[voiceinteraction] minutes November 18, 2020

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   [1]W3C

 

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                               - DRAFT -

 

                   Voice Interaction Community Group

 

18 Nov 2020

 

Attendees

 

   Present

          debbie, jon, dirk

 

   Regrets

 

   Chair

          debbie

 

   Scribe

          ddahl

 

Contents

 

     * [2]Topics

     * [3]Summary of Action Items

     * [4]Summary of Resolutions

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   <scribe> scribe:ddahl

 

   architecture document

   [5]https://w3c.github.io/voiceinteraction/voice%20interaction%2
<https://w3c.github.io/voiceinteraction/voice%20interaction%252> 

   0drafts/paArchitecture-1-1.htm

 

      [5] https://w3c.github.io/voiceinteraction/voice interaction
drafts/paArchitecture-1-1.htm

 

   debbie: review changes in the introduction and additional

   standards

 

   dirk: specialized assistants in Amazon ecosystem need a trigger

   word

   ... should describe how these are triggered somewhere in the

   document

 

   jon: expect that 25% of enterprises will have a voice assistant

   by 2025

   ... can share that data

   ... they have to be interoperable

   ... David added IPA in ASR and ISO-2476-12 for DIT++

   ... TEI (text encoding initiative)

 

   debbie: MRCP (Media Resources Control Protocol)

 

   jon: Open Agent Architecture for provider selection service

   ... in accounts and authentication (OATH) and Open ID

   ... in Core NLU -- abstract meaning representation

   ... can send links

   ... also ARPA NGRAM

   ... which is the same as the SRI-LM format

 

   debbie: should we add a column for the responsible standards

   body?

   ... we don't need to go into that

   ... may not be worth the effort

   ... some may be obsolete or not adopted

 

   dirk: should add a disclaimer at the beginning

 

   debbie: some may be standards that we would adopt and others

   might just be informative

 

   dirk: could add dialog modeling language from the other

   community group

 

   debbie: not saying anything about quality or usefullness

   ... of these standards and some are de facto standards or

   proposals

   ... also, what about audio formats and codecs?

   ... or is that too low-level (ogg vorbis, speex)

 

   dirk: this could be endless

   ... this could be important if you need to forward audio

 

   debbie: we won't talk about audio codecs, but they need to be

   agreed upon

   ... could we use whatever the Audio Working Group uses?

 

   dirk: doesn't see that in Web Audio document

 

   [6]https://www.w3.org/TR/webaudio

 

      [6] https://www.w3.org/TR/webaudio

 

   <scribe> ACTION: debbie to investigate web audio to see if they

   say anything

 

   debbie: agnostic to low level protocols, e.g. web sockets and

   http

   ... but then it won't work if the service doesn't understand

   the protocol

 

   dirk: WebRTC

   ... what about IPA Service?

 

   debbie: there is an open source smart speaker called Mycroft,

   is there an open way to configure it?

 

   dirk: that's more of an IPA client

   ... the closest might be a web service

 

   debbie: would REST be an example?

 

   dirk: what about "core intent set"?

 

   debbie: DAMSL is relevant but more abstract than core intents

   ... core intents are more specific

 

   dirk: a core intent could be "help"

 

   debbie: some core intents are defined in VoiceXML ("builtins")

   -- help, nomatch, noinput and error

 

   <scribe> ACTION: debbie to start editing in these changes,

   review next call

 

   debbie: should publish when these edits and caveats are added

   ... maybe the beginning of the year would be a good goal

 

   <scribe> ACTION: debbie to look into host key problem

 

Summary of Action Items

 

   [NEW] ACTION: debbie to investigate web audio to see if they

   say anything

   [NEW] ACTION: debbie to look into host key problem

   [NEW] ACTION: debbie to start editing in these changes, review

   next call

 

Summary of Resolutions

 

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