think that would be helpful. I've got some supplementaries on this, because I think the committee is concerned that at a key opportunity at age three and a half, a big chunk of families aren't having that contact that they should expect with their health visitor, really. Suzy, then Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. It's also a time in their child's life when they're likely to be spending time not with their parents, in school or early years. And I just wanted a bit of clarification from you, Minister, on what you were saying to Hefin David about training here. I got the sense you thought this could just be slipped in as a paragraph in existing guidance, but I'm not clear about what happens to a teacher who is told by a child that they've been smacked, and they decide that they're not going to report that—will they get into trouble over that? If it's part of a bigger picture that a teacher should have picked up, that's different, but, if a child tells a teacher,'Oh, Mammy smacked me because I did such and such', is that teacher going to get into trouble if they don't report that to the police?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "If that happens now, the teacher is expected to report that now. I think they usually call in social services.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Oh, it goes to social services.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "But that clarity is needed as well.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. That is what happens now, so would you expect a teacher to do it, yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. All right, thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I'm just interested to hear a bit more about the mapping exercise that you've referred to, which I think is really important, but it is going to show up a lot of gaps geographically, but also in service provision for different groups of families. It's all very well doing a mapping exercise, but what is the purpose of that, and how are you going to ensure that those gaps don't exist in future? Maybe we could have a note about what the timetable is for this exercise, and more in-depth understanding perhaps about what your intentions are, and how you intend to take it forward once you've done the mapping exercise.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes. We absolutely acknowledge that there is a lot more work to be done, and we know that we have to work hard at this to reach every family. Obviously, the information that we've had about the Healthy Child Wales, the health boards will be monitoring that information and will be—. I think they're going to establish a project board to consider the themes that are coming out from the Healthy Child Wales, and so that will be certainly addressed there. And we will absolutely acknowledge that we expect that there will be work to be done.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And there will be investment needed, obviously, to fill in those gaps, which means a significant shift in the way Government now looks at its budget, and a shift towards that early prevention.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think we all agree that early prevention is the key for happy, healthy children, and so we'll certainly consider everything that arises.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've got some questions now on the police and the Crown Prosecution Service from Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. You've said repeatedly that the intention of this Bill isn't to criminalise parents, and I believe that that's not your intention. So, what I'm interested in hearing about is how you—or the work that you've done to satisfy yourself that the huge majority of parents that are going to be caught up in the change of this Act won't result in parents getting anywhere near the CPS, for example. Obviously, there are going to be occasions where there are recidivists who keep smacking despite perhaps earlier warnings, or families get identified as doing something far more serious with their children than this, and I'm not talking about those—I'm talking about the people who are currently protected, if I can put it like that. I'm very interested in hearing what you've got to say about out-of-court disposals and pre being charged activity. I wonder if you can tell us a little bit about the assessment and work that you've done in that area.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Right. Well, there are a number of out-of-court disposals that the police can use, because the police want to respond in a positive and proportionate way. The use of out-of-court disposals is actually a non-devolved responsibility, but we'll be working—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "That's what I wanted to ask you about.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, they are non-devolved, but we will be working with the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the CPS, the police and the police and crime commissioners to consider suitable interventions. And one of the main areas of focus of the National Police Chiefs' Council's national strategy is to reduce the current six disposal options to just two. And that's going to be conditional caution and community resolution, and the four Welsh police forces are going to be moving towards this two-tier approach, which they believe will make for greater consistency. So, what we're doing is we are exploring, with the police liaison unit, how we can develop a suitable diversion scheme, with a focus on advice and support on positive alternatives to physical punishment, and how we can tie that into the wider activity. And, obviously, it all depends on the individual circumstances of the case, because the other thing we're going to look at is the individual. But it's possible then we could get a diversion scheme provided through a community resolution order; it could be potentially be given instead of a caution. And so that would be—you know, parents could be referred to a scheme. So, that's what we're discussing with the police liaison unit at the moment.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for confirming that, but even that is quite far down the process from the day that a smack is reported, and, as you know, particularly as soon as the police get involved, and even social services, if a record is made of even a complaint—even if that complaint goes no further, even if you don't get anywhere near an arrest, shall we say, that is logged in certain parts of the system and will need to be revealed in certain circumstances. I'm thinking of the enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check in particular, but there are other instances as well. Have you done any impact assessment on that, because that is a—we're talking about a situation where there's a massive impact, potentially, on an adult, when there have been no grounds at all to worry that a child's rights have been infringed, for example? It will happen in malicious reporting, but it could happen in reporting where an apparent battery has taken place, but it turns out to have been something completely different—you know, pushing a child's hand away, that sort of thing. The police are not going to want to take that any further at all, but it's on their records. How are you going to protect parents in those circumstances, within our legislative competence?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, the issue of non-conviction data obviously doesn't just apply to this Bill we're bringing in; it applies to everything. So, it's something that you can look at in a general sense—that the police can visit and there's no further action, but that could be for anything—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "But this is very sensitive, this area.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "—and it's still logged. But, obviously, this does have an issue in terms of, particularly, the DBS checks and if you needed an enhanced certificate, if you wanted to be a teacher, a childcare worker, or those sorts of occupations. But, when disclosing information held locally, the police follow the quality assurance framework, and information must pass certain tests, which are related to considerations of relevance, substantiality and proportionality, and considerations of the safety aspects as well of disclosing information. And the police must record their thought process, their rationale, explaining how and why they reached all of their conclusions and their decisions. And this information is then assessed by the chief officer to determine whether it's reasonable to believe that it's relevant, and whether, in their opinion, it ought to be disclosed. Information should only be disclosed if it meets both of those requirements. So—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Is that in all jobs, though, because my understanding is that there are certain professions where that exemption doesn’t apply, and they’re likely to be the ones that are really relevant to the removal of the defence? So, I’m not talking about, I don't know, people who might work as volunteers; I’m literally talking about teachers and doctors, maybe dentists.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, we have done some work on this, haven’t we? Do you want to say about that, Karen?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, it does apply across all professions, and we have been in discussion with the DBS about when and how and why information would be released, and also how often. And our understanding at this moment in time is that this type of information is released only in a very, very small number of cases. I think we’re talking less than 1 per cent of cases—", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "One per cent of what figure though?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "—in the last year. It’s about 1 per cent of 2,500, something like that. I haven’t got the exact figures with me.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Okay, but it helps us to understand the general amount—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, it’s about two, three, four cases in a year where this type of information is disclosed. It’s information that, obviously, we have got, but I think it’s really important to understand that this is a really rigorous process that the police and the DBS have in place. They consider everything in the round before they would even consider actually releasing any information that's non-conviction information in relation to employment.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "But this is a new consideration for them. They haven't tested their ability to get their judgment right on this one yet. Are you concerned that, in order to be on the safe side, if I can put it like that, there's an increased likelihood of disclosure—which actually might disappear over time, because there's an opportunity to exercise judgment more frequently and get the balance right?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think they do have to consider non-conviction information now and some of that non-conviction information may be in relation to physical punishment of a child. I think you've received evidence from the police saying that there are 18,000 or so incidents in one police force area alone, where information is potentially on their records, and yet we understand that a very, very small proportion of non-conviction information is released to an employer during a recruitment process. So, our expectation, based on that information, would be that it would remain at a very low level.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Okay. And just to finish off on this one: we don't have legislative competence in this particular area, so we are relying on goodwill and the conversations that you have, which I'm sure are very productive. What will happen if we start getting instances where perhaps that judgment hasn't been exercised correctly? There's nothing, as a Government, you can do to challenge that particularly.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I can only emphasise the very close working relationships we've got and I think will continue to build as we introduce this legislation. We've got it all set up and it's been very productive so far.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, I appreciate that. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you, Suzy. Just before we move on, could I ask, then—? Maybe the committee would be grateful for a note providing an update on the latest work that the Government has done on out-of-court disposals, including estimated costs. We'd also appreciate a note on the Welsh Government's discussions with the DBS and the figures that Karen just referred to, if that's okay, please. Thank you. The next questions are from Hefin on resources.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "When you first appeared before the committee at the beginning of Stage 1, I wasn't hugely reassured by the evidence you gave on the resource implications of the Bill. It seems to be relying, to a great extent, on the limited number of reporting of cases that's likely to happen, as we've seen in the evidence we've received. That's largely been recognised by the stakeholders who've given evidence, but isn't there still the potential for a degree of unknown costs to come into this, and what planning have you done for those unknown costs—those unforeseen costs—that might occur?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I feel that—. You're right that there always could be unknown costs, but we are doing our very best to prepare to cover all eventualities that we can anticipate. For example, I've committed to fund the high-intensity awareness-raising campaign, and committed to carry out a mapping exercise to establish whether there are any gaps in the parenting support. We know that evidence from other countries does show that, if we bring in this legislation and raise awareness, it does change people's attitudes, so there may, in the long term, be a saving if we do that. But we are committed to working with organisations to put in place arrangements so that we're able to collect the data so that we know what the impact is. But I just have to repeat that all our evidence, looking at other countries, is that there isn't a huge increase in the workload.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "No. I think you can make the argument for precedent elsewhere, but you can also say that every country has a different culture and approach to how it raises children, and therefore there'll be a number of differences as well. The explanatory memorandum raises some specific cases. It talks about unknown costs in relation to social services as a result of a potential increasing referrals; family courts and CAFCASS Cymru as a result of a potential increase in allegations, which we talked about; the CPS and a higher volume of requests for charging advice from the police; and the review of training and guidance offered by organisations involved in the safeguarding of children. All those things we've talked around, but what would be reassuring for the committee is, perhaps, if you could give us a broad figure, which the Government would say,'We'll need to set this number aside in order to be prepared for the implementation of this Bill.' Would you be willing to present that at some point during the passage of the Bill?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think we have to rely on what the people who run those organisations are telling us. Certainly, the CPS say that they can cope. CAFCASS say that they can cope. And it is very difficult to anticipate what impact there would be on social services. The people who are managing social services say they don't anticipate a big impact. I think the other important thing to recognise is that this area of work is already dealt with by all these people. So, the CPS is already involved in changing its guidance all the time, so it's not going to be much of an impact for them to actually have to do that over this issue. Social services are already dealing with calls and referrals about the physical punishment of children already, including reasonable punishment. And so it's not a new category of work. I accept that we're working in a situation where there's a general pressure on public services, but I think this area that we're legislating on here is part of what everybody's doing already. And so I don't see it as such a big thing in terms of impact.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "That's a perfectly reasonable answer, but then what about providing a ballpark figure for a kind unforeseen fund that you might set aside?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't think it's possible to do that. We have to measure it as we go along. We've got to get the data. The data will show—. We've got to have baseline data to begin with, and that's what's so difficult to get, because we can't get that from other countries. Only New Zealand recorded any incidents before they actually brought in the legislation, and they did that for three months beforehand. That's why we've been looking at New Zealand a lot of the time, just to make predictions. But we've got to rely on the data. One of these sub-groups is looking at data, so that sub-group should be very productive, I think. And then we will be actually able to see what happens. But I don't think we can respond to that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, that's fine. And the last question, with regard to resourcing, just to understand the process of how this ties into the wider budgeting—did you and your officials sit down with the Finance Minister and the First Minister's officials to discuss the costing of this? I imagine so. What was the nature of that kind of discussion?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Some of the costings are decided. For example, the advertising, the awareness-raising campaign—that's £2.2 million over six years. So the decision has been made about that. I don't know if there were further discussions right at the beginning of this process.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "There have been discussions. The discussions tend to be positive. We can't really say any more beyond that at this moment in time.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Okay. And who were the discussions with?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "There has been an in-the-round discussion before the Bill was introduced, at which the First Minister and the finance Minister and others were present.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Okay. And I imagine it's gone to Cabinet for discussion.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "The consultation and then the Bill going forward has been discussed by Cabinet, and gone through Cabinet processes, as you would expect.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "So, are we able to say that the Government as a whole is satisfied that there isn't going to be a huge impact on resource as a result of the introduction of this Bill?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think what you can say is that the Government are satisfied that they are supportive of the Bill and have put the Bill forward. I think you can say that.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Okay. Did you want to come in?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Are you satisfied that that amount of money—£2.5 million over five years [correction: £2.2 million over six years]—is going to be enough? From memory, with the organ donation Bill, the amount was something in the region of around £7 million that was set aside, I think. Or maybe I'm misremembering that, but—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think it was about £4 million—", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "£4 million—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "So, there's a disparity, then. That was a few years ago. You've got to reach a lot of people, haven't you, with this, including some pretty hard-to-reach groups as well. Are you confident that amount of money is going to be enough?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We are as confident as we can be at this moment in time. We are obviously going to be working with focus groups and others to look at what sorts of messaging there will need to be. But in terms of the initial stages of the awareness campaign, we are, as I say, as confident as we can be, based on what we know.", "speakerName": "Karen Cornish" }, { "text": "Okay. Hefin, on human rights.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I just wanted to ask a very specific question on human rights, because, you know, when it comes to appeals, there are a variety of articles under the European Convention on Human Rights that might be used with regard to a challenge to the law as enacted. So, I'll ask you the question very directly. For the purpose of the record, can you outline to us the assessment you've made in preparation for this Bill in relation to the balancing of relevant articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, including but not limited to article 8 on the respect for private life; article 9, freedom of conscience and religion; article 3, the right to protection from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment; and article 14, protection from discrimination?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. We have given a great deal of thought, as you can imagine, to the human rights considerations as set out in our impact assessments, and it's ultimately a question how we find a balance between the rights of children as well as parents, who both enjoy rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. So, article 3 is the prohibition of torture:'No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.' In ensuring that children are protected from physical punishment in the same way as adults, the Bill is following that requirement of article 3, and the positive obligations on states to protect individuals from ill treatment or punishment that is contrary to article 3. And then, in terms of article 8, right to respect for private and family life,'Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.' Some of those who are opposed to the prohibition of physical punishment have cited article 8, private and family life, and also cited article 9, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as potentially protecting the right for parents to decide how best to punish their children, including the use of physical punishment. That is used as an argument by those who are opposed to stopping physical punishment. But these rights are not absolute, and action can therefore be taken that interferes with them, provided the interference is justified. It's the Government's view that the Bill's provisions are necessary in order to protect the rights and freedom of children. We are looking here from the point of view of children. The Bill's provisions are regarded as proportionate measures, and given the fundamental importance of protecting children from inhumane or degrading punishment or other ill treatment, we do consider that we have balanced the rights in a proportionate way. And then, article 10, freedom of expression, and article 14, prohibition of discrimination—these rights are not absolute and action can be taken, therefore, that interferes with them, providing the interference is justified. We don't think it's clear that article 10 and 14 rights are being interfered with, but even if they are, we consider we can justify the interference in order to protect the rights and freedoms of children. I don't know, Emma, whether you wanted to add anything to any of that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Only that we set out—. I think it's the equality impact assessment that sets out the positive and negative impacts of the proposal and the balancing of the rights enjoyed by both parents and children.", "speakerName": "Emma Gammon" }, { "text": "Thank you. There are some questions from Vikki on awareness raising. Can I ask for concise questions please?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. So, last week, the Welsh Government published its baseline survey of public attitudes to physical punishment of children, and that showed us that 58 per cent of the public already thought the law did not allow parents to smack their children. You could look at this two ways. You could think glass half full, which suggests that we don't have many people to try and convince of that. But on the flipside of that, would you suggest, perhaps, that that data shows there is a challenge faced by the Welsh Government to make sure the public understand the proposed legislation, given that more than half of the population, according to those statistics, have a complete misunderstanding of the current law?", "speakerName": "Vikki Howells AM" }, { "text": "Certainly, I think that finding is reflected in people I speak to who do think that the law does not allow parents to hit their children. I mean, I'm personally very reassured that 58 per cent of the public think the law doesn't allow that to happen because I think, well, they're not hitting their children, so we're over 50 per cent of where we want to get. So, I think that is a good thing, but it does highlight the fact that the legislation, as it is, is confused. I think it makes a very good case for saying that we do need to simplify this legislation. We need much greater clarity in the law for professionals who are working and trying to help parents, and for parents themselves. So, I think that this is a case for saying that it's very important that we carry out this legislation to make it all much clearer. But I am pleased that 58 per cent of the public think the law has already changed.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "One of the most consistent messages that this committee has heard is that the proposed law won't work unless there's a significant campaign to raise awareness with members of the public. We know that Sweden went to considerable lengths to publicise the change in the law there, and I can remember attending a cross-party group, chaired by yourself, Deputy Minister, where we heard evidence from Ireland to the same effect, as well—the necessity of the public awareness campaign. You already said that a duty on the face of the Bill to raise awareness is not necessary, but then, in your answer to Suzy Davies, you said you would consider putting some things on the face of the Bill. So, can you explain to us your key arguments surrounding this issue?", "speakerName": "Vikki Howells AM" }, { "text": "I absolutely agree that it's essential that we do have a big awareness campaign, because all the research we've had shows, in fact, that if you don't have the awareness campaign, the legislation won't be as effective. So, we need a joint effort; I'm totally committed to doing that. I've said it publicly here, and I'm saying it again. I don't think it's absolutely necessary to have it on the face of the Bill, but as I said to Suzy, I'm prepared to consider anything the committee is bringing forward because I'm very keen for this Bill to progress through this process and to learn from it. So, I'm saying that I'm prepared to consider it.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, that's very useful. And finally, New Zealand is an oft-cited example, mentioned in the explanatory memorandum as well. So, we know New Zealand prohibited physical punishment in 2007, but yet in a non-binding referendum two years later, 87.5 per cent of voters voted'no' in response to the question,'Should a smack, as part of good parental correction, be a criminal offence in New Zealand?' On what basis, then, are you confident that this sort of polarisation won't happen in Wales, especially considering the current political climate there is out there?", "speakerName": "Vikki Howells AM" }, { "text": "Well, what we trying to do is we're trying to take this forward in as consensual a way as we possibly can. We're very keen that we listen to the views of everybody. All those people who don't agree with us, who are a minority, it seems, we want to hear what they've got to say, taking very seriously all the points that are raised here by the committee. I haven't seen any sign of any polarisation in any way that I would be concerned about, because, certainly, the people who do oppose the Bill, I've met with them, I know they've given evidence to your committee and the views of parents have been taken into account. We completely accept that we want to listen to the views of people who don't agree. I hope that they then, if the Bill does become law, will then accept and respect the democratic process. So, I don't feel concerned, really, about that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Janet, a brief supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I started at the very beginning, Deputy Minister, with the fact that there's an overwhelming majority of parents—those who are naturally charged with raising their children—against this Bill. So, there is a polarisation. We've gone out to survey on it and the overwhelming response from parents is that they do not support this Bill. And I think that needs to be put on the record.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I think that our representative surveys that we've carried out do show considerable support for the Bill—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "But not from parents.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "—particularly from parents with young children under seven. That's where the support does lie. And it's older people who are much less likely to support the legislation, and I think it's all linked to what many of us were used to, what happened in our childhoods, when it was accepted and it was part of the time that this was what you did. But we have moved on now and we're in a different era. So, I think many older people, because they smacked their children or were smacked themselves, have felt a degree of resistance, perhaps, to the Bill. But as I say, I think times have changed. We want to respect children's rights and what happened in the past is in the past now, and we want to have a new era for respecting children's human rights and dignity. And I think I'll go back to what I said: I don't see that children's rights to dignity is going to happen if a big person is able to hit a small person.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Just to clarify, Janet's referring to the committee's consultation and the percentage of responses that we've had.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we had a specific section, but because time is moving quite fast, perhaps you could give us a note in response. Some witnesses saw a risk that the Bill could have a disproportionate impact on specific groups—women, because they are the main carers, minority ethnic groups and very young children. So, if it would be possible for us to receive a note as to whether you agree that this will have a disproportionate impact upon them, and if so, what would be the mitigating measures you would take. But, specifically, we have heard from several witnesses and the equality impact assessment of the Bill does acknowledge that a low income is a risk factor in the use of physical punishment and that this could have a negative impact specifically on this group of parents. Now, we know that Flying Start is available to try to mitigate that to some degree, but of course not all low-income families live within a Flying Start area, so what mitigating work will you be undertaking in that regard?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes. We are aware of the issue of reaching out to certain groups. We are running focus groups where we will be taking the different groups into account, and we will work with different groups, communities and organisations to make sure that they are aware of the change in the law, and we will—I know you want to move on—but we will write to you about anything more specific.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Just finally from me, then, you referred to the mapping exercise, which is very welcomed by the committee. Should that mapping exercise identify gaps? Will the Welsh Government be making a commitment to provide funding to plug those gaps so that there is a universal offer of parenting support for families in Wales?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We will certainly consider it at that point.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've come to the end of our time. We've covered a great deal of ground. Thank you, all, for attending and for answering such a diverse range of questions. As usual, you will be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting, but thank you very much to the three of you for your time this morning.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, and thank you for all the questions and the wide range that we covered. Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, providing additional information following the evidence session on 2 May for this Bill. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services in response to the committee's letter, which requested information on CAFCASS Cymru's response on specific points of interest in relation to the Bill. And paper to note 3 is a letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services making the committee aware of research undertaken in relation to public attitudes to physical punishment. Can I ask if Members are happy to note those?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Can I just make one observation? I think it's on the first of the letters, which is the difficulty that there's been in trying to disaggregate the evidence of smacking as isolated incidents as compared to smacking as part of a bigger pattern of behaviour. I think that's worth noting on the record.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you, Suzy. Item 4, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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As a solution to this, they suggested ongoing evaluation and implementing an independent body to evaluate. They also emphasized the importance of data collection, monitoring surveys, and awareness campaigns to provide further support.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 7, "endIndex": 15 }, { "startIndex": 30, "endIndex": 40 }, { "startIndex": 56, "endIndex": 60 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did Suzy Davies say about the Bill’s implementation?", "response": "Suzy Davies raised concerns about the implementation of the Bill. They acknowledged the efforts of the implementation group but emphasized the need to establish a strategy that could help persuade the public about the Bill’s actual impact. They also expressed concerns about the potential unknown costs and the potential negative consequences of the Bill that might occur due to the lack of a clear strategy.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 15, "endIndex": 16 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides concerns about implementation, what other issue did Suzy Davies raise about the Bill’s awareness campaign?", "response": "Suzy did not mention other issue about the Bill’s awareness campaign in the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "What was their solution to address those concerns about potential unforeseen costs?", "response": "The participants discussed about the unforeseen cost and they mentioned that they are doing their very best to prepare to cover all eventualities that they can anticipate. For example, they've committed to fund the high-intensity awareness-raising campaign, and committed to carry out a mapping exercise to establish whether there are any gaps in the parenting support. They know that evidence from other countries does show that, if they bring in this legislation and raise awareness, it does change people's attitudes, so there may, in the long term, be a saving if they do that. However, they are committed to working with organizations to put in place arrangements so that they can collect the data so that we know what the impact is.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 148, "endIndex": 149 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did Suzy Davies recommend to do when discussing the public strategy for informing the public about the Bill’s impact?", "response": "Suzy Davies did not recommend anything when discussing the public strategy for informing the public about the Bill’s impact.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the specific concerns raised in the Bill’s explanatory memorandum, what other issues did Suzy Davies mention that could affect the Bill’s implementation?", "response": "I apologize, but the meeting transcript does not contain any information about other issues that Suzy Davies mentioned that could affect the Bill’s implementation.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Was the Bill widely supported by all parents and organizations in Wales?", "response": "The meeting transcript does not contain any information about whether the Bill was widely supported by all parents and organizations in Wales.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Could you provide me with a summary of the key points discussed during the meeting on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill?", "response": "* The participants recognized that child abuse is not the issue that the Bill is trying to address and agreed that the Bill aims to prohibit all forms of physical punishment.\n* They also brought up that different organizations and experts support the Bill, including the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and a study that found a correlation between the prohibition of corporal punishment and less youth violence.\n* There were concerns raised about how to address the current and potential future negative outcomes of the Bill, and ongoing evaluation and implementation of an independent body to evaluate the Bill's progress were suggested as solutions.\n* Questions were raised regarding the implementation of the Bill, public awareness strategies, potential unforeseen costs, and the overall impact on the public.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 2 }, { "startIndex": 7, "endIndex": 7 }, { "startIndex": 11, "endIndex": 16 }, { "startIndex": 30, "endIndex": 35 }, { "startIndex": 85, "endIndex": 87 }, { "startIndex": 96, "endIndex": 100 }, { "startIndex": 147, "endIndex": 152 }, { "startIndex": 173, "endIndex": 178 }, { "startIndex": 189, "endIndex": 189 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

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Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'm a marketing person. I wanna figure out how to sell them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And your name is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My name is Eileen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh I'm Jeanne-Oui. Um uh my role is industrial designer and my responsibilities are uh uh um deal with the technical-functional designs and specifications of user interface and dealing with user interface design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good. And as you already know I am Betty. I am the project manager for today. So why don't we look at the presentation to see what we really are supposed to do. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes y opening, acquaintance, tool training well, the tools are, I think, we already I guess the tool is really our the computer, as far as I can see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh we get ins each of us will get instructions and we'll take it from there. Project plan, that falls under the same heading pretty much. Um, I don't think we have any great discussion at this point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Here is what this thing should be. This thing we are gonna um uh design is a new remote control. Uh should be original, trendy, and, of course, user friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe you wanna make some notes of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All right. Here is what the functional design is supposed to achieve. Um. That is it's gonna be individual work and then at the meeting we'll discuss what uh we have come up with. The same goes for the conceptual design, there will be individual work whic and then discussion afterwards. Detailed design, same thing basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay so Three different types of design that we're gonna be concerned with okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional, conception and detailed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I can't write with this thing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should redesign it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "After we've finished the remote control we'll get to that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. All right? Then, tool training try out the white board, participant can draw their favourite animal. Does anybody want to go and see how the white board works? So that in case we have to, in the next meeting, present something on the white board. You wanna go Eileen and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll see what I can do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whether you without hanging yourself..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See if I r See if I remember how to draw a kitty cat or a rabbit or something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And remember you have to press so it works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that it will record okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um uh um traditional kitty cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fat, a fat cat..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've a very fat cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it likes to sit like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you're Francine, right? Would you like s like just to see um how it feels, so that you have a little idea?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, I'm Francina. Yes, sure..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Am I supposed to wipe off that or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, no. No, that's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, we'll get to that later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What should I draw?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Snake.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm going to draw a snake..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How does it look like?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I hope the kitty cat is hungry'cause I don't like snakes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here's the project finance uh which, of course, we all have to think about when we design this thing. Um selling price is supposed to be twenty five Euro. Uh profit aim for the company is fifty million Euro,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the market range unlimited meaning international", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the production cost should not exceed hopefully should be less than twelve fifty Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay that should keep everybody on their toes and challenged.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Profit. Um is fifty mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are all things, of course, to remember with the budget and when you design to materials, cost, etcetera. Now, uh the discussion I guess is um does anyone of you have experience with remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I exp I s'cause we we use'em we use'em, right, everyday.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, using remote control. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um now having used a remote control for years does anybody already have like an idea like things you didn't like with it, things you would like to change, things you would like to improve with this thing ye any first ideas? Would you like it to be smaller, bigger,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "have more have more buttons on it or maybe clearly better marked buttons, you know, things like that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I I feel that all the remote should be very compact.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Small, right. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, those which we get here nowadays it's very long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um and it should have multi-purpose. Like uh the remote control which we use for T_V_, it shou uh it should be used f uh for some other purpose also, like controlling the uh temperature inside the house or for air-conditioners, or for heating system.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Audio player. Oh. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it should be a multi-functional uh gadget that would um control all your household uh uh machines basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Divides us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At um twelve fifty Euros per.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well who knows if we get a really good designer maybe we can do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We certainly can try to I agree with her that to market something successfully it should do some more things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It should be something new it should be s it it should do something different than than just what we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now, of course, the other thing to think there is maybe the design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, design should be, yeah it should be different. All the almost all the remotes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like trendy no like f for earlier we saw maybe it should be something trendy you know. Maybe it should different colours or materials or you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe ten I do yeah, colours", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are different shapes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and al shapes also. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um so yeah shapes right, you know, like kidney shape feels better in your hand or something, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, friendly shape, that would help.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think another thing that would help is um if it beeps when you clap,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think one of the big things that happens is people lose them. They can't find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is true,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because they put a newspaper or they put it behind a plant or, we you know, whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and they suddenly the phone rings and they want to turn the T_V_ off and they say, where the hell is my my remote control yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well or yeah or if it's really, if it's really in a dark spot that it gives out a a sound or a signal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, some beep or something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or a b", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh so, so it's really the beep or, or a light should blink.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that we can go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if lost If lost uh signal with b throw signal, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should ha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A fluorescent signal, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it should have a light so that we can, we can just recognise where it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly, I mean just that's what I'm saying.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. May not be beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm just saying throw signal meaning just whether it's a beep or whether a light or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Beep or uh it's a light, maybe it's a light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And do you think a good c c um clue for that is that it would respond to a clap or it would respond to your voice or it would respond what what should you have to do to make it beep or blink?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, my my idea is maybe that the minute it's really hidden, in in other words if it's like in a dark spot, uh meaning you know like a newspaper is on top, a sweater is on top or it it's behind a plant, at that moment it's it's like, it's like um, what you call it a light s sensors, you know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In in that moment it has a sensor, i it it gets a certain darkness, it ge has a sensor and it gives out a signal whether that be a light signal or a beep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean, that we can discuss that later, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably yeah, probably it's a yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the light sensor would activate the signal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right. You know there would be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right you have to have some kind of sensor and I I think uh voice or clapping it's not specific enough. Uh I know there are the lamps and stuff, you know, you can clap on and off,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think they only work to certain degree and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it could be someplace really obvious and you still wouldn't be able to find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, that didn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then, in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, because you're s because you're silly. Because people are silly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I i we can't do it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah well, but then those people we can't help everybody..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it could be on well, i if it were like on top of your bookcase and you usually kept it on the coffee table", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay we have uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, well maybe we have to move along, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, we have to move along, but I think we have some good good points to start with here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, the next meeting will be in thirty minutes. I think you all did you get uh notices on your computer for this? Okay so well, you got the notice um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Me yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh. The working design, I guess that's the function I_D_ uh who is this? The industrial designer That's you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it's functional de yeah, exactly, technical.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we looking for a working design when we come back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh working design, yeah, it's it's uh mainly technical-functional design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then And then the technical funct you are the technical function,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, functional design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so so you are the working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have a working design and then a functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the marketing manager is coming up with some user requirement specification, like friendliness, and what we just discussed in general. That would be your idea. And, of course, price. That it, that it, that the price is a good price. I mean, the price is given, but, that was.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. We have to justify that price by having sufficient features to make it sell at that price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right. That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, you know, specifi you you will get specific um instructions for that. I think that's the end of the show. Yeah. So um we have well, we have a twen two two two three minutes. Um any questions at this point? Or uh suggestions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think basically basically you will get instructions to work with and if you have any questions uh, uh I guess, you can uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, I think I have enough to think about'til our next meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, even I have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How about you people?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, even I have, I think, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really? Okay.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so let's see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, well uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then uh we see you in about thirty minutes. And see what we can come up with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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This includes considering factors such as shape, size, button layout, and multi-purpose functionality.\n* User Interface (Francina): Create a user requirement specification, which outlines the user-friendly features and overall design of the remote control. This includes incorporating elements such as clearly marked buttons, a compact size, and visually appealing design.\n* Marketing Manager (Eileen): Develop marketing strategies to promote the new remote control, highlighting its multi-functional capabilities, ease of use, and unique features. 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{ "meetingId": "covid0", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Speaker's chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using their earpiece at their desk. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute when you are not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel. If you want to speak French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference need to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate their mic and state that they have a point of order. Those in the Chamber can rise in the usual way. Please note that today's proceedings will be televised in the same way as a typical sitting of the House. We'll now proceed to ministerial announcements. I understand that there are none. Now we'll proceed to the tabling of documents. Mr.LeBlanc has a document he wants to table. Go ahead, Mr.LeBlanc.", "speakerName": "The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.))" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, a report entitled \"Democracy Matters, Debates Count: A report on the 2019 Leaders' Debates Commission and the future of debates in Canada. Mr. Chair, on behalf of all of us, I want to thank the Right Honourable David Johnston for his continued service.", "speakerName": "Hon. Dominic LeBlanc" }, { "text": "Good. We'll now proceed to the presenting of petitions, for a period not exceeding 15 minutes. I would like to remind members that any petition presented during a meeting of the special committee must have already been certified by the clerk of petitions. For members participating in person, we ask that you please come to the front and drop off your certificate at the table once the petition has been presented. In presenting petitions, the first presenter today is Mr. Genuis.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to be presenting a petition in support of Bill S-204. This is a bill in the Senate, put forward by Senator Salma Ataullahjan. It would make it a criminal offence for a person to go abroad and receive an organ for which there has not been consent by the donor. It also creates a mechanism by which someone could be deemed inadmissible to Canada if they were involved in organ harvesting and trafficking. This bill is designed to confront and address the horrific practice by which, in certain casesfor instance, inside Chinaminority communities or dissidents may be targeted and have their organs removed as they're killed and used for transplantation. Petitioners are supportive of Bill S-204, and they want to see it passed as soon as possible.", "speakerName": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood ParkFort Saskatchewan, CPC)" }, { "text": "Our next petition will go to Mr. Viersen.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I am presenting a petition today signed by Canadians who are concerned that Bill C-7 removes safeguards from the current euthanasia regime, including the mandatory 10-day waiting period. Mr. Chair, these people who are signing this petition would like to see an improvement in assisted living, not assisted dying.", "speakerName": "Mr. Arnold Viersen (Peace RiverWestlock, CPC)" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Ms. Zahid.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to present an e-petition signed by over 40 people. It asks that the Government of Canada recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an autonomous state that may result in foreign investments, direct access of development aid, foreign aid for disaster relief and infrastructure development investment loans.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Salma Zahid (Scarborough Centre, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Now we'll proceed to Statements by Members for a period not exceeding 15 minutes. Each statement will be for a maximum of one minute. I remind members that if they exceed that time limit, they will be interrupted. Our first statement goes to Monsieur El-Khoury.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I thank the government for the way it has managed this global crisis and its impact on Canadians. It has acted in a robust, rapid and very effective way. Our Prime Minister has been awarded the medal of honour, courage and humanity worldwide. Canada is one of the few countries that has acted in the best interests of its citizens and maintained their dignity in these uncertain times. While addressing Canadians, our right honourable Prime Minister showed us leadership, the importance of transparency, and integrity. He kept us united. His top priority was saving lives, along with finding realistic solutions regarding the economic impact on our daily life. Because of his outstanding leadership, we're admired across the world, which is another distinguished privilege of being Canadian. Thank you, Mr. Chair.", "speakerName": "Mr. Fayal El-Khoury (LavalLes les, Lib.)" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Mr. Epp.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "COVID-19 has emptied food banks across Canada, even in an agricultural community like Chatham-Kent, so Wes Thompson and James Rasmussen, along with Alysson Storey, Randi Bokor, Maureen Geddes, Chris and Terry Johnston, Jason King, Fannie Vavoulis and Brent Wilken, grew an idea into the community's largest-ever food drive. Project manager Morna McDonald estimates that over 3,000 volunteers ended up helping in the May 16 Miracle. Residents put non-perishable foodstuffs on their doorsteps, with drop-off centres organized for rural areas. Volunteer groups travelled predetermined routes while maintaining physical distancing. The community collected an amazing 678,000 pounds of food. They accidentally exceeded by over 20% the record in the Guinness World Records book for collected food in a single day. Chatham-Kent has restocked their food banks and reaffirmed their community pride. It's an honour to represent such a community.", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp (Chatham-KentLeamington, CPC)" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Mr. Sarai. We have a point of order from Mr. d'Entremont.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "As much as I like seeing my friends on the big screens, there are no big screens yet, so we don't know who's on and who's not on. I was wondering if there was going to be a TV coming up soon here, Mr. Chair.", "speakerName": "Mr. Chris d'Entremont (West Nova, CPC)" }, { "text": "There is a technical issue, and it is being worked on. We're working on it as we go through. The other alternative is that we suspend until we fix it. If it's okay, we'll just continue. I think we can all hear the members who are speaking. This is one of the realities of a virtual or hybrid system. Our next statement will go to Mr. Sarai.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair, and mabuhay to all the Filipino Canadians across this country. In June across Canada we recognize Filipino Heritage Month to raise awareness and celebrate the Filipino community. Here in Surrey Centre, and across Canada, the Filipino community makes important contributions to our cities and has helped shape Canada into the vibrant multicultural society that we all know and love today. Now more than ever, during these challenging times we must come together as Canadians to celebrate the rich heritage and history of our Filipino neighbours. Throughout June, please join me in celebrating our fellow citizens of Filipino descent by recognizing all the incredible ways in which they have contributed to making Canada a better place for all of us. Happy Filipino Heritage Month. Thank you, Mr. Chair.", "speakerName": "Mr. Randeep Sarai (Surrey Centre, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr.Perron.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Good afternoon, Mr.Chair. Today is World Milk Day, and I would like to recognize the exceptional work and dedication shown by everyone in the industry. They ensure we have a nutritious, high quality product every day. Let's take part in the local consumption movement and rediscover the exceptional products of our dairy producers and processors. Enjoy the yogurts, cheeses and other products because it's true that milk is good. I would also like to thank BrunoLetendre, outgoing chair of the Producteurs de lait du Qubec, and I congratulate the new chair, DanielGobeil. The dairy industry has been sacrificed several times in trade agreements. The government's broken promises are piling up. The payment of compensation is still uncertain. Action must be taken. The first step must be the direct allocation of import quotas to processors, and the second must be the full payment of the promised compensation. We demand a formal commitment from the government.", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves Perron (BerthierMaskinong, BQ)" }, { "text": "We'll now continue with Mr.Iacono.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, June is Italian Heritage Month. The situation is special this year, since Italy has been hard hit by COVID-19, with more than 30,000deaths. Like me, many Italian Canadians still have family and friends in Italy, and the news has sometimes been very difficult to take, yet that has not detracted from the great co-operation that exists between Canada and Italy. Today I would like to highlight the solidariet italiana in our community. During the pandemic, Canadians of Italian descent have been united to support anziani, our famiglie and our amici in Italy by participating in the fundraising campaign COVID-19 AiutiAMO lItalia to support the Italian Red Cross response activities. I send a special salute to to my cugino Giuseppe, who is still on the road to recovery from COVID-19..", "speakerName": "Mr. Angelo Iacono (Alfred-Pellan, Lib.)" }, { "text": "We'll continue with Mr. Kram.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I would like to acknowledge all of the organizations in Saskatchewan and across Canada that are working hard to help small businesses adapt to the challenges of the current pandemic. In particular, I would like to thank the Regina Downtown Business Improvement District, or RDBID. As soon as the pandemic hit, RDBID launched a daily electronic newsletter to keep their members informed of support programs, local initiatives and local success stories. They have used their social media channels on a daily basis to promote takeout and delivery services, online and curbside services offered by restaurants and retailers. They have also launched a number of their own initiatives to help businesses access e-commerce. Through persistent communication and a lot of long hours, RDBID has helped businesses in downtown Regina to weather the storm. Because of their hard work, downtown Regina will come through this pandemic better than ever.", "speakerName": "Mr. Michael Kram (ReginaWascana, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr.Lauzon now has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, high-speed Internet will be to the 21stcentury what electricity was to the 20th: an essential service. We are currently experiencing a drastic change in our morals, our consumption patterns and our socialization habits. We are turning to the Internet to read the news, contact our friends and complete our purchases. Isolation associated with COVID-19 has only accelerated this trend. Unfortunately, not all regions of Canada have reliable, affordable, high-speed access. I would like to reassure the citizens of my riding about the efforts that we are making as a government, but also about the work I've been doing as a member of Parliament since2015 to connect the 41municipalities of ArgenteuilLa Petite-Nation. Aside from this essential service, our students, seniors, entrepreneurs and telework are very important to the regions. We have heard you, and I will continue to fight for you, so that you can have access to affordable high-speed Internet.", "speakerName": "Mr. Stphane Lauzon (ArgenteuilLa Petite-Nation, Lib.)" }, { "text": "We'll now go on to Mr. MacKinnon.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, a few days ago, we all watched with horror and outrage the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of the police in Minneapolis. For many of us, these images may seem shocking, but it's an all too familiar tale to millions of black people not only in the United States but also here in Canada, in my city of Gatineau and around the world, who must at times live with the scourge of anti-black racism. Mr.Chair, I can't know what it's like to be black in our society. What I do know, however, is that you and I, and everyone in this House, have the power and the responsibility to make our country more just. Let us all recommit ourselves to that endeavour. Black Canadians and all those who have to endure racism and discrimination are watching us, and they expect more from us.", "speakerName": "Mr. Steven MacKinnon (Gatineau, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr. Duncan is next.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Without a doubt, these past few months have been challenging, to say the least, from both a health and economic perspective, but, Mr. Chair, I have to say how proud I am of my community of StormontDundasSouth Glengarry. We continue to successfully flatten the curve in our region and, just as importantly, we are making sure that we are here for each other, whether it is the Cornwall Optimists' GoFeedMe campaign, the Iroquois-Matilda Lions Club delivering groceries to those who are quarantined in their households or the local United Way, the Social Development Council or the Carefor seniors support centre co-leading an effort to deliver 1,500 baskets to seniors in need. There have been many examples of kindness and generosity from our community. I rise today in the House of Commons to say thank you to my constituents and to all Canadians; to our essential front-line workers, our service clubs and our businesses that have stepped up to help out; and to everybody playing their part to get us through this challenge. I couldn't be more proud of my community and my residents, and it is an honour to serve as their member of Parliament. Thank you, Mr. Chair.", "speakerName": "Mr. Eric Duncan (StormontDundasSouth Glengarry, CPC)" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Ms. Yip.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, although Asian Heritage Month has just passed, we recognize the tremendous effort of all Asian Canadians on the front lines of this pandemic, as health care providers or as essential workers. I want to thank the many Asian organizations for donating to ScarboroughAgincourt's hospital, long-term care homes and food banks. As a Canadian born and raised in Scarborough, I'm offended by the reports of violence and vandalism targeting Asian-Canadian communities across this country. In budget 2019 we invested $45 million to launch a new anti-racism strategy, which included the establishment of the anti-racism secretariat, because these efforts are unfortunately clearly still needed. As events continue to unfold in the United States, it is important to recognize that we have work to do here as well. Whether it is anti-black or anti-Asian, racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in Canadafull stop. Now more than ever, we must stand united in diversity.", "speakerName": "Ms. Jean Yip (ScarboroughAgincourt, Lib.)" }, { "text": "We'll now go on to Mr. Bragdon.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Over the last few months, Canadians throughout New Brunswick and across the country have stepped up to support their community. Health care workers, truckers, farmers, business owners, pharmacists, grocery store staff, faith-based and non-profit organizations and so many others have all answered the call to do their part. Today, Mr. Chair, I would like to specifically highlight the work of those who support and take care of our seniors, who are among some of our most at-risk citizens. It has been said that the character of a nation and its people is revealed most in how they treat their most vulnerable. Our seniors have made immense contributions to our society. Many have put their lives on the line to protect Canada and the democratic freedoms we enjoy as Canadians. They have worked hard and made many sacrifices throughout their lives to make Canada the greatest nation on earth. Taking care of our seniors is the right thing to do. I want to take this opportunity to thank all those who are supporting and caring for our seniors. Whether they be long-term care staff, personal care workers, health care professionals, family members or volunteers, thank you for all you are doing in support of our seniors. Together we shall overcome.", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Bragdon (TobiqueMactaquac, CPC)" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Ms. Shin.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Although we've come to the end of Asian Heritage Month, I'd like to acknowledge some unsung Chinese Canadian heroes who shed their blood as patriots for our nation. I commemorate the 6,500 Chinese Canadians of the 9,000 railway workers who helped build and unite Canada. I pay respect to the many Chinese Canadians who died while building the CP Railway on the most dangerous terrains in the B.C. segment. I honour the Chinese Canadians who served and died in World War II. Sadly, Asian communities in Canada face racist incidents today. No one should be afraid of walking in their own neighbourhood. Adult children should not have to call their elderly parents to tell them to stay home because they might be attacked by racists. There's no justification for racial slurs, physical violence or vandalism against any individual or community. I will continue to work together with other elected officials, the police and the RCMP to mitigate these issues toward justice and restoration.", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin (Port MoodyCoquitlam, CPC)" }, { "text": "We'll go on to Mr. Angus. Mr. Angus, please proceed.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Ten years ago today, Cree youth leader Shannen Koostachin was killed in a horrific car accident. She was only 15 years old, yet in her short life she became the voice of a generation of first nation youth who were no longer willing to put up with systemic discrimination. Shannen had never seen a real school. Children in Attawapiskat were being educated in squalid conditions. Her fight for their dignity and rights launched the largest youth-driven civil rights movement in Canadian history. At 14 she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize. Shannen never lived to see the school that was built in her community, but her work carries on through the Shannen's Dream movement. She is a role model for youth activists across this country. A movie, two books and a statue are dedicated to her. She's been recognized as one of the 150 most influential women in Canadian history. I had the honour to know Shannen. In fact, I think of her every single day. She truly did come from the angels, and one day she returned.", "speakerName": "Mr. Charlie Angus (TimminsJames Bay, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr.Barsalou-Duval, you now have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, for months now, thousands of consumers who need money to pay their bills have been fighting against airlines and the government to have their rights respected: three class action suits, a unanimous motion by the National Assembly and over 30,000signatures on a petition calling for reimbursement for cancelled flights. It isn't a whim to enforce the law. Air Canada, which confiscated $2.6billion from its customers, received more than $800million from Ottawa without any conditions. Yet, the company has a year's worth of cash in reserve, $6billion in its coffers, and is in the process of raising more than $1.4billion in the financial markets. Air Canada has the means to reimburse citizens. It has the money it needs. We're tired of the Minister of Transport's crocodile tears. I consulted the bankruptcy directory this morning and didn't see any airlines listed. Now is the time to work for the people.", "speakerName": "Mr. Xavier Barsalou-Duval (Pierre-BoucherLes PatriotesVerchres, BQ)" }, { "text": "Mr.Rayes now has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I want to pay tribute to a great man who represented the public here, in the House, for close to 15years: MichelGauthier. Michel, in life, we meet a lot of people, but some of them leave their mark on us forever. From the first time I spoke with you two years ago, I immediately understood that I was talking with a man with heart, a passionate man, a man who had Quebec imprinted on his heart. Because of your decision to join the Conservative Party of Canada, I got to know you personally, and I am most grateful. I will remember our discussions on the best ways to communicate our Conservative vision to Quebeckers. I will remember our heated discussions on Quebec-Canada relations. I will remember all the passion and energy you had in the lead-up to a speech to our supporters. Michel, Canadians, Quebeckers and I will remember you forever, the great man you were, the outstanding speaker, a formidable parliamentarian, with integrity, passion, commitment and love for Quebec. I offer my sincere condolences to Anne, and to your family and friends. Rest in peace.", "speakerName": "Mr. Alain Rayes (RichmondArthabaska, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr.Dubourg, you now have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, the murder of GeorgeFloyd in Minneapolis resonated strongly within black communities in Canada and also in the heart of Montreal North. At a time of pandemic uncertainty when members of our community find themselves on the front lines as essential workers, an event like this rekindles feelings of fear, powerlessness and injustice. It has happened once again in the UnitedStates, but we are not immune to such behaviour here, in Canada. Dear constituents of Bourassa, I know our stories, I feel with you the pain as a parent and as a black person. I know this constant fear for our children. As elected officials, we have the duty to protect your rights and to ensure harmony. We must be vigilant and work to deconstruct prejudice and discrimination.", "speakerName": "Mr. Emmanuel Dubourg (Bourassa, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Before continuing, I'd like to give a reminder. To avoid sound problems, members participating in person shouldn't connect to the video conference. There seems to be some interference when you watch the video conference in the chamber and it's being transmitted, so let us make things run more smoothly. We will now proceed to the questioning of ministers. Please note that we will suspend the proceedings every 45minutes in order to allow employees who provide support for the sitting to replace each other safely. The first question goes to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Scheer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. When the government first starting rolling out programs to help Canadians get through this pandemic, we raised points about some flaws and gaps in the program. The government assured Canadians that it would fix these programs as time went on. Well, Canadians are suffering through both the health and the economic consequences of the lockdown related to the coronavirus. Here we are the first day of June and the government still has yet to address the flaws in its programs; it is still letting so many Canadians down. I have a series of very straightforward and specific questions. On April 20 we raised with the Minister of Finance the issue of companies that had purchased another company not being able to demonstrate revenue loss, and therefore not being eligible for the wage subsidy, even though both companies separately would have been able to do just that. We have raised it several times now. I would like to ask the government when it will be fixing this unnecessarily rigid aspect of the wage subsidy program.", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer (Leader of the Opposition)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I believe that a company with a fantastic Canadian history in the member's riding, Brandt Tractor, which pioneered the manufacturing of augers in Canada, is particularly affected by this. It is very important for us that the wage subsidy be available to as many Canadian companies as possible. It helps to keep employees connected to their businesses. Now, there are always some specific issues that can make it challenging for particular companies. I know that in the case of Brandt Tractor, for example, officials from the Ministry of Finance are directly in touch with the company to work on its issues.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, that's the same answer we got last week. It's the same answer we got two weeks before that, and it's the same answer we have been getting from day one. This is a very simple question. The government has indicated that it will change this program to allow for amalgamations. The solution is very simple. It is to also allow for those companies that have undergone acquisitions. This is a very specific question: Will the government fix this program and allow for companies that have acquired another company to still access the wage subsidy program?", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, let me just point out that the wage subsidy program is working extremely well for many, many Canadian companies and for many, many Canadians who are able to keep their jobs thanks to the program. More than two million Canadian workers are today benefiting from the wage subsidy program. By any measure that is a successful program. Now, for sure there are always going to be companies which, because of specifics in their history, need specific attention, and that", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Scheer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, reports indicate that up to half of the money allocated for the wage subsidy is going unspent, precisely because this government has left in unnecessarily rigid barriers for companies to be able to access it. It's a yes-or-no question, and the minister still can't answer it. Along the same lines, we asked on April 8 to allow businesses applying for the wage subsidy to demonstrate their 30% revenue loss using other metrics, such as loss of earnings, subscriptions and orders, in order to qualify. They still can't do that today, the first day of June. Why hasn't the government addressed this part of the program?", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we are very proud of the wage subsidy program and proud of the role it is playing to keep Canadian businesses going and, crucially, to keep Canadian workers connected to their jobs, but I have a question for the member opposite. Half of the questions we hear from the Conservatives in question period are concerns that we're spending too much money, that the deficit is too high. The other half of the time they complain about specific companies not getting access to our programs. We know which side we're on as a government. I'd like the Conservatives to let Canadians know what they believe in.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mr. Scheer, you may have a short question.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it's quite clear what Conservatives believe in. We believe that when times were good, this government should have paid down debt instead of wasting money like $50 million to Mastercard and $12 million to Loblaws. The fact of the matter is that the government left Canadians in a vulnerable position as we were entering this pandemic precisely because of its fiscal irresponsibility, and now they have designed programs that have unnecessary barriers in them that prevent more and more Canadians from getting the help they need. Again, on April 26, Conservatives asked the Prime Minister to change the criteria for the Canada emergency business account so that small businesses that don't happen to have a business bank account can qualify. Why hasn't the Prime Minister made that change either?", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm really grateful for that question because it allows me to set the record straight for Canadians. Canadians need to know that our country has the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7. We had that before the crisis began, and we still do. Canada has the fiscal firepower to support Canadians during this unprecedented crisis, and that is what we are going to continue to do.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mrs.DeBellefeuille.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, the wage subsidy was put in place to support businesses and SMEs, to avoid closures and bankruptcy. Have I missed something? Is the Liberal Party on the verge of bankruptcy? Is it about to shut down? Does the Prime Minister consider that the Liberal Party is getting ready to close its doors?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille (SalaberrySurot, BQ)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I thank the hon. member for the question. I want to point out that, as the hon. member said, the wage subsidy was really put in place to protect workers across Canada. We are proud of that. More than 2million Canadians have benefited from this", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mrs.DeBellefeuille, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, the Liberal Party made $3million between January and March of this year. That's $3million in political donations. We're told that the emergency subsidy is being used to protect the jobs of Liberal Party employees. I'm not an accountant, but I can count. I'm wondering why the Liberal Party doesn't use its own money to pay its own employees instead of using the Canada emergency wage subsidy.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "I thank the hon. member for her question. I would like to point out again that the purpose of the Canada emergency wage subsidy is to support workers across Canada and Quebec, to help them keep their jobs and allow them to stay connected to their workplace. That is what we've done. More than 2million Canadians are benefiting from this important and truly essential program for our country. We are proud of it.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, does the Deputy Prime Minister think it is moral, fair and honest that employees who have lost their jobs are subsidizing an emergency wage subsidy for the Liberal Party of Canada out of their taxes?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "Our programs do not discriminate. They are there to help all workers. The hon. member talked about businesses and sectors that need more help. We agree. There is still a lot to do, but we want to work with all the", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mrs.DeBellefeuille.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, many struggling businesses in Quebec don't have access to the Canada emergency wage subsidy because they don't meet the eligibility criteria. Many tourism and municipal organizations, among others, don't have access to this wage subsidy. However, it's very clear that the Liberal Party qualifies according to the program criteria. Does the Deputy Prime Minister really think it's moral for her party to benefit from the emergency wage subsidy when it has the financial means to pay its own employees?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "I thank the hon. member for her question. I agree that there is still a lot to do. We are ready, and we are taking action. However, it's important to point out that our government has already done a lot to support Canadians. We've spent $152billion in direct support measures to Canadians. More than eightmillion people are benefiting from the CERB, and more than twomillion", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mrs.DeBellefeuille, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, what I understand is not really complicated to understand. I understand that the Liberal Party has money, that it has money to pay its employees, but that it doesn't want to cut the booty it has amassed for the next election. It's as if it were telling us that it's indirectly financing itself for the next election. Will the Deputy Prime Minister show some leadership and convince her own party to give up the emergency wage subsidy and even commit to paying back the money it has already received?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I want to point out that our programs do not discriminate. They are there to help all workers across the country, and I want to point out to what extent our programs do that. Eight million people are currently benefiting from the CERB, and two million are supported by the emergency wage subsidy. Our programs are also helping 380,000students and 639,000businesses", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We'll now continue with Mr. Singh.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Canadians and people across the world are reeling after seeing the images of George Floyd being brutally killed in a callous and casual manner. We're struggling with the impacts of anti-black racism. Anti-black racism hasn't just appeared or increased. It's now simply being captured by video. Canada is also no different. Anti-black racism also impacts Canada, and people here are feeling the frustration of black lives being neglected and ignored. Will the government commit to tracking race-based data in terms of COVID-19's impact on communities, particularly black Canadians, and track race-based data so that we can have a better response based on the evidence?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I would like to start by thanking the member opposite for his very important question and the very important work he has done throughout his career in drawing attention to racism in Canada and in fighting against it. Thank you. I agree strongly with the member opposite that we, as Canadians, must be the opposite of complacent. We have to acknowledge that anti-black racism is real in our country, that unconscious bias is real in our country and that systemic discrimination is real. It happens here. We have to commit today to working hard to fight it. I have more to say about disaggregated data and the coronavirus, and I hope I'll have a chance to do that in my next answer.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Thank you for that openness on the part of the government. I want more and clear commitments. We also know that race-based or discriminatory police practices still exist across Canada. Will the government commit to working with provinces to ensure there are no such practices allowed to exist in Canada, particularly related to discriminatory police practices like carding? Will the federal government work and use its powers to end those discriminatory practices where federal regulation applies, and work with the provinces to ensure this happens across the country?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jagmeet Singh" }, { "text": "Thank you again for that very important question. First of all, on coronavirus, our government believes that disaggregated data, including when it comes to race, is extremely important. We're working with our provincial partners on that. On policing, racial profiling is unacceptable and unlawful. We will always work to uphold the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and to ensure the human rights of everyone in Canada are protected. At the federal level, RCMP members are guided by bias-free policing based on equality and non-discrimination.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "I want to change tracks, Mr. Chair, and talk about long-term care. How many times did the Prime Minister's Office and the Liberal government meet with lobbyists from for-profit long-term care homes from March 25 to April 22, during the worst impacts of COVID-19 in long-term care homes?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jagmeet Singh" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, at this moment I can only speak for myself, and I have not met with any such lobbyists during that period or at other times. I share the member opposite's concerns about long-term care facilities in Canada. We have to do better, and we will.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "It was 12 times during the worst impacts of COVID-19. While seniors were dying in long-term care homes, the Prime Minister's Office and the Liberal government met with private, for-profit long-term care home lobbyists 12 times. Why did the Prime Minister's Office and the Liberal government choose to meet with these for-profit long-term care home lobbyists instead of meeting with those to solve the problem? Instead of making excuses about the federal government not playing a role, why didn't the Prime Minister and the Liberal government show leadership in calling for an end to profit in long-term care homes?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jagmeet Singh" }, { "text": "Let me very clear about one thing, speaking on behalf of our government and on behalf of the Prime Minister. Our government sees as a matter of utmost concern and utmost urgency what has been happening in long-term care homes in our country, and the reports we have received from the brave men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces about facilities in Ontario and Quebec need to be treated as historic documents that", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Now it's Mr.Rayes's turn. Mr.Rayes, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, why is it that employers from industry, businesses and community organizations that have been approved in the Canada summer jobs program still haven't received the money they're entitled to?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alain Rayes" }, { "text": "We are ensuring that the Canada summer jobs program is strengthened and enforced. We are making it more available to more students. We have lengthened the time period that the program", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen (Minister of Families, Children and Social Development)" }, { "text": "Mr.Rayes has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Every day, the Prime Minister makes announcements in front of his residence. I'll repeat my question. Given the importance of the program for our youth who are looking to work, how is it that the organizations haven't yet received the money they need to hire students? As we know, there have been some problems with the CESB.", "speakerName": "Mr. Alain Rayes" }, { "text": "Our government is working hard to help employers adapt to the realities of COVID-19. We recognize the important role that the Canada summer jobs program plays in supporting employers and young workers in communities across the country every year. That is why we have introduced flexibilities in the Canada summer jobs program to hire youth while providing more supports to employers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "The minister can say whatever he wants. Last year, there was no crisis and, as of April, all employers who had been admitted to the program had received the money. We are currently in a crisis. The government is trying to respond quickly to the needs. Right now, community organizations are not receiving the money to which they are entitled to hire students, to put them to work and to give them an employment opportunity. Why?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alain Rayes" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have managed to introduce flexibilities to take into consideration the difficult environment of the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, the flexibilities we've introduced into the Canada summer jobs program will help with more hiring of youth and more supports to employers, including non-profits and businesses that deliver essential services to Canadians. These changes will help small businesses hire and keep the workers that they need in the Canada summer jobs program.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "The young people and employers listening to us must be very surprised by what the minister is saying. He mentioned that the rules are now more flexible. However, it is taking a month and a half longer than last year. The money has not yet been given out. I have done my homework. I went to see what was happening in my riding and in about 10other ridings. Last year, in my riding, all the money had been deposited before April. Right now, there is a $240,000shortfall for about 60student jobs, and the minister has the nerve to tell us that the government has provided more flexibility. Why is the money not available if the government wants to act quickly, to help the economy recover and to help young people?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alain Rayes" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, indeed we are acting quickly. We are listening to the needs of the employers to make sure that this program works not only for them but also for youth, and that it gives them the experiences they need. It is adapted better for the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that youth have the experience they need to gain life and work skills from the program. It's a great program, and we're making it work not just for businesses but also for non-profits.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "Here is the reality. Last week, the owner of a hardware store in a village in my riding had to close his business because he was unable to hire students and had no one to work. This morning, an employer called me to tell me that his request to hire a student had been accepted, but that the delay meant that he could not proceed with the hiring. This means that one more young person will not have a job. That young person will therefore have to receive the CESB. There is the reality. When is the government going to release the money required for young people to be able to work?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alain Rayes" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I join the honourable member in recognizing that in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic there are some difficulties in terms of structuring the program and making sure that employers are able to access it. That is why we've introduced flexibilities to ensure that employers are able to access the program and that youth are also able to take advantage of the program to gain important work skills, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and especially in providing essential services that serve their fellow Canadians. It's a great program. We're doing everything that we can to work through some of those obstacles.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "We'll now continue with Ms. Shin.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. By its own numbers, PSPC has had to cut the number of N95 masks the government has on order after cancelling contracts with companies that were not able to meet Canadian standards. We know that companies right here in Canada were willing to step up and fill in the gap. Will the minister commit to making domestic production of PPE, including N95 masks, a priority?", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, our priority is to make sure that we get safe and effective equipment and supplies into the hands of front-line health care workers. We've been running multiple complementary supply chains at the same time. Building up domestic capacity is indeed a priority. We have a contract with Medicom in Montreal for the production of N95 masks and we will continue to work hard to ensure", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand (Minister of Public Services and Procurement)" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Ms. Shin.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, Novo Textiles, a company in my riding, has retooled its factory to produce surgical masks in response to the shortage of PPE in Canada. Additionally, it will soon be producing quality made-in-Canada N95 masks using Canadian designs and Canadian-made machinery. My constituent has invested his own capital and is in active production supplying front-line workers right now, not just talking about it. However, the company's application to NGen was recently rejected. Canada needs masks now, masks that meet Canadian standards. Is the government serious about growing domestic production capacity, or is it all talk and no action?", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin" }, { "text": "In reality, we have received 101.3 million surgical masks that are being distributed out to provinces and territories. We have signed 24 contracts with domestic companies for the production of PPE right here at home. We are working very hard, Mr. Chair, to make sure Canadian front-line health care workers have exactly what they need to fight this pandemic.", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, how many of these have received financial support from the government?", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm not quite sure what the member is referring to by how many of these, but as I said, we have signed 24 contracts with domestic", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand" }, { "text": "We'll have to go back to Ms. Shin.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Where are these manufacturers located?", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have surgical masks being produced right here at home, as well as abroad, being brought into Canada", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand" }, { "text": "Back to Ms. Shin.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "What provinces are they in?", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as I said, we have a contract with General Motors for the production of surgical masks", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand" }, { "text": "Ms. Shin.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Are there any in any provinces besides Ontario and Quebec?", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have contracts with multiple provinces throughout this country for the production of personal protective equipment. We are committed", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand" }, { "text": "Back to Ms. Shin.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "How many of these domestic manufacturers rely on supply chains in China?", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we are dealing with a situation of very high global demand for the same product. As a result, we", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Ms. Shin.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Will the Minister commit to providing my office with answers to these questions? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin" }, { "text": "I will commit, Mr. Chair, to continuing to work hard for Canadians to supply the personal protective equipment that they need. We have been giving updated numbers on our website", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Ms. Shin.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'm going to assume that answer is no. Mr. Chair, the Prime Minister introduced the Canada student service grant on April 22. Students were told details would arrive in a matter of weeks. It's been over a month, the I Want To Help platform has no details yet about eligibility, levels of funding, or how to apply. Post-secondary students are already one-quarter into their summer break. When can students expect to start applying for the CSSG so they can receive their grants? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Ms. Nelly Shin" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm pleased to share that students can anticipate more programs coming out as soon as possible. The I Want to Help website will be launched. Students can already apply for Canada summer jobs if they go to jobbank.gc.ca. By visiting Canada.ca/coronavirus, you'll see a suite of programs to ensure that students and young people are able to succeed. The coronavirus will not win, and our government will continue investing in our leaders of today and tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bardish Chagger (Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth)" }, { "text": "The next set of questions goes to Mr. Brassard.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Last week the President of the Treasury Board wrote a letter to his cabinet colleagues in which he said that, as the federal minister responsible for public access to government information, he has advised his cabinet colleagues of the need for transparency and accountability, even in times of crisis. My question is for the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities. Does she agree with the President of the Treasury Board's directive?", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard (BarrieInnisfil, CPC)" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the government remains committed to maintaining the openness and transparency of our government during this challenging time. The Government of Canada, along with provincial and territorial governments, have implemented exceptional workplace measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, and to protect the health and safety of federal employees. These measures have had an impact on institutions' abilities to respond to access to information and personal information requests, since most employees are now working from their homes.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Canadian Heritage)" }, { "text": "Frankly, I'm surprised that the answer is coming from that minister when the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities is in the House, but I will ask this question. Can the minister tell Canadians who Pierre Lavalle is?", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard" }, { "text": "Treasury Board Secretariat has provided guidance to institutions to continue to make the best efforts to respond to Access to Information Act and Privacy Act requests and to provide published content", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Brassard.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Can the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities tell us who Pierre Lavalle is?", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, of course. Pierre Lavalle was the former CEO of the Canada Infrastructure Bank. We are very proud that we now have Michael Sabia as the new chair of the Infrastructure Bank. He did a fabulous job in Montreal at", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna (Minister of Infrastructure and Communities)" }, { "text": "We'll now go back to Mr. Brassard.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Can the minister tell me how long Mr. Lavalle was the CEO of the Infrastructure Bank?", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I can't give you the exact months. He was the CEO of the Canada Infrastructure Bank since the beginning, but let's be clear: Crown corporations work at arm's length from the government and must have", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "We'll return to Mr. Brassard.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Can I ask the minister how well she knows her file: 50%, 75% or 100%?", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, that's quite a condescending little comment. I'd like to say that I know my file very well. What I know is that Canadians want infrastructure built, they want it built across the country, in the member opposite's riding and in ridings across the country. They want cleaner, healthier, more connected Some hon. members: Hear, hear!", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Brassard.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "How much of the $35 billion of infrastructure money that was allocated to that bank has been spent so far?", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the Infrastructure Bank is a new, more flexible financing model for infrastructure investments. It was set up; it is now in its new phase. We're very excited that it's going to be moving forwardand stay tuned.", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "In the context of Mr. Duclos' advice to his cabinet colleagues about openness and transparency, I'd like to ask the minister how much Mr. Lavalle was paid annually.", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as I said, Crown corporations work at arm's length from the government. Our government follows the Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act when it comes to employee compensation, but remuneration ranges are publicly available. I'd note that this information for the bank's CEOs has been in the public domain", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "Mr. Brassard.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm asking the minister how much Mr. Lavalle made. There was no answer to that. If it is in the public realm, she should know that. She said she knows her file very well. How much of a bonus was Mr. Lavalle paid recently when he left on April 2?", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I am not involved in HR discussions when it comes to the Canada Infrastructure Bank and Mr. Lavalle. Crown corporations work at arm's length from the government. They need to have flexibility to meet their commercial mandates. As I say, the information about salary ranges is publicly available, but personal HR", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "Mr. Brassard.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, could you stop my...? I'm hearing....", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard" }, { "text": "I would ask those of us virtually to mute. Mr. Brassard, there is about 15 seconds left. I'll cue you for a very short question.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. According to a table, Mr. Lavalle could have received a bonus after year one of zero to 75% of his base salary, which was $510,000 to $600,000 per year; or in year two, which he was in, zero to 120% of his base salary. How much of a bonus did he receive?", "speakerName": "Mr. John Brassard" }, { "text": "The rate of any remuneration paid to the chief executive officer is based on the recommendations of the board. Our government follows the Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act when it comes to employee compensation. Let me say this: We're very excited about the new phase of the Canada Infrastructure Bank. We have Michael Sabia there as the new board chair. We need to move forward on", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "We'll now continue with Mr. Chong.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Parliament's now been suspended for three months, since Friday, March 13. Will the government commit to reopening the House of Commons with its full powers, with social distancing, on Monday, September 21?", "speakerName": "Hon. Michael Chong (WellingtonHalton Hills, CPC)" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as my colleague knows, we're meeting here four days a week, with questions on any topic for an hour and 35 minutes instead of 45 minutes a day. Democracy is as important for us as it is for the opposition.", "speakerName": "Hon. Pablo Rodriguez (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this committee is neutered. It has no powers to introduce supply day motions, no powers to test government confidence, no powers to do the usual things that Parliament does. At times of crisis, the bedrock principles of rule of law and democracy are tested, and our democratic principles are buckling under the pressure from this government. They came to office promising greater transparency, but they broke almost every one of their promises. They broke their promise on electoral reform. They appointed an anti-Conservative organization, Unifor, to the media bailout fund. In the last parliament, they tried to give the PMO control over this legislature in Motion No. 6, and in the last election, they rigged the leaders' debates in their favour, and now they have suspended Parliament. Instead of this neutered committee that meets for only a few days with a few members, will the government commit to the full re-opening of this House with all its powers with social distancing on Monday, September 21?", "speakerName": "Hon. Michael Chong" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, the government's objective is always to try to resume Parliament as it was before. Today, we have to live with this pandemic, but we will do everything we can to return to a normal situation as quickly as possible. That is clear and precise. The opposition asked for more time, especially to ask questions, and that is what it got. I would like my colleague to tell me one thing. Over the past few weeks, we have sent suggestions to opposition members about the operation of Parliament and they have never responded. I would like to know why.", "speakerName": "Hon. Pablo Rodriguez" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the full parliament with its full powers sat through two world wars, previous pandemics and the October crisis in 1970. The governments of those days did not seek the suspension of the House. The government is not only failing to defend democracy here but also abroad. It can't utter the word Taiwan. It is failing to be strong and clear on Hong Kong and, while the situation today is not that of decades past, it is clear that Canada in the past stood for the rights of people in Hong Kong. Canada needs to take much stronger diplomatic action on Hong Kong. There are some 300,000 Canadians living there, and they are looking for the government's support. When will this government act? When will it threaten economic sanctions like the U.S. administration has? When will it provide asylum and a clear path to citizenship like the U.K. government has? When will it speak up against the Communist Party of China's United Front workers operating here in this country? When will it do like Australia did in calling for an international investigation of COVID-19, and organize an international coalition of like-minded democracies to defend Hong Kongers and the violation of the Sino-British treaty?", "speakerName": "Hon. Michael Chong" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'll remind the member to look at our statement of May 28. It's already done. Canada has spoken to the world; Canada has spoken up. We've made a first declaration with our colleagues in Australia and the U.K. to say that we have deep concerns. We all know that the one country, two systemsthe high degree of liberty and freedom enjoyed by the people in Hong Konghas made Hong Kong what it is today, a beacon when it comes to trade and financing. We know that and have expressed deep concern. Again, on May 28, with the United States, with the United Kingdom and with Australia, Canada was front and centre in saying that we have deep concerns that the imposition of a national security law by Beijing would undermine the very foundation, the very principles that have made Hong Kong so successful. We said that we and our international partners would look at the implications and the ramifications that this might have on our arrangement. I've called for a meeting of our Five Eyes partners tonight. I'll be chairing a meeting of our Five Eyes partners with the foreign ministers. We will be discussing it and will continue to raise our voices to stand up for the people of Hong Kong, and we will do it with our allies.", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Foreign Affairs)" }, { "text": "We will now go to Mr. Maguire.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, farmers have contacted my office about the massive delays with processing the advance payment program loans. Some put their applications in almost two months ago, and not a dollar has flowed. What's the point of having an advance payment program if there's no payment? Can the Minister of Agriculture tell us when these delays will end?", "speakerName": "Mr. Larry Maguire (BrandonSouris, CPC)" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I can assure you that we are working with all the independent operators. This program is not administered by their officials, but by partners. I can assure you that, under the circumstances, they are doing their best to make the advance payments", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food)" }, { "text": "Farmers understand that some of the delays were caused by staff having to work remotely. However, did the minister approve a policy change on April 1 that made the eligibility for these loans more difficult during the middle of a pandemic, yes or no?", "speakerName": "Mr. Larry Maguire" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, a number of changes and improvements have been made to the program. To make things easier for our administrators, we have postponed some of the changes that could have been problematic.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Yes, so some of the changes made it more problematic for the producers. The minister must take responsibility for these delays. Farmers deserve an answer on why she changed the program. Who advised her that it would be a good idea to make it more difficult for the farmers to access the advance payment program in the middle of a pandemic? Or did she just go ahead and do this on her own?", "speakerName": "Mr. Larry Maguire" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, we are constantly working with the administrators of the program. We are fully prepared to respond to their requests so that the advance payments program can best serve our producers across the country.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Livestock producers are telling me that the premiums for the western livestock insurance program are too high. I told the Minister of Agriculture over two weeks ago that this was a problem, and yet she went out and said that farmers needed to make better use of existing support. When will the Minister of Agriculture listen to what the farmers are saying so they can actually use the existing programs?", "speakerName": "Mr. Larry Maguire" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I would like to remind everyone that we have put in place certain measures to improve access to AgriStability. We have also significantly improved the AgriRecovery program. Over the past few years, this program amounted to about $15million. It is now $100million for pork and beef producers alone, not counting the $77.5million for food processors.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Livestock producers in my riding and several across Canada are still waiting for the Minister of Agriculture's promise for an AgriRecovery program. When will the Minister of Agriculture stop rubbing salt in the farmers' wounds and provide the rest of the story she has been saying is on its way for over a month now in her AgriRecovery promise?", "speakerName": "Mr. Larry Maguire" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, we have committed $50million to beef producers and $50million to pork producers through the AgriRecovery program. Here is how the program works: the federal government contributes up to60% and then the provinces implement it how they see fit.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "The funding announced by the Minister of Agriculture for the livestock industry was insufficient, and what was promised has not been delivered. This has caused hogs to be euthanized and over 100,000 feeder cattle to become overweight. The industry is in a crisis. How many livestock producers need to go bankrupt before they get the help they deserve?", "speakerName": "Mr. Larry Maguire" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, once again, we have significantly increased the amounts available through AgriRecovery. It is $50million for beef producers and $50million for pork producers. These programs are administered by the provinces. There is also $77.5million for processors.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Ms.Chabot, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, we know that not everyone experiences economic recovery in the same way. In some sectors, such as tourism, fishery, hotels and restaurants, we do not know when activity will resume or whether it will resume slowly. This is a major concern for workers, because they do not know what will happen tomorrow. They do not know how much they will be able to earn this summer. Given that the CERB lasts 16weeks, they are all afraid that they will be left with nothing. Without a job, they have no income. Will the Minister of Finance announce now that he is extending the CERB?", "speakerName": "Hon. Dominic LeBlanc" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we moved very quickly at the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to support workersthose who have lost their jobs, who were laid off, or those whose jobs simply disappearedthrough the Canada emergency response benefit. It has provided immense support to the over eight million Canadian workers who have applied to the CERB. We will continue to support those workers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic period.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, my question was clear. We know why the CERB was put in place. It does not need to be explained to us again. For some workers, the CERB will end tomorrow morning. There will be no recovery in their sector. Examples include bars, sports training, arts and culture. They don't know when they will start up again. Is the government prepared to extend the Canada emergency response benefit now?", "speakerName": "Ms. Louise Chabot" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the workers that the honourable member identified, including those who were not eligible for the EI, were also covered by the Canada emergency response benefit. We moved quickly. We recognized the urgency of the situation, which is why we took action to support workers and their families through the Canada emergency response benefit. We have processed over eight million applications through that benefit. We will continue to support Canadian workers at this very difficult time.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, are we going to continue to help workers in these difficult times? The answer is simple. Some don't know what they are going to do tomorrow morning. They do not know whether they will have an income to pay their bills. They have families, they have other needs. The CERB is going to end. This is the last period for some people. Can you do anything about it? Can I walk out of the House today and tell all those people that the CERB is going to be extended?", "speakerName": "Ms. Louise Chabot" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I would like to thank the honourable member for her question. We will clearly maintain our approach. We will look at how we can improve and change our programs, such as the wage subsidy. Of course, we are looking at how we can gradually reopen our economy by continuing to help people to be in a good position.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau (Minister of Finance)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, we are making progress. Yes, the decision is to extend the wage subsidy. I think we must do the same with the CERB, which is about to end. Another important commitment is the employment incentives. I don't know about you, but we see it in our ridings. People are scared because the economy is reopening in certain sectors. People are afraid to go back to work. People are afraid to go back to full-time jobs because they are afraid of losing all their emergency benefits. This affects workers and students alike. Are you prepared to take action on this issue? You have also promised to implement employment incentives.", "speakerName": "Ms. Louise Chabot" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, we know that, with a responsible reopening of the economy, we have to look at our programs to make sure that we are keeping and protecting people. That continues to be our approach. We will look at changes and improvements. In that way, we will continue our responsible reopening of the economy.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "We are going to take a break so that our employees can change shifts without jeopardizing their health. While we have a few seconds, I would also like to remind members to address their questions to the chair, not directly to the ministers.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "We'll now carry on. We'll go to Mr. Easter in Malpeque.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton (Simcoe North, CPC))" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be splitting my time with the member for Brampton North. Today, June 1, under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization, we celebrate World Milk Day. World Milk Day allows us to emphasize the importance of milk as a global food, its benefits for our health as well as our nutrition; and to celebrate the dairy sector, from the primary producers to the processors who ensure that our many high-quality dairy products get to the marketplace. Canadians are fortunate to have a thriving dairy sector that, under supply management, provides high-quality products at reasonable prices to consumers. Even under supply management though, dairy farmers have found themselves facing difficult challenges as a result of recent trade agreements and sudden market shocks as a result of the pandemic. Mr. Chair, to acknowledge World Milk Day, I'd love to be able to raise a glass of wholesome white or chocolate milk, but we can't do that. On the other hand, I must ask the Minister of Agriculture what the government is doing to support the dairy sector in these times so we can celebrate World Milk Day next year with more vim and vigour.", "speakerName": "Hon. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank Mr. Easter, from the great riding of Malpeque in Prince Edward Island. Today it is particularly important to thank families working on the 11,000 dairy farms across the country, caring for 1.4 million cows to produce each year more than 9.3 billion litres of milk of the highest quality. The dairy sector in Canada is made up of more than 220,000 Canadians and foreign workers who dedicate their lives to feed us. While our society lives through unprecedented changes, the dairy sector demonstrates its resilience and proves more than ever the value of the supply management system. It is why we increased by $200 million the borrowing capacity of the Canadian Dairy Commission to improve its butter and cheese storage programs, giving the flexibility to manage the surplus of milk and support its mandate. Over the past few years, we have invested in dairy farms and given direct compensation to dairy farmers through trade agreements with Europe and Asia. We will do the same for the new NAFTA. Raise a glass for World Milk Day.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Ms. Sahota in Brampton North.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, last week a horrific video surfaced showing the killing of an unarmed black man at the hands of the Minneapolis police. George Floyd's death was the latest in a series of unwarranted deaths of black men and women at the hands of police. Since his death, solidarity protests have erupted across cities in the United States and all over the world asking for justice and a stop to systemic dehumanization of black people. I wish I could say we are, but sadly we are not immune to the reality of what is happening south of the border. The same protests taking place in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris and London are also taking place in our own backyard. In cities like Montreal and Toronto, thousands of people have already taken to the streets, not only to decry anti-black racism but also to ask for tangible solutions to effectively combat anti-black racism. We don't have to wait for pain, suffering and outrage to boil to the surface to act. There's nothing we know today that we didn't already know. As Canadians are demonstrating and calling on their society and governments to do better, can the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth tell us what this government is doing to address anti-black racism in Canada and to ensure we are evening the playing field for black Canadians?", "speakerName": "Ms. Ruby Sahota (Brampton North, Lib.)" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the MP for Brampton North is correct. Anti-black racism, racism and discrimination are present in Canada. With COVID-19, we have even seen a rise in anti-Asian racism. We all must speak out against racism and discrimination. Keeping silent is to condone these horrific acts. These acts don't have to be violent or result in the loss of life to be wrong. In fact, the actions of Amy Cooper shone a light on the stealth racism that exists. We must acknowledge inequities in our institutions and in people's lived experiences. If we as Canadians truly desire an inclusive Canada, every single one of us must step up, be an ally and do what we can to make workplaces, communities and public spaces safer. Our government has started this work. The open, transparent, merit-based appointment process is resulting in decision-making tables better reflecting Canadians. We recognize the UN International Decade for People of African Descent; the applications for capacity building in black Canadian communities are being assessed; the anti-racism secretariat is set up for Canadians but also for government departments to improve their systems, including advancement opportunities; and the recently announced immunity task force will provide disaggregated data to decision-makers because decisions need to be based on science and evidence. This work is by no means finished. Although our government is moving in the right decision, there is clearly a lot more work to do and we are committed to doing that work with communities as allies, as partners.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bardish Chagger" }, { "text": "We'll go to Mr. Duvall from Hamilton Mountain.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be splitting my time with the member for ElmwoodTranscona. Mr. Chair, workers' unions, business leaders and analysts across the country are raising a huge alarm over potential bankruptcies due to COVID-19. Thousands of Canadian workers are exposed and vulnerable. For years the government has promised to change the laws to protect workers from corporate bankruptcy, but has failed to deliver. Will this government fix the law before more Canadian workers lose their hard-earned pensions?", "speakerName": "Mr. Scott Duvall (Hamilton Mountain, NDP)" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank the member for Hamilton Mountain for that question and for his advocacy on this file. I remind the member that since 2015 one of our first initiatives was the repealing of Bills C-525 and C-377, which were anti-union legislation. Since then, we've implemented a number of measures to protect workers. We've increased the wage earner protection program by extending it from four weeks to seven weeks. The member is well aware that in 2019", "speakerName": "Hon. Filomena Tassi (Minister of Labour)" }, { "text": "We'll now go back to Mr. Duvall.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the changes the government made last year to bankruptcy insolvency laws were largely cosmetic and won't protect workers' and pensioners' livelihoods once bankruptcy hits. The government can protect severance, termination pay, pensions and benefits from corporate theft, but will they do it, yes or no?", "speakerName": "Mr. Scott Duvall" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we made a number of significant changes in budget 2019, including that the process for the CCAA be more open and transparent. We mandated that those who are coming to the process have to be honest and truthful. One thing we heard in the consultations was the ability for courts to set aside executive bonuses, and we implemented all those changes because we want to continue to protect pensioners.", "speakerName": "Hon. Filomena Tassi" }, { "text": "You have time for a short question, Mr. Duvall.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thanks, Mr. Chair. The minister isn't answering the question. Canadian workers are worried. This is about their livelihoods. Will the government fix the lawsyes or noto protect workers' and pensioners' rights?", "speakerName": "Mr. Scott Duvall" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have made amendments, and we are going to continue to make amendments. We want to absolutely ensure that pensions are protected. I look forward to working collaboratively with the member.", "speakerName": "Hon. Filomena Tassi" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Mr. Blaikie, ElmwoodTranscona.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Twice, following negotiations with the NDP, the government has committed to provide direct financial assistance to people living with disabilities. I'm wondering when those people can expect the government to announce the details of that assistance.", "speakerName": "Mr. Daniel Blaikie (ElmwoodTranscona, NDP)" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we are committed to advancing on the issues that have been identified by Canadians with disabilities. We are continuing that engagement, and we will have more to say on that very soon.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "I think that answer is entirely inadequate. I have a lot of sympathy for people across the country who are living with disabilities and are getting impatient with the fact that alongside its initial commitment to seniors, for instance, the government made a commitment to helping people living with disabilities with the same kind of direct financial assistance, and it hasn't come. Why has it taken so long for the government to get around to helping people who are in a crisis right now? I want to know the reason why this hasn't been announced yet.", "speakerName": "Mr. Daniel Blaikie" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have established the COVID-19 disability advisory group, comprising experts in disability inclusion. We're moving forward with the Canada emergency student benefit, which will provide $2,000 per month for eligible students with permanent disabilities. We are doubling the Canada student grants for students with disabilities in the coming academic year. We have done a lot, but we will continue to do more, and we will have more to share on our continuing efforts to support persons with disabilities.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "Go ahead, Mr. Blaikie. You have time for one short question.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Their commitment was not around an advisory commitment. Their commitment was for direct financial assistance to people living with disabilities who are facing additional costs because of the pandemic. They have committed twice and they have done nothing. When are they going to get around to it? Why should people living with disabilities have to wait any longer than they already have?", "speakerName": "Mr. Daniel Blaikie" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, that is precisely why we are listening closely to the COVID-19 disability advisory group to get expert advice. We will have more to share. There is more work to come, and there will be results to be announced very soon.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Mr. McLean, Calgary Centre.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. According to La Presse, federal cabinet ministers Steven Guilbeault, Catherine McKenna and Jonathan Wilkinson have been handed responsibility for crafting an economic recovery plan that aims to accelerate the green shift. True to form, this cabal around the Prime Minister has declared let's not let a good crisis go to waste. Can the Prime Minister confirm that his ministers have been working with environmental lobby groups for further financial support to engineer Canada's economy post COVID?", "speakerName": "Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)" }, { "text": "The honourable Minister of Middle Class Prosperity.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, our most urgent priority is COVID-19 and the health and safety of Canadians. As we support Canadians through this time, we will also ensure our long-term economic, environmental and physical well-being. Our government remains committed to building a stronger and more resilient economy to ensure a sustainable, prosperous future for our kids and grandkids. Just like science is guiding us in our response to COVID-19, science will continue to guide us toward reduced pollution and in fighting climate change.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier (Minister of Middle Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance)" }, { "text": "The task force for a resilient recovery was quoted as saying last week that they would have recommendations for government action available within eight weeks, notably eight weeks when Parliament is, by this government's design, absent. Can the Prime Minister disclose to this committee how many meetings his 61 environmental activist advisers have had with the task force or its members?", "speakerName": "Mr. Greg McLean" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, our most urgent priority with respect to COVID-19 is the health and safety of Canadians. While supporting Canadians during this period, we must also ensure our economic, environmental and physical well-being in the long term. Our government remains committed to building a stronger, more resilient economy to ensure a sustainable future for our grandchildren and children.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "The task force is a who's who of academics and bureaucrats, but surprisingly, includes no one from the productive part of the Canadian economy. So much for pan-Canadian input. The task force is reviewing work produced by Smart Prosperity, a government-funded institute whose membership overlaps with both the task force and the government's own Canadian Institute for Climate Choices. This is a bureaucratic environmental Ponzi scheme, with overlapping personnel and mandates. The only thing not overlapping is their funding. How many organizations does this government need to fund to recycle work produced by other redundant government-funded entities?", "speakerName": "Mr. Greg McLean" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, as we know, our priority right now is the health and safety of Canadians. Just as science guides us in our response to COVID-19, it will continue to guide us in reducing pollution and fighting climate change. Our priority is to support Canadians during this period and we must also ensure our environmental, economic and physical well-being in the long term.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "A notable member of the task force in question is one Gerald Butts. Perhaps it's just a coincidence, but can the Prime Minister confirm if this is the same Gerald Butts who was forced to resign as his principal secretary for his role in attempting to force Canada's then justice minister into breaking the law?", "speakerName": "Mr. Greg McLean" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, since the beginning of this crisis, our priority has been to support Canadians and their health and safety. We will continue to do so, because it is important that we get through this crisis by supporting Canadians.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, is this the same Gerald Butts who was paid $360,000 U.S. by an American-funded organization after he started working with the Prime Minister?", "speakerName": "Mr. Greg McLean" }, { "text": "Once again, Mr.Chair, it is important to talk to Canadians right now to tell them that we are putting their health and safety first. We will continue to do so. We are going through a crisis right now and we will support Canadians.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, is this the same Gerald Butts who, in his role as the principal secretary in the office of Ontario's then premier, advanced policies that now saddle Ontarians with the highest energy costs in North America? Is this is the same Gerald Butts who weighed down Ontario with the world's highest subnational debt burden, all for the benefit of new green jobs that, notably, have never arrived?", "speakerName": "Mr. Greg McLean" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, as we know, for the past two and a half months, we have been supporting Canadians. We have put forward an economic program to help businesses, workers and Canadians across the country. We will continue to make the health and safety of Canadians a priority.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "We'll now go to the MP for West Nova, Mr. d'Entremont.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Yesterday, the Minister responsible for tourism, ACOA and official languages was happy to close our national Tourism Week by announcing investments of $70 million to offset financial losses in the tourism industry across Canada. Where's the big clap? Some hon. members: Hear, hear! Mr. Chris d'Entremont: There you go, give her a clap. More than $70 million will be invested to support this sector and promote Canadian destinations. Southern Ontario received $30 million, northern Ontario received $7 million and western Canada received $3.5 million. There's nothing for Atlantic Canada yet. Knowing that we just had an announcement from the Minister of Transport that there will be no cruise ships in Atlantic Canada or anywhere in Canada this year, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, where is the program for Atlantic Canada?", "speakerName": "Mr. Chris d'Entremont" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I commend my colleague for his important question. I know he's a very strong advocate for the tourism sector in Atlantic Canada, so I want to reassure him. Obviously, we want to support the tourism sector in Atlantic Canada. ACOA has a clear direction to do just that. If he has any good ideas, please let him come forward and let's have a conversation. Meanwhile, Atlantic Canada will also be supported through Destination Canada. Rather than doing marketing internationally, we will be supporting destination marketing organizations across the country, including in Atlantic Canada, to make sure that we launch this new movement to visit local.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly (Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages)" }, { "text": "That would be all great if we weren't in the middle of a pandemic and you can't even cross the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border without having to self-isolate for two weeks. It's going to make travelling, through the Maritimes at least, very difficult. In Saint John, New Brunswick, 79 cruise ships and more than 270,000 passengers will not be giving back to that local community. At home in Nova Scotia, it's about 118 or 130 vessels. In terms of a minimum financial loss, $165 million will not be generated. There will be job losses and permanent closures of restaurants and boardwalk shops. Prince Edward Island, which was expected to have a record attendance year, will lose visits of 97 ships and 154,000 passengers, and $60 million to the province's economy will be lost. Mr. Chair, my question to the minister is this: Who is ACOA going to be working with, and what kinds of programs are going to be available to help them through this very difficult year?", "speakerName": "Mr. Chris d'Entremont" }, { "text": "I agree with my colleague. The sector is really impacted by the pandemic and the economic crisis. It is a bit like the canary in the coal mine; it was the first impacted, and definitely it is still impacted. That's why we are in close contact with tourism leaders and operators across the country. Again, recently I had good conversations with the chambers of commerce all across Atlantic Canada, including Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador for the tourism sector. There is money for the tourism sector and tourism operators. They can have access to the wage subsidy. They wanted to have access to it until later in the summer, and it has been extended to the end of August. They have access to the rent relief program, the CEBA and ACOA funding. As mentioned many times in this chamber, Mr. Chair, if my colleague has clear examples to provide me, let's work together. Let's make sure the money flows to these people, because they need it.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly" }, { "text": "You have only about a minute left, Mr. d'Entremont.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, like the minister, last week, I spoke with Simon-Pierre Poulin, the director of Le Franco newspaper in Alberta, about the Sauvons Saint-Jean movement. He asked me why we could not continue to work on official languages and on modernizing the act even though Parliament is sitting in a different configuration. Unfortunately, I had to explain to him that many restrictions were associated with the current format of this fake Parliament. The pandemic is also threatening the protection of French in minority communities. The Liberal government made a commitment to modernize the Official Languages Act in the first six months of its mandate. How will it proceed?", "speakerName": "Mr. Chris d'Entremont" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, it goes without saying that our two official languages are important and that, when it comes to language rights, we must always be on guard and protect what we have achieved. As for Campus Saint-Jean, I am very aware of the issue. I had the opportunity to speak with my two counterparts in Alberta late Friday afternoon to tell them about our concerns and the need to protect the institution from drastic cuts. That was the first point. The second point is the modernization of the Official Languages Act. I have the same concerns as my colleague. Clearly, we must continue the conversations and find the right solutions. Finally, we must be there to protect our language rights. If the member has good ideas, he can come to me to discuss them.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly" }, { "text": "The hon. member for ChicoutimiLe Fjord has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, some people for whom the 15weeks of sickness benefits were not enough before the COVID-19crisis now have to exhaust their regular employment insurance benefits before they are entitled to the CERB. Today, I would like to know whether they will be able to exhaust their weeks of eligibility for the CERB after October3.", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Martel (ChicoutimiLe Fjord, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we ensured that those who switched over to the Canada emergency response benefit would be covered by it, whether they were EI eligible or not. We are committed to supporting all of the workers who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "According to a survey conducted by the Universit du Qubec Trois-Rivires' research institute on small and medium size businesses, the SaguenayLac-Saint-Jean region would be the most affected by the economic effects of COVID-19. This is not surprising. In fact, in our region, the tourism industry generates more than $300million in economic activity, including $58million for the cruise industry alone. The $70million that you announced yesterday is a very modest start. What does the government intend to do for the tourism industry in the regions?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Martel" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, it goes without saying that the tourism industry is indeed very much affected. That is why we are responding to their concerns and worries. We have therefore extended the emergency wage subsidy until the end of August. We are also providing the Canada emergency commercial rent assistance, as well as the $40,000loans from the Canada emergency business account. We have also just announced $70million in support for Canada's tourism sector. I am having good talks with various stakeholders in Quebec, including Martin Soucy from the Alliance de l'industrie touristique du Qubec. In addition, we are going to do our part to support the tourism sector through Economic Development Canada.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, the tourism industry in the SaguenayLac-Saint-Jean region is the sum of all its stakeholders. Many of these businesses are too small to receive the assistance announced by the federal government. Overly restrictive standards will prevent some tourist accommodation from welcoming guests this year, even though they will have to pay their bills every month. What does the government plan to do to help the regions most affected economically?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Martel" }, { "text": "I thank my colleague for his important question. What he is describing is the reason we are currently working on a game plan. We really want to be able to reach these small businesses, of which there are many in SaguenayLac-Saint-Jean, in Quebec and across the country. That is why the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance have committed an additional $1billion to help those businesses that fall through the cracks. We need to respond now, and I will have more to say about it in the next few days.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I was very disappointed to see that we had lost asparagus crops due to a labour shortage. When I spoke with the blueberry growers in my area, they told me they were concerned that the same thing could happen to them. Some employers to whom we granted summer positions are not finding students to fill them. When will there be incentives to encourage people to work rather than disincentives?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Martel" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we believe that the flexibilities we have introduced to the Canada summer jobs program will enable more employers to use it, including more businesses, as well as help young people to acquire the necessary skills and benefits from this really important program.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "Mr.Martel, you have about a minute left.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, on May19, the government said that it was studying several solutions to help business owners and entrepreneurs who operate their business using a personal bank account. When will the Canada emergency business account be available to them?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Martel" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, small businesses are the heart of all of our communities, and we've been working really hard to help them. Almost 650,000 small businesses have received the loan, which is really helping with those costs. We have more work to do to make sure that those other businesses also get access to this support.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng (Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade)" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Mr. Epp, the member for Chatham-KentLeamington.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wish to congratulate my colleague, Cathy McLeod. On Tuesday, May 26, she gained a new resident when Brinnley Lisette Huby was born to parents Adam and Carina Huby. Carina is my daughter, and that makes Brinnley my first grandchild and presently my favourite newest Canadian. All are healthy, and I thank God for Brinnley's healthy arrival. Some honourable members: Hear, hear! Mr. Dave Epp: Minister Jordan, the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation is allowed access to the seafood stabilization fund, while you deny its competitor, our Ontario fisheries that fish on the Great Lakes, the similar right to apply. Minister, why?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank my colleague for the very good question. The Ontario inland fishers and the people in Ontario are eligible for other programs that are offered through the regional development agencies. We are going to make sure that no industry is left behind when it comes to our fisheries. We're making sure that we're addressing the concerns of inland fisheries as well as coastal fisheries. Those programs will be available to anyone who needs to apply through the RDAs.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan (South ShoreSt. Margarets, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Minister, will you then direct these regional agencies to provide equitable funding equivalent to the seafood stabilization fund?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we're making sure that they have the same access to programs through the regional development agencies as there is through the seafood stabilization fund. We're making sure that everyone who is in need of support through the programs will be able to access it.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "According to Stats Canada, before my granddaughter turns one year old, her share of the federal debt will be over $39,000. What is Minister Morneau's fiscal plan for Canada so that the interest on this debt doesn't cripple Canada with higher taxes?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we realize that it's always important to be responsible from a fiscal standpoint. We believe that the responsible approach today is to make investments to support Canadians and to support businesses. In that way we can have jobs and we can get through this pandemic and have a strong economy and be able to continue with our approach to managing our economy in a responsible", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Epp.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Minister, when can Parliament, or this semblance of it, see that plan for economic prosperity?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "I would like to remind honourable members to direct their questions through the Chair. The honourable minister may reply.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. We've been quite clear that we need to be transparent on a daily basis by giving Canadians an understanding of the investments that we're making through this pandemic. Once the situation is more stable economically, we will certainly be coming forward with a broader plan.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said three months before the pandemic that this current government's level of spending and incurring of debt is untenable and that future generations, like my granddaughter, will have to pay for it. How much more debt is the minister planning to incur?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, coming into this pandemic in a strong fiscal position with the lowest amount of debt among the G7 countries is a function of our economy that's afforded us the opportunity to invest on behalf of Canadians. We will continue to take that approach. We believe that's the responsible thing to do through the course of this challenge.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "What is the budget for stopping illegal American guns from getting through our borders?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I thank the member for the question. I can tell you that we have invested considerable amounts of money and have earmarked ongoing monies to ensure that we address the issue of illegal guns passing across the border. We realize", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau (Minister of Transport)" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Epp.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "What's the budget, then, to fight government-trained and licensed Canadians in the court challenge that's now been triggered?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "We will go to the honourable minister. We're not getting any audio.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "I have a point of order, Mr. Chair. Could I have some more time, please?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "Yes. We're just going to hold time here momentarily, Mr. Epp.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "I apologize, Mr. Chair. Could I ask for the question to be repeated, please?", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Epp, what is your question again?", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "What is the budget for fighting the government-trained and licensed people who are now triggering a lawsuit against your order in council?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I don't have the answer to that question, but obviously the government will defend its position.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem of this government's policy of spending the cupboards bare in good times instead of planning for a rainy dayand folks, we're in a storm. Unlike this government, municipalities cannot by law say put it on the tab for the next generation. The balanced budget requirements force them to choose between slashed services and drastic tax hikes. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities says they need $10 billion in targeted emergency operating funding, so do municipalities slash services, do they raise taxes, or will we be there for the municipalities?", "speakerName": "Mr. Dave Epp" }, { "text": "Our government absolutely understands the crucial role municipalities play as the engine of our economy at all times, and particularly today, as in many parts of the country we are looking to restart the economy. That is why the Prime Minister announced just this morning that we will be accelerating payments under the gas tax fund. Municipalities will receive the full amount of their 2020-21 payment on June 10. This will help them with some of their near-term liquidity issues.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We're now going to Mr. Manly, the member for NanaimoLadysmith. Mr. Manly, go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Canada emergency commercial rent assistance program is not helping enough small businesses. Many landlords do not want to take part in the program. Small businesses are requesting that they be able to apply without the landlord's participation. Many small businesses do not meet the 70% income-loss threshold. Many did their best to keep employees engaged and tried hard to not lose clients, as the government urged them to do. They are, in fact, being penalized for that effort. Thousands of business owners across the country will not be able to pay their rent today and risk closing permanently. Will the government push the provinces to include an eviction moratorium during the pandemic and make this commercial rent assistance program more flexible to ensure small businesses can survive?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly (NanaimoLadysmith, GP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'd like to thank the honourable member for the question, which recognizes the very serious challenge that many small businesses are facing during the course of this pandemic. We know that the programs we've put forward, programs like the emergency business account, are supporting businesses, but the emergency rent approach, on which we've worked together with provinces, can also help significantly. We are seeing a significant number of landlords and tenants coming forward with this and taking this up. I would encourage landlords to use this program, which is supporting them. Of course, the suggestion from the member that provinces take action in restricting evictions is one that I've been speaking about to ministers of finance from the provinces over the course of the last couple of months. This is an area of provincial jurisdiction. We are supportive and working hard to make sure this program works.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this week marks the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and we are currently seeing repression of the democracy movement in Hong Kong. We know that Communist China oppresses minority groups and does not respect human rights. In spite of this knowledge, the Harper Conservative government signed a lopsided and anti-democratic investment treaty with China in 2012, the Canada-China FIPA. This Conservative deal gave Chinese state-owned corporations extraordinary powers to challenge our democratic decisions through a secretive private tribunal system. In the years since the FIPA was signed, with no vote in Parliament, Chinese state-owned corporations have been purchasing Canadian assets and resources. These corporations can seek financial compensation from Canadian taxpayers for the loss of potential profit when our laws and policies get in the way of their profit-taking. Can the government tell us whether any of these Chinese corporations has threatened to use the anti-democratic investor-state provisions of the FIPA to seek financial compensation from Canadian taxpayers?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly" }, { "text": "As I'm sure the member will know, Canada is setting up with its allies around the world to protect the freedom and democracy that has been enjoyed by the people in Hong Kong. As he knows, we have issued a declaration with a number of allies we have called upon to make sure that measures remain in place to protect the freedom and liberty of the people of Hong Kong. We know that the one country, two systems treaty system has provided the framework under which the people of Hong Kong have been able to create an economy that is resilient and has made Hong Kong a place where people want to do business, commerce and trade. Mr. Chair, we have expressed our deep concern. I would refer the member to the joint statement we have issued with the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. We have spoken with one voice and we have said we have deep concerns that the actions by Beijing, if they were to proceed with this national security law unilaterally, would undermine the bedrock of what has made Hong Kong, and that we will review the impact that", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne" }, { "text": "Mr. Manly, you have about 45 seconds left. Go ahead; there's time for a short question.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "That was a trick question, because this anti-democratic agreement states that we wouldn't be able to have permission to disclose that information if there was, in fact, an investor-state dispute. Unlike NAFTA, which had a six-month period for renegotiation, the Harper Conservatives locked us into a 15-year agreement with the FIPA and this anti-democratic agreement. Will the government re-engage the special committee on Canada-China relations so we can do a thorough investigation of this Conservative sellout of Canadian democracy", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly" }, { "text": "We are out of time, Mr. Manly. We'll go to the minister for a response.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Canada will always pursue trade in the interest of Canadians, and we are in the process of reviewing our FIPA agreements so those agreements can provide the right framework for Canadians to trade, with the interests of Canadians always top of mind.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "We're now going to Ms. Ashton in ChurchillKeewatinook Aski. Ms. Ashton, go ahead with your question.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'll be splitting my time with the member for Victoria. My question is to the Minister of Fisheries. This pandemic has hit Canadians hard. Import markets for our fish have dried up. This is devastating for inland fisheries. The season opened last week, and fishers are desperate for support. For indigenous fishers, fishing sustains their communities. It is their way of life. Will the government work with the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation and inland fishers to develop and facilitate the delivery of an emergency package that works for them and find ways to redirect product to domestic markets, including communities facing food insecurity now?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton (ChurchillKeewatinook Aski, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we've recognized how hard the pandemic has hit our fishers and our fishing sector. We've made available a number of different measures. One of the things we're doing primarily is the harvesters' benefit, which allows all harvesters to take advantage of a benefit as well as a grant contribution to help them get through. We're also changing EI so they can now qualify for their EI benefits based on previous seasons, not this one, recognizing they're going to face challenges this year. The Freshwater Fish Marketing Board is a Crown corporation. We know it's been a very difficult time for them. We are continuing to look at ways we can address the challenges within the industry and we'll continue to work with them to make sure we are addressing those needs.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "Ms. Ashton, we have about one minute left. There's time for a short question. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "My question is to the Minister of Transport. Canadians are being ripped off by airlines that are refusing to give passengers their money back. Airlines are profiting off Canadians during a very desperate time. This government has sat by while the Canadian Transportation Agency issued a statement to back up the airlines' appalling actions. What is this government doing to fix this? Why aren't they ensuring that public funds involve reimbursing passengers and an equity stake for Canadians?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I certainly recognize the very difficult situation and the frustration of Canadians who would have preferred a refund. At the same time, at this point if airlines were required to immediately reimburse all the cancelled tickets, it would have a devastating effect on the airlines. That is why the Canadian Transportation Agency, which is an independent body, recommended that vouchers be issued and that they have a reasonable time to be usedtwo years. It is also very important to bear in mind that as we begin to exit this pandemic, we must still have an airline industry in this country.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "Now we're going to the honourable member for Victoria, Ms. Collins. Please go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, in Victoria housing and homelessness were at a crisis point long before the pandemic hit, but now people are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. If you don't have a place to live, you don't have the luxury of following public health advice and staying home. As part of the recovery, will this government be increasing funding to build or buy the housing needed to address homelessness?", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins (Victoria, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, very early in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, our government provided $157.5 million directly to 51 community entities to respond directly to the needs of homeless Canadians. We also provided $50 million in additional money to women's shelters. We are continuing with the national housing strategy. We are providing supports to communities and NGOs, as well as municipalities that are moving projects forward.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the federal government allocated just $1.3 million in Reaching Home funds to my region. While the province has stepped up, it cost them $18.5 million to purchase just one hotel in Victoria. The federal funding is clearly inadequate. Is the government going to show some leadership and at least match the provincial funds?", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we moved very quickly. The $157.5 million, I must note, was additional money on top of the base funding that we provide every year to address the needs of Canada's most vulnerable. In addition to that, our projects under the national housing strategy are continuing. We are providing leadership. We are trusting the community entities to make the decisions on where the funding goes and to respond in a way that meets the", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "Ms. Collins, you have about 40 seconds left, which is time for a short question. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "The minister mentioned the national housing strategy. This government's national housing strategy reduces the level of targeted funding for lower-income households, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. My question is simple: Coming out of the pandemic in the coming months, is the government going to increase housing funding to address the immediate need, yes or no?", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I disagree with the honourable member. Our money is targeted to communities. They have community advisory boards that decide how to spend the money. If the NDP does not trust local communities to make decisions, they should say so.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ahmed Hussen" }, { "text": "I now invite the hon. member for Joliette, Mr.Ste-Marie, to take the floor. Go ahead, Mr.Ste-Marie.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. Regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic, the last time I checked, we still had a democratic system and the government had to remain accountable. The government needs to present a picture of the economic situation and a picture of its overall emergency measures. Does the government intend to extend the measures over the summer? If so, how will it do so? The government must also present its working scenarios for the economic recovery. The government needs to be transparent. When will the government provide its economic update?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I would like to thank the hon. member for his questions. I agree, it is very important to be transparent and to provide the necessary information to Canadians. Every day, we announce measures, of course, but also the cost of the measures and the amount of the investments. It is very important. The challenge at the moment is the economic situation, which is very fluid. When the situation is more stable, we will have the opportunity to give an economic update.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "In my opinion, Mr.Chair, it will really be too late to do the economic update when things are more stable. We have been asking for an economic update for the past month. Even the Parliamentary Budget Officer has been urging the government to table an economic update in a timely manner. With only three weeks left in the House before the summer, the clock is ticking. The Quebec government will table its economic update later this month. Will the federal government follow suit?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, let me confirm that we will continue to be transparent about the investments; it is very important. Of course, each day we work to make sure we have a solid grasp of the economic situation. As I said, when the situation is a little more stable, we will have the opportunity to explain our situation with an economic update.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "Once again, Mr.Chair, when the situation is more stable, it will be too late to do an economic update; instead we will have to table a budget with the recovery in mind. Speaking of the recovery, the Parliamentary Budget Officer is surprised that the government is calling on the private sector for ideas for its recovery plan. Mr.Giroux points out that this government has thousands of public servants with very good ideas, and he adds that the government can also ask for the opposition parties' views. That would be a very good idea. Why is the government contracting out the development of its recovery plan to the private sector?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I would like to tell the hon. member that it is important to listen to what we are trying to do, and to listen to people's ideas and opinions, not only in Parliament, but also from our society. So we keep listening. Of course, with our approach, we will address the economic recovery in a way that will ensure we can maintain our very strong position.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, we are still surprised that the government has contracted out its recovery plan to the private sector. The sooner the government tables its recovery plan, the better. Businesses and individuals would start gaining confidence in the economy again. It would help them to loosen the purse strings and be assured that there will be economic life after the pandemic. Again, that is what the Parliamentary Budget Officer says. Can the government tell us when it will table its recovery plan?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, we feel it is very important to consider what we need to do in each phase of our recovery. At this time, it is necessary to consider the public health situation and the gradual reopening of our economy. That is why we feel our approach aims for a safe recovery. Obviously, by gathering more information in Phase3, we will be able to consider more than one approach to recovery.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "Mr.Ste-Marie, you have about 30seconds left.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you. I understand that the exact date for tabling the recovery plan may be difficult to determine at this time. Can the minister tell us whether he currently intends to table the recovery plan in a month ending in ber? If not, will it be before or after that?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "We continue to work with the provinces on an approach to determine the timing of the recovery, and we are also listening to our colleagues in Parliament, of course.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "We're now going to the honourable member for Abbotsford, Mr. Fast.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Prime Minister continues to pander to the Communist regime in China. We were shocked to hear that his own Minister of Digital Government used WeChat, a Chinese social media site, to raise funds to sue a Global News reporterfor what? It was for daring to expose China's attempt to hoard PPE during the COVID crisis. Is it the practice of the government to support lawsuits against Canadian reporters who challenge the hostile actions of the regime in China, and will the Prime Minister now condemn the actions of the digital government minister?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast (Abbotsford, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we value the important work of media across the country and the world. Attacking the integrity of hard-working journalists is not acceptable. As many members on all sides of the House know, WeChat is a social media platform used to engage and share information with the Chinese-Canadian community. Participation in this group, much like Facebook, is guided by posted guidelines and a disclaimer. In this case, the individual who violated the guidelines of the group is no longer a part of that group.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, Canadians have no reason to trust the Prime Minister on anything to do with China, especially when it comes to trade policy. Two and a half years ago, the Prime Minister travelled to China to commence free trade negotiations, and the talks ended up in complete failure and embarrassment. Still the Prime Minister continues to cozy up to the Chinese regime, refusing to ban Huawei from our 5G network or to speak out convincingly against China's oppression in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the two Michaels are continuing to languish in Chinese jails. This is the kind of partner the Prime Minister wants to negotiate a trade agreement with. Can the minister tell us whether at any time during the last six months the Prime Minister or anyone else in his government has had discussions with China about a free trade agreement? A simple yes or no will do.", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as you know, Canada has a complex and multi-dimensional relationship with China. Canada will continue to engage with China with eyes wide open. Any work that we do on trade and on all matters will always be in the interests of Canadians first.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "I think Canadians will see that the minister didn't even answer a simple yes-or-no question, so I'll ask her a simpler yes-or-no question. Is she or anyone else in her government presently discussing or negotiating a free trade agreement with China, yes or no?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we will always do our work, including any discussions on trade and indeed all of our work, with the interests of Canadians and Canadian businesses as our absolute top priority.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Again, there was no answer, so I'll try again. Will the minister now assure Canadians that she and the Prime Minister's government will not negotiate a free trade agreement with China, yes or no?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Any work that we do will always be guided by the best interests of Canadians and Canadian businesses.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I am just flabbergasted. This minister has been asked three times if the government is negotiating a trade agreement. She refuses to answer, so I'll try again. Will the minister tell us why she thinks negotiating a trade agreement with a hostile country like China is in Canada's best interests?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I thank the honourable member for the question. The answer is no.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I just want to make sure. Free trade is a good thing when it takes place between like-minded countries that embrace free market principles and apply the rule of law. China is not such a country. In fact, China repeatedly flouts international trade rules, illegally dumps underpriced goods into Canada, and prevents Canadian canola, beef and pork from entering China. Is has also jailed Canadians without due process. Will the minister now assure us that our government will not negotiate any free trade agreements with China, yes or no?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "We are not in discussions with China on a free trade agreement, and as my colleagues, including the Prime Minister and the foreign minister, have said many times in this House and outside of this House, our priority continues to be the immediate release of Canadians detained in China. We will always work in the interests of Canadians and Canadian businesses. That is what we will always do.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "This will conclude today's sitting of the special committee on the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore this committee stands adjourned until tomorrow at noon.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mr. Bruce Stanton)" } ] }

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Wonder if these things ever emit a very, like, piercing screech right in your ear?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They are gonna get more comfortable headsets. They already ordered them. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Let's get started. The uh Should I go first, with the uh, um, data. Can I have the remote control. Thank you. OK. So. On Friday we had our wizard test data test and um these are some of the results. This was the introduction. I actually uh, even though Liz was uh kind enough to offer to be the first subject, I sort of felt that she knew too much, so I asked uh Litonya. just on the spur of the moment, and she was uh kind enough to uh serve as the first subject.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, this is what she saw as part of as uh for instr introduction, this is what she had to read aloud. 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And uh she did not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "She No.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, it's surprising.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "She she jumped around quite a bit.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "S so if you just number them \" one \", \" two \", \" three \" it's", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, and make it sort of clear in the uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. We need to So that's one thing. And we need a better introduction for the wizard. That is something that Fey actually thought of a in the last second that sh the system should introduce itself, when it's called.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. True.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um, um, another suggestion, by Liz, was that we uh, through subjects, switch the tasks. So when when they have task - one with the computer, the next person should have task - one with a human, and so forth.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we get nice um data for that. Um, we have to refine the tasks more and more, which of course we haven't done at all, so far, in order to avoid this rephrasing, so where, even though w we don't tell the person \" ask blah - blah - blah - blah - blah \" they still try, or at least Litonya tried to um repeat as much of that text as possible.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Say exactly what's on there? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And uh my suggestion is of course we we keep the wizard, because I think she did a wonderful job,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "in the sense that she responded quite nicely to things that were not asked for, \" How much is a t a bus ticket and a transfer \" so this is gonna happen all the time, we d you can never be sure.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Johno pointed out that uh we have maybe a grammatical gender problem there with wizard.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I wasn't wasn't sure whether wizard was the correct term for uh \" not a man \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "There's no female equivalent of.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Are you sure?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Not that I know of.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, there is witch and warlock,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's so @ @.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. And um So, some some work needs to be done, but I think we can uh And this, and in case no you hadn't seen it, this is what Litonya looked at during the uh um while taking the while partaking in the data collection.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, great. So first of all, I agree that um we should hire Fey, and start paying her. Probably pay for the time she's put in as well. Um, do you know exactly how to do that, or is uh Lila I mean, you know what exactly do we do to to put her on the payroll in some way?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm completely clueless, but I'm willing to learn.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Well, you'll have to. Right. So anyway, um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So why don't you uh ask Lila and see what she says about you know exactly what we do for someone in th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Student - type worker,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah she's un she's not a a student,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "she just graduated but anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So i if Yeah, I agree, she sounded fine, she a actually was uh, more uh, present and stuff than than she was in conversation, so she did a better job than I would have guessed from just talking to her.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So I think that's great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is sort of what I gave her, so this is for example h how to get to the student prison,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I didn't even spell it out here and in some cases I I spelled it out a little bit um more thoroughly,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "this is the information on on the low sunken castle, and the amphitheater that never came up, and um, so i if we give her even more um, instruments to work with I think the results are gonna be even better.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, and then of course as she does it she'll she'll learn @ @. So that's great. Um And also if she's willing to take on the job of organizing all those subjects and stuff that would be wonderful.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, uh she's actually she's going to graduate school in a kind of an experimental paradigm, so I think this is all just fine in terms of h her learning things she's gonna need to know uh, to do her career.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, I my guess is she'll be r r quite happy to take on that job. And, so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah she she didn't explicitly state that so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um I told her that we gonna um figure out a meeting time in the near future to refine the tasks and s look for the potential sources to find people. She also agrees that you know if it's all just gonna be students the data is gonna be less valuable because of that so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, as I say there is this s set of people next door, it's not hard to", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We're already Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "However, we may run into a problem with a reading task there. And um, we'll see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. We could talk to the people who run it and um see if they have a way that they could easily uh tell people that there's a task, pays ten bucks or something,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but um you have to be comfortable reading relatively complicated stuff. And and there'll probably be self - selection to some extent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, so that's good. Um. Now, I signed us up for the Wednesday slot, and part of what we should do is this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, my idea on that was uh, partly we'll talk about system stuff for the computer scientists, but partly I did want it to get the linguists involved in some of this issue about what the task is and all um you know, what the dialogue is, and what's going on linguistically, because to the extent that we can get them contributing, that will be good. So this issue about you know re - formulating things,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "maybe we can get some of the linguists sufficiently interested that they'll help us with it, uh, other linguists, if you're a linguist, but in any case,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um, the linguistics students and stuff. So my idea on on Wednesday is partly to uh you I mean, what you did today would i is just fine. You just uh do \" this is what we did, and here's the thing, and here's s some of the dialogue and and so forth. \" But then, the other thing of course is we should um give the computer scientists some idea of of what's going on with the system design, and where we think the belief - nets fit in and where the pieces are and stuff like that. Is is this make sense to everybody?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I don't I don't think it's worth a lot of work, particularly on your part, to to to make a big presentation. I don't think you should you don't have to make any new uh PowerPoint or anything. I think we got plenty of stuff to talk about. And, then um just see how a discussion goes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Sounds good. The uh other two things is um we've can have Johno tell us a little about this", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we also have a l little bit on the interface, M - three - L enhancement, and then um that was it, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, what I did for this this is uh, a pedagogical belief - net because I was I I took I tried to conceptually do what you were talking about with the nodes that you could expand out so what I did was I took I made these dummy nodes called Trajector - In and Trajector - Out that would isolate the things related to the trajector.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then there were the things with the source and the path and the goal.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And I separated them out. And then I um did similar things for our our net to uh with the context and the discourse and whatnot, um, so we could sort of isolate them or whatever in terms of the the top layer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then the bottom layer is just the Mode. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, let's let's Yeah, I don't understand it. Let's go Slide all the way up so we see what the p the p very bottom looks like, or is that it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's just one more node and it says \" Mode \" which is the decision between the.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, great. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So basically all I did was I took the last belief - net", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I grouped things according to what how I thought they would fit in to uh image schemas that would be related. And the two that I came up with were Trajector - landmark and then Source - path - goal as initial ones.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then I said well, uh the trajector would be the person in this case probably.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, you know, we have we have the concept of what their intention was, whether they were trying to tour or do business or whatever,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or they were hurried. That's kind of related to that. And then um in terms of the source, the things uh the only things that we had on there I believe were whether Oh actually, I kind of, I might have added these cuz I don't think we talked too much about the source in the old one but uh whether the where I'm currently at is a landmark might have a bearing on whether.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "or the \" landmark - iness \" of where I'm currently at. And \" usefulness \" is basi basically means is that an institutional facility like a town hall or something like that that's not something that you'd visit for tourist's tourism's sake or whatever. \" Travel constraints \" would be something like you know, maybe they said they can they only wanna take a bus or something like that, right? And then those are somewhat related to the path,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so that would determine whether we'd could take we would be telling them to go to the bus stop or versus walking there directly. Um, \" Goal \". Similar things as the source except they also added whether the entity was closed and whether they have somehow marked that is was the final destination. Um, and then if you go up, Robert, Yeah, so um, in terms of Context, what we had currently said was whether they were a businessman or a tourist of some other person. Um, Discourse was related to whether they had asked about open hours or whether they asked about where the entrance was or the admission fee, or something along those lines.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, Prosody I don't really I'm not really sure what prosody means, in this context, so I just made up you know whether whether what they say is or h how they say it is is that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, the Parse would be what verb they chose, and then maybe how they modified it, in the sense of whether they said \" I need to get there quickly \" or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um, in terms of World Knowledge, this would just basically be like opening and closing times of things, the time of day it is, and whatnot.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What's \" tourbook \"?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Tourbook? That would be, I don't know, the \" landmark - iness \" of things,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "whether it's in the tourbook or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ch - ch - ch - ch. Now. Alright, so I understand what's what you got. I don't yet understand how you would use it. So let me see if I can ask", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, this is not a working Bayes - net.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "a s Right. No, I understand that, but but um So, what Let's slide back up again and see start at the at the bottom and Oop - bo - doop - boop - boop. Yeah. So, you could imagine w Uh, go ahead, you were about to go up there and point to something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well I OK, I just Say what you were gonna say.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good, do it!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No no, go do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh I I'd No, I was gonna wait until.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So, so if you if we made if we wanted to make it into a a real uh Bayes - net, that is, you know, with fill you know, actually f uh, fill it @ @ in, then uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we'd have to get rid of this and connect these things directly to the Mode.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, I don't That's an issue. So, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cuz I don't understand how it would work otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, here's the problem. And and uh Bhaskara and I was talking about this a little earlier today is, if we just do this, we could wind up with a huge uh, combinatoric input to the Mode thing. And uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well I oh yeah, I unders I understand that, I just uh it's hard for me to imagine how he could get around that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, i But that's what we have to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, so, so, uh. There there are a variety of ways of doing it. Uh. Let me just mention something that I don't want to pursue today which is there are technical ways of doing it, uh I I slipped a paper to Bhaskara and about Noisy - OR's and Noisy - MAXes and there're ways to uh sort of back off on the purity of your Bayes - net - edness.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, so. If you co you could ima and I now I don't know that any of those actually apply in this case, but there is some technology you could try to apply.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's possible that we could do something like a summary node of some sort that OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And, um So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So in that case, the sum we'd have we I mean, these wouldn't be the summary nodes. We'd have the summary nodes like where the things were I guess maybe if thi if things were related to business or some other.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So what I was gonna say is is maybe a good at this point is to try to informally I mean, not necessarily in th in this meeting, but to try to informally think about what the decision variables are. So, if you have some bottom line uh decision about which mode, you know, what are the most relevant things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the other trick, which is not a technical trick, it's kind of a knowledge engineering trick, is to make the n each node sufficiently narrow that you don't get this combinatorics. So that if you decided that you could characterize the decision as a trade - off between three factors, whatever they may be, OK? then you could say \" Aha, let's have these three factors \", OK? and maybe a binary version f for each, or some relatively compact decision node just above the final one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then the question would be if if those are the things that you care about, uh can you make a relatively compact way of getting from the various inputs to the things you care about. So that y so that, you know, you can sort of try to do a knowledge engineering thing", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "given that we're not gonna screw with the technology and just always use uh sort of orthodox Bayes - nets, then we have a knowledge engineering little problem of how do we do that. Um and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what I kind of need to do is to take this one and the old one and merge them together?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "\" Eh - eh - eh. \" Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, mmm, something. I mean, so uh, Robert has thought about this problem f for a long time, cuz he's had these examples kicking around, so he may have some good intuition about you know, what are the crucial things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and, um, I understand where this the uh this is a way of playing with this abs Source - path - goal trajector exp uh uh abstraction and and sort of sh displaying it in a particular way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't think our friends uh on Wednesday are going to be able to Well, maybe they will. Well, let me think about whether whether I think we can present this to them or not. Um, Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I think this is still, I mean, ad - hoc. This is sort of th the second version and I I I look at this maybe just as a, you know, a a whatever, UML diagram or, you know, as just a uh screen shot, not really as a Bayes - net as John Johno said.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We could actually, y yeah draw it in a different way, in the sense that it would make it more abstract.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But the uh the the nice thing is that you know, it just is a is a visual aid for thinking about these things which has comple clearly have to be specified m more carefully", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Alright, well, le let me think about this some more,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and uh see if we can find a way to present this to this linguists group that that is helpful to them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, ultimately we we may w w we regard this as sort of an exercise in in thinking about the problem and maybe a first version of uh a module, if you wanna call it that, that you can ask, that you can give input and it it'll uh throw the dice for you, uh throw the die for you, because um I integrated this into the existing SmartKom system in in the same way as much the same way we can um sort of have this uh this thing. Close this down. So if this is what M - three - L um will look like and what it'll give us, um And a very simple thing. We have an action that he wants to go from somewhere, which is some type of object, to someplace.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this these uh this changed now only um, um It's doing it twice now because it already did it once. Um, we'll add some action type, which in this case is \" Approach \" and could be, you know, more refined uh in many ways.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or we can uh have something where the uh goal is a public place and it will give us then of course an action type of the type \" Enter \". So this is just based on this one um, on this one feature, and that's that's about all you can do. And so in the f if this pla if the object type um here is is a m is a landmark, of course it'll be um \" Vista \". And um this is about as much as we can do if we don't w if we want to avoid uh uh a huge combinatorial explosion where we specify \" OK, if it's this and this but that is not the case \", and so forth, it just gets really really messy.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, I'm sorry. You're you're.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It was much too quick for me. OK, so let me see if I understand what you're saying. So, I I do understand that uh you can take the M - three - L and add not and it w and you need to do this, for sure, we have to add, you know, not too much about um object types and stuff, and what I think you did is add some rules of the style that are already there that say \" If it's of type \" Landmark \", then you take you're gonna take a picture of it. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "F full stop, I mean, that's what you do. Ev - every landmark you take a picture of,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Every public place you enter, and statue you want to go as near as possible.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "you enter You approach. OK. Uh, and certainly you can add rules like that to the existing SmartKom system. And you just did, right? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And it it would do us no good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That Ultimately.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well. So, s well, and let's think about this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, that's a that's another kind of baseline case, that's another sort of thing \" OK, here's a another kind of minimal uh way of tackling this \". Add extra properties, a deterministic rule for every property you have an action, \" pppt! \" You do that. Um, then the question would be Uh Now, if that's all you're doing, then you can get the types from the ontology, OK? because that's all you're all you're using is this type the types in the ontology and you're done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right? So we don't we don't use the discourse, we don't use the context, we don't do any of those things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Alright, but that's but that's OK, and I mean it it's again a kind of one minimal extension of the existing things. And that's something the uh SmartKom people themselves would they'd say \" Sure, that's no problem you know, no problem to add types to the ont \" Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. And this is just in order to exemplify what what we can do very, very easily is, um we have this this silly uh interface and we have the rules that are as banal as of we just saw, and we have our content.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now, the content I whi which is sort of what what we see here, which is sort of the Vista, Schema, Source, Path, Goal, whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This will um be um a job to find ways of writing down Image schema, X - schema, constructions, in some some form, and have this be in a in a in the content, loosely called \" Constructicon \". And the rules we want to throw away completely. And um and here is exactly where what's gonna be replaced with our Bayes - net, which is exactly getting the input feeding into here. This decides whether it's an whether action the the Enter, the Vista, or the whatever", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, \" approach \", you called it, I think this time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh Approach um construction should be activated, IE just pasted in.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's what you said Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, but Right. But it's not construction there, it's action. Construction is a d is a different story.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. This is uh so what we'd be generating would be a reference to a semantic uh like parameters for the for the X - schema?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "For for for Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that that uh i if you had the generalized \" Go \" X - schema and you wanted to specialize it to these three ones, then you would have to supply the parameters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then uh, although we haven't worried about this yet, you might wanna worry about something that would go to the GIS and use that to actually get you know, detailed route planning. So, you know, where do you do take a picture of it and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But that's not It's not the immediate problem.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, presumably that that that functionality's there when when we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So the immediate problem is just deciding w which.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Aspects of the X - schema to add.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the pro The immediate problem is is back t t to what you were what you are doing with the belief - net.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, uh what are we going to use to make this decision.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right and then, once we've made the decision, how do we put that into the content?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right. Well, that that actually is relatively easy in this case.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The harder problem is we decide what we want to use, how are we gonna get it? And that the the that's the hardest problem. So, the hardest problem is how are you going to get this information from some combination of the what the person says and the context and the ontology. The h So, I think that's the hardest problem at the moment is is", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "where are you gonna how are you gonna g get this information. Um, and that's so, getting back to here, uh, we have a d a technical problem with the belief - nets that we we don't want all the com", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's just too many factors right now.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "too many factors if we if we allow them to just go combinatorially.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So we wanna think about which ones we really care about and what they really most depend on, and can we c you know, clean this this up to the point where it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what we really wanna do i cuz this is really just the three layer net, we wanna b make it expand it out into more layers basically?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. We might. Uh, I mean that that's certainly one thing we can do. Uh, it's true that the way you have this, a lot of the times you have what you're having is the values rather than the variable. So uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. So instead of in instead it should really be just be \" intention \" as a node instead of \" intention business \" or \" intention tour \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK? So you Yeah, right, and then it would have values, uh, \" Tour \", \" Business \", or uh \" Hurried \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But then but i it still some knowledge design to do, about i how do you wanna break this up, what really matters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, it's fine. You know, we have to it's it's iterative. We're gonna have to work with it some.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think what was going through my mind when I did it was someone could both have a business intention and a touring intention and the probabilities of both of them happening at the same time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you you could do that. And it's perfectly OK to uh insist that that, you know, th um, they add up to one, but that there's uh that that it doesn't have to be one zero zero.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. So you could have the conditional p So the each of these things is gonna be a a a probability. So whenever there's a choice, uh so like landmark - ness and usefulness,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, see I don't think those would be mutually.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it seems like something could both be.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Absolutely right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And so that you might want to then have those b Th - Then they may have to be separate. They may not be able to be values of the same variable.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Object type, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that's but again, this is this is the sort of knowledge design you have to go through. Right. It's you know, it's great is is, you know, as one step toward uh toward where we wanna go.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Also it strikes me that we we m may want to approach the point where we can sort of try to find a uh, a specification for some interface, here that um takes the normal M - three - L, looks at it. Then we discussed in our pre - edu EDU meeting um how to ask the ontology, what to ask the ontology um the fact that we can pretend we have one, make a dummy until we get the real one, and so um we we may wanna decide we can do this from here, but we also could do it um you know if we have a a a belief - net interface. So the belief - net takes as input, a vector, right? of stuff. And it Yeah. And um it Output is whatever, as well. But this information is just M - three - L, and then we want to look up some more stuff in the ontology and we want to look up some more stuff in the maybe we want to ask the real world, maybe you want to look something up in the GRS, but also we definitely want to look up in the dialogue history um some s some stuff. Based on we we have uh I was just made some examples from the ontology and so we have for example some information there that the town hall is both a a a building and it has doors and stuff like this, but it is also an institution, so it has a mayor and so forth and so forth and we get relations out of it and once we have them, we can use that information to look in the dialogue history, \" were any of these things that that are part of the town hall as an institution mentioned? \",", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" were any of these that make the town hall a building mentioned? \",", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and so forth, and maybe draw some inferences on that. So this may be a a sort of a process of two to three steps before we get our vector, that we feed into the belief - net,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that's I think that's exactly right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There will be rules, but they aren't rules that come to final decisions, they're rules that gather information for a decision process. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "no I think that's that's just fine. Uh, yeah. So they'll they presumably there'll be a thread or process or something that \" Agent \", yeah, \" Agent \", whatever you wan wanna say, yeah, that uh is rule - driven, and can can uh can do things like that. And um there's an issue about whether there will be that'll be the same agent and the one that then goes off and uh carries out the decision, so it probably will. My guess is it'll be the same basic agent that um can go off and get information, run it through a a c this belief - net that turn a crank in the belief - net, that'll come out with s uh more another vector, OK, which can then be uh applied at what we would call the simulation or action end. So you now know what you're gonna do and that may actually involve getting more information. So on once you pull that out, it could be that that says \" Ah! Now that we know that we gonna go ask the ontology something else. \" OK? Now that we know that it's a bus trip, OK? we didn't We didn't need to know beforehand, uh how long the bus trip takes or whatever, but but now that we know that's the way it's coming out then we gotta go find out more.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So I think that's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So this is actually, s if if we were to build something that is um, and, uh, I had one more thing, the it needs to do Yeah. I think we I I can come up with a a code for a module that we call the \" cognitive dispatcher \", which does nothing,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but it looks of complect object trees and decides how are there parts missing that need to be filled out, there's this is maybe something that this module can do, something that this module can do and then collect uh sub - objects and then recombine them and put them together. So maybe this is actually some some useful tool that we can use to rewrite it, and uh get this part,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "then. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I confess, I'm still not completely comfortable with the overall story. Um. I i This this is not a complaint, this is a promise to do more work. So I'm gonna hafta think about it some more. Um. In particular see what we'd like to do, and and this has been implicit in the discussion, is to do this in such a way that you get a lot of re - use. So. What you're trying to get out of this deep co cognitive linguistics is the fact that w if you know about source source, paths and goals, and nnn all this sort of stuff, that a lot of this is the same, for different tasks. And that uh there's there's some some important generalities that you're getting, so that you don't take each and every one of these tasks and hafta re - do it. And I don't yet see how that goes. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There're no primitives upon which uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "u u What are the primitives, and how do you break this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So I y I'm just just there saying eee well you I know how to do any individual case, right? but I don't yet see what's the really interesting question is can you use uh deep uh cognitive linguistics to get powerful generalizations. And", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe we sho should we a add then the \" what's this? \" domain? N I mean, we have to \" how do I get to X \". Then we also have the \" what's this? \" domain, where we get some slightly different.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Could. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um Johno, actually, does not allow us to call them \" intentions \" anymore.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So he he dislikes the term.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, I I don't like the term either, so I have n i uh i i y w i i It uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But um, I'm sure the \" what's this? \" questions also create some interesting X - schema aspects.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Could be. I'm not a I'm not op particularly opposed to adding that or any other task,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean, eventually we're gonna want a whole range of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just saying that I'm gonna hafta do some sort of first principles thinking about this. I just at the moment don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "H No. Well, no the Bayes the Bayes - nets The Bayes - nets will be dec specific for each decision. But what I'd like to be able to do is to have the way that you extract properties, that will go into different Bayes - nets, be the uh general. So that if you have sources, you have trajectors and stuff like that, and there's a language for talking about trajectors, you shouldn't have to do that differently for uh uh going to something, than for circling it, for uh telling someone else how to go there,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Getting out of.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "whatever it is. So that that, the the decision processes are gonna be different What you'd really like of course is the same thing you'd always like which is that you have um a kind of intermediate representation which looks the same o over a bunch of inputs and a bunch of outputs. So all sorts of different tasks and all sorts of different ways of expressing them use a lot of the same mechanism for pulling out what are the fundamental things going on. And that's that would be the really pretty result. And pushing it one step further, when you get to construction grammar and stuff, what you'd like to be able to do is say you have this parser which is much fancier than the parser that comes with uh SmartKom, i that that actually uses constructions and is able to tell from this construction that there's uh something about the intent you know, the actual what people wanna do or what they're referring to and stuff, in independent of whether it about what is this or where is it or something, that you could tell from the construction, you could pull out deep semantic information which you're gonna use in a general way. So that's the You might. You might. You might be able to to uh say that this i this is the kind of construction in which the there's Let's say there's a uh cont there the the land the construction implies the there's a con this thing is being viewed as a container. OK. So just from this local construction you know that you're gonna hafta treat it as a container you might as well go off and get that information. And that may effect the way you process everything else. So if you say \" how do I get into the castle \" OK, then um Or, you know, \" what is there in the castle \" or so there's all sorts of things you might ask that involve the castle as a container and you'd like to have this orthogonal so that anytime the castle's referred to as a container, you crank up the appropriate stuff. Independent of what the goal is, and independent of what the surrounding language is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Alright, so that's that's the that's the thesis level", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's unfortunate also that English has sort of got rid of most of its spatial adverbs because they're really fancy then, in in for these kinds of analysis. But uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, you have prepositional phrases that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but they're they're easier for parsers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Parsers can pick those up but but the with the spatial adverbs, they have a tough time. Because the mean the semantics are very complex in that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK, yeah? I had one more thing. I don't remember. I just forgot it again. No. Oh yeah, b But an architecture like this would also enable us maybe to to throw this away and and replace it with something else, or whatever, so that we have so that this is sort of the representational formats we're we're we're talking about that are independent of the problem, that generalize over those problems, and are oh, t of a higher quality than an any actual whatever um belief - net, or \" X \" that we may use for the decision making, ultimately. Should be decoupled, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. So, are we gonna be meeting here from now on? I'm I'm happy to do that. We we had talked about it, cuz you have th th the display and everything, that seems fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, um, Liz also asks whether we're gonna have presentations every time. I don't think we will need to do that but it's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so far I think it was nice as a visual aid for some things and and.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. No I I think it's worth it to ass to meet here to bring this, and assume that something may come up that we wanna look at.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean. Why not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um. Yeah, that was my.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "She was good. Litonya was good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah? The uh um, she w she was definitely good in the sense that she she showed us some of the weaknesses", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and um also the um the fact that she was a real subject you know, is is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, and and and yeah and and she took it seriously and stuff l No, it was great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So I think that um I mean, w Looking just looking at this data, listening to it, what can we get out of it in terms of our problem, for example, is, you know, she actually m said you know, she never s just spoke about entering, she just wanted to get someplace, and she said for buying stuff. Nuh? So this is definitely interesting, and.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, and in the other case, where she wanted to look at the stuff at the graffiti, also, of course, not in the sentence \" How do you get there? \" was pretty standard. Nuh? except that there was a nice anaphora, you know, for pointing at what she talked about before, and there she was talking about looking at pictures that are painted inside a wall on walls, so", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Actually, you'd need a lot of world knowledge. This would have been a classical um uh \" Tango \", actually. Um, because graffiti is usually found on the outside and not on the inside,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but OK. So the mistake would have make a mistake the system would have made a mistake here.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Click? Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2002d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay we all all set? Right. Well this is the uh final detailed design meeting. Um we're gonna discuss the look and feel design, the user interface design, and we're gonna evaluate the product. And the end result of this meeting has to be a decision on the details of this remote control, like absolute final decision, um and then I'm gonna have to specify the final design in the final report. So um just from from last time to recap, we said we were gonna have a snowman shaped remote control with no L_C_D_ display, no need for talk-back, it was hopefully gonna be kinetic power and battery uh with rubber buttons, maybe backlighting the buttons with some internal L_E_D_s to shine through the casing, um hopefully a jog-dial, and incorporating the slogan somewhere as well. Anything I've missed?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um so uh if you want to present your prototype go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-oh. This is it?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ninja Homer, made in Japan..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, there are a few changes we've made.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, well look at the expense sheet, and uh it turned to be quite a lot expensive to have open up and have lots of buttons and stuff inside,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so instead we've um this is gonna be an L_C_D_ screen, um just a a very very basic one, very small um with access to the menu through the the scroll wheel and uh confirm um button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, apart from that, it's just pretty much the same as we discussed last time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And there isn't uh d it doesn't open up to the advanced functions? the advanced functions are still hidden from you, but they're hidden in the sense that um they're not in use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where are they?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um they're in the L_C_D_ panel and the jog-dial?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay'cause.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So w what kind of thing uh is gonna be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_ panel just displays um functionally what you're doing. If you're using an advanced function right, like um c brightness, contrast, whatever, it will just say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know it's like it only has four columns, it's a very simple L_C_D_ like, whereas many the minimum amount we need that the user will automatically know like this is brightness or this is contrast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right,'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It might even be one, a bit more complex L_C_D_ panel with pictures like maybe the sun or the, you know, the the symbols of the various functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, and what is this here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a number pad.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so the number pad is'Kay, great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where are we gonna have the slogan?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um they're al along this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know, just like right inside there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have this space here, and then you have this thing on the side as well, or at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause slogans are usually quite small, right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "they're not like huge", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so they're s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Say a button's about", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Looks good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "say a button's about this size, right, so you would still have plenty of space for a slogan, say even for that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if this isn't to scale, what kind of dimensions are you thinking about here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we want the other buttons to be big enough to push easily with a finger", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we reckon maybe that'll be about the same size as the palm of your hand..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep so that would be about a centimetre for a button, so one two three four centimetres. Plus maybe half o five", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six seven eight,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About nine in total.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "about yeah nine total.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're talking about ten centimetres.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That sounds good. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would be good. So ten centimetres in height.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nine, ten. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'd be good, in fact a pen is about ten centimetres usually, so that would be that sounds like a really good size, if you see it there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's great and it's very bright as well. So um okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Is it possible uh I'm just gonna bring up the idea of colours. Is these are these the colours that of production, or is this just what we had available?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I'm We're gonna have again the the sort of the foggy um yellow from last time that lit up when you pushed the button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "could you just list all the things that it does s so I can write them in the report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um this button um, because it's red it's sort of very prominent, we're gonna use it as uh it can be the power button if you hold it for maybe two seconds it'll send a stand-by signal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um apart from that it's gonna be used as a confirm button for the L_C_D_ screen", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you use this as a jog-dial.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so that's like an okay button, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh we've discussed how h high it is, but how wide is it?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How high is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No as in the height, but what about the width?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh oh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't put five centimetres.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like depth of the actual thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we need five? I don't think five is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "be about th three and a half.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh is this k to get an idea of scale from your from your thing there okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something by there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can power on and off, what else can you do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um you can skip straight to a channel using these buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, were gonna have the volume control here, but um because we've got the the L_C_D_ and the jog-dial we just thought we'd um use that as the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay jog-dial for volume. And what else do you do with the jog-dial?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um you can use it for um more advanced functions like contrast, colour and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Contrast, brightness,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, and anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um just whatever else we wanted to include as the advanced functions, um we didn't actually go through and specify the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well of the designers what are they?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh what can a T_V_ do?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay things like um brightness, contrast,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um maybe tuning the channels.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay channel tuning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's a good one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What else? Um the various inputs. Are you having a V_C_R_, are you having you know which input do you have?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay auxiliary inputs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "probably colour or sharpness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, colour, sharpness. Um a lot of these things will have to be um free and open for users to define them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sharpness. Okay what about uh sound settings", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "? Uh d can you change any of those at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Audio.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Audio, we have like your basic y your base, your mid-range, your high range.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the balance hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, left-right balance, um maybe even pre-programmed sound modes, like um the user could determine like a series of sound modes,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then what could happen would be um when you click on that then it would go to that setting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is there anything else at all it can do? That'cause that's that's fine. Just need to know so I can write it down. Okay um right I g I guess that's it, so we can now um We can now have a little look at the the Excel sheet and price listing, and see if we need to um if we need to rethink anything at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um for this first part here power-wise, have we got battery?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we have kinetic as well?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We need an.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's because of cost restraints is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um what about the electronics here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We need an advanced chip I think, yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let me just confirm that. Yes I think so. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um the case, what does it mean by single and double, do you know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think single would just be sort of one sort of oval whereas double is this sort of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we want double-curved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is there any rubber at all in the buttons or any", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we're gonna have to skip the rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um and we wanted special colours didn't we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I'll have to put that Oh no wait we ho how many colours have we got there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the case itself, one colour. It's one special colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just one colour, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause the case unit itself, the rest of our components go on top of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so interface-wise, is it this third option we have, the two of them there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. One and the L_C_ display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay and then buttons, we have what, two colours?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How many.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we have um got some push buttons as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or even clear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got push buttons as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like uh oh wait so push button and integrated scroll wheel push", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I reckon we've got one button for this thing'cause it's just one big sheet of rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if that counts but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay let's just be safe and put like say four buttons for that one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um and maybe a special colour for the buttons, so maybe four again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can see we're we're all very far beyond the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So w why are we arriving at the number four? Where does the number four come from?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause that's one button by its the complexity of twelve buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're just estimating that yeah it would be less.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we're writing down four. Okay. How about these? Are we wanting them in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no they're just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is everything gonna be plastic?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So we're w w quite far over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now we're gonna something's gonna have to go. Um we're at sixteen point eight and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh how mm-hmm how are we going to achieve this high-end product if.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we h something has to go to the tune of two point t three Euro,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We only have very sparse.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so let me see, what are we I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two point three? Four point three no?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh yes sorry, four point three. My maths is all out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we could take out ones by making it single curved, just fill in those bits.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How much would that save us?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then where is the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much would that save us?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That will only save you one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That is one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The other thing could be that um you could take away the L_C_D_ panel and the advanced chip together,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um because when you do something on the T_V_, the T_V_ responds and reacts as well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so the user could be looking at the T_V_ and pushing his thing so we may not need to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's fair enough, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so when we scroll we need just some way to get the T_V_ to respond,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which I think is a technically doable thing so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So w what's our reviewed suggestion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um take away the L_C_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. And the advanced chip goes away as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To be replaced with a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Regular chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "regular chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. So what that means is that um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so we've got point three to get rid of. Um and we ha where are the four the four push buttons are where exactly now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The twelve buttons that you see there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's um one piece of rubber but it's gonna have twelve button things underneath so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functionally you're gonna have to intercept So four is a good estimate for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you can't actually cut It's like three times the number of buttons, four, eight, twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like is is that one big button or is it twelve buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It It needs to be more than one big button because if you open up your phone, underneath there's actually one button underneath, it's just that the panel itself is a single panel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "how can it be something in between?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well we have point three to get rid of somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We just report that it has to be over budget,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or the colours, you could take away s colours for th for the buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No can do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we could just go with um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Normal coloured buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well do you want colour differentiation here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's not the button we're talking about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah sorry yeah then..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the buttons only refer to the pad so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we take that off uh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey it's back to the original.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so then these just become normal coloured buttons, so that might be some some way of cutting the cost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, ach that's a shame. Um right, so take away that completely? Ah. And now we're under budget. So we do have point five Euro to play with if we wanted.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I reckon.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How about with embossing the logo, isn't that going to cost us some money?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Doesn't say so..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a freebie.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Reckon that probably counts as a special form for the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a good idea. Just one? Does that mean that one button has a special form or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think there's just one button so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "handy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well well there we go. So I'm just gonna have to redraw this now. So we're not gonna have the L_C_D_ anymore, and we'll just gonna have an on t on the T_V_ it'll show you what you're doing, which I think is fair enough, and so this is gonna be one big thing here. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Was the goal in your in your prototype design that it be as low profile as possible?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do you mean by profile?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sort of flat as possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You see I envision it as being um quite deep", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sort of deep enough to be comfy to hold in your hands rather than being wide and flat.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's what I was thinking, to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We didn't have enough Play-Doh to make it three D_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure, okay. Yeah alright yeah fair enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, just thought I'd ask.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So there's one more dimension to the thing which we need to to add,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you might want to add in the report, length, width, and height.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So just to well to be thorough then, width-wise we're looking at about what three centimetres or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay and then so height-wise.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How how tall do you envisage it being? About that big?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it works, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "About two centimetres, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two's not very high at all though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is about this is about two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe a bit higher?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Slightly more than two, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See, about that thick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Ach, that is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe closer to three even or two and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay we'll s we'll say two point five. Okay um so we have it within cost anyway. Um so yeah project evaluation is this point. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right uh. Okay so can we close that? This is what it's the final spec that it's gonna be. Someone is gonna have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah that's fine that's fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um it's probably just I dunno if it's worth getting into, but um just in in that we want this to be stylish, should we think a little bit more out of the box in terms of a button grid, because I've seen there's lots of devices out there that that instead of taking your standard nine nine square grid, and they have it sort of stylized or in different concept that that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's something that's very hard to catch,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you you restrict the number of people who wanna try something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the look and the colour is something which is cool,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think that there's also that factor of if it's too unfamiliar", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then um because when you put it on the shelf.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about button shape? Square buttons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah button shape might be a good idea to change, rather than rather than positioning,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause I think positioning is we're kinda engrained into the the telephone kind of", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "pad.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right um. So at this point we uh, let me see, discuss uh how satisfied we all are with um with these four points, with the room for creativity in the project, and leadership and teamwork, and the stuff we had around us I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, let me see uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want me to d um Do you want me to do my um design evaluation last?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we should do the design evaluation first.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I wasn't really sure what that was.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", yeah go for that first. I wasn't entirely sure what uh who was supposed to be doing that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but y you go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Um, alright so the way this works, I'm gonna need to plug into PowerPoint,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll try and do it as quick as possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, this is um I'll just go over your head if that's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think you need the power,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, that's okay that's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't need the PowerPoint?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, the power cord itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh course,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so then you have a bit more freedom to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah that's true. Let me get that. A bit more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You you still have your blue fingers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so what this is is a set-up for us to um uh use a kind of a like a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You killed a monster.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The idea is that I've set up I've reviewed all of the um the points of discussion from the beginning, and used that as a criteria of evaluation for the um uh for the current design uh th or the plan, and uh so we can review that. Uh I think it's gonna end up being sort of elementary because we're sort we're in n we're not gonna probably use it to change anything but Doesn't seem like it's going, does it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh there it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay great. Uh and I'm gonna write up our results on the board, so this'll be a way for us to go through and decide if we're um sort of review where we stand with it. Okay, so um So to sort of b bring together two things, sort of design goals and also the market research that we had, uh when we rate this, one is v high in in succeeding or fitting to our original aim and seven is low,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay. So these i these i th are the and um we've been asked to uh to collectively rate this, so what we can do is try and just y work on a consensus system so we just come to an agreement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay? So the first one uh, stylish look and feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I rate that pretty highly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well yeah, I mean compared to most remote controls you see that's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno like a six or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does anybody else think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah um me uh my only reservation with it was that we basically went with yellow because it's the company's colour,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I don't know if yellow's gonna really be a hit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm seeing five then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you guys think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say five or six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep I'm fine with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "David?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay let's go with five then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fi oh uh just actually the opposite.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's one to seven, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorry then", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it meant three,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", then I would say two or three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait, what's the scale, one to seven, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, one is high.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One's high-ish isn't it? Ah, okay so yeah, two or three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, it's upside-down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's go with two point five then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, um control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "high tech innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it has the wee jog-dial", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We had to remove.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we've had to remove a few of our features we wanted,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but jog-dial", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Say it's more", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd go with three or four,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'s good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "medium,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but going towards a little bit higher than medium kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah about three, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Style reflects a fruit inspired colour, design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lemon.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I shouldn't have said colour, but just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, the blue the blue colours and don't re don't actually represent the colour,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "except for the b the the red button,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they because for want of a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the yellow, I mean it could be a lemon yellow colour,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, could be. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the the yellow is more representative of the colour,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "couldn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but the button itself, the blue can be anything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay so we'll go two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay, and um design is simple to use, simple in features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah, I mean it's really basic looking isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F f yeah f fairly basic,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean I'd give that nearly a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you guys think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, that's fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, one? Okay. Um, soft and spongy, have we achieved that? We've used mostly plastic in the end so it's going to be quite a bit of a compromise for price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it's about five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Five? That's really low.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well we have to use uh plastic", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I suppose mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's probably gonna be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, company logo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "could we have used an entirely rubber frame to it? Was that an option?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it'll be cost prohibitive,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I'd probably increase the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It would cost more than plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've only got like what, ten cents left so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, logo, we've got it in there, haven't we?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Gonna have that on the side, aren't we, like there or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh. And um it's within budget, yep. It is, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we can say then that uh out of a possible or what would be our goal here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Out of forty nine, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, out of forty nine with with zero being the highest. We are at uh two, seven, eight, ten, fifteen point five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'S pretty good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's pretty good. Translates to something like about approximately seventy two percent efficacy of our original goal. Right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think'cause if you turn that into a hundred it would be about", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twice that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "about thirty one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "about thirty one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then invert that, it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So yeah ab well yeah about sixty nine, seventy percent yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, about seventy, yeah seventy percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, good. That was just a little formality for us to go through.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep, oh hundred pound pen..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nobody saw it, honestly..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The cameras did..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that you all have all finished, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's that's me. I did have one other um one other frame I thought, I mean I I d not knowing how we would deal with this information, I thought okay in theory this kind of a process would be about refining our design, revisiting our original goals.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not something I need to p push through, but I thought should we thinking more about the dimensions, um sort of like more of a three dimensional shapes as well as opposed to just that flat um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could our design involve a series of colours so that it's more of like a line where we have like sort of the, I don't know like the harvest line or the vibrant,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno the Whatever just some theme and then we have different tones, lime green, lemon.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just discussion. I mean obviously we can just abandon this, it's fine. I'm just thinking about what we originally set out to do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yep so there. That's all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, great um are you submitting the the um evaluation criteria or am I? I don't know what your instructions have been.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think to record it and uh I haven't been asked to submit it yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh just wondering if I need to include it in the minutes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because if you're submitting it anyway then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It keeps getting too big.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool. Um right, uh well next up then, because we've done finance, is the project evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay I'm I'm listening I'm just trying to incorporate the logo into the the thing, so I'm playing with the Play-Doh as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in case you're wondering, why is he still playing with the Play-Doh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just about right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "L_E_G_O_ Lego..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My leg..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay. Um well do you wanna um just individually say what you think about about these four points and or not those four points, my four points, sorry, forgotten that. You got a different uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. I like those printer cables that just have the two little butterfly clips like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, they're good aren't they, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's really quick.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um yeah here we are. Uh as a note we'll do this alphabetically. Um do you wanna start Andrew?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure, um so what is it you're asking of me now?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, just um your opinion on those four those four points really and how we used them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or sort of our work on setting this up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, is it uh okay I'll just go through your system then. The the room uh is fairly institutional, but um the main thing is, I think um our use of this space is more just to report on things as opposed to be creative and constructive and it would probably help to um have l sort of a cumulative effect of we have ideas and we come back and then the ideas are still in discussion, you know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as in other words this this room is sort of a centre point of creativity, whereas in reality as we've gone through this, it's not really the centre point of creativity, it's more just a", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well d do you feel though that that you were able to have quite a lot of creative input into the thing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "d debating Yeah, yeah but that's just the thing is the quest in terms of the the first point there, the room, it feels as though the creativity goes on when we leave, and then we come here and then we kind of put out our ideas and then, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I don't I don't think it means the room as in this room. I think it means like you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, oh right right, oh right okay room for creativ", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right I just looked up and saw okay whiteboard, digital pens, the room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Room. Oh yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I dunno do you th I think it means um I think it means did you feel you were able to give creative input so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry. Huh. Yeah. Yeah I th okay on th um yeah dif answering the question uh in those terms I'd say that actually there's sort of a tease of creativity because we're asked to work through this, but actually the guidelines are fairly contrived in terms of um okay fashion trends, say fruit and vegetable colour scheme,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but then i then we're told okay use the co company company colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what do we do. We're told okay um think in terms of style and look and feel and technology, but build something for twelve and a half pounds,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so actually the creativity was more more of like a um a f sort of a f formality then an actual.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You feel like you're caged within whatever y", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah within the constraints", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like a balloon in a cage, it can only go so big and not hit the side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The constraints do come in very fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay uh do you know what,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "actually let's take each point and everybody discuss it, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So still on the topic of room for creativity uh next up is Craig.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I agree with his point it's um it is quite a lot of fun t to go and then you have sort of hit the end then go right, gotta cut everything out'cause we don't have enough money.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think another point is that the meetings um are more brainstorming sessions than meetings,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so time is also a very s um strong factor, and structure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because for a brainstorming meeting you want a structure that allows you to allows ideas to get tossed, um to be evaluated, and to be reviewed, and to get feedback and come back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I guess that point about the room not being r very friendly to that, I think that's a very big thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think the fact that we're wearing these things restricts.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I feel it'cause I wear m my glasses, right, and that but that irritates me right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it it it does actually you know affect how, w whether you feel comfortable to communicate.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. New creativity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I feel like I'm hiding behind the equipment, rather than the equipment is helping me, and you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you think a more relaxed atmosphere would be more kind of conducive to creative thought or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not not so much an atmosphere, the atmosphere is very relaxed, but the the gear", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but actual environment?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah you know that creates boundaries to that um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and and the time the time given also restricts.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very good. Um what about leadership?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know if that means like, if I did a good job or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't really know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well well I mean my sense on that is sort of what kind of guidance and direction, encouragement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "From like your personal coach person and stuff like that, do you think maybe?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah from and you as well I think, just sort of acting as team leader.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah I think I think it's", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's good. I mean my personal views on on leadership is that effective effective leadership sort of um gives people a certain room for freedom and delegation, but then to come back with something that they take great ownership and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, innovative thought with. In in reality I think here the the different elements of leadership such as the the original b briefing and then the personal coach and the and then you know having having you with your the meeting agenda is actually quite a quite a quite a con confining framework to work within. And so it is leadership almost to the point of sort of disempowering the the the team member, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's not bad leadership, it's just sort of s fairly strong, you know. It turns it turns the individual into more of like a um sort of a predetermined mechanism, as opposed to a sort of a free.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you think maybe a little too controlling or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, oh yeah, without without a doubt.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think controlling is not the right word, I think the interactions are very structured.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe not co confining.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think structure is probably what you're saying that, each individual is structured to one particular task, and one parti rather than controlling.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think there's a sense of control'cause all the decisions have been made in terms of a, like a consensus right, we go around and we think about it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but that you know process actually says you have to do it in a certain way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It doesn't tell you, you know, some ways that you might wanna be a bit more creative in terms of the process you know, not the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, uh what about teamwork?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um did, you wanna comment Craig?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, reckon that was a bit hard because we could only discuss things in the meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we could just go up to somebody outside the meeting and have a quick talk with them, that would've been a lot easier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you tried to use the common share folder to to to to communicate,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fully agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um it just comes back to us so slow in the email", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um it it doesn't have a, you know, a messenger will go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did uh did you guys get the email I sent you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not just yet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was wondering if that got there okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, got the email.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, um so um to s to to summarize the teamwork issue, saying that if we could communicate outside the meeting, you know just like quick questions, quick thoughts, whatever, it probably would be bit easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the tools that they were given, the tool set that were given to us are fancy but they don't support collaboration, I think that's the word.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in it Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They don't support the team working together, you know,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "mm-hmm, mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "exactly. Yeah, I mean if you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they're still very individual tools.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean sort of taking upon that idea, w the way I see this i is that it's uh the the s the structure in which we've we've approached this whole task is quite contrary to the p principle of teamwork because the the tasks were d d sort of um divided, and then the work went on in isolation", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I don't know what you guys did while you were together, maybe that was a bit different,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We had Play-Doh fun.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but um yeah, but um but actually if you if you imagine not entire the completely same task given to us but us said okay, first thing we have to do is come up with um let's say um a design concept, and we sit here together and do it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "well that's what teamwork is. To s to say okay go off and don't talk to each other, it's actually p sort of predisposes you to quite the contrary of teamwork.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um not that we haven't done I think the best we could have done.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not dissatisfied with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, uh anything else to say on teamwork at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, um what about the you know how we used the whiteboard, the digital pens, the projector, stuff like that? Um did anybody think anything was like really useful,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "anything was pretty un f unsupportive?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the whiteboard, for me, is the kind of thing I would use all the time, but it's um not quite as useful as to us as it could have been, maybe just in the way that we we use it, in the sense that once we have an idea out there or while work was going on in between meetings, that could have been up on a board uh you know as opposed to in like in text.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, and then we could then keep our ideas sort of building on that. I know that people who design cars and you know in aviation they quite often just have a simple like fibreglass prototype and it's completely you know um abs abstract from the final product, but they use it as a kind of a context to sort of walk around and puzzle and and point and discuss", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. And point at? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and and and in a way everybody's as we discuss things in the in theoretically and out of our notebooks, we're just we're actually just each of us discussing something that's in each of our own minds. It wasn't until we had this here, you know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like at one point I peeked across and looked at Craig's paper and I'm like, now I know what he's thinking'cause I saw his book.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the b the b whiteboard could've actually been this kind of continuing um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do you think producing a prototype earlier in the process woulda been a good idea?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think could be, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think um the the focus of it a lot was the PowerPoint as opposed to the to the whiteboard,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think that m um is also does you know hinder us and things I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It will be cooler to have the whiteboard rather than the the PowerPoint,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or maybe the whiteboard and the PowerPoint in the same place,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know in the centre of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, because the PowerPoint was provided to us while we had time to prepare, whereas I can imagine if I'd been encouraged to use Paintbrush, for example, or whatever, I would've actually used it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um'ca you know, just'cause that's sorta how we what we were set up to to use while we had our time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that there were too many PowerPoints in the meetings.'Cause the plug-in and the plugging spent we spent a lot of time doing that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And a lot of the information on the PowerPoints, I don't think, you know, we needed to actually it could have, we could have gone through it verbally,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not quite.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "especially my slides,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I felt that they just you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as opposed to having to present them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about the digital pens, did you find them easy enough to use?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep clunky.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh they're a bit clunky.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Agreed..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Clunky, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Having to tick it before you go off was a bit hindering as well,'cause you're half way through a thought, and then you run out of paper and then you have to jump.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know, I think at the very start of today I like wrote a whole load of stuff, didn't click note on one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then went back and wrote one tiny wee thing on the another page, but then did click note, and so I'm quite worried that I've just written over the top of it or something,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but they'll have my paper anyway um and haven't done that since.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think the pen is v is very intuitive, everybody knows how to use it, we don't have to worry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think the pen's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's about the best thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And o on the topic of the technology, it just occurred to me that we actually didn't need to move our computers because each computer has all of the files.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It just occurred to me that they all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we only needed one computer and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We only actually needed one computer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If there had been a fifth, that coulda just been sitting there ready to go the whole time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the computer may not um be conducive to a meeting because um you tend to look at your computer and wanna have the urge to check something, you know,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's useful but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think the computers just provide distraction in a meeting?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think too many computers are just distracting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I know I I like to have things written down in front of me actually, like a lot of the stuff that was emailed to me I ended up you know like writing down there or something so I could look at it really quickly and not have the distraction of all of that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um I don't know about anybody else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um what else uh any wh I do I'm not really sure what they're looking for when they say new ideas found. Um I don't know is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this for the project or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "could you think of like anything else that would have been helpful today at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, the w main one for me is that uh the process na in a natural f context would not have been interrupted by this necessity to discommunicate ourselves from each other.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah if we just had uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, that's kind of a new idea for me is like just sort of that idea, well you know it's kind of s hard to keep f working forward on a team a team based project when when you're told you must now work away from your team.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah I I dunno I think it was quite good that we had time limits on the meetings because they really could have run on and like my experience with meetings is that they really do, and you can spend a lot of time talking about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The only thing is though like when we had our meeting about the conceptual design, I thought there maybe another fifteen minutes would have been useful there but um yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I really thi i I think maybe if we'd like all been working in the one room, and they just said you know like every hour or something everybody make sure yo you know just have a have a short meeting and then just c", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just to have like something written down, just like you know a a milestone if you like um rather than having meetings, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There you go. Um so in closing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I haven't got my five minutes to go. Thin Oh there it i Five minutes to go..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wonderful. Okay um are the costs within the budget, yes they are. And is the project evaluated, yes it is. So now celebrate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we have Ninja Homer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it So now we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well apparently now I write the final report. What are you guys doing now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we know what the other ones are?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You dunno?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh wow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is lovely..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey yeah, I said Ninja Homer..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What did you call it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ninja Homer. See it looks like Homer Simpson", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh, huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's electronic so it's made in Japan.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is that j is that just is that just a logo or does it do anything?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Logo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's just a logo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just a logo and then like Ninja Homer,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ninja Homer..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the red is supposed to represent the whatever else you wanna print on the side of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's quite nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fashion technology or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can wear Homer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you can throw Homer when you're frustrated, doh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm, hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no, that's cool, it's got I'm kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's clunky.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm slightly gutted that we couldn't get plastic and rubber, I think that would have been nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah well, maybe from now on real reaction should give us more money.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, I did learn something new, Play-Doh is useful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it is it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Play-Doh s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is useful and in in in in in in in um conceptualizing, in being creative.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh. Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause like you say, it's something you can put your hands on and feel and touch and get a sense for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like we were playing with the Play-Doh and the ideas came with the Play-Doh rather than with everything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did they?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You might wanna write that down. It's just, I'm just fiddling with the Play-Doh, and I'm going yeah yeah it's kinda cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Play-Doh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's true, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Guess I'd forgot how good s Play-Doh smells.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it smells funny doesn't it. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. And some Play-Dohs are actually I think edible aren't they?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, all Play-Doh is edible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah like the stuff for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think they're all non-toxic'cause it's aimed for like two-year-olds.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it has to be, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just wheat, it's the stuff that your mom could make with preservatives and uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah um so to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow, hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wha what are your summarising words about Play-Doh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's helpful to the creative process.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um it engages all your senses not just your sight, but your sense of feel your sense of touch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it helps you to understand", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Taste..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "dimension as well. I think that that's very helpful because it it starts to pop up,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "whereas on a piece of paper, on a computer, on a board, um even with a three D_ graphic thing it still, it requires a lot of", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yep. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not very tangible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah tangible, that's a nice word.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It becomes tangible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tangible. Okay uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I don't know if there's anything else we needed to discuss.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That that's about it really. Just sit still I guess for a little while.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we retreat to our, to continue our", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we could probably do it here as long as we don't collaborate.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "r reporting or what i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I dunno. Um I'm sure the little uh the little thing'll pop up any minute now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we turn off the microphones?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah if the meeting's over then yeah I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1004a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Good morning everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, everybody is not ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh almost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ready.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, let's go. So, we're here today to to have our first kick-off meeting about uh this new project we're going to tak to talk about in a few minutes. Um so I will be uh Sebastian the Project Manager. Um you are the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm uh Michael. I'm the user interface designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hi I'm Guillermo. I'm the Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I am Hemant, the industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, very good. Thanks for being here. Um so let's have a look to the the agenda. So, we are going to go through this agenda uh and mainly first to uh to make to to be used to the tools uh available in this nice and smart meeting room we have here. Um then we'll go to uh the plans for project and have general discussions about it. So, the goal of this project is to uh developed a new remote control. Um it should be original, trendy, and also user friendly. As usual we will follow the the project method um that we are using in the in our company. It is in three step as you know. First the functional design. The second's a conceptual design, and then the detailed design. During each step uh of each design we wi you will work uh s separately, individually on uh your specific tasks and will m we will meet to um to discuss and take decisions about uh what you've you've you did and what uh we will do next. So first, we have to to train ourself with all the um the tools availables in the in this nice meeting room and uh particularly the the white board so uh we are going to go through the white board and take some um s some notes or do some drawings. So who want to start? Mister.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah well if no one else wants to, yeah. Okay so, want me to draw my favourite animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's see. Well, I don't really have a favourite animal, but um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have one in mind?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh I think I have one in mind, so uh I'm gonna about the uh spider because you can actually draw it pretty well in the corner of a white board. The spider has a spider lives in a web and uh it has eight legs, and uh it can move all about the web in two dimensions. Unless it's a three dimensional web which y they have sometimes. There are some spiders that live in like that have like uh kind of a a big ball of a of a web. And uh the other thing is some spiders can actually uh fly like uh they have uh they let out like uh a stream of like the web building material but it's it acts like a parachute so they can actually kind of go and find new uh build a new web somewhere else. So I think they did this in uh in Charlotte's Web that movie that little uh well it's actually a book first but uh um at the end all the the spiders kinda flew away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, that's my animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th thank you. Very interesting. Guillermo you want to?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'kay I dunno why, but when I was a child I I wanted to be a a panther", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "not a pink panther,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But don't you think it's very difficult to draw a panther?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or maybe yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would be very funny for us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So bad I don't like it..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay it's a friendly panther.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe it's happy'cause it just ate someone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Actually, honestly I I I dunno what's what's his it's be behaviour, I dunno if if it's the male who who hunts or it's the female uh, I I I have watched that lions di didn't hunt it's the the female lions who who hunt, so but I like it because it's fast, and it's black as well, so it can he it can hide itself very easily and it's it's it looks like um powerful, strong, uh I dunno. I I watch a a film about a black panther when I was a child and I was in that age when everything was shocking me a lot..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hemant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you don't like pink panthers?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Thanks. This lapel is coming out once in a while. It's not very strong. Okay. So, not the favourite animal, but I think I'll draw elephant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll try to draw elephant. It's a problem. Okay, thanks. Okay so, elephant goes like this, and then it has four feet. I don't know whether there's any dist there should be any distance or not, but I think this is the easiest. And then we have it's trunk. And yep something like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "An eye, cute.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Poor elephant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and sometimes they have a hump. It seems that uh elephants are pretty friendly and they they have one very important way a different way of walking. So when they walk, wherever they are going to put their first feet, the second feet will always be. When they'll come to that position the second, the third feet will be there. That's the way they walk. And that's very peculiar about them. None of the other animals walk like this. And they are very useful to human beings. At least few few hundred years ago when there was no means of transportations or something, or when they had to carry huge um loads from one place to another, elephants were very useful. And they are found in um usually the warm countries. And um they are the biggest terrestrial animal. That's what I know about them. So, that's what I wanted to tell about elephants.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is this uh an Indian or an African elephant,'cause you haven't drawn the ears?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There are two kind of uh yeah, they are very different, Indian and African elephants. So Indian elephant is having one bump, I think, and the African have two. And then there's a difference in the trunk of the animals, these elephants who are Indian and So at some for some elephants it's the trunk is having one Do we have some message there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. We have to I have to catch you,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wind up", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry. We have to to go through the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "? Okay, some other time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can discuss that off-line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we'll discuss a f a fly or do we'll do another meeting abo on elephants.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so another important part of the project is about money, uh and about so about finances. So we should target selling price of twenty-five Euro for this remote control and uh we have um which which would generate a profit of of um fifty million Euros, okay. And we should target the inter an international market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So could I just ask one question, um is this a stand-alone unit that we're gonna be selling? So it's gonna be you already have a T_V_ but you're buying an extra remote control for it or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O this is the next topic we have to discuss exactly,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so let's go to it. So um we should decide which kind of remote control we want to uh we want to uh we want to go. Should be should should it be um specific remote control to some specific device? Should it be a universal one? And uh etcetera. So um so I'm waiting for your for your inputs very quickly because we have only three three minutes to go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay well, so, it seems the the first thing that they've kinda specified is the price like based on how much profit we wanna make, which seems to a kind of a little strange if we don't know what the the product is yet, but I guess if that's if that's the requirement that we need to to design the the product to actually fit that that price bracket so, I guess we're gonna need to find out what's actually you know, what people ar are willing to pay for um what kind of product they're expecting for twenty-five Euro", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it seems quite a lot for a remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay I think this is more a job to our", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "market person yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing person.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it should be the topic of maybe of the next meeting just to to have an overview of this and uh in which direction we should go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we need to close the meeting. Uh we'll have a new meeting soon and uh so the work every every of you ha have t d to do. So um you have to work on the on the working design, you have to uh work on the technical functions, and uh you have to work on us user requirements specs, alright?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um you will receive some information by emails, i as usual. Thanks for coming today.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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They engaged in a brief discussion about their favorite animals: a spider, a panther, and an elephant. However, these animals were not selected as design motifs for the remote control.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 11, "endIndex": 13 }, { "startIndex": 15, "endIndex": 15 }, { "startIndex": 19, "endIndex": 27 }, { "startIndex": 37, "endIndex": 44 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Apart from discussing the design of the remote control, were there any other topics mentioned in the meeting?", "response": "Yes, the participants briefly discussed finances and the target market for the remote control:\n\n* They set a target selling price of twenty-five Euros for the remote control, aiming for a profit of fifty million Euros.\n\n* They considered whether the remote control should be specific to a certain device or universal, but did not reach a conclusion.\n\n* They agreed to target an international market.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 56, "endIndex": 56 }, { "startIndex": 60, "endIndex": 60 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "What was the advantage of implementing a cloud-based solution for the project?", "response": "The meeting did not discuss implementing a cloud-based solution for the project. Therefore, I cannot answer your question.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Regarding the design of the remote control, was a specific animal motif chosen for inspiration?", "response": "No, the participants did not choose a specific animal motif for inspiration in the design of the remote control.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 11, "endIndex": 13 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was Guillermo's perspective on the remote control's design?", "response": "Guillermo mentioned that he liked the panther as an animal, describing it as fast, black, and powerful. He also mentioned that panthers can hide easily and that he watched a film about a black panther when he was a child. However, he did not specifically suggest using the panther as a design motif for the remote control.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 30, "endIndex": 30 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Why did Hemant think the elephant is a peculiar animal?", "response": "Hemant described the elephant's unique walking pattern, where it places its second and third feet in the exact position where the first foot was placed. He also mentioned that elephants were historically useful for carrying heavy loads due to the lack of transportation, and that they are known for their friendly nature.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 42, "endIndex": 42 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What would be the benefit of employing a cloud-based approach for this project?", "response": "The meeting did not discuss the benefits of employing a cloud-based approach for this project. Therefore, I cannot answer your question.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was Guillermo's perspective regarding the user interface of the remote control?", "response": "Guillermo's perspective on the user interface of the remote control was not discussed in the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was their conclusion on whether the remote control should be universal or specific to a certain device?", "response": "The participants did not reach a conclusion on whether the remote control should be universal or specific to a certain device. They agreed to discuss this topic further in the next meeting.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 58, "endIndex": 60 }, { "startIndex": 69, "endIndex": 71 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

{ "meetingId": "Bmr020", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK, we're recording.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We can say the word \" zero \" all we want,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm doing some", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but just.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "square brackets, coffee sipping, square brackets.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's not allowed, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cur - curly brackets.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Is that voiced or unvoiced?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Curly brackets.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Curly brackets.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Curly brackets.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, correction for transcribers.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm! Gar - darn!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Channel two.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Do we use square brackets for anything?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "These poor transcribers.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "u", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Not ri not right now. I mean No.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "There's gonna be some zeros from this morning's meeting because I noticed that", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "u", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Barry, I think maybe you turned your mike off before the digits were Oh, was it during digits? Oh, so it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's still not a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So it's not it's not that bad if it's at the end, but it's in the beginning, it's bad.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, you wanna you wanna keep them on so you get good noise noise floors, through the whole meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's interesting. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Uh, I probably just should have left it on. Yeah I did have to run, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is there any way to change that in the software?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Change what in the software?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where like you just don't like if you if it starts catching zeros, like in the driver or something in the card, or somewhere in the hardware Where if you start seeing zeros on w across one channel, you just add some random, @ @ noise floor like a small noise floor.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean certainly we could do that, but I don't think that's a good idea. We can do that in post - processing if if the application needs it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Manual post - processing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I u I actually don't know what the default is anymore as to how we're using the the front - end stuff but for for when we use the ICSI front - end,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "As an argument.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but um, there is an there is an o an option in in RASTA, which, um, in when I first put it in, uh, back in the days when I actually wrote things, uh, I did actually put in a random bit or so that was in it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but then I realized that putting in a random bit was equivalent to adding uh adding flat spectrum,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and it was a lot faster to just add a constant to the to the spectrum. So then I just started doing that", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "instead of calling \" rand \" or something,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so. So it d it does that. Gee! Here we all are!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, so the only agenda items were Jane was Jane wanted to talk about some of the IBM transcription process.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "There's an agenda?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I sort of condensed the three things you said into that. And then just I only have like, this afternoon and maybe tomorrow morning to get anything done before I go to Japan for ten days. So if there's anything that n absolutely, desperately needs to be done, you should let me know now.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, and you just sent off a Eurospeech paper, so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. I hope they accept it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean, I both actu as as a submission and you know, as a paper. Um but.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well yeah, you sent it in late.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess you first you have to do the first one,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and then Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We actually exceeded the delayed deadline by o another day, so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh they they had some extension that they announced or something?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well yeah. Liz had sent them a note saying \" could we please have another \" I don't know, \" three days \" or something, and they said yes.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And then she said \" Did I say three?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I meant four. \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that was the other thing uh,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But u", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uh, Dave Gelbart sent me email, I think he sent it to you too, that um, there's a special topic, section in si in Eurospeech on new, corp corpors corpora. And it's not due until like May fifteenth.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh this isn't the Aurora one?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's another one?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's a different one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No it's Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Huh!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And uh,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I got this mail from.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I s forwarded it to Jane as I thought being the most relevant person. Um So, I thought it was highly relevant.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "have you did you look at the URL?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so too. Um, I haven't gotten over to there yet,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but what our discussion yesterday, I really I I wanna submit one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Was this SmartKom message? I think Christoph Draxler sent this,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And, you offered to to join me, if you want me to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I'll help,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but obviously I can't, really do, most of it,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I think several people sent this,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But any any help you need I can certainly provide.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "that's that's a great idea.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well there there were some interesting results in this paper, though. For instance that Morgan uh, accounted for fifty - six percent of the Robustness meetings in terms of number of words.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "In in terms of what? In term", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Number of words.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "One? Wow! OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "That's just cuz he talks really fast.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Do you mean,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "n No.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I know", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Short words.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because is it partly, eh, c correctly identified words? Or is it or just overall volume?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "No. Well, according to the transcripts.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But re well regardless. I think it's he's he's in all of them,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean, we didn't mention Morgan by name", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and he talks a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "we just.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "One participant.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well we have now, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We we we something about.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Did you identify him as a senior member?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, we as identify him as the person dominating the conversation.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I mean I get these AARP things, but I'm not se really senior yet, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but uh, other than that delightful result, what was the rest of the paper about?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, well it was about it had three sections", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You sent it to me but I haven't seen it yet.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "uh three kinds of uh results, if you will. Uh, the one was that the just the the amount of overlap", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The good, the bad, and the ugly.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "um, s in terms of in terms of number of words and also we computed something called a \" spurt \", which is essentially a stretch of speech with uh, no pauses exceeding five hundred milliseconds. Um, and we computed how many overlapped i uh spurts there were and how many overlapped words there were. Um, for four different corpora, the Meeting Recorder meetings, the Robustness meetings Switchboard and CallHome, and, found and sort of compared the numbers. Um, and found that the, uh, you know, as you might expect the Meeting Recorder meetings had the most overlap uh, but next were Switchboard and CallHome, which both had roughly the same, almost identical in fact, and the Robustness meetings were had the least, so One sort of unexpected result there is that uh two - party telephone conversations have about the same amount of overlap,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I'm surprised.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "sort of in gen you know order of magnitude - wise as, uh as face - to - face meetings with multiple.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I have I had better start changing all my slides!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also, I in the Levinson, the pragmatics book, in you know, uh, textbook, there's I found this great quote where he says you know you know, how people it talks about how uh how how people are so good at turn taking,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and so they're so good that generally, u the overlapped speech does not is less than five percent.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, that's interesting. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So, this is way more than five percent.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Did he mean face like face - to - face? Or?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, in real conversations,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "everyday conversations.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "It's s what these conversation analysts have been studying for years and years there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, of course, no, it doesn't necessarily go against what he said, cuz he said \" generally speaking \". In order to to go against that kind of a claim you'd have to big canvassing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And in f", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, he he made a claim.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we have pretty limited sample here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Five percent of time or five percent of what?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was gonna ask that too.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well it's time.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's i it's not against his conclusion,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So but still but still u", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "it just says that it's a bi bell curve, and that, you have something that has a nice range, in your sampling.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there are slight There are differences in how you measure it, but still it's You know, the difference between um between that number and what we have in meetings, which is more like, you know, close to in meetings like these, uh you know, close to twenty percent.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But what was it like, say, in the Robustness meeting, for instance?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Robustness meeting? It was about half of the r So, in terms of number of words, it's like seventeen or eigh eighteen percent for the Meeting Recorder meetings and about half that for, uh, the Robustness.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Maybe ten percent?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But I don't know if that's really a fair way of comparing between, multi - party, conversations and two - party conversations. Yeah. I I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Then then then you have to.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean that's just something.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I just wonder if you have to normalize by the numbers of speakers or something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Then Yeah, then normalize by by something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well, we didn't get to look at that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "but this obvious thing to see if if there's a dependence on the number of uh participants.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Good idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I mean I bet there's a weak dependence. I'm sure it's it's not a real strong one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? Because you", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz not everybody talks.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You have a lot of a lot of two - party, subsets within the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well regardless it's an interesting result regardless.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And and and then and we also d computed this both with and without backchannels,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "so you might think that backchannels have a special status because they're essentially just.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. So, did we all said \" uh - huh \" and nodded at the same time,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "R right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, even if you take out all the backchannels so basically you treat backchannels l as nonspeech, as pauses,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "you still have significant overlap. You know, it goes down from maybe For Switchboard it goes down from I don't know f um I don't know f fourteen percent of the words to maybe uh I don't know, eleven percent or something it's it's not a dramatic change,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so it's Anyway, so it's uh That was that was one set of results, and then the second one was just basically the the stuff we had in the in the HLT paper on how overlaps effect the recognition performance.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Nope. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And we rescored things um, a little bit more carefully. We also fixed the transcripts in in numerous ways. Uh, but mostly we added one one number, which was what if you uh, basically score ignoring all So so the the conjecture from the HLT results was that most of the added recognition error is from insertions due to background speech. So, we scored all the recognition results, uh, in such a way that the uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh by the way, who's on channel four? You're getting a lot of breath.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I j was just wondering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's me.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, well Don's been working hard.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so so if you have the foreground speaker speaking here, and then there's some background speech, may be overlapping it somehow, um, and this is the time bin that we used, then of course you're gonna get insertion errors here and here.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right? So we scored everything, and I must say the NIST scoring tools are pretty nice for this, where you just basically ignore everything outside of the, uh, region that was deemed to be foreground speech. And where that was we had to use the t forced alignment, uh, results from s for so That's somewhat that's somewhat subject to error, but still we we Uh, Don did some ha hand - checking and and we think that based on that, we think that the results are you know, valid, although of course, some error is gonna be in there. But basically what we found is after we take out these regions so we only score the regions that were certified as foreground speech, the recognition error went down to almost uh, the level of the non - overlapped speech. So that means that even if you do have background speech, if you can somehow separate out or find where it is, uh, the recognizer does a good job,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "even though there is this back", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess that doesn't surprise me, because, with the close - talking mikes, the the signal will be so much stronger.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What what sort of normalization do you do?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so Uh, well, we just @ @ we do u you know, vit", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean in you recognizer, in the SRI recognizer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, we do uh, VTL vocal tract length normalization, w and we uh you know, we we uh, make all the features have zero mean and unit variance.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Over an entire utterance?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Or windowed?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Over over the entire c over the entire channel.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Don't train.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Over the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but you know. Um, now we didn't re - align the recognizer for this. We just took the old So this is actually a sub - optimal way of doing it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right? So we took the old recognition output and we just scored it differently. So the recognizer didn't have the benefit of knowing where the foreground speech a start", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Were you including the the lapel in this?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And did the did did the la did the the problems with the lapel go away also? Or.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, it Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "fray for for insertions?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It u not per I mean, not completely, but yes,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Less so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "dramatically. So we have to um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, you still.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well I should bring the should bring the table with results. Maybe we can look at it Monday.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I would presume that you still would have somewhat higher error with the lapel for insertions than.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes. It's It's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Cuz again, looking forward to the non - close miked case, I think that we s still.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I'm not looking forward to it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "i it's the high signal - to - noise ratio", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "here that that helps you.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "u s Right. So so that was number that was the second set of uh, the second section. And then, the third thing was, we looked at, uh, what we call \" interrupts \", although that's that may be a misnomer, but basically we looked at cases where Uh, so we we used the punctuation from the original transcripts and we inferred the beginnings and ends of sentences. So, you know.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Di - did you use upper - lower case also, or not?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "U upper lower case or no?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "No, we only used, you know, uh periods, uh, question marks and exclamation. And we know that there's th that's not a very g I mean, we miss a lot of them,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's OK but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "but but it's f i i", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Comma also or not?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "No commas. No. And then we looked at locations where, uh, if you have overlapping speech and someone else starts a sentence, you know, where do these where do other people start their turns not turns really, but you know, sentences,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um So we only looked at cases where there was a foreground speaker and then at the to at the so the the foreground speaker started into their sentence and then someone else started later.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Somewhere in between the start and the end?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK? And so what.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Somewhere in between the start and the end of the foreground?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. Uh, so that such that there was overlap between the two sentences.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, the the question was how can we what can we say about the places where the second or or actually, several second speakers, um start their \" interrupts \", as we call them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Three words from the end.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "At pause boundaries.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "w And we looked at this in terms of um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "On T - closures, only.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So so we had we had um u to for for the purposes of this analysis, we tagged the word sequences, and and we time - aligned them. Um, and we considered it interrupt if it occurred in the middle of a word, we basically you know, considered that to be a interrupt as if it were at at the beginning of the word. So that, if any part of the word was overlapped, it was considered an interrupted word.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then we looked at the the locatio the, um, you know, the features that the tags because we had tagged these word strings, um, that that occurred right before these these uh, interrupt locations.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Tag by uh", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And the tags we looked at are the spurt tag, which basically says or actually Sorry. End of spurt. So whether there was a pause essentially here, because spurts are a defined as being you know, five hundred milliseconds or longer pauses, and then we had things like discourse markers, uh, backchannels, uh, disfluencies. um, uh, filled pauses So disfluen the D's are for, um, the interruption points of a disfluency, so, where you hesitate, or where you start the repair there. Uh, what else do we had. Uh, repeated you know, repeated words is another of that kind of disfluencies and so forth. So we had both the beginnings and ends of these uh so, the end of a filled pause and the end of a discourse marker. And we just eyeballed I mean we didn't really hand - tag all of these things. We just looked at the distribution of words, and so every \" so yeah \", and \" OK \", uh, and \" uh - huh \" were were the were deemed to be backchannels and \" wow \" and \" so \" and uh \" right \", uh were um Not \" right \". \" Right \" is a backchannel. But so, we sort of just based on the lexical um, identity of the words, we we tagged them as one of these things. And of course the d the interruption points we got from the original transcripts. So, and then we looked at the disti so we looked at the distribution of these different kinds of tags, overall uh, and and and particularly at the interruption points. And uh, we found that there is a marked difference so that for instance after so at the end after a discourse marker or after backchannel or after filled pause, you're much more likely to be interrupted than before. OK? And also of course after spurt ends, which means basically in p inside pauses. So pauses are always an opportunity for So we have this little histogram which shows these distributions and, um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I wonder.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "you know, it's it's it's not No big surprises, but it is sort of interesting from.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's nice to actually measure it though.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I wonder about the cause and effect there. In other words uh if you weren't going to pause you you will because you're g being interrupted.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well we're ne", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. There's no statement about cause and effect.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, right. No, no, no.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is just a statistical correlation,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right, I I see. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But he yeah, he's he's right, y I mean maybe you weren't intending to pause at all, but You were intending to stop for fifty - seven milliseconds,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but then Chuck came in", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and so you paused for a second", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Anyway. So,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "or more.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "uh, and that was basically it. And and we so we wrote this and then, we found we were at six pages, and then we started cutting furiously", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and threw out half of the material again, and uh played with the LaTeX stuff and.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Made the font smaller and the narrows longer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh, and until it fi", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Font smaller, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, no. W well, d you couldn't really make everything smaller", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Put the abstract end.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but we s we put Oh, I I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Took out white space.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "you know the the gap between the two columns is like ten millimeters,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so I d shrunk it to eight millimeters and that helped some. And stuff like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Wasn't there wasn't there some result, Andreas.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I I thought maybe Liz presented this at some conference a while ago about uh, backchannels", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uh, and that they tend to happen when uh the pitch drops. You know you get a falling pitch. And so that's when people tend to backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - i i do you rem", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "y We didn't talk about, uh, prosodic, uh, properties at all,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Right. But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "although that's I I take it that's something that uh Don will will look at", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're gonna be looking at that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "now that we have the data and we have the alignment, so. This is purely based on you know the words", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I have a reference for that though. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Oh you do.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So am I recalling correctly?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Anyway, so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, I didn't know about Liz's finding on that,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "About.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but I know of another paper that talks about something", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'd like to see that reference too.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "It made me think about a cool little device that could be built to uh to handle those people that call you on the phone and just like to talk and talk and talk. And you just have this little detector that listens for these drops in pitch and gives them the backchannel. And so then you hook that to the phone and go off", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and do the do whatever you r wanna do,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "while that thing keeps them busy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There's actually uh there's this a former student of here from Berkeley, Nigel Nigel Ward.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Do you know him?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "He did a system uh, in he he lives in Japan now, and he did this backchanneling, automatic backchanneling system.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's a very.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, exactly what you describe,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but for Japanese. And it's apparently for Japa - in Japanese it's really important that you backchannel. It's really impolite if you don't, and So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Huh. Actually for a lot of these people I think you could just sort of backchannel continuously and it would pretty much be fine.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It wouldn't matter? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's w That's what I do.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Random intervals.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There was there was of course a Monty Python sketch with that. Where the barber who was afraid of scissors was playing a a tape of clipping sounds, and saying \" uh - huh \", \" yeah \", \" how about them sports teams? \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway. So the paper's on - line and y I I think I uh I CC' ed a message to Meeting Recorder with the URL so you can get it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Printed it out, haven't read it yet.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, uh one more thing. So I I'm actually about to send Brian Kingbury an email saying where he can find the the s the m the material he wanted for the s for the speech recognition experiment, so but I haven't sent it out yet because actually my desktop locked up, like I can't type anything. Uh b so if there's any suggestions you have for that I was just gonna send him the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is it the same directory that you had suggested?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I made a directory. I called it um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "He still has his Unix account here, you know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well this isn't.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "He does?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And he and he's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah but but but he has to.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I'd hafta add him to Meeting Recorder, I guess,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "he prefe he said he would prefer FTP", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and also, um, the other person that wants it There is one person at SRI who wants to look at the um, you know, the uh the data we have so far,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and so I figured that FTP is the best approach. So what I did is I um @ @ I made a n new directory after Chuck said that would c that was gonna be a good thing. Uh, so it's \" FTP pub", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Pub real.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "real \" Exactly. MTGC What is it again? CR.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Ask Dan Ellis.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "u R D RDR, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Or Yeah. Right? The same the same as the mailing list,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "the No vowels.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and then under there Um actually Oh and this directory, is not readable. It's only uh, accessible. So, in other words, to access anything under there, you have to be told what the name is.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So that's sort of a g quick and dirty way of doing access control.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So uh, and the directory for this I call it I \" ASR zero point one \" because it's sort of meant for recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So anyone who hears this meeting now knows the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Beta?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then then in there I have a file that lists all the other files, so that someone can get that file and then know the file names and therefore download them. If you don't know the file names you can't.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is that a dash or a dot in there?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean you can.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Don't don't don't say.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Dash. Anyway. So all I all I was gonna do there was stick the the transcripts after we the way that we munged them for scoring, because that's what he cares about, and um, and also and then the the waveforms that Don segmented. I mean, just basically tar them all up f I mean w for each meeting I tar them all into one tar file and G - zip them and stick them there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I uh, put digits in my own home directory home FTP directory,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but I'll probably move them there as well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So we could point Mari to this also for her March O - one request?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. March O - one.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You n Remember she was.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh she wanted that also?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well she was saying that it would be nice if we had they had a Or was she talking Yeah. She was saying it would be nice if they had eh the same set, so that when they did experiments they could compare.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right, but they don't have a recognizer even.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um I", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But yeah, we can send I can CC Mari on this so that she knows.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, for the thing that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "We need to give Brian the beeps file,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so I was gonna probably put it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We can put it in the same place. Just put in another directory.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it I'll make another directory.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, make ano make another directory.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You don't n m", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And, Andreas, um, sampled?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. They are?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think so. Yeah. Um, so either we should regenerate the original versions, or um, we should just make a note of it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. Oh. Beca - Well OK, because in one directory there's two versions.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the first meeting I cut both versions. Just to check which w if there is a significant difference.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. And so I but OK so but for the other meetings it's the downsampled version that you have.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They're all downsampled, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Oh that's th important to know, OK so we should probably uh give them the non - downsampled versions.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. Alright, then I'll hold off on that and I'll wait for you um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Probably by tomorrow", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "gen", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I can I'll send you an email.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. Alright. OK. Yeah, definitely they should have the full bandwidth version,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, because I mean I I think Liz decided to go ahead with the downsampled versions cuz we can There was no s like, r significant difference.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah. OK. Well, it takes it takes up less disk space, for one thing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It does take up less disk space, and apparently it did even better than the original than the original versions,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "which you know, is just, probably random.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, it was a small difference", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But, um they probably w want the originals.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but yeah. Yeah. OK. OK, good. Good that Well, it's a good thing that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, I think we're losing, Don and Andreas at three - thirty, right? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey mon hafta booga.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, that's why it was good to have Andreas, say these things but So, we should probably talk about the IBM transcription process stuff that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. So, um you know that Adam created um, a b a script to generate the beep file?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "To then create something to send to IBM. And, um, you you should probably talk about that. But but you were gonna to use the originally transcribed file because I tightened the time bins and that's also the one that they had already in trying to debug the first stage of this. And uh, my understanding was that, um I haven't I haven't listened to it yet,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but it sounded very good and and I understand that you guys were going to have a meeting today, before this meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "It was just to talk about how to generate it. Um, just so that while I'm gone, you can regenerate it if you decide to do it a different way. So uh, Chuck and Thilo should, now more or less know how to generate the file", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Excellent. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and, the other thing Chuck pointed out is that, um, since this one is hand - marked, there are discourse boundaries. Right? So so when one person is speaking, there's breaks.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Whereas Thilo's won't have that. So what what we're probably gonna do is just write a script, that if two, chunks are very close to each other on the same channel we'll just merge them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! OK. Ah, interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, sure. Yeah, sure. Makes sense.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So, uh, and that will get around the problem of, the, you know \" one word beep, one word beep, one word beep, one word beep \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ah! Clever. Yes. Clever. Yeah. Excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, in fact after our meeting uh, this morning Thilo came in and said that um, there could be other differences between the uh already transcribed meeting with the beeps in it and one that has just r been run through his process.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And that's the purpose. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So tomorrow, when we go to make the um uh, chunked file for IBM, we're going to actually compare the two. So he's gonna run his process on that same meeting,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Great idea!", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and then we're gonna do the beep - ify on both, and listen to them and see if we notice any real differences.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Beep - ify!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, now one thing that prevented us from apply you you from applying Exactly. The training So that is the training meeting. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, w and we know that. Wel - uh we just wanna if if there're any major differences between doing it on the hand", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Oh, interesting. Ah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Interesting idea. Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So this training meeting, uh w un is that uh some data where we have uh very um, you know, accurate time marks? for.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I went back and hand - marked the ba the bins, I ment I mentioned that last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But the but there's yeah, but there is this one issue with them in that there're there are time boundaries in there that occur in the middle of speech.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So Like when we went t to um When I was listening to the original file that Adam had, it's like you you hear a word then you hear a beep and then you hear the continuation of what is the same sentence.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's on the other channel. That's because of channel overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, and and so the th", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "It's i", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So there are these chunks that look like uh that have uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean that's not gonna be true of the foreground speaker. That'll only be if it's the background speaker.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. So you'll you'll have a chunk of, you know, channel A which starts at zero and ends at ten, and then the same channel starting at eleven, ending at fifteen, and then again, starting at sixteen, ending at twenty. Right, so that's three chunks where actually we w can just make one chunk out of that which is A, zero, twenty.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "That's what I just said,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I just wanted to make sure that it was clear.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I thought that was.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So if you were to use these, you have to be careful not to pull out these individual.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Oh! I mean it Right, I mean w I mean what I would I was interested in is having a se having time marks for the beginnings and ends of speech by each speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, that's definitely a problem.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, because we could use that to fine tune our alignment process", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Battery.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "to make it more accurate.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Battery?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So uh, it I don't care that you know, there's actually abutting segments that we have to join together. That's fine.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But what we do care about is that the beginnings and ends um are actually close to the speech inside of that", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think Jane tightened these up by hand.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK, so what is the sort of how tight are they?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, it looks much better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Looks good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They were, um, reasonably tight, but not excruciatingly tight.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That would've taken more time. I just wanted to get it so tha So that if you have like \" yeah \" in a swimming in a big bin, then it's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "No, no! I don", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Let me make a note on yours.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "actually I I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I it's f That's fine because we don't want to th that's perfectly fine. In fact it's good. You always want to have a little bit of pause or nonspeech around the speech, say for recognition purposes. Uh, but just just u w you know get an id I just wanted to have an idea of the of how much extra you allowed um so that I can interpret the numbers if I compared that with a forced alignment segmentation.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I can't answer that,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but but my main goal was um, in these areas where you have a three - way overlap and one of the overlaps involves \" yeah \", and it's swimming in this huge bin, I wanted to get it so that it was clo more closely localized.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Right. But are we talking about, I don't know, a tenth of a second? a? You know? How how much how much extra would you allow at most.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I I wanted to I wanted it to be able to l he be heard normally,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so that if you if you play back that bin and have it in the mode where it stops at the boundary, it sounds like a normal word.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It doesn't sound like the person i it sounds normal. It's as if the person could've stopped there.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And it wouldn't have been an awkward place to stop.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Now sometimes you know, it's these are involved in places where there was no time. And so, there wouldn't be a gap afterwards because.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean some cases, there're some people um, who who have very long segments of discourse where, you know, they'll they'll breath and then I put a break.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But other than that, it's really pretty continuous and this includes things like going from one sentence into the u one utterance into the next, one sentence into the next, um, w without really stopping. I mean i they, i you know in writing you have this two spaces and a big gap", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But but uh i some people are planning and, you know, I mean, a lot we always are planning what we're going to say next.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But uh, in which case, the gap between these two complete syntactic units, um, which of course n spoken things are not always complete syntactically, but but it would be a shorter p shorter break than maybe you might like.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But the goal there was to not have the text be so so crudely parsed in a time bin. I mean, because from a discourse m purpose it's it's more it's more useful to be able to see and also you know, from a speech recognition purpose my impression is that if you have too long a unit, it's it doesn't help you very much either, cuz of the memory.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. That's fine.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, that means that the amount of time after something is variable depending partly on context, but my general goal when there was sufficient space, room, pause after it to have it be kind of a natural feeling gap.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Which I c I don't know what it would be quantified as. You know, Wally Chafe says that um, in producing narratives, the spurts that people use tend to be, uh, that the the what would be a pause might be something like two two seconds.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And um, that would be, you know one speaker. The discourse the people who look at turn taking often do use.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I was interested that you chose uh, you know um, the you know that you use cuz I think that's a unit that would be more consistent with sociolinguistics. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well we chose um, you know, half a second because if if you go much larger, you have a y you know, your your statement about how much overlap there is becomes less, um, precise,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "because you include more of actual pause time into what you consider overlap speech. Um, so, it's sort of a compromise,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I also used I think something around zero point five seconds for the speech - nonspeech detector.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and it's also based I mean Liz suggested that value based on the distribution of pause times that you see in Switchboard and and other corpora.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Um So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "for the minimum silence length.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "In any case, this this uh, meeting that I hand I I hand - adjusted two of them I mentioned before,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I sent I sent email,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So so at some point we will try to fine - tune our forced alignment", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And I sent the path.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "maybe using those as references because you know, what you would do is you would play with different parameters. And to get an object You need an objective measure of how closely you can align the models to the actual speech. And that's where your your data would be very important to have. So, I will Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah and hopefully the new meetings which will start from the channelized version will will have better time boundaries and alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But I like this idea of uh, for our purposes for the for the IBM preparation, uh, n having these joined together,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and uh It makes a lot of sense. And in terms of transcription, it would be easy to do it that way.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The way that they have with the longer units,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "not having to fuss with adding these units at this time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whi - which could have one drawback. If there is uh a backchannel in between those three things,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "the the n the backchannel will will occur at the end of of those three.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And and in in the in the previous version where in the n which is used now, there, the backchannel would would be in - between there somewhere, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "That would be more natural", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "that's that's right, but you know, thi this brings me to the other f stage of this which I discussed with you earlier today,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "which is the second stage is um, w what to do in terms of the transcribers adjustment of these data. I discussed this with you too. Um, the tr so the idea initially was, we would get uh, for the new meetings, so the e EDU meetings, that Thilo ha has now presegmented all of them for us, on a channel by channel basis. And um, so, I've assigned I've I've assigned them to our transcribers and um, so far I've discussed it with one, with uh And I had a about an hour discussion with her about this yesterday, we went through uh EDU - one, at some extent. And it occurred to me that um that basically what we have in this kind of a format is you could consider it as a staggered mixed file, we had some discussion over the weekend a about at at this other meeting that we were all a at um, about whether the tran the IBM transcribers should hear a single channel audio, or a mixed channel audio. And um, in in a way, by by having this this chunk and then the backchannel after it, it's like a stagal staggered mixed channel. And um, it occurred to me in my discussion with her yesterday that um, um, the the the maximal gain, it's from the IBM people, may be in long stretches of connected speech. So it's basically a whole bunch of words which they can really do, because of the continuity within that person's turn. So, what I'm thinking, and it may be that not all meetings will be good for this, but but what I'm thinking is that in the EDU meetings, they tend to be driven by a couple of dominant speakers. And, if the chunked files focused on the dominant speakers, then, when when it got s patched together when it comes back from IBM, we can add the backchannels. It seems to me that um, you know, the backchannels per - se wouldn't be so hard, but then there's this question of the time @ @ uh, marking, and whether the beeps would be uh y y y And I'm not exactly sure how that how that would work with the with the backchannels. And, so um And certainly things that are intrusions of multiple words, taken out of context and displaced in time from where they occurred, that would be hard. So, m my thought is i I'm having this transcriber go through the EDU - one meeting, and indicate a start time f for each dominant speaker, endpoi end time for each dominant speaker, and the idea that these units would be generated for the dominant speakers, and maybe not for the other channels.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah the only, um, disadvantage of that is, then it's hard to use an automatic method to do that. The advantage is that it's probably faster to do that than it is to use the automated method and correct it. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "We'll just have to see.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. I think I I think um, you know, the original plan was that the transcriber would adjust the t the boundaries, and all that for all the channels but, you know, that is so time - consuming, and since we have a bottleneck here, we want to get IBM things that are usable s as soon as possible, then this seemed to me it'd be a way of gett to get them a flood of data, which would be useful when it comes back to us. And um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh also, at the same time she when she goes through this, she'll be uh If there's anything that was encoded as a pause, but really has something transcribable in it, then she's going to uh, make a mark w uh, so you know, so that that bin would be marked as it as double dots and she'll just add an S. And in the other in the other case, if it's marked as speech, and really there's nothing transcribable in it, then she's going to put a s dash, and I'll go through and it and um, you know, with a with a substitution command, get it so that it's clear that those are the other category. I'll just, you know, recode them. But um, um, the transcribable events that um, I'm considering in this, uh, continue to be laugh, as well as speech, and cough and things like that, so I'm not stripping out anything, just just you know, being very lenient in what's considered speech. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Jane? In terms of the this new procedure you're suggesting, um, u what is the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's not that different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So I'm a little confused, because how do we know where to put beeps? Is it i d y is it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Transcriber will do it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So what it what it what it involves is is really a s uh, uh, the original pr procedure, but only applied to uh, a certain strategically chosen s aspect of the data.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "We pick the easy parts of the data basically,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and transcriber marks it by hand.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You got it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And because.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But after we've done Thilo's thing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes!", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Oh, after. Oh, OK,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes!", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I didn't I didn't understand that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, I'm @ @ now I'm confused.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. We start with your presegmented version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK, and I'm leaving.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have to go as well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, leave the mikes on, and just put them on the table.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "We start with the presegmented version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Let me mark you as no digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You start with the presegmentation, r yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then um, the transcriber, instead of going painstakingly through all the channels and moving the boundaries around, and deciding if it's speech or not, but not transcribing anything. OK? Instead of doing that, which was our original plan, the tra They focus on the dominant speaker.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. They just do that on the main channels.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So what they do is they identify who's the di dominant speaker, and when the speaker starts.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So I mean, you're still gonna.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And you just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we're It's based on your se presegmentation, that's the basic thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and you just use the s the segments of the dominant speaker then? For for sending to to IBM or?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So, now Jane, my question is when they're all done adjusting the w time boundaries for the dominant speaker, have they then also erased the time boundaries for the other ones?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh No. No, no. Huh - uh. S", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So how will we know who.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's that's why she's notating the start and end points of the dominant speakers. So, on a you know, so i in EDU - one, i as far as I listened to it, you start off with a a s section by Jerry. So Jerry starts at minute so - and - so, and goes until minute so - and - so. And then Mark Paskin comes in. And he starts at minute such - and - such, and goes on till minute so - and - so. OK. And then meanwhile, she's listening to both of these guys' channels, determining if there're any cases of misclassification of speech as nothing, and nothing as speech,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and a and adding a tag if that happens.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So she does the adjustments on those guys?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But you know, I wanted to say, his segmentation is so good, that um, the part that I listened to with her yesterday didn't need any adjustments of the bins.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "On that meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So far we haven't. So this is not gonna be a major part of the process, at least least not in not on ones that that really.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So if you don't have to adjust the bins, why not just do what it for all the channels?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Why not just throw all the channels to IBM?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well there's the question o of whether Well, OK. She i It's a question of how much time we want our transcriber to invest here when she's gonna have to invest that when it comes back from IBM anyway.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So if it's only inserting \" mm - hmm \"s here and there, then, wouldn't that be something that would be just as efficient to do at this end, instead of having it go through I B M, then be patched together, then be double checked here.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. But But then we could just use the the output of the detector, and do the beeping on it, and send it to I B", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Without having her check anything.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I guess.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I think we just we just have to listen to it and see how good they are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "For some meetings, I'm I'm sure it i n", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm I'm open to that, it was.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, if it's working well,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's And some on some meetings it's good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "that sounds like a good idea since as you say you have to do stuff with the other end anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well yea OK, good. I mean the detector, this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean we have to fix it when it comes back anyhow.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Now, you were saying that they they differ in how well they work depending on channel s sys systems and stuff.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we should perhaps just select meetings on which the speech - nonspeech detection works well,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But EDU is great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and just use, those meetings to to to send to IBM and, do the other ones.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Release to begin with.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "How interesting. You know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "What's the problem the l I forget. Is the problem the lapel, or or.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, it really depends. Um, my my my impression is that it's better for meetings with fewer speakers, and it's better for for meetings where nobody is breathing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "the dead meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "get That's it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So in fact this might suggest an alternative sort of a a c a hybrid between these two things.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, the undead meeting, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So the the one suggestion is you know we we run Thilo's thing and then we have somebody go and adjust all the time boundaries", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and we send it to IBM. The other one is we just run his thing and send it to IBM.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There's a a another possibility if we find that there are some problems,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and that is if we go ahead and we just run his, and we generate the beeps file, then we have somebody listen beeps file.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And erase.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And they listen to each section and say \" yes, no \" whether that section is", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Is intelligible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "i i intelligible or not. And it just You know, there's a little interface which will for all the \" yes \" - es it then that will be the final beep file.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Blech.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's interesting! Cuz that's that's directly related to the e end task.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Stress test.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "How interesting!", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean it wouldn't be that much fun for a transcriber to sit there, hear it, beep, yes or no.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But it would be quick.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It would be kind of quick but they're still listening to everything.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But there's no adjusting. And that's what's slow. There's no adjusting of time boundaries.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, eh, listening does take time too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know, I I think I'm I'm really tending towards.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "One and a half times real time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, what's the worst that happens? Do the transcribers I mean as long as th on the other end they can say there's there's something conventions so that they say \" huh? \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. They they.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then we can flag those later.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "i i It i", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We can just catch it at the catch everything at this side.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well maybe that's the best way to go,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "How interesting!", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean it just depends on how.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well EDU.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sorry, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "u u u", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So I was gonna say, EDU - one is good enough,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "maybe we could include it in this in this set of uh, this stuff we send.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah there's I I think there are some meetings where it would would It's possible like this.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah I I think, we won't know until we generate a bunch of beep files automatically, listen to them and see how bad they are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "We won't be able to s include it with this first thing,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "because there's a part of the process of the beep file which requires knowing the normalization coefficients.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And So a", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's not hard to do. Just it takes you know, it just takes five minutes rather than, taking a second.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So. I just hand hard - coded it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, except I don't think that the c the instructions for doing that was in that directory, right? I I didn't see where you had gener", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, but it's easy enough to do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I but I have a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Doing the gain? It's no problem. Adjusting the gain?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "n Doing th No, getting the coefficients, for each channel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's no problem.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Know what numbers.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK. So we just run that one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There are lots of ways to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We can do that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I have one program that'll do it. You can find other programs.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I used it, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We just run that", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "J - sound - stat? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Minus D, capital D.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But but but I I I have another suggestion on that, which is, since, really what this is, is is is trying to in the large, send the right thing to them and there is gonna be this this post - processing step, um, why don't we check through a bunch of things by sampling it?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? In other words, rather than, um, uh, saying we're gonna listen to everything.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I didn't mean listen to everything, I meant, just see if they're any good.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So y you do a bunch of meetings, you listen to to a little bit here and there,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if it sounds like it's almost always right and there's not any big problem you send it to them.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Send it to them.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, you know, then they'll send us back what we w what what they send back to us,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, that'd be great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and we'll we'll fix things up and some meetings will cost more time to fix up than others.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We should Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And we should just double - check with Brian on a few simple conventions on how they should mark things.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. When they when there's either no speech in there,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or something they don't understand,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "things like that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, cuz @ @ uh what I had originally said to Brian was well they'll have to mark, when they can't distinguish between the foreground and background,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "because I thought that was gonna be the most prevalent. But if we send them without editing, then we're also gonna hafta have m uh, notations for words that are cut off,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and other sorts of, uh, acoustic problems.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They do already.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And they may just guess at what those cut - off words are,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "but w I mean we're gonna adjust everything when we come back.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But what what we would like them to do is be conservative so that they should only write down the transcript if they're sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And otherwise they should mark it so that we can check.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mark it. Sure. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, we have the unintelligibility convention.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And actually they have one also,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "which.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "i Can I maybe have have an order of it's probably in your paper that I haven't looked at lately, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Certainty.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Uh, an order of magnitude notion of of how on a good meeting, how often uh, do you get segments that come in the middle of words and so forth, and uh in a bad meeting how often?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Was is it in a in a what what is the t", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well he's saying, you know, that the the EDU meeting was a good good meeting,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "In a good meeting, what?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh I see,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Uh, and so so so it was almost it was almost always doing the right thing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "the characteristics.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So I wanted to get some sense of what what almost always meant. And then, uh in a bad meeting, or p some meetings where he said oh he's had some problems, what does that mean?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So I mean does one of the does it mean one percent and ten percent? Or does it mean five percent and fifty percent?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or Maybe percentage isn't the right word,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Just", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah th", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but you know how many how many per minute, or You know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, the the problem is that, nnn, the numbers Ian gave in the paper is just uh, some frame error rate. So that's that's not really What will be effective for for the transcribers, is They have to yeah, in in they have to insure that that's a real s spurt or something. And but, the numbers Oops. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Let me think. So the speech the amount of speech that is missed by the detector, for a good meeting, I th is around or under one percent, I would say. But there can be Yeah. For yeah, but there can be more There's There's more amount speech uh, more amount of Yeah well, the detector says there is speech, but there is none. So that that can be a lot when when it's really a breathy channel.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I think that's less of a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They'll just listen. It's just wasted time.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And th and that's for a good meeting. Now what about in a meeting that you said we've you've had some more trouble with?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I can't really hhh, Tsk. I don't have really representative numbers, I think. That's really I I did this on on four meetings and only five minutes of of every meet of of these meetings so, it's not not that representative, but, it's perhaps, Fff. Um Yeah, it's perhaps then it's perhaps five percent of something, which s uh the the frames speech frames which are which are missed, but um, I can't can't really tell.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. So I So i Sometime, we might wanna go back and look at it more in terms of how many times is there a spurt that's that's uh, interrupted?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Something like that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The other problem is, that when it when it uh d i on the breathy ones, where you get breathing, uh, inti indicated as speech.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I guess we could just indicate to the transcribers not to encode that if they We could still do the beep file.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah again I I think that that is probably less of a problem because if you're if there's If if a if a word is is split, then they might have to listen to it a few times to really understand that they can't quite get it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Whereas if they listen to it and there's don't hear any speech I think they'd probably just listen to it once.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So there'd you'd think there'd be a a factor of three or four in in, uh, cost function,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "you know, between them or something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, so but I think that's n that really doesn't happen very often that that that a word is cut in the middle or something. That's that's really not not normal.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So so what you're saying is that nearly always what happens when there's a problem is that is that uh, there's some uh, uh nonspeech that uh that is b interpreted as speech.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That is marked as speech. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well then, we really should just send the stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That would be great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right? Because that doesn't do any harm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know, if they they hear you know, a dog bark and they say what was the word, they you know, they.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I als I.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Ruff ruff!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah I also thought of there there are really some channels where it is almost um, only bre breathing in it. And to to re - run's", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Eh, um. Yeah. I've got a a P - a method with loops into the cross - correlation with the PZM mike, and then to reject everything which which seems to be breath.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, I could run this on those breathy channels, and perhaps throw out.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Wow, that's a great idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I think I th Again, I think that sort of that that would be good,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and what that'll do is just cut the time a little further.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But I think none of this is stuff that really needs somebody doing these these uh, uh, explicit markings.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Excellent. Oh, I'd be delighted with that, I I was very impressed with the with the result. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, cuz the other thing that was concerning me about it was that it seemed kind of specialized to the EDU meeting, and and that then when you get a meeting like this or something,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and and you have a b a bunch of different dominant speakers", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "you know, how are you gonna handle it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Whereas this sounds like a more general solution", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, I pr I much prefer this,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was just trying to find a way Cuz I I don't think the staggered mixed channel is awfully good as a way of handling overlaps.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But but uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well good. That that really simplifies thing then.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And we can just, you know, get the meeting, process it, put the beeps file, send it off to IBM.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "With very little work on our side.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Process it, hear into it. I would.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do what?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, listen to it, and then.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or at least sample it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, sample it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sample it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I would just use some samples,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "make sure you don't send them three hours of \" bzzz \" or something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That won't be good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah that would be very good.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then we can you know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That'll oughta be a good way to get the pipeline going.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I'd be delighted. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And there's there's one point which I uh yeah, which which I r we covered when I when I r listened to one of the EDU meetings,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and that's that somebody is playing sound from his laptop.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And i the speech - nonspeech detector just assigns randomly the speech to to one of the channels, so. Uh - I haven't - I didn't think of of s of this before,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What can you do?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but what what shall we do about s things like this?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well you were suggesting You suggested maybe just not sending that part of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yep. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But, sometimes the the the laptop is in the background and some somebody is is talking, and, that's really a little bit confusing, but.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's a little bit confusing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's life.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, what're we gonna do?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Even a hand - transcription would.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "a hand - transcriber would have trouble with that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "that's that's a second question, \" what what will different transcribers do with with the laptop sound? \"", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Would you would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "What was the l what was the laptop sound?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I mean was it speech,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or was it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's speech.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, so I mean So my standard approach has been if it's not someone close - miked, then, they don't end up on one of the close - miked channels. They end up on a different channel. And we have any number of channels available,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean it's an infinite number of channels.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So just put them on some other channel.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "when thi when this is sent to to the I M - eh, I B M transcribers, I don't know if if they can tell that's really.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah cuz there will be no channel on which it is foreground.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, they have a convention, in their own procedures, which is for a background sound.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right, but, uh, in general I don't think we want them transcribing the background, cuz that would be too much work..", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? For it because in the overlap sections, then they'll", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well I don't think Jane's saying they're gonna transcribe it, but they'll just mark it as being there's some background stuff there,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But that's gonna be all over the place.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "How w how will they tell the difference between that sort of background and the dormal normal background of two people talking at once?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, I think I think it'd be easy to to say \" background laptop \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "How would they know that?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But wait a minute, why would they treat them differently?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well because one of them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Because otherwise it's gonna be too much work for them to mark it. They'll be marking it all over the place.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, I s background laptop or, background LT wouldn't take any time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Sure, but how are they gonna tell bet the difference between that and two people just talking at the same time?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, you can tell. Acoustically, can't you tell?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "It's really good sound, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh is it? Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, isn't there a category something like uh, \" sounds for someone for whom there is no i close mike \"?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah that would be very important,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But how do we d how do we do that for the I B M folks?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "How can they tell that?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well we may just have to do it when it gets back here.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes, that's my opinion as well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we don't do anything for it with it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And they'll just mark it however they mark it,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and we'll correct it when it comes back.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So th", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "there was a category for @ @ speech.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, the default.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, s a", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "No, not default.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, as it comes back, we have a uh when we can use the channelized interface for encoding it, then it'll be easy for us to handle.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But but if if out of context, they can't tell if it's a channeled speak uh, you know, a close - miked speaker or not, then that would be confusing to them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know, I it doesn't I don't Either way would be fine with me, I don't really care.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. Shall we uh, do digits and get out of here?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I have o I have one question. Do you think we should send the um that whole meeting to them and not worry about pre - processing it?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yes ma'", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Or Uh, what I mean is we we should leave the part with the audio in the uh, beep file that we send to IBM for that one, or should we start after the that part of the meeting is over in what we send.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Which part?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "With.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, the part where they're using sounds from their from their laptops.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "with the laptop sound, or? just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "w If we have speech from the laptop should we just uh, excise that from what we send to IBM, or should we i give it to them and let them do with it what they can?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I think we should just it it's gonna be too much work if we hafta worry about that I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK, that'd be nice to have a a uniform procedure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think if we just m send it all to them. you know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Worry about it when we get back.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good. And see how well they do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Let Yeah, worry about it when we get back in.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And give them freedom to to indicate if it's just not workable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Cuz, I wouldn't don't think we would mind having that transcribed, if they did it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, e", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "As I say, we'll just have to listen to it and see how horrible it is.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sample it, rather.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I think that that will be a little bit of a problem", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "as it really switches around between two different channels, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, and and they're very it's very audible? on the close - talking channels?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What what I would Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh well. I mean, it's the same problem as the lapel mike.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Comparable, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, alright. Digits.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Let's do digits.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK, so we read the transcript number first, right?", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Are we gonna do it altogether or separately?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So What time is it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, why don't we do it together,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, quarter to four.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "that's that's a nice fast way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "One, two, three, go!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's kind of interesting if there're any more errors in these, than we had the first set.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Nnn, yeah, I think there probably will be.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do you guys plug your ears when you do it?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I usually do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I didn't this time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "You don't?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I haven't been,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "How can you do that?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I I.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, concentration.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Perhaps there are lots of errors in it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Gah!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Total concentration. Are you guys ready?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You hate to have your ears plugged?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "PhD D" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bro012", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK. We're on.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hello?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so uh had some interesting mail from uh Dan Ellis. Actually, I think he he redirected it to everybody also so uh the PDA mikes uh have a big bunch of energy at at uh five hertz uh where this came up was that uh I was showing off these wave forms that we have on the web and and uh I just sort of hadn't noticed this, but that the major, major component in the wave in the second wave form in that pair of wave forms is actually the air conditioner.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. So. I I have to be more careful about using that as a as a as a good illustration, uh, in fact it's not, of uh of the effects of room reverberation. It is isn't a bad illustration of the effects of uh room noise. on on uh some mikes uh but So. And then we had this other discussion about um whether this affects the dynamic range, cuz I know, although we start off with thirty two bits, you end up with uh sixteen bits and you know, are we getting hurt there? But uh Dan is pretty confident that we're not, that that quantization error is not is still not a significant factor there. So. So there was a question of whether we should change things here, whether we should change a capacitor on the input box for that or whether we should", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, he suggested a smaller capacitor, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. But then I had some other uh thing discussions with him", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "For the P D", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and the feeling was once we start monk monkeying with that, uh, many other problems could ha happen. And additionally we we already have a lot of data that's been collected with that, so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "A simple thing to do is he he he has a I forget if it this was in that mail or in the following mail, but he has a a simple filter, a digital filter that he suggested. We just run over the data before we deal with it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um The other thing that I don't know the answer to, but when people are using Feacalc here, uh whether they're using it with the high - pass filter option or not. And I don't know if anybody knows.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. I could go check.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But. Yeah. So when we're doing all these things using our software there is um if it's if it's based on the RASTA - PLP program, which does both PLP and RASTA - PLP um then uh there is an option there which then comes up through to Feacalc which um allows you to do high - pass filtering and in general we like to do that, because of things like this and it's it's pretty it's not a very severe filter. Doesn't affect speech frequencies, even pretty low speech frequencies, at all, but it's", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What's the cut - off frequency it used?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. I don't know I wrote this a while ago", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is it like twenty?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean I think there's some effect above twenty but it's it's it's it's mild. So, I mean it probably there's probably some effect up to a hundred hertz or something but it's it's pretty mild. I don't know in the in the STRUT implementation of the stuff is there a high - pass filter or a pre pre - emphasis or something in the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh. I think we use a pre - emphasis. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. We we we want to go and check that in i for anything that we're going to use the P D A mike for. uh He says that there's a pretty good roll off in the PZM mikes so we don't need need to worry about them one way or the other but if we do make use of the cheap mikes, uh we want to be sure to do that that filtering before we process it. And then again if it's uh depending on the option that the our our software is being run with, it's it's quite possible that's already being taken care of. uh But I also have to pick a different picture to show the effects of reverberation. uh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Did somebody notice it during your talk?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh No.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. uh Well. If they made output they were they were, you know they were nice.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Didn't say anything?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But. I mean the thing is it was since I was talking about reverberation and showing this thing that was noise, it wasn't a good match, but it certainly was still uh an indication of the fact that you get noise with distant mikes. uh It's just not a great example because not only isn't it reverberation but it's a noise that we definitely know what to do.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, I mean, it doesn't take deep a new bold new methods to get rid of uh five hertz noise, so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um uh But. So it was it was a bad example in that way, but it's it still is it's the real thing that we did get out of the microphone at distance, so it wasn't it w it w wasn't wrong it was inappropriate. So. So uh, but uh, Yeah, someone noticed it later pointed it out to me, and I went \" oh, man. Why didn't I notice that? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um. So. um So I think we'll change our our picture on the web, when we're @ @. One of the things I was I mean, I was trying to think about what what's the best way to show the difference an and I had a couple of thoughts one was, that spectrogram that we show is O K, but the thing is the eyes uh and the the brain behind them are so good at picking out patterns from from noise that in first glance you look at them it doesn't seem like it's that bad uh because there's many features that are still preserved. So one thing to do might be to just take a piece of the spec uh of the spectrogram where you can see that something looks different, an and blow it up, and have that be the part that's just to show as well. You know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "i i Some things are going to be hurt. um Another, I was thinking of was um taking some spectral slices, like uh like we look at with the recognizer, and look at the spectrum or cepstrum that you get out of there, and the the uh, um, the reverberation uh does make it does change that. And so maybe maybe that would be more obvious.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Spectral slices?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "W w what d what do you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, I mean um all the recognizers look at frames. So they they look at.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So like one instant in time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, look at a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's, yeah, at one point in time or uh twenty over twenty milliseconds or something, you have a spectrum or a cepstrum.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's what I meant by a slice.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. And if you look at.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You could just you could just throw up, you know, uh the uh some MFCC feature vectors. You know, one from one, one from the other, and then, you know, you can look and see how different the numbers are.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Well, that's why I saying either Well, either spectrum or cepstrum", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm just kidding.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but but I think the thing is you wanna.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't mean a graph. I mean the actual numbers.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. I see. Oh. That would be lovely, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. \" See how different these sequences of numbers are? \"", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or I could just add them up and get a different total.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not the square.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Uh. What else wh what's what else is going on?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. Yeah, at first I had a remark why I am wondering why the PDA is always so far. I mean we are always meeting at the beginning of the table and the PDA's there.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. I guess cuz we haven't wanted to move it. We we could we could move us,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, anyway. Um. Yeah, so. Uh. Since the last meeting we've we've tried to put together um the clean low - pass um downsampling, upsampling, I mean, Uh the new filter that's replacing the LDA filters, and also the um delay issue so that We considered th the the delay issue on the for the on - line normalization. Mmm. So we've put together all this and then we have results that are not um very impressive. Well, there is no real improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But it's not wer worse and it's better better latency,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Well. Actually it's better. It seems better when we look at the mismatched case but I think we are like like cheated here by the th this problem that uh in some cases when you modify slight slightly modify the initial condition you end up completely somewhere air somewhere else in the in the space, the parameters.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Well. The other system are for instance. For Italian is at seventy - eight percent recognition rate on the mismatch, and this new system has eighty - nine. But I don't think it indicates something, really. I don't I don't think it means that the new system is more robust", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "or It's simply the fact that Well.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, the test would be if you then tried it on one of the other test sets, if if it was.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Y", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. So this was Italian, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So then if you take your changes", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's similar for other test sets", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but I mean from this se seventy - eight um percent recognition rate system, I could change the transition probabilities for the the first HMM and it will end up to eighty - nine also.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "By using point five instead of point six, point four as in the the HTK script.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Well. That's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I looked at um looked at the results when Stephane did that", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. Eh uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and it's it's really wo really happens.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This really happens.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean th the only difference is you change the self - loop transition probability by a tenth of a percent", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and it causes ten percent difference in the word error rate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "A tenth of a per cent.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. From point.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Even tenth of a percent?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I'm sorry", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we tried we tried point one,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "f for point from You change at point one", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and n not tenth of a percent, one tenth,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "alright? Um so from point five so from point six to point five and you get ten percent better.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And it's I think it's what you basically hypothesized in the last meeting about uh it just being very.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and I think you mentioned this in your email too it's just very um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "you know get stuck in some local minimum and this thing throws you out of it I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, what's what are according to the rules what what are we supposed to do about the transition probabilities? Are they supposed to be point five or point six?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think you're not allowed to Yeah. That's supposed to be point six, for the self - loop.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Point It's supposed to be point six.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But changing it to point five I think is which gives you much better results, but that's not allowed.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But not allowed? Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but even if you use point five, I'm not sure it will always give you the better results", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "on other test set or it", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. We only tested it on the the medium mismatch,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "on the other training set, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right? You said on the other cases you didn't notice.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But. I think, yeah. I think the reason is, yeah, I not I it was in my mail I think also, is the fact that the mismatch is trained only on the far microphone. Well, in for the mismatched case everything is um using the far microphone training and testing, whereas for the highly mismatched, training is done on the close microphone so it's it's clean speech basically so you don't have this problem of local minima probably and for the well - match, it's a mix of close microphone and distant microphone and Well.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I did notice uh something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So th I think the mismatch is the more difficult for the training part.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Somebody, I think it was Morgan, suggested at the last meeting that I actually count to see how many parameters and how many frames.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And there are uh almost one point eight million frames of training data and less than forty thousand parameters in the baseline system.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it's very, very few parameters compared to how much training data.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. And that that says that we could have lots more parameters actually.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I did one quick experiment just to make sure I had everything worked out and I just uh f for most of the um For for all of the digit models, they end up at three mixtures per state. And so I just did a quick experiment, where I changed it so it went to four and um it it it didn't have a r any significant effect at the uh medium mismatch and high mismatch cases and it had it was just barely significant for the well - matched better. Uh so I'm r gonna run that again but um with many more uh mixtures per state.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz at forty thou I mean you could you could have uh Yeah, easily four times as many parameters.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And I think also just seeing what we saw uh in terms of the expected duration of the silence model? when we did this tweaking of the self - loop? The silence model expected duration was really different.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so in the case where um it had a better score, the silence model expected duration was much longer.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it was like it was a better match. I think you know if we make a better silence model I think that will help a lot too um for a lot of these cases so but one one thing I I wanted to check out before I increased the um number of mixtures per state was uh in their default training script they do an initial set of three re - estimations and then they built the silence model and then they do seven iterations then the add mixtures and they do another seven then they add mixtures then they do a final set of seven and they quit. Seven seems like a lot to me and it also makes the experiments go take a really long time I mean to do one turn - around of the well matched case takes like a day.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so you know in trying to run these experiments I notice, you know, it's difficult to find machines, you know, compute the run on. And so one of the things I did was I compiled HTK for the Linux machines", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "cuz we have this one from IBM that's got like five processors in it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and so now I'm you can run stuff on that and that really helps a lot because now we've got you know, extra machines that we can use for compute. And if I'm do running an experiment right now where I'm changing the number of iterations? from seven to three?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "just to see how it affects the baseline system. And so if we can get away with just doing three, we can do many more experiments more quickly. And if it's not a a huge difference from running with seven iterations, um, you know, we should be able to get a lot more experiments done.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so. I'll let you know what what happens with that. But if we can you know, run all of these back - ends f with many fewer iterations and on Linux boxes we should be able to get a lot more experimenting done.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. So I wanted to experiment with cutting down the number of iterations before I increased the number of Gaussians.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Sorry. So um, how's it going on the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. You you did some things. They didn't improve things in a way that convinced you you'd substantially improved anything.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But they're not making things worse and we have reduced latency, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But actually um actually it seems to do a little bit worse for the well - matched case and we just noticed that Yeah, actually the way the final score is computed is quite funny. It's not a mean of word error rate. It's not a weighted mean of word error rate, it's a weighted mean of improvements.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Which means that actually the weight on the well - matched is Well I well what what What happened is that if you have a small improvement or a small if on the well - matched case it will have uh huge influence on the improvement compared to the reference because the reference system is is is quite good for for the well - ma well - matched case also.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it it weights the improvement on the well - matched case really heavily compared to the improvement on the other cases?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, but it's the weighting of the of the improvement not of the error rate.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, and it's hard to improve on the on the best case, cuz it's already so good, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah but what I mean is that you can have a huge improvement on the H HMK's, uh like five percent uh absolute, and this will not affect the final score almost Uh this will almost not affect the final score because this improvement because the improvement uh relative to the the baseline is small.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So they do improvement in terms of uh accuracy? rather than word error rate?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh. Uh improvement?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, it's compared to the word er it's improvement on the word error rate,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah. Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So if you have uh ten percent error and you get five percent absolute uh improvement then that's fifty percent.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. So what you're saying then is that if it's something that has a small word error rate, then uh a even a relatively small improvement on it, in absolute terms, will show up as quite quite large in this.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Is that what you're saying?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. But yeah that's that's it's the notion of relative improvement. Word error rate.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, but when we think about the weighting, which is point five, point three, point two, it's on absolute on on relative figures,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So when we look at this error rate", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. That's why I've been saying we should be looking at word error rate uh and and not not at at accuracies.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh Mmm, yeah. Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean uh we probably should have standardized on that all the way through. It's just.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, it's not it's not that different, right? I mean, just subtract the accuracy.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah but you're but when you look at the numbers, your sense of the relative size of things is quite different.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean Oh. Oh, I see. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If you had ninety percent uh correct and five percent, five over ninety doesn't look like it's a big difference, but five over ten is is big.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So just when we were looking at a lot of numbers and getting sense of what was important.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see. I see. Yeah. That makes sense.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well anyway uh. So. Yeah. So it hurts a little bit on the well - match and yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What's a little bit? Like.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Like, it's difficult to say because again um I'm not sure I have the um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hey Morgan? Do you remember that Signif program that we used to use for testing signi? Is that still valid? I I've been using that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it was actually updated.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh. Jeff updated it some years ago", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, it was. Oh, I shoul", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and and uh cleaned it up made some things better in it. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. I should find that new one. I just use my old one from ninety - two or whatever", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm sure it's not that different but but he he uh he was a little more rigorous, as I recall.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. So it's around, like, point five. No, point six uh percent absolute on Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Worse.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Worse, yep.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Out of what? I mean. s", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh well we start from ninety - four point sixty - four, and we go to ninety - four point O four.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. So that's six six point th", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ninety - three point six four, right? is the baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, no, I've ninety - four. Oh, the baseline, you mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well I don't I'm not talking about the baseline here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh. I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I uh My baseline is the submitted system.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah! OK. Ah, ah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. For Finnish, we start to ninety - three point eight - four and we go to ninety - three point seventy - four. And for Spanish we are we were at ninety - five point O five and we go to ninety - three - s point sixty one.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK, so we are getting hurt somewhat.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And is that wh what do you know what piece you've done several changes here. Uh, do you know what pie", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess I guess it's it's the filter. Because nnn, well uh we don't have complete result, but the filter So the filter with the shorter delay hurts on Italian well - matched, which And, yeah. And the other things, like um downsampling, upsampling, don't seem to hurt and the new on - line normalization, neither.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I'm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I'm really confused about something. If we saw that making a small change like, you know, a tenth, to the self - loop had a huge effect, can we really make any conclusions about differences in this stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah that's th Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, especially when they're this small. I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think we can be completely fooled by this thing, but I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. There is first this thing, and then the yeah, I computed the um like, the confidence level on the different test sets. And for the well - matched they are around um point six uh percent. For the mismatched they are around like let's say one point five percent. And for the well - m uh HM they are also around one point five.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But OK, so you these these degradations you were talking about were on the well - matched case", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. Do the does the new filter make things uh better or worse for the other cases?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But. Uh. About the same. It doesn't hurt. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Doesn't hurt, but doesn't get a little better, or something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. OK, so um I guess the argument one might make is that, \" Yeah, if you looked at one of these cases and you jiggle something and it changes then uh you're not quite sure what to make of it. But when you look across a bunch of these and there's some some pattern, um I mean, so eh h here's all the if if in all these different cases it never gets better, and there's significant number of cases where it gets worse, then you're probably hurting things, I would say. So um I mean at the very least that would be a reasonably prediction of what would happen with with a different test set, that you're not jiggling things with. So I guess the question is if you can do better than this. If you can if we can approximate the old numbers while still keeping the latency down.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, so. Um. What I was asking, though, is uh are what's what's the level of communication with uh the O G I gang now, about this and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, we are exchanging mail as soon as we we have significant results.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. For the moment, they are working on integrating the um spectral subtraction apparently from Ericsson.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. And so. Yeah. We are working on our side on other things like uh also trying a sup spectral subtraction but of of our own, I mean, another spectral substraction.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. So I think it's it's OK. It's going.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Is there any further discussion about this this idea of of having some sort of source code control?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well. For the moment they're uh everybody's quite um There is this Eurospeech deadline, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. And. Yeah. But yeah. As soon as we have something that's significant and that's better than than what was submitted, we will fix fix the system and But we've not discussed it it it this yet, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sounds like a great idea but but I think that that um he's saying people are sort of scrambling for a Eurospeech deadline.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But that'll be uh, uh done in a week. So, maybe after this next one.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Wow! Already a week! Man!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You're right. That's amazing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anybo - anybody in the in this group do doing anything for Eurospeech?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Or, is that what is that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah we are We are trying to to do something with the Meeting Recorder digits,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and But yeah. Yeah. And the good thing is that there is this first deadline,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and, well, some people from OGI are working on a paper for this, but there is also the um special session about th Aurora which is uh which has an extended deadline. So. The deadline is in May.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "For uh Oh, for Eurospeech?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "For th Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So f only for the experiments on Aurora. So it it's good,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, a special dispensation.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Where is Eurospeech this year?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's in Denmark.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Aalborg Aalborg uh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So the deadline When's the deadline? When's the deadline?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm? I think it's the thirteenth of May.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's great! It's great. So we should definitely get something in for that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But on meeting digits, maybe there's Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it would be for the first deadline.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean, I I think that you could certainly start looking at at the issue uh but but uh I think it's probably, on s from what Stephane is saying, it's it's unlikely to get sort of active participation from the two sides until after they've.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well I could at least Well, I'm going to be out next week but I could try to look into like this uh CVS over the web. That seems to be a very popular way of people distributing changes and over, you know, multiple sites and things", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "so maybe if I can figure out how do that easily and then pass the information on to everybody so that it's you know, as easy to do as possible and and people don't it won't interfere with their regular work, then maybe that would be good. And I think we could use it for other things around here too. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's cool. And if you're interested in using CVS, I've set it up here,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um j", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I used it a long time ago but it's been a while so maybe I can ask you some questions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. So. I'll be away tomorrow and Monday but I'll be back on Tuesday or Wednesday.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Dave, the other thing, actually, is is this business about this wave form. Maybe you and I can talk a little bit at some point about coming up with a better uh demonstration of the effects of reverberation for our web page, cuz uh the uh um I mean, actually the the uh It made a good good audio demonstration because when we could play that clip the the the really obvious difference is that you can hear two voices and in the second one and only hear.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Maybe we could just like, talk into a cup.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Some good reverb.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, I mean, it sound it sounds pretty reverberant, but I mean you can't when you play it back in a room with a you know a big room, nobody can hear that difference really.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "They hear that it's lower amplitude and they hear there's a second voice,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um but uh that actually that makes for a perfectly good demo because that's a real obvious thing, that you hear two voices.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But not of reverberation.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "A boom.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well that that that's OK. But for the the visual, just, you know, I'd like to have uh uh, you know, the spectrogram again,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "because you're you're you're visual uh abilities as a human being are so good you can pick out you know, you you look at the good one, you look at the cru the screwed up one, and and you can see the features in it without trying to @ @.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I noticed that in the pictures.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I thought \" hey, you know th \" I My initial thought was \" this is not too bad! \"", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. But you have to you know, if you look at it closely, you see \" well, here's a place where this one has a big formant uh uh formant maj major formants here are are moving quite a bit. \" And then you look in the other one and they look practically flat.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So I mean you could that's why I was thinking, in a section like that, you could take a look look at just that part of the spectrogram and you could say \" Oh yeah. This this really distorted it quite a bit. \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. The main thing that struck me in looking at those two spectrograms was the difference in the high frequencies. It looked like for the one that was farther away, you know, it really everything was attenuated", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and I mean that was the main visual thing that I noticed.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. But it's it's uh So. Yeah. So there are clearly are spectral effects. Since you're getting all this indirect energy, then a lot of it does have have uh reduced high frequencies. But um the other thing is the temporal courses of things really are changed, and and uh we want to show that, in some obvious way. The reason I put the wave forms in there was because uh they they do look quite different. Uh. And so I thought \" Oh, this is good. \" but I I just uh After after uh they were put in there I didn't really look at them anymore, cuz I just they were different. So I want something that has a is a more interesting explanation for why they're different. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh. So maybe we can just substitute one of these wave forms and um then do some kind of zoom in on the spectrogram on an interesting area.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Something like that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The other thing that we had in there that I didn't like was that um the most obvious characteristic of the difference uh when you listen to it is that there's a second voice, and the the the the the uh cuts that we have there actually don't correspond to the full wave form. It's just the first I think there was something where he was having some trouble getting so much in, or. I I forget the reason behind it. But it it's um it's the first six seconds or something of it and it's in the seventh or eighth second or something where @ @ the second voice comes in. So we we would like to actually see the voice coming in, too, I think, since that's the most obvious thing when you listen to it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. Yeah. I brought some I don't know if some figures here. Well. I start we started to work on spectral subtraction. And um the preliminary results were very bad.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So the thing that we did is just to add spectral subtraction before this, the Wall uh process, which contains LDA on - line normalization. And it hurts uh a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so we started to look at at um things like this, which is, well, it's Yeah. So you have the C - zero parameters for one uh Italian utterance.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You can @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And I plotted this for two channels. Channel zero is the close mic microphone, and channel one is the distant microphone. And it's perfectly synchronized, so. And the sentence contain only one word, which is \" Due \" And it can't clearly be seen. Where where is it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Where is the word?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is this is,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "oh, a plot of C - zero,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "the energy.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This is a plot of C - zero, uh when we don't use spectral substraction, and when there is no on - line normalization.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. There is just some filtering with the LDA and and some downsampling, upsampling.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "C - zero is the close talking?.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh the close channel?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and s channel one is the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So C - zero is very clean, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh then when we apply mean normalization it looks like the second figure, though it is not. Which is good. Well, the noise part is around zero", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and And then the third figure is what happens when we apply mean normalization and variance normalization. So. What we can clearly see is that on the speech portion the two channel come becomes very close, but also what happens on the noisy portion is that the variance of the noise is.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "This is still being a plot of C - zero? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is still C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can I ask um what does variance normalization do? w What is the effect of that?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Normalizes the variance.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it it Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It normalized th the standard deviation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "y Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No, I understand that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You you get an estimate of the standard deviation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No, I understand what it is, but I mean, what does it what's what is", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What's the rationale?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We Yeah. Yeah. Why why do it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, because everything uh If you have a system based on Gaussians, everything is based on means and variances.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So if there's an overall reason You know, it's like uh if you were doing uh image processing and in some of the pictures you were looking at, uh there was a lot of light uh and and in some, there was low light,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know, you would want to adjust for that in order to compare things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And the variance is just sort of like the next moment, you know? So uh what if um one set of pictures was taken uh so that throughout the course it was went through daylight and night uh um um ten times, another time it went thr I mean i is, you know, how how much how much vari", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or no. I guess a better example would be how much of the light was coming in from outside rather than artificial light. So if it was a lot if more was coming from outside, then there'd be the bigger effect of the of the of the change in the So every mean every all all of the the parameters that you have, especially the variances, are going to be affected by the overall variance.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so, in principle, you if you remove that source, then, you know, you can.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see. OK. So would the major effect is that you're gonna get is by normalizing the means,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's the first order but thing,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but it may help First - order effects.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but then the second order is is the variances", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And it may help to do the variance. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because, again, if you if you're trying to distinguish between E and B", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "if it just so happens that the E's were a more you know, were recorded when when the energy was was was larger or something,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or the variation in it was larger, uh than with the B's, then this will be give you some some bias.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So the it's removing these sources of variability in the data that have nothing to do with the linguistic component.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Gotcha. OK. Sorry to interrupt.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the the uh but let me as ask ask you something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. And it and this.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "i is if If you have a good voice activity detector, isn't isn't it gonna pull that out?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure. If they are good. Yeah. Well what it it shows is that, yeah, perhaps a good voice activity detector is is good before on - line normalization and that's what uh we've already observed. But uh, yeah, voice activity detection is not an easy thing neither.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But after you do this, after you do the variance normalization I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't know, it seems like this would be a lot easier than this signal to work with.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. What I notice is that, while I prefer to look at the second figure than at the third one, well, because you clearly see where speech is.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the problem is that on the speech portion, channel zero and channel one are more different than when you use variance normalization where channel zero and channel one become closer.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But for the purposes of finding the speech.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And Yeah, but here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You're more interested in the difference between the speech and the nonspeech,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think, yeah. For I th I think that it perhaps it shows that uh the parameters that the voice activity detector should use uh have to use should be different than the parameter that have to be used for speech recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So basically you want to reduce this effect.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, y", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So you can do that by doing the voi voice activity detection. You also could do it by spect uh spectral subtraction before the variance normalization, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's not clear, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We So. Well. It's just to", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "the the number that at that are here are recognition experiments on Italian HM and MM with these two kinds of parameters. And, well, it's better with variance normalization.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So it does get better even though it looks ugly.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. but does this have the voice activity detection in it?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Where's th", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the fact is that the voice activity detector doesn't work on channel one. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Where at what stage is the voice activity detector applied? Is it applied here or a after the variance normalization?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Spectral subtraction, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's applied before variance normalization. So it's a good thing,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because I guess voice activity detection on this should could be worse.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Is it applied all the way back here?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's applied the um on, yeah, something like this,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe that's why it doesn't work for channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. Perhaps, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can I.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So we could perhaps do just mean normalization before VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Can I ask a, I mean a sort of top - level question, which is um \" if if most of what the OGI folk are working with is trying to integrate this other other uh spectral subtraction, why are we worrying about it? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. About? Spectral subtraction?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's just uh Well it's another They are trying to u to use the um the Ericsson and we're trying to use something something else. And. Yeah, and also to understand what happens because", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh fff Well. When we do spectral subtraction, actually, I think that this is the the two last figures.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. It seems that after spectral subtraction, speech is more emerging now uh than than before.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Speech is more what?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, the difference between the energy of the speech and the energy of the n spectral subtrac subtracted noise portion is is larger.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, if you compare the first figure to this one Actually the scale is not the same, but if you look at the the numbers um you clearly see that the difference between the C - zero of the speech and C - zero of the noise portion is larger. Uh but what happens is that after spectral subtraction, you also increase the variance of this of C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so if you apply variance normalization on this, it completely sc screw everything. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. Uh. Yeah. So yeah. And what they did at OGI is just uh they don't use on - line normalization, for the moment, on spectral subtraction and I think Yeah. I think as soon as they will try on - line normalization there will be a problem. So yeah, we're working on the same thing but I think uh with different different system and.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, i the Intellectually it's interesting to work on things th uh one way or the other", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but I'm I'm just wondering if um on the list of things that there are to do, if there are things that we won't do because we've got two groups doing the same thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. That's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. Just just asking. Uh. I mean, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, well,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There also could be I mean. I can maybe see a reason f for both working on it too", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "if um you know, if if if you work on something else and and you're waiting for them to give you spectral subtraction I mean it's hard to know whether the effects that you get from the other experiments you do will carry over once you then bring in their spectral subtraction module. So it's it's almost like everything's held up waiting for this one thing. I don't know if that's true or not, but I could see how.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Maybe that's what you were thinking.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I mean, we still evidently have a latency reduction plan which which isn't quite what you'd like it to be. That that seems like one prominent thing. And then uh weren't issues of of having a a second stream or something? That was Was it There was this business that, you know, we we could use up the full forty - eight hundred bits, and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I think they' I think we want to work on this. They also want to work on this, so. Uh. yeah. We we will try MSG, but um, yeah. And they are t I think they want to work on the second stream also, but more with some kind of multi - band or, well, what they call TRAP or generalized TRAP.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Do you remember when the next meeting is supposed to be? the next uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's uh in June.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "In June. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. Yeah, the other thing is that you saw that that mail about uh the VAD V A Ds performing quite differently? That that uh So um. This there was this experiment of uh \" what if we just take the baseline? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "set uh of features, just mel cepstra, and you inc incorporate the different V A And it looks like the the French VAD is actually uh better significantly better.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Improves the baseline?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah but I don't know which VAD they use. Uh. If the use the small VAD I th I think it's on I think it's easy to do better because it doesn't work at all. So. I I don't know which which one. It's Pratibha that that did this experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um. We should ask which VAD she used.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't @ @. He Actually, I think that he say with the good VAD of from OGI and with the Alcatel VAD. And the experiment was sometime better, sometime worse.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah but I it's uh I think you were talking about the other mail that used VAD on the reference features.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And on that one, uh the French one is was better.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It was just better.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean it was enough better that that it would uh account for a fair amount of the difference between our performance, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. Uh. So if they have a better one, we should use it. I mean. You know? it's you can't work on everything.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we should find out if it's really better. I mean if it the compared to the small or the big network.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And perhaps we can easily improve if if we put like mean normalization before the before the VAD. Because as as you've mentioned.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "H Hynek will be back in town uh the week after next, back back in the country. So. And start start organizing uh more visits and connections and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and uh working towards June.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Also is Stephane was thinking that maybe it was useful to f to think about uh voiced - unvoiced.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "to work uh here in voiced - unvoiced detection.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And we are looking in the uh signal.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, my feeling is that um actually when we look at all the proposals, ev everybody is still using some kind of spectral envelope", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and um it's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No use of pitch uh basically. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, not pitch, but to look at the um fine at the at the high re high resolution spectrum.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. We don't necessarily want to find the the pitch of the of the sound but uh Cuz I have a feeling that when we look when we look at the just at the envelope there is no way you can tell if it's voiced and unvoiced, if there is some It's it's easy in clean speech because voiced sound are more low frequency and. So there would be more,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh there is the first formant, which is the larger and then voiced sound are more high frequencies cuz it's frication and.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, yeah. When you have noise there is no um if if you have a low frequency noise it could be taken for for voiced speech and.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can make these mistakes,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Isn't there some other", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh d", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So I think that it it would be good Yeah, yeah, well, go go on.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, I was just gonna say isn't there aren't aren't there lots of ideas for doing voice activity, or speech - nonspeech rather, um by looking at um, you know, uh I guess harmonics or looking across time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I think he was talking about the voiced - unvoiced, though,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right? So, not the speech - nonspeech.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well even with e", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh w ah you know, uh even with the voiced - non voiced - unvoiced", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "um I thought that you or somebody was talking about.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. Uh yeah. B We should let him finish what he w he was gonna say,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So go ahead.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um yeah, so yeah, I think if we try to develop a second stream well, there would be one stream that is the envelope and the second, it could be interesting to have that's something that's more related to the fine structure of the spectrum. And. Yeah, so I don't know. We were thinking about like using ideas from from Larry Saul, have a good voice detector, have a good, well, voiced - speech detector, that's working on on the FFT and uh", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "U", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Larry Saul could be an idea. We were are thinking about just kind of uh taking the spectrum and computing the variance of of the high resolution spectrum and things like this.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So u s u OK. So So many tell you something about that. Uh we had a guy here some years ago who did some work on um making use of voicing information uh to help in reducing the noise.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So what he was doing is basically y you you do estimate the pitch.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And um you from that you you estimate or you estimate fine harmonic structure, whichev ei either way, it's more or less the same. But uh the thing is that um you then can get rid of things that are not i if there is strong harmonic structure, you can throw away stuff that's that's non - harmonic.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And that that is another way of getting rid of part of the noise", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So um that's something that is sort of finer,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "brings in a little more information than just spectral subtraction. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And he had some I mean, he did that sort of in combination with RASTA. It was kind of like RASTA was taking care of convolutional stuff", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and he was.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and got some some decent results doing that. So that that's another another way. But yeah, there's there's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. There's all these cues. We've actually back when Chuck was here we did some voiced - unvoiced uh classification using a bunch of these,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and uh works OK. Obviously it's not perfect but um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But the thing is that you can't given the constraints of this task, we can't, in a very nice way, feed forward to the recognizer the information the probabilistic information that you might get about whether it's voiced or unvoiced, where w we can't you know affect the the uh distributions or anything.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But we what we uh I guess we could Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Didn't the head dude send around that message? Yeah, I think you sent us all a copy of the message, where he was saying that I I'm not sure, exactly, what the gist of what he was saying, but something having to do with the voice activity detector and that it will that people shouldn't put their own in or something. It was gonna be a.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That But OK. So that's voice activity detector as opposed to voicing detector.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So we're talking about something a little different.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I missed that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I guess what you could do, maybe this would be w useful, if if you have if you view the second stream, yeah, before you before you do KLT's and so forth, if you do view it as probabilities, and if it's an independent So, if it's if it's uh not so much envelope - based by fine - structure - based, uh looking at harmonicity or something like that, um if you get a probability from that information and then multiply it by you know, multiply by all the voiced outputs and all the unvoiced outputs, you know, then use that as the", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh take the log of that or uh pre pre uh pre - nonlinearity,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. i if.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh and do the KLT on the on on that,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "then that would that would I guess be uh a reasonable use of independent information. So maybe that's what you meant. And then that would be.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, I was not thinking this yeah, this could be an yeah So you mean have some kind of probability for the v the voicing", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "R Right. So you have a second neural net.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and then use a tandem system", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It could be pretty small. Yeah. If you have a tandem system and then you have some kind of it can be pretty small net.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "we used we d did some of this stuff. Uh I I did, some years ago,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and the and and you use the thing is to use information primarily that's different as you say, it's more fine - structure - based than than envelope - based", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh so then it you you you can pretty much guarantee it's stuff that you're not looking at very well with the other one, and uh then you only use for this one distinction.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And and so now you've got a probability of the cases, and you've got uh the probability of the finer uh categories on the other side. You multiply them where appropriate and uh um", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see, yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "if they really are from independent information sources then they should have different kinds of errors", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and roughly independent errors, and it's a good choice for.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because, yeah, well, spectral subtraction is good and we could u we could use the fine structure to to have a better estimate of the noise but still there is this issue with spectral subtraction that it seems to increase the variance of of of", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "um Well it's this musical noise which is annoying if you d you do some kind of on - line normalization after.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Um. Yeah. Well. Spectral subtraction and on - line normalization don't seem to to go together very well. I", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Or if you do a spectral subtraction do some spectral subtraction first and then do some on - line normalization then do some more spectral subtraction I mean, maybe maybe you can do it layers or something so it doesn't doesn't hurt too much or something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But it but uh, anyway I think I was sort of arguing against myself there by giving that example", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh I mean cuz I was already sort of suggesting that we should be careful about not spending too much time on exactly what they're doing In fact if you get if you go into uh a uh harmonics - related thing it's definitely going to be different than what they're doing and uh uh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "should have some interesting properties in noise. Um. I know that when have people have done um sort of the obvious thing of taking uh your feature vector and adding in some variables which are pitch related or uh that it hasn't my impression it hasn't particularly helped. Uh. Has not.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It it i has not,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But I think uh that's that's a question for this uh you know extending the feature vector versus having different streams.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh. Was it nois noisy condition? the example that you you just", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And and it may not have been noisy conditions.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I don't remember the example but it was it was on some DARPA data and some years ago and so it probably wasn't, actually", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yeah. But we were thinking, we discussed with Barry about this, and perhaps thinking we were thinking about some kind of sheet cheating experiment where we would use TIMIT", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and see if giving the d uh, this voicing bit would help in in terms of uh frame classification.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Why don't you why don't you just do it with Aurora?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Just any i in in each in each frame", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but B but we cannot do the cheating, this cheating thing.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We're.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We need labels.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well. Cuz we don't have Well, for Italian perhaps we have, but we don't have this labeling for Aurora. We just have a labeling with word models", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but not for phonemes.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Not for foreigners.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "we don't have frame frame level transcriptions.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But you could I mean you can you can align so that It's not perfect, but if you if you know what was said and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But the problem is that their models are all word level models. So there's no phone models that you get alignments for.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You So you could find out where the word boundaries are but that's about it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "S But we could use uh the the noisy version that TIMIT, which you know, is similar to the the noises found in the TI - digits um portion of Aurora.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. noise, yeah. Yeah, that's right, yep. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, I guess I guess we can we can say that it will help, but I don't know. If this voicing bit doesn't help, uh, I think we don't have to to work more about this because.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh. It's just to know if it how much i it will help", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and to have an idea of how much we can gain.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. I mean in experiments that we did a long time ago", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and different ta it was probably Resource Management or something, um, I think you were getting something like still eight or nine percent error on the voicing, as I recall. And um, so um", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Another person's voice.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "what that said is that, sort of, left to its own devices, like without the a strong language model and so forth, that you would you would make significant number of errors just with your uh probabilistic machinery in deciding", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "one oh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, the though I think uh there was one problem with that in that, you know, we used canonical mapping so our truth may not have really been true to the acoustics.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well back twenty years ago when I did this voiced - unvoiced stuff, we were getting more like ninety - seven or ninety - eight percent correct in voicing. But that was speaker - dependent actually. We were doing training on a particular announcer", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and getting a very good handle on the features.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And we did this complex feature selection thing where we looked at all the different possible features one could have for voicing and and and uh and exhaustively searched all size subsets and and uh for for that particular speaker and you'd find you know the five or six features which really did well on them.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And then doing doing all of that we could get down to two or three percent error. But that, again, was speaker - dependent with lots of feature selection", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and a very complex sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So I would I would believe that uh it was quite likely that um looking at envelope only, that we'd be significantly worse than that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And the all the the SpeechCorders? what's the idea behind? Cuz they they have to Oh, they don't even have to detect voiced spe speech?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The modern ones don't do a a simple switch.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They just work on the code book", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They work on the code book excitation.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and find out the best excitation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah they do analysis - by - synthesis. They try they they try every every possible excitation they have in their code book and find the one that matches best.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mmm. Alright. Yeah. So it would not help.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh. O K.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Can I just mention one other interesting thing?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. One of the ideas that we had come up with last week for things to try to improve the system Um. Actually I I s we didn't I guess I wrote this in after the meeting b but the thought I had was um looking at the language model that's used in the HTK recognizer, which is basically just a big loop,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right? So you it goes \" digit \"", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then that can be either go to silence or go to another digit, which That model would allow for the production of infinitely long sequences of digits, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. I thought \" well I'm gonna just look at the what actual digit strings do occur in the training data. \"", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And the interesting thing was it turns out that there are no sequences of two - long or three - long digit strings in any of the Aurora training data. So it's either one, four, five, six, uh up to eleven, and then it skips and then there's some at sixteen.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But what about the testing data?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. I don't know. I didn't look at the test data yet.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean if there's some testing data that has has has two or three.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. Yeah. But I just thought that was a little odd, that there were no two or three long Sorry. So I I just for the heck of it, I made a little grammar which um, you know, had it's separate path for each length digit string you could get. So there was a one - long path and there was a four - long and a five - long", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and I tried that and it got way worse. There were lots of deletions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it was you know, I I didn't have any weights of these paths or I didn't have anything like that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And I played with tweaking the word transition penalties a bunch, but I couldn't go anywhere.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But um. I thought \" well if I only allow \" Yeah, I guess I should have looked at to see how often there was a mistake where a two - long or a three - long path was actually put out as a hypothesis. Um. But.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So to do that right you'd probably want to have allow for them all but then have weightings and things. So. I just thought that was a interesting thing about the data.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. So we're gonna read some more digit strings I guess?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. You want to go ahead, Morgan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor A" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2016b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Du", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Thanks for coming to this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S how we doing on our remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have some we have some ideas and some uh ideas for what people want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we yes s I've lo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I've done the role that I was asked to do anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright let's just go over the agenda real quick for this meeting. See if I can't get things uh moving along here a little bit better. Um I'll go over what we went over last time, which shouldn't take long. Then I believe each of you have a presentation. Um I've was sent a a couple more requirements for our remote, what they want. Um then we can come to a conclusion on uh what we want the remote to do, um and how it's going to do it hopefully. And uh then we'll have the closing. Um which we'll have forty minutes for. Uh let's see, the last meeting we went over um who was responsible for what. I'm responsible for leading the meetings, keeping the notes, uh and coming up with the final presentation. Um Corinne is our Marketing Expert. She's gonna figure out what what um the consumer wants. Um Ryan is our User Interface Designer. And Manuel is the Industrial Designer. So you're gonna come up with the ideas Ryan, and you're gonna pick'em apart.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um we decided our remote, uh we want it to be a universal remote uh that everyone would want. Um we want to be modern, um fun, different. Uh it needs to be sturdy, um easy to find, so we gonna have that locator function. Um and we want to be different. Um and then we went over a couple of different ideas. Ball-shaped phone. The keyboard shape. Um we decided that it should probably be one-handed. Something we could use with one hand. Um and that was our last meeting. So um why don't um Do each of you have a presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. I'll hand it off to you and um Does anyone do you wanna go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we can maybe see what uh what the people want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What was it? Function?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight. F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F_ eight? Well. How do I get it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Slide show.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To go to the next one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right right right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you click on that guy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Alright. Well, this is my report, which is going to be based pretty much on a survey that I was sent. Oh gosh, I've no idea. G", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just press the arrow keys I think. Usually goes to it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry I actually need to see something else on my screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hit F_ eight again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then? Again?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You want it to be on both screens, or just just yours?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I want something else on mine. Is that possible?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but I think you have to hit escape. And then you can Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay but now you don't have that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh hit F_ eight again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know. I did the same thing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then it should come up here shortly.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So is there no way I can give you the slideshow and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think oh give us the slideshow and something on your screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not sure. You could maybe minimise that screen and then have them both up at the same time I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's okay. Okay. Um so first of all, the method that I used was by doing some marketing research,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "by um doing research on some interviews that were conducted. And then some internet research. And I was sent a report that was I think there were a hundred remote users that they interviewed. And so I will show you some of the results from that, which I think will be helpful. Um okay here are some of the findings. They said that the users dislike the look and feel of their current remote controls. And seventy five percent of the users find their remote controls to be ugly. Which is a fairly significant number I would say. And eighty percent of the users would be willing to spend more money if they could get a remote that would look fancy. So I think that earlier we were onto something when we were talking about having it be a modern cool look, I think that's definitely important. Um they say that current remote controls do not match well the operating behaviour of the user. Seventy five percent of users said they zap a lot. And if anyone could clarify what that means?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just jus", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is is it j just just", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Zap, does that just mean like changing the channel?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just using it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um and fifty percent of the users say that they're only using ten percent of the buttons on their remote control. And there was something else, they kept track of the frequency per hour in using certain buttons. And some of them it looks like barely need to be included at all. Of course channel selection is used the most frequently. And then teletext was the next. Volume and then power. And then audio settings and screen settings and channel settings were practically never used. So I think we could definitely eliminate or somehow combine a lot of the functions into one button. Um the biggest user frustrations, as we said fifty percent of people find that their remotes are lost somewhere, and so I think a tracking device of some sort would be a good idea. They said it take thirty four percent said it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote. And twenty six percent said that the controls are bad for R_S_I_..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just repetitive strain injury. I think. That's what I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. And so bas okay. Um as far as speech recognition goes, um the younger group looks like they're all for it. From the fifteen to twenty five age group over ninety percent said they would pay more. And it kind of just went down incrementally. The groups at the older they get it looks like the less willing they are to pay, so maybe we could discuss this and think and decide if we think it's worth investing in this. At least if we're targeting the younger groups. And so in conclusion. Some things that I drew from this are that I think we were correct. We definitely need to focus on a new modern appearance, since so many people seem to be concerned about the ugliness of their remote control. Um a multifunctional remote could be a good thing to explore. So you only have one rather than five different remotes sitting all over your room. Uh we need to simplify the remote and reduce the number of buttons, get rid of the ones that don't seem to be serving much purpose. And then lastly I thought that maybe we could discuss the idea of speech recognition. And that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Very nice. Now we actually have some ideas of what what people want, what we should focus on. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wait can I look at that real quick?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Sorry did you guys get time to write everything that you needed?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Having just listened to what Corinne just said, I'll draw on some of the things as well. Some things that sort of relevant to what I wanna say.'Kay so I'm just gonna yeah approach the technical functions design. Um the method I used was to explore the uh technical functions of a remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And t s simplest approach that I came to is is to change, programme and operate an electronic device remotely. I mean that's an obvious thing to say, but it's not attached to the device that you want to control. Um I had some things sent to me. Not very much. To look at similar devices. Um defined in some them. And then the personal preferences that I will suggest. Um we discussed a universal one. Um like it's just been brought up again then. But I think a universal remote control is actually quite a difficult object to design, and po possibly within maybe the budget that we do it, um because you'd need to know all the spef specifications of a all the like electronic companies. I'm not sure have you ever come across a universal remote control yourself, but you have to i they're a nightmare to use. You have to set them, reset them to everything. Um and that would only add buttons. Whereas I think the aim is to take away buttons. So I think it'd be better maybe to concentrate on maybe just a universal one for T_V_s. Um or maybe just one that you could we could design and then different people, manufacturers could use it to set to their specifications, if if the aim is to get something that's unique in design. Um Okay here here's just two pictures of remote controls. They're just simple T_V_ remote controls. But one is uh user-centred. That is the one on the left. And you can straight away see there's less buttons. And the other one is engineer-centred where that's more uh specified for the sort of the elaborate piece of equipment it's trying to control um which appeals more to the product that we want, and on what the have said and the market research and stuff probably looking at something that should be user-centred. Fewer buttons, simpler to use, and if ten percent um is hidden away if ten percent is what's used, maybe the other fifty percent, the buttons that are used very rarely like programming, they could be hidden maybe under some remote controls you might have come across have maybe a little flip thi thing where they're hidden away. And the main buttons are the ones you or the ones you come across. Um and finally, um uh sort I've sort of covered that, our product I think should be user interface orientated. Um Like I said to concentrate on T_V_ remote control, a universal remote might be too complex. Um and as what it, the major findings market researchers have said, it's the image and the appearance that people di dislike. So that we should concentrate on something that would set a trend. And that's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "cable there. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What was your last conclusion on that one? Focus on uh the i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On something on the image of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the image of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the f the actual design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Good. Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Gonna talk to you about the working design of the interiors basically which is what dictates the design the both the interface basically and the outer appearance because this is all the stuff that needs to go in there. Right. So unfortunately the people who were supposed to do this little presentation for me obviously were too drunk to actually accomplish it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so um I'm going to do a lot of the stuff on the board. Um just This is the basic basic premise of a remote control. Um the basic function is to send messages to another system. Okay so much is clear. An energy source feeds an integrated circuit, like a chip, that can compose messages. Often in the form of infrared bits. This is the most mostly used. Um there's uh also some sound systems but infrared is the better or the more more used system. Um parts are cheaper as well. A user interface controls the chip and accordingly the messages. This is where my people screwed up basically.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I'm going to explain that on the board rather. Um what we have is different components that obviously need to go in there. We'll start with an energy source. Right. Um which is usually a battery right? Since it's not feasible to add a cable to that. This energy source of course is connected to the the user interface itself. Uh which can be buttons, whatever, which in fact controls a chip. Right? This is the user interface and there we have the chip. Um the way this goes normally is that this chip then controls an infrared lamp. That sends out the signal. Of course the signal differs accordingly. Um depending on what the chip tells the infrared lan lamp. And Of course that's controlled, the chip itself is controlled by the user interface. The way you normally normally do it is that you add a little device such as a lamp to the whole thing as well, so that you know that it's working basically. You press something, you get a response. Which is also comparatively um important on one of those devices. Now this, what we're talking about here, or what I think should be discussed are these two components mostly. The the uh energy source for one thing can be altered. What we probably cannot alter is of course the infrared, the sending device basically, the infrared lamp. We cannot change the chip which controls the infrared lamp. Right? These two are components that we have to use, and these are dictated by the whole function of the whole thing. Um the lamp can be put onto the desi the device. It c it doesn't have to be there. This can be discussed as well. The user interface. That's something we can also discuss. Um as we've heard uh speech recognition is the hype obviously in the moment. Speech recognition um interface, we don't know that. Or if we just do the usual button thing. Or we have a touch pad or something like that that's something we can discuss. And of course the energy source. Batteries. Solar cells. Who knows? Of course it's always a question whether these these components are in fact available cheap enough, developed enough. But that's like I s I suppose rather up to marketing, and not to", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we could the the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to the industrial design department.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the more complex we make it of course, the more expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Expensive it's gonna be get uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But people have said that they would well younger generations of people have said that they would pay more for a speech recognition remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So possibly it might be worth the investment.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think speech recognition was uh one of those things where um they have to be really good for them to work.'Cause sometimes you find yourself just saying things over and o if it's on your phone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I agree. Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you need to sort of take into light languages and then different dialects I suppose as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I myself I find, when you, h when there's something like spee speech recognition. Like uh you call on the phone and you try to change your telephone or power or something. Sometimes they have a a speech recognition on the other end,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you say one for this, and you find yours, like you said, saying the same thing over and over and over. I find myself, especially if I'm in a crowd of people, looking really silly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe if you're sitting on your couch with a bunch of people then you know, you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And wou I don't know if would would you want to keep saying stuff if you were watching stuff. If you were watching something would you sort of be wanting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Volume up. Volume down. Change the channel, you know channel up, channel down?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Another thing about these figures is ninety one percent of the youngest age groups said they'd do it, but probably a lot of them that's actually their parents money. Like I don't know if they would actually go out and purchase this themselves, a fifteen year old you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think As well it'd be j the gimmick factor for the younger people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But practically I don't think it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a, it's a gimmick factor that they like at first, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It'll wear off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Gets old yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um Let's see here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you wanna put your cord back in?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Trade you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "go..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now I was sent a couple of things to modify our uh new requirements. Um the remote's only gonna be for the television, which is good because we already decided y your your research showed that uh not only is a universal remote more complicated, it's more cost, more costly. And your re uh research showed that you know most of the people don't even use it. I think uh you said fifty percent of the people only use half the or ten percent of the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if we remove the universal remote then that solves that problem. Um no teletext. Um So we don't have to worry about that. Um but we do have to use the the company wants us to incorporate the corporate colour and our slogan, which is we put the fashion in electronics. And our corporate colours are grey and yellow. And we could probably get away with black too but So those are the three um the three new requirements that that I was told we need to use. Um from all all three of your uh presentations, I think that we were on the right track a lot in our last meeting. We want something that looks good. Um we want something that's simple. We want something that you can find easily. Um And the speech recognition I I guess is kind of uh give or take. It's gonna cost more. S the young the younger people say that they like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um it's probably, I would say, probably not worth the investment at this point in time. So maybe we should just do away with speech recognition. Um And that way we can focus on our form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I did have have a thought about the sort of the tracking thing. Is that if it came with maybe a holder or holster, whatever you wanna call it. Um that you you should put it back in. Your remote. But if you don't put it back in, you press something like a little button on that, and that just sort of sends out a beep to find where it is or something. Just by infrared. That shouldn't be too complex I would've thought.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That'd be, that'd be good if we were going with our our ball.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it would be quite good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or or with you know I guess with any form that that would be good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The ball could sit on a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know that could be the charger. For you know", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we could use rechargeable batteries in the remote. And that would be or solar. Or you know However, however you wanted to go about it, the holder could also be the charging unit. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the locator button. Um and if it were the ball you'd no longer have to have a flat space on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um like", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you still do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we still have the how to hold on to it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You s you still W yeah. You put it on t on the couch table.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's gonna roll away.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "While you're watching,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rolls away", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's gonna roll off. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's not an issue really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um So I guess after the meeting we'll have some questionnaires. And uh and some summaries for for what's going on. Um then we'll take lunch. Then we can come back and uh work on our individual work. Um I'll do the minutes. Uh let's see. It looks like you're already on your way for uh working with the components. Um chips, the what chips we need", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and what uh you know how to power it and whatnot. User interface concept, we want it to be something simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um Minimal number of buttons. I guess our, I guess our main um main thing that we should focus on until then is probably deciding on a certain look, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. That's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did you have time earlier to to work on that. Did you guys feel you have enough time in between our meetings to get everything done that you need to get done?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll yeah I'll have a look, try look at the actual appearance in the next break.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I th I I do still think it needs to be something that is ultimately one-handed. The ball is probably not a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And even something that's held like that might be difficult.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that I think it still has to be a variation. On maybe a a rect on a rectangle but maybe not necessarily as boring, as plain as a rectangle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um Shall we maybe shoot for a a specific uh target group? That way we could l I mean if it were, if we were shooting for young guys then it's um a certain look to the remote. Or girls or older people? Um Would that you think that would help us find um a specific form? That we would would wanna pick out?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D I don't know if that might cope with like the trend-watching. I find anything more on that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah not yet but maybe by the next meeting we'll have some info on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. So um we know that the remote's gonna have to be we'll just say we've got a colour scheme for it. Um yellow and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know yellow it's nice and bright, with the buttons being grey or black.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And our slogan pasted somewhere on it, on the the bottom", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bottom perhaps", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we could sketch a so basically all of our remotes all of our typical remotes now are just kind of a rectangular sort. You know. Um maybe we could flare it or something. You know. So it's more of course this will look like a bone then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "go ahead and erase this. Um Hope everyone memorised that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You I mean it might be to look at sort of the the shape and trend of like things like mobile phones, and the shapes that the they've been going.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They've gone from big brick block things, which is a remote control is, to sort of slinky small things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah everybody's got a mobile phone right? Except for me now. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But they are all,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, mobile phones um they've kind of taken a turn to where they're really small. Um which may defeat our purpose for being able to locate our remote all the time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then again you don't want you know like the first mobile phone that was this big", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you had a handbag to carry it around in. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we've got basically what remotes look like now is kind of what we're what we're stuck with. Um Maybe we could go with a square or something. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you know with minimal number of buttons. I guess you've got you know one through nine. For typing in your channels. Uh you've got volume, up and down. Channel up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Power.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Power. Usually at the top. Um a mute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the classical design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's that's pretty much all you need I think. Um A menu button, maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you know. If you, if we want the remote to do other things like um or I guess the T_V_ to be able to change the tint and the colour and you know all those kind of things that are built into T_V_s, we just have that under one standard menu button where you go in, press the menu button, scroll up and down to select it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Talking of which maybe a scrolling function is not not too bad.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Talk about maybe f look at that from the side, there maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which is technically the easiest option. Would probably be like a scrolling, little scrolling wheel like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a wheel on your mouse.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sort of like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sort of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can even if we're coming from mice, we can even add a click function, where you, in order to verify the information you just press it down. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'S a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also when it comes to the ergonomics of the whole thing, if you wanna make it square for the looks of it, then maybe to make it more comfortable to hold the whole thing, you add a little bulge down here. Just which maybe from an engineering point this could be holding the the batteries and so on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I know. You know what I'm getting at here,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Look g yeah. Looks good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "fel look at it from the side. It's like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Uh Then you hold it in your hand like this. And maybe you bring the buttons nearer to the or the imp more important buttons nearer to the to the side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To the thumb. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To the thumb yeah. Maybe the buttons could like uh decrease in s the bigger ones you know they could actually be bigger in size than the ones that are less important, the smaller here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. You can also have it, maybe, talking about mobile phones again, sliding open. With the lesser used functions on this part,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Behind.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then it slides into that part. And out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Definitely. just like o on a sort of side view. Something that you know it would sort of fit in the hand better. So you know you just sort of have your hand", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm well I was just thinking, this this of course causes", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right on the and your thumb would be up here type thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "causes a problem um for left or right-handed people actually. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's also true. instantly sort of always going for the right-handed person.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I mean the older so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah is everyone who in here's right-handed, left-handed? You guys all right-handed?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right-handed,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm left-handed but I, so I can say that most things are designed for right-handed people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like the written language. Or English.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe you could buy like a special left-handed version of the remote. Special order.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe. Ow. I would say I mean it should be probably designed for a right-handed p person.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but that's that's good. That's w I think we've got a kind of a good plan there. Um At least for what buttons we're gonna use. Um So we've got uh I like the scroll, the scroll action and the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean I'm just just thinking maybe if it was um circular um with the sort of that sort of the sort of early idea we had, with the way that was more like that, whereas this is just a one-handed thing that you sort of almost wrap round the thumb. So you'd have your, you'd put your hand into there with the thumb there. And then your thumb would do you'd have all the buttons sort of round here. And that I think could work. On any hand. If you just had it like wrapped round there. Left or right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Kinda like holding a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. That minimises it size-wise as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Minimise its size. It could be you know really quite small.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Then there's maybe another point of making it a two-in-one kind of thing. If we have a smaller a smaller device that actually fits into the big one. You give it the full functions in here, and just a couple of functions in there. Like your zap zapping device is just u channels up-down, uh volume, and on-off.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Zapping functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could be good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So two remotes in one. But then would be easier to lose one or the other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. Means the big one has to be sufficiently big. And perhaps heavy, so you can't move it around.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It actually is your coffee table.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Make it a piece of furniture.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yes. Yes, there you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or a statue or something..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well we need to finish up here. Um So for the next So for the next um before the next meeting w uh sh shall we work on you're watching trends to see what what kind of new information we've got going on. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Manuel you're going to work on the components for for what we're gonna use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's go with our our uh rounded kind of fit in your hand let's explore uh the the uh possibility of having the two-piece. So one for the the quick zapping um and possibly one you know with just that rounded part that fits into your hand. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And Ryan you work on um how how well they'll work with the us with the user. So both of those concepts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How well it'll work yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh okay I think we made some good progress here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "see you in I dunno. I gu I guess we'll take lunch in about uh half an hour. Or I guess we'll be taking lunch shortly and then then in about half an hour after that we'll probably have another meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1001c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we are here for the concept design meeting. So, we will first start by summarizing the mm the previous meeting and the decision we've taken. Uh I will take notes during this meeting so uh that you can uh look at my uh folder to see the summary of this meeting afterwards. So each of you will uh show us the various investigation they've done during uh previous uh hours. We'll then t take decision in concert and then uh uh we will uh define the nest next task, to have to be done before the next meeting. So, last time we decided to have a simple interface. We also decided to have a wheel to change channel previous channel button. Channel digit uh buttons should be uh protected by plastic cover or something for the remote control to look very simple. We have also button for volume, and to switch on off the T_V_. We have also uh the lightening feature for the remote control to be easy to find, and for fast development and low cost we have decided to have no L_C_D_ no voice features. So now uh we will have three presentations. So the conceptual specification by Industrial Designer, the specification of the U_I_ by or U_I_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Abdul al-Hasred is my name.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. And uh the last point is uh trend watching by Market Expert. So maybe we can start with uh industrial design. So this is the presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I_D_ you want?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe I can switch slide uh on your request.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I only v have three slides, so. I just look at the mm um just this. On some web pages to find some documentation", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I think a remote control is, as I s mentioned previously, you just have a a very simple chip and the mm the user interface is just done usually by push button and in our case we are using a um a wheel control. So uh uh I was looking basically for that chip, which is uh very very standard, and uh I just looked for the wheel sensor and the standard push button. And um yeah we can change directly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In fact I have the number of that element which is very standard for remote control. The push button are usually extremely cheap, but I just have one problem and this is related with the wheel sensor, which seems to be quite expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I think we if we could just talk about that if we really need a wheel sensor or if we can not if if we could combine something with the push button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh a wheel sensor is fifty time the price of a a a push button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But is it a significant price on the whole remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we can afford up to twelve Euros for the price of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So will will will this with uh including all possible things, so buttons, wheel and the chip, be uh lower than twelve Euros to produce?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I th But I don't think that uh we should We should talk about uh the design of the box also which needs some money.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also have to say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did you receive the email about the voice recognition?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um that's all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You received something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. I haven't chec", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. You we uh an email from the manufacturing division that they have basically a voice recognition chip already developed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Says Yeah. It says that ri right now they just use it to uh to record uh answers to particular questions. But I guess it could be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And could it be adapted?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess it's possible. I mean instead of recording the answers you can just uh record uh something simpler like a command.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay and there can uh recognize some commands and stuff?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah you reco recognize commands and you can record new commands and stuff, so if they already have it as uh as a chip", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then we we could use it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay maybe we can just uh listen to this presentation and then take decision later on according to those news.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but I think it's yeah Sorry, I haven't written my personal references. Um the I I just want to mention the the problem of the the r wheels sensor which is much more expensive than any push button,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if we could reduce that. We we have already some good things uh with um um with the backlight of the push button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I have a question about that actually. Um, what is the purpose of the light?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just to to make something which is uh slightly more design that uh a squarey box with a rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can easily find the button in the dark or so?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But But in th in the dark uh Yeah but is going to be always turned on, the light?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It will be turned on when the when the user move the remote control I think, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you move it then you have it, you don't need to find it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can see the buttons better, of course.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you move it then you have to have some sensor to when you move it to detect your movement.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "As soon as you thought to move the the remote control you have the light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you need another sensor for that, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah no it's too expensive..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think that this is really expensive, but at the end this is plenty of unexpen eh very cheap devices but uh the bill starts to be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm. Extra. Yeah, okay. Mm. Yeah, but I expected also the wheel would be cheap but you tell me that it is very expensive so,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "First of all I was thinking to have a a continuous light", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you w when t you you you you press the on button you have the light on your remote control, when you want to turn off your device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it can be uh battery consuming, no? To have the light always on?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, a little bit. A little bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we will discuss that after maybe", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the other presentations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". So uh my one, it uh should be in the shared folder.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. It was last time I saw it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just move to the next slide. So basically want very simple, right? That's the major idea, as simple as possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I just look at some current designs uh on the web, of usually more complicated remote controls. And let's look at two of them because uh th even though they have many buttons they look quite simple. And in our case we just uh reject the buttons what we don't need and it become even simpler.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also does it uh fit well in hand? Because it was uh th your wrist problem with the usage.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well this these uh these remotes are quite big, so go to the next page, so. We have all these buttons as you can see, but most of them, we just need the ones in the middle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, from the bottom or whatever is there, uh the uh the numbers and then the top, uh until the ten also, this middle part,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and on the left one is exactly the same. So it's basically more or less how we would like it, with a big volume control, big channel control, and mute and power, yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These are the basic thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's only the central part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So basically, w software we will build will look more or less the same as these two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. With a maybe a more ergonomic design on on the bottom part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you have, for example I think that the volume and the buttons that are there on the top are not very easy to reach with your thumb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could be on the right side, for example.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because we don't have these input buttons and this other stuff that they have. And I think that the plastic cover is not very good uh idea because", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you open it, it can break, you ca you can do various things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh you just need to put the channel numbers somewhere a bit out of the way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Will be down or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that they're separate a bit,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Uh and it's easy to press the other the big buttons, but uh, it's not that difficult to press the the channel buttons either. Mm. Yeah, I think that if you put the cover it will be even more difficult for the user.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, you won't yeah. Usually what I have noticed that people put the plastic cover on things that you normally don't mess with, like buttons for t uh tuning the channels and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That you want to protect a bit. And I think it's uh it's reasonable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, I don't think Yeah, this is just the the wheel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could use the some wheels can be pushed down, could use the push down of the wheel for the record if we want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so we could just basically use one just wheel and uh user could use just the wheel to do everything with the channels in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe the wheel will be a good advantage over our competitors.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because otherwise it's pretty standard apart the fact that it's very simple. So maybe it's worse to uh to have more expense on that's that aspect.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To s Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess the market researcher will tell us all about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we can move to the Is there any question? For designer of user interface? or we can move to the next part, maybe, and discuss afterwards? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I can go?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can I? So now the recent investigation we we have done fo of the remote control um. So, the most important aspect for remote controls is to be fancy look and feel and not current functional look and feel. And um the second aspect is uh that the remote control should be uh technological innovative.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the third most important aspect is to to is that the co remote control should be easy to use. So, are things we are we have uh speak about before.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And um so you you can go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "after. And there is a fashion watchers in Paris and Milan that have detected the following trends, uh fruits and vegetables will be the most important theme for clothes, shoes, and furnitures. So, maybe if our remote control have to be a fruit form or vegetable form.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "something like that, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I support an apple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the mm the material is expected to be spongy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I don't know which material can be spongy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is good also for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, wou wou I think we can certainly just put the electronics in a spongy thing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it it would work, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it is good also f to have a spongy material, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can throw it to the television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because it's robust.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Me too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's robust, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey that's a cool one. We could say that if you throw it, you have a sensor, and you throw it and hits the television and turns it off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When it d uh takes a shock.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah it's okay. I know that they do that for alarm clock also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An and and uh this uh you can yeah you can say that. You ca uh you can go uh before", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Yeah. Before?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ", before, yes. And you know here the more iz important aspect is the fancy look and feel, after is uh technological innovative, and after the easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's innovative to use the mm the wheel because I think no one else has.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's why.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Has it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's why I think we have to keep that if it's possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think it's it makes it both easy and both innos innovative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Innovative. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think it's a good aspect and it should be kept.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do we make it look cool is the question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool, fancy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to make it l look like a fruit or vegetable..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe uh um a colour that remember some fruit uh, things like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What about um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Oh, colour, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well the obvious thing is a banana, I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh i i.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought about a a pear, for example. You know the pear, is like that and it's it's easy to to have in in hand", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it's ergonomic as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A pear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The banana is also ergonomic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe pear yeah or something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or a fruit like that. I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can discuss that uh. D D Is is there anything you want to add?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is there any fruit that is spongy?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I think we we can have like yeah a pear is good, fit well, or banana as you told.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And for maybe look and feel, what about a a piece of ice, with blue L_E_D_ inside?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's not in the trend..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can make it um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The trend is spongy, and vegetable fruits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not hard, the metal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think p spongy is good because it it will be robust as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, I think we can keep the wheel because it's uh easy, it's innovative, even if the cost is a bit higher,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we also have to find a, so, a fruit like pear or banana wit uh any others idea you have. What kind of fr fruit would you like to to control your T_V_ with?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Odi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Banana I think, it's a nice idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Banana is also yellow so you you can't lost your remote control then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You y you don't use the banana when the banana is curving like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two of the button, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but when the banana is curving like that, with the wheel on the top and to control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and here you have a a push button to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you don't have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's a good idea, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so you can just have uh just have this curve, yeah, and you move uh your hand here to press the buttons and then you move uh on the other side.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you can have it on on two sides and it'll be cool,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's a good design and it's innovative as well then. Maybe we can keep the banana. And it will be very easy to find.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And everybody knows what is a banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can put also vibrator inside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Basically.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you if you start with uh fancy fruits and fra s and tha", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah-ha. You can also take into account the fact that the banana fits with the colour scheme of our company.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it's really uh really a good point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I hope the students of management die,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but anyway..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now who are recording this meeting?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it So One second. So we have to take some decision on this aspect. So, uh so for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sorry, for uh component, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have to think about those aspects, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we will just use a a standard battery?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh the chip we chip imprint we know exactly which one we are going to use. Uh what do you mean by case?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's the box that should be spongy, banana's shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh I mean for me if we use a a spongy banana case, doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just want to have so something to prin to to fix my my components onto that box, and that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The only th Yeah. Y Yeah that can be in inside th in the structure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh the thing is that the buttons and the wheel have to be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Spongy also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean if it's spongy then the buttons and the wheel have to I mean if it's spongy then it's going to move, right? So, it's going to be bend a lot.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no I think it's possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if we try to push the buttons, it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No the button would be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You think it's possible?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In fact it it should be something odd shaped, with a spongy cover.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". This is uh like the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay odd shape with spongy cover. And standard battery okay, a chip imprint, there's no specific problem. So we agree to put the wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Wheel on the top. Button, where do we want some buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, usually hold'Kay, we want it to be good also for the left-hand users, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it have to it has to be symmetrical.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah but okay. Sa let's say that th o It has to be basically you can only take two sides, one on ths this side where is the thumb and the other side where there is uh yeah also the thumb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basically. Or you could use use this one, but I don't know if it's very comfortable, to use this one for the wheel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe the thumb is more comfortable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This for the wheel and then this for the buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it's okay for both right and left. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should have the two sides.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if the left, we have the op", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you can turn it this way also. You can do both with both hands.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wheel Wheel buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the problem is if you have buttons and wheel then when you turn it around, the buttons are on the other side. So you cannot see them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, you you will get used to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And moreover, th the button ar are lighted so you you immediately identify the right side, because you have light on buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the buttons have to be here and the wheel has to be Y Yeah I know, but uh if you hold with your left hand, and the wheel is here, and the buttons are here, then when you turn it around the buttons will be on the other side.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. No you you I think you will use it only on the right or left hand, whether you are righty or lefty. I think for lefty it's okay. I can do this movement, and for righty as well. I think this doesn't change that much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Maybe. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, for interface we said also that we have uh this banana shape with button on the s on the side. And and uh a wheel on the top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the colour is yellow. I think it's uh we defined everything according to what we should what the decision we should take, yeah. So maybe we can um we can uh work on those aspects uh until next meeting. So have the final uh look and feel design according to the decision. And have the the user interface design and uh then evaluate the prodyuc the product. That is to say, uh check if it fit the the requirement uh given by the users, but according to uh your presentation it seems to be okay. It seems to be fancy, innovative, and easy to use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so to prepare the prototype I would suggest that the Industrial Designer and the User Interface Designer uh work together. That would uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "be better, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh And so uh you will receive further instruction by emails, as usual.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes master.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "do you need to add anything?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You feel okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You feel uh free to express what you want to say? You don't feel too constrained?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't feel free to answer this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe you can make uh uh mm", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "See you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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This might also hold true for other types of objects such as remote controls.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 140, "endIndex": 140 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Aside from the Industrial Designer, was there consensus on the spongy casing from the other attendees?", "response": "There is no indication in the meeting transcript that anyone other than the Industrial Designer discussed the idea of a spongy casing for the remote control.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "What did the Industrial Designer say about the size and placement of the buttons on the remote control?", "response": "This information was not discussed during this meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you give me a short recap of the topics discussed and decisions made during the meeting?", "response": "Here's a short recap of the topics discussed and decisions made during the meeting:\n\n* The participants discussed the design of a new remote control.\n* They decided to use a wheel on the remote.\n* They decided to use a standard battery.\n* They decided to use an imprinted chip.\n* They decided the case should be spongy.\n* They decided the buttons should be on the side of the remote.\n* They decided the colors should be yellow to match the company color scheme.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 9, "endIndex": 22 }, { "startIndex": 254, "endIndex": 258 }, { "startIndex": 275, "endIndex": 276 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did the Industrial Designer express a preference for using a banana-shaped remote control?", "response": "The Industrial Designer did not express a preference for a banana-shaped remote control specifically. They did suggest that the remote control should have an \"odd shape\" and a \"spongy cover.\"", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 270, "endIndex": 270 }, { "startIndex": 275, "endIndex": 275 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "At the beginning of the meeting, the project manager mentioned that they would start by summarizing the previous meeting and the decisions made. What was the main purpose of them doing this?", "response": "The main purpose of summarizing the previous meeting and the decisions made was to ensure that all participants were on the same page and had a clear understanding of the project's progress, outstanding tasks, and next steps.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 2, "endIndex": 2 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What feedback did the Marketing expert provide regarding innovative features?", "response": "Sorry, but there is no information in the record of this meeting regarding feedback on innovative features from the Marketing expert.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

{ "meetingId": "Bro008", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK. So, uh You can fill those out, uh after, actually, so So, I got, uh these results from, uh, Stephane. Also, um, I think that, uh um we might hear later today, about other results. I think s that, uh, there were some other very good results that we're gonna wanna compare to. But, r our results from other other places, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I'm sorry? I didn't", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, I got this from you", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and then I sent a note to Sunil about the cuz he has been running some other systems", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "other than the the ICSI OGI one.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So um, I wan wanna wanna see what that is. But, uh, you know, so we'll see what it is comparatively later. But it looks like, um", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "M yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know most of the time, even I mean even though it's true that the overall number for Danish we didn't improve it If you look at it individually, what it really says is that there's, um, uh Looks like out of the six cases, between the different kinds of, uh, matching conditions out of the six cases, there's basically, um, a couple where it stays about the same, uh, three where it gets better, and one where it gets worse.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Y Actually, uh, um, for the Danish, there's still some kind of mystery because, um, um, when we use the straight features, we are not able to get these nice number with the ICSI OGI one, I mean. We don't have this ninety - three seventy - eight, we have eight", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Eighty - nine forty - four.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah. Uh, so, uh, that's probably something wrong with the features that we get from OGI. Uh, and Sunil is working on on trying to to check everything.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, and and we have a little time on that and actually so", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We have a little bit of time on that, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We have a day or so, so When when when do you folks leave?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, Sunday.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sunday? So So, uh Yeah, until Saturday midnight, or something, we have W we we have time, yeah. Well, that would be good. That'd be good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, and, you know, i u when whenever anybody figures it out they should also, for sure, email Hynek because Hynek will be over there telling people what we did, so he should know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Good, OK. So, um So, we'll we'll hold off on that a little bit. I mean, even with these results as they are, it's it's it's really not that bad. But but, uh, um And it looks like the overall result as they are now, even without, you know, any any bugs being fixed is that, uh, on the the other tasks, we had this average of, uh, forty uh nine percent, or so, improvement. And here we have somewhat better than that than the Danish, and somewhat worse than that on the German, but I mean, it sounds like, uh, one way or another, the methods that we're doing can reduce the error rate from from mel ceptrum down by, you know a fourth of them to, uh, a half of them. Somewhere in there, depending on the exact case. So So that's good. I mean, I think that, uh, one of the things that Hynek was talking about was understanding what was in the other really good proposals and and trying to see if what should ultimately be proposed is some, uh, combination of things. Um, if, uh Cuz there's things that they are doing there that we certainly are not doing. And there's things that we're doing that they're not doing. And and they all seem like good things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How much how much better was the best system than ours?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So Well, we don't know yet.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, first place, there's still this thing to to work out, and second place second thing is that the only results that we have so far from before were really development set results.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, I think in this community that's of interest. It's not like everything is being pinned on the evaluation set. But, um, for the development set, our best result was a little bit short of fifty percent. And the best result of any system was about fifty - four, where these numbers are the, uh, relative, uh, reduction in, uh, word error rate.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, um, the other systems were, uh, somewhat lower than that. There was actually there was much less of a huge range than there was in Aurora one. In Aurora one there were there were systems that ba basically didn't improve things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And here the the worst system still reduced the error rate by thirty - three percent, or something, in development set.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, wow.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so, you know, sort of everybody is doing things between, well, roughly a third of the errors, and half the errors being eliminated, uh, and varying on different test sets and so forth.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So I think Um It's probably a good time to look at what's really going on and seeing if there's a there's a way to combine the best ideas while at the same time not blowing up the amount of, uh, resources used, cuz that's that's critical for this this test.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Do we know anything about who who's was it that had the lowest on the dev set?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, uh, the, uh, the there were two systems that were put forth by a combination of of, uh, French Telecom and Alcatel. And, um they they differed in some respects, but they e em one was called the French Telecom Alcatel System the other was called the Alcatel French Telecom System, uh, which is the biggest difference, I think. But but there're there're there're some other differences, too. Uh, and and, uh, they both did very well,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "you know? So, um, my impression is they also did very well on on the the, uh, evaluation set, but, um, I I we haven't seen you've - you haven't seen any final results for that", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And they used the main thing that that they used was spectral subtraction?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Or", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "There is a couple pieces to it. There's a spectral subtraction style piece it was basically, you know, Wiener filtering. And then then there was some p some modification of the cepstral parameters, where they.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually, something that's close to cepstral mean subtraction. But, uh, the way the mean is adapted um, it's signal dependent. I'm I'm, uh So, basically, the mean is adapted during speech and not during silence.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But it's very close to to cepstral mean subtraction.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But some people have done exactly that sort of thing, of of and the I mean it's not To to look in speech only, to try to m to measure these things during speech,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that's p that's not that uncommon. But i it it so it looks like they did some some, uh, reasonable things, uh, and they're not things that we did, precisely. We did unreasonable things, which because we like to try strange things, and and, uh, and our things worked too.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so, um, uh, it's possible that some combination of these different things that were done would be the best thing to do. But the only caveat to that is that everybody's being real conscious of how much memory and how much CPU they're using", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "because these, uh, standards are supposed to go on cell phones with m moderate resources in both respects.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Did anybody, uh, do anything with the models as a an experiment? Or", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, they didn't report it, if they did.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "N nobody reported it?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think everybody was focused elsewhere. Um, now, one of the things that's nice about what we did is, we do have a a, uh a filtering, which leads to a a, uh a reduction in the bandwidth in the modulation spectrum, which allows us to downsample. So, uh, as a result of that we have a reduced, um, transmission rate for the bits.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That was misreported the first time out. It it said the same amount because for convenience sake in the particular way that this is being tested, uh, they were repeating the packets. So it was they were s they they had twenty - four hundred bits per second, but they were literally creating forty - eight hundred bits per second, um, even though y it was just repeated.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, uh, in practice", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So you could've had a repeat count in there or something.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, n I mean, this was just a ph phoney thing just to to fit into the the software that was testing the errors channel errors and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so in reality, if you put this this system in into, uh, the field, it would be twenty - four hundred bits per second, not forty - eight hundred. So, um, so that's a nice feature of what what we did. Um, but, um, well, we still have to see how it all comes out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, and then there's the whole standards process, which is another thing altogether.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "When is the development set I mean, the, uh, uh, test set results due? Like the day before you leave or something?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, probably the day after they leave, but we'll have to we'll have to stop it the day before we leave.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think tha I think the the meeting is on the thirteenth or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, this Tuesday, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, they, uh Right. And the the, uh, results are due like the day before the meeting or something. So", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably, well", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I th I think I I think they are,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, well", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah. So um, since we have a bit farther to travel than some of the others, uh, we'll have to get done a little quicker. But, um, I mean, it's just tracing down these bugs. I mean, just exactly this sort of thing of, you know, why why these features seem to be behaving differently, uh, in California than in Oregon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Might have something to do with electricity shortage. Uh, we didn't we didn't have enough electrons here and Uh, but, um Uh, I think, you know, the main reason for having I mean, it only takes w to run the the two test sets in just in computer time is just a day or so, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "it's very short interval.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah. So, I think the who the whole reason for having as long as we have, which was like a week and a half, is is because of bugs like that. So Huh So, we're gonna end up with these same kind of sheets that have the the percentages and so on just for the.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there are two more columns in the sheets,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, I guess it's the same sheets,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "two. Yeah, it's the same sheets,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "just with the missing columns filled in.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, that'll be good. So, I'll dis I'll disregard these numbers. That's that's that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, Hynek will try to push for trying to combine, uh, different things? Or Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, well that's um yeah I mean, I think the question is \" Is there is there some advantage? \" I mean, you could just take the best system and say that's the standard. But the thing is that if different systems are getting at good things, um, a again within the constraint of the resources, if there's something simple that you can do Now for instance, uh, it's, I think, very reasonable to have a standard for the terminal's side and then for the server's side say, \" Here's a number of things that could be done. \" So, um, everything that we did could probably just be added on to what Alcatel did, and i it'd probably work pretty well with them, too. So, um, uh, that's one one aspect of it. And then on the terminal's side, I don't know how much, um, memory and and CPU it takes, but it seems like the filtering Uh, I mean, the VAD stuff they both had, right? And, um, so and they both had some kind of on - line normalization, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Of sorts, yeah? So so, it seems like the main different there is the is the, uh, filtering. And the filtering I think if you can shouldn't take a lot of memory to do that Uh, and I also wouldn't think the CPU, uh, would be much either for that part. So, if you can if you can add those in um then, uh, you can cut the data rate in half.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it seems like the right thing to do is to on the on the terminal's side, take what they did, if it if it does seem to generalize well to German and Danish, uh, take what they did add in a filter, and add in some stuff on the server's side and and and that's probably a reasonable standard. Um Uh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They are working on this already? Because yeah, Su - Sunil told me that he was trying already to put some kind of, uh, filtering in the France Telecom.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that's that's that's what That would be ideal would be is that they could, you know, they could actually show that, in fact, a combination of some sort, uh, would work even better than what what any of the systems had. And, um, then it would it would, uh be something to to discuss in the meeting. But, uh, not clear what will go on. Um, I mean, on the one hand, um, sometimes people are just anxious to get a standard out there. I mean, you can always have another standard after that, but this process has gone on for a while on already and and people might just wanna pick something and say, \" OK, this is it. \" And then, that's a standard. Uh, standards are always optional. It's just that, uh, if you disobey them, then you risk not being able to sell your product, or Uh um And people often work on new standards while an old standard is in place and so on. So it's not final even if they declared a standard. The other hand, they might just say they just don't know enough yet to to declare a standard. So you you you will be you will become experts on this and know more far more than me about the tha this particular standards process once you you go to this meeting. So, be interested in hearing. So, uh, I'd be, uh, interested in hearing, uh, your thoughts now I mean you're almost done. I mean, you're done in the sense that, um, you may be able to get some new features from Sunil, and we'll re - run it. Uh, but other than that, you're you're basically done, right? So, uh, I'm interested in hearing hearing your thoughts about where you think we should go from this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, we tried a lot of things in a hurry, and, uh, if we can back off from this now and sort of take our time with something, and not have doing things quickly be quite so much the constraint, what what you think would be the best thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, well Hmm Well, first, uh, to really have a look at at the speech from these databases because, well, we tried several thing, but we did not really look at what what's happening, and where is the noise, and", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Eh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's a novel idea. Look at the data. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or more generally, I guess, what what is causing the degradation.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Actually, there is one thing that well Um, generally we we think that most of the errors are within phoneme classes, and so I think it could be interesting to to see if it I don't think it's still true when we add noise, and so we have I I guess the confusion ma the confusion matrices are very different when when we have noise, and when it's clean speech. And probably, there is much more between classes errors for noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, um Yeah, so perhaps we could have a a large gain, eh, just by looking at improving the, uh, recognition, not of phonemes, but of phoneme classes, simply.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And which is a s a s a simpler problem, perhaps, but which is perhaps important for noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The other thing that strikes me, just looking at these numbers is, just taking the best cases, I mean, some of these, of course, even with all of our our wonderful processing, still are horrible kinds of numbers. But just take the best case, the well - matched uh, German case after er well - matched Danish after we.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the kind of numbers we're getting are about eight or nine uh p percent error per digit.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is obviously not usable,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, if you have ten digits for a phone number I mean, every now and then you'll get it right. I mean, it's it's, uh, um So, I mean, the other thing is that, uh And and a and and also, um part of what's nice about this is that this is, uh, um a realistic almost realistic database. I mean, it's still not people who are really trying to accomplish something, but but, uh, within the artificial setup, it isn't noise artificially added, you know, simulated, uh, additive noise.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's real noise condition. And, um, the the training the training, I guess, is always done on the close talking", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, actually actually the well - matched condition is still quite di still quite difficult.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, it's they have all these data from the close mike and from the distant mike, from different driving condition, open window, closed window,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and they take all of this and they take seventy percent, I think, for training and thirty percent for testing.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, training is done on different conditions and different microphones, and testing also is done on different microphone and conditions. So, probably if we only take the close microphones, I guess the results should be much much better than this.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that explains it partially. Wha - what about i in so the the.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there is this, the mismatched is, um the same kind of thing,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but the driving conditions, I mean the speed and the kind of road, is different for training and testing, is that right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the last condition is close microphone for training and distant for testing. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, OK,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So s so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so I see. So, yeah, so the high so the right so the highly mismatched case is in some sense a good model for what we've been, you know, typically talking about when we talk about additive noise in And so and i i k it does correspond to a realistic situation in the sense that, um, people might really be trying to, uh, call out telephone numbers or some or something like that, in in their cars", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and they're trying to connect to something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, yeah, it's very close to clean speech training because, well, because the close microphone and noisy speech testing,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. And the well - matched condition is what you might imagine that you might be able to approach, if you know that this is the application. You're gonna record a bunch on people in cars and so forth, and do these training. And then, uh, when y you sell it to somebody, they will be a different person with a different car, and so on. So it's this is a an optim somewhat optimistic view on it, uh, so, you know, the real thing is somewhere in between the two.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, uh, but", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But the I mean, the th th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Even the optimistic one is", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "it doesn't work.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right. Right, it doesn't work. So, in a way, that's, you know, that's sort of the dominant thing is that even, say on the development set stuff that we saw, the, uh, the numbers that, uh, that Alcatel was getting when choosing out the best single numbers, it was just you know, it wasn't good enough for for a a for a real system.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You you you, um So, uh, we still have stuff to do.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, and, uh I don't know So, looking at the data, where, you know what's the what's what's th what's characteristic i e yeah, I think that's that's a good thing. Does a any you have any thoughts about what else y you're thinking that you didn't get to that you would like to do if you had more time? Uh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, f a lot of thing. Because we trying a lot of s thing, and we doesn't work, we remove these. Maybe we trying again with the articulatory feature. I don't know exactly because we tried we some one experiment that doesn't work. Um, forgot it, something I don't know exactly", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because, tsk maybe do better some step the general, eh, diagram.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly s to think what we can improve.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, cuz a lot of time it's true, there were a lot of times when we've tried something and it didn't work right away, even though we had an intuition that there should be something there. And so then we would just stop it. Um And, uh, one of the things I don't remember the details on, but I remember at some point, when you were working with a second stream, and you tried a low - pass filtering to cepstrum, in some case you got.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "MSG Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, but it was an MSG - like thing, but it wasn't MSG, right? Uh, you y I think in some case you got some little improvement, but it was, you know, sort of a small improvement, and it was a a big added complication, so you dropped it. But, um, that was just sort of one try, right? You just took one filter, threw it there,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? And it seems to me that, um, if that is an important idea, which, you know, might be, that one could work at it for a while, as you're saying.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh Uh, and you had, you know, you had the multi - band things also, and, you know, there was issue of that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, Barry's going to be, uh, continuing working on multi - band things as well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We were just talking about, um, some, uh, some work that we're interested in. Kind of inspired by the stuff by Larry Saul with the, uh uh, learning articulatory feature in I think, in the case of his paper with sonorance based on, uh, multi - band information where you have a a combination of gradient learning an and, uh, EM.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, and Um, so, I think that, you know, this is a, uh this is a neat data set. Um, and then, uh, as we mentioned before, we also have the the new, uh, digit set coming up from recordings in this room. So, there's a lot of things to work with. Um and, uh what I like about it, in a way, is that, uh, the results are still so terrible. Uh Uh I mean, they're much better than they were, you know. We're talking about thirty to sixty percent, uh, error rate reduction. That's that's really great stuff to to do that in relatively short time. But even after that it's still, you know, so poor that that, uh, no one could really use it. So, um I think that's great that because and y also because again, it's not something sometimes we've gotten terrible results by taking some data, and artificially, you know, convolving it with some room response, or something we take a very Uh, at one point, uh, Brian and I went downstairs into the the basement where it was it was in a hallway where it was very reverberant and we we made some recordings there. And then we we, uh uh, made a simulation of the of the room acoustics there and and applied it to other things,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and uh But it was all pretty artificial, and and, you know, how often would you really try to have your most crucial conversations in this very reverberant hallway? Um So, uh This is what's nice about the Aurora data and the data here, is that is that it's sort of a realistic room situation uh, acoustics acoustic situation, both terms in noise and reflections, and so on and n n And, uh, uh, with something that's still relatively realistic, it's still very very hard to do very well. So Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so d well Actually, this is tha that's why we well, it's a different kind of data. We're not we're not used to work with this kind of data. That's why we should have a loo more closer look at what's going on.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um Yeah. So this would be the first thing, and then, of course, try to well, kind of debug what was wrong, eh, when we do Aurora test on the MSG particularly, and on the multi - band.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. No, I I think there's lots of lots of good things to do with this. So Um So let's I guess You were gonna say something else? Oh, OK. What do you think?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "About", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Anything", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "About other experiments? Uh, now, I'm interested in, um, uh looking at the experiments where you use, um uh, data from multiple languages to train the neural net. And I don't know how far, or if you guys even had a chance to try that, but that would be some it'd be interesting to me.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "S b", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Again, it's the kind of of thing that, uh, we were thin thinking thinking that it would work, but it didn't work. And, eh, so there is kind of of not a bug, but something wrong in what we are doing, perhaps.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, something wrong, perhaps in the just in the the fact that the labels are.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "well", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "What worked best is the hand - labeled data.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um Uh, so, yeah. I don't know if we can get some hand - labeled data from other languages.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's not so easy to find.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But that would be something interesting t to to see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also, uh, I mean, there was just the whole notion of having multiple nets that were trained on different data. So one form of different data was is from different languages, but the other Well, i in fact, uh, m in those experiments it wasn't so much combining multiple nets, it was a single net that had different", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, first thing is would it be better if they were multiple nets, for some reason? Second thing is, never mind the different languages, just having acoustic conditions rather than training them all up in one, would it be helpful to have different ones? So, um That was a question that was kind of raised by Mike Shire's thesis, and on in that case in terms of reverberation. Right? That that sometimes it might be better to do that. But, um, I don't think we know for sure. So, um Right. So, next week, we, uh, won't meet because you'll be in Europe. Whe - when are you two getting back?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, I'm", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You on Friday or S on Saturday or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sunday", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "S oh yeah, Sunday, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because it's it's less expensive, the price the price the ticket.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. You've gotta S have a Saturday overnight, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'll be back on Tuesday.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Tuesday.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Where where's the meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, Amsterdam, I think, yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, Amsterdam.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Um So, we'll skip next week, and we'll meet two weeks from now. And, uh, I guess the main topic will be, uh, you telling us what happened.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, so Yeah, well, if we don't have an anything else to discuss, we should, uh, turn off the machine and then say the real nasty things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Should we do digits first?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, digits.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, digits! Yeah. Good point. Yeah, good thinking. Why don't you go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" } ] }

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Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh where has my screen gone?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hello, good day..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, we have to talk in English,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. My screen is gone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's called black..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kick-off meeting, wow. It's uh looks uh nice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I'm a bit slow for this stuff uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I'm a bit too slow. I don't know how much preparation you guys did,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but not a lot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it's it was uh not enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You see this beautiful presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay let's get started.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I sort of prepared this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh opening acquaintance, tool training, uh how to use the things here. Uh project plan discussion, and yeah then the rest of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we're supposed to develop a new remote control, that's both original, trendy and user-friendly. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "hope you have good ideas. I don't..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I did my best.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um we're work we're working uh from top to bottom. Uh functional design,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then we do some in individual work, then we have a meeting to discuss the results, etcetera etcetera. And at the end of the day we should have a prototype drawn up. Uh we have available the smart board and the whiteboard. Um uh we should take some practice. I have some instructions now to do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well you know how to the documents work. So Uh this for toolbar. You see it next. Um we have a pen. And we can use this pen to perform..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Operations.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't always work. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so you can draw.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Draw. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay and in the format menu you can select colour and line width, etcetera etcetera. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh Okay. Each of you can uh take some practice and you should draw an animal. Uh you should explain Uh with different colours and with different pen widths.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you should explain why you draw that particular animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Don't take up too much space..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, Julian.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Different pen widths, how do you do that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh with the format menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And use different colours etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a giraffe. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And what's that supposed to be?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you serious?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should it be one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Oh yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "four legs. Uh-huh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Giraffe's yellow..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh it needs some uh some yellow uh Oh format.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you use one blank sheet per drawing? Or", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so y you must save it at the end", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can press the next button, which is uh yeah. I'll show you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's some spots.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I in the file option menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. In file menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then m make a new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much time do we have to draw anyway?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I can take forever on this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Do I have to explain uh why I chose this uh this animal?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's a it's a great animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is it?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a it's a giraffe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A giraffe okay. Yeah I see a long neck", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's more like a dinosaur..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um Okay I'll will give it an uh an eye.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's nice of you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey. Come on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some leaf to eat..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah pretty good. Uh could you press the next uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The next? Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Then uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here you go..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this part of our a acquai or introduction to each other?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah sorry, introduction and get acquainted", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the idea, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Your line broke.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's a bit slow,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not that fast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I see. It misses the spot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pressure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm guessing a turtle. No. I'm kidding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I say good guess. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why a turtle?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because of its shell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because it's slow..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's slow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it's so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You were slow too", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause it's green..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I was a bit slow too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dude you're a good drawer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So Uh some other line uh width uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you have a turtle pet?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno. Does it have legs?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah not exactly legs but More like fins", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Stumpy stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's more like a tank. Yeah that's fins", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They kind of l look like mole legs. With sharp nails on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I don't know where..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Some spots. Ah some eye.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's l looks very friendly..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a fr friendly turtle I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well I think it's uh fair enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A little tail maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I don't know what the position is. Does it have ears?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The little holes maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can you erase ears", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's a a gum,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "gum to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eraser.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And why did you choose this animal?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He said it was slow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno. I it just came into my mind. So there's no particular reason", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I pen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I like it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I'm guess I'm done.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's my turtle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Your turn Niels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How to select the next or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The next", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Colours were under format", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Makes new paper.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right? Let's see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Orange.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How am I gonna do this? Um Mm uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A rabbit I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kangaroo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kangaroo..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not quite actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fox.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A fox yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dog.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Firefox.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Aye. It's a cat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a cat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not quite yet through.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A cat who had an accident or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why a cat?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah I dunno. They're my favourite pets.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have some uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I have colour already. Yeah I'm not so good at drawing with this kind of", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The pen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "st Oh shit. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Excuse my language.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know how to draw its face. But you get the idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a cat. It's my favourite uh pet animal,'cause they're cute, they're independent and cuddly, I dunno..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or do I need to use more colours and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's okay. You get idea", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we have a financial aspect to this project. Um we can sell them at twenty five Euros. Uh the aim is to reach uh uh to sell as much as fifty million Euros. Uh that's quite a big amount of money. And the production cost should be the half of the selling price. Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "now it's time for some discussion..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What uh what uh do you want to discuss?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We should get started.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I'm taking notes. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we each have a specific task, as I saw in my mail. I didn't know if you received the same mail.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so the um uh this industrati Industrial Designer should produce a working design. Am I correct?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh the User Interface Designer should specify the technical functions. Right? Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the Marketing uh Expert should come up with user requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh did any of you already do some work on this part or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I started making an overview for myself, um what I had to do,'cause we have three design steps and in every step I have a s specific task to perform or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I had to uh, I dunno, make an overview for myself about what I have to do,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and kind of let it work in to get ideas about well how I have to fill it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And do you have any ideas about the product uh so far?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I started I started with the first phase, I think was the functional.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh let's see I had to focus on the working design, which you said.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How does the apparatus work? And well I basically had two points. Uh according to the coffee uh machine example, I have batteries to supply energy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we ye use button presses to activate or deactivate certain functions on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's basically all I have so far.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I got another point. It uses infrared light to communicate the signal to the T_V_ apparatus or stereo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Wireless uh huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's very common.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh it's uh some buttons for for the on off function. You d you already told that. And for the changing up to the to all the channels and changing the volume. That are the the basic options for a remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I kept it global'cause that it activates or deactivates specific functions,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause I wasn't thinking yet about that. I mean, you wanna ch ch flip the channel", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you might wanna use teletext also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno what the word is in English. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Same I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh and what did the Marketing Expert do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well from a marketing uh perspective, um well the function des design phase uh consists out of the user requirements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um what needs and desires are to be fulfilled? So there are a few means to reach that um by by doing research uh to see what existing products are there out in the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, what functions do they have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um especially what are their shortcomings? Are there any new functions uh which can be added to our product?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um therefore we have to to do some internet search. For example for um well what kind of applications do current remote controls support, and what are f featur features of uh current and future televisions?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can see uh what needs to be supported. Um and we can interview current users and future users. What w what would they like to see uh on a new remote control? Um especially for future users,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh I'm thinking of early adopters, because they they use new technology first,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they play with a lot of tools and stuff so maybe they have some good ideas to uh to add.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And you can get that information?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I can get that information, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. That would be very handy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but have you any idea so far as what uh the user requirements are?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No n not specifically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More to how to get them", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I got some uh requirements", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it has uh it has to be user-friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Obviously.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh really easy to use buttons, not not uh very small buttons, but not the the also the big big buttons, but just normal buttons. It has to be a small unit. It has to be uh yeah, you can take it with you uh everywhere in in your house. So it has n has not to be l yeah, gigantic uh machine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Big, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh and a and a good uh zapping range..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh what do you mean by that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the distance uh from your television to your uh remote control has to be, uh yeah um yeah, quite a big distance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It has to be capable for zapping uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. From the other end of the room or something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay um Well I don't think I have anything more to add at the moment. Um I think the best is to go to work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoa. Is that you", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Any more points to discuss?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think we can go ahead with what we have. I will summarise the things we discussed and put it in the project folder. Uh the use of the Industrial Designer can work on the working design, etcetera etcetera. And it seems you get more information by email. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that was it for me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you going to put the the notes on the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, in the project folder. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. The pro okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm writing very fast..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hope it's readable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay um anything more you want to add to the discussion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well no I'm just a bit wondering what we're gonna do the next uh session?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do we only have to to do uh phase one, the functional design uh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because then we have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "After that we are going to the conceptual uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y you do some individual work,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're just working the three phases.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have meeting, individual work, meeting. And at the end of the day we have a final meeting. And then I have to prepare uh I have to defend our design,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so make it good..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. We'll do our best.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I depend on you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Better make it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I am gonna work on the conceptual design already'cause yeah it's fairly important to know what kind of components we want to put in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? If you can mix it it's okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we I mean, is it gonna be a multimedia control centre? Do we want to be able to use the video recorder with it?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That is my question also", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because like new new functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think that is the user requirements part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Requirements. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As to what they want. Uh do they want all those functions on that small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But but we need good communication about this stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Unit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause I have to f put the components into the design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would first m", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if I don't know what components to put in, it's kind of hard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I understand.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I was.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I think we have first to start with the basic functions and we can uh expand them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can always add a few.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "well like l li like some like some some remotes who are out there, which I know, there's one button which is very easy to switch between devices.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can switch to your video", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then the same buttons control your video.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the C_D_ player. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And another function I'll think of switch to your media centre, because that's getting very popular.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then use your Windows media centre under your T_V_ with the same remote control. So with the switch, one single switch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I I know what you mean, but you'll ne need several other buttons for a video player.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You need a play and a forw fast forward and a stop function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you you don't need that for a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "records and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and for a t uh teletext you need additional buttons as well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You need additional yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I kind of need to know what we uh need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whatever, I'll just put my ideas in uh in here", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then we can discuss it with the next uh meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the project uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We could just start with the assumption that's only for T_V_ and video. And um reserve the possibility to add other features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have a basic starting point", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you can always extend that so make sure it's extendible. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it it has yeah it has to be user-friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's hasn't it's yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th the least amount of functions possible", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's easier to get to know how it works etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I understand. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay and uh I'll see you again uh when the computer tells us to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you're di dismissed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we leave now", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Half an hour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're fired..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright let's move on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's see what we got to do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See you later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah see you later.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good luck..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well good luck..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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And you are User Interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nick Broer,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "User Interface Designer. I'm going to uh look at the technical design from the uh user point of view.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My name is Xavier Juergens, I'm the Industrial Designer, and there are three main questions that I have to find an answer to today. First one is uh what happens inside the apparatus, second is what is uh the apparatus made of,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the third is what should it look like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What should it look like? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, let's kick it off. Oh, there we go. So, our new project is about we need design a remote control for television set, so, which has to be original, trendy and user-friendly. I took this off our corporate website. I think well it sums up what we need to do. It's We're inspired by latest fashion, not only electronics, but also the latest trends in clothes and interior design. That's why our product will always fit in your home. So apparently we need to um be very at um very open to what's currently hot in the market. So that's what you need to do to bring us the latest info and what people want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So So we put the fashion in electronics. So that's what we need to go for. Anyway, we'll take this project in three steps, three pha uh three phase of design. First step will be the functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that's basically what we're gonna do. Everybody has uh a piece of individual work and a meeting afterwards, so we can share information about So I'm gonna keep this short, since we had a technical problem. So skip through this. Uh. Okay. Every meeting we everybody can present their uh their views and everything, so to help with these, you have we have the SMARTboards here. We can use a regular PowerPoint presentation. I'm supposed to give you an introduction on this doodling board, so it's actually it's very easy. Like it says, very simple, you just take out the pen. Like you see here, I'll just take the take here. That's it, you just put it on the board. You see a pen here. You go here, just like using a pen. You can just draw whatever you want. It's like the eraser, can erase whatever you want. And so it will be easy just to illustrate your views, if you wanna change the format, you just either take out jus just like the pen, and whatever you want, your current colour, your line width, just to make the line bigger. So it should be really easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is to take the just take a new slide and back again. We're just gonna keep using this board all the time, so I think it will be it's very clear for everyone, I suppose. So I'll take this out. Okay. We'll use that later. Anyway. Yeah, just just just stuff that you wanna share, just put it in the in the project folder, like I put my presentation now. I'll put the the minutes of every meeting, I'll put them there too, so everybody can read up if they have to leave early or whatever. So next, been here. Well, gonna give the electronic white-board uh a shot. So basic idea is we have a blank sheet. Just try whatever you want, and like it says, draw your favourite animal. I think the creative genius should go first..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The creative genius?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, draw us your favourite animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I'm more into the technical aspects of drawing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I'm not really good at drawing animals,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Draw us a technical animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh the animal which I Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's still erasing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh format. Else my animal will be like king-size. I pretty much like a dolphin, because of its uh its freedom basically. Let's see. A head. actually worked with this. It's like uh it's a very Uh high-tech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bit low-responsive though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's what we don't want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Prefer pen and paper.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We want a high-responsive product. So It looks more like nuclear bomb.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very nice dolphin.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It doesn't look like a nuclear bomb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This thing isn't doing what I'm What I want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's go easy on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Yeah, well it does look like a nuclear bomb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll just finish up real soon, because I'm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it doesn't really look like a dolphin,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anyway,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but then again, this is all new for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it should It It's supposed to be a dolphin, you like the freedom that it that it represents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like the ocean, like swimming. Do that in my spare time, so that's basically an.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you like? Okay. Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now we can forget this ever happened.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "our Marketing Expert. Show us an animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um an animal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pick a pick a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like the elephant..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pick a clean sheet. Oh. Take a clean sheet first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What? Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just press next. That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Oh, a blank. Okay, next. Free, I like the elephant. It's big, it's strong, so uh uh Oh, it's a little bit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not really that responsive, no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have to hold it, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a beautiful animal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, you have to p press it pretty hard. With a smile on it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a cute elephant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's very important. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh not to forget its tail. Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a nice beard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's okay. Yes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you was making comments on my dolphin..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I will beat the dolphin. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so it's just a bee.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I suggest you make us the elephant in the market. The big and strong player in the market. This would be good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, excellent. On to the next one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, you should press next.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Press next. Yeah, it's up there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well the animal I'd like to draw is a tiger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You picked a hard one, didn't you?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My drawing skills are really bad, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Experience with the tiger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What? They are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They are really bad, my drawing skills.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure looks smooth.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not sure how the legs should go, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh these are stripes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Got it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I've picked this animal because it's very fast. It is uh it knows exactly what it wants. Uh it hardly ever wastes any resources.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What does it want?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well, basically uh it hunts for prey, but it does it always in a very well-thought way. Uh it knows exactly what it wants. It never kills an animal uh just for the killing, so it's very efficient. And it tries to do everything as fast as possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it always goes for uh security, in seeking uh uh a hide spot and uh and doing everything,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "security, speed and efficiency is important. And I think uh those things we can use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", I'm supposed to draw the animal next. Yay I introduce to the world the amazing ant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh hard worker.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Great team-workers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do everything to Uh really small, but together they're really strong. So I'm gonna give it a smiley face.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not sure where the p. Just put'em here. Whatever..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think it need shoes. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just too lazy to draw it all black, so That's the coolest ant ever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've done this before, haven't you?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I love to draw ants. It's my hobby.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyway Nah. Just I think it's very representative what we drew, I guess. Like you take just take your freedom and use a a trendy interface that you design for us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just Yeah. You're supposed to make i make it different from uh from what other people have, and just make it a little distinct. Anyway. another beep to stop the meeting. See. Warning. Finish meeting now. Uh put this down. Examples. Well I guess we have a little little time extra, but Just a little quick discussion to to open open our work. So what do you guys think about The first idea is just very short. I'll start with you. What are y What are your first ideas for the new product? What.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I basically had a question. Do uh Are we going to introduce a multi remote control? Is it just the T_V_ or do we want to in", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The project I got was just for a T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just for T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, I was thinking about design remote control, with our uh motto and all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh thing to keep in mind is that we need to stick to what people are familiar with.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No rational changes or whatever,'cause it revolutionary changes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so very intuitive design, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yes. Uh we might have to consider other design aspects of our product. So that was something I wanted to add,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and perhaps some usability aspect. T_V_ is becoming central in most homes. Do we want people who are disabled in any way to uh, yeah, to be able to use it as well?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we want I suppose we want almost everyone to be using it. So I think I mean, really disabled people, yeah, might be a problem, but I think it's a little take it into consideration. Um yeah. I think we really need to cut the meeting short. You have anything you wanna share quickly?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Only one thing uh that has to be added according to me is uh the the material it is made of, it should be something light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it speaks for itself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should be light, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but some uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, let's see,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "where did I Let's skip that. Oh, this is it. Sorry, I skipped this sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Selling price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do we This Quick What we're going to Selling price, twenty five Euros. That's for you. The production price, twelve and a half Euros, approximately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just go go for that. We'll reach the uh reach that profit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well that's not that much to work with..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "international.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it's not much to work on. I'm sorry, I skipped it. Anyways, that's Yeah, this is it. Do you have anything you you came up with yet? About uh marketing transfer, whatever?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um about what? Marketing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Marketing I'm not sure what you what you came up with yet. You have anything to share? Or else we'll cut the meeting just cut the meeting short", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um no, not really yet,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "since we're supposed to stop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I've some ideas", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I will uh say it uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyways, the the personal coach will give you the your p your personal assignments and everything. So we'll just meet back in here thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sure we have that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good luck everyone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, thanks for attending.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, good luck.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll see you back here in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1009c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Hello everyone..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um how uh how we doing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact,'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are pressed, mm uh uh child lock um and uh maybe a display clock so that people could um you could see the time, you know, what show they want to watch. Also mentioned was uh maybe different shapes. So the components of the thing should be button, bulbs, infra infra-red bulbs, battery, chips, wires, and maybe some kind of a holder uh for the for the uh item. Francino who is our um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Interface designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "interface designer um uh has mentioned that the that it, of course, should have an on-off button, and also has mentioned an interesting feature that it should have maybe a channel lock. Particularly with maybe small children that they couldn't uh watch a channel that is undesirable. It should be compact. Her personal favourite was it should be T-shaped. And maybe have an anar alarm-clock. And the material should possibly be not of non-allergic nature. Uh the different systems uh that exist are infra-red or radio-waves. Uh maybe it should have uh electri electrici electricity saving feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And even possibly a timer to so that people can program their favourite uh uh program on th right from the remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh are we all in agreement that that's about what we discussed last time? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that pretty much is it. Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, then we I'm looking for three presentations. And uh I don't know whether the order matters much uh, I don't I don't think so, so whoever w wants.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I can start first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Now my slide, please..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, your slides. Okay. Oh, come on, close already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's number two, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Participant three. Yes. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now as an interface designer, I would give more emphasis on the interface, how the remote looks like so that it is sellable, it is attractive to customers. Next, please. Okay. Now the function of a remote is to send messages to the television. This messages could be uh switch on-off message or switch to next channel message or swapping the channels or switching onto a particular channel, like you can have the numbers one, two, three, four, up to nine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nine what? Nine channel uh switches?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pardon me?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nine channel switches? Is Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, nine numbers. And then you have swapping of uh button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "by which using which you can swap the channels if you don't want to see the third channel you can swap it to the fourth channel or vice versa. Then it should have a next button, and next button channel by which you can keep on uh v uh mm eh scrolling the channels one by one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Going to the nex next.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Next slide, please.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then you should have a button which should which ca which can be used for increasing or decreasing the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then, there should be a button which can give subtitles for a particular program which is going on a television. For example, if you are watching a French program and you would like to have a subtitles in English, then there should be a channel which can trigger this mechanism in the television so that the user can see uh the the subtitles on the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then there should d uh there should be some buttons which can control features like the colour, colour of the picture, the contrast, sharpness, brightness of the picture. Now there should be a memory switch. There should be a mute button. Suddenly if if if uh uh viewer he gets a telephone call, and if he want he doesn't want to switch off the uh T_V_, but he he can reduce the sound, he can bring the volume down and he can watch he can uh while talking he can watch the T_V_. Now the most important feature I would like to have in my remote would be the speech recognition feature. It's an integrated progra programmable sample sensor speaker unit. So a remote can be th can be uh designed which can have the voice recognisers, you can record your own voice", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which can be recognised by as voice recogniser in the television, for example, if you want to see we if you want to see the ninth channel if you say just say ninth channel, uh th now the the uh yeah, the remote will automatically it will switch to the ninth channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the T_V_ will have some recogniser which will recognise the user's voice and accordingly it will change its functionalities.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is one of the very important feature a remote control can have. So this is one one of the interface which can be created.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A very simple interface which has all the t uh uh important features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then, please, next slide.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then, these are some of the remotes which are different in shape and colour, but they have many buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh sometimes the user finds it very difficult to recognise which button is for what function and all that. So you can you can design an interface which is very simple, and which is user-friendly. Even a kid can use that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So can you go on t t uh to the next slide. Yeah, so this is one of the interface or one of the remote which has this vi voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this has multi-purpose use, it can be used for T_V_, it can be used for cable-satellite, it can be used for V_C_R_, D_V_D_s and audio. And this has in-built voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you go on to the next slide? Yeah, now this is an interface for a chil uh for a remote uh uh which a child can use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh this is user-friendly, it's very attractive and uh children can use it as well as they can play with it. And this comes with different colours, different shapes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this this uh child uh interface has minimum buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and all the important uh buttons are there in this small, compact, attractive child interface. Next slide, please. Now this is a big over-sized remote which cannot be misplaced or it's impossible to misplace.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't know me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I could lose that in a minute..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So this is No this is a very big, you cannot misplace it anywhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is a jumbo universal remote control and it's impossible to im misplace or lose..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This i this is one such interface which can be created. And the personal preference uh would be a spe uh uh to incorporate speech recognisers uh which will respond to user's voice for a particular uh function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you, that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, thank you very much. Uh any comments on uh her presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, um looks like we still have quite a choice of things out there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um what uh I'm No suggestion's bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh we're gonna have to narrow it down a little more. I don't think that we can get uh The T-shape is good, the child one is good, the too big to misplace, I think it's just funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I don't think that's gonna be our impulse purchase at the checkout counter.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I th I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's it's gonna be a little bit too unwieldy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I think the these are her presentations, but uh as far as the decision making we getting to that after after", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah mm. Mm-hmm. Have to come back to that later. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but if I just wanted to know whether anybody had any any anything to add to her presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I think her presentation was good, and she really explored all the options. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm right. Mm-hmm. Ho who wants to go next um? Mm-hmm. Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the next one, sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it was the old one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The components design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um this time I'm I'm going to um concentrate more on the components and the technical side of the remote controller design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, can you go on to the next slide, please.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have just brief uh down few uh components which we require for the remote control uh construction.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh the first one is case to keep all the components like integrated circuit, battery, etcetera, etcetera, it's like Uh it can be a plastic one, hard plastic, so that it can be strong, even if you just uh uh, you know, if you if it falls down, then it doesn't break. So it should be strong.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh uh there are no harmful materials used in that. And it should be recyclable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, and also uh using of colouring compon components like uh if we want to have different colours, blue, red, green, so uh uh we have to use uh some colouring compone compone components. And uh the second important thing is uh uh uh integrated circuit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh which uh we can use a highly sophisticated one because it's like the it's like the heart of the remote controller. If it is not efficient then everything wi is going to be uh like um the lef ess less efficient so it you should we should have a highly sophisticated one. And it should be resistant to high as well as uh low temperatures. Suppose if it is thirty-eight degrees outside forty degrees outside, it should it should uh be able to re uh resist the uh temperature uh uh highs and uh high temperatures and low temperatures. And uh it should be with uh um equipped with timer and alarm facility. And the uh other component we should uh we have in the remote controller is a resistor uh which is like uh uh i it is very very much important for the electricity uh flow through through through the uh remote controller and uh also a capacitor which is a b which is a m I think it's it's like a battery, capacitor. Can you go on to the next slide, please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh a diode, a transistor, a resonator, these are all this uh technical uh electri electronic compons uh components which are which we have to use in a remote controller. A battery uh, I would like to suggest one thing uh if we uh if we will be able to make a res rechargeable battery then we sh we need not go for a high performance battery, even if it is a low performance battery it ca it can't l it can't charge much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it it's not a high voltage battery. Then also we can If it is a rechargeable one, then uh people can use it for a long time, so in that way we can cut cut the cost, but w uh uh that we have to make the battery as rechargeable one. And we we have a circuit board uh in a remote controller. Can you go to the next slide, please. And how it works, how the remote controller works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Go away.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you. Uh when you press a button, when you do that, you complete a specific connection that means when you when you press a button there will be a s a small circuit underneath the button, and it will send some signals through the wires,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then uh the chip will send start connection and knows that which button is pressed. Suppose you have pressed channel one button, number one you have pressed, then the uh chip will know that the number one button was pressed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It pros produces a mors morse code line signal specific to that button. Every button, every individual button, has its own morse code. Suppose uh the uh user has pressed butto button one, then it will have a spe the circuit will generate a specific morse code to b that that button, and the transistor will amplify the signal and send then to the L_E_D_ which translates the signal into infrared light. Like you have got a signal by pressing a button. That's a d a morse code has been generated by the integrated circuit. Now, that signal, that morse code, has to be amplified by the transistor. That is the use of transist transistor we which we use in the remote controller. It will amplify the signal and it will send it to the L_E_D_ and which translates the signal into an infra infrared bits. The sensor on the T_V_ can see the infrared light, and seeing the signal seeing the signal re it reacts appropriately, that when it sees the amplified mo morse code signal, then it will uh it will uh know which uh what what action it has to uh do. Then it will do the appropriate action. So uh this is how the remote controller works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It works.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you go to the next slide, please. Yeah, I have few pictures. When you look at the uh um remote controller uh it's it's it this is a normal remote controller. And to the next slide, please.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And where we had a a few buttons and all. And uh if you open the remote controller you have this circui circuit board and few electronic components,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like you can see a chip there which is having eighteen pins,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and also a capac uh a capacitor, three resistors and also a resonator uh um mm yeah, and di and a diode transistor.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The electronic components uh all of the electronic components have all those uh things like a chip and d diode transistors an Yeah, di um can y uh you can see the T_A_ double one eight three five labelled uh chip um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh you can also see the uh uh the green two green things are uh these are they are they are resistors,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh just beside that you can see a transistor, and a uh uh cylinder shape, uh that one is a capacitor. Uh and also there are uh um resistors uh sorry, ther there is a diode.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can you go go on to the next slide.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh this is the circuit board. The green one is a circuit board. Actually, uh building a circuit bo board is pretty pretty uh easy and also it's a it's a l l inexpensive. Uh it's it costs less than what you print on a paper, because uh uh when you when you are building uh some circuits some um uh circuits and also wires, it's it's better to go for printing, because uh you can build these kind of k circuit boards on a on a bulk and it's just printing, nothing like uh, you know, you don't need to use wires and all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not exactly wires we are using. It's just printing something on a board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tha tho those prints will acti act as wires and ci uh circuits. So th that green uh thing is a circuit board, and also you can see uh there are b s like uh um access for buttons, like when you press a button, the circuit under the button will be activated uh th it will it will he get some signals from it and it will uh it will ch its ch se send a signal signals to the, yeah, um integrated circuit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Transmit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you go to the next slide, please. Uh so this is these are the circuits un underneath the buttons. Uh can you see the black uh, round marks?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They they are the circuits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next, please. And um like uh we have uh designed uh before we have seen some uh few things like instead off buttons we have some scrolls. Uh b but a b a push-button requires a simple chip underneath it, but whereas a scroll wheel requires normally a regular chip which is a higher price range. Like for s scrolls we have to go for a sophisticated and and k uh uh uh full a complete chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh and a as energy source we offer a basic battery, a more ingenious uh hard dynamo, um a kinetic provision of energy, more than what is that you shake casually to provide energy. So that also we can have in a battery, uh or we can use solar sells. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm, that's interesting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh yeah uh the product can be de delivered into different cases. Uh usually, the cases and card flat that w we see usually uh d uh a normal remote controller.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And you have more pictures. Uh we have five minutes to the end of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe d uh I have just one more slide, I think. Um. Like we can have a ma material such as plastic, rubber, wood, titanium, but titanium we can't use. Um and also for electronics we can use a simple and regular um re or an advanced chip on the print, um also infra it includes the infrared se sender. Um yeah the uh for the movie just to j develop uh samples and so spe sample speaker. An Yeah, that's it. It's all for me now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Any particular comments by anybody?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, on the scroll and the push-button, um ca you can achieve scrolling by repeatedly pushing a button?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, no, no, th the the the scrolling wheels are different, like you can go for a sw switches like buttons or scrolls, uh which which we used to do before ten ten years before, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now, nobody uses that because you need you need a a k sophisticated chip and all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think it's better we go for uh um ordinary buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. We'll just go for push buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah uh yeah, push-buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for in the interest of cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We don't have a lot of time left and we will still have to make a decision, and the marketing expert has to present her her thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Go right to my first my next slide.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um alright, my method is uh I'm interested in what the competition is doing, and wanna see how we can make ourselves different from the competition, so I've really been looking at the press and the ads that are out there for other remote controllers. I s I spend a lot of time on the internet um surfing around doing the same thing. And then when I'm out um in people's houses or at meetings or anything like that, I try to notice what kind of remote controls people have, and if it's convenient in the conversation I ask about it. And I would encourage you all to do the same. Um and my findings from this is that, you know, small is beautiful. Um people like something that really fits in their hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Simple is beautiful. They don't want to have to squint at small print um, they want buttons whose functions are obvious, and they want um as few buttons as possible, and they don't care for the mode thing. They want each button to do something. And eye-catching is important. It's gotta look cute, it's gotta look appealing. Go ahead, I'm trying to finish fast for you. Um and our preference is, as far as I'm concerned, are we got to get to the market before the competition. Ours has to be look really great and it has to come out before the others, so that we have a leg up on time to sell it and push it before other people get out their Christmas item. And we should develop one or two features we can really dwell on in our ad campaign. If we try to tell people it has too many great features, um the consumer just gets confused and we don't get anywhere. So we've gotta narrow our selection down to li two things, I think, that we gonna say are really great about our our our new product. And I've been looking around um at what designs every year different things are popular. And in my research this year I found out that fruit and vegetable shapes are really popular. And people are tired of hard plastic and hard metal. They are more back into soft feel, spongy feeling things, things with maybe a little cloth on them. So those are things maybe we wanna look at as far as saleability of the item.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that concludes the presentation of everyone. And what we really have to decide in this meeting is um the concept of the remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh so what do we think on the concept", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "of the remote?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You wanna try to come back to yours, and limit yours a bit?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yes, I would like to include this feature which is called as voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So speech recognition is most important as far as you're concerned?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This could be uh one feature which could be sellable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah h that could that could that could be our star feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That that be really good, yeah, I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but I what I'm uh very very much doubtful how how uh far it will work, because a speech recogniser like i it it has its own uh uh problems, issues.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Distance problem?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not distance problem it it's recognising a person's voice,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like maybe different people will be having different voices, so it like it's uh everything so i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you you teach You have to teach uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So to get a good recogni recognising system, it's a costly thing, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it's it's, uh yeah, it it's like your recording of uh all uh um a question already, and then you're expecting an answer from th For example, you have a T_V_ system, I'm the user and my family members are the user,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I will already record uh a question like, uh good morning,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like around eight o'clock I want to see the news in the television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I'll say just good morning and the T_V_ will switch on. It will recognise my voice and will switch on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, before we get too far off here um, the components of the concept is the energy. What kind of energy do we foresee? Battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think battery,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I think we all agreed on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That that's that's gonna be most cost-effective and the best thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay then chip on print.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the case. And I think we all agree on the case, we wanna have something uh maybe bright, colourful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bright, colourful, trendy trendy design, and strong.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And compact.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also strong.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Trendy design and compact.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Trendy, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Trendy design, compact and strong.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "User interface concept, uh interface type, supplements", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That will be your area I think, right, Jana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Um like the switches, like we use buttons for user interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Put uh k I guess uh for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. And Not sure what they mean by supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Supplements like different types of features buttons, like can have a f mute button or a swapping button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, I think that Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or or like her speech recognition would also be a supplement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. A what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Her speech recognition feature would be a supplement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, right, right, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Recogniser. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so why don't we put down speech recognition if possible pending some more research from our industrial engineer on how expensive that is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh our next meeting will be in thirty minutes, and the uh I_D_ is to this is the individual actions to be taken until then, to have the look and feel design, and uh the U_I_D_ is supposed to uh come up with the user interface design,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the marketing expert with the product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In this phase, the two of you, Jana and Francine, have to work together on a prototype using modelling clay, it says here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You will receive specific instructions will be sent to you by your coaches.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um if you have any questions, you know, you you can always uh contact me um or uh or your coach, I suppose..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wherever they're hiding?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so um I think we conclude the meeting here and we come back in uh uh thirty minutes, according to our timetable here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education8", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received apologies for absence from Suzy Davies and there is no substitute. Janet Finch-Saunders is joining us from the Assembly offices in Colwyn Bay via video conference. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay. Item 2, then, this morning is a post-legislative scrutiny session on the Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams AM, Minister for Education, and Huw Morris, who is director of the skills, higher education and lifelong learning group in Welsh Government. Thank you, both, for attending, and thank you for the paper that you provided in advance. I will just start the questioning by asking whether you are planning to repeal the 2015 higher education Act, or will it be amended by the post-compulsory education and training Bill?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Chair. I'm very pleased to be with the committee again this morning, although it's in slightly unusual circumstances. As a piece of post-legislative scrutiny, this was a Bill that was taken forward by a different Minister in a different administration, but I think it is really valuable work in the context of the question you just set out: what can we learn from the implementation of this piece of legislation as we move forward with our reform journey and with this Government and my proposals to introduce a new commission for tertiary education? There is much, at the moment, that lies within the 2015 Act that we will look to bring forward into the new legislation, but there are certainly experiences—and I'm sure we'll come on to some of the evidence that has been received about what's worked, what perhaps hasn't worked—that we all want to reflect on and be mindful of as we take forward the new Bill, including the report of this committee as part of it. So, it is our intention that this Bill will be superceded by the new PCETR Bill.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've got a series of questions now from Siân Gwenllian.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Good morning. Do you believe that the Act has fulfilled all the Government's objectives? Where are the weaknesses?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Diolch yn fawr, Siân. As I've said, it's a bit difficult to place myself in the mind of the previous Minister when this legislation was first envisaged and then taken through. You'll be aware that there were four main reasons for the introduction of the Bill: around regulation of institutions in Wales; safeguarding the contribution made to public good arising from Welsh Government's financial support for the sector; maintaining a focus on fair access; and preserving and protecting the principle of institutional autonomy. I think the evidence that has been received by the committee to date shows that there are different views about the effectiveness of whether all four strategic aims have been achieved. I think those strategic aims are still really, really important and certainly will underpin our thought process going forward, but we have to recognise the higher education and research Bill across the border in England, the implementation of new student support measures in Wales, as well as the report that was done by Ellen Hazelkorn, I think, means it is appropriate that we move forward with different proposals, not just regulation of the HE sector but the post-compulsory sector as a whole. We will look to see what we can do to strengthen or whether there is more that we need to do to achieve those four objectives, because I think those four objectives are still very, very relevant. But we have to have legislation now that is fit for the circumstances we currently find ourselves in and, hopefully, futureproofs us for how we want to see the sector develop in the future.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Do you feel perhaps that the legislation itself hasn't been strong enough, and that you then have had to drive some of these objectives through the annual remit letter, rather than through legislation, and that's why the strengthening is required?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Certainly, I see the remit letter as a really, really important way in which national priorities and the priorities of an elected Government can be clearly stated, communicated to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, and then HEFCW use their powers to ensure that that happens. So, certainly, I see the remit letter as being a very important mechanism for ensuring, as I said, that those national priorities are clearly articulated, and then change happens.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Has the current legislation been framed around institutional autonomy so that it's not possible for institutions to fulfil any national outcomes, and is that going to be an element of the new Bill?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, certainly, the 2015 Act contains numerous provisions that protect universities' privileges and autonomy. And that's really important, and those are principles that I am committed to in any legislation that I bring forward. We'll certainly be looking to see how we can carry those protections into the forthcoming Bill, but, at the same time, we do have to ensure appropriate regulation and accountability of institutions for their public funding and the privileges that they enjoy. And I think there are a number of ways in which that can happen. We have a very positive working relationship with the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, and I am very fortunate to have a very positive working relationship with the sector. The remit letters are a really important way in which we can lay out those national priorities. I don't think there's anything in the legislation per se that prevents those national priorities being articulated and being acted upon.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I don't think that's what HEFCW has said in their evidence. They've said that the Bill has been framed in a way where it's not possible for institutions to fulfil any requirements. You're talking about the remit letter; maybe you need to have that discussion there, but, in terms of the Bill itself, you can't make them fulfil any national outcomes. Shouldn't there be a discussion looking to move in a direction where there are national outcomes being set through legislation, because there is public money going into that?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know whether we need national outcomes through legislation, because those national priorities, potentially, will change over time. What is really important, and what we will be seeking to do in the new legislation, is look to move to a system of outcome agreements. So, there is a very clear expectation that the commission will have, in regulating the sector, and co-ordinating and funding the sector, to create a system of outcome agreements, where those outputs will reflect national priorities, and that's one of the things that we've consulted on, and will look to take forward in the new legislation.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. That's clear enough. What about private providers? The Act, or the Act as it stands, makes it a requirement for a regulated institution to be a charity, and that means it's not possible to regulate alternative private providers under the Act, even though they can provide higher education in Wales. What is your view on this, and will the new legislation continue with the requirement of being a charity?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Okay. So, I think, first of all, it's important to make the distinction between the scale of private providers, and what could be termed as'unregulated providers' in the Welsh system, as opposed to the English system. And I think that's a really important distinction to make. So, currently, under the current legislation, unregulated providers can only access Welsh Government student support if they're designated on a case-by-case basis. So, we do have a circumstance where—and a process in place, to manage this. So, we have a specific designation policy, which is operated on our behalf by HEFCW. Only six organisations were designated on a case-by-case basis in the 2018-19 academic year, so the scale here is small. Three of those were further education colleges. So, when we talk about a private provider, perhaps people would have a view of a private university, but, actually, three of those were FE colleges, which we would all be familiar with. And the three private providers were the Centre for Alternative Technology, the training arm of the Church in Wales and the Newport and District Group Training Association. All three of those are actual charities. So, in order for their courses to be specifically designated, the three crucial questions that those providers have to answer are: quality—is what they’re providing to students of a good quality; the financial viability of the institution, again, to try to protect the interests of the students who may find themselves embarking on a course in an institution that isn’t viable; as well as their contribution to private—sorry, not to private good—public good. And we are considering how that part of the sector will be regulated in the forthcoming legislation. But, Huw, I don't know if there's anything else to add?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, just to say that there are a very small number of private providers, as the Minister has outlined, and, in comparison with England, where I think the last figures said that there were between 300 and 400 private providers in England, you get a sense of the differences that exist there. And, if you look at what happened over recent years, it has been those small private providers across the UK who have been most financially challenged and a number of them have stopped their operations, with consequences for the students. So, we’ve been keen to put students at the front of things to make sure that the institutions that they’re enrolling with are strong and have good quality.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Okay. So, what you're saying is that you will continue with a charitable status, or not—", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "At this stage—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—or are you still thinking about it?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, at this stage, I think the charitable status will continue to be an important part of what we will take forward.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Just turning finally to part-time fees and postgraduate fees, do you have an intention to regulate this part in the new legislation?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I have to say that, at present, we've not identified an urgent reason to designate these courses as qualifying courses for the purposes of a fee limit. And there are a number of reasons for that. Actually, the current Act—the 2015 Act—does not permit the fee regulation of postgraduate courses, other than PGCE courses for IT purposes. In the case of part-time courses, I'm currently content that fee levels are not exceeding the amount of student support made available by the Welsh Government. So, I think we are, at this moment, relaxed about that, and there are some difficulties around deciding and introducing fee limits on postgraduate courses. I think what's really important to me is the success at the moment of attracting people to postgraduate and part-time study in Wales, as a result of our reforms to student finance. But, clearly, we'll need to keep that under review. But, at this current moment, the Act precludes fee regulation in some areas and there's not a pressing policy need that we've identified to date.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on now to some questions about the level of ambition in the higher education Act and any lessons for the PCET Bill, from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. To what extent has the 2012 university funding system limited Welsh Government’s policy leverage over the sector, and how has the HE Act addressed this beyond the levers offered by fee and access plans?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Of course, the Act was introduced as a direct result of the changing scenario around finance and the different ways in which, because of the reduction in HEFCW's budget, the level of influence that HEFCW would be able to exert over institutions through the imposition of terms and conditions of funding—. So, the Act was introduced in part to address that shift in influence and the Act also has provided HEFCW with a range of new powers of intervention and sanctions in the case of non-compliance by institutions. Personally, I wholeheartedly believe that tertiary education providers should contribute to national goals and outcomes as part of what I'd describe as a civic mission. I'm determined that any legislation that I bring forward and any commission that I establish will be empowered to enable that to happen through its regulatory and funding powers. Of course, the funding situation has shifted again now because of the introduction of what is commonly known as the Diamond reforms, but our new system of student finance does again shift the parameters of influence that HEFCW or any new tertiary commission could have. But, as I said earlier, it's not to say that institutions have had a free reign. We have been able to use the remit letter and our relationship with HEFCW to progress agendas that we would want to see. So, for instance, you'll be aware, in my remit letter, I am concerned about issues around how people working in the sector are paid. We've been able to successfully see all institutions sign up to becoming living wage employers, all institutions sign up to the Welsh Government's code of ethical procurement. So, it's not to say that the Act has meant that we've had no influence, but there are opportunities now, because of the change in financial circumstances once again, to look at that in any forthcoming legislation.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Minister. Do you share HEFCW's views on the benefits of having national targets to get institutions to address national priorities? Is this something you wish you could do?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's not something I wish I could do; I think that we're doing it. Self-praise is no recommendation, but, because of the working relationship that we have, I think we're seeing some success in using the remit letter to influence national outcomes. So, I've just talked about living wage; we're also using our remit letter to drive transparency over senior leaders' pay, the gender pay gap within institutions. For instance, as part of this Government's commitment to improving mental health, we've been able to use the remit letter and some funding to be able to drive change and some improvements in mental health in the higher education sector. These are national priorities and we're acting upon them and we're using the multiple levers we have at the moment to engage in universities. And, I have to say, universities have risen to that challenge, and I'm very grateful to them for doing that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Are there plans to give the proposed new PCET funding body more effective policy levers to align the sector to the social, economic and civic needs of Wales? And, if so, how will this be done?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said in answer earlier, I'm determined that we ensure a sense of civic mission for the entirety of the sector, including our institutes of higher education. You'll be aware, Janet, that, in the consultation exercises that have been undertaken by the Government so far on PCET reform, we will be introducing more formal outcome agreements, whereby institutions might be given by the commission very clear expectations of how they're expected to contribute to national priorities.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thanks. We've heard that the HE Act, by focusing on individual institutions, did not encourage collaboration, even for widening access activity. Was this a missed opportunity and how will this be taken forward in the PCET Bill?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I think we can strengthen our sector by closer collaboration. I think what sets us apart in Wales is that this Government is determined to create a legislative regime and a regulation regime that encourages collaboration and co-operation, which is in stark contrast to the marketisation and the competition that we see being regulated for and legislated for across the border in England. That's one of the reasons why we are going to introduce the new PCET reforms—to create collaboration, not just between different higher education institutes but actually across the sector. So, this is a prime opportunity where we can create a framework that demands and encourages collaboration, not just, as I said, in between individual institutions but across the entirety of the sector. We're doing that because that means we can avoid duplication, we can fill gaps that there currently are and we can create a system that allows for a seamless passage for students to move between the different parts of post-compulsory education that are currently available, where, sometimes, those students find barriers.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, Janet?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you—that's great, thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We've got some questions now around HEFCW's powers of intervention from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. We received substantial evidence from HEFCW suggesting that powers were inflexible and hard to use—I think HEFCW called them'threatening'—saying that they make sanctions difficult to use and so on. Are you satisfied that HEFCW's powers are useful on a preventative day-to-day basis?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "If I may disagree slightly, I don't think their powers are frightening. It's very clear what powers are available to HEFCW, and they're certainly more than just the ability to, maybe, lean on an institution. Clearly, there is a system by which there is the ability to, you know, ramp up and escalate levels of intervention in the sector by HEFCW, but I certainly wouldn't describe them as inflexible or not having weight.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think they were saying it was difficult to use for swift interventions—they found it a bit cumbersome. They explained to us that they often take informal measures or actions in their role as regulator, and they've explained that the small size of the sector enables good relationships to be developed. How can such measures work in the tertiary education body when there clearly will be many more than the 10 providers?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, looking ahead to the new Bill, I would want to see and be very keen to ensure that there are sufficiently flexible—did you use the word soft—and soft regulatory powers that the commission could exercise. Those powers, for instance, could include the ability to offer advice and guidance, rather than, maybe, punitive interventions, and powers to undertake enhanced monitoring of institutions to ensure compliance with regulatory conditions. So, I would expect the commission to be able to have a series of abilities to intervene, from the soft, flexible type, which is non-punitive but actually allows people to go in and support institutions, through to something that would be, as I said, more punitive, if they felt that an institution was in danger of not providing quality or financial failure.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Can I just come in there, on the point that was made? The issue that seemed to me to come from HEFCW and from the universities is that the dial seems to have only three steps. So, rather than having a graduated series of actions that they can take, it seems to step from—what did he call it—a'meeting without coffee' to—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "That's a very HEFCW thing to say.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—potentially institutions going bankrupt, and there don't seem to be many steps in between that. I'd invite you to say whether you'd like to remedy that in future.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think, as I said at the beginning of the session, this is why this post-legislative scrutiny is useful, because we can reflect on that feedback. As I said, I would expect to be able to ensure that the commission had a range of powers that could address—from that soft power and those early conversations to being able to, as I said, issue, perhaps, advice and guidance to an institution, so there would be a more graduated escalation. Huw, is there anything else that I've missed out?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Just to build on what the Minister has said, there's a range of ways in which we interact with all institutions that are going to be in the tertiary sector, and some of that is about providing information. So, HEFCW provides information—it sends around circulars, it produces reports and it holds events. There's staff, management and leadership development activity, which can create a culture amongst the leaders of institutions, but also amongst their governing bodies, to help them move in a particular direction. We would hope that's in the direction of the civic university approach that the Minister has outlined. We use those mechanisms and informal interactions with FE college principals, with the work-based learning provider network, with sixth forms and others, and we would want to see, I hope, in the tertiary sector some alignment of those things. When things go badly wrong, there are a range of mechanisms. I think what stands behind HEFCW's comments is that before we had a loan-based system of student finance, there was a system of block grant allocations and conditions could be attached to those grant allocations by HEFCW. I don't think we're going to be going back to that system in the foreseeable future because of the pressures on public finances—", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "That wasn't how I understood it. I understood it to be the fact that you use these informal powers and then the next step up is quite a severe sanction and there's not much in between those.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "So, in—. Shall I carry on?", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Of course, yes.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "In the Hazelkorn review, there's quite a lot of focus on that and looking to learn from other national systems where outcome agreements provide a broader measure of the range of things the institutions do and a mechanism for tracking how things are done through the provision of information back to the institution to help them know how they're doing. And potentially, in some of these other institutions, funding is linked to some of those things.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "And, of course, what always has to be—. What we have to strike the balance of as well is at what point those powers seem to be—and the ability to direct—interfering with the principle of autonomy within an institution. So, there's that balance to be struck, isn't there, about creating a regulatory regime, which I'm very keen and the Act attempted to do, which was to enshrine institutional autonomy, and that's really, really important, but also a regulatory regime, the ability to influence and to develop and to deliver national outcomes and the power to intervene in that sector, which you know, better than probably anybody else in this room, guards that institutional autonomy very, very, very dear indeed. And that's the balance that we need to try and strike as we go forward with the new commission proposals.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I think, in terms of the levels of measures—and I understand what you're saying—but I think what HEFCW were saying was that they try as far as possible to use informal measures and they are able to do that because of the size of the sector—just 10 institutions to work with. The post-16 sector, however many we're talking—50 plus providers—it's probably going to be less likely that they would be able to have that sort of relationship with the leaders in those institutions. So, the informal measures might not be as prevalent as they are currently, possibly.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, but also, what's incumbent upon me as the Minister is to ensure that the commission is set up in a way where it can have that relationship with the sector, because what's really important to remember is that HEFCW will be replaced. We're not asking HEFCW suddenly to go from regulating a small number of institutions to suddenly regulating 50. We'll be creating a commission that will be structured in such a way that it can have those relationships. Because, of course, whilst HEFCW will face changes, our relationship with and how we manage the FE sector and the apprenticeship sector will also shift. So, the point is that we need to create a commission that will still be able to be close to the sector, close enough to be able to provide that soft regulation, those really important relationships in a way—. So, it has to be created in such a way and resourced in such a way that it allows that to happen, and that's my intention.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, then, of course, the University of Wales said to us that they felt that there was the potential for HEFCW to issue directions enforceable by injunction to remedy minor matters. So, I think, from what you're saying, you wouldn't be expecting that to happen. Just the fact that they've got the power doesn't necessarily mean that that's what they're going to do.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's important to recognise when HEFCW can enforce its directions by way of an injunction. If they were to do that because a university was breaking fee limits or because there were real questions about the quality of the provision or whether a university was not complying with the financial management code—personally, I wouldn't describe those as minor matters, as a Minister, if we had an institution that was significantly falling down on quality and HEFCW were using these powers to intervene. I wouldn't describe that as a minor matter.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No. That's fair enough. And, actually, on that point, we've had some recent high-profile issues in Swansea and Trinity St David, and HEFCW still haven't yet used their powers of intervention. Do you find that surprising?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think what they have done in these circumstances is, perhaps, used their ability to support those institutions through what, undoubtedly, have been challenging times. Given the fact that there are ongoing legal processes attached to Swansea University, I think it would not be appropriate for me to comment any further, because there are still matters in train with regard to that institution. But clearly, our expectation on HEFCW is to ensure that they are using their powers to support those universities, and I would expect them, if they felt necessary, to use the full remit of their powers if they felt that that was what they needed to do. Now, I have to trust their professional judgment that that has not been necessary to date, but our expectation is that they would do that if they felt it was necessary.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Hefin David has some questions now on fee and access plans.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Are you concerned that neither the regulator nor the sector seem to have any confidence in fee and access plans?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think the concept of a fee and access plan is an important concept. Whether we can do them better, whether we can reflect on what's happened to date and create a better system of what's included in a fee and access plan and how those fee and access plans can be monitored, there's an opportunity to do that in forthcoming legislation.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, have you been aware of specific issues yourself? Have they brought them to you?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, no, not in the sense that they've brought them to me to talk about specifically. From my perspective, fee and access plans are focused very much on inputs, and, really, I'd like to think about outputs and outcomes, more importantly—what are the outcomes of the fee and access plan, not necessarily just how much money has been spent on them. I think, certainly, to really understand the success of the fee and access plan, you have to question whether an annual basis is an appropriate timescale for a university to be working to, and whether we could have something that was focused over a longer period of time. Because, when you think about it, you write the plan and then you're into it, and then, the next thing you know, you're writing your next year's plan. So, I think there's an opportunity there to look to restructure. So, do I see a place for fee and access plans going forward, as part of our outcome agreements? Yes, I do. Can we do them differently to make them more effective? Yes, I think we can.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, why would introducing outcome agreements make them work any better?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think they're going to be a part of an outcome agreement—part of that wider expectation. So, fee and access plans are there to address an issue around, primarily, changing the nature of people who go to university and making sure that nobody is put off from pursuing that. So, that's part of a wider piece of work that I'd want to see as an outcome agreement. But, as I said, I think looking at outcomes for students and outcomes of that activity, rather than the inputs of the activity, over a longer period of time, is probably a more effective way of doing it. I think it's still—. In a way, it's difficult to make a final judgment on whether fee and access plans in their current format have worked, because we need to know what'll happen to those students in the future. But undoubtedly, despite the limitations of them, I do think we're making progress in terms of access, but I don't think we can necessarily point to the fee and access plans as being the driver for some of those improvements.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, I appreciate that, and some of the things you're saying reflect some of the discussions we've had, but what was clear is that the process and bureaucratic nature of the way you present fee and access plans doesn't work, particularly given the fact that, four years on, early fee and access plans are still being evaluated. There's a real problem there. So, what you're saying—can I just pin down what you're saying—is that we may be moving away from yearly fee and access plans to something that's longer term and outcome focused.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "That's my preference. So, I think the principle—I'd like to think we can all agree around the principle of what a fee and access plan is hoping to achieve, but I think there are better ways of doing it, and I think we should take the opportunity of reform to look at how we can do it better.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, with that in mind, I think we're talking about the future of the Bill, the consultation on the PCET reforms closed in summer 2018—with these important issues in mind and things that are currently ongoing, have you had further dialogue since then with key stakeholders like, for example, Universities Wales and others?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "On the Bill or on fee and access plans in particular?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I'm thinking about fee and access plans as an issue that suggests that there is a need for deep consultation, so with that in mind, with things like that, have you had further discussion?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Oh my goodness me, civil servants in the department are constantly in discussion with a range of stakeholders as we continue to develop legislative proposals. I meet on a regular basis with both HEFCW—I meet separately with the vice-chancellors, and I've been very keen to develop a stronger working relationship with chairs, and perhaps we'll come on to issues of governance later. So, we are constantly discussing with stakeholders all options for change—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I suppose the message I'm getting as chair of the cross-party group on higher education is that there could still be more direct consultation with stakeholders. That's the message I've received. Now, I've got no evidence to say it has or hasn't happened, but that's the message I've received.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "If I could just chip in for a moment, the Minister's outlined that there is very extensive, ongoing communication both ways with the sector, but the challenge of preparing a Bill is the balancing act between gathering in information—and there's been a general consultation process and a technical consultation process—and wanting to make sure that the Bill that's laid next year hasn't been discussed with anybody else before it comes to be considered by the Senedd. So, the broad principles have been discussed, but specific details of what goes into a Bill or policy instructions that inform a Bill haven't been the subject of consultation—", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Because that happens at Stage 1.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Indeed, yes.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry, can I move on to the next item?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Oh, you're going on to the next section.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, unless there's anything specific—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I just wanted to clarify, if we're moving to a longer term approach to this, how will the new body be able to establish that things are actually working, that the powers are working, if we're working on a five-year time frame?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "As we've heard, we can't really properly assess fee and access plans in the current arrangements, because it takes time for those cohorts of students to go through and activities to go through. Being able to move to a system where fee and access plans, for instance, could be over a three-year period I think allows universities to be more strategic in some of their investments and some of their activities around fee and access. In a single-year plan, it's almost knee-jerk, it's the need to demonstrate that you're doing something, and doing that within that period of time, rather than a more strategic view—. Can I just say, I know it's not quite subject to this, but we're really moving forward in terms of access and broadening access into the HE sector. For me, student financial support is one aspect of it, but if we're really thinking about social mobility and attracting people into higher education that have never been part of higher education before, our early figures would suggest—they're early figures, and they're subject to change, but in terms of our change to our student support regime, we have seen a 58 per cent increase in the number of postgraduates applying for student support in Wales. When you think about it, when many of us went to university, a degree was the thing that set you apart. Now that more and more students are going to university, it is that postgraduate qualification that sets you apart, but your ability to carry on studying is often limited by access to financial support, so a 58 per cent increase in postgraduate I think is great for those individuals, but it's also great for our economy. We've seen a 35 per cent increase in part-time undergraduates that have been supported by the Student Loans Company; the Open University have reported a 67 per cent increase in students from Wales's most economically disadvantaged areas registering with them; a 57 per cent increase in disabled students; and a 30 per cent increase in black, minority ethnic learners. So, I think that's a really, really positive basis for our sector to continue to work on broadening access.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Sorry, Hefin—carry on.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'll move on to managing risk, if that's okay. The feedback from Universities Wales suggests that, with the outcome of the 2015 Act, institutions with the strongest track records are more highly regulated than the riskier private alternative providers. Do you think that Act has struck the right balance?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think the Act has created a system where the level of regulation is proportional to the amount and the nature of public moneys received by institutions.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Those were the words used by Universities Wales—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, no, I'm not disagreeing. My view is: I believe that the Act has struck that proportionality. When you look at public moneys going into institutions, I think that the Act is proportionate, myself.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, do you think it's in the interests of students, then, to be at private institutions—? I've seen those private institutions and how they operate; I've seen them at first-hand—they don't operate to the same rigour as public institutions, and they're less regulated.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Can I just chip in? I think that the category'private' covers quite a wide range of things, and many private institutions are also charities. We don't have the presence of some of the large private charities that are present in other countries, but Stanford and Harvard would count as private universities. So, I think we need to be careful in focusing on the inherent quality of things. We've made charitable status a key reference point in the operation of things at the moment. I think there has been attention drawn to some private providers, particularly in England, but I wouldn't tar them all with the same brush, necessarily.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "But they fall outwith—if they're not charitable providers running validated courses, for example, they fall outwith the strength of regulation that is currently in place on the universities in Wales.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "So, we would regulate them on a course-by-course basis, so it's back to the issue of proportionality, isn't it? So, you are automatically regulated for all your courses, if you're one of our main universities, but there is a process that is run by HEFCW on a course-by-course basis to validate alternative providers. And as Huw said, I think we should recognise the nature of that is very, very, very small in Wales, and there is a process to ensure quality provision. If there were concerns about the quality of that provision, that course could be deregulated.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And I'm aware that there are a small number of private institutions in Wales, but are you concerned that in the future the landscape may change, particularly with the opportunity to recruit more part-time students? Do you think the landscape may change in future and that the 2015 Act, as designed, wasn't equipped for that, and will the next Act, then, be equipped?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think it's right to say that maybe the previous legislation didn't futureproof for changes. I'm not anticipating a mass influx of alternative providers, in the sense that we've seen across the border, but we will need to ensure that the new commission has powers to regulate and to futureproof.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. We had some evidence from the University and College Union that were concerned about the governance of universities, actually, as being a bigger problem than the regulatory framework in many ways. Can you tell us, perhaps, how the HE Act addresses the issue of poor governance, or is it really just limited to responding to the symptoms rather than the poor governance itself?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's true and fair to say that the Bill does not directly address issues around governance in the sector. HEFCW do have well-established assurance practices in relation to governance that would predate the 2015 legislation. But governance—we've talked briefly about some recent history within the sector that I think has certainly brought the issue of governance to the fore once again, and I think there are two important things that we're trying to do about that in the current time, prior to any legislative changes. The first is, as I just said to Hefin, I have sought to have a more direct relationship with chairs of universities and have that one-to-one relationship with them, not in the presence of their vice-chancellors. I challenge them, they challenge me, and I think we've deliberately tried to establish a regular routine of that since I took office. And you'll be aware that, collaboratively—and I'm glad that this has been done in this way because I think if you do it this way, we're more likely to get some success and change—Universities Wales and HEFCW have worked together to undertake an independent review of governance. And I think it's really important that parties have come together to recognise the issues and to agree to take action, because I think if we'd have tried to impose something, we'd have more resistance. So, there is an independent review going on at the moment—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Is that the risk review process in—?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "That's the Gillian Camm review. This is a review that, as I said, Universities Wales and HEFCW have agreed to do together. It's chaired by Gillian Camm, who is the chair of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, and she is doing an independent review to advise on changes to governance. And I welcome that, I'm very supportive of that, and that's happening at the moment. As I said, I'm glad that there's been recognition from within the sector themselves that they need to make sure, and they need to give confidence, that governance arrangements are what they should be.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, is that something that you're going to be taking into the PCET Bill, do you think?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. We're exploring how the Bill could introduce a regulatory condition in respect of good governance, and a commission would be able to set expectations with regard to good governance. I think one of the concerns for me—and I know that this is a concern that is shared by the UCU—is the diversity of governance and who finds themselves in these really important positions. HEFCW don't hold figures on it, but from an approximation that I've asked officials to do for me, currently in the universities that we have, I would say that men make up around 56 per cent of membership of universities' governing bodies; women—44 per cent; BME—as low as 4 per cent. Of course, in individual institutions, it does vary, but I think there is some way to go to making sure that our governing bodies are diverse and that there's an opportunity to look at the student voice in governance going forward, the staff voice in governance going forward, and these are things that we hope to have discussions on whilst we bring the legislation forward.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But also, I guess—sorry, Chair—a greater understanding, that anybody going in to become a governor of one of these institutions has a greater understanding of what is expected of them. Do you think that that's a gap that needs to be plugged?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "One of the things that HEFCW have led on with AdvanceHE, the body that encompasses the leadership foundation, is a development programme for governing bodies, and that started earlier—well, it's been going on for some time, but it was recommenced earlier this year, with a session for all of the chairs of universities in Wales. And I believe—I'll need to check this—that there are plans to engage with each of the governing bodies, because, as you rightly say, and this lies behind a lot of what we've been discussing, the activities of these institutions have become much more complex over recent years, and so there is a need for that training and development and understanding also of the fast-changing nature of that activity.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Okay, just before we move on, can I ask whether it's your plan to legislate on that, as they've done in Scotland?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "As I said, I don't want to pre-empt scrutiny of the Bill, because we need to be able to come to the committee and do that in the entirety, rather than picking off individual bits of it, but we are absolutely exploring how the Bill could introduce a regulatory condition with regard to governance.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you very much. We've got some questions now from Siân on quality assurance.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We've heard evidence regarding the difficulties caused by HEFCW having a legal duty to quality-assure all the provision in two further education colleges. That sounds to me like some kind of an anomaly or an unintended consequence of the Act. Could you clarify that and explain the situation in that instance?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. My understanding—and as I said, it's a bit difficult, because I can't put myself into the thought process of the Minister at the time and what his expectation was. But, certainly, my understanding is that it was not an unintended consequence, it was an expectation built into the Act that HEFCW and Estyn would work together on these matters. The Act built on what were the quality assessment arrangements in the 1992 Act, which required HEFCW to secure arrangements for the assessment of the quality of education provided by funding institutions. So, as a consequence of that approach, HEFCW's quality assessment duty currently encompasses all the education provided by or on behalf of a regulated institution. So, it is complicated, and Huw can help me out here if I get it wrong, but my understanding is that it was not an unintended consequence, that was the expectation of what would happen when the legislation was passed. Huw.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I would completely agree with what the Minister has said.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "As always. [Laughter.] At least in public, Huw.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "There is the expectation that they will work together in concert. There's a lot of joint operation. I think, going forward, we would expect that to continue. We're looking to the new Bill to try to make that clearer. That was a theme in the general and technical consultation exercises that we've engaged in over the last couple of years.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "So, you're happy, therefore, that that partnership has worked. Are you happy with that?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Certainly, in our consultation for the upcoming Act, we've generally heard, certainly from our further education colleges, that they've been quite content with the arrangements. No concerns about it, certainly from further education colleges.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "There are differences in the systems of quality assurance as they've historically applied to FE and HE, but I understand that that has meant that, as FE colleges become more interested in HE, they've had to learn new ways, and that's taken a little bit of time. But, I'm not aware of any dissatisfaction.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Okay, which moves us on to this idea of having one quality assurance body or one quality assurance framework. Is that your intention and how will that work in practice?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I am aware, and we've listened to stakeholders' concerns regarding proposals to introduce a single quality assessment body. As I said, we recognise that stakeholders are broadly content with the current situation with regard to Estyn and QAA. So, we've been listening to that, following the technical consultation, and policy officials are working through options in regard to ensuring what quality assurance will look like in the commission. As I said, I don't want to pre-empt bringing forward the legislation, but the principles underlying any assurance regime would need to be coherent, need to be effective and need to be comprehensive. What we're also very clear about, and I think it is important to say, is that any quality framework covering higher education will be compatible with ENQA, which I think is really, really important going forward. And by an extension of that, it would be compatible with current UK-wide baseline standards. So, we don't want to create specific problems for the HE sector in Wales.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But, you have touched on this, there is substantial concern in the sector about this offer to move to one assurance body for the tertiary sector. One vice-chancellor has told us:", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, sometimes, I think it is necessary, maybe, to cause a stir. If we don't change things, it does beg the point of,'Why are any of us here if we're not here to sometimes move things forward?' And change is challenging always, but I would like to reassure all of our vice-chancellors and our sector as a whole that we're not going to do anything in the quality assurance regime that would risk what is the very high reputation and standards that Welsh universities currently comply with or would set them apart from institutions across the border or in a European context. Huw.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I agree, obviously. I think the fear is misplaced, but coming back to another theme in the conversation so far about futureproofing, what we're seeing in the figures that the Minister outlined to you earlier about the growth in postgraduate and the growth in part-time is the desire of a greater number of people at different ages to engage in higher and tertiary education, and quite often that will be in a workplace or it will be in a non-conventional institutional setting. Historically, the quality assurance regimes for work-based learning have tended to sit with Estyn; the assurance regimes for the universities have sat with the QAA. There's quite a lot of learning that all sides have got to engage in if we're going to be able to have continued high quality in these new areas that are being explored. That's an issue not just in Wales. The Augar report, which was published earlier this year in England, drew attention to this as being a major problem in the relationship over the border between Ofsted and the QAA. So, I think we're not looking to impose one institution on anybody, but we are looking to encourage greater synergy in the ways in which quality assurance and enhancement is undertaken in those different areas of activity.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "And finally, therefore, looking at overseas providers. Currently, of course, universities can award their degrees to students being taught by providers overseas. We know this created problems for the University of Wales in 2011. They faced a scandal; that's probably the best word to use there. Will the new Bill address these issues?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, certainly transnational education does present real opportunities for Welsh institutions, but if not managed appropriately and regulated appropriately can cause real risks to reputation to our sector. When I meet with vice-chancellors in universities in different parts of the world, and when I am visiting different countries, one of the great things that I'm able to say is that we have a sector that provides fantastic quality of teaching, excellence in research and a wonderful student experience, and that is undermined if institutions find themselves undertaking TNE activities that put that at risk. So, it's an important consideration for the health of the whole sector that any TNE undertaken by a Welsh institution has the appropriate quality guarantees built into that because it's a problem not just for an individual institution, but it could undermine the very strong reputation that the Welsh sector has as a whole. Huw, was there anything further about TNE?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, just to say that we are live to that, as I know HEFCW and the QAA are. We've had conversations with both in the recent past. There is quality assurance of offshore activity through the QAA. When they visit institutions with their reviews they will look at a selection of those overseas activities and there are periodic thematic reviews of the activity in particular countries. I think we would hope and believe that HEFCW, in its conversations with the QAA, would be keeping that under review to minimise the risk and maximise the opportunities.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "So, you're not actually looking to use the new legislation to strengthen the regulation around this.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "The arrangements at the moment are that HEFCW uses the QAA to do the reviews and the inspections. I don't think we're currently looking to mandate the detail of how that should happen. The system at the moment works through co-operation between the institutions and the regulator to make sure the quality assurance system is improving and enhancing things. I think we would look to that as a primary mechanism.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Are there any other questions from Members? No. Okay. Well, can I thank you both for attending this morning and answering all our questions? As usual, you will be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting, but thank you both for your attendance this morning.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Item 3 then is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Minister for Education regarding the revised additional learning needs implementation plan. Paper to note 2 is additional information from HEFCW, following the meeting on 18 July, in relation to our post-legislative scrutiny of the Higher Education (Wales) Act. And paper to note 3 is a letter from us to the Welsh Local Government Association on the Childcare Funding (Wales) Act 2019. This is the letter that we agreed we would send last week. Can I ask Members if they're happy to note those? Yes. Thank you very much. Item 4 then. Can I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting and for item 1 on 2 October? Are Members content? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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So each of you have some presentatio presentation to perform um who starts?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you are you saved your y your presentation somewhere?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you're four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which is trend watch. Okay. Mr Marketing Experts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Well I investigate the preference more d I investigate deeper the preference of the users. Uh so the the current investigation th uh th uh sorry the current the n current trends?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay. Okay. Well wha what I found um can you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next slide? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thank you. What I found in order of importance from less to more important is that people want an easy to use device. After they they want something new technologic technologically speaking, but the most what they what they find more more interesting, more or more important it's uh a fancy look and feel instead of uh instead of the current the current trend which was f the functional look and feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So now more more cool aspect, ma more a cooler aspect uh rather than a device with many functions and many buttons with instead of i instead of ha of a device which can do many things, a device which is pleasant to to watch, to see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh also Well in in Euro in in Paris and and Milan the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "in Paris and in Paris and Milan the the current trend of uh of clothes, furniture and all this all this fashion it's it's fruit and the the the theme is fruit and vegetables.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also in the in the U_S_A_ the the current the mor the most popular feeling it's it's a spongy. Spongy means eponge?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe we should we should think in in this direction, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What what do you mean by fruit and vegetables and spongy?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What you mean clothe", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Spongy means it it's like sp", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fruit vegetables is the the new have you seen the last exposition of clothes in Milan?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I missed that one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I didn't miss an.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't miss and I saw that the fruit, there are many fr pictures of fruits and vegetables in the clothes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, they're okay so they're not like dressed as a carrot they just have like pictures of fruit on, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no, not not yet, not yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're not gonna have a remote control in the shape of of a banana,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So te textu textures, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Vegetable textures and all this kind.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Drawings of bananas.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But what's your suggestion how we can have some shape like that on the remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well so this is in the next slide certainly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh no no, it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So which fruit are you thinking of?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I ha I haven't thought of any particular fruit, but the general aspect of the of the remote control may may could remind some kind of vegetable, some kind of instead of vegetable, some natur mm uh natural object or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But yeah it it depends on the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe you maybe you can display a banana on the L_C_D_..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, so you want the remote control to be the shape of a fruit,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or you want just some kind of like fruit logo on the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Means buttons are in the shape of fruits,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe the shape the shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "buttons are in the frape shape of fruits or something, apple, banana, something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, not n not not too much focus, not too much focu not n not too s not too similar to a fruit because next year the ten the trend the trend will be different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Apple for channel one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we shouldn't be at re really attached to to the trend", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So something that looks half like a fruit and half like an elephant..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but For instance, yeah. African or as an elephant?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That we can discuss afterwards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But okay,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not, I'm not really sure if uh that would really appeal to everyone though, maybe just to fashion gurus, like maybe just like a little bit n a little fruit picture somewhere in the corner, but I don't know about uh I dunno how ergonomic a, an orange is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well ma maybe we we should further specify what target are we focusing. I think in my opinion we should focus on on young people because they are more open to new devi new devices", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To fruit?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and also yeah according to the marketing report ninety p ninety five percent of young people was was was able to to buy a a n a cooler remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But is it uh is fruit cool?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is fruit cool?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Uh Is the new trend of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I guess, you know, Apple has the iPod so, imagi.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just'cause they have an apple on their on their product, doesn't mean fruit is cool..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I think we we should think about a a shape with it a device with a shape of some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but it has to be easy to uh to use though and to hold you know, you don't wanna pear or a watermelon..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Don don't you think we can find uh the shape of a fruit which is handy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, probably the only thing is a banana that I can think of,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a cucumber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe too long.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or m", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe. Too green.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, but I mean you also have to you have to also have, fit r all the buttons and you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A banana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's, it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The thing is you have t normally with um with buttons, they have to be at some point attached to a circuit board so if you're gonna have things like on a cylindrical kind of device it may be difficult to kind of to build.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't th it will be rolling a lot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but I li I like your idea that we shouldn't have a lot of buttons b buttons so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah and you you you will not have pla enough a lot of place to put a L_C_D_ on a banana also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh do you want a an L_C_D_ with twenty five Euros?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you're the Marketing Expert you should tell us if it is too much or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, this is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think Well, according to the to the report people are more interested in in a fa fancy look and feel and in a technological inno in innovation,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so, I will give more importance to the look and feel than rather than the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So So you you you suggest to go f", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "new inputs and also it's I'm not convinced about this L_C_D_ because you need uh internet connection, you need more things, it's not just buying a new control re remote, you need buying control remote, buying uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. S so you're simply", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "more things. It's not so simple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you're simply looking s to a remote control that looks like a banana with few buttons with only a few buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For instance, yeah. Yeah for for for given an an example yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay good. So maybe you can go ahead?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah no, it's what I already said.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Thanks. Um. Okay, I'll give the floor. So you are User Interface guy. So you're three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's this one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay. So. S next uh slide. Okay. So I received an email um around lunchtime letting me know that the brilliant minds at our technology division had developed an integrated programmable sample sensor sample speaker unit, um which is a way for you to have a conversation with your coffee machine and or remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's just a speaker right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's no, what it is, it's it's very.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not a microphone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It has a has a microphone, has a speaker, it's got a little chip and it allows you t", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Actually I'm not reading microphone there, so that's why you can all have conversation, it just to speak to you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, it's a sample sensor sample speaker. Sample sensor sample speaker. It means that it can recognize, it can do like a match on a on a certain phrase that you speak and then can play back a phrase in response to that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh there's no kind of um understanding of the phrase. So, I mean, you know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess you could build that in, you could you could link the the recognition of a certain phrase to some function on on the remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But basically the thing is, we have this technology available", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In-house.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in-house. So, um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but the thing is obviously there's still gonna be a cost if you decided to integrate that because you still have to pay for the c production of the components,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so um it it but it basically means we c we can kind of consider this from uh you know uh a theoretical or usability kind of viewpoint without worrying too much about you know how to develop it because we have this already done.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whilst you know, some people might get annoyed if we uh if we just dump it,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I there's something that I unclear really understanding. Is this a technology that recognize keywords speech keywords?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it it's no, well, it's it'll recognize uh I guess keywords, but you know keywords in a certain order like a phrase. You train it for a certain uh, for a certain phrase, you say the the example they said that they have uh up and running with their prototype is um well they've actually integrated into the into the the coffee machine that uh that we're producing is, you can say good morning to the coffee machine and it can recognize that phrase and it'll playback good morning, how would you like your coffee?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's just to, it's just to playback something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So actually that was a bad example,'cause it doesn't actually ask how do you want your coffee because it can't really understand the response, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. So this is not s really to do to to do control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only, like, only in the sense that it it can recognize a set a set target kind of word an", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is just more like a poi pois yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's designed it's designed as a fun kind of thing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I guess you could use it as uh as a way to implement uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it it's c uh it it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but you can u", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it is a uh uh easy uh a fancy thing that you you can bring to we can bring to the remote control that will not have any uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Completely pointless yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah comp completely pointless for the inter for from the interaction point of v point of view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, unless you know, you like having conversation with your remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but the can we use it for saying okay, channel fifty, channel twenty?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah, that's the thing, if you can but you have to pro though I think it's a fairly simple design so you would have to record into the device every possible combination, you have to s tr train it to l to learn channel fifteen, that whole thing, not just the word channel and the word fifteen, it doesn't have that kind of logic in it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. So this is so this is this is much more than tak taking this technology, bringing it to the remote control and using it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be some development work.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is out of discussion. So if if if it is something that you can we can bring easily and to put it into the banana remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M Mando.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Banana-mando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No this is mm banana-bando, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Banana-man.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Banana-mando yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh then it could be cool yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, let's go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I uh I I I don't think it's worth it though, I think it doesn't really add much to the functional design and it's it's it's not mature enough to use as a speech recognition engine, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. So if we can just move on to the next slide, I've just done a quick mock-up of uh uh some of the features of our potential funky-looking uh remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It doesn't look like a banana at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you see, I was I was unaware at this point of th of the fruit focus,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um, so at the moment it's more of a box focus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you you can fit i you're saying now you can fit it to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Looks like a tr look likes a a tro a tropical fruit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, this is actu this could be a genetically engineered fruit that's designed to be you know square so that it packs tighter in the boxes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um, I've just indicated here, we could have actually two scroll wheels,'cause I think the scroll wheel is a fairly um key part of, you know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Stable thing, that's right. To have,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think everyone has has agreed that it's that it could be quite a useful um thing, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I think it's important, you know, to have two scroll wheels because, you know, you want one for for the channel, but you also want one for for the volume,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it's it's the volume i it's, you know it's very handy for it to have uh instant kind of uh feedback uh and response, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um, I've also included this turbo button because I think, you know, every design should have a turbo button, and well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's a turbo button?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so this is you know, a unique problem with with televisions is that if you have this scro this scroll wheel for the television, the uh the tuner on the T_V_ is not gonna be able to to switch between stations as fast as you can scroll, so you know, the th the person might want to have a uh Might want to be able to scroll past television stations without seeing what's on them, in which case it just waits until you stop scrolling and then, you know, displays that station. Or they might want to scroll and and have a quick glimpse of it, even if it lags behind what they're doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It con it controls the speed?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so with this turbo button you can, say, skip over t channels if uh, you know, if I'm if I'm going if I'm scrolling past them and you know, it's um, you could have a little red light that comes up when they press it so they feel you know it's really going fast or whatever.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah, that's um, those are the two important uh features I think we need on the remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I mean we can discuss about what other kind of buttons we need, um. You know, i it could be, you know, if we if we wanna have like a very cheap kind of device, I mean, we could either consider that maybe we want to sell this as a very, if it's gonna be a banana, you know that's a pretty gimmicky kind of thing that doesn't have that much functionality, it's just you know a couple of scroll wheels and a button cause it's hard to get so many buttons on a banana", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it's still very it may even be for most for some people more functional than their current remote, but if they have these scroll wheels, so, um you know, what other buttons do we want?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean we could have well, I guess you need an on and off switch,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Switch on. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but you could you could o you could turn it turn it on by taking the top off the banana maybe, you know, it's kind of like a spy kind of flick thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So sounds crazy. I like crazy ideas.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's why you're a marketing guru..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So i it looks like we're going completely to forget about the L_C_D_ thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's the thing, as have we decided that we can only spend, uh, twenty five Euro?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well not spend, but you know, charge twenty five Euro.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think we could use somehow the s coffee machine dialogue interface or so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No we can we can't use that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You we can? We can't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can't use that to to comman co communicate,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Communicate.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's just a thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we can say channel twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's one way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you have to have a template for every channel, for a hundred channels, you have to be able to to recognize.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not a lot one hundred templates,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Well, I f I think it's probably more than, than our can handle because it's designed for a coffee machine, you know, to say hello in the morning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, it's designed for a cof okay. Is it design for a coffee machine?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's its current application, I would presume that it's kind of, they wouldn't design it to handle a hundred things th so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah. Maybe you could ask your the you could ask the engineering department if we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. A good good good thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You want to g to move to your slides?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're finished?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I just I just made the point, I don't I don't know if that speech recognition is, you know, even if we can do it, I think it's not really appropriate for uh television environment.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um I did have one thing from a previous meeting, you were talking about um being able to find the remote control", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I was talking about extendin being able to extend the remote control by having you know, a base station that can control other things as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It might be useful to have some kind of base station, even if it's just you press on a button on it and uh and the remote control starts beeping, you know, this is a way of finding the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y in that case maybe the maybe the speech recognition the speech thing could be useful just to say I'm here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh it's probably a bit of overkill if you could just have a a beeping.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's a speech synthesis kind of thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's speech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "something has been uh stored and it's just uh spoken out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's speech synthesis and s it's speech kind of, not really speech recognition, but kind of pattern matching, yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, let's move on. So you're two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is going to be about the component design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So first thing is we need power source for the remote control. So I was of the idea that we can have two kind of power supplies, one is the usual batteries which are there, they could be chargeable batteries if there's a basis station kind of thing and on top of that we can have solar cells, when the lighting conditions are good they can be used so it'll be pretty uh innovative kind. Then uh we need plastic with some elasticity so that if your if the remote control falls it's not broken directly into pieces, there should be some flexibility in t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess that fits in with the spongy kind of design philosophy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there should we should think of something like that and then it should be double curve. The s science for the ease of handling and there are some other issues why we need double curve. Then controls for the traditionals u traditional users we can have the push buttons so that they don't feel that it's an alien thing for them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, just one second, when you say double curve, what do you actually mean? You reckon you could like draw us a thing on the, on the whiteboard'cause I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Double curve is, you have curves on both the sides if I'm right. So it's symmetrical kind of thing, whatever it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but like, kind of convex or concave?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, it could be curve, so it could be convex, conve concave, depending on what what we want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there are flats, there are single curve and there are double curves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "These are the three things, and there are different materials, with plastic you can have double curve but with uh certain other materials we cannot have double curve. So there there was uh there were many other materials like wood, titanium and all those things, but plastic is I think is the most appropriate one,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it'll bring the cost down", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although, you know, wood could be uh quite a stylish uh option,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and anyway it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if you take like, nice quality kind of wood that's got a nice grain and you kind of put some, some varnish on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm but i but there is no elasticity which could be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wooden cases.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it depends, I mean, you have the outs the wood itself is not gonna break so you don't have to worry too much about the case being broken,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but the components inside.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's the inside. Yeah but inside you know you could have you can still have some kind of cushioning that's not visible to the to the user.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very too expensive to do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I mean you could also, you can have just a very thin veneer of wood as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it's more easier to do a banana in plastic than uh in wood.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true, but are we set on the banana idea?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it look like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it looks like you are all targeting that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was thinking that the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the shape of a banana is not it's not really handy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I don't know the name o o in English uh This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it an e apple which has.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's not a fruit it's a vegetable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like a pumpkin or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Pumpkin.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Green.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Green.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Green.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um um um, yes I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What does it taste like?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you put in the salad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pep pepperoni.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is it what's it in French?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Poivron.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oui c'est ca", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, so capsicum or pepper. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh pepper.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pepper.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um they do d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's al it also suits with the double curve for easy of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know, it seems a little bit kind of bulky to me, like", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I mean in a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not re it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like with a banana you can have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you you think it's really fancy and fun? You think that young people that are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sure it's fun..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. More than a banana?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But banana is not so handy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Banana is more handier as compared to this I think, and to capsicum.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that's handier.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But like a banana you can you can be holding like this and have the scroll wheel kind of on top", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and just roll it back and forth like that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's kind it's kind of it's more uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but with uh I don't know how you would hold a capsicum and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's really ergonomic, it's fit in the hand and you've a lot of surface to to put the controls.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah you're right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So time is running, let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so push buttons for the traditional users so that they don't feel they are alienated, just and a scroll button with push technology for channel selection, volume control and teletext browsing. These are the three scroll buttons which are already available with us in the company and we we can go ahead with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can go to the next slide. Then uh there are different kind of chips, one one is the basic chip and the regular chip and one an adva advanced chip. So we can have regular chip for control. Pricing is a factor for us, that's why we'll go for the regular chip. And uh regular chip supports speaker support, so this functionality could be used for tracing the mobile phone which has been misplaced.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is that, when you say speaker support, you mean it just has some output pinned which which which kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It could be a beep kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but the speaker is actually attached to the to the chip in some way, or is just the the signal?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, yes, that's right, it's it's onto the chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "most most probably, not not hundred per cent sure about that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So are there any issues where we place this this chip to make sure you can actually hear the the speaker from the outside of the banana?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That will be the volume control I think which which a user shou it it should be already pre-defined. It should be whatever will be the case, the chip is always going to be sitting inside.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, but the speaker, if the speaker is actually on the chip, then if it's too far away from the the casing, or if the casing is too thick, then you may not hear the the speaker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Uh, so we can have it at one of the boundaries so that things are slightly better.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "As or as hearing is concerned, we can have some gap at some place,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's something we have to keep in mind with the actual physical design is to keep the the speaker close enough to the outside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that That's right. Okay. Yeah. So these these were the component selection and these things. We can go to the next slide. And uh these were the findings which I I saw with the web web, that user wants to have control more than one device wants to control more than one device from the same remote control, so our T_V_ remote can have little extra things to support additional devices like V_C_R_ D_V_D_ players which are usually attached with the T_V_, because users are like this and they don't want to have one remote control for everything, so with this additional little, we might be having slightly better market for us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although, if It depends, if we like, if we are concentrating on like a fruit design, then maybe maybe we wanna sell a collection of fruit, you know, like a different fruit for each device.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Of fruits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cause that, you know, that sometimes people like to collect um you know things that of a similar type.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S objects.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remotes objects, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Crazy objects.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that would be funny at the beginning but after one month you will be tired of be surrounded of fruits.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you're the one who wanted to do fruit in the first place.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No but I think just one fruit to control everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like a power fruit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A power fr a power M a Mando, a Supermando fruit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh as well as I could see on the web the scroll button is becoming really uh hot thing s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we should have it on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually I I didn't understand very well this trace speaker lost control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you're having a basis station. Okay. Your usually your remote sits on that. So you and it's that's why it can have chargeable batteries. Now let's say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you you have to buy two things, the banana and the basis station.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bu it's it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Basis station is with the thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You s you you thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's like a telephone handset is there and the basis station for the telephone hand set is there. So now what user gets additionally he doesn't have to buy batteries, they're rechargeable batteries, so over the period of cor time he'll recover the cost. So you're having the basis station and there is a button, if you press that button wherever the remote it'll start beeping so you know where the remote is. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that's a pretty handy feature.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's kind of people would find that worth it even if it wasn't uh a recharging station, even if they didn't have to buy extra batteries, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but I'm a bit worried about the budget..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh this is basis station is nothing more, just it's a wire which is coming from the main cable and uh you're having one socket on which the thing sits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although you do need to include R_F_ kind of circuitry in the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. But all these things are usually in-house so we don't have much problems.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So component cost is going to be the least. Anyway, we are not using really advanced technology, L_C_D_ has already been ruled out, A_S_R_ has been ruled out. So it's the basic thing but very trendy and very user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm just wondering actually,'cause, you know, I this whole fruit thing with the banana, it's um it seemed like it first seems a bit kind of uh niche, like only a few people would really want a banana,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but what if it was kind of uh a stylised banana? You know, rather than having it kind of you know yellow and really looking exactly like a banana, you could make it kind of silver. And um, you know to give you kind of the idea of a banana but without it looking you know completely kitsch. For better want of a better word", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You think that yellow it's kitsch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you know, I don I don't know how many peop", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you make something that looks like a banana it should have the colour of a banana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A yeah, otherwise it'll be mis means you don't get b any feeling then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well they.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O otherwise.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe li like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's neither a banana nor a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like this colour this colour Maybe, you know, maybe like still in the shape of a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Roughly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly. Um, but you know, just maybe maybe not exactly the same texture as a banana and just kind of, you know because the thing is it's gonna be a little bit difficult to make um to give like the texture of a banana anyway and to k to have the exact shape. I think if you're gonna not be able to do it properly you may as well do it in a stylised way that just looks a bit more kind of, you know, twenty first century rather than sixties or seventies.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh going to the last slide.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh uh yeah. Before before st before ending the meeting I'd like to to draw some sketch about the pro future prot prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well no, not not you, you can finish your slides before.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, so. Anyway, users'll be so the findings is users'll be very interested in our locator device to find their misplaced remotes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that was very I thought it's a very good suggestion by everybody.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so mm so well done for the presentations. So we need to take some de decisions about um about what we're going to do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I I propose that you go to the whiteboard", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we're going to report all the ideas we had we had during this these presentations just to draw some sketch about what will be the prod final product", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh where Superman go banana and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh extra func functionalities such as wheels, um the speaker unit um well not in order not to lost the um the device,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do I don't remember you call it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. The basis station. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basis station, yeah. Uh so um so we're going for a stylish banana shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, I guess you wanna hold like the way the end of the banana you wanna kind of hold as ma you maybe wanna kinda hold like a gun rather than'cause you don't want it to point kind of towards the floor.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you know, so if you have like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about what about this shape? More or less.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's less space on this to put with the buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I if it i if it has really the model shape of a bana you could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but how many buttons do we need?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the the starting is good but it could it should have more the shape of a banana if you want to point really a at the thing. If you don't want to to to do that movement which is which is difficult if you don't have to do it in fact, it's better. So ti time is running,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh what about a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have to we have to we have to to move forward. So let's skip to uh this uh this this this idea. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have a a basis um, how do you call it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The base station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A base station.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We'll have a base station extra uh on the side.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, so I guess we need, you know, something that can fit a banana shaped object.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, we have a R_F_ for um for beeping for beeping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right, yeah, we need that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We need b R_F_ to beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we that means we need a button on th on the on the basis.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Basis station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basis station, thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so we need uh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you go quickly please?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we are going to add uh also um you as you suggested the whee some wheels to control the volumes and channels and your tur turbo turbo uh button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, which I think it's it's probably best actually on the on the underneath of the the device,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Turbo button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, on the th yeah, maybe here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the and the wheel a a at the level of the thumb for instance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, so you have the thumb kind of here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and you have two wheels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So yeah, you need one one here and one on on the other side, so you got volume an and channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay right. Good. So no L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, uh No L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay great. Um. Very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh we need a we need a power um on off switch as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for the remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, just the switch,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remotes don't have power on off switch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no f not for the T_V_ for the T_V_. Uh so you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. S no, that'll be controlled by the those buttons'll be there already, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What a", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Means on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On the side.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because remote is going to have both the interfaces, scroll as well as buttons. They are not going to cost you much, everything is in-house and now you don't want the traditional users to be apprehensive of this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I dunno if the traditional user is gonna buy a a banana remote in the first place, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. That's that's another issue which I didn't think of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y I mean you need to kind of keep it um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you know our targets are very high, means fifty million Euros is the profit which we want make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, how many of these did we wanna sell? I can't remember,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twenty five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twelve point five is the profit on one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but how many units did we need to to sell?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh forty th four. Point point four million?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four millions?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four point four million.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Point four million.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's a lot of fruit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In the market.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. Well. No. Time is running, we have to close the meeting in a few minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, okay, the next step, you can come back to your seat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next step is to go for to f is to go to uh to building a prototype, based on this, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So next meeting you guys have to prepare the followi things. You have to uh work on the look and feel uh design and you have to work on the user interface, in fact you two you have to work together to model the first uh f first prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh Marketing Expert uh have to go to product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I wo what about adding the this word spotting, keyword spotting recognition saying volume up volume down?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's too difficult.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too difficult but people like innovation and that's really uh innovative and I don't know if it would cost a lot, just a few five words.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not a possi it will not be possible to implement it for the next prototype, so t it's in the next prototype so let's skip it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the future prototypes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe, for the n if if if it it works well, we'll go for uh an orange one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That can be the t That can be like the turbo banana plus plus commando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, honour the fruit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus plus, okay. Maybe objective banana?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks very much. We'll see n next meeting. Bye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So meeting's over?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. We have to go design the prototype.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The problem is after all this meeting there is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2008c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I g yeah. Time is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fourteen twenty six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Lovely to see you all again. Um it's our conceptual design meeting and it's starting at approximately fourteen twenty five and so we have forty minutes for this one again and so we'll go just after three o'clock. Um okay our agenda, we're gonna do an opening, I'm gonna review the minutes of the last meeting, then we'll have your three presentations um and then we'll have to make a decision on the remote control concepts, and finally we'll close. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "opening. Um these are our minutes from r the functional design. We decided our target group is the focus on who can afford it, because we have international appeal and we said it's for all age groups, different um functions of it. Our main objectives were simplicity and fashion. And s um in specific functions are something to keep the remote from getting lost, large buttons for the essential functions, a possibility for extra functions, like a sliding a sliding piece and a long-life battery or a charging station. Okay, now three presentations. I'd like to do it in this order, first do the conceptual specification of components, properties and materials um and then the conceptual specification of user interface and finally trend watching.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That would be me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.'kay. Function F_ eight it. There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Um I'm very excited by this one actually guys I uh had a lot of fun doing it. Components design. This is where you look at what does it take to make a remote control and what should we make our specific remote control out of. Um. So, we need to examine each element separately, but we're designing a full thing, so you wanna keep it integrated as a whole. The main elements of remote controls in general, and therefore ours as well, are the case, the buttons, the circuit board with the chip and the battery. These are all things that we had sort of addressed before, but I'm gonna take each one a little bit separately here as we figure out what they should be made of and what they should look like. The case, uh the options that I've gotten from headquarters about what we can do, um there's there's the shape of a case, we could do a flat sh a flat case, a curved case or maybe even a double double-curved case. I haven't seen any pictures of what this exactly looks like yet, just keep that in mind, but these are the options that we have from manufacturing and we can make our case out of plastic, the m the main base will be plastic, but we have all these sort of fashion and technological elements we can add in, wood, latex, titanium, rubber or other coloured types of plastic. That would be our case. Um buttons, for buttons we have um pushbuttons, which is what Real Reaction uses the most often, but we also have scror scroll wheels,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which can have integrated pushbuttons, or we could go all high-tech and have an L_ L_C_D_ screen. Um circuit board and chip we can have a simple one, a regular one or an advanced one, depending on what our other needs are. And then battery I think is where things get most exciting. We're talking about long-life batteries here. Um we can we can have your sort of basic double A_ batteries, but we also have these options of um using a kinetic battery, like are used in high-tech watches, where you just have to move it a little bit to get it to power up. Um so simple movements like pushing buttons would recharge the battery. Or a solar battery, although there are slight um complications with solar batteries as in we can't use a latex case if we have a solar battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or um something they only described as the type of battery you find in torches from about fifty years ago, flashlights. Not quite sure what that is, but that's the description that I received, so that's what I'm passing on to you. So those are our options. Um personal preferences that I was thinking through here's what we've been talking about all through, fashion and simplicity. So if we're going for fashion in our cases, I think that what we're gonna wanna look at is a curved or a double-curved case, probably with a variety of design elements. Maybe titanium, maybe some wood. We're gonna have to investigate that better when I get specifics of the actual materials, but that's sort of what I have in mind. And we wanna go for simplicity. Probably pushbuttons, but I'm sort of intrigued by the idea of a scroll scroll wheel, if anyone has anything", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "any ideas on that? I mean I know the iPods and things right now have touch scroll um buttons which are exactly like what they're describing, so that might be something we wanna look into. And I'm really intrigued by the idea of a kinetic battery. Solar I don't think would be such a good idea, because how often are you sure that your remote control will get a certain amount of light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But this idea of the kinetic, that you don't have to replace, and that a simple just shaking it around will make it work, I think that that m would be a very interesting thing. But I think we'd also wanna go for e a simple chip or regular chip to keep our costs down. Uh we really only need a regular or advanced chip t if we're gonna start using an L_C_D_. So I think we want to be aware of not making things overly t technological if they don't need to be,'cause that'll keep our manufacturing price way down. That's what I have for options. Um I'd appreciate anyone's input, but that's what I'm seeing for the future of the the look of this thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is double-curved like would be like two hands kind of thing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not sure. I haven't received any specific", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "visuals of this yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause I'm imagining like double-curved is like, you know, like two sides that curve", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is what I'm sort of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then like one curve would just be like a single vertical-ish kind of looking thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm not sure,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I've no idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I'll let you know as soon as I get any pictures.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wonder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I know if we do have a double-curved case, it can't have any titanium in it. But the titanium, they were quite they're marketing quite hard to us as being used in the space programme, so that could be quite interesting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Space-age remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Just an interesting marketing kind of element.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just all things to keep in mind. Yeah. That's about all I have to do, guys. I hope I didn't go through that too quickly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh just a real quick question um the weight of these different elements, have you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no idea, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no idea, no idea. Um I'm assuming that a kinetic battery isn't gonna take up that much weight,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that a tita titanium is very light, I know,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um but other than.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's really basic, I mean, that's all I have gotten so far..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright? Any other questions?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Don't think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have save this in the uh shared projects, if anyone wants to look", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you, perfect.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I have c considerable notes on the topic as well, if anyone needs any more information. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um if you made notes yourself you can put those on our um underneath our oh, uh in your book,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in my notebook,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then don't worry about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if anyone has any specific questions, don't hesitate to email me or something. Alright? Uh I guess I can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay now we're um concepts concepts of user interface..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, um. This one's so much tighter than the other one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Nope. There we go. Here you are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Jess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "G oh, geez.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so I'm gonna describe the the concept of the user interface of this des device. Um we've talked about uh the two essential properties of the user interface. We want it to be simple and we want it to be fashionable. Um other we've also got to remember that this is a device that serves as a useful purpose. Uh we want people to be able to use it s as a remote control, so we need to determine what the essential functions of the d of the device are and make sure that we include that we've included all of those and that we actually end up with a device that is going to be useful to people. We have a number of different choices for a design concept um and s that's that's something that that I'll show you some examples of um, but essentially we need to choose how how is this device going to work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "how how what kind of model is there going to be for user interaction with this device. Uh once we've chosen a a concept for it, we can then design the features around the concept, making sure that we get all the essential functions in the device and uh the extra functions and the more advanced features. And of course we also have to make it look cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So basically,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's what we don't want. M we don't want lots of buttons, uh complicated features. We want something that looks nice and simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here's a a fairly simple device. This is an an iPod from Apple. Um I think the main thing to notice about it is it just has four buttons. It's very minimalistic in its design. Uh you use these four buttons to m to move around a range of settings on the small L_C_D_ screen. Um the thing I like about this is that it's very very quick to access the main features. Uh you can just about make out uh that the button three buttons are uh previous track, next track and play pause. They're the main the main features of the iPod, the things you will use a all the time. Um then if you want to do anything more advanced, you go into the little menu on the L_C_D_ screen and you use the buttons just to scroll around and and find the more advanced features that you want. So I think that's that's a good a good kind of model that we could have. Um here's a another example. This is uh it's an interesting idea and I think i it looks pretty cool. Um it's certainly got novelty value.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's nice and colourful, it's nice and bright. Uh it's also something that you can kind of feel your way around. The buttons are are different shapes and and you can sort of yeah if you're watching T_V_ in the dark or whatever, you can work out which button's which and basically, yeah it's ith it's fun. So I I like I like this idea of just having buttons for the features that you use most often. So you'd need a few buttons to select your favourite channels. I mean most people, when they watch T_V_, they have two hundred and fifty channels on their T_V_ and they watch of'bout four of them at the most. So, you have buttons for your favourite channel, changing the volume, which is something you do all the time when you're watching T_V_, and the button to switch it off, in case you get bored. Um other features, things like adjusting the brightness, tuning the T_V_, uh I don't know what else you do with a T_V_. Um but these are these are all necessary functions. Uh you can't have a t there's no point having a television that you can't tune or that you can't set the contrast, so we need to find a way of including these somehow. Um and one other suggestions I'd make is to in is to include in a menu system, a bit like on the iPod. So we'd either have a small L_C_D_ display on the device itself, or uh have a dis a menu display that comes up on your television and can b be controlled through the device.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would allow you to access access the advanced features uh whilst keeping a very small and simple set of buttons for the features that you use most often.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you'd be advocating an L_C_D_ then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that's that's one way to go, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I mean there are there are advantages and disadvantages if you if you have an L_C_D_ display, it's it's nice, because it's it it lets you just sort of sit there and st and control your television from your armchair.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There are disadvantages, an an L_C_D_ display would have to be quite small,'cause we're we're I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well we're I assume we're gonna be making quite a small device. Um it would also have to have uh a kind of backlighting in it,'cause you ten you tend to watch T_V_ in the dark,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you need to be able to see your L_D_D_ L_C_D_ display. The alternative is to have a an on-screen display on your television that you control through your remote control. Uh a bit like a bit like how they have these um digital boxes where you you press the buttons and it comes up with your this thing of watch lo what's on each channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean that that's also a good idea. It's it can it does have it's problems as well, if you've got a small T_V_ and you're sitting on the other side of a room, it's hard to read the little text that comes up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh but that's a that's a design decision that we can make.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do think that um one of the important features for a remote is seeing a menu and seeing what's on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like favourite channels is is applicable, but I think th that you do need to have some kind of function where it's um you have t you can see the title of the show or possibly a description of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well Are you are you tak", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like I I know I use that often enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wait, but is that separate from what he was saying?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if it if it was a L_ L_C_D_ on th on the remote, I don't know that you could f that you'd be able to see a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I think I think we're talking menu like contrast and tuning the V_C_R_ or something if I've understood you correctly, rather than menu as what's on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that would be one of the features, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.'Cause that would be more specifically a digital box,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's it's it's something to bear in mind is that if we put a display on the remote control the c uh communication is one way,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you can't have the televisions and information back to the remote control, at least I don't think you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, now we're moving on to market. Marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should I plug that in?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that going on? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe it's just not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh that should be alright, actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it on? Ri What F_ do you have to press,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "five? I just keep pressing lots of'em. Well, I don't know how relevant all of this gonna be. If anything, the that they gave me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oops, it's not plugged in, quite in well enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No signal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oop, there we go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Okay, so we're gonna look a little bit at trend watching. Basically, I was given um an executive summary that was a market investigation on remote controls that was recently conducted, and then also some fashion watchers in Paris and Milan commented on some things that are gonna be going on this year.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So first um they had people they ranked um the important aspects of r remote controls, and right now i d they're saying that currently there's a functional look and feel preference, but that really, over the next year it it that's gonna be switching to fancy look and feel remotes, so that just goes back to the whole desire of our c Real Reaction company wanting to focus on fashion and so, even though we're stressing, when we're talking, we've all been talking about this like simplicity and easy to use idea, they're sort of wanting us to remember that the number one thing for everyone is that it's fancy look and feel. And as these are ranked, the top one is doubly important to the second one, which is doubly important to the third one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so just to take that weight into account. The second thing that was mentioned as important was the technological innovations. That would be like if we use something like the space material or the L_C_D_ screen, things like that. And then ease of use was the third most important, whi so really, no matter what, we need to focus the most on fancy look and feel, according to this. I don't know how much we agree with that. And then the fashion watch talks about that this year's top trend for clothes,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "shoes and furniture is fruits and vegetables and tha that there's a preference for spongy, tight material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S sweet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so that brings us to my personal preferences. Who wants a spongy remote or one with fruit and vegetable padding.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Personally, I don't really think that I want one that's gonna go out of style or go stale, excuse the pun, um in a year, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "even though this is coming from us as, you know, trend watch, market research, I don't know how much of it we necessarily wanna take away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also, considering that the d research b has been carried out by Real Reaction, I'm a little hesitant as to like, how these questions may have been worded, and if necessarily this whole fashion to technology y edas ease of use is necessarily the right ranking. Personally, like I might reverse it, but if we're working for this company then I guess no matter what, we have to stress fashion the most. But it doesn't necessarily need to be a spongy material..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That there's all kinds of scope for imagination in that one though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't have a lot of notes to share if you want them,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that pretty much sums it up. So yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, do we have any s some questions for this, let's see um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, what can I possibly enlighten on?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um do you have any ideas how to possibly use these? Um how to how to use a fruit or vegetable or um or the spongy material at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like could we make a s like could we make a spongy remote? It would be easier on the hands.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it's latex if it's latexy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's kind of and then it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we would have to find a way to protect like the chip and all that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A kind of thing that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An uh I if th my understanding of a latex case is that it's in fact hard to protect stuff inside,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but that it's covered with the latex, which is spongier and softer on your hands. It's there's something to be said, I mean we we got that thing earlier from you about um not wanting it to R_ R_ repetitive stress injuries and things", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so something, m m instead of a necess", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "something grippable, I mean we don't we don't we don't wanna go spongy, maybe..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, grip, I'm thinking grip more than like sinking into your hands,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, i and I think I'm envisioning more like, you know, the material that you have when you sit on like a bicycle,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that it doesn't hurt when you're sitting down for a long time,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like I'm imagining that sort of thing, I don't know what th that material's called.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that given the list of materials I w I was forwarded it's that seems doable. could we go in fruit and vegetable colours? We could colour-co-ordinate them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F for sure, or maybe like", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "li", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um couple main ones being like, I dunno, lemons or strawberries or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The buttons could be fruit-shaped.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could they be smelly?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I Is it supposed to be shaped like a vegetable? Uh like uh I dunno, like uh carrots or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh God.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or carrot shaped,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's quite easy to s shape thing like carrot", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like large button,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or maybe the buttons could be shaped like different fruits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's what I was thinking of, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What about the idea of like a round remote? Instead of like a vertical up and down one. Like in terms of holding it. Like that's a f shape of a fruit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kind of like a potato.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Might.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It'd be harder to f bu uh buttons I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "would you think you you do you think you'd be able to hold it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just to tie it in a little.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause I think the reason they're long is yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It'd be harder to press button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Harder to push.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Depends. When you when you use a remote, do you press the buttons with your thumb, usually? Or your fingers?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I usually hold it in one hand. Maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or maybe you want something that's shaped like a mobile phone, so you you hold it in one hand, and you press the buttons with your thumb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then the buttons would have to be very small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's ts how I tend to do it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just thumb-sized.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause otherwise your fingers can't move around.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Jus", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I mean in order to get to all of them,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I like i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They would have to be within a certain amount of space with each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you've only got like four or five buttons anyway, then it's it's not so much a problem, perhaps.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. I When I'm when I'm pressing buttons on my iPod, that's how I do it, hold it and press the four. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you hold it in one hand and you press you press the buttons with your thumb", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, or in and use my thumb or my pointer finger on the touch scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and And you find that works quite well?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I love the idea of the wheel like the iPod.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause th", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The button on an iPod, is it what is it, is it just four buttons or is it li more like a scroll thing?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's like five,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a scroll, yeah, it's a wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It wel well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause there's one in the middle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, it would I mean each version of it has been a little bit different,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The one I have doesn't have the four on i like around it, I don't think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but Oh yeah, you had one of the in-between ones, when they weren't doing that anymore. Ts and you press the centre button,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's that's your all-purpose select button right there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I see, right, yeah. Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Since it's the one in the centre that's not marked, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's quite a good design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think why it would be good for us is'cause like you could have the same wheel sort of effect for like channel flipping and then the other one could be like for volume.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like just the idea of like those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so few buttons for main things,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but then how you could go back to the menu and like, I dunno if we would want it on the screen there or on the actual T_V_. I kind of am wanting to say on the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause if you're changing the brightness, don't you wanna see it happening, kind of?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then you could still have that available.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think an L_C_D_ screen might be good in theory, but not as useful in practice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it could be difficult in practice,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Also z yeah,'cause you would be z looking down at the L_C_D_ screen, than back up at your T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and people don't wanna do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um we have we've about fifteen minutes left,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh we probably have to get going, don't we?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I'm I'm gonna continue with my pres presentation. Um I've one more slide before we close, but in that slide is when we need to make decisions about this these kinds of things, so I'll just bring that up and show you all", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "before we move on. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could Could we uh could we have changeable covers like for your mobile? In different fruit and vegetable colours,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If I get any more information of fruits and vegetables, I'll let you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like, to make it different fruits..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then like the the covers could be spongy latex", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "wherea but the actual model could be titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you could co-ordinate with your house or whatever. All these options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think maybe th the packaging, it should be like a lemon and the the packaging is like the peel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So instead of opening the box you just kind of peel it, and the remote control's inside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah hmm hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there we go. The iPod packaging is me like was so that was like half the fun.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's like the way it all comes all cute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lemons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "components concept. Energy, chip on print.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-hu oh, oh yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "G", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, I had sort of skipped over that hoping it wouldn't get be necessary but um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's th th this is the agenda they gave me. So can you just explain what that is real quick?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, so um decisions, what the okay deci decisions on energy I'm thinking is based on the battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I dunno, what do people think about this kinetic battery idea?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's awesome. I think it's really cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Am I Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it would t totally take care of our problem of not wanting to change batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, um I think it's good, as as long as we consider the the cost and the uh how reliable it is,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, I haven't gotten any.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but as far as I know, the technology is good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Costs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, any more information on cost other than it's more expensive than a regular battery, but um but if we're using a an i a cheaper chip, then it'll even out, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But over time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um circuit boards. Um yeah, I got a whole bunch of information on how circuit boards are produced. They're they're thin fibreglass with copper wires etched on to them, and di I think they're quite easily printed on by machine, which is chip on print is where the machine prints on the wires and solders it all together for us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't really know what to tell you as far as decisions. I wasn't really given any options, I was just given that this is how they're done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I can't can't really tell you. I can I can tell you a whole lot about how it works. But I don't know any decisions on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If they're if they're really options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I did f", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Al all circuit boards are pretty much the same, I think. Uh it's fairly fairly standard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um okay, then we'll move on to the case. Um oh bu I guess maybe if we decided on like a simple, a regular, or an advanced chip, maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Well okay, here's the here's the thing on the chips that I that I got. Um simple, regular, advanced chip on print. The chip on print includes an infrared sensor, so we don't have to worry about that. Um,'kay, the pushbutton if we're gonna have pushbuttons, they require a simple chip, but a scroll wheel requires a regular chip, and an L_C_D_ requires advanced. Do we want a scroll wheel, or do we just want pushbuttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I don't think we ne really need the scroll whe wheel. I mean it might be nice for changing the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It would be nice for changing the volume,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I don't know how useful it'd be for changing the channel.'Cause you don't have control over numbers", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think it would really work.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you really need buttons for changing a channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "th it'd be it'd be handy for going through if there was an on-screen menu of your channel choices, than you can scroll down on the scroll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you c if you could scroll through the channels, and then the volume would just be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have five minutes left for the meeting, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the volume would just be like the same way, forward and backward as I'm just thinking like it would make it much like sleeker sort of looking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And otherwise, no matter how may buttons we have, we're gonna have like, you know, black with red sticking out and th no it's gonna inevitably sort of start looking like those group of sort of ugly ones that we saw stacked up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, have a scroll for volume?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F or for all those secret functions?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When you get on the on-screen menu of all your functions that your remote could do for you without the buttons and you could have a scroll wheel to go through those menus.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think yeah, I think a scroll wheel would be nice, but it's not necessary. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. So we could either go with a simple or a regular chip, depending and maybe we could table that decision for later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think w well I think when we go on to the une userface, we're gonna have to decide the interface we're gonna have to decide um whether we're gonna have a scroll or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, let's think about that while we talk about the case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, let's do case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I'm kinda liking the idea of latex, if if spongy is the in thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm a little um I'm a little hesitant about it, because I'm worried about protecting the stuff on the inside.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh could it be hard, and then something around it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, everything I've.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would be more okay with like a titanium actual thing and then maybe like a mobile phone kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N oh wha what I've what I've seen, just not related to this, but of latex cases before, is that there's uh like a hard plastic inside, and it's just covered with the latex.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not too thick a layer of latex, just enough to be grippable, like bike handles or or anything that you've seen like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The inside is hard. I don't think we need to worry about protecting the circuit board,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ge o", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that that's done for us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we uh we do want latex.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Latex. Um and probably in colours, maybe fruity, vegetable colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fruity colours. Okay um let's go to the ufe user interface then we'll come back to the chip I suppose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh and we want a curved case, yeah? Or a double-curved?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we don't really know what the difference is, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm thinking curved of some sort.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We don't really know what the difference.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um okay, interface, the type and the supplements. So push or scroll,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right? Or both?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Um And I think if we wanna keep our costs down, we should just go for pushbuttons,'cause then we can have a a simple chip and it's simpler, it's it's cheaper to make pushbuttons than it is a scroll button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So in terms of uh in terms of uh economics it's probably better to have pushbuttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And if we had a sc an on-screen um kind of thing that you could scroll through, like you can use your buttons to scroll through things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, it's uh it's it's fairly simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that yeah. For channel surfing I think a scroll an actual like an iPod's kind of scroll thing would be too fast, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I say pushbuttons at least unless we get any information but I have no idea how much more expensive a scroll wheel is than than a pushbutton, but it's gotta be some more expensive, so I think it might be better to put our money into the stuff like the kinetic battery and the cool case", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that okay with you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How you feeling?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And let's like see if we get anything else. I mean I'm not like hard-sold on the scroll wheel, it's more just to give it a different kind of look,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if it's gonna be in a latex type thing and that's gonna look cool, then that's probably gonna have a bigger impact than the scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It might be cool enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we're gonna go with um type pushbuttons, and then supplements,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "how are we gonna do that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh what do you mean by supplements, exactly?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I assume that's what else we're gonna like h ha the um the additional buttons we can use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we're gonna have like a menu button,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that we can access on-screen things then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um so we're doing an on-screen menu that we can scroll through.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what are what are our buttons gonna be?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. On off,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On off.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh volume, favourite channels, uh and menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So like one through five, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like a radio type sorta situation?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "about yeah like yeah, a bit like radio presets. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pre-set channels and then we're gonna need um numbers one through zero, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we wouldn't even need the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think maybe numbers seems is kind of old-fashioned.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, but in order to pre-set a cha oh I guess you can just hold it down when you get to one when you're scrolling through.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, you can just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you need some kind of, I dunno, sort of up down kind of button,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, up down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but the volume control could double for that, for example.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, um finishing the meeting now. Um our next meeting starts in thirty minutes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um you each have things to do, look and feel design, user interface design, product evaluation, and you two are going to work together on a prototype using modelling clay. You'll get specific instructions from your personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um did we decide on a chip? Let's go with a simple chip?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Simple chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We are done. Thank you everyone. Oh I di these are already in our shared folder, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, cool. Clay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Clay. I wasn't expecting that..", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education24", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Bore da. Unfortunately, the Chair, Lynne Neagle, is unable to attend today's meeting. Therefore, in accordance with Standing Order 17.22, I call for nominations for a temporary Chair, for the duration of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Sian Thomas" }, { "text": "I nominate John Griffiths.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Any further nominations? I therefore declare that John Griffiths has been appointed temporary Chair, and I invite him to chair for the duration of today's meeting.", "speakerName": "Sian Thomas" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. I thank the Members for that. Welcome, everyone, to this meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. The first item on our agenda today is apologies, substitutions, declarations of interest. Obviously, Lynne Neagle isn't able to be with us today. We haven't received any other apologies. Are there any declarations of interest? No. We will move on then to item 2 on our agenda, the continuation of our inquiry into targeted funding to improve educational outcomes, and evidence session 8. And I'm very pleased to welcome Estyn here this morning to give evidence to the committee. Would you like to introduce yourselves for the record, please?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Meilyr Rowlands, chief inspector.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Claire Morgan, strategic director.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Simon Brown, strategic director.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. And welcome again. If it's okay, we'll move straight into questions—we have quite a number of questions to get through this morning. Firstly, Llyr.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair, and good morning. I just want to start by asking about your perception of how schools are using the pupil development grant funding, and to what extent they are genuinely targeting that funding exclusively towards children eligible for free school meals.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for the question. This grant has been targeted far better by now than it was originally. Estyn has made several reports regarding the effectiveness of the grant, and, really, going back to before this specific grant, to a similar grant, called RAISE. At the start of this grant, the funding was often spent on tackling underachievement, rather than dealing with the underachievement of children who are eligible for free school meals specifically. But, over a period of time, we have seen that it is targeted much better by now. That's not to say that the targeting is working perfectly still, and I think that we are seeing examples where the targeting isn't going just to children who receive free school meals. Schools sometimes interpret poverty in a slightly wider way than that. In terms of what schools are doing with the grant, we have given evidence to you of the kinds of things that they are doing. They are tracking progress of pupils, they are trying to improve attendance, they are trying to work with families and the community in general, they're doing work specifically to improve how children are doing in exams, in key stage 4, specifically—a lot of funding is being spent on that—improving the confidence of students, taking students on extra-curricular activities, improving literacy and numeracy. Those are the kinds of activities they're being used for.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Because the research by Ipsos MORI and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods has shown that there is some kind of blurring—I think that's the term that they use—in terms of who is eligible. But you are relatively comfortable with the fact that there is sufficient targeting happening. You referred to the fact that it is used, perhaps, to reach a slightly wider cohort than just those who are eligible for free school meals, but you do feel that that balance, from your experience, is acceptable.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, certainly, it has improved a great deal. When I was looking at this initially, the targeting wasn’t happening at all. It was being spent on children who were underachieving, and one of the things that we did notice in the first report was that much more funding was being spent on boys than girls. And, of course, that raised the question immediately that it wasn't being spent then on children who are eligible for free school meals, because those numbers are equal. So, it wasn’t, but it has improved. There is a discussion about who exactly should have it and whether free school meals is the best definition. So, I think that schools are perhaps not following that exactly, but within the spirit of the grant, I think I’m fairly comfortable. There is a specific question—I don’t know if you are going to ask this—regarding more able and talented pupils.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "That's where I was going next.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "So, if there is a cohort of pupils who are missing out on this, they are the more able and talented pupils who receive free school meals. There are a number of reasons for this, I think. One of them is that there’s still some feeling that less able children should be receiving this grant, children who are underachieving. Schools don’t always identify underachievement of those more able children. It seems that they are doing okay, but if they were given more support, they would do even better.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "So, is it a lack of awareness of the nature of the grant, and that the individual has to be targeted rather than just those who are underachieving? Is that the problem? Or is it the regime that focuses on exam results and the need to draw those pupils who are underachieving up, rather than incentivising those who are achieving to achieve better?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "A bit of both, I'd say. And the third factor is identifying children who are more able. I think that we have a bit of work to do in that regard. I was in a conference for headteachers last week, where there was new data being discussed, and that data showed the progress of children from a certain point, year 6 tests. I think that kind of data will be very useful, because what that data can do is help secondary schools to identify more able children and that they are underachieving. Even though they're doing quite well, that kind of value-added data is very useful. So, I think that that will help as well.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Mark, did you want to pursue these matters further?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I just wanted to ask about the more able and talented stream. It was good to read in your report an increased emphasis on this and to see your awareness of its importance in the PDG as well. Can I just ask—? Would you look at one area regarding schools' engagement with the Seren network, particularly for the more able and talented, and what more Estyn can do through its inspection criteria and otherwise to encourage this from schools?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think Estyn has always been very strongly focused on improving the performance of more able pupils. For example, in last year's annual report I raised it, and a lot of the debate around this now, I think, was generated by some of the things I've said in previous annual reports. We gave a lot of evidence to the—. Paul Flynn, I think, did the—no, who did the report? Paul Murphy did the report. So, we gave evidence to that. And on Seren, I'm particularly proud that my alma mater, Jesus College, is a very strong supporter of the Seren work. So, I'm personally quite interested in the work of Seren. And we look at the performance of more able pupils in all our inspections. It's a particular part of our inspection framework—looking at the relative performance of different groups. So, we look at the different performance of boys and girls, free school meals and non-free school meals, ethnic minorities, but we also look at the performance of more able pupils in particular, and we question schools about how they provide for the more able pupils, and we've referred to Seren in several of our inspection reports.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And where schools work particularly hard to engage with Seren and take up opportunities from that and push as many pupils as appropriate to work with that, is that something that you would recognise within your inspection reports? And, on the other side, where schools don't do that, is that something you would pull them up on?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we've done that. We've done it in several reports.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Throughout our inspections, we are looking for best practice, because part of our strategy is always to identify where there are weaknesses, but actually to point schools in the direction of where they can find a solution. So, capturing different approaches to more able and talented is part of the role of inspection.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Just briefly, you touched earlier on using the measure of those who are eligible for free school meals as a way to identify children from disadvantaged backgrounds so that you can target this funding. Varied evidence has been given to us on this. Do you have an opinion on whether that's the best way?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "It certainly is a good way of doing it. There is a strong correlation between children who underachieve and that measure, so it is a strong measure. But, there is scope to discuss how exactly it does work. For example, some people say that if you have received free school meals for a period of time and now you're not receiving them, then perhaps you should still be receiving the funding for a period of time, for example. So, there are ways of fine-tuning that measure, I think. It's worth considering those approaches.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thanks for that. We move on now to Michelle.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Good morning, everyone. You've reported that the proportion of schools making effective use of the PDG remains around two thirds of secondary and primary schools, meaning that a third are still not using that PDG effectively. Why do you think this is?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I think that sort of proportion broadly corresponds to the schools that don't have particularly good leadership. I think, ultimately, all of these sorts of initiatives come down to strong leadership and effective leadership—that they know how to organise and use those grants effectively. One of the shortcomings that we often identify is evaluation—that money has been spent on a particular way of using the grant, but it has not been evaluated well. So, I think quite a lot of it is to do with generic leadership skills. But those are some of the specific shortcomings to do with evaluation.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Are there any patterns by region or type of school in that?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I don't think there's any patterns that we've identified in terms of region.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "As Meilyr said, it's very strongly linked to leadership capacity.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. What are the most effective uses of PDG, from your point of view? Is there something in particular that you think that schools should be focusing on?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I think there's a lot of evidence on what constitutes good practice in this area. There's the Welsh Government guidance, there's our guidance, there's a lot of research—the Sutton Trust toolkit—and they're the sorts of things I mentioned earlier. I think that more attention does need to be given to the community-focused element of this work. So, schools do a lot of things that they are in control of—the things I mentioned earlier: things like improving attendance, offering extra-curricular activities, literacy and numeracy support, tracking pupils—all those sorts of things. But an important element of this, I think, is engaging with the learners, but also with parents and the community. I think what we've found is that the most effective schools—the ones that really do make a big difference to this cohort of students—are the ones that do that most effectively.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I think that there are different situations in different schools, but in the best schools, they evaluate the barriers to learning for their particular children. Often we see that engagement with communities is part of that engagement with families. In Brackla Primary School, in Bridgend, they've got Families at Brackla, and it's a range of activities to engage with families. Families often have had a negative experience of education themselves, and the schools are trying to address some of those concerns. Cefn Hengoed in Swansea, which I'm sure many of you know about, have had an extensive strategy for engaging with the community, with the families, and equipping their children to participate in decisions around the curriculum, making them more confident learners. So, it is about removing the barriers for disadvantaged learners.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Thank you. You've made the comment that secondary schools are focusing too much on key stage 4 and not enough on developing pupils' skills in a sustainable way. Can you expand on that and give us a bit more detail on that, please?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think this is sort of generally accepted now. The latest guidance on the grant now says that 60 per cent of it should be spent on key stage 3. I think that acknowledges this general point. But what a lot of schools did with this money was precisely that, to target key stage 4—to have catch-up homework clubs, revision clubs, specifically to get children better GCSE results, and getting C grades, in particular. Of course, that is an important part of your armoury of tools to use, but I think there was too much use of that. Part of the problem with that is that it doesn't either develop the long-term transferable skills that those pupils have, or should have, nor does it produce the kinds of skills that the teachers need as well. So, it's kind of a quick win, a quick-fix solution, while what we feel would be more effective in the long term, and more sustainable in the long term—because if this money goes, then those quick fixes won't be possible—what would be more effective in the long term is to improve the curriculum and the pedagogy, the quality of the teaching, the quality of the curriculum, so that children are naturally enthused by what is on offer, that they attend better because they want to be in school, that they want to learn. So, we feel that getting the curriculum right, tailoring the curriculum to the needs of the pupils in that area, and improving teaching, is a more sustainable long-term solution.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Do you think there's anything in particular driving the focus on the key stage 4?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "Well, again, I think most people would say it is the performance indicators. I think there's a general acknowledgement of that. Again, I said last week—. There was a conference of all the secondary heads in Wales, and that was one of the major discussion points in the conference: how do we get the performance indicators right so that there are no perverse incentives in it?", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "To what extent are decisions being made in schools concerning the application of the PDG actually evidence-based? To what extent are they using research to back up how they're using the PDG or is it effectively just guesswork?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I think that, of all the areas of school policy, this is the one that's most evidence-based. I think that, generally, schools can do much more about using evidence and research findings, but this particular area is probably the one that schools are strongest at using research in. That's partly because the guidance strongly suggests that you should do that, but also because there is a lot of easily accessible research evidence available. So, there's a lot of research on this. As I mentioned earlier, the Sutton Trust toolkit is a good example where researchers have really tried very hard to simplify all the evidence that exists in a way that schools can use. So, there are little pound signs to show how costly an intervention is and little stars or something to show how many months of gain pupils get out of this particular intervention. So, it makes it much easier for schools to make a decision. But I think what's missing is that you can't just take that evidence as it is, because you have to implement it in your own school, and that then will affect how effective that particular intervention is. Just because it is evaluated by researchers as being generally very effective doesn't mean that you will necessarily implement it effectively. So, it is therefore important that each school does evaluate. So, there are kind of two sides to using research. There's looking at research, but there's also doing your own research and evaluating how effectively you have implemented something. I think that's been a weakness.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Hefin David.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Do you think there's an attendance crisis at key stage 4 for those students eligible for free school meals?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "'Crisis' is maybe too strong a word, but I think there's been a lot of attention given to attendance, quite rightly. Over a long period of time, I was a member of the national behaviour and attendance review board under Ken Reid about 10 years ago. So, there's been a lot of attention on attendance, and that's very important because attendance has a very strong correlation with outcomes.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Of those students at key stage 4, 35 per cent of those eligible for free school meals are attending for 95 per cent of the time, whereas it's 60 per cent for their peers. Is the PDG making an impact on that? You've mentioned engagement with the curriculum. What more can be done?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think what's happening now is that people are targeting their attention on attendance. Attendance has improved in primary and in secondary generally. It has also improved for these cohorts as well, and at a faster rate than the rest of the cohort. So, there have been improvements. Nevertheless, I agree with you totally that it is a major, major problem, and that is why schools do use the PDG specifically to improve attendance.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "But you said they've not used it well enough.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Did I say that? They are using it, and attendance has improved, and the attendance of this cohort has improved more, but there's still a major, major problem. So, I think there needs to be even more attention—", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "So, what—? I'm looking for specifics. What can be done with the PDG?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think, as I said earlier, that these are major social issues. So, I think what can be done that hasn't been done currently is to give more attention to the community-focused side of schooling. I think the schools that have done well, that have really improved attendance of this particular group of pupils, are the ones that have taken community relationships very, very seriously and worked with parents.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes, you mentioned working with families when you were answering Llyr. How does that happen, though? What does it look like? If I'm a parent, what does it look like?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I'll ask Claire to give you an example. Cefn Hengoed is a good example of a school that has not cracked it but made a lot of progress.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Often, in the best schools, the headteachers consider themselves to be community leaders as well as headteachers, and they often set up arrangements where they engage directly with the families of disadvantaged children or children who are underachieving generally. They try to build very strong relationships with the families so that the school is in a position to either liaise with different agencies or to bring agencies into the school to address some of the issues that are outside school control.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "And where does the PDG come into this, and the use of it?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "This sometimes is used for appointing staff whose role it is to facilitate these arrangements to give one-to-one support to children, to monitor attendance, to visit homes where children are not coming into schools, to try and address what the barriers are in getting them into classrooms.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "And those lessons you've learned from Cefn Hengoed: how are you going to spread that? How does that get spread?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, we've done it in a number of ways. Obviously, the first thing we do is the inspection report, and we highlight the practice there. We also have things—. This is an example of our best-practice case studies. We also have conferences as well, where we invite the headteachers from those schools to come and present to other headteachers. We also tweet, use social media, to try and get the message out there. But there's also—", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "This all seems like stuff that's done to teachers. It doesn't seem very engaging.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, it is—. Headteachers tell us that learning about best practice from other headteachers is very, very useful. When we had a conference, and when we looked at leadership and improving schools, Cefn Hengoed, along with a number of other schools, presented, and we had very positive feedback from that. So, it is actually schools learning from other schools, and I think the work that the consortia have been doing on school-to-school support as well can contribute to it.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "We're spreading the PDG very thinly now, if we're talking about attendance, and then we talk about exclusion as well. Is it possible that it can have an impact on reducing the higher exclusion rates for EFSM students?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think it has the potential to. I think all these strategies have a potential to remove those barriers. But this is—", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "It doesn't sound very convincing.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "But it is a difficult challenge for schools. These are often complex issues that schools are grappling with, and they are trying a variety of approaches.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm not being overly critical, but it does seem very hit and miss, to me. Some of the answers that you're giving—they seem to be giving certain examples, but there doesn't seem to be a coherence to it.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think it comes back to leadership. Where we have very strong strategic leadership in schools, they are more direct in their approach, and they have a very strong strategy. Where there's weaker leadership, sometimes they are trying different things, perhaps in more of a scattergun approach, rather than trying strategies, evaluating and finding out what works. There is an element of the impact of leadership there.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay, Hefin? Okay.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think it is true to say that it's difficult to distinguish what some of these better schools do with PDG, as opposed to their general money. If that's what you're getting at, I would totally agree. Schools like Cefn Hengoed will be using more than just the PDG to do this work.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And it appears to be a lot about the way things are done, as much as how the money is spent.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "It is to do with the ethos and the culture of the school.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks for that. We have further questions from Michelle.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. You've observed that the attainment gap between pupils on free school meals and those who aren't on free school meals hasn't closed significantly at any stage of learning. Is the PDG actually working?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "Well, I'm in danger of repeating myself now. It's quite difficult to identify the cause and the effect in terms of the PDG. So, where there have been improvements, it's quite difficult to say,'Well, that's definitely down to the PDG', and similarly vice versa: if it's not working, it's difficult to say that it's because of PDG not being used properly. To come back to something else I said previously, there have been small improvements. Whether you say that that is due to PDG or not is quite difficult, but there have been some improvements. But there hasn't been a major step change in closing that gap, that is true, and I think the conclusion that I draw is that these are major societal challenges and barriers that these young people face. Schools can do a certain amount, and of course they must do a certain amount, but to have a step change you do need to engage with the learners, with the parents and with the community and that's why the more successful schools do actually succeed—it's because they do that. So, I think more of a push on that area at a national level would be welcome.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "In most successful schools, how much is the attainment gap being narrowed, in the schools that make the most effective use of PDG?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "Well, that would vary from school to school. We can look up specific examples for you of specific schools if you like.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes, perhaps you could provide a note to the committee on that.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I could have a list of schools and how much they've closed, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll move on.", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "Perhaps you could include in that what you would consider to be a significant increase.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Fine.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thank you. In 2017, we saw a re-widening of the attainment gap between pupils on free school meals and those not on free school meals. What effect do you think the Welsh Government's changes to performance measures have had in terms of impact?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "Yes, they definitely had a direct impact on it, and probably there might well be an indirect, longer-term impact as well. But, clearly, changing the performance indicators had a direct, immediate effect, because some of those examinations, qualifications, courses that were typically followed by this cohort of students weren't any longer part of the headline performance indicators. So, you've all heard about BTEC Science and the key skills qualifications. Those sorts of things that many of these pupils used to succeed at, and therefore get the performance indicator for the school, no longer count. So, it's had a direct impact, and it's one of the reasons why it's quite difficult to compare the results of one year and another, because of these changes in performance indicators.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes, that makes sense. Do you think there hasn't been any—? Can we take it from what you've said that there's been a positive improvement, or has it been negative?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I think there's a growing realisation that secondary schools, key stage 4, is driven overly by performance indicators, and, whatever performance indicator you come up with, there will be unintended consequences. So, it's not, I think, useful to keep changing the performance indicators and think that you will get to a point where you solve the problem. That's not likely to happen. What needs to be done is to have a different approach to accountability that doesn't put so much attention on these performance indicators, because what you're doing is you're just moving the problem around by changing the performance indicators. Some of these vocational courses that I mentioned are a good example of this. So, I think the previous performance indicators encouraged schools to enter, for example, whole cohorts to do BTEC science, and that's not a good idea because the GCSE sciences are better preparation to go on to A-level science, for example. So, you're cutting out the possibility of progression for those pupils. On the other hand, by discouraging—the new performance indicators discourage BTEC and now people are saying,'We're not offering BTEC at all', and it is suitable for a certain cohort of pupils. So, it's very difficult to get the performance indicators absolutely right if you put so much pressure on schools to actually achieve those performance indicators.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Michelle, I'd just like to bring in Darren at this point.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I share some of your concern around the unavailability now of BTEC in some schools. It strikes me that the decision to discourage the availability of BTEC, which is what the performance measures do, really is sending a message about vocational qualifications that is not helpful, actually, to many young people for whom vocational qualifications may be perfectly suitable. Is that something with which you concur?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think it's one of the unintended consequences, and what I'm trying to say is that, almost inevitably, there will be unintended consequences. So, you can sympathise with the original decision to change the performance indicators in such a way that it encouraged more pupils to do GCSEs, for example, but it does have that unintended consequence. In theory, there's nothing stopping a school entering pupils now for those qualifications.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. Michelle, we need to move on at this stage, so we'll move on Julie Morgan.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you very much. I wanted to ask you about looked-after children and adopted children, and how effective the PDG has been for those groups of children. So, to begin with, how well do the schools know that the PDG does exist for looked-after children and adopted children?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I think what we found—we did a review of looked-after children fairly recently, and we found there was some confusion about where the grant was, who had the grant and how it was spent, and what the priorities of regional consortia were, because I think the grant goes to regional consortia now. I think previously it went to local authorities. So, I think schools aren't quite sure about how it's spent and what the priorities are.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I think we've seen a bit of improvement there. Meilyr was right; there was a lack of clarity. Schools weren't always aware of the grant and the possibility of using it to support those learners. But the consortia are now using the grant, and there's some training being offered to schools around emotional behaviour and attachment training. There's some school-to-school work that is now being funded by the grant to share best practice, and there are some individual bursaries to support the work. So, from quite a concern, some action now is appearing to be done.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "And on other developments, regional consortia, they've have appointed regional LAC co-ordinators, which has been helpful—", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "For these particular groups?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes. It has happened since July 2016 and they're now in post and beginning to work. And, as Claire said—she gave some of the spend that the regional consortia are using, targeted spending. It's an improving area of regional consortia's work. They are improving their tracking of looked-after children. There's an issue about adopted children, I think, because, currently, the pupil-level annual school census data doesn't differentiate whether children are adopted or not. So, they're more difficult to track. But looked-after children are being tracked by the consortia. So, it's an improving area, as Claire mentioned.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Could you give some examples of some work that's been done with looked-after children that you feel has been effective?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I think we'd probably need to go away and get that from our evidence base. That would be helpful.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "That would be great if you could do that and send something in to us. I've mentioned before in this context that this previous committee, in the previous Assembly, did an inquiry into adopted children, where we met with a lot of adoptive parents. And one of the big issues that did come out was the fact that there was a great deal of concern about some of the insensitivities in the schools in dealing with adopted children, asking for pictures of when the children were born and things like that that didn't show a degree of sensitivity. Do you feel that those sorts of issues are being addressed on a wider basis now, and are they being addressed through this grant, through the PDG grant?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "We probably do need to come back to you with some more evidence on this. This is certainly on our radar. We've got two pieces of work currently that we're doing, which will give a little bit more evidence on this. We're doing a piece of work on managed moves and I think that will be helpful because a lot of these pupils are subject to managed moves, and that's the sort of thing we'll be looking at in that report: what information is transferred from one organisation and from one school to another. I think that generally hasn't been very helpful, and there isn't necessarily a good system for exchanging particularly their educational needs—some of the basic things about their date of birth and whatever are transferred, but their educational needs, when children move from one school to another. So, we've got a report coming out on that. The other piece of work we've been doing is on children who have had adverse experiences in their childhood and how schools deal with those traumatic backgrounds.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "That would, of course, be much wider than looked-after and adopted children.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "It is wider. It is wider. That is wider. But, if you don't mind, we'll try and get you something specifically on—", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "If you could, because there does generally seem to be a lack of knowledge about how effective this work is with looked-after and adopted children. You don't have any information about exclusion rates, for example, with looked-after children, and the way this grant has been used to address those sorts of issues?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I think there is some data available. I don't think exclusions have gone down particularly for that group more than any other group. But there has to be quite a bit of caution used with data on exclusions. The Welsh Government's statistics on that come with a big cautionary note, because that data is subject to a lot of variation—exactly what you're talking about, I think: different counties and different authorities do things differently. And I think the work we're doing on managed moves is very pertinent to that because managed moves don't count as part of the exclusion. So, the exclusion rates will differ from area to area, depending on the policy on managed moves.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Right. And what about attendance? Anything about attendance with looked-after children? Any evidence of—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "I'll have to look that up as well I think.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I think, Chair, if we can have some more information on all of this, it would be great.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, yes, we'll look forward to receiving that further information from you. Mark.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Could I just ask a follow-up to a response that we had last week when we had the EAS consortium in, amongst others? They told us that the specific grant—the pupil deprivation grant—principally for looked-after children, they were responsible for, and that certainly the vast bulk of that was spent on a specific programme, aimed not at LACs specifically, but at all children considered vulnerable at times of transition, particularly into year 7. Does that strike you as an appropriate use of that grant?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think transition is appropriate—that's quite sensible, but clearly if the grant is for looked-after children, it should be spent on looked-after children.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Are there any other comments on that approach? I think, to take up what EAS has said, there were difficulties about having particular programmes aimed specifically at individual looked-after children, and it was felt that they would benefit vulnerable children, who had more transitions between schools perhaps than others. Is that a sufficient link to justify how that grant is spent? I think this is really in the wider context of how much schools need to make sure this grant goes towards the group it's specified for, and to what extent it is acceptable to blur the boundaries of that and perhaps this is just an example of a higher degree of blurring than some others.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I don't know enough about this particular initiative to comment, but I would have thought that looked-after children is a very small group and if you were to blur it that much, then it wouldn't be very targeted. I would have thought that if the grant is specifically for looked-after children, it should be more targeted, but I don't know the details.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Just following up on another point, I think you said that the'PLASS' data—. I apologise that I'm not familiar with the abbreviation, but could you explain if anything was being done to address previously looked-after children who are now adopted and seeking to ensure that they are measured to that data to allow proper tracking. Is that work that's in hand, do you know? Could you just clarify for me the'PLASS' description and what information system that that refers to?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "That's the information that schools give formally to Welsh Government and every so often, the data that is collected formally by Welsh Government is improved and expanded. Exclusions is a good example. Previously, exclusions weren't collected through PLASC—the pupil level annual school census—and so we had no proper data at all on exclusions. Now that's been improved, but I'm afraid I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to here.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Well, I think what you were referring to—. I think you were saying that previously looked-after children who are now adopted, unlike looked-after children, that wasn't tracked by the PLASC data.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "That's our understanding. Looked-after children are differentiated, but whether they're adopted or not—whether any children are adopted—isn't picked up in the data at the moment.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "But I think for the grant, it's previously looked-after children who have since been adopted rather than all adopted children, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Again, perhaps you could clarify that for us in the further information that you will provide.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Although, you'd probably be better off asking the Welsh Government directly.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes, I agree—I think that would be better, but just to clarify finally from me, Chair: is your point that, if that group isn't measured, then it is difficult to target them with this grant, and if we want them to be targeted with this grant, we should ensure that they're tracked through that data system?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that sounds sensible.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. Mark, I think you have some further questions on Schools Challenge Cymru.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Did you consider that the Schools Challenge Cymru programme was a success?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "It was certainly variable. It lasted for a relatively short period of time, so it's quite difficult to be definitive about the evaluation of it, but it was certainly variable. It varied from school to school. Some were very successful, some didn't make as much improvement. If it had lasted longer, maybe it would have made a difference. Overall, the data made—. There were improvements overall for the 40 schools over and above the general improvement that there was for all schools in Wales. So, you could say that it was successful in that respect. So, it's quite difficult to say whether it was successful, because that was a fairly limited improvement for quite a lot of money. It is, you know, quite a difficult judgment to say whether it was successful or not overall. What strikes one, I think, was the variability in the success of it, and I think that was clear also at an operational level. It was clearly more successful in certain areas where all the various people involved in the work worked together effectively. So, the challenge adviser and the local authority and the regional consortia were all working effectively together. And, in other cases, they weren't, and there had to be changes in personnel and that sort of thing. So, it was quite variable.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Of the five schools within the programme that Estyn actually inspected in the last year of the programme, I think that three of those were in special measures and two required significant improvement. Doesn't that suggest that, as far as Estyn engaged with the programme, your evidence was not to suggest that it was being successful?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Not wildly successful, certainly, but many of these schools would have been in those sorts of categories in the past as well. So, it's not very surprising that many of them still remained. So, it wasn't a huge success, clearly. As you say, many of these schools are still struggling schools, so it hasn't been a panacea.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Bearing in mind your remarks earlier over the focus on key stage 4, in particular the C to D grade boundary, what sort of minimum length of time should a programme like this run for if we are to expect success?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "That's a hugely difficult question to answer, and it is at the core of whether this initiative was successful. There has been research, and people have looked at things like the City Challenge and have suggested that two or three years is too short a period to make a proper evaluation of how successful those particular initiatives were. I don't know of similar evaluations to that particular point in Wales for the Schools Challenge Cymru, but with similar initiatives in England, the suggestion has been that you need at least three years to be able to evaluate it properly.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "The Schools Challenge Cymru advisers, I understand that Estyn met with those termly through the programme. Can you explain how useful that engagement was, and also perhaps compare or contrast it to the ongoing engagement you have with the advisers from the regional consortia?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "You know, the engagement we had with local authorities, and regional consortia, and with Schools Challenge Cymru advisers was not really a problem for us. That was fine. I think the engagement with each other was more of the issue, really. I think the challenge for Schools Challenge Cymru was that it was introduced at a time when regional consortia were just beginning. So, you had a period of time when it wasn't entirely clear what the responsibilities of regional consortia were, compared with local authorities. That has developed and clarified over time, but at that time it wasn't entirely clear. Plus, you were bringing in another player to the school improvement landscape. When all of those different agencies worked well together, then that was a positive thing for schools. When they were all saying the same thing, having that extra resource, extra money, extra attention, was a positive thing; but, clearly, in some cases, that relationship didn't always work, and some schools felt that they were being told different things by different agencies. Clearly, that was one of the reasons why that wasn't as successful.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "So, is Welsh Government now trying to do, through the regional consortia, what it was then trying to do through Schools Challenge Cymru?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, what you had then was you had all three: you had local authorities and regional consortia and Schools Challenge Cymru. So, what you have now is a clearer demarcation of who does what. I don't think what Welsh Government are doing now is the same as what they were trying to do in Schools Challenge Cymru, because I think what Schools Challenge Cymru did, and did well, I think, was identify that there are a small number of secondary schools that have particular challenges and they need over and above the normal local authority/regional consortia support, they need over and above that a certain quantum of support and resource. I think that's specifically what Schools Challenge Cymru was trying to do, and that's not quite the same as what the more universal provision of regional consortia is.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, that's all we have time for in this session, I'm afraid. There are some questions that we haven't reached that we'll write to you on to obtain further responses, and there are some matters that you've identified where you need to provide us with further information also. May I thank you very much for coming along this morning to give evidence? You will be sent a transcript to check for factual accuracy in the usual way. Thank you very much. The committee will now break for just over six minutes until 11:30. Welcome back, for item 3 on our agenda today, scrutiny of Estyn's annual report for 2016-17. We've got a number of areas to cover, but please, Members, feel free to raise whatever issues you think appropriate, because the areas that we've identified are a general guide only. Okay, welcome back to Estyn, our witnesses for this session also. I don't know if we need further introductions. I don't think we do, really; we've already had that on the record. So, we'll move straight into questions then, and Llyr.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. Just to start with, what's your opinion about the way the Government has been introducing reforms in this area over this past inspection cycle? In general, what is your opinion about how effective that has been and how much of an impression has it had?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well the seven year cycle encompasses three Governments if truth be told, but there has been a sense of continuity and progress made in the nature of policy work in general, starting with the fundamental things such as literacy and numeracy in the first instance and also behaviour and attendance, as I said earlier this morning. And then they've developed a far more comprehensive scheme that is at the heart of the development of the curriculum and pedagogy specifically. And I think that that general shift from the foundations—of literacy and numeracy—moving towards the curriculum and pedagogy does make sense. And the other trend that we've seen is to promote collaboration and the self-improvement system, as it's called. I also think that there are a number of progressive countries doing the same kind of thing. So, I think that the general direction is right.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "So, you think—and I'd agree—that the focus on pedagogy is correct and that this culture that appears to be putting more emphasis on self-improvement, and so on, is a positive one. Are there aspects that haven't worked as well in your opinion?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Of course, one accepts that one would like to see development and progress happening far more quickly, but, even in that instance, we need to balance the need that we all have to see progress with the pressures that are on teachers—there are so many things changing. I think that the most striking aspect in looking back over the past seven years is that all aspects of work in the education system—I'm trying to avoid saying'schools', because it's more than just schools; it's colleges and the system as a whole—have changed. All aspects of that have changed, and I think that we need that—all of those aspects need to be changed and improved—but we need to balance that against the fact that we need to not go so fast, because workload on teachers—. This responsibility of self-improvement means that there is more pressure on teachers and headteachers, ultimately. That's why Estyn was very pleased to collaborate with 15 other bodies to give guidance on workload for teachers, because we have to be very careful to get that right as well.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "But is it disappointing, then, in the latest annual report, that you are to all intents and purposes coming to the conclusion that the performance is consistent with how it has been over the past inspection cycle? Would you not expect some kind of progress or something more significant in terms of outcomes?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "That's one way of looking at it. Another way, as I said earlier, is that all of these things are changing and, under those particular circumstances, that it's a good thing that teachers and the education system have been able to maintain standards and the quality of education.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "The sector, of course, is continually evolving. We know that a number of these reforms are still playing out and are still being developed and introduced. Of course, there is a risk that we are in this situation continuously, and therefore settling for managing to maintain, for me, perhaps wouldn't show enough ambition. Is there a risk that we will find ourselves continually—? As you say, the inspection cycle has seen three Governments. There are changes and different policies and priorities being implemented. From what you say, that does prevent the development of the sector.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "We are in the middle of a period of major change, and you're right that there is more change to come. The new curriculum will reach key stage 4 in around seven years again, so we're genuinely in the middle of this period of change. Perhaps'revolutionary' is too strong a word, but it is the biggest change that I've seen in my career. You have to go back to the 1980s and 1990s to see similar changes. Of course, we all wish to see swifter progress being made, but what that means in practice is that you push more changes through, or that you push through the changes that we currently have more quickly. There was discussion, for example, about when the new curriculum should be introduced. Those are the kinds of practical questions that arise, and you have to remember that, in the classroom, what you will have are individual teachers having to prepare for a new GCSE, a new A-level, and there are new specifications in that regard, and it's a great deal of work. So, we have to be very careful when we say that we need to accelerate that process.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "But you understand the point I was making about the risk of finding ourselves like this continually and therefore to say, if we were to interpret your conclusion in the recent report, that outcomes have been consistent over the inspection cycle doesn't mean that we are pushing enough or that the reforms happen in a way that allows progress in performance terms.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I would wish to see that we wouldn't be in this position continuously. I think that—", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "But you've just suggested that there are seven years ahead of us yet in terms of introducing these reforms.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "But I do think that the reforms, in looking at them holistically, are fundamental, as I was saying. You have to go back 30, 40 years to see something similar. So, I do think that we need to look at—. One of the problems—. You ask what hasn't worked in the past. Well, I think one of the things, and it's difficult to answer that question, but one of the things that hasn't worked in the past is just doing one aspect of the system. We need to look at transforming the entire education system at the same time, because if you just tinker with one part then it might have an unintended effect in another place. So, I think we need to look at the system as a whole, and I think that what's happening at the moment is a structural change to the system.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes, I think that's a fair enough point. What's your assessment, therefore, of how able or how ready schools are to deal with, in moving forward now, all of these changes and reforms?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, I think that they have coped with a whole host of changes, and that's something to be praised. We are disappointed the standards haven't improved as much as we would have liked to have seen, but we also need to be congratulating the workforce for getting to grips with so many changes in a relatively short period. So, that does give one confidence that they will be able to cope with other changes in future. So, I am confident in that sense, but we do have to be careful in looking out for the workload, because the culture of promoting is one of giving more responsibilities to teachers, to schools, to colleges and to headteachers. So, we have to be very careful that that workload doesn't become excessive.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Would you also share the concern that the reduction in school budgets will worsen those risks that you referred to?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes. As you'll know, international research evidence shows that it is not the amount of funding that goes into education systems that dictates how effective they are. But it is true to say that, if you have financial cuts, that does cause practical problems for headteachers in having to lay off staff, and so on. So, it does take a lot of time and energy to deal with cuts.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Diolch yn fawr, Llyr. Mark.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Could I ask the reasons for Professor Donaldson being asked to undertake a review of Estyn's role?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think any good organisation would welcome external scrutiny. I would say that, wouldn't I, because I'm an inspector, but I think it's important that we practise what we preach. There have been in the past systems of quinquennial reviews. I think it is healthy for anybody to have that sort of external view, and I think in particular we're proud in Estyn that we are a body that is developing and trying new things and evolving continuously. So, I think it's that. But if you were to ask,'Why now?', it's because of the extent of the education reform that we're particularly facing. So, I think it's a good thing to do at any given time, but considering the range and speed of change that we're facing in education now, I thought it was particularly important that we ask Graham Donaldson to look at the implications for our work of all this education reform.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "What have been the biggest benefits to Wales of having Estyn as an independent body inspecting schools and other institutions in Wales compared to the work that Ofsted has done in England?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, we have very good relationships with Ofsted and with Education Scotland and the Education Training Inspectorate in Northern Ireland. I wouldn't like to compare—I don't think it would be fair to compare ourselves. We do things slightly differently, but we benefit a lot from each other. We have inspectors from Ofsted or from Scotland, from Northern Ireland, on our inspections. We shadow them, and our inspectors go to their countries. So, we're working quite closely with the home countries, but also further afield with Holland and with the Republic of Ireland, for example. So, we're always, all of us, learning from one another about what we think they do well and what they think we do well. We're constantly learning from each other. I wouldn't think it's fair for me to say what I think—you know, where we're better than another country.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Of course. I'm not asking you to criticise Ofsted. I agree that wouldn't be appropriate. But I think what is fair for me to ask is: perhaps could you highlight one or two areas where you believe that Estyn has a particular difference of emphasis and approach from Ofsted?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think one of the things we've done and we've developed over many years is the use of the nominee and peer inspectors in particular. So, we've got, I think, a really good tradition of doing that in Wales, and when we do meet other inspectorates, they're always very interested in that part of our work. We're a very small organisation; we're only about 50 HMIs. We inspect a wide range of sectors, as you know, but the bulk of that inspection work is actually done now by peer inspectors. So, I think that, and the idea of a nominee, is also of interest to other inspectorates across the world. So, there's always someone from the body that we are inspecting on the inspection team. They're part of all the discussions so they actually understand how we've come to our report, and they can then help the organisation move forward after we've left.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I've clashed with Welsh Ministers on the absence of league tables for schools in Wales, with less accountability for their results than is the case in England. I note it as a parent myself. But, from, I think, at some point in 2014, you started in your inspection reports of primary schools putting the comparison of how they were doing compared to other schools and local authorities and nationally, as well as what you've described as their family of schools, and being more transparent over their key stage 2 results. So, what led you to do that? What difference has that made? And was that decision taken by Estyn on its own account, or was that something that was agreed with Welsh Ministers?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I did listen to Plenary, so I've heard you raise this issue. I'm sure it's inadvertent on your part, but you've confused absolutely everyone with this.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I'm pleased to let you set the record straight, then.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "It's not actually true. The data that you refer to is published by the Welsh Government on My Local School. So, if you want to know about your own school or any other school, you should go onto that website. That's hugely—. It's very clear. There's a huge amount of data on it, but it's very, very clear. You can look at it in terms of tables and data and graphs and it shows all that data that you refer to, and that's the right place to have it. We do refer to some of that data in our reports, because our reports are based on evidence. Most of it is first-hand evidence that we see in the classroom and see in pupils' work, but we triangulate that with data and with what parents and pupils say and interviews with staff. So, we refer to that data and we always have referred to the data. Pre 2014, it was in the body of the text, and then after 2014 we put it in an appendix. We had a mid-cycle review and people felt it would be better in an appendix than in the body of the text, but it was always there. There's pros and cons on whether it should be in the body of the text or in an appendix.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Well, certainly, the data became clear to me in reports after 2014 in a way it wasn't before. So, I will leave that there. Can I just highlight a few of what I felt were either particularly striking statistics or comparisons or points that were made in your annual report of potential concern? You state that headteachers do not understand the principles of good pedagogy or good practice in about three quarters of schools—this relates to the foundation phase. I find that quite a shocking statistic. Do you share that view?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes. That's why I highlighted it in my foreword. I think there is a general consensus about the benefits of the foundation phase. There's a lot of research, and our own evidence shows that, where it is implemented well, pupils benefit a lot from it and they're well prepared to be independent thinkers. So, it's a development that we should be proud of in Wales, I think, the foundation phase. It's a great thing. But, we are disappointed that only about a quarter of primary schools are implementing it fully. There's a whole range of reasons, as I discuss in the annual report, why that might be the case. It is quite an innovative idea, and I think it's misunderstood by saying it's learning through play, because that's a bit too simplistic a definition of it. We have written a report recently on good practice in the foundation phase, so that we can try and explain clearly to people what the benefits of it are and how best to implement it. But I think it is true that too many headteachers—. Many of them might not have taught in foundation phase, they might not have that infant background, they might have a junior-school background. There might not have been enough—well, we say there wasn't enough training—or there might be people who missed any training that there was then. So, overall, there is a large number of leaders who don't fully appreciate what the foundation phase could deliver.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Darren—is it on this?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes, it is on this. I was just wondering—. I mean, one of the problems that I know you've identified in the past is this lack of good practice being able to travel into all parts of Wales, and, of course, we've got local authorities, we've got regional consortia, we've got the Welsh Government—all of which want to see good practice replicated where possible. What opportunities are there, perhaps, to develop some other further opportunities for good practice to be shared and promoted? I know that the Wales Audit Office, for example, has its good practice exchange. Is there something similar that schools can engage with to make things happen?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "It's a good question. I mean, specifically to do with foundation phase, there is a foundation phase—I can't remember what it's called now—excellence network I think, which is being relaunched. I think it was supposed to be relaunched during the snow period. So, there are networks being established. There's one for mathematics—a national network for excellence in mathematics—there's one for science and there's one for foundation phase in particular. So, I think it is a challenge that we haven't cracked yet in Wales: how do we make sure that good practice does travel? I think one specifically for foundation phase is a good idea, because we've got a specific issue with the foundation phase.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "When you say that—", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Mark, just before you go on, I think Julie wanted to come in on this point as well.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I just wondered if you could give us some examples about how the foundation phase is not being implemented in the true spirit of the foundation phase in the three quarters of schools that you think fall—.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, what we mean by that is schools not necessarily teaching badly, but in a more traditional way. And where we've seen that most obviously is in year 1 and year 2. Some schools actually reverted, after the introduction of the new tests, from what was pedagogy that was in line with the foundation phase. And basically, if I understand it correctly, it's more to do with the children making their own choices about what they do. And that is pretty common in nursery and reception classes, but it's less common in year 1 and year 2.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I think it is very much, as Meilyr said, the difference between a pupil-led learning experience or a teacher-led learning experience. Because of the lack of training and maybe the confidence to pursue that active and experiential learning approach, teachers have tended to resort to what they feel more comfortable with, which is more of an adult-led learning—often still high quality, but it doesn't ensure that the learners become far more independent, far more engaged in their learning. So, it's almost holding children back to an extent. They're making good progress, but they could be making even more progress.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay. Mark.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "So, when you say that some teachers are sort of holding children back, and in the report that three quarters of schools don't understand the principles of good pedagogy or good practice, what you mean is that teachers are using traditional methods, including whole-class teaching, rather than moving towards a pupil-led learning experience and one that you said was oversimplified as learning through play. May not the issue here therefore be that Estyn is seeking to impose this different approach on teachers who think that they are better able to teach children in the traditional way, which, at least in my experience, would be supported by quite a number of parents?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I don't think it's Estyn that's imposing it. That's the national policy.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Do you support that policy?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, we do, actually. We do. Our evidence, as I said, is that, when it is implemented properly, pupils do actually gain from it. But we're not imposing it, and what we're saying is that headteachers are not necessarily understanding it. I think there is quite a lot of jargon around it. I was just looking in the annual report. Quite unusually, in this section, we have had to actually explain some of the technical terms, like'continuous provision'. So that's, I think, one of the reasons why people don't understand it fully. That's why we did produce this quite substantial bit of work, trying to unpack what this actually means in practice and giving a lot of good examples of the practice.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "You referred to evidence of this approach working. Given the timing of when it was brought in and where we are now, has that really had time to distil through the system and give compelling evidence that this approach works better than more traditional approaches?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think it has, to be fair. I think this has, because we're talking about a lot of developmental work related to the foundation phase prior to 2010, but it became compulsory for all schools to deliver it from 2010 onwards. So, that gives enough time for children to have been through the whole of the foundation phase onto key stage 2, and we can see the effect of it. In the schools where there is good practice in the foundation phase, we can see the effect when we inspect on key stage 2 children.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "So, would you be confident about this, in the next few years, feeding through into an improvement in Programme for International Student Assessments, rather than a further deterioration?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think that if we did what Darren was talking about, getting more schools to share good practice, I think it will expand and more schools will take it on, yes.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. On the sharing of good practice, you put emphasis in the report on this being an improving area and trend for the future as well, but I think you did raise concerns that it wasn't monitored or evaluated sufficiently well, particularly where one school was supporting another. How should that be done better?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think this has been a theme of many of the issues we've raised: that, whatever the initiative, you can't tell whether it's been successful or not unless you evaluate it properly. So, those evaluation skills, I think, are very important. I think that, with the development of the national academy for educational leadership, I would hope that research skills and evaluative skills would be part of the kind of training that headteachers get that maybe in the past they didn't. So, that becomes more of the day-to-day work of schools—that naturally, whenever you do something, you evaluate it afterwards. We've evaluated a lot of the school-to-school work. We've published two or three reports on it, and we've identified what we think is good practice and not-so-good practice.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, Mark? If we move on at this stage—I wonder, before other Members come in, if I could ask about community-focused schools. Quite a lot of what we discussed earlier was around the importance of getting families and the community more involved in education, and one way of doing that, I think, is through community-focused schools that are very much accessible to the community, linked well with outside organisations, having an extended school-day offer. We have the twenty-first century schools programme, but we have a lot of schools existing that haven't been part of that. I just wondered to what extent Estyn might encourage or highlight the need to encourage greater consistency in community-focused schools across Wales, because I think there is a feeling that it is very inconsistent.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we would very much be happy to support anything like that. We discussed it earlier. We were talking about targeting vulnerable learners earlier this morning. We see that as, particularly, a solution for that long-standing issue we have in Wales in particular. So, yes, we do have good examples of good practice. We mentioned some of them earlier this morning. I've puzzled about this. I think there was a bit of a misunderstanding about the term'community-focused school'. I think it became thought of as meaning the community just uses the facilities in the evening and, of course, it's a much, much broader concept than that. I think some schools particularly didn't like the community using their facilities in the evening, and that became, I think, possibly part of the reason why community-focused schools didn't become more popular. The way I look at it is, as Claire was explaining earlier about the school offering all kinds of services to people—you know, family learning, those sorts of nurture groups, all those sorts of educationally focused services available from the school, and generally building relationships. They're more to do with the culture than the actual building and the facilities. But, yes, we certainly have seen and identified where that good practice exists.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "So, if there might be a mechanism that could have community-focused schools working in the way that you've described right across Wales, would Estyn be in favour of such a mechanism?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely, yes.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. Could I just ask one further question, then, before, as I said, I bring other Members in? There is a particular concern at the moment—and has been for some time—about white working-class children, and perhaps particularly boys, not attaining as they should through our education system. Is that something that Estyn recognises? Has Estyn done much work on that, and if so, what is that work?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "We've done work on boys and girls, and we've done work on deprived children—you know, identified, as we were discussing this morning, by eligibility for free school meals. We haven't specifically looked at white working-class boys, but a lot of the solutions, and a lot of the good practice that we have identified generally, through the PDG and whatever I think is the way forward for that particular cohort as well.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "So, you wouldn't see the need for a particular focus or a particular piece of work to identify whether there are aspects of education that might particularly benefit that group.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I wouldn't object to doing a piece of work on that, in case we have missed something, but I suspect it would be the same schools that do well with that cohort that we've identified already for the same reasons, I suspect.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. Michelle.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. To what extent has the rate of improvement differed between the primary and secondary sectors?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if there's been a difference in the rate of improvement, but certainly I've raised in this annual report, and indeed in previous annual reports, the difference between primary and secondary. We've got 7 in 10—nearly three quarters—of primary schools doing well and about half of secondary schools. So, I did open debate on why that is the case in last year's annual report. There are several reasons, I think. Generally, there is a widening of gaps when you go from primary to secondary, but also it's from foundation phase to key stage 2 to key stage 3 to key stage 4. There's a general widening of the gender gap, for example. There's a widening of the free-school-meals gap and so forth. So, there are particular challenges facing secondary schools that don't exist in primary. I should say that what you get in secondary schools is greater variability. So, there's actually more excellence in secondary schools according to our inspections than in primary, although the overall proportion of good or better schools is higher in primary than in secondary. So, I think it is a challenge to think why this is the case. It's partly because of the challenges of adolescent, young people. That is part of it. I think also, although I've got no evidence for this, it's probably more difficult for that community focus to work in a larger secondary school than a smaller primary school. You go to primary schools, you often see the parents much more engaged than in secondary school. So, I think that's a bit more of a challenge as well. So, there is a whole range of issues. The other one, of course, is the one we were talking about earlier this morning, the pressure on secondary schools to address performance indicators and examinations in particular. Another possible reason is the structure of secondary schools is subject-based, departmental-based, so children will get 10 to 12 different teachers. In primary school, for a whole year, they will have the same teacher. It's easier, therefore, in a primary school for the school to see the child as an individual and recognise their problems and their needs as a whole. So, I think there is a whole range of issues that explains or goes part way to explaining what you've identified.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. You touched on this quite a bit in your earlier evidence, but you said in the annual report that there's a danger that accountability measures might be having an effect on the advice being given to pupils about subjects they study. Do you have any evidence of that or is that a perception?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think everyone agrees that there's very strong evidence about that. We discussed examples this morning. When you change a performance indicator, the examination pattern changes. We talked about examples like BTEC science this morning. There's a very, very direct and immediate impact on them. There's plenty of evidence of that.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, Michelle? Perhaps we'll move on at this stage—we haven't got a great deal of time left—if that's okay. Julie.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I wanted to ask about special schools in terms of your views about the standards in special schools—whether you've got any views on that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we highlighted special schools as a successful sector in the annual report, as we have over many years. Over 90 per cent of them are good or better. It's a very successful sector. The small number of schools that don't do quite as well tend to be the schools that deal with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. But the sector as a whole is a good example of sharing good practice. They work very, very well together. They're constantly—. It's difficult to say why that is in this particular sector, as opposed to other sectors. Possibly they don't have an overlap in catchment areas, they're quite geographically separate, so they don't feel as if they're in competition with one another. But they certainly work very well together, sharing good practice, doing peer reviews of each other. So, it is a successful sector.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And that includes the independent sector.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Sorry, I should have said that was mainly to do with the maintained sector. The independent sector tends to focus maybe on those children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, so they have the more difficult task to begin with. But because they're independent, they are, to some extent, in competition with one another. So, we have seen improvement in that independent special sector over the cycle. That's partly down to the work we do in Estyn. We visit them on an annual basis to make sure that they're addressing all our recommendations, and continue to meet the needs of those pupils. And also, I think there's been a trend where more of those independent schools now have—. Several of them have the same owner, so they share good practice amongst that little chain of schools. So, that has been a trend we've seen over time as well.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Right. And what about pupil referral units? How are the standards there?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, they're more variable. I think they have a lot of challenges. We've contributed a lot of evidence to the various working groups that have been looking at EOTAS—that's education other than at school. Half the children in EOTAS—educated other than at school—are in PRUs. So, we've done a lot of work about that. ADEW, which is the Association of Directors of Education in Wales, have now set up a national body to share good practice amongst PRUs, so I think that is a very positive step forward, because that sharing, I think, wasn't happening with PRUs. I think what we need to do with PRUs is to get them to be more of a part of the education system as a whole. They tend to be sort of semi-detached a little bit from the system. So, the more we can do to involve them in national events, and also, I think, make their governance more like that of a school so that they become more similar to schools—that makes it easier for them to share practice with schools.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you very much. Llyr.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I'd just like to spend a minute or two looking more specifically at post-16 education. The percentage of further education colleges who have reached a  good or better standard has increased, of course, over the past inspection cycle. I'd just like to ask what you think is responsible for that, and are there any lessons we can take out of that and transfer to other sectors within education?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for the question, but I'm going to ask Simon to answer.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "As you're aware, the number of colleges from 22 to 12, and I think those mergers resulted in establishments that were stronger in terms of their leadership in particular. That leadership, I think the characteristics we have seen in the'good' or'better'—as you say, 80 per cent leadership good or better—has been a culture of openness, a culture of clarity of purpose about where the college is going. High staff morale has been maintained, because a number of those colleges—. Obviously, if you're merging large colleges as they did in north Wales, keeping staff morale high is quite a skill, and I think the leadership have done that very well. They've also supported managers at all levels, and they've encouraged managers to support staff at all levels. So, it's become a very collaborative, very supportive organisation. I think another characteristic of the FE sector is that it's got very strong governance arrangements. I did a training session for college governors about a month ago, and what struck me was the breadth of experience of the college governors, from industry, from academia. They are a very challenging set of governors, I think, who hold the senior leadership to account in the colleges, and that helps to push standards forward. Teaching is'good' or'better' in 70 per cent of colleges because the senior leadership team are encouraging teachers in colleges to innovate, encouraging them to engage actively in performance management systems, and to become reflective practitioners in the colleges. And this is impacting, obviously, on the standards at the end of the day. So, I think those are the key features.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "And how many of those do you think could effectively be transferred or encouraged in other sectors?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "But I think one sector that—. I think the other post-16 sector, which is work-based learning—", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Well, yes, I was going to ask you. Conversely, of course, there's a different experience there.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, there is a contrast. And we do have concerns about work-based learning. And, again, those concerns tend to sit mainly with the leadership. As we said in the annual report, standards are'good' or'better' in only 50 per cent of work-based learning companies, mainly because the completion rates of learners are not what we'd expect, the progression that learners make isn't what we'd expect. And that is mainly due to the way in which the leadership teams monitor progress—monitor progress in themselves as a provider, but, more importantly, the way they manage sub-contractors, because, as you will already know, there's 19 lead providers; there's about 100 training providers. And the companies that are doing better, or the training providers doing better, are those that have got a firm grip on their sub-contractors, and, most importantly, they put quality as the top part of any agenda at any meeting. And, of course, if you're challenging your sub-contractors about quality, that will impact on standards of teaching, and, hopefully, ultimately, on standards of performance on the learners. And I think, to go back to your original question, Llyr, the sort of leadership models that FE colleges have, I think some of the work-based learning providers would be wise to start to emulate those. It's beginning to happen, because FE is getting more engaged in the work-based learning world, so I think some of those behaviours will start to rub off on the companies.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "So, who would you look to drive some of those changes through then? Is it the sector themselves,  or to what extent can Government and others do things?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, as you know, Meilyr alluded to the changes across all sectors. We've got PCET—we've got the post-compulsory education and training reforms under way. The Welsh Government is looking at the implementation of Hazelkorn's recommendations. So, ultimately, that will start to drive the sectors closer together in post-16. But I think, in the shorter term, some of the work that groups like Colegau Cymru and the National Training Federation Wales are doing, sharing best practice, bringing the colleges and the training companies together, is beginning to help. I'm going to the national training federation conference tomorrow in Cardiff, and I notice the attendance there—there's a lot of FE colleges attending, senior staff of FE colleges, as well as from the work-based training companies. So, that sort of osmosis of good practice is beginning to happen quite naturally.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Okay, Llyr? We haven't got very long left, but we've got five minutes or so for some further questions from Hefin David.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "With regard to local authorities, you found shortcomings in your 2010-14 inspection in 15 of the 22. And one of the things that struck me in the report was where you said that you found ineffective processes for self-evaluating improvement within those authorities, but you've also said that there's been a high turnover of directors and new directors in place in many of them. Has that had a positive effect on that self-evaluation process?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "As you're aware, over the past three years, out of the 22 authorities, there have been 40 new directors, over the past three years. Those directors have got a range of experience. Some of those directors are very experienced. Other ones have come from headteachership fairly recently. So, that's one factor. I think the other factor is that the status of education directors has changed quite significantly. Some local authorities are a member of the corporate team and they are directors of education and children's services, so they've got very broad portfolios. In other ones, they're being treated more like heads of service, so heads of department level.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "I know that Caerphilly went in the opposite direction—from having a chief education officer to then appointing a director, I think.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I'm sorry?", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "In Caerphilly county borough, they went from having a chief education officer and now have got a director again. But, in many cases, they're the same people, aren't they? It's just that their roles are changed.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, it's the changes as the corporate structure of councils shift and change. I think the other thing that's happened, of course, with the role of the director of education, is, because of the regional consortia now doing the school improvement function, a large chunk of that role has now moved to the consortia. So, I think it's early days to say what the impact of that new cohort of directors will be, but, of course, we're starting a new inspection cycle in September. We don't do pilots. We looked at Neath Port Talbot in December; we looked at Denbighshire in February. Those reports are not yet published, but what I can say is that neither of those authorities are in follow-up.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "But you said, even though it's not in follow-up, it was still showing signs of not being able to reflect effectively on improvement—in the report.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Not in those two authorities.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Right, okay, but some of those not in follow-up were not reflecting effectively on their improvement—is the statement that was made in the report.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "What we're seeing, and we've seen this before in the previous cycle, is that the performance of some authorities is patchy. There are authorities that we have concerns about. Those are the authorities—. I think I said to committee last year those authorities are ones that we held improvement conferences in last year. That was to get the senior leadership—both political and officer-led leadership—and the consortia and Welsh Government and the Wales Audit Office and, as it was, the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales, around the table to get those senior leadership teams to actually identify what the longer-term issues are, to surface those issues and to put together an action plan. We're revisiting those three authorities very, very shortly. The first of the revisits is in April to see what progress they've made over the past 12 months or so.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Okay. And, with things like the curriculum reforms, you've identified the new directors in place, but you've said that, although they're new directors, they're actually very experienced in education, so therefore you're confident that they're going to manage the reforms well as they are developed in the next few years.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think one development, and I've raised this in committee before, was—. One of our concerns, apart from the fact that there was a large turnover of directors, was what sort of level of training senior leaders and middle managers were getting in those authorities. One of the things that I'm quite pleased to report is that the Association of Directors of Education in Wales and Welsh Government have stepped up to address that issue. Last year, all serving directors attended residential courses run by the Staff College Wales, facilitated by ADEW, and ADEW have just finished the first round of director—. The name of the course is the'Welsh future leaders in education' course and 26 people have just finished that—aspiring directors. They're preparing for another cohort in September. That course, again, is developed by the Staff College Wales, but it has a lot of external input. They're putting in directors and chief executives from Scotland, they're putting in headteachers of very successful schools in England, who've got current grass-roots experience to share with these aspiring directors. So, I think the concerns that we had previously about the professional learning for middle managers and leaders in local authorities are being addressed. The proof will be in the pudding when we start to do the inspection cycle, but at least the issue now is being tackled.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Can I just look at, then, consortia? One of the criticisms in the report was that national policy wasn't being put in context—I think that was the statement in the report—in certain consortia. Can you elaborate on what you meant by that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, when we talked, we said that—. Well, two things are at play. One is that the national model for regional working is being revised at the moment, and that work is ongoing by Welsh Government. That is to bring greater consistency to the four consortia, because one of our concerns, which we expressed in this report and we expressed in previous years, is that, although the national model had a particular approach back in 2012, when Robert Hill did the first review, it had a particular approach to the consortia being fairly similar, over the years, they've gone in four different directions. To be fair, over the past couple of years, the consortia are now collaborating much closer together. They are working together—for example, I mentioned earlier about the regional co-ordinators for LAC. Those four people are meeting regularly. So, they've all got different co-ordination roles in their regions. Whereas before they were working more in silos, they are now working much closer together. So, I think what we were referring to, and what we were talking about in the report, is the fact that the consortia need to have a more consistent approach across all four regions. But that will certainly be driven by the new national model.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Okay. And the relationships with local authorities, you said that the sharing of information with the local authorities is not always acted upon by local authorities—from the consortia. Is that a failure of communication, or is that something that sits with the local authority to acknowledge?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't think it's a failure of communication. In the cases where some authorities haven't acted sufficiently in intervening in schools or in issuing warning letters, the consortia have been quite clear. The challenge advisers have highlighted these issues. It's the authority that hasn't acted as swiftly as we would expect it to. But, again, I think that is beginning to improve, because the local authorities are quite sensitive to the fact we are now going to be re-inspecting them and looking at them, and that is one of the issues we'll be picking up on.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Okay. And, in order to do their jobs, the consortia need to be suitably resourced. Are they, and are they fit for the challenges ahead?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "It's not for us to comment on whether each consortium is sufficiently funded or not, but what we would say is that, generally, in the past, they've spent perhaps too large a proportion of their funds on challenge work and not enough funding on support work, but that, again, is moving. We've picked up that GwE, for example, is in the process of renaming their challenge advisers'support advisers', because they're moving their culture more over to supporting schools to deal with all the raft of reforms that Meilyr mentioned, and that is, it seems to me, an entirely sensible way to go.", "speakerName": "Simon Brown" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, that brings this session to an end. So, thank you all very much once again for giving evidence to committee today. Once again, you will be sent a transcript to check for factual accuracy. Diolch yn fawr. Okay, the next item on our agenda today, item 4, is papers to note. We have one paper to note, which is a letter from the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee to the Welsh Government regarding the Hwb programme. Is committee content to note that paper? Yes. Thank you very much. Item 5, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting. Is committee content so to do? Okay. Thank you very much. We will move into private session.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1002c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Afternoon guys. It's gonna be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rock and roll.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So do we need to re-train Mike on how to put his mic on?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We may do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, can he get it all by himself this time?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno, I'm feeling like a big boy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Pro", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Probably not,'cause he's'S been listening to too much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He's getting retarded. Yay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I believe I can fly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright well we got some exciting stuff for you guys.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or not..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just what I needed was something exciting. Remember, I'm an old man.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, ready to go?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "All ready.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay so we've got our conceptual design meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Apparently I'm old as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hopefully we've all got exciting ideas now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty's really young, eh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh k exciting ideas.'Kay so here's our agenda our agenda. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm gonna open. I'm gonna talk for a bit about what we're gonna do. I'm gonna take some notes. We're gonna all do a presentation, and then hopefully we're gonna make some decisions now. Yep. Well when I say hopefully, we have to. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm gonna let you guys talk before we make decisions. And does anyone really want to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess I'll go first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You p two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Component, I think. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Components design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep that's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Presented by name..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My name is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Your name is name?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Jose he man is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My name is name.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh hi name.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My name is Inigo Montoya.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You killed my father.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry I did this in a bit of a rush.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Prepare to die..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "N name.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so here's a look inside your really old-looking remote control. Um you've got a printed a printed uh circuit board here, and you've got all these buttons which kinda press down little rubber nubbies into these little holes that activate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We've all broke a remote control ri um s yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we've all broken a remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I've.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you've also got um you've got your chip here, your batteries here, and some sorta electronics. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just love you tech guys, huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah there's a thingy and a dingy and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You press this and it does th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah y do jabber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you've got here's here's a transistor, and this amplifies your signal,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um you've got the L_E_D_ here on the end of the uh uh on the end of the printed circuit board. Um you've got a couple diodes here for I don't know who and whatnot.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno who and whatnot.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um we've got a i in this in this uh drawing he uh in this example here, this is a eighteen pin um uh chip I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "P Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh it's two double A_ batteries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is pretty standard remote. So here are options for our power sources. You can use a basic battery, which we've already discussed, um th our tech department also said we have the option of doing some kind of hand dynamo where maybe you crank it or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I wanna change that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if that's really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I gotta I gotta flashlight, and uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know we got some qu crazy guys down there in that department so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You shake it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah but it's interesting'cause you shake it like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's the next bullet is the um the kinetic provision of energy,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's on the camera.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's like that flashlight where you have to shake it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we've got solar cells, which I don't think is a very good idea because um you could not use your remote at night which doesn't make a lot of sense.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And finally we've got our cradle o our power cradle idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so we basically have battery versus cradle here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "M battery versus cradle I think is yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have battery versus cradle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I g I I figured you would. Yes. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could be fun.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's actually a novel thing because you could sell it a as a novelty, just to be actually serious for a minute here,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it is it is more uh I mean it is more eco-friendly than the than the cradle'cause you're still using power off the grid with the cradle. So um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "our case design. We have uh choices in materials and choices in the general shapes that we can do. Our material choices are a plastic latex um ty or plastic, a rubber latex type thing, uh wood, or titanium. If we go with titanium we're gonna be uh limited in the amount of shapes we can do because it's tough to shape the titanium, and uh Yeah pers", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wood wood would ge would give us a little bit of a marketing niche, wouldn't it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think wood i.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It it it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I can't see anybody wanting to use a wooden remote, it's just anti-technology really, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh to me in a marketing sense it's not it's not relative. We can we can o we can uh accentuate whatever whatever product you put in there we can find a way to accentuate it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And what we may be able to do, and I think this might be the best option is to combine some a couple of these. Um my recommendation personally would be to do some kind of a plastic inner shell with a like a rubber outer shell, to make it um to mak uh like a thick plastic inner shell and a t um kind of a to have that rubber outer shell to make it more durable, and also maybe i I think it feels a little better than the plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Do you get a good grip on the rubber? Yeah okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if you make it from that super rubber, when you drop it on the floor it can bounce right back up in your hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't even need to lean down to get it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The advantages of working with plastic and rubber is w we we'll have a lot more um options just in terms of shape", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you can extrude plastic in basically any shape you want. So um and then we can cover you know the breakable bits with rubber yeah so um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But basically these are curved and double-curved I I believe that the tech department, in their um in their message to me, that they were referring to the number of th curves in the bottom. I have no idea exactly what they're talking about,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but that's what they told me, uncurved, flat, curved, or double-curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would guess this like this pen would be kinda like a double-curved, where it's curved on m m multiple axes, right? I think curved means just curved in one axis and double-curved is curved in two axes", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or surfaces. I have no idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it might mean something like that sorta shape because a double curve rather than a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yeah that's yeah that's what I see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah that's what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay oh like a wave, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's what I see also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright that makes sense okay. Um okay, with the interface we have the following options, we can u we can use push buttons, we can use a scroll wheel with an integrated push button, and L_C_D_ display,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or multiple scrolling wheels. Um so these are all options that the user interface guy can uh has at his disposal to put together a user interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For electronics, we have these very technical um descriptions here. A simple chip, which is the least expensive, but I have no numbers to give you,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "a regular chip, which is like the medium porridge the medium expense uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D do we have actually any concept of what the difference is between a simple chip and an advanced chip?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes the difference is, with a simple chip a simple chip will operate oh why doesn't this scroll up? Previous previous, okay. A simple chip is required to operate push buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um an advanced chip is required to to operate um the L_C_D_ display, and it didn't say specifically, but I I have a hunch that a regular chip is gonna be the scroll wheel and the multiple scroll wheels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So but yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that makes sense. So presentation from I guess design would go best. Next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the end of my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Technical functions or interface concept?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh interface concept.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very long presentation..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but it has your name on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well that doesn't bo bode well for it for it tats as well. Um so, somehow that thing's too big, but um okay um our uh manufacturing division wanted the speech recognition. They say they could put it to work but um we don't think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. It it it you'll be you know be affected by the by the other speech and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If the T_V_ is working, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's just I mean it'll if somebody says up in the middle of a television show, it's gonna change the channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and and fighting for the remote would not be fun anymore,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I think that's one of the things we wanna keep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But what if you actually had to press a button to make it recognize? So if you pressed it and went, up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That kinda would r d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well then why don't you just press the up button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Man yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. That would kind of lose it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if it's just one thing with a button that you can just go Up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even still there's gonna be interf th there's there still will be interference from the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It might not be it might not be completely confusing, but I think you'll still y it's still.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think it's practical at all. I think it's a bad idea frankly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so um taking that away, our uh the the the rubber but rubber buttons are the more reliable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You guys know your stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's the the ones that would al would allow us to to market our product as being you know less prone to damage and more resistant to things like spillage of liquids over it or you know mistreat misuses as it happens to remote controls. Um as for the point that we making about losing it. Well, we wanna small r remote control one side because uh we want it to be cool and uh designed, but um apparently um market shows that bigger s bigger um remotes get less lost,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That I would believe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um yeah I think we we need to compromise between those two and somehow we'll do that. Somehow. Um so the the what I would propose is something more or less in the uh direction of what is to yo the right of that slide uh but without with a l a less complicated um design, so the numbers, the volume control, and channel control, and teletext access. Uh the volume and channel control can just become those the the four button array as in if it was a round dial.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um if you just think about it as the one to the right but with the numbers and the four buttons plus maybe a centre one with teletext.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're suggesting doing a sorta scroll wheel thing for the volume?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ye no it's not", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not a scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "i i it's just four buttons that are on a cross,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nah. Oh okay okay. I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that you ba basically can control all of the important tasks from that alone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of play, stop, rewind, and fast forward there, that's up, down, louder, and quieter.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah um yeah so I think we w we go for something mid-sized, so something looks good", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh is not too prone to get lost. That be it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. So on to Y functional requirements or trend watching?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Trend watching has a later date there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Trend watching I guess. Trend watching I believe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "forty six nineteen fifty seven. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See what it looks like. It's been so long.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I don't know what to say. When I s when I see the when I see the product I I I I don't wanna buy it. I see so many of'em out there. There's nothing about that product that makes me wanna choose that product over other products that are out there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are you talking about the picture? That's not our that's not our b design,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's just a that's just something he a a graphic he used to show you the layout of what the layout of the buttons might be like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay'cause'cause right now I don't have too much to say about how to market this product because we don't have a product to market yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh from from talking to Mike is that we have we have uh we can market a more expensive product now. That's what I understand so,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Upper management said yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "hello.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh e excuse that, that's a bit of spam.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and so yeah I'm a I'm a little bit stuck right now in that what uh w what is it that I'm gonna market? Uh without special or increased marketable features I don't believe the product has a consumer demand. Uh I like the idea of of the scroll makin there are so many people making these products at this price right now. What are we gonna do to make this one special and unique?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What's special and unique about a scroll?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well I don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah it's I I just see it as different. I don't say it's specially mm I don't say it's special. Uh I say that it's different I what I'm looking for as marketing is m give me something different. I give me a lower price, give me a higher price, give me some new technology, don't give me the same thing that everybody else is putting out there on the shelf it's f at the same price. I need something to market about this thing. We're we're a new firm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd I'd say though that we if we did make the decision to go with the cradle though, the then we have that as well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What i if when when we have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but wi with a similar.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah when we when we have something like the cradle or or something give that's as as a marketing standard I need something to market, to make this product unique.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well right I think the two big th points that we have so far are the having the cradle and also having uh the um the actual design of the uh case itself having like this like rubber shell maybe with a plastic interior,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "having it look really nice um and also be really durable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Just remember when I made up this report I didn't have the information that we're discussing here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and so so uh yeah when we have a cradle, when we have some kind of design, so what I'm saying is, from my perspective, I don't have a product to market right now. Um uh my personal preference is that we make some adjustment in the cost, either lower or develop an integrated new technol technology. That's that is the next step, there's technology and then there is technology, which we're moving into the next phase.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so uh we're gonna have some new technology to enhance the marketability. Yeah uh again I'm not sold on the product because we don't have a product in my opinion yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I need a product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well let's get a product then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I need a product to market. And I just whatever product you guys put together, we'll find a way to market it. Tha that I'm not concerned with.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you if you give me if you give me a cut-out of what everybody else has then I need to I need to find a lower cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So our big questions here really are cradle or not cradle? Do we go basic or do we go for features? Uh d does anyone really wanna do anything with the scroll wheel or should we ditch that off-hand first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well my question is what would the scroll wheel do? Function-wise, what does that do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh but that was in your presentation so wh what would you imagine it doing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah wh wh what's the wh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well it's it's just another way to do the exact same thing that the buttons do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But would we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay now what I see with the scroll wheel is everybody has buttons. So from a marketing standpoint I have I have another door to walk through when we have something that's unique.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it creates something more complex or more expensive, then I don't know if that makes it uh a marketing necessity. But again, from a marketing perspective I want as much new and different about this thing as possible because we're we're co it's a very competitive market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What I understand about scroll wheels is they're they're quite expensive to to make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th they are gonna be more expensive, but on the other hand, I mean, it I mean it is an alternative if if you think that's gonna sell some some uh you know if if we're gonna make up the extra cost by extra sales I think maybe it's worth it to do it, but I mean I would just use if I was gonna do this I would just use the scroll wheel for s channels up and channels down. I don't think volume or do you think volume would be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. I'll bet first in volume maybe. I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No we can we can do multiple scroll wheels but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I d I like the idea of basically focusing the my personal preference is focusing the p the product on the idea of the uh the case the the uh dock to put it in to to charge it. We can target like environmentally friendly ideas, that sorta things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It s i m makes it easy to market,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's easy to differentiate the product, yeah so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's that's right. I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if we we keep the rest in a format that is durable because th th the whole product's gonna need to be more durable th thus because you're not going to be ditching it as often.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's gonna need to be more expensive because of the cradle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if we can market it in terms of that and yeah well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. I think we got some exclusivity in that, you know, we got something that nobody else has right now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and and that means we can we can make some adjustments in the retail or wholesale price if we need to and it also can create it's own demand from it's uniqueness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So our big decision then is like how do we do um like we have to decide on the details and we have to decide on well n not exactly the details, but d do we have uh What type of casing? I personally like what you were saying about the plastic with the rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm thinking yeah something like kinda almost like these pens, you know, where there's you have plastic bits and then it's not really rubber but just kinda like a fused the plastic with rubber on the outside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Just a very thin sorta sheet for a a grip, sorta thing or for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well no ma yeah maybe a bit more then th is on here but ju just as a kind of an inspiration, these pens I think are are kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So then if we d d do we want to do anything more basic with the uh more advanced with the user interface in terms of do we want to go for um buttons, or do we want if we're ditching the scroll wheels do we want to go L_C_D_? Do we want to give do we want to have anything else on it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's only a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or from from my perspective I think L_C_D_ is a mistake because this is a universal remote and all you're doing I mean it's you're not gonna get any information back from the television, so the only information you can display on this remote is what channel you just sent it at last and there's just not a lot of information, you know, there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It receives no information.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I I don't see any reason for having an L_C_D_'cause it's an increased cost. Unless you can think of something interesting to do with it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah right now there's right now there's nothing coming out of the T_V_ to receive, so you know unless technology changes and information starts coming out of the a cable box or something there's no s I don't see the,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't see the necessity of an L_C_D_ either. Don't see it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so the question is now I guess we need t to decide on well y you guys basically have to now go and figure out the details of this thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, what we need to know in terms of marketing and uh project management are are there any other questions that we need to answer now before you guys can go and build this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What what overall things have we not decided on?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we have to I think for me it's still not exactly clear exactly what the inter user interface is gonna be. There's the scroll wheel, in or out? What do you guys like in the user interface?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think maybe in terms of marketing, is that gonna make enough of a difference to justify the cost?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Again. Well I think it's it's the more uniqueness you can bring to the product, the easier it is, I believe, for me to market. Uh again the push-buttons I I see are are everywhere. And so we can go with the same thing, but we're gonna be com competing in a in a broader market than if we go with something unique. You know the other thing I thought about was you know, do we go to something like this? Make a remote that doesn't look like a remote. It's just another it's just a an idea, and I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I dunno about like the flip-phone idea, because I think, as far as durability th it's not a big well maybe when it's closed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean what I see one of the things one of the things you brought up in an earlier presentation is, when you got children, their their stuff gets inside the circuitry, they get dirty, they get messy with drinks and stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And what I keep throwing out there I just keep throwing out ideas to try to make this thing look or act or in some way identify itself as unique or different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you guys are the ones that have to c ultimately create the product within cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and I guess th th the question th th that you're being asked right now is whether is the dock enough of a unique feature to be able to go out and sell that a a as a a very different product, or do we really need the scroll wheel as well?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because the scroll wheel comes at quite a cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "phew.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you gotta g get into cost effectiveness. I think if you can have the base station with a with a locator, I think those are two very strong features,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if that's something that can be integrated without a bunch of extra cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The The locator's gonna require a radio transmitter, which will.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's gonna n is that gonna need a better chip as well?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um we're probably gonna have to go with a like a medium chip, s I would imagine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's just different.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we I we will need a receiver, an antenna.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Integrated, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's just uh I I think that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It should be a really simple signal though so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know personally that would be a very attractive feature, is to have a uh have a button I can push to find my remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's presumably gonna need a little speaker in it or something like that as well to beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I guess a little tiny speaker is gonna be quite cheap, it's not gonna need q quality, is it? It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah. It'll be really cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or maybe you can like have a a smell-o-rama, you know you push a button and it s puts out a stink.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Makes your living room more fresh as you watch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay we're doing well for time here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we've got about another ten minutes. I think that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the scroll wheel, in or out?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm pr my personal preference is out. I don't think the cost is justified for a little bit more uniqueness when we already have that, and I don't s think it's obvious and natural how it would be used.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I think we have like and it's not very usable and it will bring down the robustness of the whole thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause it's it it breaks down easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For me I think the scroll wheel actually might not be so bad.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly what the increased cost is gonna be, but I think he does have a point, i it might push somebody over the edge when they're looking at our at our remote versus something else, when they see this one has a scroll wheel to go up and down on the channels. I think it might be kinda neat to be able to do it like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then that that surely d depends a little on the T_V_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because some T_V_s are quite slow at changing channels from like so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if you've got a scroll wheel and you s you have to scroll scroll it really really slowly just so that you're actually keeping in pace with the T_V_'s ability to to change channels. Or do you have to go through and you wait for it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You scroll it a bunch of times and you wait for it to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think wh what it would be is like like the m like this, where it's maybe you know a digital wheel, right, where it's where it's quantized into you know certain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I see I see. That's where you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was that was my my intuition of what the scroll wheel would be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah I see I see what you're talking about now. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just it's basically it it's just a f look and feel thing. It has the same exact functionality as two buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think there's you know that uh there are so many people today that are that are surfing are television surfers, and I see the scroll as a as a great mechanism for surfing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah if you're just sitting there going.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of going button-to-bu you just j you'd j j j j j j.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's kinda cool actually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really I really think that's a really cool thing for surfing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now just just so you know though uh you did bring up a point which is very valid, is a lot of T_V_s won't re the T_V_s won't respond exactly the same. Some of them are gonna be kinda slow switching, so you may like queue up like fifteen channel changes, and it'll be like flip, flip, flip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well there's ano", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well not n necessarily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could basically make it so that it'll I mean it's just gonna be sending a signal to the T_V_ yeah the T_V_'s ge so if you send about five flip channels, if you did that it's gonna flip once.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it just might be frustrating where you can't make it go as fast as you want,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Other than click click click. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think once people get used to it I I do like the idea of the scroll wheel though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if we're marketing it as a high niche product, then we're gonna be selling it to people who are buying good T_V_s as well, yeah, presumably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Primarily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think so. I I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now the the only thing I I on the interface side of it, is that I I I see the dilemma. But if we have the option of of scrolling at any particular speed, or the option of jumping direct, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I can go uh presuming I have, on my television, something that tells me what channel I'm on, I can scroll direct from channel five to channel thirty two. I know what because it's on the television. The television tells me what channel it's on when I change it. So I don't know that really that's that's gonna be a a d problem,'cause the television can go automatically from channel five to channel thirty two with the push of a button. Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So ca can we can we create that kind of interface within a scroll system? You understand what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think I know what you might be getting at, or or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I see so if maybe if we had an L_C_D_ up the top that just did a number on it, right? And then it that basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no we could read it from the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, what about this what about if you can programme in your favourite channels into this scroll wheel and you can just like roll through your favourite channels,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Well that's quite cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it c it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You'd need a display on the th the thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why? It'll tell you when you flip the channel on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah the the television can tell you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah no I see what you're talking about. Yeah that's kinda cool. How would you program it though?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you just it's one extra button. You say programme start, and then type in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Put.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause you still have the typing you know you'll still have the keypad where you can type'em in manually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So programme start, zero, one, enter, zero, five, enter, thirty eight, enter, programme end.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay and yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that just basically flips between it and it'll go it sends out zero, five, and then thirty six, and then zero, one again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's kinda cool. I like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And again we have another another great marketing tool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have about three we have three or four things here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's not gonna be too expensive because that's gonna be you're gonna be able to nab that off of computer mouse manufacturers really. You could basically come up with a partnership to be able to produce that quite cheaply.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno and an maybe we maybe even have this as in-house technology. This may be something that's available through our own uh through our own services.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Might be, but tha that's not gonna be such a costly feature. The problem we're gonna have is making it robust. Making it last.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh well we also have to determine in some manner how to switch between modes, between going through your favourites list and just hitting up one, up two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we go directional up we go we go this we go this we go this way for one, we go this way for the other.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if there's a button for each type.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No because you wanna be able to go up and down through the channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah people are gonna have their favourite sorta, whether they do that or whether they.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah-ha okay. Okay, okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well then you just have, you have a diff you have a mode switch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah the mode switch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we'll need a we'll need a mode switch, but then if we have a mode switch we're gonna need some kinda indicator", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just the lights behind the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to which, an L_E_ an L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could have back-lit buttons maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would that work?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay we have five minutes. So right details th that we've talked about here are that we want a scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We want a mode indicator. We want back-lit buttons. And if we're making back-lit buttons period, do we want that just for the mode indicator or maybe to indicate what button you're pressing at the time, so that you know if it's actually pressed or not. I've seen some remotes do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Just so you know I think I mean it was my understanding that before we were gonna stay in the mid-market range. It seems we're kind of approaching a higher-end range.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we are yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I wanna make sure everybody's okay with that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Well you had acknowledged that we have more money for this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well we don't have it's not that we have more money,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't you say so?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can push up the the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can increase the cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I don't know I don't know whether having.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just wanna make sure everybody's on board with it. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we really need to be sure as to what we can push the cost up to, though we haven't got to a stage where we're ready to pin down the price of components. But I'd say what sorta price are we looking to be able to sell something like that, and what sorta price can we make it for?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think th I think the design and technology has to come back and say, okay to create this product we see it's gonna cost us this much for this volume, because we do have a volume target of of fifty million profit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah no I I think that's where we really should be more flexible than anything else because as we said in the last meeting, our management is really looking for us to push our brand. We're entering a new market here,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I think the the profit expectation for this one product is maybe not as important as being able to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay I'm I'm okay with that. I guess what I just want to me the next step is for these guys to come come in with the design proposal w with the cost estimate attached, and then we have to take this to the next level.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But th what's our ballpark as to what we'd be able to sell something like this for?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well y yeah. Let's let's try and think now, how much would you pay for", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to find cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "with all these features how much would you pay if you went to the store, and you were in the market f to replace your T_V_ remote, how much would you pay for that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you've gotta think who our target market is because I I'm not our target market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just asking you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm a student, but on the other hand I would think, mm with my Project Manager salary, I would think yeah I could probably afford this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then you could probably afford this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh would I buy it? Maybe. If I had a cool new T_V_ and this was r looking really slick and it had the dock and it had the scroll wheel, which I think's a really cool idea, that would sell me on it a little. Then maybe you know. I do I don't think I'd go over a hundred Euro certainly, that would be way too much,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but the I would be happy paying over forty for it, I guess, but not much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say thirty five to forty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was gonna say thirty five to fifty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Thirty five to fifty Euros is our sales bracket okay. So the question is what we ca we make it for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because one of th one of the things we're marketing about this product is that this is the last one you will ever need to buy for your television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's one of the marketing features in this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's why the scroll needs to be really robust.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so we'll come up with something between thirty five and fifty that is rug rubber, robust, with scroll wheel, with the new facilities of the scroll wheel like favourite stuff, favourite channels, and and with a cradle, and yeah and the locator.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With a cradle, radio transmitters, and back-lit buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's gonna look sexy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or not. It might look like clay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so you can market pe depending on that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Bas th that's that's easy. That's that's not a, it's a.'Cause we have about six, six, seven features in that alone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Under the title of uniquenesses.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. The next meeting starts in thirty minutes, although does it? It starts at three twenty one, the next meeting. So we've got more than a thirty minutes. Um we've got more like fifty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I have Is my three twenty one is the next meeting?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the ne next meeting is three twenty one yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's almost uh fifty minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that is. Uh they've they've changed the times from the presentations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You guys can You guys you guys can uh create a All kinds of things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Probably. We'll let you know when we're done, if we can go earlier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so you guys will be getting your modelling done now and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay are there any other questions with regards to what this thing's gonna do, look like, how it's gonna work that need to be addressed before we really look at this in a lot of detail?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think so. If we have any questions we'll just email you I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it pretty much everything's covered.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. This one was quite easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Coulda been worse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Always the optimist.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Still.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I am.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay thanks guys.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you. I don't have any emails. This means I can go home. Oh, we all leave..", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh where has my screen gone?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hello, good day..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, we have to talk in English,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. My screen is gone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's called black..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kick-off meeting, wow. It's uh looks uh nice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I'm a bit slow for this stuff uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I'm a bit too slow. I don't know how much preparation you guys did,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but not a lot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it's it was uh not enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You see this beautiful presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay let's get started.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I sort of prepared this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh opening acquaintance, tool training, uh how to use the things here. Uh project plan discussion, and yeah then the rest of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we're supposed to develop a new remote control, that's both original, trendy and user-friendly. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "hope you have good ideas. I don't..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I did my best.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um we're work we're working uh from top to bottom. Uh functional design,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then we do some in individual work, then we have a meeting to discuss the results, etcetera etcetera. And at the end of the day we should have a prototype drawn up. Uh we have available the smart board and the whiteboard. Um uh we should take some practice. I have some instructions now to do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well you know how to the documents work. So Uh this for toolbar. You see it next. Um we have a pen. And we can use this pen to perform..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Operations.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't always work. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so you can draw.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Draw. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay and in the format menu you can select colour and line width, etcetera etcetera. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh Okay. Each of you can uh take some practice and you should draw an animal. Uh you should explain Uh with different colours and with different pen widths.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you should explain why you draw that particular animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Don't take up too much space..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, Julian.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Different pen widths, how do you do that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh with the format menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And use different colours etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a giraffe. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And what's that supposed to be?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you serious?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should it be one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Oh yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "four legs. Uh-huh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Giraffe's yellow..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh it needs some uh some yellow uh Oh format.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you use one blank sheet per drawing? Or", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so y you must save it at the end", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can press the next button, which is uh yeah. I'll show you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's some spots.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I in the file option menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. In file menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then m make a new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much time do we have to draw anyway?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I can take forever on this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Do I have to explain uh why I chose this uh this animal?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's a it's a great animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is it?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a it's a giraffe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A giraffe okay. Yeah I see a long neck", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's more like a dinosaur..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um Okay I'll will give it an uh an eye.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's nice of you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey. Come on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some leaf to eat..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah pretty good. Uh could you press the next uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The next? Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Then uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here you go..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this part of our a acquai or introduction to each other?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah sorry, introduction and get acquainted", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the idea, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Your line broke.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's a bit slow,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not that fast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I see. It misses the spot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pressure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm guessing a turtle. No. I'm kidding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I say good guess. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why a turtle?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because of its shell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because it's slow..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's slow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it's so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You were slow too", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause it's green..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I was a bit slow too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dude you're a good drawer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So Uh some other line uh width uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you have a turtle pet?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno. Does it have legs?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah not exactly legs but More like fins", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Stumpy stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's more like a tank. Yeah that's fins", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They kind of l look like mole legs. With sharp nails on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I don't know where..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Some spots. Ah some eye.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's l looks very friendly..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a fr friendly turtle I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well I think it's uh fair enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A little tail maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I don't know what the position is. Does it have ears?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The little holes maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can you erase ears", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's a a gum,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "gum to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eraser.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And why did you choose this animal?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He said it was slow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno. I it just came into my mind. So there's no particular reason", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I pen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I like it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I'm guess I'm done.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's my turtle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Your turn Niels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How to select the next or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The next", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Colours were under format", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Makes new paper.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right? Let's see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Orange.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How am I gonna do this? Um Mm uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A rabbit I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kangaroo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kangaroo..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not quite actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fox.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A fox yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dog.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Firefox.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Aye. It's a cat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a cat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not quite yet through.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A cat who had an accident or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why a cat?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah I dunno. They're my favourite pets.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have some uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I have colour already. Yeah I'm not so good at drawing with this kind of", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The pen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "st Oh shit. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Excuse my language.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know how to draw its face. But you get the idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a cat. It's my favourite uh pet animal,'cause they're cute, they're independent and cuddly, I dunno..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or do I need to use more colours and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's okay. You get idea", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we have a financial aspect to this project. Um we can sell them at twenty five Euros. Uh the aim is to reach uh uh to sell as much as fifty million Euros. Uh that's quite a big amount of money. And the production cost should be the half of the selling price. Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "now it's time for some discussion..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What uh what uh do you want to discuss?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We should get started.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I'm taking notes. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we each have a specific task, as I saw in my mail. I didn't know if you received the same mail.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so the um uh this industrati Industrial Designer should produce a working design. Am I correct?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh the User Interface Designer should specify the technical functions. Right? Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the Marketing uh Expert should come up with user requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh did any of you already do some work on this part or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I started making an overview for myself, um what I had to do,'cause we have three design steps and in every step I have a s specific task to perform or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I had to uh, I dunno, make an overview for myself about what I have to do,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and kind of let it work in to get ideas about well how I have to fill it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And do you have any ideas about the product uh so far?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I started I started with the first phase, I think was the functional.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh let's see I had to focus on the working design, which you said.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How does the apparatus work? And well I basically had two points. Uh according to the coffee uh machine example, I have batteries to supply energy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we ye use button presses to activate or deactivate certain functions on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's basically all I have so far.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I got another point. It uses infrared light to communicate the signal to the T_V_ apparatus or stereo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Wireless uh huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's very common.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh it's uh some buttons for for the on off function. You d you already told that. And for the changing up to the to all the channels and changing the volume. That are the the basic options for a remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I kept it global'cause that it activates or deactivates specific functions,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause I wasn't thinking yet about that. I mean, you wanna ch ch flip the channel", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you might wanna use teletext also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno what the word is in English. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Same I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh and what did the Marketing Expert do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well from a marketing uh perspective, um well the function des design phase uh consists out of the user requirements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um what needs and desires are to be fulfilled? So there are a few means to reach that um by by doing research uh to see what existing products are there out in the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, what functions do they have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um especially what are their shortcomings? Are there any new functions uh which can be added to our product?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um therefore we have to to do some internet search. For example for um well what kind of applications do current remote controls support, and what are f featur features of uh current and future televisions?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can see uh what needs to be supported. Um and we can interview current users and future users. What w what would they like to see uh on a new remote control? Um especially for future users,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh I'm thinking of early adopters, because they they use new technology first,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they play with a lot of tools and stuff so maybe they have some good ideas to uh to add.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And you can get that information?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I can get that information, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. That would be very handy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but have you any idea so far as what uh the user requirements are?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No n not specifically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More to how to get them", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I got some uh requirements", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it has uh it has to be user-friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Obviously.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh really easy to use buttons, not not uh very small buttons, but not the the also the big big buttons, but just normal buttons. It has to be a small unit. It has to be uh yeah, you can take it with you uh everywhere in in your house. So it has n has not to be l yeah, gigantic uh machine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Big, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh and a and a good uh zapping range..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh what do you mean by that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the distance uh from your television to your uh remote control has to be, uh yeah um yeah, quite a big distance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It has to be capable for zapping uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. From the other end of the room or something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay um Well I don't think I have anything more to add at the moment. Um I think the best is to go to work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoa. Is that you", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Any more points to discuss?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think we can go ahead with what we have. I will summarise the things we discussed and put it in the project folder. Uh the use of the Industrial Designer can work on the working design, etcetera etcetera. And it seems you get more information by email. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that was it for me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you going to put the the notes on the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, in the project folder. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. The pro okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm writing very fast..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hope it's readable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay um anything more you want to add to the discussion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well no I'm just a bit wondering what we're gonna do the next uh session?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do we only have to to do uh phase one, the functional design uh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because then we have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "After that we are going to the conceptual uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y you do some individual work,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're just working the three phases.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have meeting, individual work, meeting. And at the end of the day we have a final meeting. And then I have to prepare uh I have to defend our design,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so make it good..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. We'll do our best.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I depend on you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Better make it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I am gonna work on the conceptual design already'cause yeah it's fairly important to know what kind of components we want to put in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? If you can mix it it's okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we I mean, is it gonna be a multimedia control centre? Do we want to be able to use the video recorder with it?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That is my question also", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because like new new functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think that is the user requirements part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Requirements. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As to what they want. Uh do they want all those functions on that small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But but we need good communication about this stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Unit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause I have to f put the components into the design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would first m", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if I don't know what components to put in, it's kind of hard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I understand.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I was.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I think we have first to start with the basic functions and we can uh expand them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can always add a few.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "well like l li like some like some some remotes who are out there, which I know, there's one button which is very easy to switch between devices.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can switch to your video", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then the same buttons control your video.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the C_D_ player. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And another function I'll think of switch to your media centre, because that's getting very popular.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then use your Windows media centre under your T_V_ with the same remote control. So with the switch, one single switch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I I know what you mean, but you'll ne need several other buttons for a video player.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You need a play and a forw fast forward and a stop function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you you don't need that for a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "records and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and for a t uh teletext you need additional buttons as well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You need additional yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I kind of need to know what we uh need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whatever, I'll just put my ideas in uh in here", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then we can discuss it with the next uh meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the project uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We could just start with the assumption that's only for T_V_ and video. And um reserve the possibility to add other features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have a basic starting point", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you can always extend that so make sure it's extendible. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it it has yeah it has to be user-friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's hasn't it's yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th the least amount of functions possible", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's easier to get to know how it works etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I understand. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay and uh I'll see you again uh when the computer tells us to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you're di dismissed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we leave now", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Half an hour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're fired..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright let's move on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's see what we got to do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See you later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah see you later.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good luck..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well good luck..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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Um then we looked at the uh the method for coming up with our own remote. Um looking at other other devices. Um the iPod, we really liked the look of that. Um we also had uh the kid's remote for a simple idea. Um a two part remote, which was what were were originally looking at. Uh and then um there was talk of spee uh speech recognition um becoming more uh predominant and easier to use. But I think we've still decided not to go with that. Then we looked at the components um the materials for the case, the different energy sources, the different types of chips, um and made a decision on what we were going to use to make our remote. Um and basically how, what were making for the prototype. So I'm going to leave it at that and let you guys take over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The prototype discussion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The prototype yeah. Do you need a this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can try to plug that in there", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There is our remo the banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yeah basically we we st went with the colour yellow. Um working on the principle of a fruit which was mentioned, it's basically designed around a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um but it would be held in such a fashion,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where it is, obviously it wouldn't be that floppy'cause this would be hard plastic. These would be like the rubber, the rubber grips. So that's so that would hopefully help with grip, or like the ergonomics of it. Um but all the controlling would be done with this scroll wheel. You have to use your imagination a little bit. And this here represents the screen, where you, where you'd go through.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the the simplest functions would be um almost identical to an iPod, where that one way ch through channels, that way th other way through channels. Volume up and down. And then to access the more complicated functions you'd you sorta go, you press that and go through the menus. It's that that simple. That just represents the infrared uh beam. That's a simple on and off switch. Um I don't know, we could use the voice. T that blue bits should be yellow, that that'd be where the batteries would be I suppose. And um that's about it. It's as simple as you, we could make it really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is there anything you want to add?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what we have there. That's plastic. Plastic covered with rubber. We might uh add some more underneath here. Maybe give it, give it a form. I mean you're supposed to hold it like that, but um just if you grab it, take it from somewhere,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Doesn't make much make much difference.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you have some rub yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You could work left-handed or right-handed I suppose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly, use both. Might as well think about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T the actual thing might be smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th think about the button as well. Like either put either one one on either side or", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What but what's that button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "not do it at all. It's a quick on-off button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the on and off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh,'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I think it's pretty important. So you don't have to fiddle with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right? Um that's not um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say a bit smaller would probably be nice. You wanna play with that over there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's you know it's flimsy'cause it's made out of heavy Play-Doh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you like to uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pretty impressive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kind of a banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And whether or not it would fall into the cost everything I suppose. With the scroll and the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well luckily we are going to find out. Or not luckily. Um do you have a marketing presentation for us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I do. Okay. You guys are gonna help me do an evaluation of the criteria. Um. Okay. So first I'll just discuss some of the criteria that I found. Just based on the past trend reports that I was looking at earlier. And then we'll do a group evaluation of the prototype. And then we will calculate the average score to see how we did. Um so the criteria we're gonna be looking at are the complaints um that we heard from the users who were interviewed earlier. So we're gonna be doing it based on a seven point scale. And one is going to mean true, that we did actually achieve that. With seven being false, we did not achieve that.. Okay. So for the first one, we need to decide, did we solved the problem of the users who complained about an ugly remote?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's definitely different than anything else out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if they think that what is out there is ugly, then yes I would say, I would say most definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's bright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's bright. It's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It still has your traditional black.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's curved. It's not there's no sharp", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "angles to it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, not angular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say, when it comes to the ergonomics, the form and stuff, yes that's definitely more beautiful than your average.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "However the colour, we don't have a say in that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think the colours detract a little bit..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Some people might say it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That has been, that has been dictated pretty much by the company.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh to answer that honestly I would rather say like uh, we have not solved the problem completely with the ugly remote because the colour is ugly, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'S nothing you can say about that. I mean I much prefer something like brushed chrome with that form.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah something more modern to go a a modern colour to go with the modern form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right. It's different. You don't want your uh three feet huge L_C_D_ dis display in your living room that's hanging from the wall to be controlled with something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um okay so, do you think, since we This was a a sign criteria, do you think maybe we should put it somewhere in the middle then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does that sound good?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you think? Three? Four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "four..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four is fair. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very non-committal, four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, the second one. Did we make it simple for new users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's very intuitive, I think yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that was the main aim, one of the main aims that we had.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S give it a one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'kay. Okay. Um, do the controls now match the operating behaviour of the users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.'Cause we've we've brought it down to basically four controls most common, which are channel and volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd say that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then the other ones are just a matter of just going, just scrolling further.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S scrolling through and selecting a few.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So that's a one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay. Okay um the fourth one. How about the problem of a remote being easily lost? One of the number one complaints.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something that big and that yellow you just don't lose anymore.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whether you want to or not, you're not gonna lose it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's bright yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bright yellow's hard to lose. But um if we were to, if we were, that, the speech recognition. That, we could maybe just use that solely for the the finding thing. That was what we'd we'd mentioned.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if we incorporate speech recognition into it then it could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just just to use, to find it when it was lost. But like I said, like I don't think you'd lose something so yellow so easily.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oops. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's not gonna fall, like a rectangle would slip down behind things. That's gonna be a difficult shape to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it is quite bright and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe in the middle again, three or four or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean you know loo losing things is one of those things that people can lose, I mean a million ways.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can pick it up and walk away with it and then you've lost it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if we do go with the, with the speech recognition, then it, then our scale goes up quite a bit I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. You probably.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Probably two. You know. If we eliminate the fact that you know it's impossible to guarantee that it's not gonna be lost then", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With the speech recognition, which of course may be changed depending on budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y you could add an extra feature actually. Which makes this thing raise hell when you remove it too far from the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could add that but that's nothing we have thought of so far.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which, which may be cheaper than speech recognition if it were just a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah true. But I mean d just those whistling, clapping key rings you have. They're cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Annoying alarm or something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it can't be that", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um the it's based on this anti anti-theft technology for suitcases and stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "expensive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some sort of proximity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where you have one piece that's attached to your luggage, another piece that starts beeping. That can't cost much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that can also easily be integrated because these things are small enough to to hide, so you have one piece, you have to glue somewhere behind your stick it behind your T_V_ and the other.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "stick it on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pray that you don't accidentally lose that piece..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That'd be tough then. Well also your remote would uh alarm you if somebody stole you t your television, yeah. Ran off with it without taking the beautiful remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Are we adding one of these two features?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's add one of those features and say yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "gonna say okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're back to a one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or a two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two,'kay. Okay. Are we technologically innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh don't get many mo remote controls with", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's all just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "screens on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's all just stolen technology when it comes down to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it's stolen technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "From iPod yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But there's not a lot of yellow, there's not a lotta yellow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But for remotes yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Course that wasn't really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fa", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we were kinda forced to take that colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two? Three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause it's stolen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know that we are that innovative, to tell you the truth..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No maybe not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But how many remotes do you see like this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we added the screaming factor then we go up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not so many.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I would say we're probably at four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really? Okay. That's gonna hurt us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um spongy material?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well you have that, kind of, sort of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have some spongy, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah as much as as needed, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not a one though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One would be the whole thing", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because it's only got what, these parts are the grips and perhaps the back side the bottom the underneath on the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to fold and stuff. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's a four at most.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Probably a four at most. Possibly even a five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And lastly, did we put the fashion in electronics?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd say we did.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If your fashion is b is Carmen Miranda, you betcha..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well the recent fashion is rather displayed in the in the L_C_D_ and the way you operate it than the form and the colour,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it definitely is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Be what we were told, and they'd say yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Alright. Now we just gotta calculate. Six eight twelve sixteen. Seventeen divided by s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seven is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two point four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that some long division? No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I haven't done math in years.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just, I'm sure there's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay we'll say two point four two. Right? How does that look?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm impressed. I can't do that without a calculator..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No I can't do long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's been a while.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "very impressive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And what what is the acceptable criteria? Is there like a scale that we have to hit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no. They just told me to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pick my own criteria and have you guys evaluate it basically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, let's see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now we get to do the budget numbers. You didn't know that you were gonna have a budget. But we do. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah so. You'd been going a long time dividing that. It's two point four two eight five se it just keeps going on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my god.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two point four two basically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah we'll go with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I have here an.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifty percent, you're kidding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not too shabby.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "P", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We want a fifty percent profit on this. Oh you can't really see that very well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Charge about three hundred quid for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twelve and a half Euros is what supposed to cost us. Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well let's see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The f the Wonder if I can make this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What the Oh it won't let me do that. Okay. Alright so at top, I don't know if you guys can read that or not. I can't'cause I don't have my glasses on,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but so we've got the energy source. There's uh four, five, six categories.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have energy source, electronics, case. Then we have case material supplements, interface type, and then button supplements. Okay so Uh first of all energy source, we picked battery. Um and how many batteries do we think this will probably take?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably some e either two or four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two? Like it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At four it's gonna be too heavy, so that that's not our problem. People can change it every month.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They won't know until after they bought it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is consumerism.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright so for the electronics our choices are simpl simple chip-on-print, regular chip-on-print, advanced chip-on-print, sample sensor, sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're advanced chip are we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the advanced chip-on-print, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, we have one of those.'Kay then the case is a Probably it's double curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Double curved, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Case materials are", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "plastic. Um I guess it's two, since one for the top, one for the bottom.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that right or is it just one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's just one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe it's one because of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just one mo single mould, we can do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess it doesn't matter'cause the price on that one is zero, which is nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's not a special colour. It's a specially ugly colour, but it's not special.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bright yellow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Interface type. We have pushbutton, scroll-wheel interface, integrated scroll-wheel pushbutton, and an L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we actually have the L_C_D_ display", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then is it the integrated or is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say the integrated.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes unfortunately.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Button supplement? Special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um special form? Special material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could of course make the buttons wood.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Say mahogany or so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'd look really lovely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm or titanium.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They cost us all the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we only have one button so really we shouldn't be charged,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we shouldn't be charged anything for the the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's getting a bit tiny.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd ignore that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Leave it blank.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. We're gonna leave that one blank because we run on a L_C_D_ and scroll. So our total is fifteen point five. Which I believe is", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's too much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "by three Euros over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's hard to believe. So we'll go for the hand dynamo huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the only thing better than um a banana-shaped remote is one that you shake.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it w What if we completely took out the the one single button we've got on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And just had a scroll wheel interface. And the L_C_D_ display. I suppose the L_C_D_ C_ display's the one that's pushing it up a bit though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well'cause we have to have both right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean let's let's face it, it also depends on the software on the on the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can have the the information that this thing transmits be being displayed on the on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So s yeah let's take away the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you could maybe take out the L_C_D_ dis display even,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if it if it comes up on the computer itsel on the T_V_ itself.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we may not need the L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that is possible yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. We may not need it. There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So we just remove our.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "screen here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Make it a bigger dial.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easier to use. Even easier to use then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Besides look at what the L_C_D_ does to our lovely remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Back to the design room boys.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can just take away a heck of a lot of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "there you go. central?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's the blue part?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we ran out of yellow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's the batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There you go", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Oops.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even simpler.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks more like a banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For all those fruit lovers out there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One more criteria.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so the costs under twelve point five Euro. Was no. We redesigned it. Now it's yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Next slide. Project evaluation. Uh project process, satisfaction with, for example, room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, means, new ideas found. Um So I guess that Let's see here. I think that perhaps the project evaluation's just supposed to be completed by me. But I'd like to hear your thoughts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fair enough..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Trying to fill in some time there..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh h what did you think of our project process?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we did yeah I think we did quite well. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good teamwork..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just half a day, you have a remote. There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right from the start of the day.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We sort of knew where we were going straight away I thought.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we st we started off a little little weak. Our leadership was quite weak in the beginning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But as the day went along we had more idea of what we were doing. Um room for creativity? There was that. Um I think we tried a lotta different things and um I think it was um interesting as you guys brought up more um information and studies that we were right on with a lot of those things. Um you guys worked together well as a team. And um the means? Which was the whiteboard and the pens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We've used the whiteboard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Super super.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I had some problem with the pen I think, but minus your p", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Minus your PowerPoint fiasco.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's not my fault. That's obviously the people I work for uh that work for me,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No I know. I'm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Incom.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh they've just you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Heads are gonna roll, believe me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have a list of employees that you would like fired.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. N new ideas found? Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Kinda.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes for the remote. Maybe no not f for", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technology used.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "technology. Alright. Closing. Costs are within the budget. Project is evaluated. Um complete the final questionnaire and meeting summary. That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I still have to do my minutes for the last meeting..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually. Um so there will probably be another questionnaire coming up. And then we'll have to check with the main boss whether we can, what goes on after that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We might have a while though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's the end of our meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "TS3003d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "So Hello..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good afternoon. Sorry I'm a little late.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Got stuck in the traffic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's possible on uh this time of day. Starts at three o'clock. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, let me see. Our fourth and last meeting. There he is. Yes. Okay this our last meeting. In this meeting we will discuss our final design. And we will do some evaluation about the, not only the product, but also the project. And then we're going to close the project today as well. So after this you will be uh free to go and uh spend all your money..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this uh design, detailed design meeting uh we will discuss uh the look-and-feel of the design, the usability interface design, and we will do the product evaluation. Um, in order to do that we have this agenda. We'll have the prototype presentation first. Then we will set up some evaluation cri um criteria. Then we will look at the finance. Uh we will have to see if everything we wanna do is also possible within our budget. Because everything costs money, and the more functions you wanna have the more money it will cost. So we have to see if it fits within the twelve and a half Euro per remote. But we will see that later. Then we will do the project uh evaluation, and the closing after that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got forty minutes. So we will be finished at half past three. But first um we will do the this is prototype presentation. So, if some yeah if somebody wants step forward.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Well this is what me and Richard came up with. The default spot for the on-off button. The mute button just below that. Then there's the volume and channel selectors. Simple plus-minus button. Uh we thought of a help button. If you hold it and you press another button, uh the help goes to the L_C_D_ screen. Then there's the zero to one to zero buttons. A button for teletext. A button for the subtitles. And the company logo. So it's rather simple prototype. And uh we'll have to see from testing uh how the users take it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, is this the moment where we ask or can ask questions about the functionality?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure uh just pop in at any time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, when you're in teletext there usually are buttons where you just you just press it and you g go to the next teletext page.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, that's just uh the normal uh as th as the normal uh remote controls uh So um You put it uh you um came in uh page uh one hundred. Now you can use the normal uh one to zero buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you But you can also uh use the um button th for uh changing the the channel. S so uh the shifting uh button. Uh for uh yeah shif shifting up in uh on t on t uh teletext, and shifting uh down. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Um Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh but um I thought in a few meetings earlier we uh uh tried to keep it uh simple. Uh just a few buttons and large buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh I think these are altogether quite a quite a few buttons. So I'm wondering if we if we neely really need all of those buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think if you look at most controls, they've got more buttons than this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And well the on-off button, it's it's a necessity.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can't drop that one. The volume and channel buttons, you need you obviously need those those.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The mute button could be replaced uh by pressing the volume-down button twice. So we could cancel that one. I think the help button really is necessary", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because there's no other way to know when someone wants to know what a button does.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, or you can build in uh when you press uh one button uh uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Long time. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you put.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But m Yeah. We disc discuss that already. But uh we think uh old people uh don't know that uh option. So uh they just put in uh put press uh the button and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you can't leave out the number buttons I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh teletext and subtitles are yeah necessary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's rather basic already.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Think so. That's what I pointed out earlier. If you just make a control for just the T_V_ there's just not much to gain here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we had somebody about th interfa Something about the design of the buttons there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, they're.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just n normal plain buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's rather hard to draw on the white-board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But they're supposed to be equal sized, round, with a with a little logo on it for the for the volume, the the triangle and stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Just to recognise it, so uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just for recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah and now we don't need uh LEDs or um Y uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "s some uh remote controls uh do it also,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um uh because we use the little display we don't uh have to use it. Uh so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So and for the materials we've just chosen for rubber buttons. With a a different colour than the case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they jump out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh that's about it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's nice. Then because we only have thirty minutes left, I will move on to the finance part, which is pretty exciting, to see if it's all possible what we wanna do. And I can tell you that we're going to have a pretty hard time producing this for twelve and a half Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If we see I don't know if I've filled in correctly, so just correct me if you see uh something wrong. I counted two batteries. But maybe we can also use one. I don't know if it's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Since it rechargeable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's rechargeable. That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we can u just uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's two Euros off..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We need the advanced chip. So there's not much to uh to save there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here we have the single curves. Uh we can see that the difference between uncurved and the single curved is one Euro. Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know, but I think the single curved is good for design, and also for the display to have a prominent place on the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we have to keep that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then we have the case material supplements. It's plastic. It's the cheapest one we need. So that's uh not much to save either. But then the biggest costs are the buttons. So maybe we really should try to discard some buttons to uh keep our costs low.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because you have to we will have to get the twelve and a half Euros at the end. Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so if we Let's fir first count the buttons we have now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Sixteen, I believe so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I Sixteen. Nah, that will be even more then. Eighteen Euros. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh seventeen. Uh with the help button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "seventeen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, including the help?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Damn.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh seventeen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we can uh discard the help and the mute button uh by pressing down volume long, or pressing down a a number long.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That saves us uh one Euro already.'Cause then we have got fifteen I think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wouldn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fifteen buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. That wouldn't be an option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And this is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, d I assume you'd count the volume and channel thingies for two buttons each, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No those are one, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Where did uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, think actually there're two buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, it's just one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "aren't they?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, um Yeah. There were uh two uh for one big button. But they are uh more expensive than the small ones. Uh, yeah. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but th it's not stated in this files.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we can we can even make one button with the volume and the channel in one, by pressing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I was thinking, maybe you could just integrate three of those numbers to one button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's possibility as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That would cut the cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So And it's good for the design as well. So you can make Uh let's see. If you make this Looks a bit like uh a cross. Plus. Min.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I don't don't know if if it's cheaper.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh s yeah channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we've still got four buttons, but just um So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah th I think they count uh the materials.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You got uh not not a butt button itself, but uh on the um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah on the chip there. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. On the chip you've got still uh four uh four buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right. That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I think because we have the advanced chip", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can just count this as one button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, I think this really is four buttons anyhow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But No but I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe it is, but then it seems to me that it's impossible to get the twelve and a half Euros. Also the L_C_ display, I think it's, I think it's too expensive for the display we use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh that's that's a big cost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think they uh try t", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we leave out the display we can also save money on the chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right, but what's the big advantage of our remote then?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only the docking station, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which isn't the the docking station isn't even in this c s schematic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's not even taken into the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's extra. That's extra. That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should to a different supplier.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's an option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Poland. Something. Polish supplier. Don't you think we can, if we can count this as v as one button, and integrate th uh these buttons in three, then we save a lot of money as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We we could save money on it. But would it make the remote more usable for elderly people?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what I'm wondering..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My mother can't even send send an S_M_S_ message.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are we gonna buy a um a remote control uh when you can uh use it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um Yeah. We m uh we must um stay below the um below um twelve uh fifty or Can't uh go um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, since the market research indicated that older people spend their money easier, more easy, maybe it's feasible to just put the price of the remote up a little. Especially since we have those nice features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh we have to stick to the twelve and a half Euros. We don't have any more budget to develop it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it impossible to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The margin will get too small. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it is possible to make one uh for uh twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It is. If you leave out the L_C_ display. And if you use less buttons. Say Or you can take the single chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It would be a be a pretty rigid one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, you can't use uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ten.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There it is..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then w Good looking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, wi with n Oh, with uh attractive uh o options.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh, you can stay uh below uh twelve fifty. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's uh difficult as well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Basically becoming a choice between like either a good remote and a higher production cost, or just any other remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No remote..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or we can leave out the ten buttons and take one scroll wheel for the programme numbers. Then w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Scroll-wheel's one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because then we save ten buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then we have five and one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and see. If we have this one and we've got the advanced W uh, we're getting close..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're getting closer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But how does scroll-wheel work here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you will Or maybe you can um scroll. If you scroll you will see the numbers on the L_C_D_ display. Until you've got the right number, then you push it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That would bring up the price of the scroll-wheel also. Integrated scroll-wheel push-button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. It's gotta scroll and push.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay but then you you can push uh some other button as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could just not scroll for a half a second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right. So if you scroll to a number and then you wait a half second, then it g turns to that channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you won't need a button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that would be like the end of our usability.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it would definitely crop cost, a lot.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we need the battery. And the regular chip is not possible? It has to be advanced?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you want to use an L_C_D_ screen you you need an advanced chip, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It has to be advanced. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we can save a Euro by a flat design. That's an option we can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja ja.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then we're almost there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah if you v could just leave out one more button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So if we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, or we have to uh skip the subtitle uh button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but I think that's That is a big advantage,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if we're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's a big advantage.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um, it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can we use can't we integrate the teletext and the subtitles in one button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you push it three times?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, think it's pretty much the teletext subtitles are", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right now you just push the teletext button, go to page eight eight eight,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and teletext disappears. But the subtitles stay there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you push the teletext button twice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What if you have to scroll to page eighty eight? Eight hundred eighty eight..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that's the case on most.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's uh One m uh one b uh, a few buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah that's not really that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that could be just uh like the scroll to eight, click, scroll to eight, click, scroll to eight, click.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then again that would be d j just pretty much not an option for older people,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "who don't even know what a scroll-wheel is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Holding a remote with which they expect to have like ten buttons for the numbers one to zero.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With only five buttons on it. And a scroll-wheel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think if you make a good advertisement uh on television and in the in the guide, you can explain to the people how to use the scroll wheel. If you just make it real simple. Because it saves it saves a lot of money. And we can keep our L_C_D_ screen, which can provide extra information. How to use the scroll wheel. How to use the other bu buttons as subtitles.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's good for the innovative design as well. If you would erase these. Mm eraser? And we put uh Looks a bit odd maybe..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a pretty big scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is Something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then, yeah. We've got the scroll-wheel. One, two, three, four, five buttons, if we erase this one. And these are two buttons then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could make two buttons out of that. And just um If you press the volume button you can control the volume with the scroll-wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that would save two buttons. If you do the same for the channel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's really a good good idea, I think. And it will make the use of the scroll wheel uh more obvious indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More obvious.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we make one for the volume, one for the channel. Plus scroll. That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we've got one, two, three. Yeah, we can leave the teletext in if we want. That's m that's better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this is five buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we leave out all those buttons, perhaps you can go with the flat flat case. And make it smaller overall.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if you put the the volume and channel buttons on the same height as the on-off button, the screen right behi under that, than the scroll button", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm yeah. Uh yeah, and then you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you get a a much smaller remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can decrease this one to four buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right now we have five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh, you can make a f quite a big uh remote remote control for uh just the same price as a small one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's no problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just uh you only have to pay for the double curved or single curved. It uh it's a bit uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. It's uh it's more the moulds in which they are being made, I think. Single curved is really easy to just fill in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And cases come right out of the machine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And single curved you have to have a different uh different machine, than a flat one. I think this is a really easy one. Um, what does everybody think about a flat or a single curved design? Freek, what do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I still think we should go for the single curve design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then again, all these changes are not really okay with me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Richard's argument was very good. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But since we just have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have to cut costs..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I'm ag", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd rather just go to the board and get us to spend eighteen dollars a a remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ask for more money. Yeah. Yeah. I am agreeing with the usability. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or do some market research and see what the options are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But th um I think we can then keep the single curved one. Just to express our L_C_D_ screen a bit more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So people will use it more, and especially for the help functions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it will be good if we have scroll bar, scroll button. It will be necessary to have good help function, as well. So this is scroll. I think it was better to have this price list a bit earlier. Before we went on to the to the whole design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Definitely..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I'm glad we could make a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's pretty different, if you saw the last one than this one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's pretty different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But this is not really like for the group we were making our remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This will really require a lot of marketing to get this to sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It will. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause if older people like familiar forms and familiar stuff. This is not familiar for them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, but I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're gonna have to do a lotta convincing them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the most.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But they know the scroll-buttons from uh old radios. Uh they cal also uh buttons like that for uh changing uh channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can let l", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can stick it out, a bit. Like a old old buttons..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe that's recognisable for them as well. Yeah. That's a good one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, I'm afraid we have to move on. And it's uh it's b uh less frightening, I think. If they see this design they think oh, there are only five buttons, and uh But we will see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true. Might uh might be confusing too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's definitely right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They'd be like, what? Only five buttons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But very special, so uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would buy it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But you're not sixty..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right. I would buy it if I was six. No I don't know. What it costs under twelve and a half Euros? No? Uh, yes they are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. But we can go on with the project evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's see. I can sit down I think. We still have fifteen minutes left, so we're nice on schedule.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, the project process.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um, I like set up all these criteria. And evaluation of the thingy..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Evaluation criteria. That's right. That was the the point I forgot. I should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we are. Evaluation criteria..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got five minutes I think for those criteria.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five more minutes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No we've got fifteen minutes but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yes. What?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay so I did some literature study study, and analysis of the requirements we set up earlier.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Translated it into criteria, which would be these. Um, is the remote fancy? The shape, look and feel. Innovative? What new functions are there? Uh, easy to use? Uh, learnability is a very important factor here. Uh, is it functional? Are there not too many functions uh among the functions? And are the those functions that are there, are they useful? And the cost. The target group. Is the remote really for the group we're making it for? And recognability. If our company is If it is easily recognisable that our company made it? And So we're supposed to evaluate it right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's see. Oh I have to say this was a little hard, because the minutes of our last meeting were not here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's because my pen failed to upload his data.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I tried to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Interesting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's uh it's giving errors by downloading the software.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is the design fancy, on a scale of one to seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's fancy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh six. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We all go for six? Good. Um, is the design innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Sh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think so, with our L_C_D_ screen, docking station, scroll-buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Subtitles, buttons. Yeah. Seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we've got twenty cents for our docking station, huh?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be do-able.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is the design easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Not really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a bit dodgy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well Would be for us. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For old people I I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say four. Four or five between. Between four or five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four or five. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd go for four, too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it functional?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is the design functional? Um, do we have all functions that we want to include?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we do. Do we have too many functions?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so. It's pretty slim.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Think it's uh seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven. Oh, and do we um take care of the biggest frustrations of the remote control? Like it getting lost and R_S_I_ influences?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm m", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, we haven't thought of that one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think we do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I had them worked out. Mm. They are ugly, not very functional, and getting lost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are the production costs within the preset limits?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well they are now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does the design fit the group of focus?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, th yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that's a three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No I think with our new radio button, I think it's uh I think it's better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh We have to test it s But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I still I think it's too m too fancy. Too too flashy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think a radio button is not exactly what older people expect to have a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I would give it a four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not sure. I think I'd go for two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I go for three. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then we have to do the three. It's the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Is the company company recognisable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, we have the logo there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And they wanna put fashion in their products. Uh in the slogan of the company. And we have the removable front cases. So, I think it's very recognisable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that will be this. I was also supposed to calculate the score, but thought we would have another private thingy after this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got a calculate it. Mm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twendag sieven an twendag.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is this Like after this, are we done? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N We've gonna We're going to evaluate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're gonna go to our other room again. Well, anyhow. These are seven factors times seven is forty something. Two? No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Forty nine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nine? Uh, minus one. Minus three, minus four. Minus four. So that would be minus eight. Forty one out of forty nine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Forty one. That's Around eighty percent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Guess I'll just type that in on the bottom here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's eighty four percent. I think that's a pretty nice score.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.'Kay. So that will be the evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you. So, that brings us to the project evaluation. Yep. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Project process. Did we move through the right phases, you think? Along the process?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think we should have a should have had the finance thingy a lot earlier. In the design phase.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. So lack of information about prices.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh Okay. Satisfaction. Was there room for creativity?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not too much. No..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's because of the finance sheet. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, there w there was enough room, but the finance uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, true. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The room was Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I would've liked to go for the younger users also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And just to be able to access internet and get something of your own.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Restrictions. Internet access.'Kay. Leadership. Was it clear what everybody had to do uh according to their roles and functions? Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Teamwork? Did it work out? Working together? Also, you two of you with the uh last phase?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, was okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The tasks are very structured, so you can just do step by step and it's very easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "tasks. Okay. Were the means sufficient for the tasks uh we had to do? Or were they too much?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, the smart-board, the d d drawing is just a pain in the ass, but The digital the digital pen is very nice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Smart-board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it wants to download its uh data..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Failed download. Smart-board was irritating. So you rather wanted to have a flip-over? Or something else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A flip-over or a more precise uh digit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A flipper's uh easier, so Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Faster as well, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Flip-over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you want to share uh of uh when you make um a picture like this uh on the presentation, it's easier to uh share it with uh other people. Uh so uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you can sh save it uh and uh put it on the internet, or uh uh in shared f uh folder or uh sh uh shared directory.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I tried to open the file on my laptop,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? No?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Didn't work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but not possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh you need a smart board uh application I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "T can uh can you export it uh like a Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Should be possible. Yeah you can export it as image.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Must Yeah must be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should've done that then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the sharing of the information was uh was okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pen is here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, network.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, pen is here on the table.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. So you can Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's nice. Have we found new ideas for having this kind of meetings? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yeah maybe um uh when we n uh just uh give the numbers of of uh Uh uh o one of uh out of s uh sev.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um it's uh easier to uh to do the th things that are like that on a computer. Uh, so uh just l uh like uh at u university uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So Yeah. So everybody puts his own score.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then it mediates the score,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you can get one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's better. So that's uh How do we call? Evaluation criteria. Okay. Mm, any more ideas? Or questions about the project? Or about the product?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I think then that we get to our last sheet. Are the costs within the budget?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Considering we are not going to make a docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we Docking station. That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe because of the docking station the price of the remote can also be a little bit higher?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh and I think you can compensate that as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think that shouldn't be the biggest problem, because it's very cheap to make as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we think we gonna get the twelve and a half million?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or what was it?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifty grand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fifteen fifteen million. I think we will. If we gonna export this product. It's innovative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Especially in America. People are pretty decadent. Sometimes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, still I think I mean if we're n gonna make a scroll-button anyway it'd be more for the younger people than for the older people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can do more. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we should just re-focus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just put it on the market for everybody. You can you can change markets where by changing the front covers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or specifically for younger people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's one thing you can change it with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can also try to uh reach the younger people by uh putting fancy covers on on the market. Just as a test. See how it works. That's I think a good advantage.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think then it would be way more uh popular with younger people than it is, than would be with older people. Even if it were their covers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, uh then I think we can have our little celebration, right now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Party party.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think we still have to fit in one more questionnaire. I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where's the champagne?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. I didn't get a message from the from ending of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I believe y uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I think I have one now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh you did.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Five more minutes? Oh that's nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then we still have some questions. If somebody has some questions they can ask them now. Or we can put these in the project folder as well. Maybe that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Export as picture, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. This is another network, I guess. Does somebody see the project folder?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't. Hmm. My Documents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh maybe uh they will save it. So uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll just put it in My Documents", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it probably will.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh That's okay. Okay. I think I'm going to make our final presentation now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, you're supposed to make a final.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then I will be back in about ten minutes to show you the final presentation. Summary of the project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are we supposed to go into our own rooms again?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh maybe we have to fill uh another questionnaire.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Questionnaire. I think you all get a questionnaire in in your room.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then I'll meet you in I think about ten minutes, or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hopefully my pen will download its software. Oh. Or data.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That'd be nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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The team members included the project manager, marketing, user interface, and industrial designer.\n\n* They discussed several design changes that were made in order to meet cost requirements.\n* The team evaluated the project using different criteria and came up with a score of 84 percent.\n* The participants agreed that the final product is innovative and has potential in the market.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 14 }, { "startIndex": 306, "endIndex": 310 }, { "startIndex": 379, "endIndex": 381 }, { "startIndex": 476, "endIndex": 480 }, { "startIndex": 645, "endIndex": 647 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you rephrase the main objective or purpose of the meeting for me?", "response": "The main objective of the meeting was to have a final discussion about the design, costs, and evaluation of the new remote control being developed.\nThe team aimed to reach a consensus on the final product and ensure that it met the project requirements and constraints.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 7, "endIndex": 8 }, { "startIndex": 645, "endIndex": 647 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you please summarize the marketing strategy for promoting the new remote control?", "response": "I'm sorry, I cannot provide information about the marketing strategy for the new remote control, as this topic was not discussed in the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Sure, here is a question including a word with a similar meaning to \"else\"/\"other\"/\"besides\":\n\nApart from the final design, costs, and evaluation, were there other topics discussed during the meeting?", "response": "There is no information in the meeting transcript regarding topics discussed apart from the final design, costs, and evaluation.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "That sounds great! Were there any specific aspects of the evaluation criteria that the team found particularly noteworthy?", "response": "The participants found the following aspects of the evaluation criteria noteworthy:\n\n* The product's innovative design.\n* The functionality and usefulness of its features.\n* The company's recognizability in the product's design.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 7, "endIndex": 8 }, { "startIndex": 12, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 179, "endIndex": 179 }, { "startIndex": 464, "endIndex": 464 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Sure, here is a question that rephrases the request to identify any unresolved questions or concerns raised during the meeting:\n\nWere there any lingering uncertainties or issues brought up during the meeting that remained unaddressed or undecided upon by the team members?", "response": "There is no information in the meeting transcript indicating the existence of any unresolved questions or concerns.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Sure, here is a question that rephrases the request to identify the action items of the meeting:\n\nWere there any specific tasks, responsibilities, or next steps determined during the meeting that team members are expected to follow up on or complete?", "response": "The participants determined the following action items:\n\n* Look into the possibility of using a different, less expensive supplier.\n* Explore the idea of integrating the teletext and subtitle buttons into one button.\n* Research the possibility of using a scroll wheel in place of the individual number buttons.\n* Consider the option of using a flat or single curved design for the remote control.\n* Investigate the feasibility of adding a docking station to the remote control.\n* Conduct market research to assess consumer preferences and determine the optimal price point.\n* Obtain approval from the board for the final design and production costs.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 10, "endIndex": 10 }, { "startIndex": 156, "endIndex": 159 }, { "startIndex": 163, "endIndex": 166 }, { "startIndex": 179, "endIndex": 179 }, { "startIndex": 203, "endIndex": 206 }, { "startIndex": 306, "endIndex": 307 }, { "startIndex": 438, "endIndex": 441 }, { "startIndex": 548, "endIndex": 548 }, { "startIndex": 589, "endIndex": 592 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Apart from the final design, costs, and evaluation, were there any team discussions about the product's packaging?", "response": "There is no information in the meeting transcript regarding discussions about the product's packaging.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you provide me with a synopsis of the main viewpoints expressed during the meeting?", "response": "The main viewpoints expressed during the meeting were:\n\n* The need to ensure the final product is innovative and has features that are useful to the target group.\n* The importance of keeping production costs within the budget of twelve and a half Euros per remote control.\n* The challenge of creating a product that appeals to both older and younger users.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 8, "endIndex": 8 }, { "startIndex": 381, "endIndex": 381 }, { "startIndex": 603, "endIndex": 608 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did marketing recommend doing regarding the price of the remote control when discussing costs?", "response": "Marketing suggested that, if necessary, the price of the remote could be increased slightly, considering the innovative features it offers, such as the LCD screen and scroll wheel.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 179, "endIndex": 179 }, { "startIndex": 270, "endIndex": 271 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

{ "meetingId": "education14", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received apologies for absence from Suzy Davies and Jack Sargeant and I'm very pleased to welcome Jayne Bryant back, who is substituting for Jack today. Are there any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2, then, this morning, is our sixth scrutiny session on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. I'm very pleased to welcome our witnesses this morning: Sally Jenkins, who is chair of All Wales Heads of Children’s Services and is here representing the Association of Directors of Social Services; Alastair Birch, who is senior system leader for equalities and safeguarding at Pembrokeshire County Council, who is here representing the Association of Directors of Education Wales; and Councillor Huw David, who is the Welsh Local Government Association spokesperson for health and social care and leader of Bridgend County Borough Council. So, thank you all for attending this morning. We're very pleased to have you here. We've got a lot of ground to cover, so, if you're happy, we'll go straight into questions and I'll start just by asking about your general support for the Bill, which is outlined in the evidence. Can you just explain why you think the current law is ineffective or unclear?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Bore da—bore da, bawb. So, I'm Alastair Birch. The statement, really, from ADEW is that the rights of the child should be educated and achieved, really, under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The current legislation has been criticised, obviously, by the UN concerning the defence of reasonable punishment still being within our current legislation. So, we will always—ADEW will always—advocate that the rights of the child be upheld, so that is really the fundamental aspect in terms of the statement from ADEW, and the position of ADEW is that the rights of the child are fundamental in this process. And there are certain articles—. I know that the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure 2011 made sure that article 3 and article 4, article 12 and article 37 were a focus in terms of making sure that the best interests of the child were put first, that children expressing their views and opinions was a priority. And we know, for safeguarding purposes, that the express opinions of the child and the voice of the child are a fundamental aspect of any safe environment, whether it be a school or college. So, that is—the position is really following that legal position under the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Nothing to add at this stage, no?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'll just add, on behalf of ADSS and on behalf of children's services and social services more widely, for us, this is not a change in our position, this is not new; this is a position that we, on behalf of the leaders of social services across Wales, have taken over many years, going back 20, 25 years. I think what we would say is that we really welcome this Bill and we welcome the proposed change for the clarity it would bring—the clarity that it would bring for children, for parents and for professionals. I think what we would recognise is that this is a very little-used piece of legislation, so it's rare, it's not as if this is something that is going to cast great change across the scene for children and families in Wales, but what it will do is represent a change in the reality of how we care and nurture our children. I would echo absolutely what Alastair has said in terms of the rights of the child, but equally, in terms of all of our policies in Wales in terms of promoting well-being for children, this has to be key. So, for us, this is about a natural progression of change in how we care for our children in Wales. For children's services at the very sharp end of this world, for us, it brings a true clarity. This continues with an ambiguity in how we treat our children and how we care for our children, and the shift for us brings that very much needed clarity.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The committee has already heard different views about whether there's clear evidence that physical punishment is harmful to children. What evidence does the work of social services provide about whether physical punishment is actually harmful?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Obviously, what you'll all be aware of is that, as part of the consultation for this Bill, the Public Policy Institute did a further piece of research to look at the impact of physical punishment on children. A number of things that we know—we know from across the world that the evidence is that introducing legislation or changing legislation in this way improves children's positions within their families. What we know is that children themselves, as Alastair has already referred to, really find physical punishment demeaning and harmful, and for children it is an emotionally damaging experience. Now, there may be disagreement about that, there will be different views on that, but that's the voice of the child in this debate. The voice of the child is very clear that physical punishment is for them harmful. I think what we would also say is that, in the world that we work in, it's part of a continuum, and, whilst this is an element of how children are cared for, what we see is a continuum where an acceptance of how we treat children in a particular way perpetuates throughout our work. By changing this, it helps that shift to that absolute recognition that our children must be cared for in a way that is physically safe in all dimensions for them.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've had evidence from the equal protection network that the reasonable punishment defence undermines child protection and fails to protect children because it permits an arbitrary level of violence, which invades children's physical integrity, making it a potential pathway to more serious physical or sexual abuse, and you did refer to that just now. Is there anything you want to add on that?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I would echo that. I think there is something in this that is about our culture, about how we see our children. It is about how we see our smallest and most vulnerable people, and if it is acceptable it opens the door to those other, more extreme versions of violence, which then complicates the issue for us. This is about clarity, and, whilst there is an argument that this is a small episode for a child, it's not a small episode for a child, it is a major episode for a child, and I think absolutely, as you said, the potential for it then to lead on, and over gradation and time to increase the risk for children, is clearly there.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The final question from me: your written evidence emphasises the need for greater clarity around the definition of what constitutes corporal punishment, but that contrasts with what we've been told by the children's commissioner and the equal protection network, who've emphasised the importance of simplicity in the Bill. How do you respond to that view, and is what you're calling for essential to be on the face of the Bill?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It's not essential for it to be on the face of the Bill. What we would like to see is discussion within the implementation phase for that nuancing. Absolutely agree in terms of simplicity—I think that is really important—and I've already mentioned clarity. What we don't want to do is further confuse the position. We know that the legislation in different countries has done that, and there are ways that you can do it, but what we would welcome is an opportunity during the implementation phase for discussion.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "And, as a principle, obviously we would welcome full involvement, and we know there's the commitment from Welsh Government to full involvement in the implementation, because, as with every piece of legislation, implementation is the most important part, and we would want to ensure there is that commitment to a major awareness-raising campaign, and there is that from Welsh Government, because we need to take families, carers and parents with us on this. Also we need to ensure that there is that support available to parents and carers that do sometimes struggle with parenting, and that needs to be a universal offer across Wales. If we're to progress with this, that has to be an option that is offered to every parent in Wales.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Local authorities have already been very heavily involved in terms of looking at this Bill and exploring what the issues are and the discussions and looking at what the implications from a local authority perspective will be, as Huw describes, both in terms of the awareness raising, early support and intervention and prevention services for families against the backdrop of the current issues that we have in local government, but also awareness raising—because absolutely it is key that families come with us on this journey. This is not an imposition. This is embracing a culture and a value system for our children.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. I've got some questions now from Dawn Bowden on the implementation of the Bill.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. So, you've pre-empted me, Huw.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Right. Sorry. I've got good eyesight; I can't see—. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "You've already said, obviously, that you're looking towards working with Welsh Government in terms of its implementation. What's been your role so far in terms of the implementation of the Bill—local authorities generally, now? Have you had a role? Has Welsh Government been involving you in discussions around the introduction of the Bill so far?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, obviously we were consulted—a key consultee—but also our officials have worked very closely with Welsh Government officials to make sure this is implemented successfully, if it is progressed.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Our involvement with this, from a social services perspective, goes back over two years, directly in working towards this point, never mind the history in terms of work towards this area. But, very directly in relation to this Bill, we were first involved at least two years ago, to recollect, and that was in a series of workshops with other agencies, for example Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service Cymru and the police, and looking in real depth at what the implications would be for us as agencies to look at what the likely trajectory would be in terms of our pathways for referral into our services and what that might mean for us. And then particularly, for example, with CAFCASS Cymru in relation to private law, what the fallout might be, and then what, if anything—and that's the discussion that we need to have—that could mean for children's services in particular, given the pressures that we're already under. So, we've been in constant, I suppose, involvement in terms of the Bill already, as part of the consultation, in terms of the focus groups and in terms of direct work with Welsh Government officials to take this forward. And we are absolutely committed to continuing with that work.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. You touched there on the pressures that you're already under, which we fully appreciate, but you also mentioned in answers to Lynne Neagle earlier on that you welcomed the Bill in terms of its clarity. So, are you confident that the Bill can be implemented without any major impact on your capacity to deal with it?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "We've done—. A number of local authorities—my own included, Newport City Council, has done some work to look at what the likely impact would be and then actually to look at what some of that costing would need to be. Further work is needed on that area, and that needs to be carried out during the implementation phase. I think what we've done is we've looked internationally at what the impact has been elsewhere when similar legislation has been introduced to try and gauge, but that's difficult to do in terms of comparable nations and size and also different systems. And obviously our approach in terms of children and pedagogy is very different from some of the nations that have already done this. I wouldn't like to say one way or the other, because I think, in terms of that culture shift, it could be a double impact on us in terms of increased referrals because of increased awareness, but it could also be, I suppose, as Huw alludes to, that, if we're looking at ensuring greater awareness of preventative services and support services for parents, actually people coming to the fore and asking us for those services as well. So, at this stage, I think what we would want to say is that we continue to be fully involved in the implementation phase, to look at what the cost implications for that could be, and not just for the local authorities but also the police, CAFCASS Cymru, for third sector organisations involved in preventative services. I don't think any of that should undermine the position in terms of children and their rights within our society. So, a difficult answer, in the sense that—", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "No, I understand. What you're saying is that this is a piece of legislation that, in your view, is a good piece of legislation. It's setting out to, hopefully, achieve what the purpose of it is and you will deliver what you need to. Can I ask you whether, then, you've also given thought to the impact on—we've talked about social services, but the impact on other services, like housing, education and so on? You're obviously coming at it from slightly different angles in other sections.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "We are part of the universal service for children, and we very much work in co-operation with the WLGA and our social care colleagues, and we've been part of that consultation. In terms of education, the main changes, or adaptations, would be around training and awareness. And, in terms of the Bill, there needs to be the clarity—ambiguity would be bad—in terms of making sure that safeguarding leads within all schools have the right training and support. So, really, that's the key element there, and then obviously the preventative services for the parents that schools can signpost, and sometimes possibly even host, in terms of being community schools. These positive parenting approaches that—. I have colleagues who have worked in that area for many years and see the benefits in how those positive parenting approaches make a difference to families.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "So, from your point of view, it's awareness raising, is it?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "It's awareness raising; it's making sure that professionals are fully briefed on necessary changes, that there's very little ambiguity, that we are aware that—. We still have that duty to report whenever there is any safeguarding concern. That'll still be part of the all-Wales child protection procedures. That won't change, and that duty is always going to be there for all our professionals. But that awareness raising and training will be the key, and then, obviously, working in co-operation with our colleagues.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay, I understand that. Have you been given an indication of how long you've got between Royal Assent and implementation, and whether you've thought through any of the key milestones that need to be implemented?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "There's a group proposed that would be a strategic leadership group in the steering group that we're part of, which is now laying out what would happen after Royal Assent if that is given. So, we will work towards that.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. My final question, Chair, is about some of the responses we've had to this committee that say that the state should not get involved in family life—I'm sure you've heard those views—unless it's in the most serious circumstances. To what extent do you think that this Bill undermines the existing local authority responsibilities, or don't you?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "The state's paramount role is to protect children from harm. That is our legal responsibility, it's our moral responsibility, and we will discharge that. And there is obviously a view—it's a view that is enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child—that physical punishment, physical harm to a child is harm to a child, and we should be preventing that and act to prevent that. That would be the position of the Welsh Local Government Association, and we also respect the mandate that Members of the National Assembly for Wales have too. And we believe that children can be raised by parents without recourse to physical punishment, effectively, and we'd support parents in that. We do not believe that in the 50 nations across the world where such legislation exists that the state is interfering in family life unnecessarily. We believe this action reflects a cultural change, a sea change that's taken place in Wales over the last 30 to 40 years, where the vast majority of parents now say that they do not use it themselves, they do not support it, and we believe this is actually a reflection of what has happened in Welsh society. We support Assembly Members in the view that the natural progression of that is that children's rights are protected across Wales.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "So, I've got largely positive feedback from you in terms of the Bill and its intentions, and so on. Do you foresee any unintended consequences for this Bill?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "If we implement it carefully, if we implement it with the right resources, then I hope not. I think not. But as with every piece of legislation, it is about the implementation, it is about the cultural change as well, and that's why I cannot overstress the importance of making sure that resources are made available, because our social services departments—children's social services in particular—are overstretched. They are at breaking point—make no bones about it—and they are dealing with children who are facing serious harm and neglect. We are having record numbers of contacts from police, from teachers, from doctors and, of course, from children themselves who are experiencing that harm and neglect. And obviously, we want to focus our energy and our attention on those children. Equally, though, we don't want to lose sight of those families and children that are experiencing significant problems, but who we want to support through our early intervention and prevention programmes, and that is why it is important that there is investment in those programmes, so that children do not end up in that terrible position where we have to, for their safety, take them from their birth families to protect them. And the reality is, in Wales, that we are doing that to more children than we've done for a long time, and the numbers are growing across Wales. And that is only because of the most appalling neglect and abuse, because there is no way that any judge would permit us to act to make a child safe if it was not for that fact, and the facts are there. So, I don't want that focus to be lost, but, of course, we welcome and understand the need to progress this piece of legislation.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "That rise that you talk about here, is that due to more interventions, greater awareness, more incidents? I'm trying to link this to the Bill in terms of whether the Bill is actually going to give you more work to do in those areas.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "On the reasons for the rise in the numbers of looked-after children in Wales, which are higher than those in England, and also the numbers of contacts that we have across the local authorities, the work of the care crisis review, which was completed last year; the work of Isabelle Trowler, who's the chief social worker in England; countless research and reports that have taken place in the last 18 months; and currently the public law working group, under the auspices of the president of the family court, would all indicate that it's multifactorial. So, what you have is a range of reasons that have led to the increasing numbers of children becoming looked after across England and Wales. What you can't do is identify a single reason. There have been headlines that have said,'Is it increased austerity?' That is clearly a part of this. Is it in Wales an increased awareness of adverse childhood experiences and the emphasis of the impact on children of, for example, domestic abuse? Is it because of our understanding of what happens to children in those households? All of that research would say it's all of those things. And then, when you also add in changes in our practice with our colleagues in the judiciary, changes in our police service, but also changes in our preventative services, you've got that whole range of elements. And there is going on across the local authorities and Welsh Government a huge amount of work to try to address and understand that, and then to ameliorate that. Children who need to be in care for safety need to be in care, but what we have to do is get to a point where fewer children come into care and we're able to protect them, firstly, and secondly where those children who are in care are cared for in a way that delivers the best possible outcomes for them. So, there is no simple answer unfortunately. I think, in terms of this Bill and unintended consequences, I agree absolutely with everything that Huw has said. My job is around children at that far end, but what this Bill does is it brings clarity. It brings a clarity even for those children at that very far end. It takes away even that point of discussion that this could possibly be okay, and I think that's important to hang on to.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "One unintended consequences is that I think that there will be an increased focus on the UNCRC. And, in terms of children having a discussion around this point, children need to be part of that discussion. It's something that affects them. And a key aspect of education is the voice of the child. It has become significantly—. It's changed completely in the last 10 years, and it is one of the key things in terms of us driving improvements.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Would that be something that you would be looking to do in schools?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Anything that improves the voice of the child in any educational context is good and it's very powerful for the children. And it improves their educational experiences, encouraging the opportunities for them to discuss the issues, the adverse childhood experiences that they encounter, which are significant, and it's our educational professionals that are facing this day-in, day-out. They've become a very highly trained workforce, they're ACE aware, they're trauma aware, and anything that focuses, even increases, their professionalism and understanding around a particular point, and also—. So it's a positive unintended consequence, shall we say, that it could reinvigorate some of the voice of the child discussion within various contexts.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "We've got some specific questions now on implementation for social services, from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. If this Bill becomes law, would you encourage members of the public to contact social services departments if they do see a child being smacked?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We already encourage members of the public to contact social services or the police, depending on the circumstances. Interestingly, I'm picking—", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "What, if a child is being smacked now?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes. If a child is being smacked now, we would ask that people contact. We have a duty to report, as professionals. But if you were walking out, and you saw something happening to a child, in the same way as if you saw something to an adult.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "So, I think that the challenge is about—we've all probably, sadly, witnessed incidents in the doctor's reception, or in a supermarket, and we've failed to do something about it. And I think we then walk away and feel pretty guilty about that, realistically, when you see something happening to a child in a particular circumstance. I think we can't ignore the fact that a child is being assaulted in those circumstances.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. A campaign opposing this Bill, Be Reasonable Wales, have said that'If the law is changed, the consequences for parents will be considerable.' It also says,'Anyone accused or convicted of assaulting a child—under the new definition—' so, I suppose you could argue, a minor tap—'will be subject to long-term social services involvement in their family and social stigma.' To what extent is this accurate, and, also, will thresholds for social services intervention change if the Bill is enacted?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "There are a number of parts to that. Firstly, in terms of long-term social services intervention in a family's life, I think, for people to be fully aware of the very few numbers of families where we have long-term intervention currently, even where there is what would be perceived as very significant abuse. What we do is we go in for short periods in families' lives, to support them to work with their strengths, to work with them and their family members. It's not about us going into families, whatever some of the public perception may be. Our aim is to get in and get out. So, in terms of long-term intervention, what we want is for families to find their own solutions. We want families to be able to work with each other, and together, and local community support, and preventative services, to be able to address issues. This is not about punitive approaches from social services. So, that's the first element. In terms of thresholds for children's services, we would not be anticipating a huge number of referrals to us. There may be a small number of referrals that come through. What we know from other nations is that it will peak and then settle. We recognise that's likely to happen. Because we also know that this is actually quite a rare occurrence currently; this is not a defence that's being used with great frequency, this is not something that is happening. And if we look at the data, we know that the incidents of children, and the number of parents who now recognise this as an acceptable form of punishment, has steadily declined over the last 15 to 20 years. So it's diminishing as it is.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "So, on that one then, is there a need for legislation that will—obviously there'll be resources for the Welsh Government and there'll be resources out of hours and things like that—is there a need for legislation if, as you say, natural behaviour and the culture is changing? Let's be honest, as you've rightly pointed out, in social services—I know in my own authority—in your own authority, you're saying that even now you're working with the police, on systematic failings within the system.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Two things. Firstly, we want legislation that reflects our society—we don't want the two to be out of kilter. That would be my first natural response: surely our legislation should be reflective of what our world is. It shouldn't be that we've got these rather confusing elements running in parallel, and that continues to perpetuate a lack of clarity and the ambiguity that we currently see. I think the other element is that, again, this is about potentially an accelerating of that awareness and that culture in our society, about how we care for our children. We've got there naturally; we've got there by the change that's happened in Wales over the last 15 to 20 years. What this does is to continue with that change and continue with that awareness and understanding of how we positively, from a strength-based approach, should care for our children, bearing in mind what's required of us in terms of the UNCRC.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. Are there any comments from anyone else?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Simply to say that I think that, in terms of that clarity for the very vulnerable children out there who are currently being assaulted—seriously assaulted and abused by their parents, which goes on on a daily basis—that is already covered by existing legislation. But at the moment, they don't know, because they could be being told—and they probably are being told—by their parents that's it's okay, that they can smack their child and that that's acceptable. They don't know the difference. A young child is not going to know that difference and there is confusion about what is—. And if you asked most parents, and in fact lots of professionals, they would not be able to tell you, and probably most of you wouldn't be able to tell me exactly where is the threshold—", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Yes, where's that line.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, at the moment, we don't know where that line is. That vulnerable child, at home, being abused by their parents, does not know where that line is. And they should know where that line is because then they can pick up the phone to Childline or they can talk to a professional and ask them where that line is. So, that would be a step forward. I do recognise, though, that what we don't want to do—and the last thing any of us want to do—is criminalise parents who are bringing up their children. That is why we're saying there needs to be an emphasis on the support programmes that are available to parents. And to be clear, there is no way that we want long-term involvement in any child's life, but particularly not in the lives of children who have been smacked by their parents. That is not going to be the result of this legislation, trust me, because we don't want to be involved in—we haven't got the resources to be involved in children's lives. The social worker or the police officer—if they become involved, then there would be a proportionate response to that, and there'll also be a test about whether or not that is progressed. So, if there is an allegation—if this legislation is passed—then that will be looked into and a consideration will be made about whether any action will be taken, and as with any allegation of the law being broken, there would be a proportionate response, as there is now.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "And the next question does relate to the practical response to that. Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Can you outline the practical ways in which social services' interaction with parents will change as a result of this proposed law and do you envisage that all referrals to the police will be automatically referred to social services for an assessment? Who's going to make those decisions?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "That will be part of the implementation phase about that decision making. Interestingly, the number of referrals that we currently get from the police that we take absolutely no action on is extraordinary. So, we get a very, very large number of—. It will be happening now; sitting in the civic centre in Newport City Council will be a whole host of social workers taking in the public protection notifications from overnight. It's 10 o'clock, so they're assessing them now, as we speak. And an awful lot of those will have no further action from the local authority.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "But will they be investigated?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "No. There will be no action. There are countless referrals made by agencies to local authorities that we take no action on.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "So, if there's an increase as a result of greater awareness—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "What happens is there is a paper assessment of them. There's a look at what's happened, who's involved, what the police have reported, and there's work being done with the police to improve that. Because one of the things that we want to get to is actually where we're not using huge amounts of time to look at that, but what comes to us is what we act on. So, there is work going on with a number of police authorities to look at how you improve that process. But I suppose, to pick up, each incident will be looked at, each one will be assessed in a way that is proportionate, as Huw says, to look at what's happened and then investigated.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Sally, can you give us a couple of examples of what kind of things might have come in that you would then take no action on?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We get countless referrals, for example, where there's been a domestic abuse incident overnight where a child wasn't present in the property and we then haven't taken action. It’ll be where the level of harm that’s perceived to happen to that child is below the threshold for intervention from children's services.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "I’m pretty cynical about assessment, because, you know, I have people come in who are benefit claimants where, when they’ve been assessed, the whole process has been very flawed and I’ve had to fight and fight and fight on their behalf. So—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Assessment processes within social—", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "But if you're struggling now with those assessments—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Assessment processes within social services are as laid out in the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. So, we have within what we carry out, I suppose, that kind of initial look, that look at the information, what else do we know about that family—", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "And are they qualified people that are doing this?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "And, in fact, in lots of places in Wales now, it’s a multi-agency assessment. So, it’s a joint assessment carried out with police professionals and health professionals.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "So, what proportion currently would you not be taking any action on, if a report came in of some domestic abuse where a child had perhaps been smacked?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "If something came in to us where a child had been smacked and there was something clearly there, we would look at it. We would clearly look at it and we would take some sort of action.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Even now, before the legislation?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Can you ask a final question? And I'm going to have to appeal for brief answers, because we've got a lot of ground to cover.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just very quickly, there may be no action from social services, but it doesn’t mean that we don’t offer support. So, the expectation is that support is offered in those circumstances from family support services, for example—", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Or prevention.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "—or prevention services. So, we would not say, if we were aware, for example, that there was domestic abuse at a home, ‘There’s no role for children’s social services’, because there may be an assessment that that child may not be at immediate risk of harm, but we would obviously recognise that there are causes for concern there and we would offer that support. So, just to be clear about that. And that’s a process that happens in every social services department in the UK, and it’s happened for a very long time, and, in fact, it’s reflective of the legislation that you have laid down as Assembly Members.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "And are those services there, Huw? Because I’m very acutely aware of the pressure on local government. Are the services there? Is there sufficient resource in things like Families First? Because what I’m hearing on the ground is that eligibility is changing for even those preventative services.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "There’s not enough of those services, and, obviously—you may have heard me saying this before—I think we need to invest more in those services, and I hope you invest more in the services, because, obviously, prevention is better than cure. And those pressures that Sally talked about earlier are pressures that are not going away; they’re only increasing by the day, actually, and I would want us to be able to offer those services now. Because that example of a child that perhaps is in a home where there is domestic abuse—we’ll probably have another referral off them in a couple of months’ time, and that could escalate. And what I’d rather do is provide support to that family and try and stop that family breaking down so that, in six months, we're not going back and saying that we've got to take this child into care because the domestic abuse has worsened and that child is at risk. But those services need additional investment.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "I appreciate that time is of the essence, but, just really quickly in relation to that, it’s not just social services. So, for example, there are developments like Encompass, which is a piece of work that is being rolled out across Gwent and across other areas, which is where the police automatically notify the school overnight of an incident, not expecting the school to do anything per se, but to be aware, to be able to offer care for that child.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Can I add to that? Operation Encompass I know in Gwent has been operational, and we started it in Pembrokeshire 18 months ago. We as a local authority—and it’ll be education that will contact the school around the domestic incident happening, and the school as part of that protocol will provide a level of universal service support for that child when they come in, before 9 o’clock, so that professionals are aware of the needs of the welfare of that child at that point. So, you know, schools play a key role in the universal service of this and we work very closely with our social care colleagues on that.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay. Janet, your last question, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The Bill's explanatory memorandum refers to an estimate of 274 offences annually where lawful chastisement was used as a defence or considered. It says there is also potential to create extra demand on out-of-hours social services teams due to the time that the offences were reported, and in order to support safeguarding measures. Have you assessed how this Bill will impact on emergency and out-of-hours local authority services?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We have considered that, and again I think that's something that we would very much want to look at as part of implementation. We have out-of-hours provision, we have emergency duty teams already across Wales that operate 24/7. There's no doubt that they exist and they work very closely with our police colleagues.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Are they overstretched at the moment?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I think in the same way as all of social services is. If we were offered additional resource, we are going to take that. But are they working in a way that protects children day in, day out, and vulnerable adults? Yes, they are, and they will continue to do so.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. We've got some specific questions now on the impact on education from Jayne Bryant.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Good morning. Alastair, you've already mentioned about awareness raising and training, which will be key with educational professionals. How confident are you that teachers and others working in those educational settings will be clear about how to support the implementation of this Bill, if enacted?", "speakerName": "Jayne Bryant AM" }, { "text": "Training requirements for all professionals in education settings are clear. The universal tier 1 training is there, and all local authorities in Wales will implement that. In that level of general safeguarding awareness and training, the infinite emphasis is on the duty to report. That will remain the same. The thresholds for social care, that's their responsibility. That duty to report will always be there. It says in'Keeping learners safe', which is the bible in terms of education professionals, that there's a responsibility on the professional to make that referral and for that universal service. So, the more specialist safeguarding leads within the schools, who have become highly skilled professionals in terms of understanding what might be significant harm—because that's what we're talking about—they understand the legalities when a referral needs to be made. There's always the collation of safeguarding information, where there might be just general concerns about neglect and other areas, which combined would create a picture that there might be significant neglect or significant harm to the child, and then that referral would be made to the child care assessment team or the police. So, that awareness—it needs to be clear for educational professionals that that duty to report is always there. If they believe that that significant harm has happened then that report then goes to the child care assessment team. They will make the judgment on the threshold because they are the professionals. They have the multi-agency awareness of how that meets the threshold. But in terms of education, it'll be that awareness, making sure that there's clarity. If there's anything that professionals need to be trained additionally on, it'll need to go into'Keeping learners safe', which at the moment is being rewritten. So, there would have to be some new possible information there relating to this. But as long as there's clarity, and once that implementation phase and the discussion has happened, as long as it's clear for professionals that the duty is always there and they feel a significant harm, then that report will always be there and will always need to be made. It's making sure—and I'll echo what my colleague said, Huw—that the services are key for families. Schools are absolutely fundamental in that support for the families. They have those relationships with the families. I know there was discussion around professional trust. On a daily basis, professionals are working on that trust with parents, because they are the ones that can engage with those families. The family support officers that are working on the ground with highly complex families, with multiple leads and supporting the children—they are fundamental, and investment in that level of support would also help our colleagues as well. So, anything that's preventative. That is already happening in schools and is effective, and is shown to be effective, and has an evidence base—we'd always support that that would continue to be invested in. So, that's really my answer.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay. And you were saying about how important trust is as well, but do you think that there's a risk that those in education settings will have a key role in referring more parents to social services, which some have said could cause potential harm to relationships and cause mistrust?", "speakerName": "Jayne Bryant AM" }, { "text": "I don't think it's a matter of mistrust—it's a matter of, you know, if a professional believes, based on the evidence that they have, because they're working with that child every day, that there is significant harm to that child, they are under a duty to report that to social care. So, part of the work is with families, and most of the referrals we make are with parental consent. That consent is a key element of this, and conversation with our social care colleagues is usually,'You need to speak to the parents again and have a conversation with them.' Some of the NFAs—the ones that don't get referred at threshold—it will come back to school for, possibly, some support from the family or a team around the family or some other aspect. So, I don't think—. The trust in the professionals—it's actually more important that we are seen to be upholding our duties under the all-Wales safeguarding procedures. That's what engenders trust in a professional workforce.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Jayne Bryant AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. We're going to move on now to some questions about the importance of awareness raising from Siân Gwenllian.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Good morning. In looking at your written evidence, you say that we must make it very clear to parents, guardians and the public that this legislation is not trying to criminalise parents, and that is clearly very important for you. How do you think we should do that and who should be doing that work?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think that's really broad. Obviously, colleagues in education, colleagues in social care, colleagues in preventative services, but also Welsh Government and the National Assembly, in terms of those drivers in relation to that awareness raising are really, really key. If you look at some of the other campaigns that have been run, notably in relation to violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence, and echoing some of those building campaigns that have been done to raise awareness—I think those would be really good models to begin to consider in terms of how this is taken forward with awareness. We also know that there are a number of routes that we can go through in terms of raising awareness. We have existing preventative services, we have all our universal services, we have the regional safeguarding boards and the national safeguarding boards. So, there are a number of avenues that we could then explore. In terms of not wishing to criminalise, I think if we look at the numbers, they are very, very small. And I think one of the things we need to hold on to in this is a sense of proportion about what is or isn't likely to happen once or if this Bill ever gets to the point of Royal Assent—they are small numbers who currently use this defence. It is about that wider issue of awareness raising, and using all of those avenues will help us to do that in the broadest sense.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Do you, therefore, believe that this needs to be on the face of the Bill? That is, you don't say this in your evidence. I'd like to know your opinion on that. Scotland is going to be making it a duty for Scottish Ministers to raise awareness of the impact of the Bill. So far, the Welsh Government says that we don't need to do that in Wales. Wouldn't it make it clearer for you if it was a clear duty on the face of the Bill, for example as it was with the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013? There was a duty in that Act for Ministers to promote transplantation. Surely, that awareness raising aspect would be clearer for everyone if it was on the face of the Bill. Do you have an opinion on that?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, Welsh Government have given that commitment, and I know the Welsh Government honour every commitment that they make—[Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "That's why I'm asking.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I don't know whether that is necessary—I'm not a legislator. I think that there's obviously an inherent interest in Welsh Government raising awareness, because we have to raise awareness effectively for this to be successful, otherwise we will have parents who feel that they're being criminalised, and that's the last thing we want. I think it's worthy of consideration, but, as I say, I'm not a legislator or a lawyer, so I don't know what implications that will have long term. But to be fair to Welsh Government, I think that commitment is one that I'm sure will be honoured, because Welsh Government will want to make a success of this Bill if it does receive Royal Assent.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Okay. But is it clear who would pay for all of that?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I've suddenly changed my mind—[Laughter.] I think it should be a duty on Welsh Government Ministers—absolutely. I don't need to check with lawyers or legislators. There we go. And that's the WLGA position; I don't need to ask the other 21 leaders on that either. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Wouldn't it make it clearer if there was a clear duty on the face of the Bill that awareness raising had to happen? It would be clearer, then, for local authorities and people in the front-line services what needs to happen.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I'm going to echo Huw. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "I thought you might. Okay, fine.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We're moving on now, then, to the contentious issue of resources and we've got some questions from Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Sally Jenkins, you said that the purpose of the Bill is to bring clarity and to remove what is a little-used defence. Isn't this an expensive way of doing that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't think so, no. I think that our children deserve the best legislation.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "But introducing this legislation diverts finances from other areas of children's services—or doesn't?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, I would say, no, I don't think it will divert resources from children's services. Firstly, going back to the comment made, I think, proportionally, this is a very small number of cases. It's a very small number of existing cases that go through in terms of prosecution, or consideration for prosecution. We know that it's likely, from some of the work that we've already done, that it's not opening floodgates for a sudden sea of referrals to children's services—that's not the way this is going to be, because the numbers are not out there because of the changes that have already happened in Welsh family life and Welsh society. So, I think as part of the implementation phase, we need to have a really clear understanding of the trajectory of those costs and what's likely to happen over the first six months, 12 months in terms of people's awareness and understanding and what is referred and how that's worked. But in terms of a huge number, no, I don't anticipate it being that.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "But the costs wouldn't just be directed to the number of referrals and the number of cases raised, it's the cost around that, with training of staff, awareness—all those extra additional costs that always come with legislation. Is it too much? Is it—?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No. And I agree with that—that there clearly are—but if you think, many of those things will be aligned with work we are already doing, but it brings a clarity to that work. So, our teachers, our social workers, our health workers, our police officers already get substantial training around child protection, around safeguarding, around adverse childhood experiences and around a trauma-informed approach to children. What this does is it layers a clarity on that. But rather than having a part of that training, which has to deal with this as an aspect—that is no longer there; it is a clear message for all professions.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "I fully appreciate that, and in the briefing note you've given us, you've outlined the pressures on social services. So, do you think this is another way of getting money into social services?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "If this was a way of getting money into—. I can think of better ways, but I don't think this is it. No, I mean, I absolutely do not think that. I think this is a clear commitment to the rights of children in Wales; this is not about levering additional resources into children's services. Oh that it was so simple.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. And, do you think those costs are quantifiable?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think we are currently looking at work and are doing work across my own local authority and across two others to look at breaking down those costs, not just for local authority, but also for health, for police and for Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service Cymru. So, there is work currently taking place to try to quantify those costs.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. I think there was a bit about local authorities that Siân—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Siân Gwenllian has got a question on resources.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just to carry on from that, in a way. The explanatory memorandum that accompanies the Bill talks about the unknown costs for different agencies. You mentioned there that you're doing work around trying to identify some of those costs, but wouldn't it be useful if the explanatory memorandum did explain more about any unknown or unidentified costs, partly in order to calm some of those fears around that? Giving a title'unidentified costs'—is that good enough?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think, clearly, that is a challenge, and that is work that we are participating in and are committed to completing with Welsh Government, to look at what those costs are.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "And then they can be added into this.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think this is where it would be helpful in the committee's deliberations and where our concern would be, because the reality is we're not going to know what the costs are until it's actually implemented, because we haven't implemented this before. And, therefore, I think there needs to be a commitment that, whatever the costs are, those costs are met because it is legislation that is being led by the National Assembly for Wales. And whilst we don't see it as levering in additional resources, we don't think it should be at the expense of current service provision to vulnerable families in Wales, and therefore it's important that it is properly and fully resourced.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "What I would argue on that is that you have to try and forecast. You say it's difficult to forecast how much this is going to cost, but we have to try and forecast that, and part of the argument for trying to have projections is to show that, perhaps, it's not going to cost that much, and that would add to the argument that,'Okay, this is going to be fine to do and it's not going to put too much pressure on us'. Or we need to know that this is going to cost a lot to do it effectively, and therefore you have to make your argument, then,'Well, we can't afford that, the money has to come from somewhere else.' We have to get the costs, surely.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and we will work very closely with Welsh Government to try and establish those costs as quickly as possible. There will be some costs that we will be able to identify. So, for example, a campaign, an awareness-raising campaign, the marketing, if you like, but some of the other costs will be more difficult to establish in terms of the resource implications for front-line workers. I expressed a view that we need to see some additional investment in some of those programmes that are not targeted directly at families that would be impacted by this but support all families across Wales that have different needs, and some of that provision is universal. Obviously, my view is the more we put into that, the better. So, there's no limit to that, but I suspect Welsh Government will take a very different view to that. But I think that is something where we need to see a commitment to some additional resources. But I don't put an upper limit on that, because I don't think there's an authority in Wales, and I don't think there's a charity, a police service or a health board in Wales that doesn't think that we need to do more of that and could offer more of that if the resources were available.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We've come to the end of our time, so can I thank you all for attending and for answering all of our questions? It's been a really useful and informative discussion. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting, but thank you again, all of you, for coming.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "And thank you for your questions and engagement. We welcome the opportunity.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, item 3 is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Minister for Housing and Local Government—additional information for our inquiry into school funding. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services on in-patient child and adolescent mental health services provision, and I would like to briefly return to that when we go into private. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Item 4, then: can I propose a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting? Are Members content? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "TS3005a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning. Sorry? Yeah, busy job. Good morning. So Oh, good morning everyone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd uh like to welcome you to our first meeting. I've prepared a little presentation. My name is and uh I hope you will introduce yourself uh in a few minutes, as will I. Um I'm the Project Manager of this project, and uh, well I will tell you on what actually is the project. This is uh the agenda for our first meeting. Um this is the opening, then we will get I will hope we will get acquainted to each other. We'll do a little tool training with these two things. We'll take a look at the project plan. Uh there will be time for discussion. Actually we have to discuss because we have to create a product. And then we will close this session. Um but first of all we I'd like to uh introduce you to this room. Um as you probably have noticed there are little black uh fields on the table. Um you have to put your laptop exactly in that field so the little cameras can see your face. Um there are cameras", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "everywhere around the room especially here for your face, of course, and this isn't a pie, it's a a set of microphones", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and there are microphones here also. But please uh don't be afraid of them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They won't hurt you. Um well uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I said I'm the Project Manager and uh I'm hoping uh for a good project and uh I'd like to hear uh who you are and what your functions are uh on this project. Let's start with the ladies.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh I'm uh and my uh function is User Interface Design, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh that's me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, uh I'm uh I'm the Industrial Designer and I uh hope to uh look forward to uh a very uh pleasing uh end of this uh project.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Me too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My name's. I'm uh Marketing Expert. My job is in the company to promote company or promote products to the customers. So I also h hope we have a pleasant uh working with uh with each other.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well we have some expertise from uh different pieces of the of the company.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's good. Um well I said uh we're working on a project and the aim for the project is to to create a to design a new remote control which uh has to be original, trendy and of course, user friendly. And uh I hope we have the expertise to create such a project such a product. Um the way we hope to achieve that is uh the following methods. It consists of three phases, namely the functional design, conceptual design and detailed design. As you can see, all of these phases consists of two parts, namely individual work part and a meeting where we will discuss uh our work so far. Okay. But first I will uh tell you something about the tools we have here. I already talked about the cameras and microphones, but they are not of uh much use to us. Uh we will have to take advantage of these two things. They are smart boards. As you can see, you can give a presentation on them. And uh this one here is a white board. I will uh instruct you about that soon. Um as you also noticed uh this presentation document is in our uh project folder and every document you put in this folder uh is uh it is possible to show that here in our meeting room. Um and yeah there are available on both smart boards but I think we will uh mainly use this one for the documents in the shared folder. As you can see, this is the same tool bar uh as is located here. Um the most functions uh we will use will be to to add a new page, um uh to go back and forward between pages, and of course uh to save it every now and then. Um and this is the pen with which you can draw on the board, for instance like this if everything's okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I first have to put it on the pen, you see I'm new to it too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and then you can write things like test or whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "As you can see you have to move it a little bit slow, it's not such a fast board, it's a smart board but also a slow board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh but you can write things and of course you can also, when you click here, uh erase things, so we have uh est left. And um you can also delete an entire page, but we ask you not to do that. Just simply create a new one and uh start all over because we want to save all the results. Um does everyone understand this", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can't erase anything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "nice application?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you can erase it with the eraser, but uh you shouldn't delete an entire page, but just create a new blank one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will delete this one now because we don't use it yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you can of course erase when you make a mistake, but don't uh delete entire pages. And you can also um let's see I think it's here uh change the uh colour of your pen, for instance take a blue one and uh change the line width like to five. Um that's what you will need for our first exercise, because I'm uh going to ask you to draw your favourite animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's also to gets to know each other because um I'm asking three things, uh for that uh drawing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to do it on a blank sheet, with different colours and I just showed you how to pick a colour, and also with different pen widths which I also showed you. Um and a favourite characteristic can be just uh one word. Well I'm not very good at drawing, but I will uh go first and um try to draw.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or maybe you should guess what I'm drawing, eh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a sheep..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Dinos", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seal, a seal..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Dinosaur.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beaver.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A beaver..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's weird..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "could be everything.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. With a tail and a mouth.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe when I put on", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has wings?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Turtle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this thing it could be a turtle, or a snail,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Snail..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well the snail doesn't have legs.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But a turtle has. And those are slow. And I hope our project group will not be slow,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we will uh work to a good result", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and do it uh as fast as we can. Okay, time for another animal. Would you like to go next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No problem. No problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. It was four months?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nice, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The hell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To make it a little bit easier..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a giraffe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Make that cute..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or a dinosaur..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's a giraffe.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's easy to r uh to recognise as a giraffe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Giraffe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the favourite charis characteristic is that the long neck, it can reach everything. And I hope I can also reach a lot with this project. So that's my favourite animal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anything else you need to know?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could you write the words, uh underneath it? Or more words.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tall..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tall. So,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should I uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I can draw, but uh Uh. Well. Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "B.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a mouse.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bunny rabbit..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A bunny rabbit..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh wrong one. Uh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can guess what it is, I hope..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. No problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Little rabbits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a rabbit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh well uh it's uh quick, I guess. That's uh my uh favourite animal..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And our final drawing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bob Ross.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A dolphin..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Dolphin.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I uh draw I I've drawn a dolphin because of its intelligence.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One of the most intelligent uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "animals in our world.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah intelligent.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With an E_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I've I've uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eraser.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can try out the eraser now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pen. Well not perfect, but okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thank you very much. I can see we have some uh drawing talent uh in this group,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh? Well, nice animals, nice words. Sounds good. Um back to business, back to the money part. Um from the finance department I have learned that we are aiming for a selling price of twenty five Euros. And we're hoping for a aim of fifty million Euros and uh we are hoping to achieve that uh by aiming for an international market. And the production cost will be twelve Euro fifty max. Okay, well it's time uh for some discussion. I've wrote down some examples here of what we can can speak about. Uh what's your experience with remote controls, um what kind of ideas do you have to design a new remote control, maybe for which market segments should we aim, or should we aim for all segments. Uh well actually I'd like to hand the word uh back to you. What's your experience with remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I always lose them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A lot of buttons. And you always lose them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A lot of buttons which you don't use", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or who you don't use", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Complex.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Complex.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not user friendly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "search for the buttons, which one is which", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Boring.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Boring, it's not fun to use a remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Black, all black.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Black colours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe we should try to make it fun.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They use batteries and batteries uh and poor signal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps that you have a lot of road remotes r road con remote controls.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the angle you have to use. You had different remote controls for different devices.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, different remote controls,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "perhaps you can integrate them or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh for the use of different uh devices.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your stereo and your T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh. Perhaps that's an idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but then again you you still have a lot of buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. And which you don't use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you could uh I thin uh there's a possibility to g uh to uh to put those buttons uh behind some uh kind of uh protection", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Flap", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that if y y you only get to see them when you need'em.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, okay, that's possible,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's possible, so that you only get the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it'll get very big the the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You should just give it to..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No n n no, just Uh for example you got th uh the same size uh remote control you use everyday, but um the usual buttons such as uh um zapping uh as you call it in Dutch. Uh and the volume control uh are only the only possible buttons uh to use directly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Changing channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or uh the numbers, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. numbers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh not uh the buttons used to search on the the channels on your television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On and off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You only use those uh the first time, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "play, pause, stop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. So maybe a a minimalist design, the least uh possible amount uh of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. But you should make sure that you have every button they need on it. Because uh things for uh teletext, I dunno uh, w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh teletext.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "what's the name?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you don't want to bother people with uh loads of buttons, but on the other hand they need many buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so they don't have to get out of their seat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because I think a market will be all kind of people. Elderly p el elderly, young people, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if if it's if it's international you should uh look in think in Britain they have uh different things they can do with the T_V_, or so uh that you can choose what you want to see. I dunno if you should uh take that in consideration, or that you just should aim for the normal T_V_s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I I understand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think that's the better one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the B_B_C_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because I think if you you're going to target a lot of people and the whole world and only Britain then I think the cost will uh rise higher than the twelve fifty, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, I don't know if the they have that anywhere else, though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the aim is better to use uh the whole world and Britain, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can leave that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When I think of it uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not that much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the main idea uh of this remote remote control is uh to make it user friendly. So uh I think uh when p uh when uh the customers will buy this remote control, they already have uh the remote control which uh companies uh uh with uh the the standards uh remote control with which comes uh with the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Standard deliver.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it only has to have uh the most used buttons. You don't have to integrate the buttons to search the channels on your television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In those in that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but then you have to to find your other remote control if you want to search.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, th it it's I think that's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but I but it is impossible to uh to accommodate uh accommodate uh all the buttons on the s on the difference different televisions sets on one remote control. It's impossible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because uh for example Sony television uh has the opportunity to s to make uh uh to make it possible for to see on one side of the screen uh teletext, and on the other side uh just n uh regular television. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think n m n most televisions nowadays do this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh they don't use the same signal, uh on remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well not everywhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think numerals.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because you can't use a Panasonic uh remote control on a on a Philips television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you have to choose the always with r universal remotes you have to choose the code.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can choose the code.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can use which which type of television you have. That's no problem. But I think like the two pages on the same screen, like teletext and normal television, that's that's nowadays standard, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh I think that most people uh th uh will buy the remote control because because uh the first they lost the one they lost first one", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simplicity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or the first one is broken,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh uh perhaps they have a got a an older television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that option is not uh optional for those uh people.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah g available.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the people have a new television,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and c if you look into the future, then they want will want the button, if their thing is broke.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we should take that in consideration.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "any more ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh mm, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Guess not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Things'll come up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah well we have some time. Let's see what more I have to tell you. I don't think there is much left. Nope. We're starting to close. Um our next meeting uh will start well we're a little bit early, but our next meeting will start in in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In the meantime uh there's time for some uh individual actions. Um, as you can see, the different roles have uh different tasks. And there's a ping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it my laptop?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Stop the meeting now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah meeting will close in five minutes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's good, five minutes and uh the meeting's over, uh right on schedule.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um the Marketing Expert will uh will take a look at the user requirement specification. The User Interface Designer will work out the technical functions design. And this was the Interface Designer? Or the Interaction Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or what was it, I_D_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Interface.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Interface Designer, okay, first guess was right. Uh will take a look at the the working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the Industrial Designer will take a look at the working design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the in uh usability interaction.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry. Let's just use the acronyms. Um and of course specific instructions uh will be sent to you uh through your personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So So I should look at uh what you should be able to do with the remote, or uh, or how I don't really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well those instructions will be uh in the email you will receive uh shortly, I hope..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Alright. Me too..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And of course you have your own uh expertise.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh that was what I had to say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh are there any more questions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No? Okay well I think then we have to head uh back to our offices and uh start working.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I have one question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, one question?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where does it says we have to make a remote, because I presumed She didn't know who. Okay, no, no problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No problem. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we're still going.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No problem. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I expect everything will be much clearer with the instructions we will receive uh shortly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay well uh see you all in about thirty minutes, then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alrighty. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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Two items, which was, uh, digits and possibly stuff on on, uh, forced alignment, which Jane said that Liz and Andreas had in information on,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but they didn't,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I guess the only other thing, uh, for which I.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "We should do that second, because Liz might join us in time for that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um. OK, so there's digits, alignments, and, um, I guess the other thing, which I came unprepared for, uh, is, uh, to dis s s see if there's anything anybody wants to discuss about the Saturday meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So. Any I mean, maybe not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Digits and alignments. But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Talk about aligning people's schedules.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean Right. Yeah, I mean, it was.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's forced alignment of people's schedules.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Forced align.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If we're very.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "With with whatever it was, a month and a half or something ahead of time, the only time we could find in common roughly in common, was on a Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ugh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's pretty sad.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Have Have we thought about having a conference call to include him in more of in more of the meeting? I I mean, I don't know, if we had the if we had the telephone on the table.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "No. But, h I mean, he probably has to go do something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, actually I I have to I have to shuttle kids from various places to various other places.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. And I don't have and I don't, um, have a cell phone", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "A cell phone?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so I can't be having a conference call while driving.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "R r right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. It's not good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So we have to we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's not good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Plus, it would make for interesting noise background noise.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So we have to equip him with a with a with a head - mounted, uh, cell phone", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye - we and we'd have to force you to read lots and lots of digits,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so it could get real real car noise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Take advantage.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And with the kids in the background.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'll let I'd let.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I let, uh, my five - year - old have a try at the digits, eh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, anyway, I can talk about digits. Um, did everyone get the results or shall I go over them again? I mean that it was basically the only thing that was even slightly surprising was that the lapel did so well. Um, and in retrospect that's not as surprising as maybe i it shouldn't have been as surprising as I as as I felt it was. The lapel mike is a very high - quality microphone. And as Morgan pointed out, that there are actually some advantages to it in terms of breath noises and clothes rustling if no one else is talking.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um, so, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, it's Yeah, sort of the bre the breath noises and the mouth clicks and so forth like that, the lapel's gonna be better on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's g it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Or the cross - talk. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The lapel is typically worse on the on clothes rustling, but if no one's rustling their clothes,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, a lot of people are just sort of leaning over and reading the digits,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "it's it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so it's it's a very different task than sort of the natural.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. You don't move much during reading digits, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Probably the fact that it picks up other people's speakers other people's talking is an indication of that it the fact it is a good microphone.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. So in the digits, in most most cases, there weren't other people talking.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "D do the lapel mikes have any directionality to them?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There typically don't, no.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because I I suppose you could make some that have sort of that you have to orient towards your mouth,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They have a little bit,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and then it would.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but they're not noise - cancelling. So, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "They're they're intended to be omni - directional.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And th it's and because you don't know how people are gonna put them on, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. So, also, Andreas, on that one the the back part of it should be right against your head. And that will he keep it from flopping aro up and down as much.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It is against my head.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. Yeah, we actually talked about this in the, uh, front - end meeting this morning, too. Much the same thing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and it was uh, I mean, there the point of interest to the group was primarily that, um, the, uh the system that we had that was based on H T K, that's used by, you know, all the participants in Aurora, was so much worse than the than the S R", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Everybody.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And the interesting thing is that even though, yes, it's a digits task and that's a relatively small number of words and there's a bunch of digits that you train on, it's just not as good as having a a l very large amount of data and training up a a a nice good big HMM. Um, also you had the adaptation in the SRI system, which we didn't have in this. Um. So. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we know Di - did I send you some results without adaptation?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I s I think Stephane, uh, had seen them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or if you did, I didn't include them, cuz it was.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think I did, actually. So there was a significant loss from not doing the adaptation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. A a a couple percent or some I mean Well, I don't know it Overall Uh, I I don't remember, but there was there was a significant, um, loss or win from adaptation with with adaptation. And, um, that was the phone - loop adaptation. And then there was a very small like point one percent on the natives uh, win from doing, um, you know, adaptation to the recognition hypotheses. And I tried both means adaptation and means and variances, and the variances added another or subtracted another point one percent. So, it's, um that's the number there. Point six, I believe, is what you get with both, uh, means and variance adaptation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But I think one thing is that, uh, I would presume Hav - Have you ever t Have you ever tried this exact same recognizer out on the actual TI - digits test set?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This exact same recognizer? No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It might be interesting to do that. Cuz my my cuz my sense, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But but, I have I mean, people people at SRI are actually working on digits.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I bet it would do even slightly better.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I could and they are using a system that's, um you know, h is actually trained on digits, um, but h h otherwise uses the same, you know, decoder, the same, uh, training methods, and so forth,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I could ask them what they get on TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, bu although I'd be I think it'd be interesting to just take this exact actual system so that these numbers were comparable", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and try it out on TI - digits.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, Adam knows how to run it,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. No problem.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so you just make a f", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Cuz our sense from the other from the Aurora, uh, task is that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And try it with TI - digits?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, cuz we were getting sub one percent numbers on TI - digits also with the tandem thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, one so there were a number of things we noted from this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "One is, yeah, the SRI system is a lot better than the HTK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "this, you know, very limited training HTK system.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, but the other is that, um, the digits recorded here in this room with these close mikes, i uh, are actually a lot harder than the studio - recording TI - digits. I think, you know, one reason for that, uh, might be that there's still even though it's close - talking, there still is some noise and some room acoustics.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And another might be that, uh, I'd I would presume that in the studio, uh, uh, situation recording read speech that if somebody did something a little funny or n pronounced something a little funny or made a little that they didn't include it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They didn't include it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they made them do it again.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Whereas, I took out the ones that I noticed that were blatant that were correctable.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So that, if someone just read the wrong digit, I corrected it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then there was another one where Jose couldn't tell whether I couldn't tell whether he was saying zero or six. And I asked him and he couldn't tell either.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad I" }, { "text": "So I just cut it out.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know, so I just e edited out the first, i uh, word of the utterance. Um, so there's a little bit of correction but it's definitely not as clean as TI - digits. So my expectations is TI - digits would, especially I think TI - digits is all American English.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right? So it would probably do even a little better still on the SRI system, but we could give it a try.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well. But remember, we're using a telephone bandwidth front - end here, uh, on this, uh on this SRI system, so, um, I was I thought that maybe that's actually a good thing because it it gets rid of some of the uh, the noises, um, you know, in the the below and above the um, the, you know, speech bandwidth", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and, um, I suspect that to get sort of the last bit out of these higher - quality recordings you would have to in fact, uh, use models that, uh, were trained on wider - band data. And of course we can't do that or.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Wha - what's TI - digits? I thought t", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's wide - band, yeah. It's in in fact, we looked it up", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It is wide - band. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and it was actually twenty kilohertz sampling.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, that's right. I I did look that up.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I couldn't remember whether that was TI - digits or one of the other digit tasks.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. But but, I would Yeah. It's it's easy enough to try, just run it on.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "See w", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, Morgan, you're getting a little breath noise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Now, eh, does.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You might wanna move the mike down a little bit.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "one one issue one issue with with that is that um, the system has this, uh, notion of a speaker to which is used in adaptation, variance norm uh, you know, both in, uh, mean and variance normalization and also in the VTL estimation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I noticed the script that extracted it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Do y? Is? So does so th so does does, um, the TI - digits database have speakers that are known?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And is there is there enough data or a comparable comparable amount of data to to what we have in our recordings here?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how many speakers there are,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and and how many speakers per utterance.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, the other thing would be to do it without the adaptation and compare to these numbers without the adaptation. That would.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Uh, but I'm not so much worried about the adaptation, actually, than than the, um, um the, uh, VTL estimation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If you have only one utterance per speaker you might actually screw up on estimating the the warping, uh, factor. So, um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I strongly suspect that they have more speakers than we do. So, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. But it's not the amount of speakers, it's the num it's the amount of data per speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. So we we could probably do an extraction that was roughly equivalent.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, although I I sort of know how to run it, there are a little a f few details here and there that I'll have to dig out.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. The key So th the system actually extracts the speaker ID from the waveform names.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. I saw that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And there's a there's a script and that is actually all in one script. So there's this one script that parses waveform names and extracts things like the, um, speaker, uh, ID or something that can stand in as a speaker ID. So, we might have to modify that script to recognize the, um, speakers, um, in the in the, uh, um, TI - digits database.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. Right. And that, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Or you can fake you can fake names for these waveforms that resemble the names that we use here for the for the meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That would be the, sort of probably the safest way to do.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I might have to do that anyway to to do because we may have to do an extract to get the amount of data per speaker about right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The other thing is, isn't TI - digits isolated digits?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Or is that another one? I'm I looked through a bunch of the digits t corp corpora, and now they're all blurring.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cuz one of them was literally people reading a single digit. And then others were connected digits.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Most of TI - digits is connected digits, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The I mean, we had a Bellcore corpus that we were using. It was that's that was isolated digits.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe it's the Bell Gram. Bell Digits. Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "By the way, I think we can improve these numbers if we care to compr improve them by, um, not starting with the Switchboard models but by taking the Switchboard models and doing supervised adaptation on a small amount of digit data collected in this setting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Because that would adapt your models to the room acoustics and f for the far - field microphones, you know, to the noise. And that should really improve things, um, further. And then you use those adapted models, which are not speaker adapted but sort of acous you know, channel adapted.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Channel adapted.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "use that as the starting models for your speaker adaptation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. But the thing is, uh I mean, w when you it depends whether you're ju were just using this as a a starter task for you know, to get things going for conversational or if we're really interested i in connected digits. And I I think the answer is both. And for for connected digits over the telephone you don't actually want to put a whole lot of effort into adaptation", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "because somebody gets on the phone and says a number and then you just want it. You don't don't, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is this that one's better.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Um, but, you know, I uh, my impression was that you were actually interested in the far - field microphone, uh, problem, I mean. So, you want to you want to That's the obvious thing to try.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right? Then, eh because you you don't have any.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "That's where the most m acoustic mismatch is between the currently used models and the the r the set up here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that'd be anoth another interesting data point.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, I I guess I'm saying I don't know if we'd want to do that as the as.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Other way.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Other way. Liz.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Now you're all watching me.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It f it clips over your ears.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Alright. This way.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If you have a strong fe if you have a strong preference, you could use this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "You're all watching. This is terrible.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's just we we think it has some spikes. So, uh, we we didn't use that one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I'll get it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But you could if you want.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. At any rate, I don't know if w", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know. And Andre - Andreas, your your microphone's a little bit low.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It is?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't know if we wanna use that as the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Uh, it pivots.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So if you see the picture", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "It it like this.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I I.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and then you have to scr", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I I already adjusted this a number of times.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Eh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I I", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think these mikes are not working as well as I would like.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "can't quite seem to Yeah, I think this contraption around your head is not working so well.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Too many adju too many adjustments. Yeah. Anyway, what I was saying is that I I think I probably wouldn't want to see that as sort of like the norm, that we compared all things to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That looks good. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "To, uh, the to have have all this ad all this, uh, adaptation. But I think it's an important data point, if you're if Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. The other thing that that, uh of course, what Barry was looking at was was just that, the near versus far. And, yeah, the adaptation would get th some of that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, I think even even if there was, uh, only a factor of two or something, like I was saying in the email, I think that's that's a big factor. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Liz, you could also just use the other mike if you're having problems with that one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. This would be OK. We we we think that this has spikes on it,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "It's this thing's This is too big for my head.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so it's not as good acoustically,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, basically your ears are too big.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I mean, mine are too. E th everybody's ears are too big for these things.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No, my my But this is too big for my head. So, I mean, it doesn't you know, it's sit", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, if you'd rather have this one then it's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So the To get that, uh, pivoted this way, it pivots like this.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No this way. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. There you go.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And there's a screw that you can tighten.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And then it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I already tried to get it close.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So if it doesn't bounce around too much, that's actually good placement.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That looks good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But it looks like it's gonna bounce a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, where were we? Uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Digits. Adaptation.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh, adaptation, non - adaptation, um, factor of two, um Oh, yeah. I know what I was go w", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What k u By the way, wh what factor of two did you?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, no, no.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's tha that that we were saying, you know, well is how much worse is far than near, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, th OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And I mean it depends on which one you're looking at,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That factor of two.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but for the everybody, it's little under a factor or two.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I know what I was thinking was that maybe, uh, i i we could actually t t try at least looking at, uh, some of the the large vocabulary speech from a far microphone, at least from the good one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, before I thought we'd get, you know, a hundred and fifty percent error or something, but if if, uh if we're getting thirty - five, forty percent or something, u um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Actually if you run, though, on a close - talking mike over the whole meeting, during all those silences, you get, like, four hundred percent word error.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right. I understand. But doing the same kind of limited thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or or some high number.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. Get all these insertions. But I'm saying if you do the same kind of limited thing as people have done in Switchboard evaluations or as a", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Where you know who the speaker is and there's no overlap? And you do just the far - field for those regions?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. The same sort of numbers that we got those graphs from. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Could we do exactly the same thing that we're doing now, but do it with a far - field mike?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, do it with one of on", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cuz we extract the times from the near - field mike, but you use the acoustics from the far - field mike.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. I understand that. I just meant that so you have three choices. There's, um You can use times where that person is talking only from the transcripts but the segmentations were were synchronized. Or you can do a forced alignment on the close - talking to determine that, the you know, within this segment, these really were the times that this person was talking and elsewhere in the segment other people are overlapping and just front - end those pieces. Or you can run it on the whole data, which is which is, you know, a.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but but how did we get the how did we determine the links, uh, that we're testing on in the stuff we reported?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "In the H L T paper we took segments that are channel time - aligned, which is now h being changed in the transcription process, which is good, and we took cases where the transcribers said there was only one person talking here, because no one else had time any words in that segment and called that \" non - overlap \".", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And tha And that's what we were getting those numbers from.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes. Tho - good the good numbers.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The bad numbers were from the segments where there was overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, we could start with the good ones.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But anyway so I think that we should try it once with the same conditions that were used to create those, and in those same segments just use one of the P Z", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. So we we can do that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then, you know, I mean, the thing is if we were getting, uh what, thirty - five, forty percent, something like that on on that particular set, uh, does it go to seventy or eighty?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or, does it use up so much memory we can't decode it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It might also depend on which speaker th it is and how close they are to the PZM?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know how different they are from each other.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You want to probably choose the PZM channel that is closest to the speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "To be best.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "For this particular digit ones, I just picked that one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "f", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So we would then use that one, too,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is kind of central.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, it's so i but I would I'd pick that one. It'll be less good for some people than for other, but I I'd like to see it on the same exact same data set that that we did the other thing on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Actually I sh actually should've picked a different one,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because that could be why the PDA is worse. Because it's further away from most of the people reading digits.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's further away. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's probably one of the reasons.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. You could look at, I guess, that PZM or something.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But the other is, it's very, uh I mean, even though there's I'm sure the f f the the SRI, uh, front - end has some kind of pre - emphasis, it's it's, uh still, th it's picking up lots of low - frequency energy.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, even discriminating against it, I'm sure some of it's getting through. Um. But, yeah, you're right. Prob - a part of it is just the distance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And aren't these pretty bad microphones?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, they're bad. But, I mean, if you listen to it, it sounds OK. You know? u Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. When you listen to it, uh, the PZM and the PDA Yeah, th the PDA has higher sound floor but not by a lot. It's really pretty uh, pretty much the same.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I just remember you saying you got them to be cheap on purpose. Cheap in terms of their quality. So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, they're twenty - five cents or so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Th - we wanted them to be to be typical of what would be in a PDA.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So they are they're not the PZM three hundred dollar type. They're the twenty - five cent,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "buy them in packs of thousand type.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, I mean, the thing is people use those little mikes for everything because they're really not bad.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Everything.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, if you're not doing something ridiculous like feeding it to a speech recognizer, they they they you know, you can hear the sou hear the sounds just fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, it's They I mean, i it's more or less the same principles as these other mikes are built under, it's just that there's less quality control. They just, you know, churn them out and don't check them. Um. So. So that was Yeah. So that was i interesting result. So like I said, the front - end guys are very much interested in in this is as as well and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So so, but where is this now? I mean, what's where do we go from here?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was gonna be my question.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean, we so we have a we have a a system that works pretty well but it's not, you know, the system that people here are used to using to working with.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, I think what we wanna do is we want to eh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what what do we do now?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and we've talked about this in other contexts we want to have the ability to feed it different features.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And then, um, from the point of view of the front - end research, it would be s uh, substituting for HTK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think that's the key thing. And then if we can feed it different features, then we can try all the different things that we're trying there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And then, um, uh, also Dave is is thinking about using the data in different ways, uh, to um, uh, explicitly work on reverberation", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "starting with some techniques that some other people have found somewhat useful, and Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So so the key thing that's missing here is basically the ability to feed, you know, other features i into the recognizer", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and also then to train the system.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. And, uh, es I don't know when Chuck will be back but that's exactly what he he's gonna.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "H h He's he's sort of back, but he drove for fourteen hours an and wasn't gonna make it in today.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So, I think that's one of the things that he said he would be working on. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Just sort of t to make sure that we can do that", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's uh, I mean, the the front - end is f i tha that's in the SRI recognizer is very nice in that it does a lot of things on the fly but it unfortunately is not designed and, um like the, uh, ICSI system is, where you can feed it from a pipeline of of the command. So, the what that means probably for the foreseeable future is that you have to, uh, dump out, um you know, if you want to use some new features, you have to dump them into individual files and give those files to the recognizer.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We do we tend to do that anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh. So, although you you can pipe it as well, we tend to do it that way because that way you can concentrate on one block and not keep re - doing it over and over.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I've I.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So tha that's exactly what the P - file is for.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, the the the cumbersome thing is is, um is that you actually have to dump out little little files.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So for each segment that you want to recognize you have to dump out a separate file.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Just like i th like th as if there were these waveform segments, but instead you have sort of feature file segments. But, you know So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cool. OK. So the s the the next thing we had on the agenda was something about alignments?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Yes, we have I don't know, did you wanna talk about it, or? I can give a I was just telling this to Jane and and W we we were able to get some definite improvement on the forced alignments by looking at them first and then realizing the kinds of errors that were occurring and um, some of the errors occurring very frequently are just things like the first word being moved to as early as possible in the recognition, which is a um, I think was both a a pruning problem and possibly a problem with needing constraints on word locations. And so we tried both of these st things. We tried saying I don't know, I got this whacky idea that just from looking at the data, that when people talk their words are usually chunked together. It's not that they say one word and then there's a bunch of words together. They're might say one word and then another word far away if they were doing just backchannels? But in general, if there's, like, five or six words and one word's far away from it, that's probably wrong on average. So, um And then also, ca the pruning, of course, was too too severe.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that's actually interesting. The pruning was the same value that we used for recognition. And we had lowered that we had used tighter pruning after Liz ran some experiments showing that, you know, it runs slower and there's no real difference in.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Actually it was better with slightly better or about th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No gain.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "it was the same with tighter pruning.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. So for free recognition, this the lower pruning value is better.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's probably cuz the recognition's just bad en at a point where it's bad enough that that you don't lose anything.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You Correct. Right. Um, but it turned out for for to get accurate alignments it was really important to open up the pruning significantly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um because otherwise it would sort of do greedy alignment, um, in regions where there was no real speech yet from the foreground speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, so that was one big factor that helped improve things and then the other thing was that, you know, as Liz said the we f enforce the fact that, uh, the foreground speech has to be continuous. It cannot be you cannot have a background speech hypothesis in the middle of the foreground speech. You can only have background speech at the beginning and the end.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, yeah, it isn't always true, and I think what we really want is some clever way to do this, where, um, you know, from the data or from maybe some hand - corrected alignments from transcribers that things like words that do occur just by themselves a alone, like backchannels or something that we did allow to have background speech around it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "those would be able to do that,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "but the rest would be constrained. So, I think we have a version that's pretty good for the native speakers. I don't know yet about the non - native speakers. And, um, we basically also made noise models for the different sort of grouped some of the mouth noises together. Um, so, and then there's a background speech model. And we also There was some neat or, interesting cases, like there's one meeting where, um, Jose's giving a presentation and he's talking about, um, the word \" mixed signal \" and someone didn't understand, uh, that you were saying \" mixed \" I think, Morgan. And so your speech - ch was s saying something about mixed signal.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And the next turn was a lot of people saying \" mixed \", like \" he means mixed signal \" or \" I think it's mixed \". And the word \" mixed \" in this segment occurs, like, a bunch of times.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sh", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And Chuck's on the lapel here, and he also says \" mixed \" but it's at the last one, and of course the aligner th aligns it everywhere else to everybody else's \" mixed \",", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "cuz there's no adaptation yet. So there's I think there's some issues about u We probably want to adapt at least the foreground speaker. But, I guess Andreas tried adapting both the foreground and a background generic speaker, and that's actually a little bit of a f funky model. Like, it gives you some weird alignments, just because often the background speakers match better to the foreground than the foreground speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So there's some things there,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "especially when you get lots of the same words, uh, occurring in the.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, the I I think you can do better by uh, cloning so we have a reject phone. And you and what we wanted to try with you know, once we have this paper written and have a little more time, uh, t cloning that reject model and then one copy of it would be adapted to the foreground speaker to capture the rejects in the foreground, like fragments and stuff, and the other copy would be adapted to the background speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, in general we actually.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right now the words like partial words are reject models and you normally allow those to match to any word.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But then the background speech was also a reject model, and so this constraint of not allowing rejects in between you know, it needs to differentiate between the two. So just sort of working through a bunch of debugging kinds of issues.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And another one is turns, like people starting with \" well I think \" and someone else is \" well how about \". So the word \" well \" is in this in this segment multiple times, and as soon as it occurs usually the aligner will try to align it to the first person who says it. But then that constraint of sort of uh, proximity constraint will push it over to the person who really said it in general.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is the proximity constraint a hard constraint, or did you do some sort of probabilistic weighting distance, or?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "We we didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right now it's a kluge.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No. We w OK. We it's straightforward to actually just have a a penalty that doesn't completely disallows it but discourages it. But, um, we just didn't have time to play with, you know, tuning yet another yet another parameter.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The ve level. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And really the reason we can't do it is just that we don't have a we don't have ground truth for these. So, we would need a hand - marked, um, word - level alignments or at least sort of the boundaries of the speech betw you know, between the speakers. Um, and then use that as a reference and tune the parameters of the of the model, uh, to op to get the best performance.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "G given I I mean, I wa I wa I was gonna ask you anyway, uh, how you assessed that things were better.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I looked at them. I spent two days um, in Waves.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, it was painful because the thing is, you know the alignments share a lot in common, so And you're yo you're looking at these segments where there's a lot of speech. I mean, a lot of them have a lot of words. Not by every speaker", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but by some speaker there's a lot of words. No, not.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean that if you look at the individual segments from just one person you don't see a lot of words,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Ju", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but altogether you'll see a lot of words up there.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so the reject is also mapping and pauses So I looked at them all in Waves and just lined up all the alignments, and, at first it sort of looked like a mess and then the more I looked at it, I thought \" OK, well it's moving these words leftward and \" You know, it wasn't that bad. It was just doing certain things wrong. So But, I don't, you know, have time to l to look at all of them and it would be really useful to have, like, a a transcriber who could use Waves, um, just mark, like, the beginning and end of the foreground speaker's real words like, the beginning of the first word, the end of the last word and then we could, you know, do some adjustments.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I OK. I have to ask you something, is i does it have to be Waves? Because if we could benefit from what you did, incorporate that into the present transcripts, that would help.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And then, um, the other thing is, I believe that I did hand So. One of these transcripts was gone over by a transcriber and then I hand - marked it myself so that we do have, uh, the beginning and ending of individual utterances. Um, I didn't do it word level,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but but in terms.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So I so for for one of the N S A groups. And also I went back to the original one that I first transcribed and and did it w uh, w uh, utterance by utterance for that particular one. So I think you do have if that's a sufficient unit, I think that you do have hand - marking for that. But it'd be wonderful to be able to benefit from your Waves stuff.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We don't care what what tool you use.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, if if you can, um if you wanna.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. I used it in Transcriber", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "U uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and it's it's in the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "well, Jane and I were just in terms of the tool, talking about this. I guess Sue had had some reactions. You know, interface - wise if you're looking at speech, you wanna be able to know really where the words are. And so, we can give you some examples of sort of what this output looks like,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Middle of the word, or.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "um, and see if you can in maybe incorporate it into the Transcriber tool some way, or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I th I'm thinking just ch e e incorporating it into the representation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, if it's if it's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "You mean like Yeah, word start insights.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "if you have start points, if you have, like, time tags,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which is what I assume. Isn't that what what you? Well, see, Adam would be.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, whatever you use.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, we convert it to this format that the, um, NIST scoring tool unders uh, CTM. Conversation Time - Marked file. And and then that's the that's what the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think Transcriber, uh, outputs CTM.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If it? OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So you would know this more than I would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It seems like she if she's g if she's moving time marks around,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "since our representation in Transcriber uses time marks, it seems like there should be some way of of using that benefitting from that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it wou the advantage would just be that when you brought up a bin you would be able if you were zoomed in enough in Transcriber to see all the words,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you would be able to, like, have the words sort of located in time, if you wanted to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So so if we e e even just had a a It sounds like w we we almost do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, if we We have two.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We have two.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just ha uh, trying out the alignment procedure that you have on that", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you could actually get something, um uh, uh, get an objective measure. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You mean on on the hand - marked, um So we we only r hav I only looked at actually alignments from one meeting that we chose,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think MR four, just randomly, um And.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Actually, not randomly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Not randomly.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We knew we knew that it had these insertion errors from.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It had sort of average recognition performance in a bunch of speakers", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and it was a Meeting Recorder meeting. Um. But, yeah, we should try to use what you have. I did re - run recognition on your new version of MR one.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I I mean the the one with Dan Ellis in it and Eric.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Good! Uh - huh. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I don't think that was the new version.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um That Yeah, actually it wasn't the new new, it was the medium new.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But but we would we should do the the latest version.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It was the one from last week.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You did you adjust the the utterance times, um, for each channel?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes, I did. And furthermore, I found that there were a certain number where not not a lot, but several times I actually moved an utterance from Adam's channel to Dan's or from Dan's to Adam's. So there was some speaker identif And the reason was because I transcribed that at a point before uh, before we had the multiple audio available f so I couldn't switch between the audio. I I transcribed it off of the mixed channel entirely, which meant in overlaps, I was at a at a terrific disadvantage.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In addition it was before the channelized, uh, possibility was there. And finally I did it using the speakers of my, um of you know, off the CPU on my on my machine cuz I didn't have a headphone.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it @ @, like, I mean Yeah, I I mean, i in retrospect it would've been good to ha have got I should've gotten a headphone. But in any case, um, thi this is this was transcribed in a in a, uh, less optimal way than than the ones that came after it, and I was able to you know, an and this meant that there were some speaker identif identifications which were changes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well, I know there were some speaker labelling problems, um, after interruptions.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Fixed that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Is that what you're referring to? I mean, cuz there's this one instance when, for example, you're running down the stairs.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I remember this meeting really well.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Don Don has had He knows he can just read it like a play.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. It's a Yeah, I've I've I'm very well acquainted with this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I can s", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" And then she said, and then he said. \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know it by heart. So, um, there's one point when you're running down the stairs.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh - oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right? And, like, there's an interruption. You interrupt somebody, but then there's no line after that. For example, there's no speaker identification after that line.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Is that what you're talking about? Or were there mislabellings as far as, like, the a Adam was?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That was fixed, um, before i i i I think I I think I understood that pretty.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz I thought I let you know about that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Thank you for mentioning. Yeah, no, tha that That I think went away a couple of versions ago,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but it's good to know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But you're actually saying that certain, uh, speakers were mis mis - identified.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, with under um, uh, listening to the mixed channel, there were times when, as surprising as that is, I got Adam's voice confused with Dan's and vice versa.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "not for long utterances,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but jus just a couple of places,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and embedde embedded in overlaps. The other thing that was w interesting to me was that I picked up a lot of, um, backchannels which were hidden in the mixed signal,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which, you know, I mean, you c not not too surprising. But the other thing that I I hadn't thought about this, but I thou I wanted to raise this when you were uh, with respect to also a strategy which might help with the alignments potentially, but that's When I was looking at these backchannels, they were turning up usually very often in w well, I won't say \" usually \" but anyway, very often, I picked them up in a channel w which was the person who had asked a question. S so, like, someone says \" an and have you done the so - and - so? \" And then there would be backchannels, but it would be the person who asked the question. Other people weren't really doing much backchannelling. And, you know, sometimes you have the Yeah, uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well, that's interesting. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, i it wouldn't be perfect, but but it does seem more natural to give a backchannel when when you're somehow involved in the topic,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "No, that's really interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and the most natural way is for you to have initiated the topic by asking a question.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think No. I think it's actually I think what's going on is backchannelling is something that happens in two - party conversations.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And if you ask someone a question, you essentially initiating a little two - party conversation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well, actu Yeah, when we looked at this.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So then you're so and then you're expected to backchannel because the person is addressing you directly and not everybody.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Exactly. Exactly my point. An - and so this is the expectation thing that uh, uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "just the dyadic.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But in addition, you know, if someone has done this analysis himself and isn't involved in the dyad, but they might also give backchannels to verify what what the answer is that this that the the answerer's given.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "H", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I tell you, I say I say \" uh - huh \" a lot,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well, but it's interesting cuz, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "while people are talking to each other.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But there are fewer I think there are fewer \" uh - huhs \".", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There you go. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I mean, just from We were looking at word frequency lists to try to find the cases that we would allow to have the reject words in between in doing the alignment. You know the ones we wouldn't constrain to be next to the other words.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And \" uh - huh \" is not as frequent as it sort of would be in Switchboard, if you looked at just a word frequency list of one - word short utterances. And \" yeah \" is way up there, but not \" uh - huh \". And so I was thinking thi it's not like you're being encouraged by everybody else to keep talking in the meeting. And uh, that's all, I I'll stop there, cuz I I think what you say makes a lot of sense.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, that's right. And that would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But it was sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, an And what you say is the is the re uh, o other side of this, which is that, you know, so th there are lots of channels where you don't have these backchannels, w when a question has been asked and and these.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right. There's just probably less backchannelling in general,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So that's good news, really.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "even if you consider every other person altogether one person in the meeting, but we'll find out anyway. We were I guess the other thing we're we're I should say is that we're gonna, um try compare this type of overlap analysis to Switchboard, where.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and CallHome, where we have both sides, so that we can try to answer this question of, you know, is there really more overlap in meetings or is it just because we don't have the other channel in Switchboard", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we don't know what people are doing. Try to create a paper out of that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, y y you folks have probably already told me, but were were you intending to do a Eurospeech submission, or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, you mean the one due tomorrow?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we're still, like, writing the scripts for doing the research, and we will Yes, we're gonna try.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And I was telling Don, do not take this as an example of how people should work.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Do as I say,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's r", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So, we will try.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "don't do as I do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It'll probably be a little late,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but I'm gonna try it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It is different. In previous years, Eurospeech only had the abstract due by now, not the full paper.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And so all our timing was off. I've given up on trying to do digits. I just don't think that what I have so far makes a Eurospeech paper.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I'm no We may be in the same position, and I figured we'll try, because that'll at least get us to the point where we have We have this really nice database format that Andreas and I were working out that It it's not very fancy. It's just a ASCII line by line format, but it does give you information.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's the it's the spurt format.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It Yeah, we're calling these \" spurts \" after Chafe. I was trying to find what's a word for a continuous region with pauses around it?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I know that th the Telecom people use use \" spurt \" for that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "They do? Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's I mean, I I was using that for a while when I was doing the rate of speech stuff,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I would jus", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because I because I looked up in some books and I found OK, I wanna find a spurt in which.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ah, right! It's just, like, defined by the acoustics.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and an because cuz it's another question about how many pauses they put in between them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Horrible.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But how fast do they do the words within the spurt?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, that's what we were calling spurt,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know \" Burst \" also?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Burst.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Isn't \" burst \" is used also?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Spurt has the horrible name overloading with other with hardware at ICSI.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Here. Just very locally, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, well, Chafe had this wor I think it was Chafe, or somebody had a the word \" spurt \" originally,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but that just.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Here @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "and so I But tha that's good to know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Actually.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Was thi it's Chafe?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, see, I know S Sue wrote about spurts of development.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So maybe we should talk.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe it was Sue? Y", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, in any case, I think it's a good term,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So we have spurts and we have spurt - ify dot shell and spurt - ify", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and, uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And ma maybe maybe Chafe did.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And then it's got all it's a verb now.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I know I know Ch - Chafe dealt with.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So s", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's cool.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "W uh, w", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Chafe speaks about intonation units.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yes. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But maybe he speaks about spurts as well", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "We", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and I just don't know. Yeah, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I've heard \" burst \" also.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So what we're doing uh, this this is just maybe someone has s some some ideas about how to do it better,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but we So we're taking these, uh, alignments from the individual channels. We're from each alignment we're producing, uh, one of these CTM files,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "which essentially has it's just a linear sequence of words with the begin times for every word and the duration.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It looks like a Waves label file almost. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and and of course.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's just.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. But it has one the first column has the meeting name, so it could actually contain several meetings. Um. And the second column is the channel. Third column is the, um, start times of the words and the fourth column is the duration of the words. And then we're, um OK. Then we have a messy alignment process where we actually insert into the sequence of words the, uh, tags for, like, where where sentence ends of sentence, question marks, um, various other things.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. These are things that we had Don.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, Don sort of, um, propagated the punctuation from the original transcriber.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so whether it was, like, question mark or period or, um, you know, comma and things like that, and we kept the and disfluency dashes uh, kept those in because we sort of wanna know where those are relative to the spurt overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "sp overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So so those are actually sort of retro - fitted into the time alignment.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then we merge all the alignments from the various channels and we sort them by time. And then there's a then there's a process where you now determine the spurts. That is Actually, no, you do that before you merge the various channels. So you you id identify by some criterion, which is pause length you identify the beginnings and ends of these spurts, and you put another set of tags in there to keep those straight.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then you merge everything in terms of, you know, linearizing the sequence based on the time marks. And then you extract the individual channels again, but this time you know where the other people start and end talking you know, where their spurts start and end. And so you extract the individual channels, uh, one sp spurt by spurt as it were. Um, and inside the words or between the words you now have begin and end tags for overlaps. So, you you basically have everything sort of lined up and in a form where you can look at the individual speakers and how their speech relates to the other speakers' speech.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, I think that's actually really u useful also", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "because even if you weren't studying overlaps, if you wanna get a transcription for the far - field mikes, how are you gonna know which words from which speakers occurred at which times relative to each other? You have to be able to get a transcript like like this anyway, just for doing far - field recognition. So, you know, it's it's sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I thi it's just an issue we haven't dealt with before, how you time - align things that are overlapping anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, i I never thought about it before,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and we.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Y yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "In.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, s when I came up with the original data suggested data format based on the transcription graph, there's capability of doing that sort of thing in there.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. But you can't get it directly from the transcription.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right. Well, this is this is just.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is like a poor man's ver formatting version. But it's, you know It's clean, it's just not fancy.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, there's lots of little things. It's like there're twelve different scripts which you run and then at the end you have what you want. But, um, at the very last stage we throw away the actual time information. All we care about is whether that there's a certain word was overlapped by someone else's word. So you sort of at that point, you discretize things into just having overlap or no overlap. Because we figure that's about the level of analysis that we want to do for this paper.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But if you wanted to do a more fine - grained analysis and say, you know, how far into the word is the overlap, you could do that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's just it'll just require more.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Just sort of huge.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you know, slightly different.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What's interesting is it's exactly what, um, i in discussing with, um, Sue about this,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um, she, um, i i i indicated that that you know, that's very important for overlap analysis.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's nice to know,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and also I think as a human, like, I don't always hear these in the actual order that they occur. So I can have two foreground speakers, you know, Morgan an and um, Adam and Jane could all be talking, and I could align each of them to be starting their utterance at the correct time, and then look where they are relative to each other, and that's not really what I heard.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's another thing she said.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Cuz it's just hard to do.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is This is Bever's Bever's effect,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Y Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "when where In psy ps psycho - linguistics you have these experiments where people have perceptual biases a as to what they hear,", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "It's sort of Yeah, you sort of move things around until you get to a low information point", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that that Not the best.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "and yo then you can bring in the other person. So it's actually not even possible, I think, for any person to listen to a mixed signal, even equalize, and make sure that they have all the words in the right order. So, I guess, we'll try to write this Eurospeech paper.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Superb.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I mean, we will write it. Whether they accept it late or not, I don't know. Um, and the good thing is that we have It's sort of a beginning of what Don can use to link the prosodic features from each file to each other.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's the good thing about these pape", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. i You know, might as well.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Plus, mayb", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "We - I ju Otherwise we won't get the work done on our deadline.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know, m", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, u u Jane likes to look at data. Maybe, you know, you could you could look at this format and see if you find anything interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, it's that's the good thing about these pape paper deadlines and, uh, you know, class projects, and and things like that,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, what I'm thinking is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, my.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well th th the other thing that that that yo that you usually don't tell your graduate students is that these deadlines are actually not that, um, you know, strictly enforced,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "because you you really get g", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Forces you to do the work.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Strict.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "because the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, now it's out in the public, this this this secret information.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think we can ha", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "bec b Nah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "i Because these the conference organizers actually have an interest in getting lots of submissions.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean, a a monetary interest.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So Um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Th - that's that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And good ones, good ones, which sometimes means a little extra time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And good submission", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well That's another issue,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "By th by the way, this is totally unfair, you may you may feel,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but the the, uh the morning meeting folks actually have an an extra month or so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep. The Aurora there's a special Aurora.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "When.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's a special Aurora session", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and the Aurora pe people involved in Aurora have till Ma - uh, early May or something to turn in their paper.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, well maybe we'll submit to s Actually.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, then you can just Maybe you can submit the digits paper on e for the Aurora session.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I could!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I if it w", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I could submit that to Aurora.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be pretty pretty.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "i it has.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "S That wouldn't work.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, it wouldn't work.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's not Aurora.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's it's not the Aurora I mean, it it's it's actually the Aurora task.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe they'll get s", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Aurora's very specific.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, maybe it won't be after this deadline extension.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but the people I mean, a a paper that is not on Aurora would probably be more interesting at that point", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe they'll.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because everybody's so sick and tired of the Aurora task.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought you meant this was just the digits section. I didn't know you meant it was Aurora digits.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, no. If you if you have it's to if you discuss some relation to the Aurora task, like if you use the same.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is not the Aurora task. So they just do a little grep for.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do uh, d d Do not do not we are not setting a good example.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. Well, a relation other than negation, maybe,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is not a.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But the good thing is this does.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I I don't know. I mean, you could you could do a paper on what's wrong with the Aurora task by comparing it to other ways of doing it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "How well does an Aurora system do on on you know, on digits collected in a in this environment?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Different way. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Pretty hokey.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think it's a littl little far - fetched. Nah, I mean, the thing is Aurora's pretty closed community.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, the people who were involved in the the only people who are allowed to test on that are people who who made it above a certain threshold in the first round,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's very specific.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh w in ninety - nine and it's it's sort of a it's not like a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, that's maybe why they don't f know that they have a crummy system. I mean, a crummy back - end. No, I mean I mean, seriously, if you if you have a very No, I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, \" beep \" \" bee \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, th", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No. I didn't mean anybody any particular system. I meant this H T K back - end.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, you don't like HTK?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If they.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I don't h I don't have any stock in HTK or Entropic or anything.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. I mean, this it it's the HTK that is trained on a very limited amount of data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's d it's very specific.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But so, if you But maybe you should, you know, consider more using more data, or I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I I really think that that's true. And they i i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If yo if you sort of hermetically stay within one task and don't look left and right, then you're gonna.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But they they had.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "i But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They had something very specific in mind when they designed it. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, u i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so so you can you can argue about maybe that wasn't the right thing to do, but, you know, they they they had something specific.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But, one of the reasons I have Chuck's messing around with with the back - end that you're not supposed to touch I mean, for the evaluations, yes, we'll run a version that hasn't been touched.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, uh, one of the reasons I have him messing around with that, because I think it's sort of an open question that we don't know the answer to. People always say very glibly that i if you s show improvement on a bad system, that doesn't mean anything, cuz it may not be show uh, because, you know, it doesn't tell you anything about the good system.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And I I've always sort of felt that that depends. You know, that if some peopl If you're actually are getting at something that has some conceptual substance to it, it will port.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And in fact, most methods that people now use were originally tried with something that was not their absolute best system at some level. But of course, sometimes it doesn't, uh, port. So I think that's that's an interesting question. If we're getting three percent error on, uh, u uh, English, uh, nati native speakers, um, using the Aurora system, and we do some improvements and bring it from three to two, do those same improvements bring, uh, th you know, the SRI system from one point three to you know, to point eight?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Zero.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well. You know, so that's that's something we can test.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think we've we've covered that one up extremely well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Whew!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. So, um Yeah. So tha so we'll you know, maybe you guys'll have have one. Uh, you you and, uh and Dan have have a paper that that's going in.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know, that's that's pretty solid, on the segmentation stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I will send you the the final version,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And the Aurora folks here will will definitely get something in on Aurora,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "which is not.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Actually this this, um So, there's another paper.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's a Eurospeech paper but not related to meetings. But it's on digits. So, um, uh, a colleague at SRI developed a improved version of MMIE training.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And he tested it mostly on digits because it's sort of a you know, it doesn't take weeks to train it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. And got some very impressive results, um, with, you know, discriminative, uh, Gaussian training. Um, you know, like, um, error rates go from I don't know, in very noisy environment, like from, uh, uh I for now I OK, now I have the order of magnit I'm not sure about the order of magnitude. Was it like from ten percent to eight percent or from e e you know, point you know, from one percent to point eight percent?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "H i it got it got better.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, it's a.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It got better. That's the important thing.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hey, that's the same percent relative,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's, uh, something in.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Twenty percent relative gain.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, let's see. I think the only thing we had left was unless somebody else Well, there's a couple things. Uh, one is anything that, um, anybody has to say about Saturday? Anything we should do in prep for Saturday? Um I guess everybody knows about I mean, u um, Mari was asking was trying to come up with something like an agenda and we're sort of fitting around people's times a bit. But, um, clearly when we actually get here we'll move things around this, as we need to, but so you can't absolutely count on it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But but, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Are we meeting in here probably or? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was my thought.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think this is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Are we recording it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We won't have enough microphones,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "u No. I I hadn't in intended to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's no way.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We won we wanna I mean, they're there's gonna be, uh, Jeff, Katrin, Mari and two students.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So there's five from there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And Brian.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And Brian's coming,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But you know th", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so that's six.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And plus all of us.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Can use the Oprah mike.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Depends how fast you can throw it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It seems like too many too much coming and going.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's just Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We don't even have enough channel.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because it would be a different kind of meeting,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that's what I'm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I hadn't really thought of it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe just maybe not the whole day", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but just, you know, maybe some I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe part of it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "part of it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe part of it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Make everyone read digits.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "At the same time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "At the same time.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "At the same time.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Please.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We c", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's their initiation into our", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Any", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Into our our our cult.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, our Yeah, our.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Maybe the sections that are not right afte you know, after lunch when everybody's still munching and.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So can you send out a schedule once you know it, jus?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is is there a r?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. I guess I sent it around a little bit.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's a res Is it changed now, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But I hadn't heard back from Mari after I I u u uh, brought up the point abou about Andreas's schedule. So, um, maybe when I get back there'll be some some mail from her.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, I'll make a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm looking forward to seeing your representation. That'd be, uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And w we should get the two meetings from y", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I'd like to see that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I mean, I know about the first meeting, um, but the other one that you did, the NSA one, which we hadn't done cuz we weren't running recognition on it, because the non - native speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "there were five non - native speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I see. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But, it would be useful for the to see what we get with that one. So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Great. OK. It's, uh, two thousand eleven twenty - one one thousand.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, three. Right. So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Great. I sent email when I finished the that one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "N S A three, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That was sort of son Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's much simpler.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "I don't know what they said but I know the number.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Th - that part's definitely gonna confuse somebody who looks at these later.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, this is we we're recording secret NSA meetings?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Not the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Not that NSA.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Uh. The th the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They are hard to understand.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's network services and applications.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wait.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They're very, uh, out there.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I have no idea what they're talking about.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The, um th the other good thing about the alignments is that, um, it's not always the machine's fault if it doesn't work. So, you can actually find, um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's the person's fault.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "problem uh, proble", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's Morgan's fault.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You can find.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's always Morgan's fault.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You can find, uh, problems with with the transcripts, um, you know,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and go back and fix them.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Tha - There are some cases like where the the wrong speaker uh, these ca Not a lot, but where the the wrong person the the speech is addre attached to the wrong speaker", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and you can tell that when you run it. Or at least you can get clues to it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "So these are from the early transcriptions that people did on the mixed signals, like what you have.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I guess it does w Mm - hmm. It also raises the possibility of, um, using that kind of representation I mean, I don't know, this'd be something we'd wanna check, but maybe using that representation for data entry and then displaying it on the channelized, uh, representation, cuz it I think that the I mean, my my preference in terms of, like, looking at the data is to see it in this kind of musical score format.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And also, s you know, Sue's preference as well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you can get it to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and but, I mean, this if this is a better interface for making these kinds of, uh, you know, lo clos local changes, then that'd be fine, too. I don't I have no idea. I think this is something that would need to be checked. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK. Th - the other thing I had actually was, I I didn't realize this till today, but, uh, this is, uh, Jose's last day.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Is my last my last day.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You're not gonna be here tomorrow?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "My my last meeting about meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh, that's right. Tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "The last meeting meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Because, eh, I leave, eh, the next Sunday.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's off.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I will come back to home to Spain.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I d so I I jus", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And I I would like to to to say thank you very much, eh, to all people in the group and at ICSI,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. It was good having you.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because I I enjoyed @ @ very much,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh. And I'm sorry by the result of overlapping, because, eh, I haven't good results, eh, yet but, eh, I I pretend to to continuing out to Spain, eh, during the the following months,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "eh, because I have, eh, another ideas but, eh, I haven't enough time to to with six months it's not enough to to to research,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "eh, and e i I mean, if, eh, the topic is, eh, so difficult, uh, in my opinion, there isn't.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe somebody else will come along and will be, uh, interested in working on it and could start off from where you are also, you know. They'd make use of of what you've done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, eh, I I will try to recommend, eh, at, eh, the Spanish government but, eh, the following @ @ scholarship, eh, eh, eh, will be here more time, because eh, i in my opinion is is better, eh, for us to to spend more time here and to work more time i i in a topic.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a very short time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No? But, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, six months is hard.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. It is.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I think a year is a lot better.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's difficult. You e you have, eh you are lucky, and you you find a solution in in in some few tim uh, months, eh? OK. But, eh, I think it's not, eh, common. But, eh, anyway, thank you. Thank you very much. Eh, I I bring the chocolate, eh, to to tear, uh, with with you,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "uh. I I hope if you need, eh, something, eh, from us in the future, I I will be at Spain, to you help, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Thank you, Jose.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "And, thank you very much.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Have a good trip.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Keep in touch.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. I guess, uh, unless somebody has something else, we'll read read our digits", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Digits?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we'll get our.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "get our last bit of, uh, Jose's Jose Jose's digit.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Are we gonna do them simultaneously or?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You eh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh, I'm sorry?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye - ye you prefer, eh, to eat, eh, chocolate, eh, at the coffee break, eh, at the? Or you prefer now, before after?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, we have a time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "No, we prefer to keep it for ourselves.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "During.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, we have a s a time time constraint.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "during digits.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So keep it away from that end of the table.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Why is it that I can read your mind?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Well, we've gotta wait until after di after we take the mikes off.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So are we gonna do digits simultaneously", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You This is our reward if we do our digi", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "or what?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Simultaneous digit chocolate task.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I think, eh, it's enough, eh, for more peopl for more people after.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "We're gonna we're gonna do digits at the same.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "But, eh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, thanks, Jose.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "To Andreas, the idea is is good. s To eat here.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Wow. Very nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, wow.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Tha - that's that looks great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Th - it doesn't it won't leave this room.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Alright, so in the interest of getting to the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We could do digits while other people eat.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it's background crunching.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We don't have background chewing.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Is, eh, a another acoustic event.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Background crunch. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, we don't have any data with background eating.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm serious. You", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "She's she's serious.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I am serious.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's just the rest of the digits the rest of the digits are very clean,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "She is serious.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Are you? Oh, they're clean.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um, without a lot of background noise,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And it You have to write down, like, while y what you're what ch chocolate you're eating", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so I'm just not sure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "cuz they might make different sounds, like n nuts chocolate with nuts, chocolate without nuts.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Crunchy frogs.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Chocolate adaptation.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Actually actually kind of careful cuz I have a strong allergy to nuts, so I have to sort of figure out one without th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That w Oh, yeah, they they might.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's hard to hard to say.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe those? They're so I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is You know, this is a different kind of speech,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Take take several.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "looking at chocolates, deciding.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "you know, it's another style.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I may I may hold off.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But if I was eh, but maybe I'll get some later. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well well, why don't we? He he's worried about a ticket. Why don't we do a simultaneous one?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Simultaneous one?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And you laughed at me, too, f the first time I said that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Remember to read the transcript number, please.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I have to what?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "You laughed at me, too, the first time I sa said.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I did,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You really shouldn't, uh, te", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and now I love it so much.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK, everyone ready?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You have to sort of, um Jose, if you haven't done this, you have to plug your ears while you're t talking", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "W wait wait a minute wait a minute. W we want we want.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so that you don't get confused, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "we want it synchronized.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, you've done this one before?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hey, you've done this before. 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I'll take you over the minutes of last last meeting. Okay, that was just to get to know each other,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "have a little thoughts on what your vision is and on this project, so I put the minutes on the I made on the on the p the the project share, so if you wanna review them, they're there. I will do so after every meeting, so if you have some information you wanna take back you can find it there. Anyways, um today three presentations, from every one of you. Um after that I got some new project requirements from project board, so we're gonna go af go after over this later. But I wanna start with uh stuff you did first, so we can see what everybody came up with. And after that we can have the new requirements and share some thoughts, so. Who would like wanna go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure, no problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Take it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um there was a little problem with my computer so not uh the whole uh presentation uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyway, let's see what you have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um Okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh it's still a bit open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I want to open the my s oh no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You should close it on your own notebook, I guess. Yeah. So there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's okay. Uh slide show. Yes. The functional requirements, it's uh uh very important for uh the user, he he wants to yeah. The the method we used uh it it's not m not a slide, because it went wrong, but the method we use uh, um we tested it w uh with uh a hundred uh men, and we asked them to w uh what the remote uh f feel uh like and uh what what's uh important. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If I can cut in, is it people or men?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "People,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it people, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause I thought it was only men,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Both women and men,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh the findings um uh seventy five percent of the users find most remote controls ugly. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's pretty shocking uh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have to s we have to do something about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and yeah, most th th they want to spend money for a better system, for better remote control, so we can do uh a l a little uh nice things with it, and um they use yeah, they use zap a lot, um uh fifty percent say they only So that's the most important things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um oh yeah, not all of it is it on mine on my PowerPoint presentation,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, just talk ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um uh the relevant buttons are the power, the channel selection and the volume selection.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh the most basic buttons that a user wants uh to use. Uh less important is tel teletext,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh um they use it, but it's not uh very uh important uh on the scale of zero to ten they six and a half uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, that's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and but not important is the channel selection, the the hmm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a little weird.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which channel selection?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the the no no no no no, that's very important, but uh w and not important in the audio settings, display settings", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can we can hide those under a menu or something,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um new preferences preferences. Uh um um beep to find your control, was.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's like a button on your T_V_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that was in the test, the the most people uh f find it uh irritating uh when they cannot find a rem their remote control,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remote, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh I think it's a bee beep to sound it and uh you can find it. And another thing uh they want was uh speech recognition um so they can say uh what they want to let's go to channel one and uh that's uh kind of things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And they want maybe an uh L_C_D_ screen um to to look it um wh what's on every channel uh and uh what do I want with it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We wanna have a little preview on the remote control. Preview what's on the channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that manageable?'Cause it sounds pretty expensive too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That sounds too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's possible, but uh I think it's expensive, but do continue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um Uh my personal preferences is uh a button for my favourite channel, so I can uh I dunno, so I can zap to my uh f uh quick uh to my favourite channel wh what I uh so, the remote mu must see or um must um see wha what mine preferences are for which channel,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, you don't set it yourself,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I can zap t to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it just remembers the channel that you are on most, for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You want the you want it to be programmed, for example y programmed f", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or you want it to recognise your favourite channel?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's see, you you spend twenty minutes each day on that channel,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Recognise.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it recognises your favourite channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's uh what my personal preference like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so it's it it does it recognise itself, you don't have to set it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "itself. Maybe it's easier to to sell it, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know it's manageable, but we will uh we will see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a little bit uh it's the end of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a little bit uh I lost it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the computer uh crashed,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No problem, it's it's okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's Yeah, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall I go? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, some technical functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Darn computer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Basically I have some issues which you discussed earlier. Uh let's just start with the method.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It sounds really easy, what does the user do, what does the th remote control do, but there are quite some issues. So the things I'm going to concentrate on are the user aspect, because the technical aspect, that's pretty much covered. We can do that. What goes wrong at the user. Gets the remote control. Where is the remote control? We've all had it once, I want to watch some television,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "where's the remote control? That was one of your ideas which you posted in the network folder,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That seems very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "a really good idea. Uh these are just the issues. I come to some uh personal experience, findings, possible solutions later. Searches for the button. There are many buttons on a remote control which are not clear. Uh so either we lose those or we try to make it a little bit more clear.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh also symbols tend to fade after a while.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's nothing more annoying than faded symbols, because you don't know which channel is this button, so possibly we could find uh something for that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so have it more make it more durable actually. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yes. Uh covered that. Oh yes, user presses the button. Um usually when you have a lot of buttons, buttons are small. So you press more once remote control goes kablouey or something like that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so the buttons should be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we have to pay attention not to put too mun too many buttons on uh the remote control..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And possibly also the size, so more important buttons, bigger", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow. The s Yeah. Make it make them bigger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "si", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Even more durable uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is basically what I h had in mind in the fade-proof symbols, locator, a sound, uh so clear we should stick to existing symbols, but maybe we could do a little uh investigation to see whether some symbols are uh need to be replaced by others. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This I pretty much covered. So what we want to go to is not this one,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but more less buttons, easy, some bigger buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's basically uh what I had in mind. So", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is not the final design,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, of course uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "this is just a general idea of how I'd like to see uh basically the general idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I must say that it Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that was it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was it. Okay, that was good. So we agree on the the part that we need to get something on the on the remote to find it somewhere and increase it the durability of of the thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's a really good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The other aspects, we'll just see how what you came up with and what's possible for that budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, that's fine. Um. Okay, now work a little with me. Okay. Well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "let's start it as it is. Okay, uh the method. There are a few questions that need to be answered, uh you already uh talked about it a little bit. Which buttons are wanted, uh is our remote control universal or should it be programmable. Uh if it should be programmeab grammeale then we need um something like a mode that you can switch it. Because then the buttons have to send out a different signal then they would normally do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh how big is the remote control uh going to be? I'll tell you why that's important to me. Um there are a lot of technical parts in the remote control, so uh uh that's why I also would like to say uh go a little bit easy on the designs, uh I heard ab uh you talking about beeps and about uh video screens, but uh the material inside and the technical aspects are quite complex already.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So keep in mind that everything that you keep uh think of, it has to b to be built.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of course, hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's that's not as easy as it s might look like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh material study, I'm working on that um for the the costs. I have to check out how far I can go with that. Normally, a circuit board is made of fibreglass uh and the wires are made of copper. Uh that is how it is done and all the remote controls work that way, I think we can just go on with that. Um then I've read more integration of materials means less cost for the production. The more we can make uh at once uh in one piece, uh that is cheaper.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You mean integrate them all into the circuit board. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly, so if we make a circuit board with the the connections already on it, then that's cheaper.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to make something that's not too difficult in design again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is what look like uh looks like if you press one button, so this is not the entire thing. You have the the power coming in, then you have like a switch. The switch uh uh uh if you p press it then some electrical charge goes into the processor, that thinks over a Morse code, that's how you should see it. The Morse code goes to the amplifier, then uh the signal is sent to two uh light bulbs. You have infrared and an interv um uh how to say it? Uh a light in indication, light that you know that it's functioning.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh here again, that's my story about the different modes, if you do want to make remote uh universal, then the processor has to uh make up a different Morse code when some button is pressed. That makes it much more complex, so we really need to have a look, do we want that or not. Uh I don't have any personal p uh preferences uh so far, except for uh the materials to be used uh light, that they are light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. That was it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll get back to my thing then. Uh Okay, back this up to the screen. So I got some new information on the project specifications are changing a little. Like you said uh teletext is not not very popular anymore because the uh the internet, nowadays people don't use the teletext anymore or hardly, so it can either Well, I don't think we should remove the button, because there are always people who are using it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I don't think it should be very it should be one of the big buttons for example. Just put it somewhere or under second option or whatever. It's not important anymore. Um we're targeting young people now, because our um This is a new product and with this new product we want to appeal to younger people,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which are um the younger people were defined under forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I so I think it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's also good with the fashion and everything,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and they want to pay for it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They want to pay for it, people are willing to spend money actually to buy a um remote that they like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If they like the way it looks, the way it functions, so they're actually gonna spend uh spend money on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With more Where with more technical specifications", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "see how far we can go with it anyway, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And one thing that should be important is that the corporate l colour and slogan are recognisable, which is apparently black and yellow, but I'm not sure if we I think we should keep the the logo in mind, because with colours you can uh have a lot of uh fashionable colours and everything on it, which suits everybody's taste. So With that concept I started thinking, so why not just steal Nokia's idea and just make changeable covers for your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean those cost hardly anything I think, and people could even spend extra money on buying a cover", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and so have an entire new remote control that they like to see. Or we can sh for example we can make a different a basic design. And sell the covers separately, for example. That's just a little marketing idea that could be applied, so you can p it appeals to really everyone. So you don't have to I think you don't have to make entire remote controls. We make a basic one and manufacture this cover separately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that was that was my idea on what we could do to appeal this product to everyone. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just I'm not sure if you came up with anything in the meantime, after making a presentation. Would you like to share?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I think this is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But oh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it manageable? Is it easy?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, with with an L_C_D_ screen you can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. I think we should lose the L_C_D_ screen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y Yes, I think so too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like you said. I think for example it's it's huge I think the L_C_D_ is huge,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Why? Nokia w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it consumes batteries like hell.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it takes up a lot of a lot of power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it costs too much to fabricate,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It costs a lot, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we're on a tight budget here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What we could do, what could be possible, is maybe not an L_C_D_ screen but with a preview,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but y I'm not sure if it's even possible. For example, a little T_V_ guide.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like you have a little.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just just a text only, not colour, just a little text thing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can use your remote as a T_V_ guide. I'm not sure it's even possible,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. I have to check that out,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but maybe okay, make it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, find a little compromise in that, but What did I write down?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the p yeah, the beep is a very simple thing to imple implement, just make a button on your T_V_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That must be possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and just hit the button, it beeps somewhere. I think it's easy to implement,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we should go for that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "whe where do you wanna hit the T_ you wanna we want a button on the television..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thin Yeah, I mean where else should you put it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In th okay, but that rules out a universal remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because that's not possible uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but how are you gonna use that if your I mean if your remote control is lost, how are you gonna press where are you gonna press the button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe just a slap-on sticker with a button which sends out a small signal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A slap-on sticker. Oh, you mean as like a separate thing you can attach to your T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that could be possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A little little box you can attach to your T_V_ is fine then, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, then uh I'd I'd like to know now if we want the uh universal remote control or not, because that's uh determines everything I'm gonna do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's universal. I think we should go for universal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because apparently we're a separate company making separate c remote controls to sell to a lot of diverse people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think universal remote control should be possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, then I go for that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Everyone uh wants to buy it, so we w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we're targeting everyone,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's fine with me, but then I know what to look for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, universal is good. Speech recognition, I think it's very hard, because we're selling across multiple countries. So I think implementing speech recognition is such a small um apparatus, it's very hard to do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or when you say one two uh i it uh it's enough,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I don't see Arabian people speaking one, two uh whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right? But Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Besides that, the technology isn't really super yet, so that is a problem in implementing this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not a mature technology, I think it takes a lot of memory and everything in in a remote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a good idea, but it's just not I don't think the market's ripe for that yet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think it should be implemented in a remote control yet uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What else do we have?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um well you should you should look into the in into the materials that are real durable. So the the the symbols won't fade,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe a little harder plastic", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or especially li we don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I already noted that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe we don't have have to do all the buttons, but especially the ones that are um the popular buttons, so those always fade first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm the thing is the most important things that we have now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we uh make a remote control with changeable covers, then we can also make uh a cover for every language area.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For example?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's fo is uh especially for older people, that they can read it read it in their own language.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we're not we're not targeting older people,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we should remember that. Everything we target is under forty,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You assume that that they read correctly and I think they're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The most important thing about young people is that they're really sensitive to to trends that are passing through the world,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But should the exchangeable covers include the buttons themselves or just the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, of course. No, I think it's just something you you put over them, because Yeah we c Yeah, you ca Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "tha that's not a that's not a bad that's not even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "C", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But every.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's a problem with the with the text then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's not even a bad idea. I mean, for example, if you're if you're into the durability issue you could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For example, if your buttons are faded, after I mean if you make a durable remote, they are faded, you can just buy a new cover.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I'm not sure it's it's hard to make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's a good and a bad idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh but I know that the buttons are like a Nokia telephone on uh one sleeve,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you don't have to change your whole cover. Uh we can make something that you can only remove the sleeve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, I know what you mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Know what I mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It works the same as a Nokia telephone, it's it's in my uh'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, it's just just a one one piece of rubber for example,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's what I something I have to look into. Either either change both the buttons and and the cover or just the cover, I'm not sure which which is easier,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so Um anyway, yeah, this is what we're gonna do afterwards, just lunch break and have more individual work after that, so let's see what we let's see we So you have to come up with a components concept, yeah. I want some you should do some trend-watching, because even if we're if we're gonna do those covers and everything, what people really want, that's what we need to know in this phase,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because that's gonna be the essential final design that we're gonna come up with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um Yeah, I think user interface is fairly obvious. I mean it should be very intuitive,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pretty straightforward.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "s Yeah, it should speak for itself. Uh for example I bought a remote control last week with a new T_V_, it was it l it's like all buttons and you have no idea what it does at first,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I'm total T_V_ new, anyway. So I think it should be have less or l very little buttons and maybe a second second level menu for the advanced things. Or maybe just stick'em under a menu, like you said the um the sound options and the surround and whatever, they're more complicated, just stick'em under one menu and uh give it a just put it in in s in a software piece, you can menu and you can uh select everything you want to to set on your T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it techni technically possible to uh send a signal to a television and then pops up a menu,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because we're working with different types of television, so we're going to work with that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I don't think so. Because the television needs to respond to the signal,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's an in-built menu,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and if it doesn't know how, it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "isn't it? Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly, that's not possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So basically", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if it's impossible,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh there's a chance it's not, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or we could use a double-sided for less used functions", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A double-sided remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think that's useful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, with the cover. I it's basically an idea to overcome these issues,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you're gonna have a lot of wasted buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For example you have a Sony T_V_ and the half of the buttons won't function if you have a for a Sony that won't for a Philips T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but basic functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but functions which are not frequently used.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think we should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because if we use a universal remote control, we're going to have to have most buttons on it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, for exam", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, for ex you have to make it a little decision between the part if you want a universal remote control that it should do what people usually do with their T_V_s, not not the very complicated settings", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that you can usually do that with uh either a old old remote control if they really hate that thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you can't you cannot take into consideration all the different brands of T_V_s.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that might be broken.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think there's I think there is a standard for example between uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because usually the the menu is the menu button is is usable between different brands. Especially the big ones, the big brands,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.'Cause everybody I have a universal remote control and it can use the menu button, so I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure, if you can put some research into that, if it's possible. Uh I think just a b", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the navigation is very basic, it's usually the same thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. But I think there must be a way uh to invoke the more complicated functions of a television. For instance, if your old remote control is broken and you buy ours, then uh you should be able to get everything out of the television that's in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's true. I think so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because otherwise you'll lose functions by buying our.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh we need to put some research into that if if we can open the menu, I think it's possible, just the way how to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I thi I think so too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then then you could do everything I suppose, because usually the T_V_s have tha that inside in this other little piece of software, so it's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I think that our r remote control should not look like uh any other. For instance uh Sony makes all their remote controls exactly the same for all their devices,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you always grab the wrong one because formatting of the buttons is exactly the same, only the labels are different.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I think it should be a little distinct from everything else,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should not do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because it's either it's both mayb", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe the shape can be a little different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have some ideas. I have some ideas.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe it's a little more curves or whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm that's your uh division..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yeah. And uh with different colours uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll put some on paper and present them next time uh the ideas that I have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, this. Not sure what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because we have forty minutes, I'm not sure how much time we have left for the meeting anyway, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I heard a beep go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it wasn't me, it was him closing something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So anyway, yeah, we could do some i do some work now on on the design for example. I mean what do you want, do you want, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we like some some curves or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, may maybe something like this. But though smooth inside. So you have the transmitter here for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's see that you what would be handy. I think that the the buttons should be the channel buttons should be uh on their own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. And a light uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's see one, two God damn it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, we get the general ideas, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Another one here. Let's see what I think this should these are always on top of the of the control, so they should be here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and since you're holding it like this, I suggest you put the channel up channel down and volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think it's like this..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Volume.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Withi within the Yeah, just take it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah yeah. So you have the up channel the down channel the volume, do we want that horizontal or vertical?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you take triangles or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's it's fine, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think it should be I think it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is basically what people are accustomed to,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we should make'em bigger or whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but this is just a g general idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh d.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh maybe the menu button can go i in the middle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, in the middle. It's it's usually uh there, but Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoa.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Perhaps we should also make uh something like a flash on it, if you if it's lost, for people that are deaf. They they won't hear the the beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but for example if it's lost in your armchair, we'll not see the flash.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You won't be able to find it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And flash takes up a lot of batteries again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah, it's true, but it's it's only has to do so when you press the button that it's lost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could make a combination that it goes beep and that you that some light lights up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. deaf people?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And L_E_D_ uh on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I thought about for deaf people for example, so. We could do that. Uh let's see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just a light on it or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have the basic channels we've got here, uh the power button somewhere over here?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, it's true. Um that thing should be central.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You shouldn't be you uh shouldn't press it by accident, but it shouldn't be stacked away somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I usually press it on top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's It's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At least that's what I'm accustomed to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have another idea,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like that's gonna work..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if it's possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What would you like to?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I thought maybe we should move the buttons down", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you r", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and put it here for example", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you are reading from the t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you always read from the top to the the bottom of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "From top to bottom. Yeah, that's true,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the bu the power button should be on top,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause it's the first thing you do, turn it on. So power button on top. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, mute button. Is that somewhere here?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mute. Do we hardly I think it should be at the bottom somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that used often?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So i it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The mute button? Do people use that often?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mute. Turn the sound off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's no..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause uh I'm pretty much accustomed to it right over here, at least in general,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think it's important, but I think it I think it should be you c", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not that important, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you could put it somewhere here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or or with the volume selection..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, because it Yeah, people are accustomed to that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Around uh not uh not at top at the around the volume selection.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's Can I have that? That's j", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know where exactly,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Take this out and here see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh are we gonna take triangles anyway? I'm drawing triangles, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's pretty much what people are accustomed to,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "aren't they?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's maybe a bigger lesser than thing. So anyway, I think this is should be the channels and or sh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm accustomed to the channels being on top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, me too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay. Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "should we chan", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay, this two, channel up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we uh also look if it's possible to make a rechargeable remote? That you don't have to buy new batteries if every.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for that is it's on one part it's um it's a good thing to recharge it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it's more ex expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we should what what could be possible is one with rechargeable batteries for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have just put Penlite batteries that are rechargeable, because it's an it's it's it's very annoying.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But isn't that expensive in the entire package?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that's already possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not sure y I'm not sure it's if it's expensive, but just take a look at it, because it might be a very good idea. Because if it's it's uh useful to have it rechargeable,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but at the same time, if you don't want recha if you forgot to recharge it and you wanna watch T_V_ now, you wanna be able to put different batteries in it, use it now and not in half an hour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. Okay. Uh you could make a device, but I'm not sure how that uh is possible with the costs, that you can put in normal batteries, rechargeable,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I have a nice idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it you're the remote also can act as a recharger. So then you can choose, you have every decision. Know what I mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not exactly uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can uh put in normal Penlites, rechargeable Penlites, but they can also be recharged with the remote, with a wire.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's uh it's a pretty good idea to have uh like sort of a maybe a base station that you put on the T_V_. Could be flat, you could insert your uh remote into it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's g", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think that will cost a lot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh a normal wire would be better.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a like a P_D_A_, a hand-held. You can uh just put it in the electricity and it charges itself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we were talking about the fact that we wanted to insert either a beep or a flash into the thing with a little separate signal", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you don't need basic station. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or So you could put that on a T_V_ for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That is possible, that's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It could be very flat, could be very small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But Which.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a very small Yeah, I'm drawing it big now, but So you can put your remote on flat for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And at the backside of remote just just just a little hole", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "for example um you just put it down, it recharges for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think it's very expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But again, isn't that too expensive?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause that means that we have to implement rechargeable batteries, a docking station.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if it costs a lot, that that's what he r", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's that you that's what you buy yourself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. I'm going to try to find that out. I'm not sure if there's information available on this,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just an idea, we have to find out if it's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And do people actually want that? To pay extra they want to pay for rechargeable?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, they want to pay for it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do they want but they want a rechargeable one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not sure, you should find out if it's if rechargeable is important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th uh there was not a el ask esque.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. These are uh comfort issues. So I think people will pay they wanted to pay for comfort.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They want to pay for comfort,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, this is comfort.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we just assu we we could either make a separate station which just sends a signal to the remote control to either beep or flash to find it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But f hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um and Yeah, we have to either that or make it integrated with a with a docking station.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah. Exactly. I think this is a brilliant product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it would be good actually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would buy it myself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like the beep part anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "let's go through the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like the covers. That's a brilliant idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can can we save this or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Covers is covers is good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I never thought.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's Oh we can save this. Up and saved. We even saved the ant. Um Okay. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what we have is you have I think you have to do a lot of work on if it's possible for the cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I hope if I have information about that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm gonna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or maybe you can find out i what people are willing to pay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We are going for twenty five Euros sales price,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but just try to find out what they're willing to pay for it, because if they're willing to pay more, we could lose a little profit and maybe attract more customers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh we just have to see what it looks like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would like to make a decision. What it costs and what kind of materials that we can uh choose what we want in it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you have some financial information that that'd be nice,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and exactly, I need it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so. Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could you post some other essentials of what people want, so that I can work with some buttons, where to put it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You seem to have information on that, I'd like to uh see some of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Was it not possible to uh send emails around the office?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it wasn't wasn't allo", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's not. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it was possible,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "not allowed, so. So that's um why I'm not sure that you're allowed to share documents on the on the draft.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. My computer crashed,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't care. I haven't heard any complaints yet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, your computer. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I lost my uh presentation,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I have the uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, I have your PowerPoint presentation, I can get some inf information out of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I Here I have the the s the homepage of uh our internet,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the oh, they inc uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and here is my", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they include the new one. Or just for you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, where would we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "here is my marketing report,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe you ca you can look at uh that", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, I didn't have that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where would we want the uh teletext button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we decided that it's n not that important.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "All it tells just let's make make a new.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we put it somewhere over here?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "tick the new one. Um other side. Yeah, let's increase it a little because.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh wha what people want, I've uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe this is something for the next meeting, I can draw out some ideas.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, draw us up some some designs of of possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have another thing uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just keep in mind that the important buttons should be on top and either big,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so the more less important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we have decided more or less the basic structure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "More or less.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can put the other buttons in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just play a little with this, put l shift a little up or down and we'll see what looks best.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What uh what did you wanna say?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or just po post your designs from time to time on the product share.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh what I al already said is the the uh the remote controls are always lost,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe another idea uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it it's also for people, they want to learn it fast,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "not uh they want to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we don't want we want very little buttons, just the buttons you use a lot.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's yeah, it's easy to learn", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but it should cover all the functions,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "wi and uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so possibly, just an idea that popped in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "what we had function that what people do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so. People change channels, people they change the volume and they they change channel, they turn T_V_ off and on, for example. That's the basic fu that's what you do I'm not sure who present that again, but those are the basic function that people use it for, so those should be very well represented.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we could go a step further,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And The If.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because some T_V_s have the uh possibility to adjust brightness, that kind of menus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true, but that's what we stick under the menu button. Everything is you say in every T_V_ that's configured under the menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but it Because we're making.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that's the question, is it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because it needs to be configured in the television under the menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it isn't, then we cannot reach it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We need to adjust to the technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I think most modern T_V_s have it in their menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so too. I think so too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh isn't there a possibility to do research on that, so we know that for sure? If you rule out functions, then uh and that gets known, then people are not gonna buy it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I thi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then the consumer bond or something says uh you cannot do this and that with it. That's a bad bad com commercial", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh we'll we'll see what we can come up with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "for okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Another thing I want to say is that uh we are looking at the market for the age uh younger than forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Under forty. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um on my report, I didn't uh ish I didn't show it in my uh presentation,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because my computer crashed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um they want to pay for an L_C_D_ screen and speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The want to pay for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did they really said it like that? Those two things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "i yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh shall we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do they realise how much that costs?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's almost undoable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Younger, age sixteen and forty five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, we're not going to be able to sell it for twenty-five then, with an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's all here, here it says.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's that's. Even if i if we have this lost unit, then we cannot do it for that price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, age sixteen forty fi interest in main features more critical.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If if they.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we're not focusing on this. Um All the interest in features, not really the L_C_ oh here. Would you pay for uh speech recognition in a remote control. Hmm, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition is quite.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can look at the possibilities for an uh L_C_D_ and uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, just look at the possibilities then,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "apparently it's what people want,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's supposed to be a luxurious remote,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How much it will cost", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe it's not even that expensive. Or find a compromise, maybe just a black and white or for some extra information on it, on your programmes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I doubt it, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I really need finance information.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Me too. I mean we all do..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It will come uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We all do..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I think it's something we should put into consideration. Apparently it's what people want, so. We should see if what it costs, if it's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, we should do a little thing about design, because it looks boring really to me. Even if you put it even if you put a different cover on it, it looks still looks boring,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different colours maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. And the design, it should differ.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is Philips, huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I have no clue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Philips has this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just drew something what which would fit into your hand easily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I had basically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Hmm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Something like this. To make it kind of futuristic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Oh, I realise if we make it small, then it needs to be a little thicker,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's a very.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I need to put all the electronics in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we make it s uh smaller, uh less wide, then we need to m make it a little thicker,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I have to put all the electronics in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but you have to j just keep in mind it shouldn't be too heavy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean we can stick it in in there, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh even if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "in the worst case we can even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Could you give me the pen back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So let's say that people would want an L_C_D_ thing. Let's take take the basic design again, what we oh, crap uh came up with. I'll just make it a little bigger now. So a transmitter here. Anyway. We could let's say we have an L_C_D_ screen, people want an L_C_D_ screen. So then we should probably put it here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't have to be really big, but just just have to be has to be there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Think it's a good place, people don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you're reading from top to bottom, I think it's better to put it uh at the top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No? It's not that uh it's not the most important function,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Me too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's j.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's just an extra thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it just you press the buttons on top,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. But i if you if you are going to uh put the L_C_D_ on it, I think it's very important to use it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because your finger is on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh because it's use it uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How can you use an L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But nee the function of it. So you can use it maximum, because uh it's a lot it costs a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but why", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now it's pretty much tucked away in your hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh if you t if you press a button, you can see it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "ri I'm not sure wha I'm trying to imagine myself what it would look like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M I personally would prefer it on the top.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You would prefer it n Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have three people saying it should be on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but then you would would s have to stack away your buttons somewhere else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Anyways.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's expensive to build it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh this looks a little.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm still not convinced of the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you must use the maximum of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "About the L_C_D_s thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well if it if it's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if it's possible wi if it's not too expensive, we should include it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They want it uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because it's it's cool..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should just try to make that if it's possible. If it is possible we should really do it, but we need that information.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh. Uh. But uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also keep in mind again, the L_C_D_ screen is very flat, but it needs transistors, resistors, I don't know what more and that needs space. So I have to look if that's possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So basically", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "can I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh we have green now uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what we have to decide now is uh what goes on top. Do we put the volume control and the channel control here, or do we put it on he Would we like to press it in the middle?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or maybe we should m we could uh draw draw something a bit that has it on on on the bottom.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In middle of it. In the middle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe in a circle for example, like we like in this example. I think this is not good, but for we could make circular buttons for example. For up and down, ma make it a circle on it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but we do agree that we keep this at the centre,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it's basically the most important function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the channel button should be in the centre.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's the most import yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Channel button should be st stick together, for example here in this section. Because it's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that would make them quite small.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're not sure about the size anyway,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe you'd put them here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just a general design. You can make it as big as you want. For example if you take uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but a big remote control probably not something which people would like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "let's see. For example just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we have a a space issue, we can also lose one battery. It is rechargeable, so we can stick with one instead of two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't think if we if we even use an L_C_D_ screen, we need to, definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That might be an option. Yeah, but if we need two batteries and an L_C_D_ screen, that means a lot of space that we need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we have to see what the si what the size is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it has to be a little bit heavier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_ doesn't have to nee doesn't need to be very big.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but the things behind it. space.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm let's see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a process uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Finish meeting now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Finish meeting now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's on your computer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we will. So either.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So would we like this or would we like the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We either we have to decide what what people want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like this one more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Either this one, this this could be the luxurious one. So we have channel buttons here. I'm just drawing something uh. Uh I think this would this would look cool. You could have it for example small buttons here for some extra functions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so if your basic function's here, we should like we decided before, programmes up and down, and volume here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's see what we have here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or And uh what about speech recognition uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you can just no, I'm not sure if we can do that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but we could put a microphone in here for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but or or an L_C_D_ or an uh speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's L_C_D_ is better now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just to do research into both, w what it costs and what it takes for space.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll try to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But let's cut the meeting for now yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One more uh thing I'd like to say, uh let's give this uh a name, and not like some vague serial number that no one understands, like with cars.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall we all try uh to think about a name?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think of a name.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, let's think of a name, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, that's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, at anyways, the the minutes will be on the on the web shortly,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so there we go uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, go and finish up and I'll see you at lunch.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good luck.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, to all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Same.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've Do we uh save the?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2003d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "That should hopefully do the trick, um.'Kay. Sorry about the small delay. Falling a little bit behind schedule. And that's uh fifteen twenty five. Okay. So just to try and roughly go over what we agreed in the last one, um we're gonna go for something uh uh how was it? Uh The new black, I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um something that looks good'cause that seems to be in preference to actual functionality in the end, though we should never avoid functionality, of course. Uh many of our components are gonna be standard, off the shelf, but it seemed like we were gonna require at least an advanced chip and we were still very much for the idea of using an L_C_D_ display. Um other things were we were hoping to use rubber, most likely gonna be double curved, etcetera. Okay. So um due to your hard work, we might as well let the uh two designers go first, and uh show us the prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, it's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Quite how the best way to do this is, I'm not sure,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think if we both step up", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh outline our ideas. Okay. Now do uh doing the prototype gave us a bit more insight into the ergonomics of the design. Um for one thing, it turned out that the only point at which it needs to be articulated for handedness is um is h i is down here for the uh L_E_D_. As it turned out, the whole thing transfers from the right to left hand fairly well from the point of view of operating the uh function buttons and joystick, though it might be an idea to be able to a adjust the positions for the base of the joystick just a little bit for uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "ju just a thought. You could simply have a slightly ovoid shaped joystick that could then just be turn uh twisted round, so that the uh sticky uh so that the bit that sticks out a bit more is on one side or the other. But as you as you see with the uh with holding it in the left hand, the L_ uh the L_C_D_ is nowhere useful, so that would need to be articulated uh if we're going to retain ergonomic design. Um now I I got your note about uh keeping the cost down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm afraid yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We'll go into that a bit more,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "this design could be done with um with uh plastic casing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but please go on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Though I would recommend around the grip part here in the middle, having maybe just a rubber grip over that which would allow for a slightly more sort of bio-morphic form, and a bit more ergonomic as well. As for the um as for the single curve, um well this edge and this edge, like I say it would be nice to have some curvature to it, but it's not absolutely necessary. Really the curve that's most needed is the underside so that the jo so that the joystick rests over the the edge of the hand like this. Um and you have the uh transmitter here and a wee speaker for the uh for the uh for the uh fi uh for the remote control finder. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Any further comments?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um obviously it's gonna be bulkier than how it looks, because it's gonna be flat on one side, so the L_C_D_ will be s sticking down like this, won't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause it you can't get it curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh because of costs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's plastic as well, so it won't be as comfortable on the hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean with the with the rubber design it could i you know it could pretty much mould very much to the to the user's hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One nice wee feature if we could if we could still do the rubber, I though of was to have the uh rubber extend beyond the end of the uh of the rigid substructure. So it has a wee sort of tail that you just drape over your wrist so it stays in position nicely.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Lovely. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah. Great. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah I've got a if you load up my evaluation document.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh evaluation. Basic point uh have a list of criteria that we need to rate the prototype by. Um then we will it's a seven s um seven seven step kinda evaluation process. So um not seven steps, seven scale. So after we've finished doing all the ratings for each criteria, we average that and that will give us some type of uh confidence in our prototype. And uh the criteria based on Real Reactions' kinda goals and policies, marketing strategies, and also those I put together from the user requirements phase.'Kay. Um if you flip the So, those are the criteria. And uh perhaps I could have put'em a bit better, but you notice a few things that we've totally abandoned, which means that uh the product will score very badly on some of those points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put it mildly. So we have um true? One, t Seven, eight, oh. Fourth. Okay, so we have to go through each point. If we imagine it's actually straight, and just give it a a score. So um how well would you say the prototype is uh how well have we realised the dream of being able to stop remotes from from being lost, or to be able to find them once they are lost. I mean, uh is the homing thing still the locator, is that still.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's still part of the design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure. And Adam, we can keep that in?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I believe so. So I mean I don't think anybody could actually stop a remote being lost,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause that would mean doing something about the human element,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I'd like to think that we've done something about finding the damn thing once we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. And making it a bright colour helps", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "with the personally I would have gone for purple..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Bright colour. So we still have that noise thing, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Os on a scale of one to seven, how would you guys rate it for finding finding it once it's lost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say number one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Number one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Number number one for the first criteria.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think w if it was just the sounder then th I mean something I've found with uh w w with say tr trying to find uh a cordless phone or a m mobile, you can hear it, but you can't quite pin it dow pin down where it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you can tell what room the mobile is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about what if the the volume on the T_V_'s turned up massively and uh you just wanna turn down the volume can't find remote. Suppose you have to go to the T_V_ and do it manually. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like y you wouldn't hear the speaker.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just before we go through all of the steps here, um well what we'll do is", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You wanna say something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um if we can look at the criteria you're gonna evaluate, and then we'll come back to the product evaluation if that's alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, is that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh that's that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so is there anything here that you that you wanted to cover as in the criteria that you've covered? And then we'll come back pretty much promptly to this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you mean cr is there anything I wanna.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I is there any of these criteria that need any explaining? Or is there anything that yous thought tha really would stand out compared to the others?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, a few. Something I neglected from my initial research is that Real Reactions has a a goal strategy that all of the products be inspired by material fashion, and clothing fashion. That is why fruit and veg being popular in the home and in clothing was important and they want all their products to be somehow inspired by current trends in fashion. So they say we put the fashion in electronics, well they really mean it they they're very big on fashion,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so. That's this bit right here. And uh this bit is this one easy to use for visitors or for anybody? I guess it's just the same as saying easy to use interface, so it's kinda condensed into one. And we can come back to it, you said.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No and which we will do very very shortly. Um. Okay. Slight problem we had was that we have an amazing four Euros over budget for what we were hoping to do. Um most of it stems from the use of the L_C_D_ which I think in the end accounted for about half of our expenditure because of course we required a chip as well. Um the only way to get this down was either to ditch the a L_C_D_, at which point we've removed a large part of how we were gonna interface, require more buttons, etcetera. Or what we did was that we um we as in I as I was quickly going over it was altering the actual structure. Um changing it to plastic and a solid unit with a single curve design would allow us to come back into the um proposed costs and we're just scraping it in, we've got point two of a Euro left over there. So we're just managing it really. Even then as well, um there was no criteria technically defined for a joystick so I've used what I think's appropriate. With any luck that won't mean that we've incurred more cost than we can actually afford to. It blows a lot of our really good ideas kind of slightly to one side, for example the possibility of having a U_S_B_ connection is definitely not viable now. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different languages?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That should still be viable. We've got an advanced chip, we've got the use of the L_C_D_. So being able to communicate in multiple languages is still very much a possibility.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but what's something we need to decide on is how we're gonna go from here. We do need to try and come up with an idea which could be continued with other people if need be. Um. We can I can bring the excel up sheet up and uh show you if you wish um. I really think as m much as it pains me is that we might have to go with plastic and some kind of solid design, possibly meaning that the L_C_D_ wouldn't be in this perfect place. It might be s stuck like slightly between what would be good for left handed and what would be good for a right handed person.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm I suppose o one thing that could be done is h is have it um circular and have it s so that the uh the pink actually goes a bit over the pinkie finger. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that uh th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It very much is about making concessions, unfortunately. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you have any data on how much um different prints cost? I mean can you get the entire thing printed with a design um?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um b b b da is you mean on the plastic, or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's have a look. You now have as much information as I do. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So as you can see here, for example, the battery really not very little choice in that one. We've gone for one of the cheaper options as well. Unfortunately we require the advanced chip if we're gonna do what we're needing to. I've said single curved. We really do need it to be that way for the ergonomics of it. Um plastic for some reason incurs no cost, which I've had to very much make advantage of, despite the fact that rubber's only got a value of two Euros per unit. Problem comes here as you can see in the interface. Um if I've read this thing correctly, then we can save point five of a Euro here in that it's not per push button. That might make sense, because then a numeric keypad would come in at um what, four point five Euros, which is an awful lot, so that could well be wrong. Even if we save point five there, it would just mean that we're most likely placing it in actually just gaining a colour for the unit, which has had to be put to one side. As you can see, the use of an L_C_ display um advanced chip and what would determine the scroll wheel here as well because it's an integrated scroll scroll wheel push button that wasn't quite what I think they had in mind with a joystick.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why would why would that be more expensive than an individual push button and scroll wheel together? That's quite significantly expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I that's something you'll have to take up with the bean counters. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "as you can see I mean that's taken up well over half of the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um I'm very much open to suggestions of where we go, but because we need to shed what was four Euros off of the um the price of for what we really desired, this one comes in under price as you can see, but this was the one that sacrificed the material for the case and for the actual case design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't even have uh speakers here. The like uh we uh what about speakers and transmitters and stuff like that? Have we factored that in?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh no, we haven't, not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Transmitter, receiver, speakers. Plus the extra device itself that's gonna be on a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that gonna be a button, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That'll it literally would just be a button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We might have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's too expensive isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It looks like almost nothing Mm. Oh good call, I missed that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I mean it's not on here, but um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's a very valid point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did they s do we have to use an advanced chip for the L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well that's yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if we're gonna go with the L_C_ display, then that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's a hand dyna dynamo? You have to wind it up?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I believe so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That would probably not be in keeping with the um the fashion statement and such,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technology. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fashion.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So basically the only new thing is the L_C_D_ on the remote now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Being manipulated by the joystick, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, and joystick, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which I'm defining as scroll wheel. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we couldn't replace the joystick, right? Because we would need four extra buttons to replace it, up down left and right, and that would be more expensive than a but is a scroll wheel not just back and forward?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's just because there was no actual definition for what a joystick might be, that that's what I've labelled it for the purposes of this evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So The L_C_D_ basically is the big selling point of", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If we remove the L_C_ display, we could save ourselves", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a fair amount. Which you could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that's what makes it uh original though,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. I think if we remove the the L_C_ display then there was absolutely no point to any of these meetings", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we just we could just put our branding on any other remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Um. Uh k", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a shame. We should possibly have If we could've increased the price we could've manufactured that and we could've got something far closer to what we were hoping to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does this does this bear in mind that I mean it's a bit ridiculous that they're gonna charge us what is it, like this much money for three million if we're gonna buy three million components,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Again, you'll have to argue with the accountants on that one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but for the purposes of this meeting, I'm we're gonna have to stick with these figures.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, I would say that it would seem like the general opinion is we're gonna keep the L_C_ display'cause it's about what really separates us, despite the cost it's gonna incur. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are people maybe not happy with, but are willing to go ahead with this in going for a plastic solid case, to keep the L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Um yeah I mean one thing, I mean ho uh how much extra would it be to to keep I mean keep the um the articulation?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's hard to tell. Um I would say that you're at least gonna take double curved,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is what I'm wondering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and even then I'm not quite sure if that's incorporating the idea of articulation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, I think I I it d that it needn't require it to be double curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It can be s yeah, it can still be single curved,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's uh it's just it's just it's just that the case would come in t would be made in two parts and then joined together with an articulation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single curved with articulation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could we could we not get rid of the curvy the curvous the curvaceousness and focus on the menu being the best interface?'Cause like we do we have re restrictions on software?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what we need for the joystick I think though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah, I mean", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh but there has to be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I mean the uh I mean if you look uh if you look closer at the uh at the prototype here, the lines here along the grip are actually quite straight. Um I mean yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But the curves all o over hand,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on the on the L_C_D_ I mean although we've done it with a curve it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "could just as easily be done um without curves. The curve that's really needed is up here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "joystick.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to put uh to keep the joystick in a good ergonomic position for it to have it rest on the top of the hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Sure. Okay, my bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We wouldn't actually save a lot by reducing it anyway, so I mean for the purposes of this meeting maybe we can state that single curve still allows articulation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um unless we hear otherwise we could go ahead with that proposal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think the product is not gonna perform so well for my criteria.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which is what we can get onto now. As long as so are we gonna say w we have to keep an eye on the time as well, but we're gonna say um single curved design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, wait a minute. Sample speaker? What is a sample speaker? Is that somewhat similar to what we want?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could well be,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but at a cost of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's that voice response thing that we got the email about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Costs four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I thought it was just completely pointless.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You got a email about voice response?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I did not,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "B i basically it was saying that our labs had come up with a chip that you could, you know, say hello to, and it would say hello back in a friendly female voice..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah we'll definitely won't go with that one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We won't go with that one, did you say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's voice recognition, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean I we Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So, okay yeah, battery definitely,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it looks like we're gonna get rid of the whole loca locator thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks like it unless we can manage to put it in under point two Euros, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe even slight well oh yeah, pretty much point two Euros, I'd say. So we'll leave that one for now. we'll just have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we going for a special colour at all?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's uh a case of um I'm uh slightly unsure. One point five of a Euro for one push button doesn't sound quite right. So maybe it's a case of a push button is maybe one or more. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At which point if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was for a case. Or had you already incorporated that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, special colour for the case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you got point five there. It's literally a case of whether or not this is correct. I'm not quite sure if they're I don't think they mean point five Euros per button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "l let's say that and then we can have our special coloured case", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then we at least have make it a little harder to lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because most m most remotes are a fairly dingy colour that gets camouflaged under any pile of crap in a living room.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W what's the default colour? White or black?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Black's probably the normal colour you'd say,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or grey.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I quite like that colour that you're fetching there,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yellow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's uh definitely for make it glow in the dark even better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So will we go with that then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not and we can see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we'll come back to uh your evaluation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which you're probably now going to pan us but there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just to give you an idea, um you want to go maybe a bit quickly as well, I'm not sure how much time. We've not hit the five minute mark warning yet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think it's ten minutes left..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ten.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Ability to stop remotes from being lost or to find them once they are lost. Um. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Special colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Special colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three? Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three. I think we can do three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three if we're being generous, I feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th the special colour doesn't would I think make a difference.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think we're being generous here with three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It makes it stand out from you know it's lost in a big pile of crap, it stands out from the rest of the crap..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Reduce the number of unused buttons. We're down to t two buttons, is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two buttons and a joystick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so that's a one. You know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Totally.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd say we're doing well there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, that was good. Easy to use interface, buttons menu, menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's yeah that's good.'Kay that's we're not doing so badly. Um easy to use oh okay, let's forget that one. Fancy looking..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As he models the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't get much fancier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure. And we could do whatever we like with the L_ L_C_D_. Yeah let's just assume it's a good L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe I was panicking for no reason.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we going one on?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say we go two,'cause like f the fanciest would be the double curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wouldn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "w maybe you'd be a bit too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. There we go. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With the articulators. With bells on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's m that's that's better too. More accurate numbers. Technologically innovative. Well, we're getting rid of the locator thing", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which is a shame.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which which", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I'd give it a three for this for that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No need for teletext.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean the menus thing is something you don't normally see on um on a remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you see it in a lot of other places.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mobile phones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And y what you're doing is moving the menu from the television to the remote control, so it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You say three? I might go as far as two on that. Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd give it a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd be tempted with three, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll get panned on the next one, anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Materials that people find pleasing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sponginess is what they really would have wanted, apparently.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is, yeah. Don't blame them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um because of the way that we've minimalised the number of buttons and such.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Plastic, it sucks. But it's no worse than any of the other pl remote controls we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true. It's not a step backwards.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "five?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I'd s I I'd give it a six, to be honest.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay let's give it a six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that's totally thrown everything off balance. Inspired by the latest interior and clothing fashion. W we could. What colour were we gonna make it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put a leopard print on it..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I I would sa I would say give a s give a selection of colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we went with yellow we went with yellow for the prototype", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause we had yellow. If I were buying one, I'd go for purple. Leopard print would be cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But um by this I think it's more a case of fruit and veg,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we gotta. I'd say the colour of the border there world you'd find that, that's that'd stand out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like yellow, yeah. It would also help keep the the product placement s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Logo, brand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it inspired by clothing fashion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But Th th they're referring to the fruit and veg thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this like a banana type colour? Could we stretch no still, it's not shaped like a banana is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's kinda i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's kind o it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it won't be when it's been", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "probably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh is that'cause it's flat?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "budgeted.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is what fruit or veg is flat?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think s I I think this isn't not particularly fruit and veggie. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or we might have to suffer badly for this one as well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yellow courgette.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it's probably more fruit and veg than most other things out there bar fruit and veg, so, what, four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four? Oh that's it's very ambitious,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that being too generous?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I'd I'd I don't think fruit and veg is the sole criterion. Is the sole criterion for being um fashion fashionable or inspired by current fashions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh dear,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Inspired by.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I'd g I'd rate I'd rate this fairly highly from that point of view actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well this this what we're gonna t this is their motto, like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we're we're not doing well on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is their strategy. I m imagine we actually had some money invested in this and the amount that we invest is gonna be proportional to the marks. Might we might wanna be a bit more skepible sceptical about this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What would you think yourself?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say I mean it's it's not at all, right? In any way or shape or form.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, it's kind of curved", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We didn't m", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we can make it yellow, and that's pretty much banana like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, the the yellow banana like thing is I think is okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Si it's got a curve to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right five. Is that sound reasonable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Am I do you think I'm stretching the uh the use of the banana?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll go with five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five. Yeah.'Kay, so we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So five, seven, ten, sixteen, twenty one. Which gives us an average of three. It's well this would be in the middle. So we it's it's not bad. It's in the good section.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not bad and considering the don't pick the pen. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops. Sorry. I'm I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y oh and you've knocked batteries out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um right okay it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S bad design, that thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "considering the price we had to get this in, to have a positive you know, even based on the four of us being heavily biased, um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it was gonna be quite hard to get anything standing out I'd say possibly, based on um the the cost features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even if we were to increase this entire thing by by seven, we were to go down a grade to to four, we would have to do I mean we didn't we weren't that kinda optimistic too optim overly optimistic. You know like we didn't we didn't add we didn't subtract a whole seven points from these things, so I think we're definitely on the good bit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even if we gave this one seven and this one seven, that's still only three extra points over seven. You know, it's yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Personally, I think given that the product um only replaces a single remote control", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we did it w it was okay. It was good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that you've already got, are people really gonna shell out twenty five Euros for something that's only marginally good?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it depends who your who's what the target people are, like you'd say maybe the fashion conscious", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe it's been targeted.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "women would be going, oh look at that,'s cool, it looks like a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's yellow, looks like a banana, it's cool it's gotta look good in the sitting room.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hide it in the fruit basket.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rather than the L_C_D_ whereas uh more technical like like more uh people in with the latest technology it's good, it's got an L_C_D_ screen's only got two buttons and a joystick. So, which which kind of people would be more likely to buy it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Probably the people technologically. They're usually the ones that buy pointless stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean my mum still has not learnt how to use text messaging on her phone, and she's had it for a long time, you know. She uses it to make phone calls and that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think if sh if my mum saw a remote control like this with only two buttons and a joystick, I mean that'll probably be the first one she decides not to buy, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "She'd be like is this a remote control, I don't how do you use it, and stuff like that. So even if it is really user friendly to us, but we're used to using menus all the time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I s I suppose one thing is that b because it's technically innovative, um for someone who's sort of technophobic, the fact that it simply looks unfamiliar would be daunting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's totally uh radical to have a remote control with no no numbered buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But like radical good, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um don't know how lo much longer we've got. At least five minutes I think. Um quickly we'll pop onto project evaluation. Um. So, we've got these uh four criteria here for uh satisfaction. Does anybody want to um um do you have any opinions on any of them? For example um we'll work backwards I suppose. The ability to work on this project using the technology we've been presented with. Um people made good use of the uh pen and paper?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "got notes and doodles.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wrote nearly a page,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure what the advantage for us using a digital pen might be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think this is a I think the digital pen's mostly for the benefit of the uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think tracking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of the researchers studying this. It's all p goes into their corpus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It must.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Though it would have been nice to be able to transfer the um transfer our n our paper notes onto the uh computer ourselves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that woulda been pretty good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It does seem like the paper's still a heavy consideration for taking notes. So maybe this is literally just a way around it. Um I dunno. How are people satisfied with the teamwork we've managed to display today?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I liked it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Leadership. As much as can be leadered in this uh thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I li yeah, top marks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um last one we've got is room for creativity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Unti uh uh until uh until accounts came along,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now, I think we got.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "squish.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're burs bursting with creativity.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We we're not lacking in ideas, you know it's that was not the problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think of in the end, ideas that can be used sadly. Not so much that we weren't full of ideas, but of ones that are gonna allow us to actually build the thing. It's a bit of a pity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I would have to agree on that. I think we needed a larger budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you're going to aim your a um product maybe at the technological kind of sector, then you can afford to maybe jack the price up slightly from what it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because they will pay outrageous cash to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I mean I th I mean I think to r retaining the s the more sort of bio-morphic form in the articulation would gain more in s uh would gain more profit in sales than it would lose in uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "first on the market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in added expense.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the price was like it was twice the w assembly cost. And would it have to be twice that? It could be like coulda had the assembly like maybe fifteen Euro.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It could even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll still settle for twenty five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I suppose these are all that will have to be taken up with a at a different group at I guess. As to a the costs involved. But I mean we've got a a prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Such as it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I dunno, I I think it's gone okay today, considering the information that we've had at our disposal, and um such.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe the counts wou woulda been better if we had a list or more Yeah, to begin with.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In the beginning, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Probably would have mean we could have come up with a lot more solid design in the end,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would have to agree. It is very much a pity to um get so far into the stage and then find out that maybe some of your ideas are just a bit too expensive. Always hard to tell until you know the costs. Um. Okay. Are the costs within budget? Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "they are now that we have our slightly less than capable product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've evaluated it, and we can say that we came out with a value of three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actually I want th one thing I would say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean something that could perhaps be part of the product mm the um m product testing market research process would be to uh produce mock-ups of both versions and see just how much of a difference the over going over-budget um m would make to sales.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And like response from consumers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we could even you know, market two versions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wee cheapie version with the nice bio-morphic rubber..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then the final one where you get to call it Hal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we'll go into that later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is there anything else that anybody would like to to add, um anything they think that's not been covered, before I quickly write up a final report. Um I dunno, I mean we've got a product. We maybe aren't as happy with it as we'd like to be, but we've got something we think we can maybe stick onto the the market and sell. And of course something we have been avoiding talking about'cause of we've no information is selling them directly to the manufacturers. There is a huge market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean we've briefly touched on it but we've no more knowledge then there's little we can say on that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So um unless anybody's got anything they'd like to add, we can maybe round this up slightly earlier than we'd need to and then we can finish up the writing and such.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I can get my bus. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, let's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh thank you for your participation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was actually kind of upset you know at the budget, and that we had to cut a lot of stuff. It's like man, we we can't have the locator thing. And s yeah that's just bad. Do you think maybe the prices were were made?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That a question we can ask..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bro016", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Let's see. Test? Test? Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Hello?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hello?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Test.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I was saying Hynek'll be here next week, uh, Wednesday through Friday uh, through Saturday, and, um, I won't be here Thursday and Friday. But my suggestion is that, uh, at least for this meeting, people should go ahead, uh, cuz Hynek will be here, and, you know, we don't have any Czech accent yet, uh, as far as I know, so There we go.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. So other than reading digits, what's our agenda?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I don't really have, uh, anything new. Been working on Meeting Recorder stuff. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Um. Do you think that would be the case for next week also? Or is is, uh? What's your projection on?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cuz the one thing the one thing that seems to me we really should try, if you hadn't tried it before, because it hadn't occurred to me it was sort of an obvious thing is, um, adjusting the, uh, sca the scaling and, uh, insertion penalty sorta stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I did play with that, actually, a little bit. Um. What happens is, uh, when you get to the noisy stuff, you start getting lots of insertions.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "And, um, so I've tried playing around a little bit with, um, the insertion penalties and things like that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Um. I mean, it it didn't make a whole lot of difference. Like for the well - matched case, it seemed like it was pretty good. Um. I could do more playing with that, though. And, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But you were looking at mel cepstrum.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "and see. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Oh, you're talking about for th for our features.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. So, I mean, i it it's not the direction that you were working with that we were saying what's the uh, what's the best you can do with with mel cepstrum. But, they raised a very valid point,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "which, I guess So, to first order I mean, you have other things you were gonna do, but to first order, I would say that the conclusion is that if you, um, do, uh, some monkeying around with, uh, the exact HTK training and @ @ with, uh, you know, how many states and so forth, that it it doesn't particularly improve the performance. In other words, that even though it sounds pretty dumb, just applying the same number of states to everything, more or less, no matter what language, isn't so bad. Right? And I guess you hadn't gotten to all the experiments you wanted to do with number of Gaussians,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but, um, let's just If we had to if we had to draw a conclusion on the information we have so far, we'd say something like that. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, so the next question to ask, which is I think the one that that that Andreas was dre addressing himself to in the lunch meeting, is, um, we're not supposed to adjust the back - end, but anybody using the system would.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, if you were just adjusting the back - end, how much better would you do, uh, in noise? Uh, because the language scaling and insertion penalties and so forth are probably set to be about right for mel cepstrum.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, um, they're probably not at all set right for these things, particularly these things that look over, uh, larger time windows, in one way or another with with LDA and KLT and neural nets and all these things. In the fa past we've always found that we had to increase the insertion penalty to to correspond to such things. So, I think that's, uh, @ @ that's kind of a first - order thing that that we should try.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "So for th so the experiment is to, um, run our front - end like normal, with the default, uh, insertion penalties and so forth, and then tweak that a little bit and see how much of a difference it makes", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So by \" our front - end \" I mean take, you know, the Aurora - two s take some version that Stephane has that is, you know, our current best version of something.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "if we were Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. I mean, y don't wanna do this over a hundred different things that they've tried but, you know, for some version that you say is a good one. You know? Um. How how much, uh, does it improve if you actually adjust that?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But it is interesting. You say you you have for the noisy How about for the for the mismatched or or or or the or the medium mismatched conditions? Have you? When you adjusted those numbers for mel cepstrum, did it?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Uh, I I don't remember off the top of my head. Um. Yeah. I didn't even write them down. I I I don't remember. I would need to Well, I did write down, um So, when I was doing I just wrote down some numbers for the well - matched case.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Um. Looking at the I wrote down what the deletions, substitutions, and insertions were, uh, for different numbers of states per phone.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Um, but, uh, that that's all I wrote down.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "So. I I would Yeah. I would need to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. So.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I can do that for next week.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. And, um Yeah. Also, eh, eh, sometimes if you run behind on some of these things, maybe we can get someone else to do it and you can supervise or something. But but I think it would be it'd be good to know that.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "OK. I just need to get, um, front - end, uh, stuff from you", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or you point me to some files that you've already calculated.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I probably will have time to do that and time to play a little bit with the silence model.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "So maybe I can have that for next week when Hynek's here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz, I mean, the the other That, in fact, might have been part of what, uh, the difference was at least part of it that that we were seeing. Remember we were seeing the SRI system was so much better than the tandem system.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Part of it might just be that the SRI system, they they they always adjust these things to be sort of optimized,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Is there?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I wonder if there's anything that we could do to the front - end that would affect the insertion.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes. I think you can.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "What could you do?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, um uh, part of what's going on, um, is the, uh, the range of values. So, if you have something that has a much smaller range or a much larger range, and taking the appropriate root.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Oh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You know? If something is kind of like the equivalent of a bunch of probabilities multiplied together, you can take a root of some sort. If it's like seven probabilities together, you can take the seventh root of it or something, or if it's in the log domain, divide it by seven.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But but, um, that has a similar effect because it changes the scale of the numbers of the differences between different candidates from the acoustic model", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "as opposed to what's coming from the language model.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "So that w Right. So, in effect, that's changing the value of your insertion penalty.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, it's more directly like the the language scaling or the, uh the model scaling or acoustic scaling,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but you know that those things have kind of a similar effect to the insertion penalty", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "anyway. They're a slightly different way of of handling it.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "So if we know what the insertion penalty is, then we can get an idea about what range our number should be in,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "so that they match with that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. So that's why I think that's another reason other than curiosity as to why i it would in fact be kinda neat to find out if we're way off. I mean, the other thing is, are aren't we seeing? Y y", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I'm sure you've already looked at this bu in these noisy cases, are? We are seeing lots of insertions. Right? The insertion number is quite high?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I know the VAD takes pre care of part of that,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I've seen that with the mel cepstrum. I don't I don't know about the Aurora front - end, but.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think it's much more balanced with, uh when the front - end is more robust. Yeah. I could look at it at this. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Wha - what's a typical number?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I don't I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do we? Oh, you oh, you don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I don't have this in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. I'm sure it's more balanced,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but it it it wouldn't surprise me if there's still.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, in in the the the old systems we used to do, I I uh, I remember numbers kind of like insertions being half the number of deletions, as being and both numbers being tend to be on the small side comparing to to, uh, substitutions.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, this the whole problem with insertions was what I think, um, we talked about when the guy from OGI came down that one time and and that was when people were saying, well we should have a, uh, uh, voice activity detector.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "that, because all that stuff that we're getting thr the silence that's getting through is causing insertions. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I'll bet you there's still a lot of insertions.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And it may be less of a critical thing. I mean, the fact that some get by may be less of a critical thing if you, uh, get things in the right range.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, I mean, the insertions is is a symptom. It's a symptom that there's something, uh, wrong with the range.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But there's uh, your your your substitutions tend to go up as well. So, uh, I I I think that,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh, the most obvious thing is just the insertions, @ @. But Uh um. If you're operating in the wrong range I mean, that's why just in general, if you change what these these penalties and scaling factors are, you reach some point that's a that's a minimum. So. Um. Um. We do have to do well over a range of different conditions, some of which are noisier than others. Um. But, um, I think we may get a better handle on that if we if we see Um, I mean we ca it's if we actually could pick a a a more stable value for the range of these features, it, um, uh, could Uh Even though it's it's it's true that in a real situation you can in fact adjust the these these scaling factors in the back - end, and it's ar artificial here that we're not adjusting those, you certainly don't wanna be adjusting those all the time. And if you have a nice front - end that's in roughly the right range.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I remember after we got our stuff more or less together in the previous systems we built, that we tended to set those scaling factors at kind of a standard level, and we would rarely adjust them again, even though you could get a.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "for an evaluation you can get an extra point or something if you tweaked it a little bit. But, once we knew what rou roughly the right operating range was, it was pretty stable, and Uh, we might just not even be in the right operating range.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "So, would the? Uh, would a good idea be to try to map it into the same range that you get in the well - matched case? So, if we computed what the range was in well - matched, and then when we get our noisy conditions out we try to make it have the same range as?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. You don't wanna change it for different conditions. No. No. I I I What what I'm saying.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Oh, I wasn't suggesting change it for different conditions. I was just saying that when we pick a range, we we wanna pick a range that we map our numbers into.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "we should probably pick it based on the range that we get in the well - matched case. Otherwise, I mean, what range are we gonna choose to to map everything into?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well. It depends how much we wanna do gamesmanship and how much we wanna do I mean, i if he it to me, actually, even if you wanna be play on the gamesmanship side, it can be kinda tricky. So, I mean, what you would do is set the set the scaling factors, uh, so that you got the best number for this point four five times the you know, and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But they might change that those weightings.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. So Uh I just sorta think we need to explore the space. Just take a look at it a little bit.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And we we we may just find that that we're way off.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Maybe we're not. You know? As for these other things, it may turn out that, uh, it's kind of reasonable. But then I mean, Andreas gave a very reasonable response, and he's probably not gonna be the only one who's gonna say this in the future of, you know, people people within this tight - knit community who are doing this evaluation are accepting, uh, more or less, that these are the rules. But, people outside of it who look in at the broader picture are certainly gonna say \" Well, wait a minute. You're doing all this standing on your head, uh, on the front - end,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "when all you could do is just adjust this in the back - end with one s one knob. \"", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so we have to at least, I think, determine that that's not true, which would be OK, or determine that it is true, in which case we want to adjust that and then continue with with what we're doing. And as you say as you point out finding ways to then compensate for that in the front - end also then becomes a priority for this particular test,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and saying you don't have to do that.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. OK. So, uh What's new with you?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Uh. So there's nothing new. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, what's old with you that's developed?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You OK. What's old with you that has developed over the last week or two?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mmm. Well, so we've been mainly working on the report and and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mainly working on what?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "On the report of the work that was already done.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. Mm - hmm. That's all.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "How about that? Any - anything new on the thing that, uh, you were working on with the, uh?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I don't have results yet.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No results? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What was that?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "The the, uh,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Voicing thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "voicing detector.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, what what's what's going on now? What are you doing?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Uh, to try to found, nnn, robust feature for detect between voice and unvoice. And we w we try to use the variance of the es difference between the FFT spectrum and mel filter bank spectrum.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Uh, also the another parameter is relates with the auto - correlation function.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "R - ze energy and the variance a also of the auto - correlation function.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. So, that's Yeah. That's what you were describing, I guess, a week or two ago.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But we don't have res we don't have result of the AURO for Aurora yet.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "We need to train the neural network", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So you're training neural networks now?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "No, not yet.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, what wha wh wha what what's going on?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Well, we work in the report, too, because we have a lot of result,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "they are very dispersed, and was necessary to to look in all the directory to to to give some more structure.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yea", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So. B So Yeah. I if I can summarize, basically what's going on is that you're going over a lot of material that you have generated in furious fashion, f generating many results and doing many experiments and trying to pull it together into some coherent form to be able to see wha see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, y yeah. Basically we we've stopped, uh, experimenting,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I mean. We're just writing some kind of technical report. And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Is this a report that's for Aurora? Or is it just like a tech report for ICSI,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "For ICSI.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or? Ah. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just summary of the experiment and the conclusion and something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. So, my suggestion, though, is that you you not necessarily finish that. But that you put it all together so that it's you've got you've got a clearer structure to it. You know what things are, you have things documented, you've looked things up that you needed to look up.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So that, you know so that such a thing can be written. And, um When when when do you leave again?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Uh, in July. First of July.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "First of July? OK. And that you figure on actually finishing it in in June. Because, you know, you're gonna have another bunch of results to fit in there anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And right now it's kind of important that we actually go forward with experiments.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "It's not.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so, I I think it's good to pause, and to gather everything together and make sure it's in good shape, so that other people can get access to it and so that it can go into a report in June. But I think to to really work on on fine - tuning the report n at this point is is probably bad timing, I I think.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. Well, we didn't we just planned to work on it one week on this report, not no more, anyway. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But you ma you may really wanna add other things later anyway", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because you.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There's more to go?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, so I don't know. There are small things that we started to to do. But.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Are you discovering anything, uh, that makes you scratch your head as you write this report, like why did we do that, or why didn't we do this,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And Actually, there were some tables that were also with partial results. We just noticed that, wh while gathering the result that for some conditions we didn't have everything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But anyway. Um. Yeah, yeah. We have, yeah, extracted actually the noises from the SpeechDat - Car. And so, we can train neural network with speech and these noises. Um. It's difficult to say what it will give, because when we look at the Aurora the TI - digits experiments, um, they have these three conditions that have different noises, and apparently this system perform as well on the seen noises on the unseen noises and on the seen noises. But, I think this is something we have to try anyway. So adding the noises from from the SpeechDat - Car. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's that's, uh that's permitted?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, OGI does did that. Um. At some point they did that for for the voice activity detector.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, for a v VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right? Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Could you say it again? What what exactly did they do?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They used some parts of the, um, Italian database to train the voice activity detector, I think. It.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess the thing is Yeah. I guess that's a matter of interpretation. The rules as I understand it, is that in principle the Italian and the Spanish and the English no, Italian and the Finnish and the English? were development data", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. And Spanish, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "on which you could adjust things. And the and the German and Danish were the evaluation data.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then when they finally actually evaluated things they used everything.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So Uh, and it is true that the performance, uh, on the German was I mean, even though the improvement wasn't so good, the pre the raw performance was really pretty good.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So And, uh, it it doesn't appear that there's strong evidence that even though things were somewhat tuned on those three or four languages, that that going to a different language really hurt you. And the noises were not exactly the same. Right? Because it was taken from a different, uh I mean they were different drives.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Different cars. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, it was it was actual different cars and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So. Um, it's somewhat tuned. It's tuned more than, you know, a a a a.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You'd really like to have something that needed no particular noise at all, maybe just some white noise or something like that a at most.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But that's not really what this contest is. So. Um, I guess it's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's something I'd like to understand before we actually use something from it,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I think it's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "because it would.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "it's probably something that, mmm, the you know, the, uh, experiment designers didn't really think about, because I think most people aren't doing trained systems, or, you know, uh, systems that are like ours, where you actually use the data to build models. I mean, they just doing signal - processing.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, it's true,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "except that, uh, that's what we used in Aurora one, and then they designed the things for Aurora - two knowing that we were doing that.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "And they didn't forbid us right? to build models on the data?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. But, I think I think that it it it probably would be the case that if, say, we trained on Italian, uh, data and then, uh, we tested on Danish data and it did terribly, uh, that that it would look bad. And I think someone would notice and would say \" Well, look. This is not generalizing. \" I would hope tha I would hope they would.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. But, uh, it's true. You know, maybe there's parameters that other people have used you know, th that they have tuned in some way for other things. So it's it's, uh We should we should Maybe that's maybe a topic Especially if you talk with him when I'm not here, that's a topic you should discuss with Hynek", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "to, you know, double check it's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Do we know anything about the speakers for each of the, uh, training utterances?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What do you mean? We we.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do you have speaker information?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Social security number", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "That would be good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Like, we have male, female,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Bank PIN.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "at least.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just male f female?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What kind of information do you mean?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Well, I was thinking about things like, you know, gender, uh you know, gender - specific nets and, uh, vocal tract length normalization.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Things like that. I d I don't I didn't know what information we have about the speakers that we could try to take advantage of.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Uh. Right. I mean, again, i if you had the whole system you were optimizing, that would be easy to see. But if you're supposedly just using a fixed back - end and you're just coming up with a feature vector, w w I'm not sure I mean, having the two nets Suppose you detected that it was male, it was female you come up with different.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Well, you could put them both in as separate streams or something. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I don't know. I was just wondering if there was other information we could exploit.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, it's an interesting thought. Maybe having something along the I mean, you can't really do vocal tract normalization. But something that had some of that effect", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "being applied to the data in some way.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Do you have something simple in mind for I mean, vocal tract length normalization?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh no. I hadn't I hadn't thought it was thought too much about it, really. It just something that popped into my head just now. And so I I I mean, you could maybe use the ideas a similar idea to what they do in vocal tract length normalization. You know, you have some sort of a, uh, general speech model, you know, maybe just a mixture of Gaussians that you evaluate every utterance against, and then you see where each, you know, utterance like, the likelihood of each utterance. You divide the the range of the likelihoods up into discrete bins and then each bin's got some knob uh, setting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. But just listen to yourself. I mean, that uh really doesn't sound like a real - time thing with less than two hundred milliseconds, uh, latency that and where you're not adjusting the statistical engine at all.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You know, that just.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Could be expensive.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. Well not just expensive. I I I don't see how you could possibly do it. You can't look at the whole utterance and do anything. You know, you can only Right?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Each frame comes in and it's gotta go out the other end.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Right. So whatever it was, it would have to be uh sort of on a per frame basis.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, you can do, um Fairly quickly you can do male female f male female stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But as far as, I mean Like I thought BBN did a thing with, uh, uh, vocal tract normalization a ways back. Maybe other people did too. With with, uh, uh, l trying to identify third formant average third formant using that as an indicator of.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. You know, third formant I if you imagine that to first order what happens with, uh, changing vocal tract is that, uh, the formants get moved out by some proportion.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, if you had a first formant that was one hundred hertz before, if the fifty if the vocal tract is fifty percent shorter, then it would be out at seven fifty hertz, and so on. So, that's a move of two hundred fifty hertz. Whereas the third formant which might have started off at twenty - five hundred hertz, you know, might be out to thirty - seven fifty, you know so it's at So, although, you frequently get less distinct higher formants, it's still third formant's kind of a reasonable compromise, and.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, I think, eh, if I recall correctly, they did something like that. And and.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But Um, that doesn't work for just having one frame or something.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know? That's more like looking at third formant over over a turn or something like that,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. So. But on the other hand, male female is a is a is a much simpler categorization than figuring out a a factor to, uh, squish or expand the the spectrum.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, um. Y you could imagine that I mean, just like we're saying voiced - unvoiced is good to know uh, male female is good to know also. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, you'd have to figure out a way to to to, uh, incorporate it on the fly. Uh, I mean, I guess, as you say, one thing you could do is simply, uh, have the the male and female output vectors you know, tr nets trained only on males and n trained only on females or or, uh, you know. But Um. I don't know if that would really help, because you already have males and females and it's mm - hmm putting into one net. So is it?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Is it balanced, um, in terms of gender the data?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do you know?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Almost, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK. Y you're you were saying before?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah. So, this noise, um Yeah. The MSG Um. Mmm. There is something perhaps, I could spend some days to look at this thing, cuz it seems that when we train networks on let's say, on TIMIT with MSG features, they they look as good as networks trained on PLP. But, um, when they are used on on the SpeechDat - Car data, it's not the case oh, well. The MSG features are much worse, and so maybe they're, um, less more sensitive to different recording conditions, or Shou", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Shouldn't be. They should be less so.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "R right?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Wh -? But let me ask you this. What what's the, um? Do you kno recall if the insertions were were higher with MSG?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I don't know. I cannot tell. But It's it the the error rate is higher. So, I don", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But you should always look at insertions, deletions, and substitutions.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so, uh MSG is very, very dif Eh, PLP is very much like mel cepstrum. MSG is very different from both of them.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, if it's very different, then this is the sort of thing I mean I'm really glad Andreas brought this point up. I sort of had forgotten to discuss it. Um. You always have to look at how this uh, these adjustments, uh, affect things. And even though we're not allowed to do that, again we maybe could reflect that back to our use of the features.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So if it if in fact, uh The problem might be that the range of the MSG features is quite different than the range of the PLP or mel cepstrum.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And you might wanna change that.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "But Yeah. But, it's d it's after Well, it's tandem features, so Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. We we have estimation of post posteriors with PLP and with MSG as input,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "so I don Well. I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That means they're between zero and one.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But i it it it it doesn't necessarily You know, they could be, um Do - doesn't tell you what the variance of the things is.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? Cuz if you're taking the log of these things, it could be, uh Knowing what the sum of the probabilities are, doesn't tell you what the sum of the logs are.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we should look at the likelihood, or or what? Or well, at the log, perhaps, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or what you know, what you're uh the thing you're actually looking at.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So your your the values that are are actually being fed into HTK.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What do they look like?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "No And so th the, uh for the tandem system, the values that come out of the net don't go through the sigmoid. Right? They're sort of the pre - nonlinearity values?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. So they're kinda like log probabilities is what I was saying.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "And those OK. And tho that's what goes into HTK?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, almost. But then you actually do a KLT on them.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. They aren't normalized after that, are they?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mmm. No, they are not no.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No. OK. So, um. Right. So the question is Yeah. Whatever they are at that point, um, are they something for which taking a square root or cube root or fourth root or something like that is is gonna be a good or a bad thing? So.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, and that's something that nothing nothing else after that is gonna Uh, things are gonna scale it Uh, you know, subtract things from it, scale it from it, but nothing will have that same effect. Um. So. Um. Anyway, eh.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz if if the log probs that are coming out of the MSG are really big, the standard insertion penalty is gonna have very little effect", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, the Right.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "compared to, you know, a smaller set of log probs.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. Again you don't really look at that. It's something that, and then it's going through this transformation that's probably pretty close to It's, eh, whatever the KLT is doing. But it's probably pretty close to what a a a discrete cosine transformation is doing.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But still it's it's not gonna probably radically change the scale of things. I would think. And, uh Yeah. It may be entirely off and and it may be at the very least it may be quite different for MSG than it is for mel cepstrum or PLP. So that would be So the first thing I'd look at without adjusting anything would just be to go back to the experiment and look at the, uh, substitutions, insertions, and deletions. And if the if the, uh i if there's a fairly large effect of the difference, say, uh, uh, the r ratio between insertions and deletions for the two cases then that would be, uh, an indicator that it might might be in that direction.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yeah. But,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Anything else?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "my my point was more that it it works sometimes and but sometimes it doesn't work.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "And it works on TI - digits and on SpeechDat - Car it doesn't work, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But, you know, some problems are harder than others,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and And, uh, sometimes, you know, there's enough evidence for something to work and then it's harder, it breaks. You know,", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so it's But it but, um, i it it could be that when you say it works maybe we could be doing much better, even in TI - digits. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, there is also the spectral subtraction, which, um I think maybe we should, uh, try to integrate it in in our system.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "But,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "O", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I think that would involve to to mmm use a big a al already a big bunch of the system of Ericsson. Because he has spectral subtraction, then it's followed by, um, other kind of processing that's are dependent on the uh, if it's speech or noi or silence.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "And there is this kind of spectral flattening after if it's silence, and and s I I think it's important, um, to reduce this musical noise and this this increase of variance during silence portions. So. Well. This was in this would involve to take almost everything from from the this proposal and and then just add some kind of on - line normalization in in the neural network. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, this'll be, I think, something for discussion with Hynek next week.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Right. So. How are, uh, uh how are things going with what you're doing?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Oh. Well, um, I took a lot of time just getting my taxes out of the way multi - national taxes. So, I'm I'm starting to write code now for my work but I don't have any results yet. Um, i it would be good for me to talk to Hynek, I think, when he's here.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Do you know what his schedule will be like?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, he'll be around for three days.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "OK. So, y", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, we'll have a lot of time.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, uh Um. I'll, uh You know, he's he'll he'll be talking with everybody in this room So.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "But you said you won't you won't be here next Thursday?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Not Thursday and Friday. Yeah. Cuz I will be at faculty retreat.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. I'll try to connect with him and people as as I can on on Wednesday. But Um. Oh, how'd taxes go? Taxes go OK?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. Yeah. That's just that's that's one of the big advantages of not making much money is the taxes are easier. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Unless you're getting money in two countries.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think you are. Aren't you?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "They both want their cut.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Huh. Canada w Canada wants a cut?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Have to do So you you have to do two returns?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mmm. W uh, for two thousand I did. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. Yeah. For tw That's right, ju", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "But not for this next year?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Two thousand. Yeah. Probably not this next year, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Uh, I'll I'll still have a bit of Canadian income but it'll be less complicated because I will not be a considered a resident of Canada anymore, so I won't have to declare my American income on my Canadian return.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Alright. Uh. Barry, do you wanna say something about your stuff here?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Oh, um. Right. I just, um, continuing looking at, uh, ph uh, phonetic events, and, uh, this Tuesday gonna be, uh, meeting with John Ohala with Chuck to talk some more about these, uh, ph um, phonetic events. Um, came up with, uh, a plan of attack, uh, gonna execute, and um Yeah. It's that's pretty much it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, well. No Um, why don't you say something about what it is?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Oh, you oh, you want you want details. Hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, we're all gathered here together. I thought we'd, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I was hoping I could wave my hands. Um. So, um. So, once wa I I was thinking getting getting us a set of acoustic events to um, to be able to distinguish between, uh, phones and words and stuff. And um, once we we would figure out a set of these events that can be, you know, um, hand - labeled or or derived, uh, from h the hand - labeled phone targets. Um, we could take these events and, um, do some cheating experiments, um, where we feed, um, these events into an SRI system, um, eh, and evaluate its performance on a Switchboard task. Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey, Barry? Can you give an example of an event?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure. Um, I I can give you an example of twenty - odd events. Um So, he In this paper, um, it's talking about phoneme recognition using acoustic events. So, things like frication or, uh, nasality.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Whose paper is it?", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Um, this is a paper by Hubener and Cardson Benson Bernds - Berndsen.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Huh. From, uh, University of Hamburg and Bielefeld.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think the just to expand a little bit on the idea of acoustic event.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "There's, um in my mind, anyways, there's a difference between, um, acoustic features and acoustic events. And I think of acoustic features as being, um, things that linguists talk about, like, um.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, stuff that's not based on data.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Stuff that's not based on data, necessarily.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Right. That's not based on, you know, acoustic data. So they talk about features for phones, like, uh, its height,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "its tenseness, laxness, things like that,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "which may or may not be all that easy to measure in the acoustic signal. Versus an acoustic event, which is just some something in the acoustic signal that is fairly easy to measure. Um. So it's, um it's a little different, in at least in my mind.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, when we did the SPAM work I mean, there we had we had this notion of an, uh, auditory @ @ auditory event.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Good. That's great.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, uh, um, called them \" avents \", uh, uh, uh, with an A at the front.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. And the the the idea was something that occurred that is important to a bunch of neurons somewhere. So.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um. A sudden change or a relatively rapid change in some spectral characteristic will will do sort of this. I mean, there's certainly a bunch of a bunch of places where you know that neurons are gonna fire because something novel has happened. That was that was the main thing that we were focusing on there. But there's certainly other things beyond what we talked about there that aren't just sort of rapid changes, but.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "It's kinda like the difference between top - down and bottom - up.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "I think of the acoustic you know, phonetic features as being top - down. You know, you look at the phone and you say this phone is supposed to be you know, have this feature, this feature, and this feature. Whether tha those features show up in the acoustic signal is sort of irrelevant. Whereas, an acoustic event goes the other way. Here's the signal. Here's some event.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What? And then that you know, that may map to this phone sometimes, and sometimes it may not. It just depen maybe depends on the context, things like that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "And so it's sort of a different way of looking.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um Using these these events, um, you know, we can we can perform these these, uh, cheating experiments. See how how how good they are, um, in, um in terms of phoneme recognition or word recognition. And, um and then from that point on, I would, uh, s design robust event detectors, um, in a similar, um, wa spirit that Saul has done w uh, with his graphical models, and this this probabilistic AND - OR model that he uses. Um, eh, try to extend it to, um to account for other other phenomena like, um, CMR co - modulation release. And, um and maybe also investigate ways to to modify the structure of these models, um, in a data - driven way, uh, similar to the way that, uh, Jeff Jeff, uh, Bilmes did his work. Um, and while I'm I'm doing these, um, event detectors, you know, I can ma mea measure my progress by comparing, um, the error rates in clean and noisy conditions to something like, uh, neural nets. Um, and So so, once we have these these, uh, event detectors, um, we could put them together and and feed the outputs of the event detectors into into the SRI, um, HMM HMM system, and, um and test it on on Switchboard or, um, maybe even Aurora stuff. And, that's pretty much the the big picture of of um, the plan.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "By the way, um, there's, uh, a couple people who are gonna be here I forget if I already told you this, but, a couple people who are gonna be here for six months.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh uh, there's a Professor Kollmeier, uh, from Germany who's, uh, uh, quite big in the, uh, hearing - aid signal - processing area and, um, Michael Kleinschmidt, who's worked with him, who also looks at auditory properties inspired by various, uh, brain function things.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, um, um, I think they'll be interesting to talk to, in this sort of issue as these detectors are are, uh, developing.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, he looks at interesting interesting things in in the different ways of looking at spectra in order to to get various speech properties out. So.", "speakerName": "Professor E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Well, short meeting, but that's OK. And, uh, we might as well do our digits. And like I say, I I encourage you to go ahead and meet, uh, next week with, uh, uh, Hynek. Alright, I'll I'll start. It's, uh, one thirty - five. seventeen OK", "speakerName": "Professor E" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "covid5", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "We'll call this meeting to order. Welcome to the fifth meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order passed on Monday, April20, the committee is meeting today to consider ministerial announcements, to allow members of the committee to present petitions, and to question ministers, including the Prime Minister, about the COVID-19 pandemic. Tomorrow, May8, Dr.AndreaMcCrady, Dominion Carillonneur, will give a special recital to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. Victory in Europe Day, VE Day, commemorates the formal acceptance of Germany's surrender by allied forces at the end of the Second World War. While the pandemic prevents us from gathering to celebrate in person, tomorrow at noon the voice of our nation will ring out in remembrance of this milestone in our history. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Just so you are aware, the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. I would like to remind members that, as in the House of Commons or committee, they should not take photos of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of the interpreters and to allow the meeting to proceed smoothly, I would ask you to follow some instructions. The video conference will be interpreted as in normal meetings of committees and in the House. In the lower part of your screen, you can choose the language: floor, English or French. Please wait until I call on you by name before you begin to speak. When you are ready to speak, click on the microphone icon to activate your microphone, or hold the space bar down while you are speaking. If you release the bar, your microphone will revert to mute, just like a walkie-talkie. Honourable members, I would like to remind you that if you want to speak English, you should be on the English channel. If you want to speak French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Please direct your remarks through the chair. Should you need to request the floor outside of your designated speaking time, you should activate your mike and state that you have a point of order. If a member of the committee wishes to intervene on a point of order raised by another person, you should use the raised hand function to indicate to the chair that you wish to speak. To do this, click on the participant button at the bottom of your screen. When the list appears, you will see the raised hand option beside your name. Speak slowly and clearly at all times. When you are not speaking, leave your microphone on mute. It is highly recommended that you use a headset with a microphone. You have to remember to switch languages. Should any technical challenges arise, for example, in relation to interpretation, please advise the chair immediately by raising a point of order, and the technical team will work on resolving them. Please note that we may need to suspend during these times in order to correct a problem. I want to remind the honourable members to mute their microphones when they are not speaking. If you get accidentally disconnected, please try to rejoin the meeting with the information you used to join initially. If you are unable to rejoin, please contact our technical support team. Before we get started, please note that in the top right-hand corner of your screen is a button that you can use to change views. Speaker view allows you to focus on the person currently speaking; gallery view allows you to see a larger number of participants. You can click through the multiple pages in the gallery view to see who is on and how many more participants there are. I understand there are no ministerial announcements today. We will now proceed to presenting petitions for a period not exceeding 15 minutes. I would like to remind members that any petition presented during the meeting of the special committee must have already been certified by the clerk of petitions. In addition, to ensure a petition is considered properly presented, the certificate of the petition and each page of the petition for a petition certified in a previous Parliament should be mailed to the committee no later than 6 p.m. the day before. Now we'll go to presenting petitions. Mr. Genuis.", "speakerName": "The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.))" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, five years ago when Parliament passed Bill C-14, then justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said that it represented a finely tuned balance between access and safeguards. It also included a five-year review. Petitioners on the first petition I'm presenting are very concerned to see Bill C-7 before Parliament, which removes safeguards ahead of that five-year review. Petitioners specifically mention their concerns about the removal of the mandatory 10-day reflection period, which can already be waived in certain circumstances. They are concerned about reducing the number of witnesses required to oversee it and ensure that a request has been properly made. I commend that petition to the consideration of the House. The second and final petition that I will be presenting today is with respect to Senate Bill S-204. This would make it a criminal offence for a person to go abroad and receive an organ from a person who did not consent. This responds specifically to concerns about organ harvesting in the People's Republic of China involving Falun Gong practitioners and increasing concerns that this is being or about to be applied to Uighurs as well. Canada can and should take action on this. Petitioners are noting that in the previous Parliament there were bills on this, Bill C-350 and Bill S-240. Now, in this Parliament there is a bill, Bill S-204, and the petitioners hope that this 43rd Parliament will be the one that gets it passed.", "speakerName": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood ParkFort Saskatchewan, CPC)" }, { "text": "We will go to Ms. May.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's an honour. This is my first occasion to present a petition in our virtual format of the COVID-19 committee. Thank you to you and your staff, Mr. Chair, for developing a system that allows us to present petitions electronically. The petition I am presenting today, which was previously approved, is from a number of constituents who are concerned that we pursue the Paris Agreement to hold the global average temperature increase to no more than 1.5C. The Paris Agreement itself embeds in it the concept of Just Transition with a capital J and a capital T, the concept of just transition ensuring fairness and support for all workers in the fossil fuel sector. The petitioners call upon the Government of Canada to move forward with an act to ensure just transition and to ensure adequate funding so that workers and communities dependent on the fossil fuel sector receive meaningful support to ensure security in their lives in the transition to more sustainable energy use. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "speakerName": "Ms. Elizabeth May (SaanichGulf Islands, GP)" }, { "text": "Those are all the petitions for today. I want to thank the honourable members for their usual collaboration and now we'll go on to", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "On a point of order, Mr. Chair, on Tuesday, at our COVID-19 committee of the whole meeting, I was asking a question which started at 12:56:06 and was cut off at 1:00:32, so I still have 34 seconds of time remaining in my question time of five minutes. You said it could be no more than five minutes but that I had up to five minutes. Thirty-four seconds leaves a lot of time to have a quick question and a quick response. If you believe that my time was unjustly cut off and that it was unfair treatment of the official opposition when we were raising our points of order, I would ask that the 34 seconds be tacked on to the opening round for the opposition and credited to Rosemarie Falk, who will be leading off for the Conservatives.", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan (SelkirkInterlakeEastman, CPC)" }, { "text": "Normally what happens is the chair uses judgment, and with 35 seconds, there isn't enough time obviously for a full question or answer, most of the time. I'll take it under advisement. I can't allot it. I want everyone to know that I do have a timer next to me and I am timing the questions, and I will be treating the answers the same way. If it's a 25-second question, it will be a 25-second answer. Thank you for bringing that up. I believe that issue has been remedied. We've taken a little bit of the chair's ability to give judgment on it, but it will be from now on. Thank you.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, 34 seconds is a considerable amount of time to do a short question and a short answer.", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "I appreciate the advice. Thank you, Mr. Bezan. We'll now proceed to the questioning of ministers. I would like to remind the honourable members that no member will be recognized for more than five minutes at a time and that members may split their time with one or more members by so indicating to the chair. Ministers responding to the questions should do so by simply turning on their microphone and speaking. Our first questioner is Ms. Falk.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, yesterday, Elizabeth May and the leader of the separatists declared oil to be dead. It's certainly not dead, but it's dying under the Trudeau government. Will the Prime Minister stand up for Canada's energy workers, or does he agree with the fringe left and those who want to destroy our country?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk (BattlefordsLloydminster, CPC)" }, { "text": "I have a point of order.", "speakerName": "Ms. Elizabeth May" }, { "text": "Go ahead, Ms. May.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I believe that the language that the honourable member just used is unparliamentary", "speakerName": "Ms. Elizabeth May" }, { "text": "That's not a point of order.", "speakerName": "Mr. Garnett Genuis" }, { "text": "We can have differences of opinion, but it is absolutely Some hon. members: Debate. Ms. Elizabeth May: unacceptable and violates my privileges to An hon member: Debate. Ms. Elizabeth May: No, it's not debate. I would ask the chair to rule on that, not the member from the Conservative Party. It is unacceptable to assert that anyone who wants to make a point about our economy is trying to destroy the country. This allegation is a violation of my privilege. An hon. member: She was also named by the", "speakerName": "Ms. Elizabeth May" }, { "text": "Order. I didn't recognize anyone. I don't know who is speaking, so I'll just start talking myself. I want to remind honourable members to have respect in their questions and in their answers. When you refer to someone, please refer to them respectfully. This is a committee of the House, and I would expect no less of the honourable members. We'll go to the right honourable Prime Minister. You have 16 seconds.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. As I pointed out this morning in my press conference, we cannot move forward on a transformation of our energy sector without supporting the workers in that energy sector. We need their innovation and we need their hard work if we are going to lower our emissions, if we are going to reach our", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister)" }, { "text": "We'll go to Ms. Falk again.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it has been 43 days since the finance minister promised Canada's energy sector liquidity through the Business Development Bank of Canada. For 43 days the finance minister has failed to deliver on that promise. These delays cost jobs and they are costing us Canadian businesses. If the government doesn't step up to support our energy sector, they are in effect doubling down on their support for foreign, unethically sourced oil. Mr. Chair, when will the credit options be available to Canada's small and medium energy firms?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk" }, { "text": "I want to remind honourable members that we do have interpreters who are listening and translating. In consideration to them, please speak at a reasonable pace so that they can understand and then translate. The right honourable Prime Minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, from the very beginning, our priority through this pandemic and this crisis has been to support workers across the country. We have sent billions of dollars to workers right across the country, including Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C., and Newfoundland and Labrador in the energy sector for them to be able to support their families through this difficult time. We are also working on sectoral supports right across the country. Those will be announced in due course. Our focus from the get-go has been", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We'll move to Ms. Falk.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, another group that has been ignored by the Liberals is our farmers. The announcements to date fall well short of what is needed to maintain a steady supply of affordable and healthy food. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture has asked the government for a $2.6-billion emergency fund. Instead of responding to specific COVID-19 challenges, our farmers are facing the Liberals' reannounced $125 million that was already budgeted in the AgriRecovery program. Will the Prime Minister finally step up and take our food supply chain seriously, or is agriculture just an afterthought for him?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk" }, { "text": "On the contrary, Mr. Chair, we take agriculture and our agricultural sector extremely seriously, which is why we announced hundreds of millions of dollars a couple of days ago to respond to pressing needs. We will continue to make investments to ensure both the safety of workers in our agricultural sector and the safety of our communities, as well as the continued flow of high-quality Canadian food onto our tables right across the country. Supporting the people who produce our food is a priority for this government and will continue to be.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Well, Mr. Chair, recycled program announcements do not respond to the immediate needs facing our farmers. This is absolutely unacceptable. Our farmers are faced with rising operational costs, a disrupted service industry, labour shortages and a reduced capacity at processing plants. The government has a responsibility to take domestic food security seriously. When will the Prime Minister deliver adequate support to address the critical changes facing our ag industry?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I would suggest respectfully that the honourable member take a look once again at the announcement we made, which actually highlights significant new investments to support our agricultural industry. I certainly agree that there is more to do. Every step of the way in this unprecedented situation, we've been moving forward on doing more, on adjusting and on investing more. We need to support our agricultural sector and the people who work so hard to put food on Canadians' tables right across the country and we will continue to.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, Canadians expect to find healthy and affordable food at their grocery stores, but if the government does not take action now, that's not a given. Our farmers are trying to keep Canadians fed while keeping their heads above water. The Liberal government's own failed federal carbon tax is weighing them down. It is an enormous hit to their bottom line, and the recent carbon tax hike is taking even more money out of the pockets of farmers at a time when they can afford it the least. Will the Prime Minister exempt all farm operations from the carbon tax and reimburse the money that they have already taken from them?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Rosemarie Falk" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it's a shame to hear the member opposite accidentallyunintentionally, I'm certainmislead the House and Canadians. The price on pollution actually puts more money into Canadians' pockets, and that includes farm families. People who pay the cost of the price on pollution on average receive more money back. This is the way of creating a better future for our kids and grandkids, which I know people in communities right across the country, including our farm communities, want to see happen. We are moving forward in a responsible way to put a price on pollution and put more money in average Canadians' pockets.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We now continue with Mrs.Gill. Mrs.Gill, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. As you know, all sectors of the economy are fragile at the moment, specifically the fisheries. I am thinking about the lobster fishery in the Magdalen Islands, the crab fishery on the Cte-Nord or those fishing for herring in the south of the Gasp. Because imports have ceased, because the domestic market is weak and in decline because of the interruption of the tourism and restaurant industries, the fishing industry and its fishers must be supported. I would like to know what the government has done to support our fishers since the crisis began.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Marilne Gill (Manicouagan, BQ)" }, { "text": "Our fishers do exceptional work that is extremely important in feeding Canadians and in contributing to our economic success through their exports around the world. This crisis has struck them very hard. That is why we have established measures in the tens of millions of dollars to support our processors. We have also announced help for the fishers. We know that these are difficult and unprecedented times, and we are going to", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "My thanks to the Prime Minister. I am actually talking about help for the fishers. I know about the processing industry and the $62.5million to be used essentially for freezing products, but I am talking about the fishers themselves. Given the economic situation, most of our fishers are getting ready to leave. First, there are health risks. We know very well that it is impossible for them to observe all the social distancing measures. They have to incur additional expenses in order to conduct their normal fishing activities. In addition, they feel that they will be losing money, because of the drop in the price of their resource. They are just as essential as farmers, but they are going to have to work at a loss and they are not going to have workers to assist them. Workers in the seasonal industry do not know what tomorrow will bring. They do not even know whether they will be able to put food on the table next year. Are you going to do anything else, in addition to the assistance of $62.5million? Time is of the essence. Our fishers have lacked certainty for weeks and they are very concerned.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Marilne Gill" }, { "text": "Yes, indeed, we are going to do other things. Other investments will be made in various sectors in order to support Canadians. We recognize the challenges that fishers must face in terms of social distancing and of work that is often seasonal. We are going to continue working with the industry, with the fishers, and with the coastal communities in order to ensure that people have confidence in their abilities and in their future. In times of crisis, it is important for the government to be there to support people, and that is exactly what we are going to continue to do. This is an unprecedented crisis, but we can see once more that Canadians are there for each other. Our government will continue to be there for the fishers and the fishing industry.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "I would have preferred us to be there from the start. Clearly, this is a difficult crisis. But, given the cyclical nature of the industry, some sectors have had to postpone for several weeks the preparations they need for fishing activities. The current program could be modified in a number of ways, to accommodate the cycle, the dates, and the size of the companies. They would really like to take advantage of the $40,000loan, but they cannot because of their payroll. Given the dates, they are also ineligible for the 75%salary subsidy. I can already suggest a number of solutions to the government and to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, that would bring help to those businesses very quickly. The fishers carry on, because it is a duty for them, because they want to help us and to be part of the effort at this time of crisis. At the same time, they have no guarantee that they will be supported. I would really like to hear a guarantee that they will be supported, that they will be able to put food on the table this year, and that they will be able to support the communities that often depend on the fishing industry, a major industry in those communities.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Marilne Gill" }, { "text": "Minister Jordan has been working with the fishers, the fishing industry and the communities affected by the crisis since the crisis began. We are assessing a number of solutions. We have proposed various solutions to support the communities, the workers and the families. This is an unprecedented situation. From the outset, our priority has been to support the millions of Canadians from coast to coast who have lost their jobs. We have been able to do so, but we are going to continue to work for those who must now face difficulties. We are going to be there for each other. That is what people are expecting from our government and from other Canadians.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Before we move to the next question, I would like to remind members of the committee to speak slowly, and to address their remarks to the chair and not directly to each other. Thank you very much. We will now go to Mr. Bachrach.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, municipalities across Canada are facing a financial crisis. They've seen revenues plummet, and at the same time the cost of delivering municipal services has risen. As the Prime Minister knows, municipalities are unable to run deficits and so they are facing the reality of cutbacks and serious cuts to the services that Canadians depend on. We know that municipalities are vital during this time to provide services to Canadians. They're going to be even more important during the recovery, especially when it comes to delivering on the infrastructure programs before us. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities and mayors across Canada have called for emergency financial relief for the municipal sector. My question for the Prime Minister is, when can they expect federal financial support to arrive?", "speakerName": "Mr. Taylor Bachrach (SkeenaBulkley Valley, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, no government in Canada's history has done more to work with our municipalities, with our cities, with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to respond to the challenges they're facing and to partner with them. Things from infrastructure to investments have made a huge difference right across the country in the quality of life of Canadians in towns, large and small, from coast to coast to coast. As I'm sure the member well knows, our Constitution requires that most of the funding for municipalities flow through the provinces. We are working with the provinces, as we continue to work with the cities, to ensure that we're able to support this order of government that delivers the vast majority of services to Canadians with very little financial means. We know how difficult it is for our cities. We will continue", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Bachrach.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it would seem that the federal government has the fiscal capacity and the responsibility to help municipalities weather this crisis. Transit systems have been hit particularly hard and have seen the bulk of the layoffs in the municipal sector. These transit services carry essential workers to work, whether they are health care workers, grocery store workers, janitors or others. The risk is that we will see higher fares to deal with this financial crisis. We will see service cutbacks precisely at a time when we want to be expanding transit and improving transit in our communities. Does the Prime Minister acknowledge that the federal government needs to step in to safeguard and protect Canada's transit services?", "speakerName": "Mr. Taylor Bachrach" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this federal government recognizes how important it is to support all Canadians, which is why we put forward unprecedented measures to help millions upon millions of Canadians with the CERB and with the wage subsidy. We will continue to work with the provinces, which have jurisdiction over the municipalities. I'll be having a conversation with all other first ministers tonight to talk about a broad range of issues. I can highlight that the issue of transit funding has come up. We have continued to engage with them, but again, it is important to respect the Constitution and understand that funding for municipalities and cities does go through the provinces. The federal government is happy to be there to support, but it must be", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We will go to Mr. Bachrach again.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I am wondering how the Prime Minister could explain to a bus driver in Vancouver who has been laid off that as a public sector worker, she can't access the federal wage subsidy, while an equivalent worker in the airline industry gets to keep her job with the federal help of that program. Could the Prime Minister explain how that is fair?", "speakerName": "Mr. Taylor Bachrach" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm happy to explain to the member and to all Canadians that our Constitution creates federal areas of jurisdiction and provincial areas of jurisdiction. The airline industry, like banking, like telecommunications, is a federal area of jurisdiction that we have been able to move forward on. More than that, we brought the Canada emergency response benefit and the wage subsidy to all industries across this country, because we knew that as the federal government, it was something that we needed to step up on", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We will go back to Mr. Bachrach.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'd like to shift gears a little bit. Faced with minimal health care capacity, remote indigenous communities in my riding are taking matters into their own hands. The Nuxalk have put up a checkpoint on Highway 20 to protect community members and prevent non-essential travel. In particular, it is to protect the three remaining fluent speakers of the Nuxalk language, these cherished elders in their community. The Haida on Haida Gwaii have set up a similar checkpoint, as have communities throughout British Columbia, yet federal support for indigenous communities amounts to only $39 million for all of the indigenous communities in B.C. Does the Prime Minister not agree that more support is warranted to help indigenous communities in my riding and across the country?", "speakerName": "Mr. Taylor Bachrach" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, from the very beginning, we made funds available to Canadians right across the country, particularly people in indigenous remote or northern communities who we knew would be facing more difficult challenges because of the existing vulnerabilities in their health care system and socio-economic circumstances. We have made unprecedented investments and we will continue to make the necessary investments, because we need to make sure that indigenous Canadians, and indeed all Canadians, have the supports they need to make it through this crisis.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We will continue with Mr.Berthold. Mr.Berthold, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr.Chair. I am going to keep talking about the area of jurisdiction that the Prime Minister likes to talk about, except that I want to point out the incompetence of the Liberals in keeping their commitments on infrastructure projects. My question is very simple. As the provinces gradually restart their economies, can the Prime Minister tell us how many projects that the provinces have submitted are waiting for approval from his government?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold (MganticL'rable, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I hope that the length of the pause will not be taken out of my time.", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "No, I stopped the clock for your time. Ms.McKenna, you have the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, Mr.Chair, I was on mute. I'm very pleased with how we are working with the provinces and territories. I have spoken with all of my provincial and territorial counterparts over the last couple of weeks. Work on our historic infrastructure program is progressing well. My department has worked very hard to approve projects, and we will continue to do so. It is very important to build projects that will create good jobs", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna (Minister of Infrastructure and Communities)" }, { "text": "We are returning to Mr.Berthold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "We still haven't had a response. How many projects are currently awaiting government approval? I know that the minister has been meeting virtually with the provinces over the last few days. However, there are still hundreds of projects waiting for approval from the Liberal government. Rather than wait for the right political opportunity to approve these files, will the minister commit today to respecting the provinces and approving by next week all the projects that are sitting on her desk?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I'm pleased with how we are working with the provinces and territories. We are approving projects. If the hon. member speaks to the provinces and territories, he will see how well we are working together. We will announce the approval of projects because it's very important for our economy, our communities and creating good jobs.", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "Does the minister understand that she hasn't told us how many projects are still pending? The construction season is very short. Approval of a project in July means that work can't begin until next year, which won't help revive our economy.", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "I want to make it clear that we have approved hundreds of projects in the last few weeks. We will work with the provinces, territories, municipalities and indigenous communities to implement these projects. These projects are important for the economy and the environment, as well as for jobs", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "We return now to Mr.Berthold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, while the minister is calling for a green recovery of the country's economy, public transit is at risk. Physical distancing measures will cause public transit use to drop for several months. The Union des municipalits du Qubec estimates that the monthly losses are between $75million and $100million. Other countries have included public transit in pandemic relief programs. Why isn't Canada?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, we recognize the importance of public transit for our economy, since some essential workers use public transit. We are working very closely with our counterparts and are listening to the municipalities. As the Prime Minister said, it's the provinces that must help because the money", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "We return now to Mr.Berthold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, once again, what we're hearing is that the government is passing the buck to the provinces. Unfortunately, the minister was unable to answer a single question about the number of infrastructure projects still on the federal government's desk, which is very important. Several large municipalities are waiting for the approval of projects. Moreover, public transit systems are facing an extremely serious financial crisis. Ridership in most systems is down 85%to90%. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is asking for help for small communities, as well as large municipalities. Why is the federal government ignoring the municipalities in the Canadian Federation of Municipalities at this time?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I can reassure the hon. member that we are working very closely with the municipalities. We are listening to the municipalities to find out what their issues are and how we can support them. Of course, we need the help of the provinces and territories. In terms of the number of projects that we've approved, I would be happy to inform the hon. member of the exact number of all the approved projects that my department has been working very hard on over the past few months to approve projects to go forward.", "speakerName": "Hon. Catherine McKenna" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, do I have any time left?", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "No, your time is up. We'll now go on to Mr. Fast.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. This question is directed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. On March 28, the minister personally tweeted out a thank you to the People's Republic of China for donating PPE to Canada. This tweet happened within three hours of China's announcement of that gift. As it turned out, much of the PPE was defective and could not be used. More recently, Taiwan donated half a million surgical masks to Canada, yet here we are, two weeks later, and the minister has yet to personally thank Taiwan for its generosity. Will the minister now thank this free and democratic country for its generous gift to Canadians?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast (Abbotsford, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'd like to thank my colleague for the question. Indeed, we are very grateful to every nation for helping Canada. This is a global pandemic that knows no borders. We have been expressing our thanks to many nations that have contributed. We will continue to do so. It is important in a time of pandemic, Mr. Chair, that we not play politics and that humanity comes together. I can say, after my COVID foreign ministers call, that the world community has come together to make sure that supply chains will remain intact and that we will have transit hubs and air bridges. We will continue to work with every nation when it comes to health. This is a public good. We want to work together with everyone.", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Foreign Affairs)" }, { "text": "We will go back to Mr. Fast now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Well, Mr. Chair, I didn't hear a thank you there, so I'm going to try again. On May 4, the Government of Taiwan delivered 25,000 surgical masks to the Government of British Columbia. On hand were B.C. Minister of Citizens' Services Anne Kang and Minister of State for Child Care Katrina Chen, who, as ministers, officially thanked the Government of Taiwan for its donation. Again, will the minister now do the right thing and, on behalf of Canadians, recognize the generosity of Taiwan and thank its government for that timely donation?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as I said to you before, Canada is grateful to all who have given supplies to Canada. This is a common endeavour. We are thankful. We are grateful to every nation and we will continue to be. As I said, when it comes to global health, when it comes to helping each other, I think it is a duty for all to come together. We are grateful and thankful for all those who have agreed to help Canada and Canadians from coast to coast to coast in times of need. I've repeated that and have said many times in many forums that we are grateful and thankful to all of those who are helping Canada.", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne" }, { "text": "Well, Mr. Chair, again there was no specific thank you to Taiwan. The Government of Taiwan has been the world leader in successfully fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a lot to learn from them and their response. Sadly, the People's Republic of China continues to oppose Taiwan's membership in the World Health Organization. Will the minister now do the right thing and assure Canadians that he will fully support efforts to grant Taiwan membership in the World Health Organization?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'd like to thank the member. As a former trade minister, he's very well aware of Canada's one China policy. That said, we support Taiwan to continue meaningful participation in international multilateral forums, particularly when it comes to health. This is a global good, and we want to support every nation. We recognize that Taiwan and others have been doing very well in fighting this pandemic. We also believe that Taiwan's role as an observer in the World Health Assembly meeting is of interest to the international health community and we have been supportive of that.", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm going to pivot to repatriation flights. The minister has publicly said that over 20,000 stranded Canadians have been repatriated from abroad. Can he tell us exactly how many Canadians remain abroad who have expressed a desire to be repatriated?", "speakerName": "Hon. Ed Fast" }, { "text": "Yes, Mr. Chair, I am very happy to update members. As of today, we have repatriated more than 20,000 Canadians on 232 flights from 87 countries. I would say that this is team Canada, and it knows no parties. Many members have written to me to make sure that we take care. It's not an exact science. We have, as I said, repatriated thousands and thousands. We continue, because we know there are still pockets of Canadian travellers who are stranded abroad. As the Prime Minister and I have said from the beginning, we will make our best effort to repatriate everyone who wants to come back home during the crisis.", "speakerName": "Hon. Franois-Philippe Champagne" }, { "text": "We'll go on to Mr. Moore now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, Canadians need to have faith in their justice system, even in a time of crisis. My office has received correspondence from Canadians concerned that trial delays due to COVID-19 may result in criminals walking free. As this government has been working overtime to criminalize law-abiding citizens with new and useless gun laws, will the Minister of Justice ensure that real criminals will not walk free as a result of delays in the justice system?", "speakerName": "Hon. Rob Moore (Fundy Royal, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I thank the honourable member for his question. We have been working with my provincial counterparts across Canada, as well as with the various federal courts and also, through my provincial counterparts, with the superior courts and courts of appeal across Canada. Each particular jurisdiction has taken measures to ensure that basic essential services within the court system are maintained, through a variety of means, and we believe that we will be able to solve these various challenges.", "speakerName": "Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the regional relief and recovery fund was announced weeks ago as a way to help small and medium-sized businesses in rural communities, like those in my riding. In Atlantic Canada, these funds were to be distributed to the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. This is yet another announcement with no details from this Liberal government. Can the minister clarify whether we are days away or weeks away from this support flowing to the businesses that need it so desperately?", "speakerName": "Hon. Rob Moore" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I had the chance to talk with many of the chambers of commerce and business owners throughout Atlantic Canada, and we hear their anxiety. That's why ACOA's doing great work on the ground to make sure we can help them through this very difficult period. The member is right. We have increased the budget of ACOAgood newsand I'll be coming up with the details very soon. It will be a pleasure to collaborate with him to make sure that we can help many businesses and business owners across the Atlantic region.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly (Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, my office has heard from many small business owners who have reached out to me. I know many have reached out to many of my colleagues and probably to all of us here today. They are frustrated by the eligibility requirements for some of the federal programs. In particular, they are unable to access the emergency business account, because they do not have a payroll. This could be the hair salon in my riding that subcontracts out its chairs. There are hundreds and thousands of small businesses in this very situation, vital small businesses in our communities, but they do not meet this requirement. These businesses, many of them, are weeks away from shutting down permanently. What does the Minister of Finance have to say to these small businesses that are suffering right now?", "speakerName": "Hon. Rob Moore" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank my honourable colleague for that really important question. I want all the businesses that he is talking about and all of them throughout the country to know that we continue to work very hard to make sure they're supported through this difficult period. More work needs to be done, and we will continue to do that work. We know that businesses are being supported through getting access to the wage subsidy to keep their employees together, and they're getting help, whether it's with rent or to defray costs by deferring GST and HST or customs duty payments. We're going to continue to work with all our businesses across the country.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng (Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade)" }, { "text": "We'll go to Mr. Moore for a brief question. You have less than 20 seconds, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it's a very specific issue. There are small businesses, thousands of them, that do not have a payroll. Some have a personal account that they've dealt with over the years rather than a business account, and that makes them ineligible. These businesses need help right now.", "speakerName": "Hon. Rob Moore" }, { "text": "I agree with the honourable member. Those businesses absolutely need support from us. We are going to keep working to ensure they are supported.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "We'll go to Mr. Cumming next.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, small businesses are concerned about their ability to survive, and no amount of deferrals, loans or subsidies can substitute for their need to be open and servicing their customers. Can the government confirm that a sectoral risk analysis has taken place to assist the provinces in reopening the economy?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming (Edmonton Centre, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I can assure the member that we've been very clear in terms of our strategy around reopening the economy. We need to make sure that we follow the advice of the experts and the health authorities to do so in a manner that does not compromise the health and well-being of Canadians. We of course will have a sectoral lens, and as you can see by some of the initiatives and the support packages we've put forward", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry)" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Cumming now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, thousands of business owners make a living and utilize dividends as their salary. They also use independent contractors. Can the government confirm that the programs currently in place will be expanded to these hard-working Canadians?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to assure the honourable member that we continue to work with all of our small businesses and I want to thank him for raising this very important issue. I want to assure our Canadian small businesses that we are going to continue to do this work to make sure they are supported.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Can the minister give me a date when she will be able to announce to these businesses that they will be eligible?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "I want to assure our Canadian small businesses of their importance and of the importance of their contributions to all of our communities. I want them to know that we continue to listen and that we will ensure that they are supported and continue to be supported during this difficult time.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Minister, they need more than assurance. Can you give me a date when I can tell these thousands of businesses they will be supported if they pay dividends or if they use contractors within their businesses?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, these businesses are absolutely important and are getting support through a range of means. We will continue to work with these businesses to make sure they are supported through this difficult period.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I spoke to a Second Cup owner whose landlord is not offering any kind of rent relief. The landlord says that he doesn't have the 25% needed to be eligible for the program because he's already paying for common area costs and deferrals on utilities, which he will have to pay on his mortgage. Will the government reform the rent relief program to focus on tenants and not just the landlords?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to let the member know that we are working to make sure that the details of the emergency program for rent are out there so that both tenants and landlords can understand the situation. We're seeing a significant number of both landlords and tenants coming forward to register for this program, and we are convinced that it will be in the best interests of landlords to move forward and give tenants this relief.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau (Minister of Finance)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we've been hearing, however, from small business owners that their landlords don't find the government's rent relief program appealing enough. Can the government confirm, given the program's low eligibility rate, that the program will be expanded and be more efficient in helping tenants?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we recognize that it's critically important that all of the details of this program be out there for landlords and tenants to understand. Those details are being worked on right now. This is a program that we've put out within the last week, and we are confident that it's in the best interests of tenants and landlords.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, during these trying times for small businesses, small businesses need all the help they can get. One easy way to do that would be to expand the Canada summer jobs program to businesses with over 50 employees. Will the government consider doing so to allow students to gain that very valuable work experience over the coming months?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Cumming" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we are very excited about the uptake of the Canada summer jobs program this year. The second uptake provided employers across the country with the ability to add their needs for students to the mix. I'm looking forward to announcing a possible expansion of this program in the coming days.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough (Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion)" }, { "text": "The next question session will go to Mr. Dowdall.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. During this pandemic, the government has consistently called for a team Canada, non-partisan approach, and I was glad to hear that said a little earlier today. In fact, the public has called for that approach as well. However, at the same time, the current government has used a parliamentary back door to launch a poorly thought out gun ban. We have a government that didn't win the popular vote, and I'm just wondering how I explain to my residents, because I'm getting so many calls, that this is not a bloated response because, quite frankly, it is.", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall (SimcoeGrey, CPC)" }, { "text": "First of all, Mr. Chair, I think the honourable member can explain to his constituents that the forming of regulations through order in council is actually the process prescribed in law in Canada under section 117.15 of the Criminal Code. I would also invite the member to advise his constituents that way back in 1991, when there were some Conservatives who called themselves Progressive, the Mulroney government brought forward, in Bill C-17, the authority under that section for an order in council to prescribe specific makes, models and variants of military firearms as prohibited or restricted. The Harper government used the same tool", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair (Scarborough Southwest, Lib.)" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Dowdall.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'm not sure, but I'm hoping, that I'll get an honest answer on this question from the minister, who has everything from rocket launchers to basically toy guns on the ban list. When will we get the cost of this buyback program?", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "I want to remind the honourable members to please be careful in their language when they are referring to others. I won't comment on this one particularly, but I want all of you to be very, very careful when referring to other members. The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "It's a good opportunity, Mr. Chair, to respond to some of the obfuscations and deceptions that have been put out there. We're not banning any toys and we're not banning shotguns. That's all misinformation that's being put out. I think it's very clear, and I invite the member to look at the list of weapons that are", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Dowdall.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you. What will be the cost of the buyback program, please?", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "Actually, I'm very much looking forward to bringing forward legislation as soon as the House resumes. We will have a vigorous debate in Parliament about the form a buyback will take and we will bring forward a budget at that time.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Will those with illegal weapons be eligible for the buyback program?", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "If people are illegally in possession of the weapons and they're committing a crime, they will be dealt with for the crimes they commit.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm going to switch it over. Canadians in my riding who suffer from cystic fibrosis are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. While these Canadians with existing lung conditions are incredibly worried about a virus that attacks the ability to breathe, the good news is that there are life-saving medicines for those with CF. The problem is with the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board and its restrictive guidelines. I am wondering if and when the government will correct these guidelines and give access to life-saving medicines for our most vulnerable.", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as you know, the government has been very committed to improving access and affordability for prescription medications for all Canadians. The PMPRB regulatory amendments will help Canadians be able to afford their prescriptions, and Canada will continue to be an important market for new medicines. In fact, many countries with much lower medicine prices gained access to new medicines in the same time frame as Canada frame, or even faster, so we are excited to do this work.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu (Minister of Health)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, our seniors are being particularly hard hit right now during this pandemic, yet seniors have not been given any direct support. It's one of the number one calls I'm getting in my office. Funding to charities like the United Way is being labelled as support for seniors, but most won't see any of this support. Seniors in my riding have asked for an increase in their CPP and OAS, and to be able to make untaxed bulk withdrawals from their RRSPs while they still have some value. Can the minister confirm when these real and direct supports for seniors will be forthcoming?", "speakerName": "Mr. Terry Dowdall" }, { "text": "I want to assure the honourable member and Canadians that our government has been working extremely hard on how best to support and serve seniors during this pandemic. He mentioned. I'm not quite sure what's happening with my machine. I apologize.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte (Minister of Seniors)" }, { "text": "You might want to try your space bar and keep it down while you're speaking. That might solve the problem.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll try that. Thank you very much. I want to assure the honourable member and Canadians that our government has been working extremely hard on how best to support and serve seniors during this pandemic. We have introduced a supplementary GST payment for low- and modest-income seniors. We've reduced the minimum RRIF withdrawal by 25%, and we've made the CERB available to working seniors who have lost their jobs due to the COVID pandemic. We know there's more work to do, and we'll have more to say in the future.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "I want to remind honourable members that if there are issues, we are taking note of them, and we'll hopefully resolve them by the next meeting. We are getting much better, and we're all new at this. Thank you for your patience. We'll now go to Ms.Gaudreau.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. My first question is for the Prime Minister. We've heard a lot about contact tracing apps. Several provinces have already made announcements on this, and others want to follow suit. Today, I'd like to know where the government stands on this. We've been talking about a national strategy for some time. Where are we now?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marie-Hlne Gaudreau (LaurentidesLabelle, BQ)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Obviously, contact tracing is an important part of managing any outbreak. In fact, we have been looking at a number of ways to support increased contact tracing across the country, including working with provinces and territories to boost their capacity through human resources and volunteer organizations. We are working very closely with them to make sure we have the capacity. The member is right that many other countries have used digital contact tracing apps. Anything we put forward as a digital tool to assist with contact tracing would be thoroughly considerate of Canadians' privacy rights.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Let me clarify my question a little. Yes, we are talking about public health, and we are currently experiencing a crisis. But you know as well as I do that the Privacy Commissioner has been calling us to task for a very long time now, because there is also a crisis of confidence. You know as well as I do that for 90%of Canadians, the misuse of their personal data is a cause for concern, whether it be for profiling or business development purposes. This is an issue that concerns all Canadians. The commissioner is indeed calling for a focus on reform of the Privacy Act. I'd like to know whether this commitment will be implemented quickly so that legislation can be passed on this issue, in this case the Privacy Act.", "speakerName": "Ms. Marie-Hlne Gaudreau" }, { "text": "Particular attention must be paid to transparency, privacy and ethical concerns. Naturally, Canadians are concerned about how their data is used. New technologies are subject to the Privacy Act.", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains" }, { "text": "We're talking about public health. The provinces are currently in the process of legislating. We're talking about what is going on in Quebec, among other places, and I would like to make sure that the federal government commits to respecting the proposals regarding geolocation and contact tracing possibilities, with full respect for the right to privacy. Can we commit to respecting the provinces?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marie-Hlne Gaudreau" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have worked very closely with provinces and territories for a long time before the outbreak, but certainly ever since the outbreak. We respect the rights of jurisdictional authorities to use tools that have been properly vetted through their own provincial and territorial legislation. Nothing we would ever do at the federal level would put Canadians' privacy in jeopardy.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Concerning privacy, there are 30million Quebeckers and Canadians who have had their personal data leaked. Why is it that our laws don't allow us to apply financial penalties so that we can then go further? The very basis is to be concerned about our fundamental rights. The commissioner has been making this request for several years now. As the critic for access to information and privacy, I'd like a commitment that the federal government will deal not with what the provinces are doing, but with the Privacy Act.", "speakerName": "Ms. Marie-Hlne Gaudreau" }, { "text": "Your time is up, but I'll give the floor to the minister for 30seconds.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you for the question. Our government will ensure the privacy of Canadians is respected, support responsible innovation and take reasonable steps to strengthen enforcement powers. That's why we created a digital charter. We are strengthening Canada's privacy laws in response to the digital age.", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Mr. Baker.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'll be sharing my time with the member for Malpeque. Mr. Chair, my question is for the Minister of Seniors. Minister, in my riding of Etobicoke Centre, we are mourning the loss of 40 residents to COVID-19 at the Eatonville long-term care centre. Over 143 residents and 88 staff members have now tested positive for the virus. This tragedy is not only taking place in Etobicoke Centre but across Canada. Of all Canadians who have died from COVID-19, 79% were living in long-term care homes. That's over 2,000 seniors. This is a catastrophe, and it's frankly unacceptable. Our seniors and their families deserve better. I understand that long-term care homes fall within the jurisdiction of provincial governments in Canada, but this is a crisis. What is the federal government doing right now to help protect our seniors who are living in long-term care homes from COVID-19? What will we do to reform our long-term care homes in the future to ensure that our seniors in Etobicoke Centre and across Canada get the care they deserve?", "speakerName": "Mr. Yvan Baker (Etobicoke Centre, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to my colleague from Etobicoke Centre for his very thoughtful question. We are deeply concerned by the outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities, and our thoughts are with those who have lost a loved one. It's a very difficult time. As my colleague mentioned, while these facilities are regulated by provinces and territories, we have been focused on protecting the health and safety of long-term care residents and staff while working with our partners in a team Canada approach. We've released guidelines to prevent and control COVID-19 infections. We're working with the provinces and territories to cost-share a temporary salary top-up for long-term care workers. We are working through investing $2 billion to secure personal protective equipment for the health of workers, including those in the long-term care homes, and we've deployed the Canadian Armed Forces to assist 25 long-term care homes in Quebec and Ontario. We all have a role to play to stop the spread of COVID-19 and to protect our seniors and caregivers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "We'll now go to Mr. Easter.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. At the finance committee, we've heard a lot of concerns from all sectors of the economy as a result of COVID-19 and we've been presented with quite a number of possible solutions as well, several of which the government has acted upon. My question is on the support offered to the agri-food sector announced on Tuesday. It is very welcome support, but I sincerely believe the farm sector will be taking the Prime Minister up on the suggestion that $250 million should be seen as an initial investment. Potatoes are the number one commodity in Prince Edward Island. However, as a result of reduced processor contracts for next year, plus cancelled seed contracts, millions of dollars of seed and process potatoes have no home. To make matters worse, farmers have high fixed costs that they now have to spread over fewer acres. How does the minister see Tuesday's announcement addressing potato farmers' concerns? Second, in 2013, long-term financial safety nets were gutted by the Harper government. Will the minister be coming forward with improved business risk management programs as a result?", "speakerName": "Hon. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank Mr. Easter, the member for the riding of Malpeque on Prince Edward Island. It's a beautiful rural riding with lots of agricultural production. I want to recognize the hard work of farmers throughout the crisis. On Tuesday, I was proud to announce one more step for supporting our producers and processors. We know the importance of our potato farmers, and that's why we are launching a first-ever surplus food purchase program, a $50-million fund designed to help redistribute existing inventories, such as potatoes, to local food organizations. On the financial safety net that we have in place for our farmers, called the business risk management program, we announced up to $125 million in funding through AgriRecovery and made changes to AgriStability that will help producers quickly. I will continue to discuss with my provincial counterparts toenhance and improve the BRM programs. In the meantime, I want to reiterate that BRM programs, including AgriInvest, are there to help farmers in difficult times.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food)" }, { "text": "We'll go on to Mr. Johns now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, small businesses across Canada closed their doors to stop the spread and for public health. Now they're currently hanging off the edge of a cliff waiting for financial help. Robyn, who has owned Arbutus Health in Tofino for over 13 years, can't apply for the Canada emergency business account loan, simply because she doesn't have a payroll of over $20,000. All of her practitioners are paid contractors, so she is ineligible. With no business income and without emergency financing, it is virtually impossible for her to pay her bills or come up with the 25% needed for the Canada emergency commercial rent assistance program. The government promised to be flexible and willing to adjust its COVID response rollout so that nobody falls through the cracks, but Robyn, like tens of thousands of proprietors who are the economic job creators of our communities, urgently needs the government's help now. Will the government amend its programs to help more business owners so that people like Robyn don't lose their businesses?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns (CourtenayAlberni, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank the honourable member for his really good question. I know he and I have talked about this, and I appreciate the input and the feedback that he is providing from business directly. I want to assure Robyn and her businesses, and many businesses across the country, that we are absolutely listening, and we will continue to make sure we are supporting those businesses during this period. We know that many businesses are being helped through the Canada emergency business account. There are well over 550,000 businesses that are getting support through this emergency business account. We also know that more has to be done, and we will continue to work with you and businesses across the country so that we can indeed give them that necessary support to weather this difficult period of COVID-19.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, that's not going to help Robyn feel comfort. I was talking to Heather last night, who also owns a business in Tofino, Basic Goodness Pizzeria, with her partner Marco. Like many proprietors of family businesses who aren't on payroll, they don't qualify for the business loans. They don't qualify for the wage subsidy because they're a seasonal business. Now with the new rollout of the rent support, they're not sure if their landlord is willing to play ball and even apply. That's three separate programs that leave them out. Heather was in tears last night as she told me that they have done nothing wrong to deserve being excluded from these emergency programs. I agree. Will the government fix the rent support program so that tenants can apply, instead of leaving it up to landlords, and so businesses can get the help they desperately need?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we've been working on this program since the beginning. We've been working on offering a response for small businesses and charities and non-profit organizations, and we are continuing to listen on the ground to how we can better assist the businesses that fall through the cracks. We will continue to do that as we go along in this emergency situation. Thank you very much to the honourable member for sharing the realities of his constituents.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier (OttawaVanier, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, when the government rolled out its commercial rent support program, why didn't it negotiate an eviction moratorium with the provinces, as Australia and other countries did, to protect business owners?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as we know, Canadians are taking action and fighting against COVID-19. We know that many small businesses are worried about being able to pay rent. We've recognized it and we've been working with the provinces and territories to implement the Canada emergency commercial rent", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Johns.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "To qualify for the Canada emergency wage subsidy, a 30% drop in revenue has to be shown. Anyone who's owned a business knows that even with this program, it's going to be hard to survive. Why is the government using a 70% measurement drop to qualify for the rent support program, but a 30% drop for the wage subsidy?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns" }, { "text": "Again, Mr. Chair, thank you to the honourable member for sharing his views on this program. We've been working with provinces and territories to provide forgivable loans to commercial property owners, who in turn lower the rents for their tenants by 75%. We're hoping that tenants and landlords will be working together so we can support businesses during this very difficult crisis.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "Before we move on to the next question, Mr.Berthold, did you have a question or a point of order?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I have a point of order. I checked the clock from the first round of five minutes, and as you may recall, it took a very long time for me to get an answer from the government. I went back and forth with MinisterMcKenna for four minutes and 14seconds.", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "Just a moment. The interpretation isn't coming through. It's working now. Go ahead, Mr.Berthold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'll start over. During my first turn, it took 50seconds before a government minister deigned to answer my questions. After checking my time, I realized that the discussion between Ms.McKenna and I went on for four minutes and 14seconds, so I wasn't able to ask the minister one final question, a very important one. I would ask you to take that into account and allow me to ask MinisterMcKenna one last question, please.", "speakerName": "Mr. Luc Berthold" }, { "text": "The person chairing the meeting uses their judgment and does their best to keep an eye on what's going on. They try to be as fair as possible. I'll try to do a better job. I think it's more or less equal for all the members, but I apologize if the honourable member feels that he was denied a few seconds. Our next question goes to Mr. Doherty.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the Canada-U.S. border agreement is set to expire on May 20. Will the two governments renew the current agreement, or will it be modified?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty (CaribooPrince George, CPC)" }, { "text": "The decision to close the border was made in Canada by Canadians in the best interest of Canadians. We're continuing to monitor the situation carefully.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "When will the government be in a position to inform Canadians of any changes to the agreement?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "I'm pleased to advise the member that we're continuing to monitor the situation, but I'm strongly of the opinion that the circumstances on both sides of our border do not indicate that this is the right time to make a change in the restrictions.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Can the government confirm whether there are any discussions about reopening the border to certain modes of transportation and restricting others?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Before I go to the minister, I want to remind the honourable members that we do have translators, and they are trying to translate. With respect to them, I know we're trying to get as many questions in as possible, but they do have to translate them, so please be considerate of our interpreters. The honourable minister has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Let me please inform the honourable member that we are, of course, aware that the current agreement expires. I had a long conversation yesterday with the Prime Minister", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs)" }, { "text": "When will the government announce a relief package for Canada's aviation industry?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "We are engaged with the industry, and we are working with them on a solution, Mr. Chair.", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, will this relief package include funding for airline ticket refunds similar to what other countries around the world have done? Yes or no?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "It's early to say anything at this moment. We're taking a sectoral approach. This is about making sure that we restart the economy and have a strong recovery.", "speakerName": "Hon. Navdeep Bains" }, { "text": "Can the Minister of Transport confirm that temperature screening is taking place at Canadian airports. Yes or no?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I can confirm that Air Canada has now adopted a policy of checking temperatures for passengers boarding Air Canada flights.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau (Minister of Transport)" }, { "text": "At which airports is that, and when did this practice start?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the announcement was made recently by Air Canada. It will start shortly and will apply to all places and destinations where Air Canada flies.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this is for the Minister of Transport. Last week I asked the Minister of Labour if they were aware of a letter written on April 6 by CUPE to the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Labour. Minister, were you aware of that letter?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "I want to remind the honourable members to place their questions through the Chair and not directly.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I didn't understand the reference to a letter from CUPE. Could my colleague please clarify?", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "On April 6, CUPE wrote a letter to the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Labour. Is the minister aware of that letter?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, could my colleague clarify what CUPE is referring to?", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "CUPE is the labour organization that represents thousands of flight attendants across our country.", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I do understand. Yes, I will confirm that CUPE, which represents the flight attendants, did write to us. Before that I had conversations with CUPE with respect to flight attendants and the use of personal protective equipment.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "Can the minister confirm whether or not they have provided PPE to the flight attendants and/or training for front-line staff for airlines and airports?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the airlines are providing PPE to flight attendants and flight crews. This has become a policy to ensure the safety not only of passengers on board but also of the flight attendants and flight crew.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Garneau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, a business owner from Quesnel wrote to my office recently. He stated that he couldn't give his small business tenants a break on rent because the government is penalizing him for paying off his mortgage. When will the government change the CECRA rules to help more businesses?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as you know, we laid out the CECRA program just last week, and we are encouraging landlords to take that opportunity to support the renters. We will continue to look at how we can provide some relief to small businesses with rents.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "With all due respect, Mr. Chair, any landlord who does not have a mortgage on their business is ineligible for CECRA. Is the minister aware of this, and are they trying to revise the CECRA program?", "speakerName": "Mr. Todd Doherty" }, { "text": "As you know, we've been working with provinces and territories to present that program. Of course, we will continue to monitor how this program works for landlords and tenants. We are asking, actually encouraging, landlords to do their part and help tenants, like the one you mentioned, go through this.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "We'll go to the next questioner. Go ahead, Ms. Dancho.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Small businesses in Manitoba employ 73% of Manitobans. That's over 286,000 Manitobans. I've been speaking with many small business owners in my riding. It's been heartbreaking, frankly, to hear that everything they've built and sacrificed for is in serious jeopardy, and through no fault of their own. Your government has created programs that are supposed to help them, but many legitimate businesses aren't able to apply. That could mean bankruptcy and cost thousands of Manitobans jobs. This is wrong. I'm hoping to hear specifics, not just nice words, on what you're going to do to help them. There are three issues regarding access to the $40,000 CEBA loan. First, businesses that recently incorporatedfor example, in late 2019are unable to apply their entire 2019 payroll. As a result, many are falling short of the $20,000 payroll threshold required to qualify for this loan. Second, many businesses contract their employees rather than have them on payroll. They also are unable to qualify for this loan. Third, many businesses use personal rather than business banking accounts. They aren't able to qualify for this loan either. What is your government going to do about these three scenarios?", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho (KildonanSt. Paul, CPC)" }, { "text": "I just want to remind honourable members to place their questions through the Chair and not directly to the minister. As well, please take into consideration the interpreters, who have to listen and translate, so that we can have this conversation.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank the honourable member for that question. Right from the very beginning, we've always said that we will listen and that we will work to make sure that measures go out to help our Canadian small businesses. She's absolutely right: 98% of all our businesses in this country are small businesses, so they absolutely contribute enormously to our communities and are job creators. That is why we have put out significant measures. For the Canada emergency business account, over 550,000 small businesses have been approved and are getting that support. I absolutely acknowledge that there is more work to do. I can assure the honourable member that we will continue to do this work so that businesses, all businesses, are supported, whether it is helping keep your employees together, helping with rent support, helping to keep your business's expenses low, or of course helping with the capital that is needed so that you can pay your operating expenses and your bills through this difficult time.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I didn't hear any answers from the minister's remarks, unfortunately. Moving on, there are two issues regarding the 50% commercial rent assistance subsidy, where landlords pay 25%, the government pays 50%, and the tenant is responsible for 25%. First, many of the small landlords aren't able to take a 25% hit to their income, and are unable to provide the subsidy to their tenants. Second, with the 70% decline in revenue threshold for small businesses to even be eligible for the rent assist, many restaurants are at 65% or 67% decline. They desperately need this subsidy but aren't able to qualify. This is not about problems with the program details. What is the government planning to do to streamline this program for small businesses that can't access but desperately need the rent subsidy?", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as the Minister of Official Languages, I just want to raise the fact that interpretation is very complicated right now. In order to make sure that we can continue to uphold bilingualism within the House, I would love it if my colleagues could take down the pace a bit. That would help the interpreters a whole lot. They are working very hard and trying to keep up.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly" }, { "text": "That's a reasonable request. I just want to remind everyone again that when you're asking a question, make sure you are doing it at a pace at which you're considering the people who are interpreting", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this is how fast I speak when we're in the House of Commons. It's just how I talk.", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "I understand. I have a lot of friends who speak very quickly.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Right. I understand. Perhaps we could get back to my question about the rent subsidy.", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "We stopped the time. You're not losing any time on this one.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Okay. I will try to speak more slowly.", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "I appreciate it. Thank you. The interpreters appreciate it. Now we'll go to the minister, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "As you know, we've been working with the provinces and territories to provide this forgivable loan to commercial property owners, who in turn lower the rent of their tenants by 75%. We will continue to monitor how this program is delivered, as we announced it last week. It will be offered pretty soon. It will be very important that we understand what happens across the country, and we will monitor and adapt the program as we", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it has been in the media quite a bit that this rent subsidy is not helping many, many, many small business owners. It's falling short of everything that was announced, so I think it needs to be taken a bit more seriously than that. There are two issues regarding the 75% wage subsidy. First, employers who pay themselves and their employees dividends rather than wages are unable to qualify. Second, there is also a 30% threshold revenue decline needed in order to apply. Many of the businesses in my riding are at 27% or 29%. They desperately need these funds but are unable to qualify. What is the government planning to do for these small businesses?", "speakerName": "Ms. Raquel Dancho" }, { "text": "Again, thank you to the hon. member for sharing the realities she's hearing from small business owners. We are providing help and support for businesses through these very difficult times. The wage subsidy has been taken up and is working for many businesses. We know that some still fall through the cracks and we will look at how we can continue to support businesses across the country.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mona Fortier" }, { "text": "We are now going to Mr. Kevin Waugh.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends (BrossardSaint-Lambert, Lib.))" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. Three weeks ago, on April 17, the Minister of Canadian Heritage announced funding of $500 million to assist Canada's arts, sports and cultural sectors. We are still waiting to hear who is eligible and when they can expect to receive this funding.", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh (SaskatoonGrasswood, CPC)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we will be releasing the details of that announcement, and how the money is going to be spent, in the coming days.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Canadian Heritage)" }, { "text": "We all know that many media organizations, large and small, in Canada are struggling right now. Allegations have arisen that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, is currently engaging in predatory behaviour and taking advantage of the current situation to harm its competitors using rate cuts. We've seen this from the province of Quebec. Many journalists have talked about this. What is the government going to do to address these allegations against the CBC?", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we have not been informed of these allegations. We will look into this, and we will get back to the hon. colleague if we do find any valuable information.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "Local community and ethnic media outlets and papers have strong ties to their communities that often go much deeper than the major media outlets. Is the government currently using any local or ethnic media outlets to provide crucial coronavirus information through advertising?", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I totally agree with my colleague. We need to get the information to Canadians on COVID-19, which is why we have started an ad-buy campaign of $30 million, which is being distributed in more than 900 local, regional and national newspapers across the country and 500 radio and TV stations in 12 different languages, including Farsi, Mandarin, Spanish, Italian and many more.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "Mr. Minister, I talked to the Winnipeg Free Press yesterday. It has received two ads from an ad agency in connection with the $30 million the government is doling out to help media outlets. They had one ad on March 27. The second ad was on April 11. That is two ads in the Winnipeg Free Press in the last eight weeks. Is this the kind of money you're attempting to dole out to help media: two ads in eight weeks?", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we have been doing a number of things for our media in Canada over the last few months and will continue to do so. On top of that $30 million ad-buy campaign, we have been investing $50 million in local journalism. Just this year, it means that 200 journalists will be hired in areas across the country where journalism is more poorly defined. The federal government has paid part I licence fees of our broadcasters to the CRTC. That means $30 million is staying in the pockets of our broadcasters.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, last week, as the minister would know, 15 community newspapers, including eight in Manitoba and seven in the province of Ontario, closed their doors for good. Is the government currently planning any further measures aimed at assisting community or ethnic media organizations? We understand that many more will close their doors within the next 30 to 60 days.", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "We are planning a number of other measures, some of which will be included in the $500 million. I will be announcing the details of that in the coming days. Of the $595 million that the media will receive, we have a tax credit that has now entered into force, and the cheques should be in the mail by the end of the summer. So there are a number of things we've done and a number of things we will be doing in the coming months as well.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "Mr. Waugh, you may have a short question.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Well, finally, you have the five members associated with that committee to dole out the $595 million. They haven't even met yet. When will they meet?", "speakerName": "Mr. Kevin Waugh" }, { "text": "I would like to remind my hon. colleague that in order for us to provide tax breaks for the 2019 period, media outlets had to file their tax returns so we could go ahead. This will now be able to proceed, Madam Chair.", "speakerName": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault" }, { "text": "We now move on to Mr.Godin. Mr.Godin, you may go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, MadamChair. This being the first time I've had the floor during a virtual sitting of Parliament, I'd like to take this opportunity to greet my fellow members, all 259participants. I hope they are taking care of themselves. I'd like to talk about the Prime Minister's appearance on the show Tout le monde en parle. This is what he had to say about his economic recovery plan: We are going to remain focused on the economy as a wholeinnovationresearch and science, the green economy and a fairer economyThere are things we are all reflecting on right now that reflection is going to continue. That was a weak answer. It didn't inspire much confidence. Can the government assure Canadians that it is being proactive and working on a plan to get the economy moving again? It must act now. Things are starting to reopen gradually. Is the government going to take concrete action to revive the economy?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin (PortneufJacques-Cartier, CPC)" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. Our government is wholly committed to restarting the economy, and we are working closely with the provinces to do just that. Last week, our government, together with the provincial and territorial premiers, released the principles that will guide efforts to restore economic activity across the country. That is key. The discussion between the Prime Minister and the premiers is continuing today.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "MadamChair, before we go any further, since it took a while for the minister, or the government, to answer the question, can I have that time back to ask questions?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "I stopped the clock, Mr.Godin.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you. The Prime Minister's answer during his appearance on Tout le monde en parle didn't inspire much confidence and doesn't line up with the Deputy Prime Minister's comments. How can the government be proud of announcing $252million in assistance for the agri-food sector, when that is less than 1% of all the program funding the government has committed to help Canadians get through the COVID-19 crisis? Clearly, the government doesn't see the food supply chain as a priority and has no regard for farmers and pork and beef producers. Does the government realize that eating is vital to Canadians? When is the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food going to adjust the program and show respect for Canadian farmers?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "I have the utmost respect for farmers. We are going step by step. We've already confirmed various supports for the agricultural sector. This week, we focused on beef and pork producers and processors, as well as sectors with product surpluses that can be redirected to food banks. I can assure my fellow member that this is an additional step and that more supports are on the way in the weeks ahead. Bear in mind that a number of programs are already available to farmers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "I'd like to switch topics now. PortneufJacques-Cartier is home to a company that is already licensed by Health Canada and that, for 20years, has been manufacturing medical equipment including masks, face shields and thermometers. This is equipment our health workers need. The company has a licence from the federal government. In mid-March, Health Canada reached out to the company to find out how much equipment it could manufacture to help fight COVID-19. The company confirmed that it could immediately start producing 200,000masks a week, ramping up to a million masks over the next few weeks. Forty-five days later, it is still waiting on its first order from the Canadian government. We are managing a crisis with a limited supply of medical equipment. Can the health minister tell us why, 45days later, this company licensed by Health Canada hasn't received an order?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "Thank you for the question. Industry and suppliers have enthusiastically answered our call to equip Canada with products and goods during the crisis. Many of those suppliers have already received contracts. We have reached out to all the others and will negotiate contracts as needed.", "speakerName": "Hon. Anita Anand (Minister of Public Services and Procurement)" }, { "text": "I would now like to invite hon. member Jenica Atwin to speak.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. Seniors living alone are most at risk of economic insecurity, particularly single senior women, as gender inequality in the job market has translated all too often into inadequate retirement income. Madam Chair, can the minister commit to implementing a poverty reduction plan that addresses the unique challenges faced by older women?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Jenica Atwin (Fredericton, GP)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I want to assure the member that we are quite aware that this pandemic has typically affected single seniors, and many of those, given that they live longer, are single senior women. I want to assure her that we are working on this issue, and we have provided some supports already through measures such as the GST supplementary payment. That is on average almost $400 for single seniors. There's more work to do. We know that, so stay tuned.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, older women represent a high proportion of residents in long-term care facilities. Having spent their lives caring for parents, children and often their partners, they find themselves needing care in nursing homes. Multiple outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care homes in Canada have highlighted systemic gaps that senior and elderly women may face in such facilities, as well as the working conditions of the female-dominated ranks of nurses and personal support workers. Madam Chair, can the minister commit to implementing a federal strategy for long-term care homes that recognizes quality of life for residents and working conditions for the employees, ideally one that goes hand in hand with a poverty reduction plan and enhanced home and community care investments across the country?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Jenica Atwin" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I do want to thank the hon. member for her question. It's an important one. We are obviously deeply saddened by the outbreaks that have been going on in long-term care facilities and those who have lost their lives. We do recognize that the administration of long-term care and palliative care is the responsibility of provinces and territories; however, we have been taking a team Canada approach, and as you already know, we've been doing tremendous work with them to try to ensure that those who live in those facilities can be well cared for and safe. We are doing that with guidelines", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "Ms. Atwin has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, from May 4 to May 10, we are observing Mental Health Week. We know that our essential workers right now are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety, on top of putting their own physical safety and health on the line. Most of these workers work in precarious jobs with no access to paid sick leave or vacation, and without any benefits to access mental health services. Apart from the very welcome investments in online resources, can the minister explain how the government will support these workers now and once the crisis is behind us?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Jenica Atwin" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, thank you very much to the member for the question. I'm so glad that she's raising the issue of mental health and in particular how poor mental health is oftentimes connected to our socio-economic status. I appreciate the nuance in that question. She's right. We do have new resources that are available to all Canadians free of charge through the Wellness Together portal, but there is more to do. I think the announcement of top-up wages, for example, which the Prime Minister spoke about today, is another example of how we're taking the health and wellness of all low-income Canadians very seriously. We know that mental health is not divorced from socio-economic status, and I look forward to working with her more on other measures that we can take together.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we're all very aware of the importance of temporary foreign workers and their role in ensuring our food sovereignty across this country. The pandemic has highlighted how we depend on their work. How are we protecting them? Madam Chair, will the government take action to strengthen legislation and ensure Canadians have access to the food they need while the workers who help bring it to our tables have safe working conditions, regardless of where they are working in this country?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Jenica Atwin" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. We are very concerned, as are countries around the world, that we support and create the environment for the health and safety of our temporary foreign workers and we value their contribution to our food supply chain here in Canada. We have issued guidelines to employers and are working very closely with local public health authorities in the provinces and territories to make sure workers are protected, that physical distancing and other recommendations are adhered to and that there are severe consequences if employers don't take care of their workers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "We are now going to Mr. MacGregor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. My first question is this: Will the Liberal government prevent federal bailout funds from going to companies that use tax havens and avoid paying their fair share here in Canada, yes or no?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor (CowichanMalahatLangford, NDP)" }, { "text": "We are working to make sure that anyone who tries to circumvent the rules faces serious consequences. We are asking businesses to designate a representative to attest their claims. Any employer receiving the subsidy who is deemed ineligible will have to repay the full amount. Anyone who abuses the program could face fines of up to 225% of the subsidy amount as well as five years in prison.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier (Minister of National Revenue)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I didn't really hear a yes to that question, so I'll repeat it. Does the government really think it's appropriate for tax-avoiding corporations to receive funding provided for by taxpayers?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "We will keep going after companies that engage in tax evasion. I want to be clear. We will target those who are responsible, not innocent workers. An employee is an employee, regardless of who they work for. The wage subsidy program does not hand a blank cheque over to employers. It is meant to help Canadians pay their bills, keep their jobs and get through the crisis.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, the agriculture funding announced by the government earlier this week amounts to less than 10% of what the Canadian Federation of Agriculture estimates will be required to help farmers weather this crisis. Why has the Minister of Agriculture shortchanged our farmers?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, this is one more step. This was one more step. We have already committed significant support to our farmers through different programs, and we will do more. I have to remind my colleague that we have put in $5 billion through FCC, $50 million for the temporary foreign workers, two times $50 million for pork and beef producers this week, and $77 million for food processing. This is only the beginning, and we should not forget that the business risk management programs are still there to offer support.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Yes, Madam Chair, but we're nearly two months into this pandemic and this announcement only came this week. Farmers need certainty. When can farmers expect further updates on funding, and how much will the government be providing?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we are working closely with the farmers and their representatives to identify where the gaps are, but once again, we have made improvements to the AgriStability program. They can get, depending on the province, either 50% or 75% in advance payments, and they can also, right now, access their AgriInvest program. There is more than $2 billion ready to access today, if they have", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Mr. MacGregor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, federal disability recipients and seniors on fixed incomes have been hardest hit by cost of living increases from COVID-19. If we acknowledge that $2,000 per month is the minimum needed to get through this time, why are they being asked to survive on far less? When can they expect assistance, and how much will they receive?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I want to make sure people realize that we have provided some assistance through the GST supplementary benefit. We are also providing support to those who are still working, and we have done that by allowing them to access the CERB. There is more work to be done, so you'll be hearing more in the near future.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, as I think we've heard through today's question period, there are countless example of this government designing programs to exclude many small businesses that desperately need help. Whether it's the payroll requirements or other eligibility, we still, to this day, almost two months into the pandemic, have too many small businesses falling through the cracks. Madam Chair, why has the government taken this approach and when can we finally expect fixes to the whole system?", "speakerName": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, right from the get-go, we have been committed to making sure that Canadians are helped through this crisis, and that small businesses get the support that they need, so that we are saving businesses and jobs in this country. That is what we have done with many of our programs. You're seeing that we are also listening, so that we can modify them as we need. I want to assure the member that the work is not done. We continue to do this.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng" }, { "text": "Thank you. It is now over to Mr.Perron. Mr.Perron, you may go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. My question will come as no surprise, since it has to do with agriculture. I hear the questions my fellow members are asking, and to be frank, I don't find the answers satisfactory. It is well and good to talk about existing programs, but they aren't working, so enough with that refrain. That's what people are telling us. It's not just members of the opposition saying it. This morning, both farmers and processors came together for a press conference at the Union des producteurs agricoles's head office in Longueuil. Six stakeholders from different sectors sounded the alarm. Can the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food therefore tell us when she will announce significant supports for the industry?", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves Perron (BerthierMaskinong, BQ)" }, { "text": "We have already announced significant amounts of support, and more is on the way. I'd like to correct my fellow member. It's not that the programs aren't working; it's that they aren't generous enough in farmers' eyes. That's why I'm working with my provincial counterparts to make improvements to programming, including AgriStability. Here's an example. After using the online AgriStability benefit estimator, a pork producer found out that he would get $11 per head, as they say in the industry. Pork producers are calling for $20 per head, so it's a good start, even though it's not enough and it isn't what they are asking for. We want to keep working together, but farmers have to access the money available to them through AgriStability.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Now it's my turn to correct the minister. Even before the crisis, we were hearing from people in the industry that the programs were neither suitable nor sufficient. We are in a crisis, and this is an exceptional situation. In the case of mad cow disease, farmers received direct assistance. That's the kind of assistance we are calling for. We don't want to hear about growing levels of debt. Of course, this is a first step, but farms are already deep in debt. A few days ago, the government announced $50million in funding for pork producers, even though they are asking for $20per hog for 27million hogs. The government's support covers just 2.5million hogs. When I call the measure insufficient, I mean it is grossly insufficient. It's high time the government put forth more support. It has to stop saying that it's working hard and examining the situation. The government has to listen to the people in the industry. Again, this morning, they had some interesting proposals. When is the government going to announce a whole lot more in funding support? What's been announced so far is only 10% of what farmers are asking for.", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves Perron" }, { "text": "We are going step by step. The programs are already in place. We are trying to make them better, and we are committed to doing that. These programs are cost-shared with the provinces. However, I would point out to the member that, when it comes to AgriRecovery, we made an exception to the rule. We are moving forward in every province to help pork and beef producers. That's two funding envelopes of $50million each to help cover the additional costs from the decrease in plant processing capacity. That's new money that was not yet available, money we introduced this week. As the Prime Minister said, we are going to do more, and we are moving forward step by step.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "What we concluded in committee this week is that the $125million is not new money. It was already earmarked for the programs. The government can't say that programs already exist and, at the same time, claim that they are new programs. Something doesn't add up there. What's more, there are different ways to make money available. I'd like to talk compensation. Everyone knows that the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement came into force a month earlier than planned, despite the promises that had been made. That resulted in additional losses, once again. An easy way to make money available without committing new spending is to provide compensation and announce programs for supply-managed sectors that got nothing. It seems to me that a time of crisis is a time for the government to practise some judo and announce measures. I am reaching out to the government, as I always do, but it has to come forward with announcements. Can we expect the government to announce measures in the coming days?", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves Perron" }, { "text": "Our commitment to farmers in supply-managed sectorsmeaning, egg, poultry and dairy farmersis as strong as it always was. I repeat, our commitment is clear. Dairy producers received their first payment at the end of last year or the beginning of this year. Support for poultry and egg farmers is in the form of investment programs, which aligns well with the recovery. At this time, we are focusing on emergency programs to help farmers hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. When it comes to the dairy sector, I hope I can count on your support. As you know, legislative changes are needed to grant the Canadian Dairy Commission's request and increase its borrowing limit by $200million so it can buy more butter and cheese.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau" }, { "text": "Our next question will go to Mr. Lake.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we're all inundated, as we've heard during this entire question period, with Canadians' concerns about the economic restrictions and the social restrictions that they're under. Over the last couple of months, the WHO has given one very consistent message in terms of coming out of those economic and social restrictions. On March 16, Dr. Tedros said in his briefing, We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test. On March 25, 44 days ago, he said, Aggressive measures to find, isolate, test, treat and trace are not only the best and fastest way out of extreme social and economic restrictionstheyre also the best way to prevent them. Does the minister agree with the WHO that relentless testing and tracing are critical to a successful economic and social relaunch strategy in Canada?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake (EdmontonWetaskiwin, CPC)" }, { "text": "Thanks to the member for the very astute observation and question. Absolutely, we agree that testing and contact tracing will form an important part of our response to living with COVID. We've been investing heavily in ensuring that we have the lab capacity, the collaboration across provinces and territories, and the variety of testing options to help us increase our capacity to test. We are aiming right now for a high volume of tests, but I will also say that in Canada we have one of the highest testing rates in the world. Although we're doing well, I can assure him that I am with him and I believe we need to do more.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "I have some really quick questions for follow-up. First, what is Canada's current testing capability?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as I mentioned to his colleagues yesterday, we have currently the capacity to do approximately 60,000 tests per day across the country.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "How many tests were conducted each day on average in Canada last week?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it's hard for me to get that exact number, but I will get back to him with the exact number.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "I'll save you the time. The exact number was 28,851, on average, every day last week. That's a gap of 30,000 from what your stated testing capability is. I'll give another quote from Dr. Tam, back on April 22, 15 days ago. She said, As a first tranche, roughly close to 60,000 is where the provinces can potentially expand to as a target already. Does the minister happen to know, ballpark, what the average number of daily tests in Canada has been since that statement?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "Your estimate was slightly higher than what my estimate was going to be, so that's a great piece of news. Listen, I will just say that I think if the premise here is that we could be doing more testing. I would agree, but I will also say that the provinces and territories are working incredibly hard on testing strategies that meet their own specific needs. I'm happy to have a conversation with the member later about that testing strategy. Dr. Tam works with all the chief public health officers across the country to ensure that their testing strategy is going to be applicable and appropriate for their particular jurisdictions. We, as the federal government, provide the capacity for them to conduct those tests.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Following up on that, is there a jurisdiction in Canada where relentless testing is not the appropriate strategy as provinces consider relaunching?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "Each province and territory has its own outbreak and its own epidemic. For example, in British Columbia, where there are relatively fewer cases in general and less disease activity, they may have a different testing strategy than a province like Ontario, which is currently struggling with more outbreaks.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "Given your comment that our current testing capability is 60,000, and acknowledging that only at one point in the entire history of our COVID response, over several months, has our weekly average been over 30,000it was about 31,000 for one day on a rolling basisMinister, are you satisfied with our current testing amounts right now, given that we're testing 50% of what the public health officer advises would be best?", "speakerName": "Hon. Mike Lake" }, { "text": "I'm so amazed by the work the provinces and territories have done in a very short time to increase their capacity. We are supporting them with the tools that they need to get more testing done, but also to have other components in place that will allow them to do the rapid tracing of positive cases. I think it's very important to remember that testing strategies will be different across the provinces, based on the outbreak disease epidemiology. Having said that, I know that we can all do better, and I'm certain that my counterparts feel the same.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu" }, { "text": "I'm going to have to cut the minister off at that one. I want to thank everyone for the session today, I think it went rather well. I'm very proud of you and proud of ourselves for what we managed to accomplish. The committee stands adjourned until Tuesday, May 12, at noon.", "speakerName": "The Chair" } ] }

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Th - this this is s should be im it isn't There's another thing going on of gathering data, and that's pretty much independent of this. But, uh, I just want to make sure we're all together on this. What we think is gonna happen is that, uh, in parallel starting about now we're gonna get Fey to, where you're working with me and Robert, draft a note that we're gonna send out to various CogSci c and other classes saying, \" here's an opportunity to be a subject. Contact Fey. \" And then there'll be a certain number of um, hours during the week which she will be available and we'll bring in people. Uh, roughly how many, Robert? We d Do we know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, fifty was our sort of our first.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, we're looking for a total of fifty people, not necessarily by any means all students but we'll s we'll start with with that. In parallel with that, we're gonna need to actually do the script. And, so, I guess there's a plan to have a meeting Friday afternoon Uh, with uh, Jane, and maybe Liz and whoever, on actually getting the script worked out. But what I'd like to do, if it's O K, is to s to, as I say, start the recruiting in parallel and possibly start running subjects next week. The week after that's Spring Break, and maybe we'll look for them some subjects next door", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also, Fey will not be here during spring break.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK, then we won't do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So that's easy. Um. So, is Is that make sense to everybody?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also, um, F both Fey and I will, um, do something of which I may, eh kindly ask you to to do the same thing, which is we gonna check out our social infrastructures for possible subjects. Meaning, um, kid children's gymnastic classes, pre - school parents and so forth. They also sometimes have flexible schedules. So, if you happen to be sort of in a non - student social setting, and you know people who may be interested in being subjects We also considered using the Berkeley High School and their teachers, maybe, and get them interested in stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um. So that's as far as our brainstorming was concerned.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. The high school's a great idea.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. But I I will just make a first draft of the, uh, note, the \" write - up \" note, send it to you and Fey and then.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And why don't you also copy Jane on it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um, Are we Have we concurred that, uh, these these forms are sufficient for us, and necessary?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, th I think they're necessary. This The permission form.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, there has to be one,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nuh. N.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and I think we're just gonna use it as it is, and Um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "N. You happy with that?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. There's one tricky part about, um, they have the right um I The last paragraph \" if you agree to participate you have the opportunity to have anything excised which you would prefer not to have included in the data set. \" OK? Now that, we had to be included for this other one which might have, uh, meetings, you know, about something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "In this case, it doesn't really make sense. Um, so what I'd like to do is also have our subjects sign a waiver saying \" I don't want to see the final transcript \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And if they don't If they say \" no, I'm not willing to sign that \", then we'll show them the final transcript. But, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Makes sense.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That, uh yeah, so we might actually, um S i Jane may say that, \" you know, you can't do this \", uh, \" on the same form, we need a separate form. \" But anyway. I'd I'd I'd like to, e e um, add an a little thi eh a thing for them to initial, saying \" nah, do I don't want to see the final transcript. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But other than that, that's one's been approved, this really is the same project, uh, rec you know. And so forth. So I think we just go with it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. OK. So much for the data, except that with Munich everything is fine now. They're gonna transcribe. They're also gonna translate the, uh, German data from the TV and cinema stuff for Andreas. So. They're they all seem to be happy now, with that. So. w c sh should we move on to the technical sides?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well I guess the good good news of last week was the parser. So, um Bhaskara and I started working on the the parser. Then Bhaskara went to class and once he came back, um, it was finished. So. It, uh I didn't measure it, but it was about an hour and ten minutes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, um and now it's We have a complete English parser that does everything the German parser does.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Which is not a lot. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's the, uh, point.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The uh, that's not a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What did you end up having to do? I mean, wha Was there anything interesting about it at all?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, if you, eh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We'll show you.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can show us,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or are we gonna see that?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, w w We d The first we did is we we tried to to do change the the \" laufen \" into \" run \", or \" running \", or \" runs \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we noticed that whatever we tried to do, it no effect.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And we were puzzled.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, uh, the reason was that the parser i c completely ignores the verb.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So this sentence sentence is parses the p the same output,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm. Interesting parser property.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, even if you leave out, um, all all of this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I see. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it's basically feature film and TV.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Today", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's what you need.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If if you'd add add Today and Evening, it'll add Time or not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And the t and the time, right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it i it does look at that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But all the rest is p simply frosting on the cake, and it's optional for that parser.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, you can sho You you Are are you gonna show us the little templates?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. We ar we can sh er I can show you the templates. I I also have it running here,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The former end g \" Oh, I see. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so if I do this now, um, you can see that it parsed the wonderful English sentence, \" Which films are on the cinema today evening? \" But, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, that sounds.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh do don't worry about it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It could be \" this evening, which which films are on the cinema \", or \" running in the cinema, which \" uh, \" today evening \", uh i \" Is anything happening in the cinema this evening? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK. Key words, e basically.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ge - elaborate, or, more or less, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Actually, it's a little tricky, in that there's some allowable German orders which aren't allowable English orders and so forth. And it is order - based. So it it Isn't it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh. So it it doe I it These u these optional elements,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It is not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "it's it's actually a set, not a sequence?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. We were I was afraid that, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it really is key word matching, basically.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Really a se", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "e yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, wow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, I mean, these sentences are just silly.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean, uh, d these were not the ones we we actually did it. Um. What's an idiomatic of phrasing this? Which films are showing?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Are pl playing at the cinema?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "playing?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Tonight?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I changed that file, actually, where it's on my account.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "This this evening?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Actually, you would say, \" which films are on tonight? \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You want to get it? Or is di was it easy to get it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um. I have no net here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Do I?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So. Wonderful parse, same thing. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Except that we d w we don't have this, uh, time information here now, which is, um Oh. This are the reserve. Anyways. So. Um. These are the sort of the ten different sentence types that the uh the parser was able to do. And it still is, now in English.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, um Sorry. And, um you have already to make it a little bit more elaborate, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean I changed those sentences to make it, uh, more, uh, idiomatic. And, of course, you can have i many variations in those sentences, they will still parse fine. So, in a sense it's pretty broad.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So, if you want to look at the templates, they're conveniently located in a file, \" template \". Um, and this is what I had to do. I had to change, @ @ \" Spielfilm \" to \" film \", uh, \" Film \" to \" movie \", cinem \" Kino \" to \" cinema \" to \" today \" heu \" heute \" to \" today \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "evening \" Abend \" to \" evening \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Capitalized as well", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Y i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One thing I was wondering, was, those functions there, are those things that modify the M - three - L basically?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And that's that's the next step,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "p", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but we'll get to that in a second.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so this means, um, \" this \" and \" see \" are not optional. \" Want I like \" is all maybe in there, but may also not be in there.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So so, the point is, if it says \" this \" and \" see \", it also will work in \" see \" and \" this \"?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "In the other order?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "with those two key words?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Should we try it?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "\" This is the one I want to see \" or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. \" Action watch \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "whatever. Nothing was specialfi specified. except that it has some references to audio - visual media here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "AV medium.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Where it gets that from.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's correct, but I don't know where it gets it from.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "\" See \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, \" see \". Yeah. Yeah. Yep. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean it's sort of.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And \" see this \" is exactly the same thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so it is set - based. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One thing I was wondering was, those percentage signs, right? So, I mean, why do we even have them?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because if you didn't have them.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, I'll tell you why. Because it gives a you a score.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And the value of the score is, v I assume, I guess, the more of these optional things that are actually in there, the higher the r score it is.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh. OK. So that's the main purpose. Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's a match.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we we shouldn't belittle it too much. It's doing something, some things, and it's very flexible. I've just tried to", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "be nice.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No, no. Fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, flexible it is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Um, let's hope that the generation will not be more difficult, even though the generator is a little bit more complex. Uh but we'll Mmm, that means we may need two hours and twenty minutes rather than an hour ten minutes,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I hope.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And the next thing I would like to be able to do, and it seems like this would not be too difficult either, is to say, \" OK let's now pretend we actually wanted to not only change the the mapping of of, uh, words to the M - three - L but we also wanted to change add a new sentence type and and make up some some new M - three - L s \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. So That'd be great. It would be a good exercise to just see whether one can get that to run.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "See th Mm - hmm. Yep. And, um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, that's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "that's shouldn't be too tough.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Fine, yeah. Yeah, so where are those those functions \" Action \", \" Goodbye \", and so on, right? Are they actually, um, Are they going to be called? Um, are they present in the code for the parser?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think what it does, it i i it does something sort of fancy. It loads um It has these style sheets and also the, um, schemata. So what it probably does, is it takes the, uh, um Is this where it is? This is already the XML stuff? This is where it takes its own, um, syntax, and converts it somehow. Um. Where is the uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What are you looking for?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, where it actually produces the the XML out of the, uh, parsed stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, this is not it. Uh. I can't find it now. You mean, where the where the act how the action \" Goodbye \" maps into something.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, where are those constructors defined?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, that's not it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is sort of what happens. This is what you would need to to change to get the, uh, XML changed. So when it encounts encounters \" Day \", it will, uh, activate those h classes in the in the XML stuff But, um I saw those actions uh, the \" Goodbye \" stuff somewhere. Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Grep for it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do that. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm. M - three - L dot DTD?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's just a specification for the XML format.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. Well, we'll find that out. So whatever n this does I mean this is, basically, looks l to me like a function call, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm? Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um So, whenever it it encounters \" Goodbye \", which we can make it do in a second, here", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That function automatically generates an initialized XML structure?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think each of those functions act on the current XML structure, and change it in some way, for example, by adding a a l a field to it, or something.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "y Yeah. They also seem to affect state,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "cause some of them there were other actions uh, that that s seemed to step state variables somewhere,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "like the n s \" Discourse Status Confirm \". OK. So that's going to be a call on the discourse", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and confirm that it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "W we Mm - hmm", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, you mean that's not going to actually modify the tree,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "e", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but it's going to change the event.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think it's actually That looks like it's state modification.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "e mmm Um, well i There is a feature called \" Discourse - Status \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "When there's a feature.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so whenever I just say, \" Write \", it will it will put this in here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, so it always just Is it So it Well, go back, then, cuz it may be that all those th things, while they look like function calls, are just a way of adding exactly that to the XML.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "h Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh! I'm not I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "e I'm not sure e that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um well, we we'll see, when we say, let's test something, \" Goodbye \", causes it to c to create basically an \" Action Goodbye - End - Action \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Which is a means of telling the system to shut down.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now, if we know that \" Write \" produces a \" Feature Discourse - Status Confirm Discourse - Status \". So if I now say \" Write, Goodbye, \" it should do that. It sho it creates this,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" Confirm Goodbye \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right there. But there is some kind of function call, because how does it know to put Goodbye in Content, but, uh, Confirm in Features?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh. It d it n That's because.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So So, it's not just that it's adding that field.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Absolutely. Good point.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's it's the It's under what sub - type you're doing it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's mystery functions.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, sometimes it m Sometimes, i", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, they're defined somewhere, presumably.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, each is S so that's funny.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "When it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You bury the s the state in the function Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, it just automatically initializes things that are common, right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's just a shorthand.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "For example Oh, this is German. Sorry. e So, now, this, it cannot do anymore. Nothing comes out of here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "A \" not a number \" is a value. Awesome.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, it doesn't speak German anymore, but it does speak English. And there is, here, a reference So, this tells us that whatever is has the ID \" zero \" is referenced here by @ @ the restriction seed and this is exa \" I want \" What was the sentence?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "\" I want two seats here. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" need two seats here. \" Nuh. \" And where is it playing? \" There should also be a reference to something, maybe. Our d This is re um Mmm. Here, we change and so, we Here we add something to the Discourse - Status, that the user wants to change something that was sort of done before And, uh and that, whatever is being changed has something to do with the cinema.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So then, whatever takes this M - three - L is what actually changes the state, not the Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, right, the Discourse Maintainer,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "yeah. I see. And it and it runs around looking for Discourse Status tags, and doing whatever it does with them. And other people ignore those tags. Alright. So, yeah. I definitely think it's It's worth the exercise of trying to actually add something that isn't there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh Disc", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sort of get a complete understanding of the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, a kid understanding what's going on. Then the next thing we talked about is actually, um, figuring out how to add our own tags, and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Point number two. I got the, uh, M - three - L for the routes today. Uh, so I got some more. This is sort of the uh, um, Hmm. Interesting. It's just going up, it's not going back down. So, this is um, what I got today is the the new um M - three - L for um, the Maps,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh, and with some examples So, this is the XML and this is sort of what it will look like later on, even though it you can't see it on on this resolution. And this is what it sort of is the the structure of Map requests, um also not very interesting, and here is the more interesting stuff for us, is the routes, route elements, and, again, as we thought it's really simple. This is sort of the, uh, um, parameters. We have @ @ simple \" from objects \" and \" to objects \" and so forth, points of interest along the way And, um, I asked them whether or not we could, um First of all, I was little bit It seemed to me that this m way of doing it is sort of a stack a step backwards from the way we've done it before. t It seems to me that some notions were missing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So these are these are.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So these are these are your friends back at EML.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Who are doing this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So this is not a complicated negotiation. There's there's not seven committees, or anything, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. No, this is very straightforward.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Great. So this is just trying to It's a design thing, not a political thing. Once we've eh We can just sort of agree on what oughta be done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly. And, um And, uh However, the, uh e So that you understand, it is really simple. Uh You you have a route, and you cut it up in different pieces. And every every element of that e r r f of that Every segment we call a \" route element \". And so, from A to B we cut up in three different steps, and every step has a \" from object \" where you start, a \" to object \" where y where you sort of end, and some points of interest along the way. What w I was sort of missing here, and uh, maybe it was just me being too stupid, is, I didn't sort of get the the notion of the global goal of the whole route. Really, s was not straightforward visibly for me. And some other stuff. And I suggested that they should n be k uh, kind enough to do s two things for us, is one, um, Also allocating, uh, some tags for our Action Schema Enter - Vista - Approach, and And also, um, since you had suggested that that, um, we figure out if we ever, for a demo reason, wanted to shortcut directly to the g GIS and the Planner, of how we can do it. Now, what's the state of the art of getting to entrances, um, what's the syntax for that, how get getting to vista points and calculating those on the spot. And the Approach mode, anyhow, is the default. That's all they do it these days. Wherever you'll find a route planner it n does nothing but get to the closest point where the street network is at minimal distance to the geometric center.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, well, let Now, this is important. Let, uh I want a a Again, outside of m almost managerial point, um You're in the midst of this, so you know better. But it seems to me it's probably a good idea to li uh minimize the number of uh, change requests we make of them. So it seemed to me, what we ought to do is get our story together. OK? And think about it some, internally, before asking them to make changes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh. Does this does this make sense to you guys? It I mean you're you're doing the the interaction but it seemed to me that what we ought to do is come up with a uh, something where you, um And I I don't know who's mok working most closely on it. Probably Johno. OK. Uh, take what they have, send it to everybody saying \" this is what they have, this is what we think we should add \", OK? and then have a d a an iteration within our group saying \" Hmm, well \" OK? And get our best idea of what we should add.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then go back to them. Is i or, I don't know does this make sense to you? Or", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Especially if we want Sort of, what I my feeling was eh we we sort of reserved something that has a r eh an OK label. That's th that was my th first sort of step.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I w No matter how we want to call it, this is sort of our playground.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And if we get something in there that is a structure elaborate and and and and and complex enough to to to maybe enable a whole simulation, one of these days, that would be u the the perfect goal.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. That's right. So. So, Yeah. The problem isn't the short ra range optimization. It's the sort of o one or two year kind of thing. OK. What are the thl class of things we think we might try to do in a year or two? How how would we try to characterize those and what do we want to request now that's leave enough space to do all that stuff?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And that re that requires some thought.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And so that sounds like a great thing to do as the priority item um, as soon as we can do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So y so you guys will send to the rest of us um a version of um, this, and the uh, description.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "With sugge yeah, suggested improvements and.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well b Yeah. So, the the uh Not everyone uh, reads German, so if you'd um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "tu uh, tur change the description to, uh, English", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and, um, Then then, yeah. Then, with some sug s suggestions about where where do we go from here?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, this and this, of course, was just the action end. Uh, at some point we're going to have to worry about the language end. But for the moment just uh, t for this class of of things, we might want to try to encompass. And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Then the scope of this is beyond Approach and Vis - or Vista. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. This is this is everything that that, um, you know, um we might want to do in the next couple years.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So what would.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We don't I mean, that's an issue. We don't know what, entirely.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. but I'm just But the Yeah, OK. So I just this XML stuff here just has to do with Source - Path - Goal type stuff, in terms of traveling through Heidelberg.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or travel, specifically.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, but this O Is the domain greater than that?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think I think the i the idea is that Oh. It's beyond Source - Path - Goal, but I think we don't need to get beyond it @ @ tourists in Heidelberg.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It seems to me we can get all the complexity we want in actions and in language without going outside of tourists in Heidelberg. OK? But you know, i depending on what people are interested in, one could have, uh, tours, one could have um, explanations of why something is is, you know, why why was this done, or I mean, no there's no end to the complexity you can build into the uh, what a tourist in Heidelberg might ask.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, at least unless somebody else wants t to suggest otherwise I think the general domain we don't have t to uh, broaden. That is, tourists in Heidelberg. And if there's something somebody comes up with that can't be done that way, then, sure. W we'll we'll look at that, but uh I'd be s I I'd be surprised at if there's any important issue that that And, um I mean if if you want to uh, push us into reference problems, that would be great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK, so this is his specialty is reference,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and you know, what what are these things referring to? Not only anaphora, but, uh, more generally the, uh this whole issue of, uh, referring expressions, and, what is it that they're actually dealing with in the world?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, again, this is li in the databa this is also pretty well formed because there is an ontology, and the database, and stuff. So it isn't like, um, you know, the Evening Star or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I i it All the entities do have concrete reference. Although th the To get at them from a language may not be trivial.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There aren't really deep mysteries about um, what w what things the system knows about.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Right. And you have both proper names and descriptions", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "All those things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and y and you can ask for it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You have proper names, and descriptions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And a l and a lot and and anaphora, and pronouns,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nuh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and all those things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Now, we hav the the whole Unfortunately, the whole database is, uh, in German. We have just commissioned someone to translate some bits of it, IE the e the shortest k the the more general descriptions of all the objects and, um, persons and events. So, it's a relational database with persons, events, and, um, objects. And it's it's quite, um, there. But did y I uh I think there will be great because the reference problem really is not trivial, even if you have such a g well - defined world.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "He knows.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ah - he you are not, uh, throwing uh, uh, carrying owls to Athens.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Could you give me an example of a reference problem? so so l I can make it more concrete?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well How do I get to the Powder - Tower? We sort of t think that our bit in this problem is interesting, but, just to get from Powder - Tower to an object I ID in a database is also not really trivial.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or or if you take something even more scary, um, \" how do I get to the third building after the Tower? the Ple - Powder - Tower? \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, you need some mechanism for", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or, you know, the church across from City Hall, or.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or the re the restaurant where they wear lederhosen?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or the", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Or is that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "O or or tower, or this tower, or that building, or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uniquely.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Trying to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or you can say \" how \" you know, \" how do I get back? \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. And, again, it's just a question of which of these things, uh, people want to dive into. What, uh, I think I'm gonna try to do, and I guess, pwww! let's say that by the end of spring break, I'll try to come up with some general story about, um, construction grammar, and what constructions we'd use and how all this might fit together. There's this whole framework problem that I'm feeling really uncomfortable about. And I haven't had a chance to think about it seriously. But I I want to I want to do that early, rather than late. And you and I will probably have to talk about this some.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "u u u u That's what strikes me, that we sort of the de g uh, small Something, uh, maybe we should address one of these days, is to That most of the work people actually always do is look at some statements, and and analyze those. Whether it's abstracts or newspapers and stuff like this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But the whole i is it is it really relevant that we are dealing mostly with, sort of, questions?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, I mean yeah, I d", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this is It seems to me that we should maybe at least spend a session or or brainstorm a little bit about whether that l this is special case in that sense.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know. You know Did we ever find m metaphorical use in in questions in in that sense, really?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You will.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And how soon,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, uh, we could take all the standard metaphor examples and make question versions of them. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" Who got kicked out of France? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Muh", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, or, you know. \" Wh - why is he why is he pushing for promotion? \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nuh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or, \" who's pushing proof \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nuh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "er, just pick pick any of them and just do the eh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So I don't I don't think, uh, it's at all difficult Uh, to convert them to question forms that really exist and people say all the time, um And sort of we don't know how to handle them, too. Right? I mean, it's I d It We don't know how to handle the declarative forms, @ @ really, and, then, the interrogative forms, ah - oh. Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ooo!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Nancy, it looked like you were s", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. it's just that that the goals are g very different to cases So we had this problem last year when we first thought about this domain, actually, was that most of the things we talked about are our story understanding.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, we're gonna have a short discourse and the person talking is trying to, I don't know, give you a statement and tell you something. And here, it's th", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Help you create a mental model, blah - blah - blah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yea - eh y Yeah, I guess so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then here, y you are j uh, the person is getting information and they or may not be following some larger plan, you know, that we have to recognize or, you know, infer. And th th the their discourse patterns probably don't follo follow quite as many logical connec", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. No, I think that's one of things that's interesting, is is in this sort of over - arching story we we worked it out for th as you say, this the storytelling scenario.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And I think it's really worth thinking through what it looks like.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What is the simspec mean, et cetera.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. M Right. Cuz for a while we were thinking, \" well, how can we change the, um, data to sort of illicit tha illicit, um, actions that are more like what we are used to? \" But obviously we would rather, you know, try to figure out what's what's, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know. I mean, maybe maybe that's what we'll do is is s u e We can do anything we want with it. I mean, once we have fulfilled these requirements,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Mmm Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, and the one for next uh, summer is just half done and then the other half is this, um, \" generation thing \" which we think isn't much different.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So once that's done, then all the rest of it is, uh, sort of, you know, what we want to do for the research. And we can w we can do all sorts of things that don't fit into their framework at all. Th - there's no reason why we're c we're constrained to do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If we can use all the, uh, execution engines, then we can, you know, really try things that would be too too much pain to do ourselves.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But there's no obligation on any of this. So, if we want to turn it into u understan standing stories about Heidelberg, we can do that. I mean, that would just be a t a um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or, as a matter of fact, we need and if we if we' r eh take a ten year perspective, we need to do that, because w e w a Assuming we have this, um, we we ta in that case we actually do have these wonderful stories, and historical anecdotes,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and knights jumping out of windows,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and - and - and tons of stuff. So, th the database is huge, and if we want to answer a question on that, we actually have to go one step before that, and understand that. In order to e do sensible information extraction.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You might, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so, um, this has been a a a Deep Map research issue that was is is part of the unresolved, and to - do's, and something for the future, is how can we sort of run our our text, our content, through a machine that will enable us, later, to retrieve or answer e questions more sensibly?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mwa Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. Anyway. S Who's going?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, uh So, uh, I was just going to ask, um, so, what is the the basic thing that that you are, um, obligated to do, um, uh, by the summer before w uh y c we can move.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah! OK. So eh Yeah. So, what happened is, there's this, eh, uh Robert was describing the There's two packages there's a, uh, quote parser, there's a particular piece of this big system, which, in German, uh, takes these t sentence templates and produces XML structures. And one of our jobs was to make the English equivalent of that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That, these guys did in a in a day.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The other thing is, at the other end, roughly at the same level, there's something that takes, uh, X M L structures, produces an output XML structure which is instructions for the generator.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK? And then there's a language generator, and then after that a s a synthesizer that goes from an XML structure to, uh, language generation, to actual specifications for a synthesizer. Eh, but again, there's one module in which there's one piece that we have to convert to English.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Got it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Is that OK. And that But as I say, this is all along was viewed as a kind of a m a minor thing, necessary, but but not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And much more interesting is the fact that, as part of doing this, we we are, you know, inheriting this system that does all sort of these other things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's great! Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Not precisely what we want, and that's that's wh where it it gets difficult. And I I don't pretend to understand yet what I think we really ought to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So, e enough of that, but I, uh, um, mmm, the e sort of, Johno and I will take up that responsibility, and, um, get a first draft of that. Now, we have um just, I think two more short things.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, y you guys sort of started fighting, uh, on the Bayes - net \" Noisy - OR \" front?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, I thought I should, um, talk a little bit about that, because that might be a good, uh, sort of architecture to have, in general for, uh, problems with, you know, multiple inputs to a node.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Good! OK. Good. And what's the other one? so that just we know what the d agenda is?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, the Wu paper, I think maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I've got a couple new Wu papers as well. Uh, so I I've been in contact with Wu, so, probably let's put that off till I I till I understand better, uh, what he's doing. It's just a little embarrassing cause all this was in his thesis and I was on his thesis committee, and, so, I r really knew this at one time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ugh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, I I It's not only uh Is Part of what I haven't figured out yet is is how all this goes together. So I'll dig up some more stuff from Dekai. And so why don't we just do the, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So should I Is there a white board here that I can use?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. You could.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "squealing sound?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or shall I just use this?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's probably just as easy. I", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You can put the microphone in your pocket.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I was envying you and your pocket cause I don't have one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It was a quick one, huh?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's why they invented \" pocket T's \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "exactly", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They have clips!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, um Recall that, uh, we want to have this kind of structure in our Bayes - nets. Namely, that, um You have these nodes that have several bands, right? So Does I mean, they sort of the typical example is that, um, these are all a bunch of cues for something, and this is a certain effect that we'd like to conclude. So, uh Like, let's just look at the case when, um, this is actually the the final action, right? So this is like, uh, you know, touch,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Y", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "E - EVA", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sorry. Uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, E - EVA, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Enter, V View, Approach, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "W what was this? It i i i ehhh, i ehhh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Wri - write it out for for.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, this is Yeah. Enter,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "View, Approach.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. So, I mean, we'd like to take all these various cues, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Like the army.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So this one might be, say, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "New terminology?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, let me pick a random one", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I haven't heard that before.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and say, uh I don't know, it could be, like This isn't the way it really is, but let me say that, suppose someone mentioned, uh, admission fees Ah, it takes too long. Try let me just say \" Landmark \". If the thing is a landmark, you know, um then there's another thing that says if um if it's closed or not, at the moment. Alright, so you have nodes. Right? And the, uh, problem that we were having was that, you know, given N - nodes, there's \" two to the N \" Given N - nodes, and furthermore, the fact that there's three things here, we need to specify \" three times \", uh, \" two to the N \" probabilities. Right? That's assuming these are all binary, which f they may not be. For example, they could be \" time of day \", in which case we could, uh, say, you know, \" Morning, afternoon, evening, night \". So, this could be more So, it's a lot, anyway. And, that's a lot of probabilities to put here, which is kind of a pain. So Noisy - ORs are a way to, uh, sort of deal with this. Um Where should I put this? So, the idea is that, um, Let's call these, uh, C - one, C - two, C - three, and C - four, and E, for Cause and Effect, I guess. The idea is to have these intermediate nodes. Right. Well, actually, the idea, first of all, is that each of these things has a quote - unquote distinguished state, which means that this is the state in which we don't really know anything about it. So right? So, for example, if we don't really know if the thing is a landmark or not, Or, i if that just doesn't seem relevant, then that would be th sort of the Disting - the Distinguish state. It's a really, you know, if there is something for the person talking about the admission fee, you know, if they didn't talk about it, that would be the Distinguish state.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "S so, this is a fanciful way of saying \" default \"?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's just what they the word they used in that paper.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, the idea is that, um, you have these intermediate nodes, right? E - one, E - two, E - three and E - four?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, this is the Heckerman paper you're working with? Good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So The idea is that, each of these EI is represents what this would be if all the other ones were in the distinguish state. Right? So, for example, suppose that the person I mean, suppose the thing that they talked about is a landmark. But none of the other sort of cues really apply. Then, this would be W The this would just represent the probability distribution of this, assuming that this cue is turned on and the other ones just didn't apply? So, you know, if it is a landmark, and no none of the other things really ap applicable, then this would represent the probability distribution. So maybe in this case Maybe we just t k Maybe we decide that, if the thing's a landmark and we don't know anything else, then we're gonna conclude that, um They want to view it with probability, you know, point four. They want to enter it with probability, uh with probability point five and they want to approach it probability point one, say Right? So we come up with these l little tables for each of those OK. And the final thing is that, um this is a deterministic function of these, so we don't need to specify any probabilities. We just have to, um, say what function this is, right? So we can let this be, um G of E - one comma E - two. E - three, E - four. Right? and our example G would be, um, a majority vote? Right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well. OK, so th so the important point is W not what the G function is. The important point is that Um There is a a a general kind of idea of shortcutting the full CPT. Th - c the full conditional probability table with some function. OK? Which y w you choose appropriately for each case. So, depending on what your situation is, there are different functions which are most appropriate. And So I gave eh Bhaskara a copy of this, eh sort of \" ninety - two \" paper. D and you got one, Robert.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I don't know who else has seen it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's I mean yeah. it's Heckerman and Breese.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's short. It's short.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, I u w Um, yo uh you Have you read it yet?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, you can Yeah, you should take a look at it, I guess.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, so you should take a look. Nancy, I'm sure you read it at some point in life.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I yeah. I I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. And so, you other guys can decide how interested.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, @ @.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Anyway. So the paper isn't th isn't real hard.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And Uh One of the questions just come at Bhaskara is, \" How much of this does JavaBayes support? \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a good question. Um The so what we want, is basically JavaBayes to support deterministic, uh, functions.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um In a sense it sup we can make it supported by, um, manually, uh, entering, you know, probabilities that are one and zeros, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. So the little handout that The little thing that I sent I sent a message saying, uh, here is a way to take One thing you could do, which is kind of s in a way, stupid, is take this deterministic function, and use it to build the CPT. So, if Ba - JavaBayes won't do it for you,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "that you can convert all that into what the CPT would be. Um and, what I sent out about a week ago, was an idea of how to do that, for, um, evidence combination. So one of one function that you could use as your \" G function \" is an e e Evidence - Combining. So you just take the uh, if each of th if each of the ones has its own little table like that, then you could take the, uh, strength of each of those, times its little table, and you'd add up the total evidence for \" V \", \" E \", and \" A \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. I don't think you can do this, because G is a function from that to that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yep. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right? So there's no numbers. There's just quadruplets of well, N - duplets of, uh, E Vs.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I i i No, no But I'm saying is There There is a w I mean, if y if if you decide what's what is appropriate, is probablistic evidence combination, you can write a function that does it. It's a pui it's actually one of the examples he's got in there. But, anyway, s skipping skipping the question of exactly which functions now is it clear that you might like to be able to shortcut the whole conditional probability table.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, in some it seems very plausible in some sense, where we will be likely to not be observe some of the stuff. Cuz we don't have the a access to the information.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oops, sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. That's one of the problems, is, W Is is, Where would th Where would it all come from?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is Oh, right. W would not be ab able to observe", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I if it's a a a discar Discourse Initial Phrase, we will have nothing in the discourse history. So, if if we ever want to wonder what was mention", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh Oh. A are you saying that we'll not be able to observe certain nodes? That's fine. That is sort of orthogonal thing.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there's there's two separate things, Robert. The f the the the Bayes - nets in general are quite good at saying, \" if you have no current information about this variable just take the prior for that. \" OK? Th - that's what they're real good at. So, if you don't have any information about the discourse, you just use your priors of of whatever eh the discourse uh, eh, basically whatever w it's Probabilistically, whatever it would be. And it's it's sort of not a great estimate,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but it's the best one you have, and, so forth. So that, they're good at. But the other problem is, how do you fill in all these numbers? And I think that's the one he was getting at.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, specifically in this case you have to f have this many numbers,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "whereas in this case you just have to have three for this, three for this, three for this. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you have to have just three N? So, this is much smaller than that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Asymptotically.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, pretty quickly.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "U yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, you don't need da data enough to cover uh, nearly as much stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, really, i What a A Noisy - OR seems to kind of \" neural - net - acize \" these Bayes - nets?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Eh well to some No, no. So, \" Noisy - OR \" is a funny way of referring to this, because the Noisy - OR is only one instance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This isn't a Noisy - OR anymore.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That one actually isn't a Noisy - OR. So we'll have to think of of a way t t", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "it's a Noisy - arg - max or a Noisy - whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, whatever. Yeah. So Eh Um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, my point was more that we just eh With the neural net, right, eh, things come in, you have a function that combines them and.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it Tha - that's true. It is a is also more neural - net - like, although Uh, it isn't necessarily sum uh, s you know, sum of weights or anything like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean i You could have, uh, like the Noisy - OR function, really is one that's essentially says, uh, take the max.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, the \" OR \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Same.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. I guess you're right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh But anyway. So And, I thi I think that's the standard way people get around the uh There are a couple other ones. There are ways of breaking this up into s to to subnets and stuff like that. But, um The I think we definitely I think it's a great idea tha to to pursue that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. So", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wha - still sort of leaves one question. It I mean you you can always uh see easily that that I'm not grasping everything correctly, but what seemed attractive to me in im uh in the last discussion we had, was that we find out a means of of getting these point four, point five, point one, of C - four, not because, you know, A is a Landmark or not, but we we we label this whatever object type, and if it's a garden, it's point three, point four, point two. If it's a castle, it's point eight, point one, point one. If it's, uh, a town hall, it's point two, point three, point five.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so forth. And we don't want to write this down necessarily every time for something but, uh let's see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It'll be students Where else would it be stored? That's the question.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, in the beginning, we'll write up a flat file.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We know we have twenty object types", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we'll write it down in a flat file.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No. So, i is Well, let me say something, guys, cuz there's not There's a pretty point about this we might as well get in right now. Which is The hierarchy that s comes with the ontology is just what you want for this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that Uh, if you know about it let's say, a particular town hall that, it's one that is a monument, then, that would be stored there. If you don't, you look up the hierarchy, Eh so, you you you may or So, then you'd have this little vector of, um, you know, Approach Mode or EVA Mode. Let's OK, so we have the EVA vector for for various kinds of landmarks. If you know it for a specific landmark you put it there. If you don't, you just go up the hierarchy to the first place you find one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So, is the idea to put it in the ontology?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, or, link to or but but in any case i View it logically as being in the ontology. It's part of what you know about a an object, is its EVA vector.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, if yo As I say, if you know about a specific object, you put it there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "This is part of what Dekai was doing. So, when we get to Wu, The - e We'll see w what he says about that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, then if you If it isn't there, it's higher, and if you don't know anything except that it's a b it's it's a building, then up at the highest thing, you have the pr what amounts to a prior. If you don't know anything else about a building, uh, you just take whatever your crude approximation is up at that level,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "which might be equal, or whatever it is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, that's a very pretty relationship between these local vectors and the ontology. And it seems to me the obvious thing to do, unless we find a reason to do something different.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Does this make sense to you?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Bhask -?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, we are but we we're not doing the ontology, so we have to get to whoever is doing the u ultimately,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Indeed. So, that's another thing we're gonna need to do, is is, to, either.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "we have to get them to.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We're gonna need some way to either get a p tag in the ontology, or add fields, or some way to associate Or, w It may be that all we can do is, um, some of our own hash tables that it Th - the th you know, there's always a way to do that. It's a just a question of.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, hash on object name to, you know, uh, the probabilities or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "i th Yeah. e Right. And, so, i uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But it's, uh Well, it strikes me as a What For If we get the mechanism, that will be sort of the wonderful part. And then, how to make it work is is the second part, in the sense that I mean, m the guy who was doing the ontology eh, eh, s ap apologized that i it will take him another through two to three days because they're having really trouble getting the upper level straight, and right now. The reason is, given the craw bet uh, the the the projects that all carry their own taxonomy and, on all history, they're really trying to build one top level ontology ft that covers all the EML projects, and that's, uh, uh, sort of a tough cookie, a little bit tougher than they figured. I could have told them s so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. But, nevertheless, it's going to be there by n by, uh, next Monday and I will show you what's what some examples from that for towers, and stuff. And, um, what I don't think is ever going to be in the ontology, is sort of, you know, the likelihood of, eh, people entering r town halls, and looking at town halls, and approaching town halls, especially since we are b dealing with a case - based, not an instance - based ontology. So, there will be nothing on on that town hall, or on the Berkeley town hall, or on the Heidelberg town hall, it'll just be information on town halls.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, they they they How ar What are they gonna do with instances?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But what.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, you y", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, that's Hhh. That's that's al different question. I mean, th the first, they had to make a design question, \" do we take ontologies that have instances? or just one that does not, that just has the types? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, so, since the d decision was on types, on a d simply type - based, we now have to hook it up to instances. I mean this is", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But what i What is SmartKom gonna do about that?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "one.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Cuz, they have instances all the time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the ontology is really not a SmartKom thing, in in and of itself. That's more something that I kicked loose in in EML. So it's a completely EML thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But Uh uh SmartKom's gonna need an ontology.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes, u a w a lot of people are aware of that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I understand, but is anybody doing anything about it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. It's a political problem. We won't worry about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, but th the r eh I th I still think that there is enough information in there. For example, whether OK. So, th it will know about the twenty object types there are in the world. Let's assume there are only twenty object types in this world. And it will know if any of those have institutional meanings. So, in a sense, \" I \" used as Institutions for some s in some sense or the other. Which makes them enterable. Right? In a sense.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway. So we may have to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "This is with the whole thing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "we may have to build another data stru", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Conceptually, we know what should be done. When we see what people have done, it may turn out that the easiest thing to do is to build a a separate thing that that just pools i i Like, i i it it may be, that, the the instance w That we have to build our own instance, uh, things, that, with their types,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's Right, we can just assume.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and then it goes off to the ontology once you have its type. So we build a little data structure And so what we would do in that case, is, in our instance gadget have our E V And if we d there isn't one we'd get the type and then have the E V As for the type. So we'd have our own little, uh, EVA tree. And then, for other, uh, vectors that we need.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, we'd have our own little things so that whenever we needed one, we'd just use the ontology to get the type,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and then would hash or whatever we do to say, \" ah!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "If it's that type of thing, and we want its EVA vector, pppt - pppt! it's that. \" So, I I think we can handle that. And then But, the combination functions, and whether we can put those in Java Bayes, and all that sort of stuff, is, uh is the bigger deal.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think that's where we have to get technically clever.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We could just steal the classes in JavaBayes and then interface to them with our own code.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, I me ye eh, yeah, the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That requires understanding the classes in JavaBayes, I guess. @ @.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it's, uh, e e e e e cute. I mean, you've been around enough to I mean Just?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, it depends on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, there's this huge package which which may or may not be consistent and you know. But, yeah, we could look at it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I was j OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's b It It's an inter sort of a kind of a it The thing is, it's kind of an interpreter and i i it expects its data structures to be in a given form, and if you say, \" hey, we're gonna make a different kind of data structure to stick in there \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, no, but that just means there's a protocol, right? That you could.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It may or may not. I don't know. That's the question is \" to what extent does it allow us to put in these G functions? \" And I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, no, but I mean What I uh the So you could have four different Bayes - nets that you're running, and then run your own write your own function that would take the output of those four, and make your own \" G function \", is what I was saying.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's fine if it's if it comes only at the end. But suppose you want it embedded?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, then you'd have to break all of your Bayes - nets into smaller Bayes - nets, with all the.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, that Yeah, that's a truly horrible way to do d it. One would hope.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I'm just.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you bet. But, at that point you may say, \" hey, Java Bayes isn't the only package in town. Let's see if there's another package that's, eh, more civilized about this. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now, Srini is worth talking to on this,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "cuz he said that he actually did hack some combining functions into But he doesn't remember at least when I talked to him, he didn't remember whether it was an e an easy thing, a natural thing, or whether he had to do some violence to it to make it work.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh. But he did do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't see why the, uh, combining f functions have to be directly hacked into I mean, they're used to create tables so we can just make our own little functions that create tables in XML.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, I say that's one way to do it, is is to just convert it int into a into a C P T that you zip It's blown up, and is a it's, uh it's huge, but it doesn't require any data fitting or complication.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. I don't think I mean, the fact that it blown u blows up is a huge issue in the sense that I mean, OK. So say it blows up, right? So there's, like, the you know, ten, f ten, fifteen, uh, things. It's gonna be like, two to the that, which isn't so bad.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I I understand. I'm just saying tha that w That was wi that was my note. The little note I sent said that. It said, \" Here's the way you'd take the logical f G function and turn it into a CPT. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean that the Max - the Evidence - Combining function. So we could do that. And maybe that's what we'll do. But, um don't know. So, I will, e e before next week, uh, @ @ p push push some more on on this stuff that Dekai Wu did, and try to understand it. Uh, you'll make a couple of more copies of the Heckerman paper to give to people?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "p Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I would like a copy,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "y y yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And, um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. And I I'll I'll think s through this, uh, eh getting EVA vectors dynamically out of ontologies one more time because I s I I I'm not quite sure whether we all think of the same thing or not, here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you and I should talk about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh - huh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alright, great! And, Robert, thank you for coming in under He he's been sick, Robert.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Und.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I was thinking maybe we should just cough into the microphone and see if they can't th see if they can handle it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um is this, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2013d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Um almost, there's one more thing I have to get out of the I have to make sure that this attachment will open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I keep forgetting whether I've done this..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah-ha. Okay. We'll open that when the time is right. In the meantime Closing things down, okay. Let's see what this thing does. Does it come up together or disappear one of them or what? Ah, we came up together, we're good. Okay. Are we ready to start? Okay. It's now quarter of four. This is a f another forty minute one so it will end at four twenty five. Okay. Right. Our agenda is, as before, for me to open the meeting, for us to go over the previous minutes, then for the two of you to present your prototype and for you to g um Sarah present the evaluation criteria. We then have a finance aspect, which is a spreadsheet, an Excel spreadsheet. And I know what you're all thinking of, oh my, um because we're only given a forty minute time period to get it all in, including the production evaluation. So we're going to make a very fast track. Okay. Um and as you can see that's what we do next on this thing. So the first thing I have to do is close this so that I can get to Where is it?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Red.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I need to open mine. Not the agenda.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Agenda three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that th I want the minutes from the previous minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That should be there, minutes. Yeah. Okay. Uh from meeting three, is it alright with you if I don't switch it to show, just use it as is?'Cause this way I can more easily flip it. Okay, um obviously all of us were here for the last meeting, we reviewed the previous minutes before that, um each of you made your presentations. Um we discussed the various possibilities based on what was presented in those presentations. The market trend of fruit and veg, mm spongy, uh fancy and elegant more than technologically innovative and that more than easy. Um we decided chip on print would be used. Um we would use plastic with a rubber casing, I think was the consensus, powered by kinetic energy. There was no decision made on the curvatures or double curvature or straight. Um perhaps the prototype will give us an inkling of that. Um looking like a scroll, but it's really a push button technology, excuse my spelling um that was actually in use, that is uh behind the scenes is push button which we uh according to Kate have a very good uh grasp on doing that in production. Um we decided that separate fashionable covers covering your fruit and veg might be a separate product that could be suggested to management. Um and as suggested um yellow with black buttons with the company logo, a slogan and image might be a good idea based on the requirements that have been provided to us. Um we did have a few production issues and coordination of the various bits and we had some conflict of ideas and cost constraints and we ran out of time. Um we had to follow that up and prepare for the last one. And uh we closed as it ran out of time. Is that a fair presentation of what happened?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, back to this meeting. Um we're down to the prototype presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ta-da.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Over to you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh, two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well you see, each made one, we didn't have enough yellow dough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is the one that I made.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is uh curved, easy to hold, hand-held, nice and small with big easy buttons. This is like a scroll, but they are push buttons and they enter takes you into the different menus. Of course we need someone who's experienced with the television. I mean this is the infrared thing that's gonna zap at the television. Uh I'm not quite sure how to make that, but I'm sure it will work. Uh this is on off switch,'cause I think we do need that, and I think it gives it a nice balance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's gonna have the logo imprinted on it uh in there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um as for what it's actually made of well the function of these buttons is up, down, left and right in the different menus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh position, I presume that just means right right on it, easy to see. The main feature of it is just a simple design, simple, lack of uh buttons all over the place. Right? Form curved, kind of smooth, hand-held, makes it feel nice to hold. Uh material, I think Kate's gonna tackle that quite a bit, but I think we have two different options, because we did make a another one, which wa uh is in the shape of banana, it's just if you can imagine this as yellow with black buttons, like just like this but in the shape of a banana,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which is also nice and easy to hold and feels good and has a similar sort of scroll push button technology, just a slightly different design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Also with on off switch and infrared uh I had envisioned it in hard smooth plastic. So like uh well, I dunno, what's it like? I guess like an existing remote control, but molded and smooth. Whereas otherwise we'd thought, like with this one or mix and match, just we were gonna see what you thought, the uh a more spongy rubber cover with spongy buttons. So we have the two options we can follow, either the smooth hard plastic or the spongy rubber, depending on cost restraints. And what we well, what conclusion we reach when we discuss it. Uh material yeah, that's what I have to say about material. Can I scroll down on there and see what else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well colour, I think I definitely have a preference towards bright yellow with black buttons, because that's the company colours, but if anybody's got any other suggestions, I'm quite willing to consider them as well. So, it just depends what you think about these ideas and if I'm yeah, maybe, Kate, you better say what you think about them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um well I don't have very much to add. Um the the case oops, that's the uh on off button just come off our prototype.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The the case can be either um spongy rubber or hard plastic. We're not absolutely sure about a combination of the two, but it can be either of those. We have the technology to do that. Um and as for the the actual components um, uh Steph just said this is a quite a cheap device to manufacture. We have simple rubber push buttons um which provide all the functionality we need. Um the um the diode that actually does the um infrared is at the end, it's the stalk of the banana, or it's just the thing at the end of this version. Um so that's for material. Colour, well uh Steph's the expert on colour. Um we we don't have any particular restrictions on that. Yeah, I think that's all we've got to say really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thin as for as for the fruit or organic theme, I guess this one is obviously fruit shaped.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one has n banana, yeah. This one has no obvious connections to fruit, but because it's round and molded, it kinda makes you think sort of organic, touchy-feely, kiddie, it's more like yeah, you'd expect it to be like a child's sorta toy remote control instead of a real one, which I quite like that sort of image.'Cause it's very big and chunky and child-friendly and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you care to examine the prototypes, see how they feel in the hand?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hold them, you see, you know. Curvature, is it to your liking?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I see, the on-off's in the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, that's so that your index finger automatically goes straight to it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you don't wanna tire out your thumbs after all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then you can use your thumb..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it was partly we thought the design looked better,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I could see this thing, unless it's reinforced, having a problem with the you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Breaking,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh right. Well you see, that's why hard plastic would be quite a good thing for it, because then it'd just be rigid.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like the fact that on both of them the keys play such a prominent role.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we really like we really like that design,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's really kind of a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it looks just like a logo, that arrangement of the keys. Like a c like a compass point, you know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just up, down, left and right, and we think we could make that quite a good feature. And it's like the the iPod scroll wheel, but better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's also like texting,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean it that's what it makes me think of, mobile phones,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was try I was thinking, moving your thumb like this, what does that remind me of?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's a very simple design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's texting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there's not a lot to wrong, the components are cheap to make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's also in terms of um being lost it's it's quite it looks quite different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, I I d I have several four remotes, and they all look the same until you get up close and you have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, this is really identifiable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean the thing is we do need to develop our technology of I mean actually how to program the menus and what sort of, you know, text box is gonna appear at the bottom of the screen,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but we do definitely think that it's a viable option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. The next item is evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh if that's if you're finished.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, we're finished.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "shall I take your uh power?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Try again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. This is going to be a heavily interactive evaluation, and the method here is to evaluate the new remote control in terms of the user requirements and the hot trends introduced by the marketing department. So, this means we're going to go over the priorities that were raised by uh the consumers a as well as incorporate all of our insight into this uh evaluation exercise. So I'm going to go and use the whiteboard, and I've made a list of criteria to look at, and so I'm gonna I'm gonna leave this up as the last thing, but for the evaluation it's going to be one is true and seven is false, going over these different criteria, so one true seven false and I'm gonna now use the um the board. Okay. So um fancy, technologically innovative, easy to use, trendy, buttons, excess buttons, good buttons, ugly, sellable, and other. And in fact I hope that uh you all introduce some additional terms, because these are things that um have been brought up, some of them seem rather close,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, what about price, is that gonna go on there as well? Price of materials.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like they overlap. Mm, yeah, price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll put price up at the top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not that we actually know anything about it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we can we can pretend.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we will soon, unfortunately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Come on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh okay, so wha how do we feel in terms of is this fancy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It depends what what you mean by fancy really,'cause when I think of fancy, I think of it's got lots of extra sort of fripperies and, you know, like baroque curliness and which", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd call these quite uh minimalist,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, a plain, simple, clean design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "simple and plain, but I mean I do see what it is heavily reliant on appearance instead of pure functionality,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so in that respect it is quite fancy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I yeah, so in that respect I think we'll go with that respect.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think just maybe we need a different word other than fancy, I'd say maybe aesthetic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we have got s trendy further down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Elegant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Elegant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Elegant.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Elegant, I don't know if I'd call them elegant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, no these aren't the exact terms that the um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like stylish or aesthetic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Stylish, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Elegant. We're gon let's use elegant, although the the the people, the word on the street is is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fancy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. N that um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did you just break the pen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah uh the uh is fancy. So let's let's take it to the next level.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well d we'll just call it fancy then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well okay, so in terms of elegant, fancy. we'll call it E_F_ um, do we do we think that perhaps and maybe we should say the yellow? Should we go with the yellow in terms of I think that's a really superior.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we n we need to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "they're both.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they're both yellow with black buttons, it's just that we didn't have any more dough to represent uh that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if you can just imagine banana shape with these bits as black.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what we re really need to decide is whether we want the actual banana shape or just a a purely blob or some sort of abstraction in between the two", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that isn't that is more curved, like a banana, but that isn't actually recognisable as a banana, you know, with the grooves and the stalk and stuff,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "As a banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that many of us are abstract enough to look at the yellow one and say we'll call it the banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And of the two I really like I m I like the banana,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The chunk.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I I do like the chunk.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's maybe not something we have to decide just right now, is it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just somewhere a long the scale of in between these two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I mean in terms we have to evaluate one of them. Unless do you guys wanna evaluate both?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think between the two, somewhere between the two is true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's more true than false, about a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So we say true. technologically innovative.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I d I don't think that's what we're aiming at with this concept.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we're using simple components that are gonna be robust but not particularly innovative.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we'll say we'll say uh false. Easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is that inappropriate?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh, pardon me. Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Trendy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "trendy, s and I say specifically spongy fruity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, maybe only a two or a three then,'cause it's no we still haven't decided about specific sponginess or specific.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have the worry about how robust it will be if it's it's curved as a banana but spongy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't really think that's gonna work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so two? Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excess buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "are there excess buttons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is false.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's false..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um good, well designed buttons, intuitive buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Better, more intuitive buttons, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True. Ugly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "People don't respond well to ugly. Sellable, uh quirky, you know, something people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think they're different, aren't they?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it is quite it is quite quirky I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like oh,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, I do too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could be quite a good brand, like a good little object.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. And I was I was thinking of other things um in terms of uh could we say it's cost saving? With the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, we also need tho think about the energy. Is it the kinetic energy?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, with the energy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's it is gonna be environmentally friendly with the kinetic energy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is going to be kinetic?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we'll c we'll say it's a cost saving enviro. Yeah, Uh so yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we haven't completely developed that side of it yet, so we're not completely sure about that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you're still in the Play-Doh stage.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anything else? Including price, do you have any idea about price or other features?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think our instinct is that it should be pretty cheap to develop. We haven't got a lot of expensive components in there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, the instinct says true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So true one or should I go to two or three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd put it at one I think, but I dunno, what do you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say maybe a two,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause we still we need to uh get somebody in who is good with the programming for the menus and things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, true,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean it's not just like I mean it's not like ev you know, on a normal chunky remote every button res I mean means something different,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's not a cheap thing to get.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it might be the yeah, yeah, true. True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "whereas this one has only got the four buttons and they all they mean everything, depending on what menu you're in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh we need somebody to develop that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um other? Anything else you guys can thing of? And I'm gonna actually change a couple of these so then I'm gonna instead of ugly I'm gonna say it's attractive and then make that true, so that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause I have to do an average..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then um excess buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just putting no excess buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly. Wow we're doing really well. Yeah, be you know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it doesn't ruin the polarity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "see if we're technologically innovative, I'd say it is quite innovative, because there aren't really many that have this menu idea instead of all the extra buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean I know we're not doing anything involving internet or speech recognition but but we are at the upper end of the push button market..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or L_C_D_. Yeah. Well if you g uh let me know if if any of these um if you if you all can think of any other um thing to change here if you th if you think I should change the innovative or add other features. If not I'll average those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we're good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. We're a little over halfway through the meeting", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the next big thing is the finance. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um okay, how about if I uh pass this back to you", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I'll uh figure out the average here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you for everyone's help with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. And as you can see it says the same thing, it had not lost itself, thank Goodness. And we're going to raise what's called a sp a spreadsheet that they provided to me. Um and it says fill in the number of components you plan to use in your device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hand dynamo, battery, kinetic, solar cells. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, just kinetic then,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um what's a hand dynamo?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was the crank, wind-up crank on the side..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's the wind-up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "shoot, forget that. Kinetic is um and how many of those will we need per we only need one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Electronic simple chip on print, and we'll need one of those.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh yeah, I think we can do it all with simple Just checking that. Yeah, simple,'cause we've just got push buttons, so we can do it all with simple which is the ch should be the cheapest.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, and we only need one of those.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, the case will be uncurved and flat or a single curve or a double curve. It looks like it single curve,'cause of th the chunkiness. It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that one is single curve,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's uh uh one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "isn't it? Um do we have", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What does double curved mean, I don't understand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think you it means you reverse the curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh that's the the one that goes like this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I do I don't think we need that for either of them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh no, we don't need that. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you can do a banana in single curve,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single-curved, I'd say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "single curve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, case material supplements. Plastic, wood, rubber, titanium, special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just wanna say plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We had the special colour. And did we say plastic?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, can we do some what ifs,'cause it may.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean I I still quite like the idea of combining plastic and rubber myself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One, two, three, four, five, six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it depends on the cost, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. We'll come back, if we can, to the rubber being added at the moment, that's where we are. Interface button push button interface. That's what we're using,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we need to say how many buttons, or", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whoops, don't want that, not yet. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or d is it just one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it just says push button interface. Button supplements, they'll be in a special colour of black.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the buttons Wha what is the buttons made of, rubber?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh they'll be rubber, yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we need one of them. And are they any special form?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah, like the compass point one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually, does tha does special material mean that plastic is not a special material?'Cause I think they can be plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause the rate we're going we can put the rubber on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. They could be plastic, we don't have to have rubber buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because we haven't got a double curved case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, they could be plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um let's put that rubber in then, of the case material supplement.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just one, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh we only need one of them. Um and the total cost has been calculated as nine Pounds twenty out of the twelve and a half we were allowed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What, we're in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're in. That's us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More profit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I'm going to save this into our desktop, project documents. Okay. As our project document bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you do you need to double click on that to open it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. There we are. That's the only Excel document that will be in there, so it's there for all of us. Okay, so, are they under twelve fifty? Yes, go to the project evaluation, next slide.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Um the project process, satisfaction with, for example, the room for creativity. Yeah, leadership, teamwork,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure. Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "means, of having whiteboard, the digital pens and all that kind of good things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And Play-Doh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, the Play-Doh was best, I thought..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well,'cause I mean it's so hard to describe what you mean just with words and pointing at photographs and saying, well we quite want this, but imagine it rounder. So much better just to go and, you know, this is it, this is what we want..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we went over all those things and we're satisfied with all the above.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um did we find any new ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think with the marketing element of uh fruit shaped I I mean I that really opened my eyes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Spongy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I only speak for myself though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I'd never heard of the kinetic energy before,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so. Good work as a design team,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we're a good team actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not sure all the wires are really great though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we actually worked well as a group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Are the costs within the budget? Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is the project evaluated?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I can give you a number,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "hang on, Oh we haven't heard..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um it's uh the average evaluation score is one point eight eight, so it means w you know, I can I can spell it out. There were six true or ones, four um pardon me, two s almost true or close to true, so that was four points, and then uh one false, seven points, so seventeen divided by nine we're between one and two. I would say that's ex excellent in terms of uh ho how much we adhere to the ideals of the uh market place.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And the the only false one is because we've chosen to keep a simple old technology,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To maintain old technology, exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which if it works perfectly well I see no point in improving on if it works,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Absolutely, and it's kept us within budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we do count as I think excellent or one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we've therefore we have to do the final questionnaire and do the meeting summary, I have a final report to present, um and then we're done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We done good, and we're finished in time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bring on the ice sculptures.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then we get the product launch party.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we might have to wait.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Product launch party?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what I said, ice sculptures.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Absolutely..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I one thing I want to do is oh, I think the meeting's done.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I believe that is the end of our meeting. Thank you, Melissa..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um one thing I wa I wanna do is save everything in the right files, because I don't think everything is saved. The right files. Final meeting market", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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