RE: Is this CG still active?

Collecting use cases is a good idea. 

As far as resources for a joint blackboard go, we have a github repository at https://github.com/w3c/voiceinteraction which includes a wiki. I think the wiki would be a good place for discussion and then we could write up use cases and put it in the repository. So if you (or anyone) has some ideas about use cases, you can just start a wiki page. I confirmed that I was able to edit the wiki and I created “Home” and “Use Cases” pages. I’m not sure what credentials are needed to edit the wiki, but you could give it a try and see what happens. Let me know if you have problems. 

 

From: Dirk Schnelle-Walka <dirk.schnelle@jvoicexml.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 12:49 PM
To: 'Brian Susko' <brian.susko@gmail.com>
Cc: tink@tink.uk; 'Deborah Dahl' <dahl@conversational-technologies.com>; public-voiceinteraction@w3.org; terence.eden@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk
Subject: RE: Is this CG still active?

 

Hey there,

 

it has been a while since this discussion popped up.

 

I would be still interested in taking this further.

 

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

 

There was the idea of collecting use case? How could we come closer to this? Any space that could be used as a joint blackboard that can provide more structure than posts?

 

Dirk

 

From: Brian Susko <brian.susko@gmail.com <mailto:brian.susko@gmail.com> > 
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 7:42 PM
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Subject: Re: Is this CG still active?

 

I agree the groups started with some steam and then slowed over time.  Myself, I have been pulled away from the space professionally and has taken away from my time to focus on the problem.  This group got started with a discussion on how to standardize the communication between multiple IVAs and have to have a standardized language for IVA intent routing and perhaps an IVA intent-indexed catalog of IVAs for the purpose of integrating into a single Gateway IVA that would find intents and route to the specialist IVA to handle that intent.  This is still a problem, and one that things like Amazon Skills are working towards, however an open source standard would change the game.  I'm wondering if the new group continuing this group would be best as the goals seem very closely related, however, as this group has slowed, migrating to a new group with some excitement would benefit the space.

 

If you haven't read Dirk's paper on a part of the subject, I'd recommend you do so to get a feel for the basis of the problem I see in the space and the main discussion of the group.  This is a good step in the direction of multi-modal NLU systems and integrated IVAs.  

The paper is available at  <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320009033_An_Open_Source_Standards-Compliant_Voice_Browser_with_Support_for_Multiple_Language_Understanding_Implementations> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320009033_An_Open_Source_Standards-Compliant_Voice_Browser_with_Support_for_Multiple_Language_Understanding_Implementations

 

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 8:02 AM Dirk Schnelle-Walka <dirk.schnelle@jvoicexml.org <mailto:dirk.schnelle@jvoicexml.org> > wrote:

Anything against starting this in this user group and if there is really a need for a dedicated group do the split?

 

Dirk