- From: Deborah Dahl <Dahl@conversational-Technologies.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 11:53:53 -0400
- To: <public-voiceinteraction@w3.org>
https://www.w3.org/2025/06/04-voiceinteraction-minutes.html and below as text [1]W3C [1] https://www.w3.org/ - DRAFT - Voice Interaction 04 June 2025 [2]IRC log. [2] https://www.w3.org/2025/06/04-voiceinteraction-irc Attendees Present debbie, dirk, gerard, kaz Regrets - Chair debbie Scribe ddahl Contents 1. [3]Spoken Presentation 2. [4]github issues 3. [5]workshop Meeting minutes Spoken Presentation [6]https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/task-forces/ spoken-presentation/#:~:text=The%20objective%20of%20the%20Spoke n,and%20users'%20preferred%20assistive%20technologies. [6] https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/task-forces/spoken-presentation/#:~:text=The objective of the Spoken,and users' preferred assistive technologies. debbie: can we do anything with the Spoken Presentation Task Force? dirk: what about AI, won't that help? . what about dynamic chat bot output? . that would be more complementary to what we're doing [7]https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/task-forces/ spoken-presentation/#:~:text=The%20objective%20of%20the%20Spoke n,and%20users'%20preferred%20assistive%20technologies. [7] https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/task-forces/spoken-presentation/#:~:text=The objective of the Spoken,and users' preferred assistive technologies. debbie: will convert spreadsheet to markdown so that everyone can edit github issues issue 70 dirk: agent group has done a nice comparison of protocols . this would be good for the OVON group to see [8]https:// w3c-cg.github.io/ai-agent-protocol/ . they have overlap with the web agent group [8] https://w3c-cg.github.io/ai-agent-protocol/ debbie: we should read these and decide if there is useful information [9]https://w3c-cg.github.io/webagents/TaskForces/ Interoperability/Reports/report-interoperability.html [9] https://w3c-cg.github.io/webagents/TaskForces/Interoperability/Reports/report-interoperability.html debbie: these are not focused on conversational agents workshop kaz: what is the difference between our workshop and AI agent workshop . we will be focusing on voice and multimodal . we want to improve interoperability <kaz> Thanks to the advancement of HTML5 and related Web technologies, Web applications with speech capability are getting more and more popular for ease of user interaction and richer user experience, such as Apple's SIRI, Google's Voice Assistant, and Amazon's Alexa. even simpler applications with speech capability are getting more and more popular for ease of user interaction and richer user experience, kaz: if we update the sentences in the background the proposal could be acceptable. . will bring the proposal to the strategy team next Tuesday <kaz> [10]workshop repo [10] https://github.com/w3c/smartagents-workshop/ kaz: could dirk update the original github issue on the Smart Agents workshop? debbie: did we talk about changing the name to Voice Agents? kaz: or Smart Voice Agents debbie: that would be fine with me kaz: should be held before TPAC (November), so how about September? kaz: twenty or thirty people would be fine kaz: twenty speakers and some more audience dirk: need approval from the strategy team, then we have to form program committee and get position papers debbie: position statement could be very lightweight kaz: should have participation from tech companies debbie: what about governments? kaz: they should be interested in accessibility debbie: also smart cities . also Web of Things dirk: summarize the next action points debbie: dirk needs to update the CFP . kaz will bring it to the strategy team . kaz can tell us outcome next week dirk: do we have a link to the other workshop? <kaz> [11]w3c/strategy#507 [11] https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/507 dirk: this is mostly about collaboration among agents and not interaction
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